When listening to C-Tec, the project of Front 242 vocalist Jean-Luc De Meyer and Cubanate programmer Marc Heal, one would expect something “Darker,” as the title of the new album suggests.However, despite the industrial music influences in C-Tec, the pair is trying to escape from that stereotype, Heal said.”What we’re trying to do is something a little bit more sensitive and more moody, as opposed to someone shouting up there, screaming, ‘I’m going to shoot you and break the wall,’ and all those kinds of images, which I’ve heard a million times before,” he said. “I wanted to try to break out of that, with a bit more depth.”The lyrics are very personal to De Meyer, who was going through a difficult period in his life at the time, Heal said.”He (De Meyer) basically rebuilt his personality,” Heal said, “and that’s what the album’s about, really.”Finding the title for “Darker” was difficult, because they wanted something that expressed what the album was about without being too literal, Heal said.”I always find that one knows when one’s got the title; it just sort of sounds right,” he said. “It’s like the name for a child.”De Meyer and Heal took a different approach in the studio. Rather than using guitar chords, they created the songs with building blocks of samples and loops and then De Meyer added the lyrics, Heal said.”So rather than say, an architect designing a house, you were sort of throwing bits or bricks and wood together and seeing what the structure was at the end,” he said. “It was a more random process.”Although the band has recorded an EP, “Let Your Body Die,” this was the first full-length album for C-Tec.”This (‘Darker’) is really the sound of a band finding its feet as opposed to a polished example of everyone knowing exactly what they’re doing,” Heal said. “It’s a bit more experimental.”For the tour that will bring C-Tec to Chelsie’s tonight, the band recruited Nitzer Ebb’s Julian Beeston and Crisis N.T.I.’s Ged Denton.”We’ve added lots more guitar as well,” Heal said. “I’m kind of looking forward to seeing it myself as well. It’s a bit of a change from the record.”So what does Heal see in the future for C-Tec?”We look forward to making more albums because I think it will show the strengths and the weaknesses more,” he said. “What I also hope is, having made the album now, we can put in some good live shows, really tour and make it work live.”