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Notably during this time were two complete albums by The Durutti Column: Short Stories for Pauline and Circuses and Bread.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe label stopped releasing new material in 1988 but retained its name for early CD reissues through Crépuscule in the early '90s. In 2012,FBN was revived with James Nice at the helm who previously worked at Crépuscule during the late '80s.The revived F\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"new-order-presents-be-music","title":"New Order Presents Be Music","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Order Presents Be Music\u003c\/i\u003e is a compilation of productions by members of iconic Manchester group New Order, including classic dance and electro tracks released on Factory Records between 1982 and 1985, as well as more recent remixes for current artists such as Factory Floor, Marnie, Tim Burgess and Fujiya and Miyagi. The generic tag Be Music was first used in 1981 and covered studio production work by all four members of New Order: Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert. Sumner often teamed with Donald ‘Dojo’ Johnson of A Certain Ratio, including the pioneering electro cuts featured here by Quando Quango, 52nd Street, Marcel King, Paul Haig and Surprize. Morris and Gilbert worked with Thick Pigeon, Life, Red Turns To and also 52nd Street. Although more rock orientated, Hook proved he was no slouch on the dancefloor either with the mighty Fate\/Hate by Nyam Nyam. ‘Producing was a really important sideline,’ recalls Bernard Sumner of the Factory era. ‘It’s OK doing it because although all the groups are skint, you learn a lot and you're helping somebody,’ After 1985 the band focused more on producing their own records, both as New Order and solo projects such as Electronic, Revenge, The Other Two, Monaco and Bad Lieutenant. However in recent years Stephen Morris in particular has remixed several newer artists, notably London industrialists Factory Floor, as well as former Factory workers A Certain Ratio and Section 25. Bonus tracks on the 3xCD box set include \u003ci\u003eKnew Noise\u003c\/i\u003e by Section 25, produced by Ian Curtis and Rob Gretton of Joy Division way back in 1979, and the complete 22 minute version of \u003ci\u003eVideo 586\u003c\/i\u003e, recorded by New Order themselves in 1982. All tracks (12 on vinyl, 36 on the CD) are newly remastered. The liner notes feature commentary on the tracks by the artists and the members New Order. 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The 11 track album contains several acknowledged Durutti classics, notably haunting instrumental Prayer (burnished with cor anglais by Maunagh Fleming) and The Beggar, probably the closest Vini Reilly has edged to rock music. Elsewhere, Smile in the Crowd would be covered by Depeche Mode mainman Martin Gore on his 1989 solo project Counterfeit. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2LP - This new vinyl remaster also includes non-album single \u003ci\u003eI Get Along Without You Very Well\u003c\/i\u003e, a bittersweet Hoagy Carmichael cover sung by Lindsay Reade, the former wife of Factory foreman Tony Wilson. The second disc is a previously unreleased live show taped at the Pandora’s Box Festival in Rotterdam on 4 September 1983, featuring eight tracks performed by Vini Reilly and Bruce Mitchell. It Comes packaged in a gatefold sleeve printed on white reverse board, restoring the original cover artwork by Mark Farrow with cover paintings by Jackie Williams.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCD - Bonus tracks on the CD include exemplary live versions of The Beggar and Bordeaux, plus non-album single I Get Along Without You Very Well, a Hoagy Carmichael cover sung by Lindsay Reade, the former wife of Factory foreman Tony Wilson. 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A collaboration between virtuoso guitarist Vini Reilly and legendary Manchester producer Martin Hannett, The Return of the Durutti Column paired Reilly's non-rock sketches with Hannett's electronic textures to produce 'perfectly realised, correctly ambient and inventive music' (NME). The infamous sandpaper sleeve was somewhat less user friendly. Inspired by a 1959 Situationist publication by Guy Debord and Asger Jorn, the relentless iconoclasts at Factory hoped that the abrasive packaging would destroy existing record collections. This new 2013 edition on Factory Benelux develops rather than replicates the original packaging. On the front cover, an 11-inch square sheet of coarse sandpaper is seated in a recessed deboss, while the back cover and inner sleeve feature period Durutti images by noted photographer Daniel Meadows. The bonus Hannett 'test card' flexidisc is now a hard vinyl 7\" (with improved sound quality), while the album itself features two extra tracks, \u003ci\u003eMadeleine\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLips That Would Kiss \u003c\/i\u003e(previously issued as a separate 7-inch single on Factory Benelux in October 1980). The inner bag also features extensive liner notes with quotes from Vini Reilly, Martin Hannett, Tony Wilson, Peter Saville, Daniel Meadows, John Brierley, Bruce Mitchell and members of Joy Division, who assembled most of the sandpaper originals. 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Largely self-produced, and entirely instrumental, \u003ci\u003eObey the Time\u003c\/i\u003e saw DC mainman Vini Reilly further develop his interest in electronic music, and even embracing house and techno stylings. “The title came screaming off the TV screen in somebody’s version of Othello and captured exactly the feel of the work in progress,” explained Tony Wilson, Durutti manager and Factory founder. “We were in the middle of the Aceeed explosion. If you lived in Manchester, you were absolutely in the middle of it. Vini even explained why House made keyboards sound so fresh. Something to do with a chord being played with 3 or 4 notes into the sampler, but then different chords being triggered by a single key stroke. Creating mathematical harmonic relationships ‘which Schoenberg had searched for but never found.’” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndeed veteran Durutti percussionist Bruce Mitchell features on just one track, \u003ci\u003eArt and Freight\u003c\/i\u003e. 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Recorded as a trio at Pink Floyd’s Britannia Row studio in London in January 1981, \u003ci\u003eAlways Now\u003c\/i\u003e combined austere post-punk rhythm and noise with elements of Can, Krautrock and modern psychedelia. 