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    • 25 Oct 2006, 19:07

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    • 25 Oct 2006, 19:37
    The Wake:


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    • 25 Oct 2006, 19:48
    ooh ooh me first me first;

    Crispy Ambulance

    sprawling soundscapes in the vein of Section 25 with Ian Curtis singing (the lead singer of this band actually stepped in for Ian at one gig, i don't think it ended too well though).

    =)



  • Kalima was initially known as The Swamp Children featuring members of another Factory band, A Certain Ratio. They changed their name eventually and their brand of post-punk-avant-jazz, if that makes any sense, is bewitching.

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    • 26 Oct 2006, 10:09
    I must check out T.C. Matic.

    My Factory record of the week:

    The Wake - Harmony + Singles (1982)


    Choice Cuts
    Here Comes Everybody
    The Drill
    The Old Men

    They'll hate me for saying it, but I regard The Wake as the first New Order (they had that sound while New Order themselves still sounded like Joy Division).

    A thoroughly good album.

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  • The Wake was one of my favorites on Factory. Here's another favorite:


    Reunion Wilderness by The Railway Children (Fact 185)

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  • I'd also like to recommend Shadowplayers:



    It's a documentary tracing the history of the Factory label and is directed by LTM head honcho, James Nice. It features interviews with Tony Wilson, Peter Hook, Peter Saville, Vini Reilly, Howard Devoto and tons of others. Highly recommended!!!

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    • 19 Dec 2006, 08:01
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  • Pick of the week

    Anna Domino (1986)



    If there's ever been something like the 'typical' Factory artist, Anna Domino has not been it. Her self-titled (re-released on CD with five bonus tracks originally to be found on Rhythm) is an album of r(h)ythmic jazz-pop-wave with a heap of other genre influences thrown in. It kicks off with the single Rythm, with a piano that reminds us of the likes of The Lovecats, but the dry cool vocals (never smoky or overly lounge-pop-like - think Sade, generally a good reference - nor as robotic as Anne Clark) work against that association, making the music at once darker and less spooky-kooky, more grown-up, but no less playful, no less easy-going. The latter adjective is supported by the steady sweet brooding bass lying beneath each track, and the "ba-ba-ba"s in tracks like My Man, the 'dark' part by the distant sounds of saxophones and marimbas. Chosen Ones might be mistaken for one of Nouvelle Vague's better covers, a new wave song at heart, given all outward characteristics of an airy summer lounge one; Summer stays even truer to that heart with just the vocals seeming vaguely out of place - and maybe even saving it from cheesiness and standard-pop-boredom, although the album as a whole has too independent a sound to ever allow accusations of ingratiation with commercial pop fans. Instead and on a closing note, I'd recommend it to fans of the tuneful sides of Laurie Anderson.

    Choice cuts:
    Rythm
    Not Right Now
    Caught

    They changed their name eventually and their brand of post-punk-avant-jazz, if that makes any sense, is bewitching.

    Post-punk-avant-jazz makes a lot of sense to me :D I'm imagining it a bit like Ludus now.

    • Cylob said...
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    • 20 Jan 2007, 11:21
    Groove of the week:

    FACT 75: Power, Corruption & Lies (1983)



    In my book, New Order's first NewOrder release. Tragically, the studio version of "5-8-6" is nowhere near as good as the Peel Session, recorded the year before. It was a sign of things to come (particularly with Electronic). Take a really good song, then overproduce it to the point of being a health & safety hazard. Ah well. There's plenty else on this album to marvel at.

    Choice Cuts:
    Age of Consent
    We All Stand
    Your Silent Face

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  • Pick Of The Week:

    So Hot



    I will be pimping this everywhere. Providing one of the more obscure releases on Factory Records, Swamp Children featured A Certain Ratio members at the time and later changed their name to Kalima (I haven't listened to the latter band yet, if anyone has any opinions/recs on them, I'd be delighted to hear).

