Tag: new order
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Power, Corruption and Interviews
New Order are posting interviews about their classic ’83 album Power, Corruption and Lies, and the latest is about the gear they used and pushing buttons. And the first video was about the history of the album: This follows similar interviews about their sadly overlooked first album, Movement, when that re-release came out last year.…
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RC 331: Mashed Spaghetti aka Morecone!
With the sad death last month of Il Maestro Ennio Morricone I felt I needed to mark his passing better than just a song. From spaghetti western soundtracks, pop, remixes, mashups and even on the dance floor his music has influenced generations from cinema goers and musicians. So just to prove his breadth of inspiration…
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Closer 40
Joy Division’s Closer is 40 today…an album that means a lot to me, but reminds me of very dark times. So as a flip side of that dour darkness, to celebrate here’s George Michael and Morrissey in 1984 extolling their love – well partly in Moz’s case – for Joy Division. Closer was one of…
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RC 325: Cowboys and Angels
We toast a cowboy goodbye on the range to a friend, a fellow bootlegger and bastard pop/mashup artist in the best way I know how – a mashup and electro/blog house knees up wake. Warning: contains mid-00’s shonky blog mixing as well for total authenticity! And a total of seven mashups…shock horror. What is the…
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Oh What An Atmosphere
Still better than most of Waiting for the Siren’s Call… The reverse is really odd, gives Russ Abbot some real mournful pathos. Which probably shouldn’t happen. But still WAY better than the depressing cowled munchkin video Anton Corbijn did for the re-release.
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Shellshock 2017
If you’re a New Order fan, the mention of New Order playing Shellshock in 2017 (last played live 30 years ago apparently) should send you into Maximum Squeedom…Also they play Sub-culture one of my faves but like Shellshock not I think played for a very long time either. Amazing looking set from artist Liam Gillick…