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This final disc closes with an extended (and previously unreleased) live encore jam recorded with all four members of New Order at Reading University on 8 May 1981.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll tracks are newly re-mastered from the original quarter-inch tapes. The first 1000 copies of the box set are pressed in coloured vinyl: disc 1 (black); disc 2 (clear); disc 3 (yellow); disc 4 (red); disc 5 (silver). The outer case in printed in PMS 123 with spot varnish. The 16 page booklet features unseen images by noted photographer Philippe Carly and texts by founder members Larry and Vin Cassidy. Also included is the first ever interview with guitarist Paul Wiggin, whose sudden departure in late 1981 saw Tony Wilson try (and fail) to recruit pre-Smiths teenager Johnny Marr as replacement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Factory Benelux","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP | x5","offer_id":50506964074827,"sku":"1067055","price":69.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/fbba4277-4019-4ee9-864e-0a16233c2508_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727834503"},{"product_id":"obey-the-time","title":"Obey The Time","description":"\u003cp\u003eFactory Benelux presents an expanded double vinyl edition of \u003ci\u003eObey the Time\u003c\/i\u003e, the eighth studio album by Manchester ensemble The Durutti Column. Originally released by Factory Records in 1990. Largely self-produced, Obey the Time saw DC mainman Vini Reilly further develop his interest in electronic music, and even embrace house and techno stylings. “The title came screaming off the TV screen in somebody’s version of Othello and captured exactly the feel of the work in progress,” explained Tony Wilson, Durutti manager and Factory founder. “We were in the middle of the Aceeed explosion. If you lived in Manchester, you were absolutely in the middle of it. Vini even explained why house made keyboards sound so fresh. Something to do with a chord being played with 3 or 4 notes into the sampler, but then different chords being triggered by a single key stroke. Creating mathematical harmonic relationships ‘which Schoenberg had searched for but never found.’”Indeed veteran Durutti percussionist Bruce Mitchell features on just one track, Art and Freight. Meanwhile dance exploration Contra-Indications was taped with New Order programmer (and later co-manager) Andy Robinson. Released in December 1990, \u003ci\u003eObey the Time\u003c\/i\u003e would be the last Durutti Column album on Factory before the labelled collapsed beneath a mountain of debt. Disc 2 features extracts from a previously unreleased live performance at Manchester University Whitworth Hall on 23 June 1990 (opportunistically billed as ‘The Acid Guitar’), on which Reilly and Mitchell are joined by guests Andy Connell, Liu Sola and Rob Gray.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Factory Benelux","offers":[{"title":"Pink LPx2","offer_id":50520838406475,"sku":"1104104","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/a5561428-1ade-41e2-8b73-b8acb9252395_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727986722"},{"product_id":"swimming-1","title":"Swimming","description":"\u003cp\u003eLimited to 300 copies on Clear Vinyl. 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These evocative demos were perfected by Reilly at Graveyard Studio with co-producer Stuart Pickering, with additional drums and percussion from Bruce Mitchell. Originally released by Factory Records in November 1981, \u003ci\u003eLC \u003c\/i\u003eis a key album in a body of work described by David Stubbs of Uncut magazine as 'unique in rock, with Reilly's scampering, watercolour guitar style building a tentative bridge between post-punk and the chamber sketches of Debussy and Ravel.' On this expanded Factory Benelux the original ten tracks are supplemented by no less than 9 bonus cuts, including rare Sordide Sentimental single 'Danny \/ Enigma', and the three tracks Reilly contributed to A Factory Quartet in 1980 - his last recordings with Hannett, which feature Donald Johnson of A Certain Ratio on drums. The remastered double disc set is housed in a gatefold sleeve printed on matt reverse board, with liner notes and archive images. The package also includes an exclusive 7-inch single featuring live versions of 'Sketch for Summer' and 'Requiem for a Father', recorded at Leeds Polytechnic in October 1980. These are the earliest surviving professional live recordings of Durutti Column in concert.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Factory Benelux","offers":[{"title":"LP | x2","offer_id":50532411146571,"sku":"398772","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/f8fb9ffe-345f-4121-9126-ecd87675354a_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1728121468"},{"product_id":"watching-the-hydroplanes","title":"Watching the Hydroplanes","description":"\u003cp\u003eFactory Benelux presents a limited edition vinyl album by Tunnelvision, the youthful Blackpool band who released cult single \u003ci\u003eWatching the Hydroplanes\u003c\/i\u003e on Factory Records in 1981. Just 500 copies of have been pressed on clear vinyl, matching the original Factory release.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFormed in 1980, the sombre post-punk quartet were mentored by Section 25 before impressing Rob Gretton and Tony Wilson at an early New Order gig in Blackpool in September 1980. Two songs from their first demo were mixed by Martin Hannett at Britannia Row and released as a 7-inch single (Fac 39) in June 1981, sleeved by Martyn Atkins in an opulent sleeve referencing dictionaries and leather-bound books. After several more gigs with New Order and other Factory artists Tunnelvision taped a second strong demo, mixed for release by Peter Hook. However the turbulent teenage band disintegrated before a second single emerged. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNewly remastered from the original analogue reels, \u003ci\u003eWatching the Hydroplanes\u003c\/i\u003e features includes all 8 tracks from their two Cargo demos, including the Hannett mixes of the title track and\u003ci\u003e Morbid Fear\u003c\/i\u003e. The set also features \u003ci\u003eEmotionless\u003c\/i\u003e, recorded live at Bristol Trinity Hall in March 1981. The outer sleeve is printed using silver PMS with a matt varnish. 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