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| | PAST ARCHIVES Front Line Assembly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | So, after being mercilessly pummelled by Flying Saucer Attack, next out of the Jiffy Bag was this compilation from Vancouver-based industrial terrorists Front Line Assembly, focusing on their work between 1989 and 1993, with a few remixes and b-sides thrown in to tempt the completist. |
 | | Front Line Assembly were, in their former incarnation Skinny Puppy, heavily influenced by the first generation electro acts such as Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle, who in turn had learned the whole game from the pioneering efforts of the mighty Kraftwerk, where inevitably any investigation into the roots of machine-based music must inevitably end up. |
 | | In turn Front Line Assembly have sired or inspired bands such as Ministry, Revolting Cocks and Fear Factory (whose "Remanufacture" album sounds not unlike "New Lands", come to think of it, in concept if not in execution). |
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