A new batch of “Geography,” the album Belgian group Front 242 debuted with in 1982, has arrived at Alfa Matrix, pressed once more on see-through vinyl. It is a second run of the edition first issued on 6 September 2024.
The record is available now on the Alfa Matrix store as a clear transparent vinyl LP, and a bonus-tracks edition of the album can be heard on Bandcamp.
A first run that overloaded the shop
Demand for the first pressing was so sudden that the flood of visitors took the Alfa Matrix website down the moment sales opened.
Track listing, side by side
The vinyl follows the album’s 13-track layout, divided across two sides.
Side A
- “Operating Tracks”
- “With Your Cries”
- “Art & Strategy”
- “Geography II”
- “U-Men”
- “Dialogues”
- “He Runs Too Fast For Us”
Side B
- “Least Inkling”
- “GVDT”
- “Geography I”
- “Black White Blue”
- “Kinetics”
- “Kampfbereit”
About Front 242
Front 242 began in Aarschot, Belgium, in 1981 as a project of Daniel Bressanutti and Dirk Bergen. Richard Jonckheere, known as Richard 23, came on board in 1983, a year after Patrick Codenys and Jean-Luc De Meyer had arrived ahead of “Geography.” The four core members regrouped in 1997 following a hiatus, with Tim Kroker handling the drums at concerts.
On record, the group opened with the single “Body to Body” in 1981. Its first release in the U.S. was “Take One,” and by 1984 it was under contract to Wax Trax! in Chicago. “No Comment” (1984), “Official Version” (1987) and “Front by Front” (1988) came next, followed by “Tyranny >For You<” in 1991, “06:21:03:11 Up Evil” in 1993, “05:22:09:12 Off” in the same year, and “Pulse” in 2003.
Over the years Alfa Matrix has issued side-projects of the band, and later also vinyl reissues and anniversary editions of its work. Live performances stopped after the “Black Out” farewell tour, whose closing concert was held at Ancienne Belgique in Brussels on 25 January 2025. More news on the band is collected on the Front 242 tag page, and the wider label catalogue can be explored on the Alfa Matrix Bandcamp.