mail from alfa matrix:
Dear Front 242 fan,
After the free "First moment" download teaser, FRONT 242 brings you the live release "Moments..." including the very best of Front242's compositions recorded during the band's worldwide "Vintage Tour" that is still running strong today.
Available as an 18-track digipack CD (holding 4 tracks in alternative versions not featured on the box edition), there will also be a pure vintage collector limited double-disc edition with in total some 32 tracks: 2 picture discs inside a 23 cm square deluxe carton box with 1 poster, 2 stickers and 1 button.
Also available is an exclusive vintage "Kommando" 242 T-shirt which was also designed for the occasion. The shirt is available in various sizes (M, L, XL).
We present you 6 packages: - Digipak CD (holding 4 tracks in alternative versions not featured on the box edition) http://www.alfa-matrix.com/shop_comments.php?id=1540_0_8_0_C - Limited 2CD Carton Box (including "Sounds From the Matrix 007" in all boxes) http://www.alfa-matrix.com/shop_comments.php?id=1541_0_8_0_C - Kommando t-shirt (sizes: M, L, XL) http://www.alfa-matrix.com/shop_comments.php?id=1542_0_8_0_C - Limited 2CD Carton Box (including "Sounds From the Matrix 007" in all boxes) + CD digipack http://www.alfa-matrix.com/shop_comments.php?id=1543_0_8_0_C - Limited 2CD Carton Box (including "Sounds From the Matrix 007" in all boxes) + Kommando t-shirt (sizes: M, L, XL) http://www.alfa-matrix.com/shop_comments.php?id=1544_0_8_0_C - Limited 2CD Carton Box (including "Sounds From the Matrix 007" in all boxes) + Kommando t-shirt (sizes: M, L, XL) + CD digipack http://www.alfa-matrix.com/shop_comments.php?id=1545_0_8_0_C
IMPORTANT: for 5 days (UNTIL Tuesday July 8th, 12 PM) you - as a downloader of "First Moment" - can purchase the digipak, the double CD boxset (or both in one package) for 3 euro cheaper than the normal price ! Follow the links below in order to benefit from this special fan discount ! This offer expires on July 8th, 12 PM so be quick !
- Digipak CD (holding 4 tracks in alternative versions not featured on the box edition) http://www.alfa-matrix.com/shop_comments.php?id=1547_0_8_0_C - Limited 2CD Carton Box (including "Sounds From the Matrix 007" in all boxes) http://www.alfa-matrix.com/shop_comments.php?id=1546_0_8_0_C - Limited 2CD Carton Box (including "Sounds From the Matrix 007" in all boxes) + CD digipack http://www.alfa-matrix.com/shop_comments.php?id=1548_0_8_0_C
Or order the Limited 2CD Carton Box + Kommando t-shirt (sizes: M, L, XL) + CD digipack in one go ! http://www.alfa-matrix.com/shop_comments.php?id=1545_0_8_0_C
Tracklisting Boxset:
CD1 1. Happiness 2. Body to Body 3. U-Men 4. Lovely Day 5. Religion 6. Welcome to Paradise 7. Commando Remix 8. Funkhadafi 9. 7Rain 10. Until Death 11. Moldavia 12. Together 13. Im Rhythmus Bleiben 14. HeadHunter 15. Operating Tracks 16. Punish Your Machine
CD2 1. First in First Out 2. No Shuffle 3. Don't Crash 4. Welcome to Paradise 5. Commando Remix 6. Quite Unusual 7. Master Hit 8. Crapage 9. Melt 10. Gripped by Fear 11. Loud 12. Moldavia 13. Take One 14. HeadHunter 15. Kampfbereit 16. Punish Your Machine
Tracklisting Digipak:
1. Happiness 2. Body to Body 3. Religion 4. Welcome to Paradise 5. Commando Remix 6. Lovely Day 7. Until Death 8. Moldavia 9. Funkhadafi 10. 7Rain 11. Loud* 12. Together 13. U-Men 14. Take one* 15. Im Rhythmus Bleiben 16. HeadHunter 17. Kampfbereit* 18. Punish Your Machine* (*) alternative versions not featured on the box edition
― StanM, Friday, 4 July 2008 04:20 (fifteen years ago) link
OMG no one should be listening to Front 242 at 9:30 AM unless they are on some heavy drugs or alcohol.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Friday, 4 July 2008 05:09 (fifteen years ago) link
I posted that at 6:20 AM :-(
― StanM, Friday, 4 July 2008 08:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Great news! Got me the itch for ebm and now I'm playing some Mussolini Headkick.
