Front 242 – Geography (Deluxe Anniversary Limited Box – 2xLP + 7inch + 2xCD)

Description

For the celebration of their 35th anniversary year of existence in 2016, Belgian electronic music pioneers FRONT 242 decided to re-release several of their albums together with Alfa Matrix, their partner in crime over the last 15 years now…

For the occasion  “Pulse + Still & Raw” and “No Comment + Politics Of Pressure” will be re=released on vinyl and in a deluxe vinyl box edition, FRONT 242 also decided to re-release the rerecorded & remastered 2004 edition of their debut album “Geography” as a deluxe collector box edition. The vinyl-sized carton box features a military camouflage design with a spotted varnish printed FRONT 242 logo and a die-cut “2” across the upper cover (once assembled with the two other limited collector box sets released for the anniversary series, you get the “2-4-2” cut across the 3 box sets).

The “Geography” anniversary collector box is strictly limited to 1242 copies and includes the following items:

• 1 x FRONT 242 “Geography” LP (black 180 gr vinyl)
• 1 x FRONT 242 “Geography” CD carton sleeve (with 3 bonus tracks)
• 1 x FRONT 242 “Geography limited” LP (black 180 gr vinyl) – A collection of songs taken from the “Geography” sold-out limited 2CD box edition released by Alfa Matrix in 2004 including pre-FRONT 242 material under the PROTHESE and UNDERVIEWER monikers as well as special instrumental and aerial version of FRONT 242 early songs.
• 1 x FRONT 242 “take one / see the future” (crystal transparent  7″ vinyl) – an exclusive 7” single which could have been released back in the early days…!
• 1 x V/A – Sounds From The Matrix 08 (carton sleeve CD) – A bonus Alfa Matrix label compilation featuring 18 label mates of FRONT 242.
• 1 x “front by front” lanyard (printed white on black)
• 1 x « geography » laminated live pass
• 2 x “Geography” posters on art paper (315 mm x 220 mm)

Originally released in 1982, FRONT 242’s debut album “Geography” was already re-released later in 2004 by Alfa Matrix in a fully remastered and remixed version using modern technology while staying faithful to the spirit of the original versions and augmented with the bonus track “He runs too fast for us” which did not appear on the original LP back in the early eighties.

It is this uplifted version of the album which today gets released on vinyl format. A true “classic” record in electronic music history which became such an influential album on the development of industrial / EBM music throughout the 80’s and far beyond and which constitutes the layers on which FRONT 242 was constructed.

Tracklist :

FRONT 242 “Geography” LP (black 180 gr vinyl)

SIDE A

1. Operating Tracks
2. With Your Cries
3. Art And Strategy
4. Geography II
5. U-Men
6. Dialogues
7. He Runs Too Fast For Us

SIDE B

1. Least Inkling
2. GVDT
3. Geography I
4. Black White Blue
5. Kinetics
6. Kampfbereit

* A carton sleeve CD version of this album is also included in each Vinyl with 3 bonus tracks:

1. Ethics
2. Principles
3. Body To Body

FRONT 242 “Geography limited” LP (black 180 gr vinyl) 

SIDE A

1. PROTHESE : Couteaux
2. PROTHESE : Conditionnel Humain
3. PROTHESE : Chanson
4. UNDERVIEWER : Syncussion
5. UNDERVIEWER : Mood
6. UNDERVIEWER : Labo
7. UNDERVIEWER : Trouble

SIDE B

1. FRONT 242 : Body To Body « inst »
2. FRONT 242 : Principles « inst »
3. FRONT 242 : U-men « inst »
4. UNDERVIEWER: I Remember
5. FRONT 242 : Kampfbereit « inst »
6. FRONT 242 : In November
7. FRONT 242 : ControversyBetween « aerial »
8. FRONT 242 : Sample D « aerial»

FRONT 242 “take one / see the future”
(crystal transparent  7″ vinyl)

Side A

1. See The Future

Side B

1. Take One

V/A – Sounds From The Matrix 08
(carton sleeve CD compilation)

1. KOMOR KOMMANDO . das oontz
2. SHAUN F . drty fckn dsko (hard mix)
3. SEIZE . virtual love
4. PSY’AVIAH . sweet hard revenge
5. NEIKKA RPM . warped
6. DIFFUZION . one way
7. VIRGINS O.R PIGEONS . born in sin (DJ Psycon mix)
8. LEAETHER STRIP . aengelmaker (dagmar’s edit)
9. ACYLUM . crazy
10. MESMER’S EYES . judgement day
11. KRYSTAL SYSTEM . alakor
12. HELALYN FLOWERS . psychic vamp
13. UNTER NULL . your fall
14. DUNKELWERK . harkers verderben (shortcut)
15. SCHWARZBLUT . der abschied
16. KANT KINO . we are kant kino
17. IMPLANT . we are noise
18. ESSENCE OF MIND . watch out