Re: (idm) the death of front 242 ?

From Ashok Divakaran
Sent Tue, Dec 9th 1997, 13:50

> How very strange... Their last releases, _Up Evil_, _Off_, _Angels vs.
> Animals_ (not counting the live album) showed them developing into a
> something neither industrial-dance not techno -- more effective and much
> less obvious, and harder to categorize, than their WaxTrax material.

Too true. I thought the last couple of albums were very accomplished.
Their harmonic/melodic sense is miles ahead of the competition, and as you
say, they had evolved into an interesting hybrid of genres.

Maybe they're just getting too old for this sort of stuff? At any rate,
a great pity.

Ashok


PS. What is "Angels vs. Animals"?


  On
> the other hand, they have been absent for several years (and as I recall,
> the material they've played recently included no new tracks, correct?).
> Perhaps just as well not to hear them make a slow slide into irrelevance,
> if that is what would happen.
>
> --Mark
>