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“Letting Go” is a lot darker in content, confirming to us that STRAY was neither meant to be a ‘light’ project, nor was it meant to be ‘happy’ because Erica’s main band UNTER NULL is actually quite angry and pissed off. STRAY kind of reflects the feelings of despair and sadness when that anger wears off. This album is actually a great departure from any of her previous works, it’s a lot more polished and full of layered and lush-sounding tracks. Emotional piano tunes echo with melodic electronic sequences and get accelerated by pulsing beats and vibrating bass lines led by Erica’s half-sung half-spoken poignant vocals. The material is melancholy, bittersweet, and a lot of yearning, needing, wanting, and desiring is involved. It’s about feeling disconnected from the rest of the world, from society, from your peers, from your friends, your loved ones, and your family. A track like “Out of Place” kind of sums up that feeling quite well in so many words. Other tracks, such as “No Vacancy”, “Let Me Go”, are sincere with the idea of not understanding peoples’ actions and words, and feeling frustrated without necessary closure. 

We will also notice the exciting remake of UNTER NULL’s “Failure Epiphany” or yet an open reinterpretation of The Flashbulb’s “Passage D”… The album is also available as a deluxe 2CD carton box with a bonus disc including 3 exclusive bonus tracks and remixes by Marc Hurtado / SOL IXENT, KANT KINO, GRENDEL, IVARDENSPHERE, METROLAND, INTERFACE, AESTHETISCHE, KEEF BAKER, MARI CHROME, etc.

Next to this, online orders at www.alfa-matrix.com get the “Holding On” (carton sleeve) bonus album as an extra. This 3rd disc is limited to 99 copies.

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“Letting Go” is a lot darker in content, confirming to us that STRAY was neither meant to be a ‘light’ project, nor was it meant to be ‘happy’ because Erica’s main band UNTER NULL is actually quite angry and pissed off. STRAY kind of reflects the feelings of despair and sadness when that anger wears off. This album is actually a great departure from any of her previous works, it’s a lot more polished and full of layered and lush-sounding tracks. Emotional piano tunes echo with melodic electronic sequences and get accelerated by pulsing beats and vibrating bass lines led by Erica’s half-sung half-spoken poignant vocals. The material is melancholy, bittersweet, and a lot of yearning, needing, wanting, and desiring is involved. It’s about feeling disconnected from the rest of the world, from society, from your peers, from your friends, your loved ones, and your family. A track like “Out of Place” kind of sums up that feeling quite well in so many words. Other tracks, such as “No Vacancy”, “Let Me Go”, are sincere with the idea of not understanding peoples’ actions and words, and feeling frustrated without necessary closure.

This CD is also available as an extended bonus tracks download – see the player below.

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Two years further down the road and here we are with a second volume of the Alfa Matrix label roster covering what has to be the best synthpop band in pop history. Since 2008, a lot has happened in the Depeche Mode camp, tours, a new album and the band celebrating the 30th anniversary of the release of their first single. It’s all in the spirit of being a Depeche Mode fan, specifically reflected in the selection of the covered songs… 

Compiled by and for Depeche Mode fans, “Alfa Matrix Re:covered – a tribute to Depeche Mode vol.2” will offer you once more a very own insight in what makes the Depeche Mode songs so special. Enjoy these interpretations and re-discover the beauty of all those classic Depeche Mode songs re:covered by the Alfa Matrix stable offering a diverse sound panel going from synthpop, over old-school electro to melancholic electro rock. 

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STRAY’s sound is identified more by the reverent side of the human spirit, and once viewed through her heart, one can perceive hope and light at the end of this trancey tunnel of melancholy, melodies carrying clear sequences, bittersweet words and mesmerising atmospheres. There is the hope of life even in the darkest of valleys and nature has progressively started taking over again.

Erica unveils with this project an unexpected coiled side of her enigmatic persona and colours her unique intricate song-writing style with a lighter 80’stainted tone. STRAY has a big heart and an open soul yet still has so much more to share. Embrace it.

The deluxe 2CD carton box comes with a bonus disc including several exclusive bonus tracks and remixes.

