Front 242 – Front By Front
Label: |
Animalized – SPV 08-1389 |
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Format: |
Vinyl
, LP, Album
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Country: |
, Austria, & Switzerland |
Released: |
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Genre: |
Electronic |
Style: |
EBM |
Tracklist
| A1 | Until Death (Us Do Part) | 4:31 | |
| A2 | Circling Overland | 4:43 | |
| A3 | Im Rhythmus Bleiben | 4:14 | |
| A4 | Felines | 3:33 | |
| B1 | First In / First Out | 3:52 | |
| B2 | Blend The Strengths | 3:12 | |
| B3 | Headhunter V 3.0 | 4:45 | |
| B4 | Work 01 | 3:27 | |
| B5 | Terminal State | 4:09 |
Companies, etc.
- Record Company – SPV GmbH
- Licensed From – Red Rhino Europe
- Distributed By – SPV GmbH
- Distributed By – Echo Music (2)
- Distributed By – Disctrade
- Mastered At – Digipro G.L.
- Pressed By – Sonopress – C-4362
- Mastered At – Sonopress
Credits
- Arranged By [Realisation-Concept] – Front 242
- Performer [Frontmen Are] – R.23*
- Photography By – Digiview - A.V.
- Written-By – Richard 23
Notes
Comes with printed inner sleeve.
1988 Licensed from R.R.E.
ed by Hill's Music + Friends.
[back cover info]:
Licensed from R.R.E. Animalized is a division of SPV GmbH, P.O. Box 5665, 3000 Hannover 1, in Austria by Echo, Schweiz/Suisse Disctrade
[back cover & labels]
Made in West
[labels]
Made in Belgium
Inner sleeve states the following beats per minute for each track on the album, displayed here in this format: Track #: BPM;
1: 110, 2: 105, 3: 125, 4: 084, 5: 124, 6: 105, 7: 123, 8: 130, 9: 105.
Labels shows a slightly different tracklisting than the back cover or inner sleeve, the track names appear in a more minimal state, without version #'s or subtitles, and track B1 shows a comma as opposed to a slash.
Bass clef on label middle side B.
1988 Licensed from R.R.E.
ed by Hill's Music + Friends.
[back cover info]:
Licensed from R.R.E. Animalized is a division of SPV GmbH, P.O. Box 5665, 3000 Hannover 1, in Austria by Echo, Schweiz/Suisse Disctrade
[back cover & labels]
Made in West
[labels]
Made in Belgium
Inner sleeve states the following beats per minute for each track on the album, displayed here in this format: Track #: BPM;
1: 110, 2: 105, 3: 125, 4: 084, 5: 124, 6: 105, 7: 123, 8: 130, 9: 105.
Labels shows a slightly different tracklisting than the back cover or inner sleeve, the track names appear in a more minimal state, without version #'s or subtitles, and track B1 shows a comma as opposed to a slash.
Bass clef on label middle side B.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode (Text): 4 001617 138908
- Label Code: LC 8721
- Rights Society: GEMA
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A): DMC -4362 A-2/9-88
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B): DMC -4362 B-2/9-88
Other Versions (5 of 67)
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Front By Front (CD, Album) | Nettwerk | W2-49 | Canada | 1988 | ||
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Front By Front (LP, Album) | MNW | RRE LP 7 | Scandinavia | 1988 | ||
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Front By Front (CD, Album, MPO Matrix) | Red Rhino Europe | RRE CD7, RRE CD 7 | Belgium | 1988 | ||
| Front By Front (LP, Album) | Wax Trax! Records | WAX 054 | US | 1988 | |||
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Recently Edited
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Front By Front (CD, Album, PDO) | Wax Trax! Records | WAXCD 054 | US | 1988 |
Recommendations
Reviews
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Edited 18 years agoI've read accusations of Front By Front being too mainstream and too little EBM. I do not agree to these proposals. In my book FBF is one of Front's finest albums, where everything comes together in a higher order. Moreover, where other F2 releases often contain a track or two that doesn't grab me, each and every track on FBF has something to offer.
Sure, one may miss the long and epic tracks of Official Version and other Front releases, but concentrating all their energy and ideas in 4 minute long tracks certainly proved worthwhile. Focus is never lost. For the sake of F2's legacy one can only regret that nor with this album did they get the appraisal that acts that they have fathered, notably, Prodigy and Massive Attack, has. Front 242 was there long before!
In any case, this is an album fans of electronic music should most certainly own.
And some trivia: Film freaks might find it interesting that quite a few samples on FBF are taken from Danish director Lars von Trier's 1984 movie "The Element Of Crime" (Forbrydelsens Element); "Is this the kind of work you'd like to do", "We have agreed to try hypnosis", "Water, water, everywhere" etc.
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