Wim Mertens...

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If anyone has the original Factory records cassette boxed version of Educes Me, get it on E-Bay, one just sold for £155, cripes!

― mzui, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

There's someone on Neworderonline forum who has all the factory linen box cassettes ever made...apart from this one. Maybe now he has!

There's no greater Factory obsessive than myself, but I have none of these boxes. Why? They're still f-cking *cassettes* after all - the crappest medium ever.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

They have nice stuff in them (ReturnDDC has sandpaper, umm and others.)

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a few, they are kinda desirable, what with the colour coding and expanded artwork, trouble is, If I want to collect them all I'd have to buy a load of shit I don't like i.e. Railway Children, Happy Mondays, Wim Mertens...

There are actually only around 20 produced, mainly NO & JD.

― mzui, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

20? no, loads more than that. I got "Substance" New Order, I think it was one of the last...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

..and one of the rarest apparently (apart from Wim, it would seem)

Here's the list fact fans.

Red - The Durutti Column
[Fact 14c - The Return of the Durutti Column]
[Fact 44c - LC]
[Fact 74c - Another Setting]
[Fact 84c - Without Mercy]
[Fact 164c - Valuable Passages]

Orange - Happy Mondays
[Fact 170c - Squirrel and G-Man 24 Hour Party People Plastic Face Carn't Smile (White Out)]

Yellow - Wim Mertens
[Fact 190c - Educes Me]

Light Green - The Railway Children
[Fact 185c - Reunion Wilderness]

Dark Green - Section 25
[Fact 45c - Always Now]
[Fact 90c - From The Hip]

Light Blue - A Certain Ratio
[Fact 135c The Old and The New]
[Fact 16c - The Graveyard and the Ballroom]
[Fact 166c - Force]

Turquoise - Quando Quango
[Fact 110c - Pigs and Battleships]

Purple - Joy Division
[Fact 10c - Unknown Pleasures]
[Fact 25c - Closer]
[Fact 40c - Still]

White - New Order
[Fact 50c - Movement
[Fact 75c - Power, Corruption and Lies]
[Fact 100c - Low-life]
[Fact 150c - Brotherhood]
[Fact 200c - Substance]

― mzui, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I once had dinner with Wim Mertens in Paris. What a lovely man! Sings like a mermaid.

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

They all worth money? I have 2 of the Durruti Column cassette boxes, Without Mercy and another. Bought them in the "new age" section of Crazy Rhythms records in Montclair NJ, from R. Stevie Moore...

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2598937407&category=305

― mzui, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I have Squirrel and G-Man somewhere, but I'm still loath to part with it, even theoretically

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I really love Merten's 'Circles' from "Maximizing The Audience". The "Close Cover" compilation on Windham Hill is a good introduction though it does have some vacant moments (they picked all the pieces that sounded the most Windham Hill); it also contains the main themes Greenaway used for "Belly of an Archetect".

― (Jon L), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

meh. dr.c otm about cassettes being teh sux0r. isn't most wim mertens stuff still in print anyway?

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

'Close Cover' seconded. I used to listen it at dawn coming back from clubs/parties. Fantastic stuff.
What should I pick up next?

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 08:32 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

Poor Wim had his thread derailed into a discussion of Factory cassettes.

I'm working my way through the Moment box set. Good stuff.

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Thursday, 4 May 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

I sold the yellow Wim Mertens box on ebay around 2003, got £190 for it. Cheers whoever bought it!

― Rob M (Rob M), Friday, 5 May 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

A++

― and what, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 06:09 (sixteen years ago)

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