{"title":"Martin Hannett and Steve Hopkins","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"the-invisible-girls","title":"The Invisible Girls","description":"\u003cp\u003eFactory Benelux presents The Invisible Girls, a collection of rare and unreleased recordings by legendary new wave production duo Martin Hannett and Steve Hopkins (aka The Invisible Girls), most of them never before heard. Martin 'Zero' Hannett is the legendary Manchester producer famous for his work with Joy Division, Buzzcocks, New Order, Magazine and Happy Mondays. Steve Hopkins was his musical partner in The Invisible Girls, the floating studio collective that shaped epochal records by John Cooper Clarke, Pauline Murray, Nico and several others. The first five tracks on the album are a selection of previously unreleased 'Moods' recorded at the famous Strawberry Studios between 1980 and 1987. \"These were the beginnings of Martin's Invisible Girls world domination plan,\" Hopkins explains. \"The idea was to assemble a roster of key instrumental players, produce tracks to be fronted by different singers \/ stars - and get some hits!\" Other tracks include rare solo tracks by Hannett, collaborations with Section 25, Pauline Murray, Nico and Crispy Ambulance, as well as the complete soundtrack to All Sorts of Heroes, a short animated film from 1976 scored by Hannett and Hopkins. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP - The deluxe package rounded off by a DVD featuring a remarkable 13 minute trio improvisation by Hannett, Hopkins and Vini Reilly of The Durutti Column, recorded for television in January 1980.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe album has been newly remastered by Peter Beckmann at TechnologyWorks and is pressed on 180 Gram black vinyl. The outer sleeve is printed in black with a silver pantone. The inner bag includes detailed liner notes by Steve Hopkins, as well as archive TIG and Strawberry images. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Factory Benelux","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50471001456971,"sku":"1130584","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50471001620811,"sku":"383763","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/c0dd7e04-97f3-45f7-822e-0bf48ebb001e_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727387522"},{"product_id":"steve-in-a-box","title":"Steve In A Box","description":"\u003cp\u003e4CD Box Set spanning from \u003ci\u003eLet's Get Small \u003c\/i\u003eto \u003ci\u003eThe Steve Martin Brothers\u003c\/i\u003e, highlights his unique style of absurdist humor, physical comedy, and witty banter. Including liner notes by Kliph Nesteroff, each album features iconic routines and catchphrases that helped establish his status as a comedy legend, while \u003ci\u003eThe Steve Martin Brothers\u003c\/i\u003e also showcases his musical talent with bluegrass banjo performances. Overall, these albums demonstrate Martin's versatility and influence in the world of comedy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rhino","offers":[{"title":"CDx4","offer_id":50473098969419,"sku":"2224602","price":69.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/steve_in_a_box_4_cd_copy_1_f4b144a6_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1731648107"},{"product_id":"all-sorts-of-heroes","title":"All Sorts Of Heroes","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the shrapnel of the unlikely collision point where Mancunian post-punk royalty collides with sci- cinema and art house animation, this obscure diamond in the rough shines a new light on the Northern DIY era providing disc detectives with a whole new punk funk perspective. Recorded in 1976 by Invisible Girls’ Steve Hopkins and Martin Hannett for a truly bizarre stop-motion animation called \u003ci\u003eAll Sorts Of Heroes\u003c\/i\u003e, this hard edged funk instrumental theme reveals another side to this versatile production team joining the hidden dots between Hannett’s own discoid experiments with ESG, Gyro, A Certain Ratio and the mythical Afro Express recordings from the same year. Embodying as much in common with 1970’s bass heavy European funk soundtracks by bands like Goblin and Placebo, as the expected parallels with John-Cooper Clarke’s backing tracks or early Happy Mondays, this early 1976 session is the perfect example of Hannett and Hopkins’ under-the-radar artistic commissions working to a storyboard brief in what has now become recognised as a fertile arena for lost lmic funk.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing historic parallels with Leeds based Graeme Miller and Steve Shill’s home recorded DIY soundtracks for The Moomins animation and accentuating the connection between Manchester based animation house Cosgrove Hall (Dangermouse \/ Chorlton And The Wheelies) and it’s employees Bernard Sumner, John Squire and members of Gerry And The Holograms, this lost recording adds kudos to a quirky micro-niche and reveals another dimension to Northern anti- pop’s snarky personality. Pressed here by Finders Keepers for the first time on vinyl, in close accordance with the wishes of Steve Hopkins himself, this custom-composed track originally appeared on the short lm by Rick Megginson and Steve Hughes which was shown at the Ottawa International Animation Festival in 1976 where it might have otherwise remained, preserved in an 8mm lm box up until now. As relevant today as it was then, this closely recorded, cosmic cartoon, slappy funk theme provided the lms backdrop for a workshop montage scene where an aardvarkian spaceman constructs a giant metal face robot which might well leave fans of Madlib and MF Doom fans pondering time travel?! Like much of the lost and unreleased projects that stalled on the peripheries of early proto-Madchester, including the disco-pogo music of Spider King, Gerry And The Holograms, The 48 Chairs, Naf and The Mothmen, this record has been frozen in time waiting for the wider marathon of independent pop to catch up!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePresented here faithful the 45 format of choice, this 7” might well be another missing link between your Rabid, Absurd and Factory records, backed with another lesser- known Invisible girls recording Scandinavian Wastes which has also been begging for its rst vinyl outing since its recording in the early 1980’s. Another historical bucket list release for Finders Keepers Records outernational discography, leaving zero stones unturned, even the ones under our own doorstep.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Finders Keepers","offers":[{"title":"7\"","offer_id":50497614381387,"sku":"1032264","price":5.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/626eaf18-5d12-49ca-84fe-4a67b38cbc70_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727728939"},{"product_id":"king-tut","title":"King Tut - Black Friday 2024","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis product is a Black Friday Record Store Day title and not available to pre-order. It is available to buy in-store and 8am on 29\/11\/2024 (Black Friday Record Store Day) and online from 8am on 30\/11\/2024.\nTIP: Click 'Notify Me' to be the first to know about its availability online first. 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