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Factory Records Gets Boxed Up In January

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Brad Kelly

19th November 2008
At 11:50 GMT

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Factory Records, possibly one of the biggest and most influential labels England has ever witnessed, turned 30 this year.

To commemorate the occasion, Rhino Records have announced "A Factory Box Set" which we're told is 4CD's long and will contain music from the whole era that was Factory Records.

Founded in 1978 when Tony Wilson, former Granada TV presenter, met with up with unemployed actor and band manager Alan Erasmus and producer Martin Hannett, The Factory name was originally used for a club that features local bands including The Durutti Column, Cabaret Voltaire and Joy Division. After some success, the three founding members decided to release an EP featuring the local acts who had performed there. Along came “A Factory Sample”, their first ever release and the birth of Factory Records.

The first album release on the label was Joy Division's 'Unknown Pleasures', followed by their hit single 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'. Unfortunately, lead singer Ian Curtis commited suicide before the second album was ever released but the rest of the band renamed themselves to New Order and kept pursuing the fame ahead. In May of 1982, Factory and New Order converted a yacht showroom into the legendary Hacienda nightclub and, as if the extravangance wasn't enough, had Bernard Manning perform the official opening.

This Factory Box Set however, is here to show off much more than just the labels big names. From its first release of “A Factory Sample” through an extremely diverse roster of acts from the post punk of A Certain Ratio, Cabaret Voltaire, The Railway Children, OMD, James and Joy Division to obscurities such as Section 25, Biting Tongues, Crispy Ambulance, Miaow and Swamp Children, to the full flowering of the ‘Madchester scene’, ending fittingly with the last Factory release, “Sunshine and Love” by Happy Mondays.

A Factory Box Set Tracklisting:

 Disc One:

1.  Joy Division / Digital

2.  Cabaret Voltaire / Baader Meinhof

3.  A Certain Ratio / All Night Party

4.  OMD / Electricity (Original version)

5.  Joy Division / She’s Lost Control

6.  The Distractions / Time Goes By So Slow

7.  Joy Division / Transmission

8.  The Durutti Column  / Sketch For Summer

9.  X-O-Dus / English Black Boys

10.  Joy Division / Love Will Tear Us Apart

11. A Certain Ratio / Shack Up

12. Section 25 / Girls Don’t Count

13. Crawling Chaos / Sex Machine

14. A Certain Ratio / Flight

15. The Names / Night Shift

16. New Order / Ceremony (Original version)

17. Minny Pops / Dolphin’s Spurt

18. John Dowie / It’s Hard To Be An Egg

19. Crispy Ambulance / Deaf

20. Section 25 / Dirty Disco


 Disc Two:

1.   New Order / Everything’s Gone Green

2.   Tunnel Vision / Watching The Hydroplanes

3.   The Durutti Column / Messidor

4.   A Certain Ratio / Knife Slits Water (LP

     version)

5.   Royal Family and the Poor / Art on 45

6.   Swamp Children / Taste What’s Rhythm

7.   New Order / Temptation

8.   52nd Street / Cool As Ice

9.   New Order / Blue Monday

10. Cabaret Voltaire / Yashar (John Robie Remix)  

11. Quando Quango / Love Tempo

12. The Wake / Talk About The Past

 

Disc Three:

1.   New Order / Confusion

2.   Marcel King/ Reach For Love

3.   Section 25 / Looking from A Hilltop          (Restructure)

4.   Stockholm Monsters / All At Once

5.   Life / Tell Me

6.   Durutti Column / A Little Mercy (Duet)

7.   James / Hymn From A Village

8.   Kalima / Trickery

9.    A Certain Ratio / Sounds Like Something Dirty

10. Quando Quango / Genius

11. Happy Mondays / Freaky Dancin’

12. Miaow / When It All Comes Down

13. The Railway Children / Brighter

14. Biting Tongues / Compressor

15. New Order / True Faith

16. Happy Mondays / 24 Hour PartyPeople


Disc Four:

1.   New Order / Fine Time                                   

2.   Happy Mondays / W.F.L. (Think About the Future)  

3.   Revenge / Seven Reasons                       

4.   Happy Mondays / Hallelujah (Club Mix)                    

5.   Electronic / Getting Away With It 1                           

6.   Happy Mondays / Step On                          

7.   Northside / Shall We Take A Trip                               

8.   England New Order / World In Motion                              

9. Happy Mondays / Kinky Afro

10. The Durutti Column / Home

11. Electronic / Get The Message (DNA remix) 

12. Northside / Take 5

13. Cath Carroll / Moves Like You (Remix)  

14. The Other Two / Tasty Fish (12” mix)

15. Happy Mondays / Sunshine and Love (Lionrock Remix)

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