Headhunter 2000

Front 242 | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 22, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Metropolis Records
• ASIN: B00000GUYS
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #255,403 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

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"One, you lock the target / Two, you bait the line / Three, you slowly spread the net / And four, you catch the man." If those words mean something to you, chances are you're either a stocky, short-haired Belgian synth player; a late-'80s dance-club denizen; or, more likely, a Front 242 fan. "Headhunter" will probably live on to be 242's finest four minutes and 45 seconds, and it's as close to a universally recognized anthem as the industrial-dance-music nation will get. To commemorate this formidable little ditty, Metropolis Records has released Headhunter 2000, a two-disc set containing 17--yep, 17--remixes of the song by artists who attack it from just about every dance-music angle, including modern industrial dance, house, trance, drum & bass, and noise industrial. Depending on your tolerance for remixes, this can be either a very cool idea or 104 minutes of solid tedium. Fortunately, there are enough interesting elements to keep things moving and--more important, perhaps, to some--to keep your booty shaking. Talla 2XLC turns in an ambient drum & bass remix that turns out to be pretty reverent of the original, Funker Vogt pound out a clean-lined industrial cover, and Space Frog, in the discs' highlight, deconstruct the track and add some interesting samples of their own. Other remixers "looking for this man / to make us rich and famous" include Front Line Assembly, Haujobb, Empirion, and Leaether Strip. --Steve Landau

Product Description

Full Version 2 cd set. Mixes by Talla2XLC, Noisex.

Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars How many times can you count to 4?, August 6, 2001

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"oddyophile" (Anaheim, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Headhunter 2000 (Audio CD)

I love the music of Front 242. I consider it some of the best music I've ever heard. Headhunter, however, is not my favorite piece of work, and this is too damn much of one song.

The remixes are good for the most part, but you have to listen to each one seperately to appreciate them. If you just throw the cd on, by the time you get past the third or fourth track OF THE FIRST DISC, you're sick of hearing the same song over and over and over and over.

Don't get me wrong, I like the mixes on here, they are worth hearing, but it's almost painful to have to listen to 17 versions of the same song. If you're a dj looking for a new way to play an old song, or if (like most Front 242 fans) you NEED to get everything they put out, then get it. Otherwise, save your money.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars By the end of the second disc, everything is very repetitive, February 22, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Headhunter 2000 (Audio CD)

The 2 disc set starts out well with remixes by Front Line Assmebly and varied DJ's, and is pretty solid through the first CD. After the :wumpscut: mix on the 2nd CD, though, everything breaks down into droning, synthesized beats which don't combine well with everyone's favorite "Lock the target" lyrix. Overall, though, i recomend the CD, just for the fact that it's the newest selection from Front 242.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Front 242 Anthem, November 16, 2004

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Felipe Marticorena "Felo" (Santiago de Chile) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Headhunter 2000 (Audio CD)

Headhunter is not the best song of Front 242, but this is their best "Single". A lot of different kind of mixes, from the darkest to the dancest. A CD to enjoy...