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Force De Frappe (DATA045)

by Dubmood

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georg3
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georg3 I find it blasphemous that out of all the albums with songs featured in Hotline Miami 2s soundtrack, I never checked this one out until now. Favorite track: J35 Draken.
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/sigmund/le/puppeteer/ I was thinking about getting this album or Machine, but when I saw that this one had a re-print of cassettes I had to buy it immediately. I'll be getting Machine asap or when it gets a re-print and I truly hope that would happen as I love the album and would love to have it as a cassette and as digital. Favorite track: Force De Frappe (feat. GEM TOS).
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Xtra Happy Force De Frappe was really the first album that opened my eyes to wonderful square-waved world of chiptune, and thus I'll be forever indebted to it.

And besides, how couldn't I be? It blends chiptune and synthwave effortlessly, it has lyrics in English, French and Swedish, and follows a group of cyberpunks through an alternate cold war with AIs and androids that's quickly heating up.

Anything else...?

Oh yeah, the cassette has a completely different ending.

Yeah...that'll just about do. Favorite track: J35 Draken.
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  • Cassette + Digital Album

    Sky at operating ceiling colored shell, Black case. Shrink wrapped and with a 3 page J card. Edition of 100. Like the original edition of the cassette, this contains slightly different versions of the tracks compared to the CD, digital and Vinyl version of Force De Frappe and also 3 tracks not present on any other version totaling 58 minutes of music! For those interested in the full story that is told in Force De Frappe, the cassette also includes the epilogue...

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  • Force De Frappe A2 Poster
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    170g/m2 Matte Poster A2 (420 x 594 mm), printed in Germany.

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    5.25" Floppy Edition. Printed CDr in a Floppy.

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  • Limited Edition Cassette
    Cassette + Digital Album

    Factory-printed Cassette Version of Force De Frappe. Shipping from France.
    Limited Edition of 100. Contains slightly different versions of the tracks compared to the CD, digital and Vinyl version of Force De Frappe and also 3 tracks not present on any other version totaling 58 minutes of music! For those interested in the full story that is told in Force De Frappe, the cassette also includes the epilogue...

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  • 12" Vinyl
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Regular weight 12" vinyl pressed in France with a 350g premium cardboard sleeve. The vinyl contains slightly different versions of the tracks compared to the digital, CD and cassette version of Force De Frappe. Even though it only has 9 tracks compared to 14 on the CD, it still contains 36 minutes of music compared to the 41 minutes on the CD. Cover-art by Bob Nimbe.

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about

Force De Frappe is an original and hard-hitting synthwave album based on Dubmood's unused submissions from Hotline Miami 2 as a foundation upon which to build a unique and twisted story about an evil Swedish defence system AI, a French nuclear deterrence program gone bad, and AI-built female androids flying vintage SAAB jet fighters over a dark Gothenburg archipelago in 1981. Fans of the Hotline Miami 2 soundtrack should feel right at home as the entirety of Force De Frappe is heavily influenced by the soundscape and mood of the award-winning soundtracks to both Hotline Miami and its recently-released sequel.

As a quick guide to the album, listeners will enjoy the opening car chase scene, "Älfsborg 1981," where cyber punks hijack a Swedish government fighter pilot android followed by an introduction to the AI-controlled military defense system in "STRIL-60," built by DataSAAB. The SAAB Draken fighters are explored in "J35 Draken," followed by "Att Bygga En Robot," which accompanies a scene in a lab where the protagonists try to save their fallen comrade by turning her into an android. From there, STRIL-60 system becomes self-aware and decides that the best way to gain the complete control but also the trust of the humans still able to shut it down is to stage an attack, provoking NATO and the French to launch such an assault. The rest of the album follows the dog fights in the skies above Europe when SAAB Draken fighters with their android pilots attempt to intercept the incoming French nuclear bombers. The ending is vague but may be more easily interpreted after listening to GEM TOS's lyrics in the last track, "Force De Frappe." The last bonus track on the cassette version also gives a clue on how things end.

credits

released December 21, 2015

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