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Product Summary
Format: CD
Manufacturer: Strut Records/red
Buy.com Sku: 224525527
UPC: 730003308727
UPC 14: 00730003308727
Release Date: 10/24/2011
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Song Listing
Disc 1
Song Title
Sample
1. Looking From a Hilltop [Megamix] - Section 25 (remix) ~ Various Artists
2. Wild Party - A Certain Ratio ~ Various Artists
3. Love Tempo - Quando Quango ~ Various Artists
4. Express - 52nd Street ~ Various Artists
5. Little Voices - Swamp Children ~ Various Artists
6. Boss Toyota Trouble - Biting Tongues ~ Various Artists
7. For Belgian Friends - The Durutti Column ~ Various Artists
8. Art On 45 - The Royal Family & the Poor ~ Various Artists
9. Knife Slits Water - A Certain Ratio ~ Various Artists
10. Dirty Disco - Section 25 ~ Various Artists
11. Puppeteer - Blurt ~ Various Artists
12. See Them A'come - X-O-Dus ~ Various Artists
Disc 2
Song Title
Sample
1. Pretenders of Love - Shark Vegas/New Order (remix) ~ Various Artists
2. Cool As Ice - Shark Vegas/52nd Street ~ Various Artists
3. Act On Instinct [Hot Swedish Mix] - Streetlife/52nd Street (remix) ~ Various Artists
4. Salvation! [Nitromix] - Streetlife/The Hood (remix) ~ Various Artists
5. Smiling Monarchs - The Hood/Abecedarians (remix) ~ Various Artists
6. Time - Abecedarians/Minny Pops ~ Various Artists
7. Atom Rock [New York Remix] - Quando Quango (remix) ~ Various Artists
8. Reach For Love [New York Remix] - Marcel King (remix) ~ Various Artists
9. Look Into My Eyes - 52nd Street ~ Various Artists
10. Genius - Quando Quango ~ Various Artists
11. You've Got Me Beat - Swamp Children ~ Various Artists
12. Madeleine - The Durutti Column ~ Various Artists
Album Notes and Credits
Notes & Personnel Info |
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Liner Note Author: Bill Brewster. |
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Photographers: James Nice; Tony Henry ; Mark Reeder ; Martin Moscrop. |
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Strut and compiler Bill Brewster assembled this two-disc Factory compilation without Joy Division and New Order. They also excluded Happy Mondays, even though that band hit its stride just within the era, 1980-1987, the set documents. That's a little perverse. Then again, everything released by the Manchester, England label's marquee acts has been widely available, while numerous deep label highlights have been left underexposed, even in the wake of LTM's Cool as Ice/Twice as Nice anthologies of dancefloor productions from New Order's Bernard Sumner, A Certain Ratio's Donald Johnson, and U.S. counterparts Mark Kamins and Arthur Baker. Fac. Dance also fills several gaps left by Rhino U.K.'s fine Factory Records: Communications 1978-1992 box set without slipping into "mere curiosity" territory. All of this is relevant to Factory's story and translates to the present, while some selections -- 52nd Street's "Cool as Ice," Quando Quango's "Love Tempo," Section 25's "Looking from a Hilltop," Marcel King's "Reach for Love," Abecedarians' "Smiling Monarchs" -- deserve to be as known as New Order's "Blue Monday." The packaging is attractive, the track details are thorough, and Brewster's liner notes are, as usual, informative and illuminating. Even if you're a Factory obsessive who owns all the vinyl or has picked up all those '90s/2000s compilations, the set's pull is hard to resist. ~ Andy Kellman |
Technical Info
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Release Date : 10/24/2011 |
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Original Release Date : 2011 |
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Catalog ID : STRUT 087CD |
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Label : Strut |
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Number of Discs : 2 |
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Mono/Stereo : Stereo |
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SPAR Code : n/a |
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UPC : 00730003308727 |
Professional Reviews
Spin (p.76)
- "The obscurity of Quando Quango's 'Love Tempo' is unjust..."
- "The obscurity of Quando Quango's 'Love Tempo' is unjust..."
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