― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 04:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 04:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 04:27 (twenty years ago) link
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 04:29 (twenty years ago) link
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 04:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 04:30 (twenty years ago) link
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― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 04:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 04:33 (twenty years ago) link
rockist i think simon wosname (topping?) studied latin percussion in ney york. i have a 12 on factory by him which is well smoochy on the timbales (but still crap)
― mullygrubber (gaz), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 04:33 (twenty years ago) link
(and yes i know what it means.)
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 04:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 04:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 04:35 (twenty years ago) link
(My psychoticism quotient is high tonight.)
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 04:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 04:40 (twenty years ago) link
"So, not like Joy Division at all, then."
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 04:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 04:46 (twenty years ago) link
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 04:48 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 04:50 (twenty years ago) link
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 04:54 (twenty years ago) link
Oh jesus wept. In WHAT WAY is it 'JD-parody-ish'? WHAT WAY? WHICH 'Earlier Stuff'. Alright I'll concede that the voice is low-register kinda tuneless and not exactly a million miles from Curtis (of course ST stood in for IC a couple of times) but musically, apart from the original All Night Party/Thin Boys it's nothing like. DoJo's drumming makes sure of that.
BTW - All Night Party on the 'Ballroom' side of G&B has the best intro ever. Droning guitar noise, huge pop as a jack is plugged in, a mumbled word from Topping and a fucking great explosion as DoJo's drums come in insanely fast and syncopated. 'My Life Is Just/An Angry Blur'. Indeed.
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 08:20 (twenty years ago) link
I could wibble on for hours, but I'll just say "Go buy" and leave it at that. Sextet to follow soon, I hope.
― Jeff W (zebedee), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 11:46 (twenty years ago) link
Go on, Jeff. WIBBLE!
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 12:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 12:40 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 12:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 12:44 (twenty years ago) link
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― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 12:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 12:48 (twenty years ago) link
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― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 12:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 12:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 12:53 (twenty years ago) link
A.C.R.
M.C.R.
― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 13:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 13:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 15:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 15:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Rob M (Rob M), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 15:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 15:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Rob M (Rob M), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 15:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 15:46 (nineteen years ago) link
Their best stuff is far, far better than anything Section 25 did.
― Bimble..., Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:23 (nineteen years ago) link
oh, come on. acr could be a mighty band, but nothing they did touches "hilltop". (and nothing in the entire universe touches the hilltop megamix. an album in a song! genius.)
that said: i did go through a small period of genuinely believing "i won't stop loving you" to be the greatest song in the whole world, so ask me again in a year's time.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 20:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bimble..., Thursday, 23 December 2004 08:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― bulbs (bulbs), Thursday, 23 December 2004 08:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bimble..., Thursday, 23 December 2004 08:44 (nineteen years ago) link
Oh, wait.
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 23 December 2004 09:16 (nineteen years ago) link
Bimble - is the 'horns' thing you refer to Tony Quigley's soprano sax work? If so, yes it's great and unique. The solo in And Then She Smiled is wonderful.
It's interesting that SXXV were mentioned - I think both bands are cut from the same cloth - experimentalists wh0 never stayed still. In fact that's really the Factory ethos. I think of ACR and SXXV in the same way as I think of Can. In fact Can must have been really important influences on both bands. (look out for the cheeky steal of the Aspectacle bass line in Knife Slits Water! There's also a ley line direct from Monster Movies to Aways Now)
Bimble - what is it about Sextet that makes it hard to deal with for you? I agree about MCR - it's kinda dull.
I agree with grimly's comments re : Hilltop and it's megamix. Staggering!
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 23 December 2004 12:24 (nineteen years ago) link
Totally grooving to the "Early" comp tonight. I'm a bit forgiving with some of the lesser tracks on disc 1 but disc 2 is totally ace with some nifty dub experiments. Boy do I lurve me some post-punk dub...
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 23:14 (thirteen years ago) link
I can't explain why but these guys kind of remind me of Captain Beyond.
― fried chicken makes Alex cry, who'd vote for such a wimpy guy? (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 19:20 (thirteen years ago) link
email I just received today:
Strut presents FAC. DANCE, an essential new retrospective covering the dance output of Factory Records, the seminal Manchester record label founded by Tony Wilson, Alan Erasmus and designer Peter Saville. The album turns the spotlight on some of the label's early dancefloor-based work across key 12" mixes and rarities, from the unmistakeable production style of Martin Hannett to pioneering studio work by New Order's Bernard Sumner and A Certain Ratio drummer Donald Johnson, under their BeMusic and DoJo monikers. Early Factory experiments like Blurt's avant garde mutant funk blast 'Puppeteer' rub shoulders with the fertile post-Joy Division period as the label's unique, coruscating post-punk sound took shape on extended 12" cuts from A Certain Ratio, Section 25 and more. The album also expressly documents Factory's strong links and cross-pollination with New York's 1980s club culture, as New Order joined forces with producer Arthur Baker, fresh from his pioneering electro work with Afrika Bambaataa, while Quando Quango and Marcel King enlisted NY remixer Mark Kamins for tough-edged club treatments. Factory artists including Quando Quango would also perform at some of the city's seminal nightspots, including the Paradise Garage. The compilation also touches on some of the wider dancefloor directions explored by Factory during its early years - the latin jazz funk of Swamp Children and Kalima, the cool British soul of Tony Henry's 52nd Street and a track from Factory's only overtly reggae single, the Dennis Bovell-produced 'See Them A'Come' by X-O-Dus. Within FAC. DANCE are contained the grooves that would provide the blueprint for the Manchester scene of the late '80s and Factory's heady later years - Happy Mondays, James, Northside and the rest. FAC. DANCE is compiled and annotated by Bill Brewster of djhistory.com and produced in association with Factory Records Ltd.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 27 October 2011 04:36 (thirteen years ago) link
"Do The Du" sounds kind of like "Immigrant Song." (Way worse singer, though.)
― xhuxk, Thursday, 28 March 2013 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
This is great. More of a new tune than a remix. Wish ACR would go into the studio more often.
https://soundcloud.com/barryadamsonselections/i-got-clothes-acrmcr-rework
― Jeff W, Saturday, 23 September 2017 22:02 (seven years ago) link
Oh look they just did.
new:acr
http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=220&v=wrwjo2v-F3s
― Jeff W, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 19:48 (six years ago) link
try again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrwjo2v-F3s
― Jeff W, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 19:49 (six years ago) link
also featuring Tony Wilson at the start!
acr:set incidentally is a career-spanning comp that will be released on October 12th
― Jeff W, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 19:51 (six years ago) link
acr:box to be released next month, including:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc_7s3G_IIcFairly faithful to the original, sounds great though I wish Grace Jones would have finished her vocal take..
― willem, Thursday, 4 April 2019 14:21 (five years ago) link
Two versions as well, I wonder what the difference is?
― MaresNest, Thursday, 4 April 2019 14:35 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIRGhm8KKbk
― Maresn3st, Sunday, 17 October 2021 23:51 (three years ago) link
This is surprisingly great, not familiar with their 21st century work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vIQafS1RQE
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 19:29 (two years ago) link