Digilogue is a music album

Music Album

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 of recordings which became the twentieth commercial release by the British avant-garde

Avant-garde

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 music group :zoviet*france:

Zoviet France

Zoviet France is a prolific music group from Newcastle upon Tyne in north east England. While often dissonant and made of industrial textures, their music also falls into the ambient music category...

. It was first released in 1996

1996 in music

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 in limited edition 12 inch clear vinyl

Gramophone record

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 format by the US record label, Soleilmoon Recordings

Soleilmoon

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. Subsequently, a CD version was released in 1998

1998 in music

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 by Soleilmoon Recordings, with additional tracks.

The album's title is an amalgamation of the words digital and analogue, two of the principal technologies that have been used in sound recording. The group have been quoted as adopting the failings in these technologies as a production technique in the creation of the album: “All audio equipment distorts sound to some degree and, eventually through mechanical and electrical failure, fucks it up. Since indeterminacy as a compositional parameter has been a constant in our work, this often produces what we regard as interesting new developments. digilogue was recorded using a mixture of failing analogue equipment and high-end digital equipment, and monitored in our studio exclusively on damaged hi-fi speakers. Sound can be as dirty and as clumsy as anything else we perceive with our senses. This is just as true of sound generated in the digital domain, much as we would all like to believe the claims of near-perfection made by audio equipment manufacturers.”
"We were using digital equipment to produce the music but in a very analogue way. We were using sampling processes but in a very clumsy and coarse way."

"Amber", from the CD version of the album, was used as the soundtrack to The Shop Floor, a video production by the artist Francis Gomila (UK, 2003).

1996 edition

• Label: Soleilmoon Recordings
  Soleilmoon
  Soleilmoon Recordings is an American record label that began in 1987 as a cassette label, operating from the back of a record shop called the Ooze in Portland, Oregon, USA. The first releases were by Smegma, Muslimgauze, Coil, and Nocturnal Emissions. Compact discs releases soon followed in...
  
   (US)
• Catalogue number: SOLV004
• Format: 12 inch clear vinyl with banana paper
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   sleeve in clear vinyl sleeve
• Artwork: original artwork and design by :zoviet*France:

1998 edition

• Label: Soleilmoon Recordings (US)
• Catalogue number: SOL 62 CD
• UPC
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  : 753907776225
• Format: compact disc
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  with printed card inserts
• Artwork: original artwork and design by :zoviet*France:
• Total running time: 00:67:52

Vinyl album

1. "Alchemagenta"
2. "Angel's Pin Number"
3. "Haze Polder"
4. "Carbon"
5. "Resin (Amber)"

Compact disc

1. '"Alchemagenta"
2. "Haze Polder"
3. "Soft Helion"
4. "Another Soft Helion"
5. "Angel's Pin Number"
6. "Carbon"
7. "Amber"
8. "Init"

External links

• discogs.com Zoviet France on discogs.com, a community-built database of music information
• Jim's Music Pages: :zoviet*france a fan site with discography
• pretentious.net a fan site with discography and information