Artist description One man electronic artist from Ontario, expressing an enormous amount of variety and texture to the music. Various types of music are covered, mainly electronic. Some serious rave tracks exist such as Taste. Goth electronic also runs rampant through Miracle, Vulnerable, and the new hard synthpop song Trust.

Music Style industrial/ambient/electronic/experimental/synth pop/orchestral techno/ jungle/ everything

Musical Influences faith no more, vnv nation, mesh, apoptygma berzerk, square pusher, new order, delerium, the cure, funker vogt, skinny puppy, mesh, de/vision, wumpscut, leaether strip

Similar Artists depeche mode, assemblage 23, skinny puppy, mesh, vegasphere, leaether strip, the cure, vnv nation

Artist History What started as a side project of former Stigmatic guitarist Matt Gifford, Optic Front has become a full forced musical project. Optic Front started as a mainly experimental noise project, recently vocals and song structure have come into play and some poppy songs have been unleashed such as Miracle and Trisha's Song. Noise classics such as Hopeless and Mercy still run strong however. Recently Eden Bachelder has contributed to live vocals and has also written some songs. A debut album has been finished and shall be released very soon.

Group Members Matt Gifford - Programming, Synths, Lyrics, Electric and Acoustic Guitars, Vocals, Production, Sampling, Engineering, Live and Electronic Percussion, Remixing Eden Bachelder - Vocals

Instruments Hardware - Roland XP-60, Ensoniq ASR-X Sampler/Resampler Software - Fruity Loops, Hammerhead DrumSynth, Rebirth 2.0, Sonic Foundry Acid + Sound Forge 4.5, Orangatang, SimSynth

Additional Info Email any questions generously to wastedviews@hotmail.com

Location North Bay, Ontario - Canada

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