Editing Front 242 (section)

{{Short description|Belgian electronic music group}}
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{{Infobox musical artist  <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians -->
| name              = Front 242
| image             = Front242 3.jpg
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| origin            = [[Aarschot]], Belgium
| genre             = {{hlist|[[Industrial music|Industrial]]|[[Electronic body music|EBM]]|[[electronic music|electronic]]}}
| years_active      = {{Start date|1981}}–{{End date|2025}}
| label             = {{hlist|Another Side|[[Red Rhino Europe]]|Animalized|[[Wax Trax!]]|[[Epic Records|Epic]]|[[XIII Bis Records]]|[[Alfa Matrix]]}}
| spinoffs          = {{hlist|[[Cobalt 60 (band)|Cobalt 60]]|[[C-Tec]]|[[Revolting Cocks]]}}
| website           = {{URL|front242.com}}
| current_members   = Daniel Bressanutti<br>[[Jean-Luc De Meyer]]<br>Patrick Codenys<br>[[Richard Jonckheere]]<br>Tim Kroker
| past_members      = Dirk Bergen<br>Jean-Marc Pauly<br>Pierre Pauly<br>Kristin Kowalski<br>Eran Westwood<br>John Dubs<br>Jean-Marc Lederman
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'''Front 242''' is a Belgian [[electronic music]] group that came into prominence during the 1980s. Pioneering the style they called [[electronic body music]], they influenced the [[Electronic music|electronic]] and [[Industrial music|industrial]] music genres.<ref>{{cite web|last=Bush |first=John |url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/front-242-p13004/biography |title=Front 242 |website=AllMusic |access-date=13 May 2012}}</ref>