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Front by Front

1988 · Music · BE · English

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Editorial assessment: an electronic body music record whose military-machine austerity and sampled command vocals shaped the sound later associated with dystopian club culture, without a stated narrative.

Front 242's third album tightened electronic body music into something built for large rooms: sampled shouts, sequenced bass and an austere, machine-like discipline. It became a reference point for industrial dance music across Europe and North America.

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1988

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