Tag: new order
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The Beat Bash
Friend of Radio Clash Jeb Edwards aka 50 Pound Note is doing a new regular mix series called The Beat Bash named after the radio show he hosted in the early 90’s. The first installment is up and it’s very good – including tracks from Dead Or Alive, Eurythmics, My Life With The Thrill Kill…
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Factory Records – a business, a partnership, a joke
I’d never seen this – New Order making a documentary about themselves for Channel 4 in 1984 about Factory Records. Interesting interviews, and highlights that the story of Factory Records and Tony Wilson was as much a construct as anything, e.g. evil label boss vs disaffected band members which although constantly moaning still stayed with…
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Kraftwerk Kovers Kollection 8
How could I avoid this week without mentioning Kraftwerk (I know I tried) but then DJ Food in honour of the Tate shows and 25th anniversary of Solid Steel released a new version of Kraftwerk Kover Kollection – oh frabjous day! Warning: contains jazz. I decided not to go to the Tate shows or try…
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I Dream of Wires: Chris Carter
One for the geeks and Throbbing Gristle fans out there is this excerpt from a documentary on modular synths interviewing Chris Carter. A nice look at the technological history of TG and what he’s upto now…as with New Order’s early electronic music until the rise of the cheap mass-market MIDI synth you had to get…
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New order archives
I’ve been loving the recent New Order posts from Power of Independent Trucking, especially the recent ‘Stash’ live tapes which are mastered to amazing quality and cover a period I know only bits about bar the music and a hilariously strange pre-Technique Smash Hits interview in Ibiza which Kirk owns and I have a copy…
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A Bluer Monday
https://vimeo.com/41629084 Love this moody take on Blue Monday by LeeDM101 – with appropriately dark Blade Runner visuals from Reborn Identity.