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Front 242

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Front 242 is a Belgian electronic music group that came into prominence during the 1980s. [1]

73 relations: Aarschot, Al Jourgensen, Alfa Matrix, Alternative Party (demoparty), Alternative Songs, Anton Corbijn, Belgium, Bigod 20, Billboard (magazine), Billboard 200, Birmingham 6 (band), Bridget Fonda, C-Tec, Charles Baudelaire, Cipher Complex, Cobalt 60 (band), Cobalt-60, Cubanate, Dance Club Songs, Electronic body music, Electronic music, Epic Records, FLAC, Front by Front, Front Line Assembly, Gaiden, Geography (album), Glis, Headhunter (song), Infest (festival), Jean-Luc De Meyer, Jean-Marc Lederman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Joel Whitburn, K2 (film), Leuven, List of industrial music genres, Lollapalooza, Luc van Acker, Marc Heal, Metropolis Records, Military parade, Ministry (band), MP3, MPEG-4 Part 14, New York City, No Comment (Front 242 album), Official Version, Psy'Aviah, Pulse (Front 242 album), ..., Punish Yourself, Record chart, Red Rhino Records, Reims, Revolting Cocks, Richard Jonckheere, Roskilde Festival, Single White Female, Steve Stoll (musician), Techno, The Prodigy, ThefucKINGFUCKS, Tyranny (For You), UK Singles Chart, United States, VNV Nation, WAV, Wax Trax! Records, Wing Commander: Prophecy, XIII Bis Records, 05:22:09:12 Off, 06:21:03:11 Up Evil, 23 enigma. Expand index (23 more) »

Aarschot

Aarschot is a city and municipality in the province of Flemish Brabant, in Flanders, Belgium.

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Al Jourgensen

Allen David "Al" Jourgensen (born Alejandro Ramírez Casas; October 9, 1958) is a Cuban-American singer-songwriter, musician and music producer.

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Alfa Matrix

Alfa Matrix is a Belgian record label.

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Alternative Party (demoparty)

Alternative Party is a demoscene and art event in Finland.

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Alternative Songs

Alternative Songs (also called Alternative and formerly known as Modern Rock Tracks and Hot Modern Rock Tracks) is a music chart in the United States that has appeared in ''Billboard'' magazine since September 10, 1988.

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Anton Corbijn

Anton Johannes Gerrit Corbijn van Willenswaard (born 20 May 1955) is a Dutch photographer, music video director and film director.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Western Europe bordered by France, the Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg.

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Bigod 20

Bigod 20 was a German EBM/Techno band which was formed in 1988 by music producers Andreas Tomalla (a.k.a. Talla 2XLC and formerly of the band Moskwa TV) and Markus Nikolai (a.k.a. Jallokin).

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Birmingham 6 (band)

Birmingham 6 is a Danish electro-industrial/EBM group founded in 1991 and named after the Birmingham Six, a group of Irish men wrongly imprisoned for the Birmingham pub bombings.

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Bridget Fonda

Bridget Jane Fonda (born January 27, 1964) is a retired American actress.

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C-Tec

C-Tec was a band originally formed as a side project in 1995 by Jean-Luc De Meyer (of Front 242), Jonathan Sharp (of New Mind), and Ged Denton (of Crisis NTI) as The Cyber-Tec Project.

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Charles Baudelaire

Charles Pierre Baudelaire (April 9, 1821 – August 31, 1867) was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe.

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Cipher Complex

Cipher Complex is an unreleased stealth action video game that was being developed for the Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 systems by Edge of Reality.

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Cobalt 60 (band)

Cobalt 60 was an electro-industrial/EBM group featuring Jean-Luc de Meyer and Dominique Lallement.

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Cobalt-60

Cobalt-60,, is a synthetic radioactive isotope of cobalt with a half-life of 5.2714 years.

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Cubanate

Cubanate were an industrial band from London, England, founded in 1992 by Marc Heal and Graham Rayner with Phil Barry and Steve Etheridge.

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Dance Club Songs

The Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly chart published exclusively by Billboard in the United States.

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Electronic body music

Electronic body music (EBM) is a genre of electronic musicDan Sicko, Techno Rebels: The Renegades of Electronic Funk, Billboard Books, 1999, p. 142.

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Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments and circuitry-based music technology.

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Epic Records

Epic Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc., the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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FLAC

FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an audio coding format for lossless compression of digital audio, and is also the name of the free software project producing the FLAC tools, the reference software package that includes a codec implementation.

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Front by Front

Front by Front is an album by Front 242, released in 1988, and has been labelled as "easily one of the greatest industrial albums ever made".

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Front Line Assembly

Front Line Assembly (FLA) is a Canadian electro-industrial band formed by Bill Leeb in 1986 after leaving Skinny Puppy.

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Gaiden

is a Japanese-language word meaning "side story" or "tale", used to refer to an anecdote or supplementary biography of a person.

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Geography (album)

Geography is the debut album by Front 242, released in 1982.

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Glis

Glis was an electronic music project founded in 2001 by Shaun Frandsen of Seattle, WA.

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Headhunter (song)

"Headhunter" is a 1988 song by the Belgian EBM band Front 242.

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Infest (festival)

Infest is an annual three-day music festival held at the University of Bradford Union in the United Kingdom, featuring alternative electronic music acts from genres including industrial, EBM, futurepop, synthpop and power noise.