― no-nonsense, Friday, 4 July 2008 12:53 (fifteen years ago) link
I was into Mussolini Headkick for about a month in 1990. Everyone I've mentioned them to thinks I've made them up for a laugh. Few bands have been so firmly consigned to history's dustbin as second/third-tier EBM groups.
― Dorianlynskey, Friday, 4 July 2008 15:29 (fifteen years ago) link
np. "commando mix" http://fc17.deviantart.com/fs38/f/2008/317/3/7/Headbang_Emoticon_by_d3monthesicko.gif
― rio (r1o natsume), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 10:17 (fifteen years ago) link
http://fc17.deviantart.com/fs38/f/2008/317/3/7/Headbang_Emoticon_by_d3monthesicko.gif"masterhit part i & ii"http://fc17.deviantart.com/fs38/f/2008/317/3/7/Headbang_Emoticon_by_d3monthesicko.gif
― rio (r1o natsume), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 21:53 (fifteen years ago) link
OMG! Guys, sit down... It's 2:48 and I've just discovered that the guy who distributes the internal mail for the last few years is... Richard 23!!!!!!!!
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 12:48 (fourteen years ago) link
*head explodes*
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 12:49 (fourteen years ago) link
What!? Where do you work?
― StanM, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:04 (fourteen years ago) link
You caught the man!
― no-nonsense, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:35 (fourteen years ago) link
The ramifications of this are fucking with my brain... For the last four years, I've been regularly having Monday morning coffees with RICHARD 23! OMGWTF!!!
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I must see if I can find a WDYLL with your colleagues (who happen to be be members of FRONT 242)
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Omg it's 9:30 am and you're drinking coffee with Front 242!
― StanM, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:43 (fourteen years ago) link
looooool
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:44 (fourteen years ago) link
hahahaha! weird!
― scott seward, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:44 (fourteen years ago) link
How did you find out, by the way? Did you get pushed out of the way by a roadie? :-)
― StanM, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:46 (fourteen years ago) link
I was walking in the street with a colleague and we passed by a F242 poster and he was like "oh look that's mailman Richard's band. Have you heard of them?"
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Lol
― StanM, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:49 (fourteen years ago) link
I just told your story to our gardener Bono and he didn't think it was funny at all, surprisingly.
― StanM, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Baaderonixx that's amazing!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:58 (fourteen years ago) link
on a Belgian side note, it seems he's also an 'ecolo' rep in BHV: http://www.majoros.net/?p=169 (in French)
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 14:00 (fourteen years ago) link
baaderonixx, that is amazing
― HIS VAGINA IS MAKING HIM CRAVE SALAD. (HI DERE), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 14:03 (fourteen years ago) link
now I regret not going to that anniversary show last year - I would have been like "wait a minute, what are you doing up there?!"
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 14:05 (fourteen years ago) link
the other night i was at this queer industrial/goth party and "Quite Unusual" came on really loud and i started freaking the fuck out. only if they had played "Masterhit I & II" would i have freaked out more.
― tbf explicitly gay albums aren't quite as cultural (the table is the table), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 09:25 (thirteen years ago) link
"Official Version" has been in constant rotation recently, in other words.
― tbf explicitly gay albums aren't quite as cultural (the table is the table), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 09:26 (thirteen years ago) link
There's a second live DVD, came out last year apparently. I had no idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPInPCw4h-o
― StanM, Saturday, 9 April 2011 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link
OMG! It's 1:23 PM and I'm listening to Front Line Assembly!
― chillin' on an "awesome pretzel" hoagie (DJP), Monday, 28 April 2014 17:23 (ten years ago) link
its 18:40, i have had a couple of glasses of "it's the weekend" treats, and i am listening to my newly re-ripped @ 256 front 242 UP EVIL album.
it is, quite frankly, sounding f*cking brilliant.
― mark e, Thursday, 29 January 2015 18:43 (nine years ago) link
it's 19:57 and i am listening to front 242.
i often forget just how brilliant this band were ..
