i’m feeling particularly out of sorts today (thank the lord for my old $tateside collection, and grand mal basically), but this just dropped into my inbox.
so, i’m passing on the news in case you too always wondered :
"what the fuck ever happened to front 242?"
so, without further ado, over to the press release :
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front 242 releases free 2-track download
ahead of their time back in the early 80’s, the belgian cult electronic act front 242 now makes an ultimate statement towards abusive audio compression by releasing the free 2-track download, "first moment", in 5 various audio sound quality formats:
1. mp3 – 192kbps (medium quality)
2. mp3 – 320kbps (good quality)
3. wave – 16bits/44khz files
4. free lossless audio codec (flac) – for pc
5. m4a apple lossless – for mac
it’s up to the listener to hear the difference between the various audio sound formats and thus hear for him/herself what good quality audio sounds like. to get hold of this free 2-track download, which will hit the online world on june 15th, you need to register here
pre-registering is needed in order to get hold of the free download.
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more detail : here