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Jean-Luc De Meyer

Jean-Luc De Meyer (born 1957 in Brussels) is a vocalist and lyricist who is best known as the lead vocalist of the Belgian EBM group Front 242.

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Jean-Marc Lederman

Jean-Marc Lederman is a Belgian keyboard player and producer.

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Jennifer Jason Leigh

Jennifer Jason Leigh (born Jennifer Leigh Morrow; February 5, 1962) is an American actress.

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Joel Whitburn

Joel Carver Whitburn (born November 29, 1939) is an American author and music historian.

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K2 (film)

K2 is a 1991 adventure drama film starring Michael Biehn and Matt Craven, directed by Franc Roddam, and written by Patrick Meyers and Scott Roberts, adapting Meyers' original stage play.

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Leuven

Leuven or Louvain (Louvain,; Löwen) is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in Belgium.

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List of industrial music genres

Industrial music is a form of experimental and electronic music which emerged in the 1970s.

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Lollapalooza

Lollapalooza is an annual music festival featuring popular alternative rock, heavy metal, punk rock, hip hop, and electronic music bands and artists, dance and comedy performances, and craft booths.

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Luc van Acker

Luc van Acker is a musician from Tienen, Belgium.

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Marc Heal

Marc Heal is an English musician, TV producer and writer.

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Metropolis Records

Metropolis Records was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1993.

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Military parade

A military parade is a formation of soldiers whose movement is restricted by close-order manouvering known as drilling or marching.

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Ministry (band)

Ministry is an American industrial metal band founded in 1981 by Al Jourgensen in Chicago, Illinois.

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MP3

MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is an audio coding format for digital audio.

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MPEG-4 Part 14

MPEG-4 Part 14 or MP4 is a digital multimedia container format most commonly used to store video and audio, but it can also be used to store other data such as subtitles and still images.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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No Comment (Front 242 album)

No Comment is a 1984 Front 242 album released on the Another Side music label.

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Official Version

Official Version is the third studio album by Front 242, released in March 1987 and re-released in 1992.

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Psy'Aviah

Psy'Aviah is an Industrial rock / Electroclash / Dark EBM band from Antwerp, Belgium.

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Pulse (Front 242 album)

Pulse is the eighth studio album by Front 242, released on May 6, 2003 through Metropolis Records.

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Punish Yourself

Punish Yourself is a French industrial metal band best known for their stage theatrics and innovative style of industrial/punk music.

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Record chart

A record chart, also called a music chart, is a ranking of recorded music according to certain criteria during a given period of time.

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Red Rhino Records

Red Rhino Records, also known as Red Rhino, was a British independent record label which was developed by the independent record shop and wholesaler of the same name, all formed and run by "Tony K" (Tony Kostrzewa) and his wife Gerri.

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Reims

Reims (also spelled Rheims), a city in the Grand Est region of France, lies east-northeast of Paris.

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Revolting Cocks

Revolting Cocks, also known as RevCo, are an American–Belgian industrial rock band and, sometimes, supergroup that began as a musical side-project for Richard 23 of Front 242, Luc van Acker, and Al Jourgensen of Ministry.

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Richard Jonckheere

Richard Jonckheere (born 20 January 1963 in Brussels, Belgium), more known by his stage names, Richard 23 and Richard JK, is a Belgian musician, best known as a member of Front 242 (which he joined in 1983) and was a founding member of Revolting Cocks (which he left in 1986).

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Roskilde Festival

The Roskilde Festival is a Danish music festival held annually south of Roskilde.

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Single White Female

Single White Female is a 1992 American psychological erotic thriller film based on John Lutz's novel SWF Seeks Same.

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Steve Stoll (musician)

Steve Stoll (born 1967, as Stephen Stollmeyer) is an American techno musician and label owner.

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Techno

Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan, in the United States during the mid-to-late 1980s.

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The Prodigy

The Prodigy are an English electronic dance music group from Braintree, Essex, formed in 1990 by keyboardist and songwriter Liam Howlett.

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ThefucKINGFUCKS

thefucKINGFUCKS is an underground Belgian industrial rock performance art group that began as a musical side-project for controversial visual artist Kendell Geers, Patrick Codenys of Front 242.

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Tyranny (For You)

Tyranny (For You) (written as Tyranny ▶For You◀ on the album artwork) is an album by Front 242, released in 1991.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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VNV Nation

VNV Nation is a European-based alternative electronic project led by Ronan Harris (b. June 14, 1967) in the roles of singer, songwriter and producer.

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WAV

Waveform Audio File Format (WAVE, or more commonly known as WAV due to its filename extension - both pronounced "wave") (rarely, Audio for Windows) is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on PCs.

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Wax Trax! Records

Wax Trax! Records is an American independent record label in Chicago.

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Wing Commander: Prophecy

Wing Commander: Prophecy is the fifth installment in the Wing Commander science fiction space combat simulator franchise of computer games.

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XIII Bis Records

XIII BIS Records is a independent record label based in Paris, France that releases music in a variety of genres.

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05:22:09:12 Off

05:22:09:12 Off is an album by Industrial/EBM group Front 242.

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06:21:03:11 Up Evil

06:21:03:11 Up Evil is an album by Front 242, released in 1993.

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23 enigma

The 23 enigma is a superstitious belief in the significance of the number 23.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_242

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