C-Tec

C-Tec
C-Tec
Also known as	The Cyber-Tec Project
Origin	Belgium, United Kingdom
Genres	Industrial
Years active	1995–2000
Labels	Cyber-Tec; Fifth Colvmn; Synthetic Symphony; Wax Trax!
Associated acts	Front 242; Cubanate; Crisis N.T.I.; New Mind
Members	Jean-Luc De Meyer; Ged Denton; Marc Heal
Past members	Jonathan Sharp

C-Tec was a band originally formed as a side project in 1995 by Jean-Luc De Meyer (of Front 242), Jonathan Sharp (of New Mind), and Ged Denton (of Crisis NTI) as The Cyber-Tec Project. The name was taken from Cyber-Tec Records, who released their first album. This EP was also released on Fifth Colvmn Records in the US. After this release, Jonathan Sharp left the band (due to problems with Cyber-Tec Records manager Paul M. Green), and Marc Heal (of Cubanate) joined as a full-time member.

The band had been conceived as a one-off project, but the members at this point decided to pursue further material. In 1997, after shortening their name to C-Tec, they released a full album, Darker, on the US industrial Wax Trax! label.

C-Tec existed during the late 1990s hiatus in the Front 242 line-up, with De Meyer (the original lead singer in 242) apparently leaving that band for a period. The band toured North America twice in 1998 with a hybrid lineup featuring other members of Cubanate and Julian Beeston, one time drummer in Nitzer Ebb. The second album, Cut, was released in 2000 on SPV imprint Synthetic Symphony. The album was originally slated for US release on Wax Trax! but the label closed around this time. Thereby, Cut never had an official American release.

In terms of how C-Tec sounded, Darker contains a surprisingly downbeat, moody collection of songs, showing strong electronic influences but with more ambient textures than would be suggested by the industrial music backgrounds of the main participants. Cut is faster in tempo, with De Meyer’s vocal mixed low. Most of the material on the two full-length C-Tec albums was co-written by Marc Heal and Jean-Luc De Meyer.

Since Cut, C-Tec appears to have been inactive, though lead singer Jean-Luc De Meyer later resurfaced with a new Front 242 album in 2003. In 2018, Both "Darker" and "Cut" were remastered and re-released on UK label Armalyte Industries. C-Tec reformed for a corresponding North American tour, featuring DeMeyer, Heal, and Denton, as well as Sean Payne of Cyanotic on drums.

Discography

Cyber-Tec Project (1995) (as Cyber-Tec)
Let Your Body Die (1995) (as Cyber-Tec - US version of self-titled album with different Track 10)
Darker (1997) (as C-Tec)
Foetal (Promo single, 1998) (as C-Tec)
Cut (2000) (as C-Tec)

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