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  "name": "Front 242",
  "description": "Front 242 appears once in our Laurent Garnier — A Life in Twenty-One Records list. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.",
  "updated": "2026-08-29",
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      "whyItMatters": "EBM, and exactly the kind of rock-adjacent electronic record I like to drop into a set. It sits at a techno tempo without any help, and it is part of the foundation of this music rather than a novelty beside it.",
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