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STRAY’s sound is identified more by the reverent side of the human spirit, and once viewed through her heart, one can perceive hope and light at the end of this trancey tunnel of melancholy, melodies carrying clear sequences, bittersweet words and mesmerising atmospheres. There is the hope of life even in the darkest of valleys and nature has progressively started taking over again.

Erica unveils with this project an unexpected coiled side of her enigmatic persona and colours her unique intricate song-writing style with a lighter 80’stainted tone. STRAY has a big heart and an open soul yet still has so much more to share. Embrace it.

This CD is also available as an extended bonus tracks download – see the player below.

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CD1

1. Journey to Descent
2. Moving On
3. Broken Heart Cliche
4. The Fall
5. Godless
6. I Can’t Be the One
7. Visceral, Venom of My Being
8. Tear Down the Walls
9. Hypocrite and Contradict
10. Third Party
11. The Mercy Seat

BONUS TRACKS:

1. Obligatory Club Hit To Appease The Masses
2. I Can’t Be The One (DE_TOT_COR mix)
3. Godless (hard dance remix by STUDIO-X)
4. I Can’t Be the One (torment mix by EX.ES)

CD2

1. Monster
2. Visceral, Venom Of My Being (CEDIGEST Remix)*
3. Moving On (ESSENCE OF MIND Remix)
4. Broken Heart Cliche (ALIEN VAMPIRES Remix)
5. Monster (genCAB Remix)*
6. Hypocrite And Contradict (XP8 Remix)*
7. I Can’t Be The One (DYM Remix)
8. Broken Heart Cliche (HEX RX Remix)
9. I Can’t Be The One (SUNAO INAMI Remix)*
10. Broken Heart Cliche (FREAKANGEL Remix)
11. Hypocrite And Contradict (BAKI-SHO-JI Remix)*
12. I Can’t Be The One (SHIV-R Remix)*
13. Moving On (ACYLUM Remix)
14. Monster (CERVELLO ELETTRONICO Remix)*
15. Godless (SIVA SIX Remix)
16. Tear Down The Walls (C-LEKKTOR Remix)*
17. *exclusive previously unreleased

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Today, UNTER NULL breaks her extended and worrying silence with the new aptly titled “Moving On” album that plunges us into a world of torment, violence, deviance and darkness. Synthetic layers and piano lines get assaulted by powerful elektro sequences ad EBM rhythms dominated by the poignant and terrifying voice of this unique and uncompromised artist… An intense introspective and quite personal album we can perceive as an own catharsis to get rid of the negative, venomous things in life – be it people or situations. Spiteful moments of complete rage intermingled with broken heart despair through which we simply end up loosing faith in faith…

Engineered by Claus Larsen (LEAETHER STRIP), “Moving On” reveals how much UNTER NULL has matured and broadened her artistic approach, including on stage where Erica Dunham is now supported by a full live band, allowing her through this live dynamic to fully render the aggression of the album that looks to span genre boundaries, and overcome scene isolation by incorporating the engaging elements of punk rock energy, metal ferocity, and the intensity, and club playability of industrial, and EBM.

The album is also released as a deluxe carton box edition including the exclusive “Moved On” bonus album featuring some 9 exclusive songs plus 4 remixes from album songs by ACYLUM, NEIKKA RPM, KANT KINO and DYM.

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Today, UNTER NULL breaks her extended and worrying silence with the new aptly titled “Moving On” album that plunges us into a world of torment, violence, deviance and darkness. Synthetic layers and piano lines get assaulted by powerful elektro sequences ad EBM rhythms dominated by the poignant and terrifying voice of this unique and uncompromised artist… An intense introspective and quite personal album we can perceive as an own catharsis to get rid of the negative, venomous things in life – be it people or situations. Spiteful moments of complete rage intermingled with broken heart despair through which we simply end up loosing faith in faith…

Engineered by Claus Larsen (LEAETHER STRIP), “Moving On” reveals how much UNTER NULL has matured and broadened her artistic approach, including on stage where Erica Dunham is now supported by a full live band, allowing her through this live dynamic to fully render the aggression of the album that looks to span genre boundaries, and overcome scene isolation by incorporating the engaging elements of punk rock energy, metal ferocity, and the intensity, and club playability of industrial, and EBM.

This CD is also available as an extended bonus tracks download – see the player below.

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