Redzone

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Formed in London in 1997, Redzone is a genre defining electronic band.

They were pioneering in their use of real instruments that are then sampled and processed, and of the Internet to distribute music and video.

After the original demos in 1997, they released their debut CD, "Modified" in 1999 on their 'Phasechange Recordings' label, and followed it up with "[digital flesh]" released in 2005, containing an interactive cd-rom video.

They recently moved the goalposts again by performing in Second Life and completed the first recognised tour within the virtual world, the SimuLant 07 Tour, in February 2007. See [1] for details.

They are currently producing SimuLant: Live in Second Life for imminent release, writing material for the forthcoming third album, performing live around London and the UK, and arranging the next Second Life event - The Scorched Earth Festival, which will take place on May 1st 2007.

side-line magazine - review of [digital flesh]

by cedric wattergniaux

Approximately six years ago, I discover this duo hailing from the United Kingdom. The originality of their music and their out of the commercial system step were very fresh and seducing at that time. Five years after their very convincing first album ‘Modified’, the style of this Digital Flesh has not changed radically.

It’s always this unconventional mix of acoustic instruments (guitars, violins) and a total electronic chaos (Closed Circuit) with at the top, the haunting and tortured voice of Ami. Nevertheless, the band had the intelligence to avoid the trap of the ‘Modified 2’. So, we can notice some evolutions like the perfect immersion of her voice in the compositions ‘Euphoric’, ‘What is Me’, just like another instrument and not far from the work of Bjork (only the step and not the style) and the presence of different (and new) musical sides: a dark ambient one with ‘Lucid’ or a more trip hop approach ‘Six Numbers’.

Restrain this album to the musical content would have been an insult to their creativity; in the cd-rom data part you’ll find an interactive video clip with a gloomy and strange atmosphere that ends with the final death of the user and finally three very good tracks on the mp3 format. This is a pleasure to notice that finally some bands keep the fire of originality burning.