Cocosolidciti records is a perculiar record label and the people at Cocosolidciti like to think about peculiar releases. -40 for sure is one of them. Composed by a set of a CD plus a DVD, -40 is a compilation which gathers modern digital manipulators of the likes of Akufen, Deadbeat, Venetian Snares, Knifehandchop, Secret Mommy, Lowfish, and DMC World Champion DJ Dopey, etc. They were called to do some treatement to some old Canadian Propaganda Films from the '40s. The whole project is divided into treated audio tracks and visual treated works with original audio. The visual sources have been treated by David Lemieux, Josh Raskin, Shawn Chappelle, Nadia, Duguay, Creatix, etc. The video treatements gave to the original sources a sense of uneasiness: it's like the video artists, with their work, underlined the alienation and the horrors of war. The ten tracks of the audio CD sound particular because you can hear the soundtracks of those propaganda films along with jungle beats and various rhythm based solutions (with also some ambient atmospheres like on the Prhizzm track "Ordeal by ice"). The video DVD, to be honest, contains a lot more respect the video reworks, as it contains also the whole CD audio tracklist with the original scores that were used as sample source. The remixers did a great work and I suggest you to check this release as you won't be disappointed!