TAG: New Order

Jan05

Tiesto, Kraftwerk, Justice, David Guetta To Headline Ultra Music Festival

92 Acts Announced, Including Skrillex, New Order, Armin Van Buuren, Duck Sauce and Carl Cox 

Miami’s Ultra Music Festival has announced the first wave of performers for this year’s dance music bachanal taking place March 23-25 at Bayfront Park in downtown Miami. Along with UMF regulars Tiësto, David Guetta, Avicii, Armin Van Buuren and Carl Cox, electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk will make a highly rare concert appearance, along with electro superstars Justice, ’80s techno-pop heroes New Order, Grammy-nominee Skrillex and hit makers Duck Sauce. Tickets are onsale here (the full 150,000 sold out in advance last year), and you can check the complete list of 92 acts announced so far after the jump.



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Oct18

New Order Reunite In Brussels (Video)

Legendary dance-pop innovators New Order took to the stage for the first time in since 2005 in Brussels this weekend at a pair of charity shows. Eyebrow-raising was the absence of Peter Hook, the band’s legendary bassist who has built something of a cottage industry for himself, performing complete Joy Division albums live while his former bandmates Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris grouse about it.

But serious NO fans might be more excited to see the return of Gillian Gilbert, who performed with the band through much of their ’80s heyday on keyboards, for the first time in over a decade.

There’s a lot of audience footage out there to choose from, so we chose “Ceremony,” the opening track on Substance, for it’s somewhat rarity in the band’s live catalog, as well as the part where the audience audibly sings along to the guitar part.



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Oct14

HEAR Factory Records Dance Mini-Mix (MP3)

Last month we were stoked to find out that Strut Records will be releasing a two-CD compilation of Factory Records more obscure dancefloor-centered tunes entitled Factory Records Dance, compiled by DJ historian Bill Brewster of DJhistory.com. More than just New Order and Joy Division, the collection shines new light on acts such as Quango Quango, A Certain Ratio and 52 Street (which was actually a collaboration with some New Order/Joy Division folks).

This promotional mini-mix gives you a 30 minute taste of what to expect from Factory Records Dance—which apparently means lots of dark and incy Linn-drum compositions. Darkwave indeed.



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Aug12

Factory Records To Release Dance Music Compilation

We learned a while ago that everyone will dance to “Transmission” and “Blue Monday,” but those aren’t the only floor-fillers released by Factory Records in the legendary UK indie imprint’s history. Dance music archivist Bill Brewster has teamed up with Strut Records to unearth a two-CD collection of rare gems from the Factory Records catalog that will fill out your Serato crate labeled “80s Post-Punk Dance.”

The compilation, FAC. DANCE, compiles 24 little known 12-inch mixes and other odds and ends from the Factory archives designed or DJs. Of particular note are tunes by Quango Quango, A Certain Ratio and 52 Street (in collaboration with New Order’s Bernard Sumner and NO/Afrika Bambaataa producer Arthur Baker, and remixed by NYC DJ legend Jellybean Benitez). The CD comes out on October 10th.

Complete tracklist and asample tunes after the jump.

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May19

Unreleased New Order :: “Hellbent” (MP3)

On June 6, Rhino plans to release Total: From Joy Division To New Order, a compilation of singles by the two groups from several decades ago. We’ll always prefer New Order’s Substance and Joy Division’s live BBC releases when it comes to compilations, but Total does offer something novel in “Hellbent,” and unreleased track from New Order’s ’90s period. That means more rock than their ’80s techno-pop heyday, complete withs some skronking guitar. It’s not an unearthed “Bizarre Love Triangle Pt.2,” but it’s still something fresh from one of our all-time favorite groups.

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