FRONT 242 Geography Vinyl Test Pressing WAX TRAX EBM Industrial RARE

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 Hello, and welcome to auction items from Chicago’s Wax Trax! Records.
We have been picking through the Wax Trax! archives and have a few rare items that we would like to make available to collectors for the first time.

For those wondering about the independent store & label, Wax Trax! first opened it’s Chicago location in 1978 by founders Jim Nash & Dannie Flesher. The store focused primarily on experimental, unusual or hard to find collectables and quickly became the center of underground punk, new wave and experimental music & culture throughout the Midwest.
Using the momentum of the the store’s success, Nash & Flesher branched out into the unorthodox record label in 1980. Early pivotal artists such as Front 242, Ministry, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, Front Line Assembly, COIL, Laibach, and so many other electronic pioneers had their beginnings with Jim & Dannie and Wax Trax! Records. The label's contribution to what has now become known as "Industrial Music" cannot be overstated.

What we have here is an incredibly rare piece from 1987. FRONT 242 Geography-Test Pressing (WAX 034)

This TP contains the recordings:

A1. Operating Tracks 3:48 A2. With Your Cries 2:43 A3. Art And Strategy 2:14 A4. Geography II 2:11 A5. U-Men 3:13 A6. Dialogues 2:07 B1. Least Inkling 2:24 B2. Geography I 1:09 B3. Black White Blue 3:17 B4. Kinetics 2:04 B5. Kampfbereit 3:20
Truly a rare piece of Wax Trax! and Front 242 history.
If you are a Front 242 or Wax Trax! collector you know ho difficult finding this test pressing can be.

All proceeds from these upcoming WT auctions will be used to help fund the forthcoming documentary WAX TRAX!-MONUMENTARY. This film traces the arc of WAX TRAX! RECORDS throughout the 80‘s & 90‘s as well as the influence of Jim, Dannie and the ground breaking artists that called WAX TRAX! home.

If you are a fan or collector, please bookmark us as a seller, we hope to be offering more goodies as time goes on.

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