current_members associated_acts years_active alias label article_title past_members background genre origin name
jean-luc de meyer ged denton marc heal front 242 cubanate crisis n.t.i. new mind 1995 -- 2000 the cyber-tec project cyber-tec fifth column synthetic symphony wax trax ! c-tec
 jonathan sharp group_or_band industrial belgium , united kingdom c-tec
c-tec

c-tec was a band originally formed as a side project in 1995 by jean-luc de meyer -lrb- of front 242 -rrb- , jonathan sharp -lrb- of new mind -rrb- , and ged denton -lrb- of crisis nti -rrb- 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 column records in the us .
after this release , jonathan sharp left the band -lrb- due to problems with cyber-tec records manager paul m. green -rrb- , and marc heal -lrb- of cubanate -rrb- 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 -lrb- the original lead singer in 242 -rrb- 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 .