    If you deconstruct So Hot to its basic pop elements, surprisingly you will find some of the same basic pop elements you find in (later) Stereolab. I'm not joking. The difference between Swamp Children and Stereolab is that the former use post-punk and new wave influences to create an avant-funk sound, while the latter use krautrock/shoegaze/post-rock/retro-lounge and whatnot to create their special amalgam of abstract pop.

    Go for it.

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    • 23 Apr 2007, 17:26
    Track pick of the day:



    Thieves Like Us

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    • 3 May 2007, 07:46

    MAC Album of the Day, 3rd May 2007:

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    Electronic - Electronic (1991)



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    • 21 Jun 2007, 07:21

    Today's Hero...

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    Ian Curtis



    Chosen by sonicster.

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    • 9 Jul 2007, 01:34

    This Week's Featured Band (9-16 July):

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    New Order



    What was your first album?

    What would your Desert Island album be?

    The first 3 tracks that pop into your head?

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    • 9 Jul 2007, 01:40
    My first album?

    "Technique", acquired in 1991. I didn't fully appreciate this album until much later (1997 perhaps).

    My Desert Island album?

    This is a very difficult choice! New Order are amazingly consistent, there's nothing to pick and choose between half a dozen of their albums. When push comes to shove, I guess I'm picking the disc that contains "Blue Monday".



    "Substance" it is.

    3 tracks?

    Blue Monday
    Dream Attack
    Dreams Never End

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  • What was your first album?
    Well, you better ask my two uncles that. When we were kids they played New Wave non-stop, and especially New Order. As kids, me and my cousins became so sick of it, but ten years to the future I download the Singles Compilation (2005), and I know the words to songs I didn't even have knowledge of. Apparently I was wrong.

    What would your Desert Island album be?
    I too, shall pick Substance. It's similar to the first disc of Singles, and that compilation's all I have. A collection of great tunes.

    The first 3 tracks that pop into your head?
    Blue Monday
    Bizarre Love Triangle
    Regret (which makes me really happy, I don't quite understand why)

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  • What was your first album?

    Power, Corruption and Lies (LP), I acquired it either in '84 or '85? My memory ain't that great...

    What would your Desert Island album be?

    Substance. Neat remixes...brings back a lot of good memories. (Clubbing years). :)

    The first 3 tracks that pop into your head?

    Don't Do It
    Love Vigilantes
    Perfect Kiss (Substance Version)

  • My First Album?

    "Republic"... I acquired it in late '93. That's really funny though, because I just filled a similar questionnaire for Björk and guess what; I remember clearly, that I've bought "Debut" and "Republic" on the same day. PSB's "Very" was the third. Oh 1993, what a year that was...

    My Desert Island Album?

    It should be "Substance", then I'll have most of my favourite New Order songs with me. Still, I have to add, that either "Technique" or "Power, Corruption & Lies" is my favourite New Order album, if we would exclude compilations.

    3 Tracks?

    Blue Monday
    Fine Time
    Age of Consent

    I picked one from each of the three albums I mentioned above, but "Blue Monday" is definitely my favourite New Order song.

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    • 16 Aug 2007, 19:30
    "100 Iconic Album Covers"

    # 45

    Joy Division - Closer (1980)



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    • 28 Aug 2007, 20:07

    News: "Tony Wilson Tribute Site Set Up"

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    NME:

    "A site has been set up collecting tributes to Tony Wilson, who died earlier this month (August 10).

    The site features contributions from the likes of New Order, Elbow's Guy Garvey and U2 manager Paul McGuiness.

    Wilson, co-founder of Factory Records, died of a heart attack brought on by cancer on August 10 at the age of 57. His funeral took place on August 20.

    Wilson is best known for signing legendary bands including Joy Division and New Order to his label, and as owner of the Hacienda nightclub in Manchester.

    He played a key role in the Madchester scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s, signing Happy Mondays."

    http://www.nme.com/news/tony-wilson/30742

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  • Today's Hero: Feb 11th

    Bernard Sumner



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    • 6 May 2008, 07:39
    Just found a great Factory website:

    A Factory Discography v7.7

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