Editing Front 242 (section)

==Influences and style==
Bressanutti cites [[Musique concrète|Musique Concrète]], [[Avant-garde music|Avant Garde]], and the experimental music of [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]] as early influences.<ref>Canvas (2008) Event occurs at 3:15</ref> De Meyer cited [[Joy Division]] as an early influence for their "dramatic content."<ref>Canvas (2008) Event occurs at 2:45</ref> The electro-pop style of [[Fad Gadget]] also provided early inspiration for the band.<ref>Canvas (2008) Event occurs at 3:34</ref> While they were aware of, enjoyed, and learned from musical progenitors such as [[Klaus Schulze]], [[Kraftwerk]], and fellow countrymen [[Telex (band)|Telex]], the band did not see their styles as particularly influential.<ref>Canvas (2008) Event occurs at 8:28</ref> When asked in a 1989 interview about Front 242's being grouped with other industrial bands, Codenys replied that they "were somewhere in between Throbbing Gristle, Kraftwerk, and bands like that, but... wanted to be exclusive, and to have nothing to do with any fashion."<ref name="keyboard_sep_89" />

Despite the stated intention of remaining genre-neutral, Front 242 did latch onto a phrase to describe their style: "electronic body music" or EBM; a phrase that would expand into a genre in itself. The band was not the first to use "electronic body music" as a music descriptor. Kraftwerk used the phrase to describe their 1978 album ''Die Mensch Maschine'' (translated: The Man-Machine) and the German group [[Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft]] (DAF) used a similar term - "körpermusik" - to describe their music at the beginning of the 1980s.<ref name="RA_ebm">{{cite web |last1=Dicker |first1=Holly |title=Join in the chant: Inside the cult of EBM |url=https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/3311 |website=[[Resident Advisor]] |access-date=25 September 2020 |date=21 August 2018}}</ref> Despite not having coined the term originally, Front 242 was the first to explicitly claim EBM as a descriptor on the liner notes of their 1984 album ''No Comment'' and cemented their claim to the genre when given the lead track on the seminal [[PIAS Recordings|Play It Again Sam]] compilation ''This Is Electronic Body Music'' in 1988.<ref name="assimilate" />