Headhunter 2000
"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 releasedHeadhunter 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 2XLCturns in an ambient drum & bass remix that turns out to be pretty reverent of theoriginal,Funker Vogtpound out a clean-lined industrial cover, andSpace 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" includeFront Line Assembly,Haujobb,Empirion, andLeaether Strip.--Steve Landau