― mark e, Saturday, 13 June 2015 18:58 (eight years ago) link
reasons i love ilm part 463
― mark e, Saturday, 13 June 2015 19:02 (eight years ago) link
Geography, y'all
― welltris (crüt), Monday, 17 August 2015 13:08 (eight years ago) link
They celebrated their 35th birthday last year by releasing loads different versions of these three remasters, including these super deluxe box sets:
http://alfa-matrix-store.com/Front-242/front-242-filtered-pulse-anniversary-box (including live show from 1989)
http://alfa-matrix-store.com/Front-242/front-242-geography-deluxe-box-vinyl-7inch
http://alfa-matrix-store.com/Front-242/front-242-no-comment-politics-of-pressure-boxset (including live show from 1987) (and No Comment sounds fantastic)
― StanM, Friday, 10 February 2017 18:54 (seven years ago) link
Attention DJP...
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 February 2017 20:14 (seven years ago) link
They're on tour in the US right now! http://www.front242.com/live.html
(without Daniel B who is 66, he's not out of the band, just not touring anymore - the rest are 58-64) and they're even playing a couple of new songs! (first one is Funkhadafi/Generator (new) )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQuXmCdsVW4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuNZieQdGLo
― StanM, Friday, 1 October 2021 16:22 (two years ago) link
I caught the Philly show a couple weeks ago and had a lot of fun though the specter of COVID seemed to take the wind out of really enjoying myself.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 1 October 2021 16:27 (two years ago) link
Just need to stop in from vacation and say that “Pan Dhemihk” from Pulse (2003) is mind-blowing.
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Sunday, 3 October 2021 21:10 (two years ago) link
What’s a good place to start with these guys if I love the funkiness?
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Sunday, 3 October 2021 23:00 (two years ago) link
Just listen to their big three albums: Official Version, Front By Front and Tyranny For You, plus the Backcatalogue compilation. That's all you need.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 3 October 2021 23:04 (two years ago) link
Every once in a while I remember that Front 242 had an album named "06:21:03:11 Up Evil", and I think what an innocent time it still was in 1993.When "Closer" by NIN started getting major radio play a few months later, they must have realized their album might have done better if they'd just spelled it out.
― enochroot, Sunday, 3 October 2021 23:28 (two years ago) link
Utilising a simple alphanumeric conversion from numbers to letters, i.e. 1=A, 2=B, 3=C, ..., 26=Z, the title can be interpreted as:06 = F21 = U03 = C11 = KWhich gives a full album title of Fuck Up Evil.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Sunday, 3 October 2021 23:35 (two years ago) link
i think "No Comment" and "Geography" are the ones with the most funk, "Politics Of Pressure" EP too. For me, by the time it got to "Tyranny For You" they had programmed all the funk out of the music.
I had tickets to see them in March 2020 which has been rescheduled and rescheduled. Now looking like being Feb 2022.
― stirmonster, Sunday, 3 October 2021 23:49 (two years ago) link
If not for Covid and a vacation I would probably catch this tour.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 4 October 2021 00:09 (two years ago) link
https://www.front242.com/store/p90/USA_91_DIGIPAK_CD.html Live in the USA 1991, released last year
― StanM, Sunday, 27 March 2022 15:06 (two years ago) link
oh, and there was a live in Europe 2LP too - sold out by now
https://www.front242.com/store/p91/91_DOUBLE_LP_BOX.html
― StanM, Sunday, 27 March 2022 15:10 (two years ago) link
both are great btw
― StanM, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 06:29 (two years ago) link
They really know how to put on a show
― paolo, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 07:32 (two years ago) link
40th anniversary show in July - they got the whole crew out this time, even Daniel B back on stage, how long ago was that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAt4Czl6bsI
― StanM, Saturday, 20 August 2022 19:28 (one year ago) link
keep watching until the end of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPSwGj45gxM
― StanM, Saturday, 20 August 2022 19:31 (one year ago) link
last time i saw them was on the 'front by front' tour in 1988 - i went to see them at the ancienne belgique in brussels. i thought that could never be beaten but have watched this recent AB gig and it is up there. such a great show! such a great set list! i'm still getting over the fact i had to give away my ticket as i had to work the night they played glasgow a few weeks ago. hopefully they will be back sooner than last time as i don't think i'm going to make waiting another 34 years.
― stirmonster, Sunday, 21 August 2022 04:23 (one year ago) link