“0.8” is the new record from German EBM and electro pair Digital Factor, released on 12 June 2026 by Alfa Matrix. It runs to twelve tracks, is sold as a CD and as a download, and takes the sounds and attitudes of the 1980s as its starting point.
“0.8” is available now on the Alfa Matrix store on CD, and the digital edition can be streamed or bought on Bandcamp.
Imperfection on purpose
Instead of chasing contemporary studio gloss, Mike Langer built the album around simple rigs and monophonic synthesizers, aiming to recreate the grain and small flaws of early electronic recordings. The band is now a duo, with Gwendolyn Gaffa a permanent partner after contributing to the free charity single “I Am What I Am” (2023) and then to the April 2026 EP “They Will Forget You (When You Die)”. “0.8” is the follow-up to the charity set “G.B.A. – General Behavior Abrogate” and to “A Chemical Process” (2021), and Langer discusses the concept in more depth in our interview with him.
Guests and tributes
Franziska Haucke guests on “Never,” a song framed in the mood of a James Bond film, and Marie-Luis Kiessling is heard on “We Are Blind.” Lead single “They Will Forget You (When You Die)” tips its hat to Depeche Mode’s “People Are People,” “Time” pays homage to Kraftwerk, and “Feel To Little” is laced with dialogue snippets from Charlie Chaplin movies. The April 2026 EP that preceded the album can be heard in the player below.
About Digital Factor
Digital Factor has been on Alfa Matrix since 2020, when the single and video “Come With Me” opened the chapter that October. “A Chemical Process” came out in 2021 together with remastered reissues of earlier material, followed by the EP “What?” in 2022. In 2023 the band issued “I Am What I Am,” the EP “Ouvre” and the charity album “G.B.A.” The EP “They Will Forget You (When You Die)” followed in April 2026, setting the stage for “0.8.”
The story starts in 1993 in Altenburg, Germany, where Torsten Heise, Mike Langer and Tino Schmidt formed the group. Early on the music fused EBM with electro, with techno, synth-pop and crossover touches arriving later, and live dates in those days included support slots for Placebo Effect and X Marks the Pedwalk. A 1994 debut EP on Hard Records, “F.A.L.L.I.N.G.- Down”, led to deals with Hyperium and Hypnobeat and to the albums “Relationchips” (1995) and the concept piece “On Demand” (1996).
Later records stretched from the late 1990s through 2011, among them “De Facto,” “Countercheck,” “Over One Million Times,” “One More Piece,” “Look Back To Go Forward” and “Trialog.” Schmidt departed in the early years, and after Heise left in 2010, Leo von Leibnitz joined in his place. More from the label sits on the Alfa Matrix Bandcamp.