Number 144 on The 250 Best Electronic Albums of the 20th Century20th CenturyIndustrial / EBM
Front by Front
1988 · EBM
Red Rhino Europe · RRE LP 7
№ 144 on The 250 Best Electronic Albums of the 20th Century
Belgium's body music; the record that fed both techno and industrial
A bloodline record on a list like this, and the bloodline is real. Front 242 make EBM physical enough to feed both industrial and techno on Front by Front. The sequencers and shouted vocals run straight into Belgian new beat, R&S and later rave, carrying the band's own mechanical funk the whole way. 'Headhunter' still detonates, thirty-five years and several genres later.
№ 1 on The 10 Best Industrial and EBM Albums
EBM's peak and the missing link between industrial and the harder end of the dancefloor. Mechanical, confrontational and considerably funkier than three decades of imitators have managed.
Also ranked
- Dancefloor
- № 78
- Influence
- № 63
- External poll
- № 122
Tracklist
- A1Until Death (Us Do Part)4:31
- A2Circling Overland4:43
- A3Im Rhythmus Bleiben4:14
- A4Felines3:33
- B1First In / First Out3:52
- B2Blend The Strengths3:12
- B3Headhunter V 3.04:45
- B4Work 013:27
- B5Terminal State4:09