Front Line Assembly - Initial Command [Vinyl]

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Canada's Front Line Assembly was one of the seminal experiences in industrial music at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s. Together with Skinny Puppy and Front 242, they redefined the genre for the use not of suburban punk crowds but of cyberpunk intellectuals. If Front Line Assembly never produced a true masterpiece, it is perhaps due to Bill Leeb's confused and scattered personality. Their merit remains mainly that of having transported the "cyber" spirit into rock music. Leeb achieved more salient results with the endless collaborations, particularly with the acronyms Delerium and Will. In this, too, he has been instrumental in rock music: in defining the industrial/dance artist as a portfolio of pseudonyms, each identifying a different route of experimentation.

The group did not yet have a well-defined personality on the first album,
Initial Command (KK, 1987), but their program captivated kids
fascinated by science fiction and computers, those who within a few
years would be renamed "cyberpunk."
The most effective robotic pantomimes on the album (The
State, the one with the most "industrial" syncopations; Black March, emphatic and macabre; and No
Control, frenetic, almost house-like) exude expressionism and futurism.
The problem is that these instrumental pieces employ the electronic machines
of the time almost always in the same way and therefore the
differences in arrangement are almost nil between one and the other.
Also appearing on the disc are the first abstract squares
(such as Ausgang Zum Himmel), which harken back to early Kraftwerk.

Source: https://www.scaruffi.com/vol6/fla.html

Tracklist:

A1 The State 00:00
A2 Insanity Lurks Nearby 06:18
A3 Casualties 12:21
A4 Ausgang Zum Himmel 17:09
B1 Nine Times 24:21
B2 Black March 30:50
B3 No Control 36:54
B4 Slaughter House 43:35

Genre: EBM,Industrial
Audio Codec: FLAC
Rip type: tracks
Recording format: 24/96
Distribution Format: 24/96
Source of digitization: by the author (DENKAS) of distribution
Vinyl Condition Code: Mint,NM,Ex
Playback device: Reloop RP-7000,Thorens TD 115
Recorder head: Shure Whitelabel,Audio Technica AT440MLb
Preamplifier: NAD PP3
ADC: Creative SB X-FI HD
Digitizer program: Sound Forge 10
Processing: Fade in pauses