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Bressanutti, Codenys and De Meyer took turns on vocals at first, until they settled on De Meyer as the lead vocalist (early recordings with
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Front 242 promised a new U.S. tour to perform new material from these releases. They have made occasional appearances in Latin
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Several months later, the first release from Male or Female, also known as Morf, a new project for
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was released by Dance.com. The DVD was a collaboration with experimental documentary filmmakers Rod Chong and Sharon
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Underviewer had given their demo tapes to Bressanutti who was working at a music instruments shop at the time (Hill's Music in Brussels.) Daniel was so impressed he asked Patrick and Jean-Luc to join Front 242.
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The album was a live recording encompassing the best of Front 242's compositions. The album was shipped in several formats including limited CD box sets, vinyl in different colors including 300-copy limited editions, and as a one-disc CD release.
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Belgian label
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style of industrial and EBM culture which included the wearing of military gear, such as flak jackets, camouflage, and combat boots, as well as hairstyles, sunglasses, accessories, tattoos, and piercings.
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in association with their sound via the liner notes, which stated: "Electronic body music composed and produced on eight tracks by Front 242." The band followed the release with a European tour.
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Sony/Epic also acquired the rights to the band's back catalog from Wax Trax! and issued re-released versions of the albums with new cover art and bonus tracks taken from singles and EPs.
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band called Spill who Bressanutti and Codenys had brought to Belgium to produce their debut album. After the recording sessions fell apart, they contributed to Front 242 on the
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with helping Front 242 "emerge from relative obscurity to become a significant cult force, selling records all over the world." In the fall of 1987, Front 242 supported
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in Belgium. An incident between the band and security at Pukkelpop resulted in more poor reflections and accusations in the press. That year they also released the
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album in crafting the new, more techno style of Re:Boot.
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2066:"Front 242 announces 'Black To Square One' US Tour 2020"
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1944:Phillips, D. (October 1997).
1852:Romanowski, Patricia (1995).
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1351:– Patrick Codenys
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989:Play It Again Sam
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