05:22:09:12 Off is the seventh studio album by Belgian industrial/EBM group Front 242, released by Sony on 2 November 1993. The album peaked at #27 on the CMJ Radio Top 150.
The album's title is a simple substitution cipher for the word "evil"; where each letter is represented by its equivalent numerical position in the alphabet. The album was unusual in that it primarily features a female voice, that of Christine "99" Kowalski, on vocals, with regular frontman Jean-Luc De Meyer only appearing on a few tracks.
Reception
The album has received a mostly favorable reception from critics.
Track listing
Track 14 & 15 on CD version only.
Personnel
- Daniel Bressanutti – Producer, Mixing
- Patrick Codenys – Producer, Mixing
- John Dubs – Producer
- Bob Ludwig – Mastering
- Eran Westwood – Producer, Mixing
- Jean-Luc De Meyer – vocals
- Kristin Kowalski – vocals
- Daniel Bressanutti – keyboards, programming, live mixing
- Patrick Codenys – keyboards, programming, samplers
- Richard Jonckheere, often credited as "Richard 23" – percussion, vocals