I've been listening to the new Martin Hannett compilation and...

the first album, whence comes friendly fires, is slate-grey psychedelia that took me a long, long time to understand but has, on occasion, been the only thing i've listened to for weeks.

the second album is more experimental, edited down from immense jams, and comes over like a cross between pink floyd, ACR and can.

the third album is beyond words. it is the distilled essence of perfection.

the fourth album is painfully flawed but can still reduce me to a quivering wreck.

Thanks for the glowing appraisals for Section 25. An enthusiastic response like that from grimly fiendish is good enough for me to seek them out.

I have the Wild Dub comp too.

seconded. from the hip (especially, to me, the live version) is like watching a steam locomotive take off into the air and fly away.

I second what Grimly said abt the records. I reckon From The Hip is one of the 10 best albums ever made.

In fact, it sounds so much like Joy Division, you'll wonder exactly what Bernie, Hooky and Steve had to offer. Not quite, but you get the idea. It's probably the most Joy Division-like of Hannett's productions.

i thought this for a long time. then it suddenly clicked. and i love it.

SXXV are playing live soon

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in poulton, too. where i grew up.

fuck ME. i'm staggeringly discombobulated by this. i've mentioned this elsewhere, but - in a strange and freaky coincidence - jenny cassidy bought my parents' house the year before she died (she and larry were living separately by then). i don't know who was more surprised by the whole house thing: me having the frontwoman from my favourite-ever band buying the place where i grew up, or her for discovering how big a fan the sellers' son happened to be. i never got to meet her, tragically; that really pisses me off.

anyway. from the site:

After a long and brave fight against cancer Jenny Cassidy died on the 20th of November 2004 aged 42. The LTM DVD Section 25 So Far described as an audio-visual history of the band released January 2005 is rightly dedicated to her memory.

24. Inspiration

It is difficult to imagine the task of picking oneself up after a blow such as losing ones partner. Larry did this and also resolved to once again make music under the battle scarred banner of Section 25. So it was that in May 2005 he asked his brother Vin to pick up his sticks and start playing drums in accompaniment to his bass rumblings. Its what they’d always done. Ian Butterworth once again answered the call with strict instructions to stay away from all steep steps.

Using the recordings from the 2001 sessions as a starting point they plan to finally release the album with Les Temps Modernes early 2006.

In your opinion Dan! In *your* opinion! :) I say that honour goes to the Nico track on this comp, but we can shake hands peacefully about it anyhoo. (good god what's happening to me? the only person I ever knew who said 'anyhoo' was my dad)

Using the recordings from the 2001 sessions as a starting point they plan to finally release the album with Les Temps Modernes early 2006.

Wow, that means we get a new ACR album and a new SXX5 album in the same year doesn't it? That's just too crazy! ;)

Dee Xtrovert I'm interested in the Basement 5 CD. Tried to email you, not sure if it's a real email address. We'll see. I've d/l some tracks from them but christ almighty the sound quality is really terrible.

i assume bimble has seen this already

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=XI-w7LjSNi4

martin hannett in the studio

aw cmon guys this is cool

also strawberry studios helios desk <3 <3 <3 <3

BIMBLE'S CIRCUITS HAVE BEEN OVERLOADED. PLEASE CHECK BACK LATER.

I REPEAT WE ARE HAVING TECHINCAL DIFFICULTIES.

ENGINEER CHRIS NAGLE WHO PRODUCED CRISPY AMBULANCE AND WE SEE WHERE HE GOT HIS BLOODY IDEAS FROM DON'T WE?

Okay, I'm calm now. Thanks Jim. No, I had not seen that clip before.

makes me wish paddy considine had played hannett instead of serkis

Heheh...

But seriously, why doesn't anyone care about the new A Certain Ratio album? :(

awesome hannett interview, complete with gun-waving

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bTjJ0maPx4

I dug out the Pauline Murray/Invisible Girls album 2 days ago...

I remember hearing "Dream Sequence" in Quicksilver records, back when it came out. One of those "had to have now!" moments.

It sounded like a monster hit, but it wasn't! It couldn't even claim to be a missed one, as it did make the lower reaches of the chart.

new 2xcd out soon

http://boomkat.com/cds/439037-martin-hannett-maverick-producer-genius-and-musician

CD 1 :
1 Martin and JCC on Dali,
2 Chrysler- Belt and Braces
3 Benaville- Belt and Braces
4 Joe Smith - Belt and Braces
5 Derry- Belt and Braces
6 Martin- Sound Experiments- Martin on synth
7 Martin – plays electronic drums
8 Office in a bottle- Martin on synth and vocals,
9 Music Room- Martin on synth,
10 First Aspect – Martin on synth,
11 Bernard Sumner’s thoughts on Martin,
12 Second Aspect- Martin,
13 Trouble in A Major- Pete Farrow,
14 Hold On - Pete Farrow,
15 Sail Away- Pete Farrow,
16 Maybe he’ll make you smile- Pete Farrow,
17 Old Man’s Song- Pete Farrow…

CD 2 :
1 Peter Hook’s thoughts on Martin,
2 Manchester Boys – George Borowski,
3 Dangerous City- George Borowski,
4 Who Is Innocent- George Borowski,
5 Giant- Belt and Braces,
6 Questions- Belt and Braces,
7 Grapes- Belt and Braces,
8 Money- Belt and Braces,
9 Banks of Dee- Belt and Braces,
10 Chains- Belt and Braces,
11 Martin on bass and drum machine

Who Is Innocent- George Borowski,

If that's the "The Out" track, it's great.

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http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2013/08/14/martin-hannett-tapes-joy-division-new-order/

What appears to be a treasure trove of aging tapes recorded by legendary postpunk producer Martin Hannett — including copies of original masters and outtakes by the likes of Joy Division, New Order, The Psychedelic Furs and Magazine — have been “rescued” from a garbage bin and are now being put up for sale by Hannett’s former personal assistant.

Julia Adamson, a onetime member of The Fall who worked for Hannett from 1981 to 1983 before serving as a sound engineer at Manchester’s Strawberry Studios through the remainder of the ’80s, this week posted a photo on Facebook showing nearly 30 tape boxes with the note: “rescued tapes of Martin Hannetts .. anyone interested.” She doesn’t say where the tapes were found.

The boxes, as you can see in higher resolution, contain notes referring to a host of acts Hannett worked with in the late ’70s and ’80s, including the Furs, Magazine, The Durutti Column, The Names, Slaughter & The Dogs, Minny Pops, Yargo, Easterhouse and What? Noise, one of Adamson’s own bands.

Of course, the items of most interest no doubt are the six boxes marked with either “Joy Division” or “New Order” — particularly the one labeled “Joy Division Outtakes.” Adamson suggests that a copy of the original master tapes of Joy Division’s landmark 1979 debut Unknown Pleasures also is among the collection.

The quarter-inch tapes were digitized in 2008, Adamson, who played in The Fall in the late ’90s, notes in the comment thread on Facebook. She writes that she’s had no luck interesting Peter Hook in the tapes: “He’s not a happy bunny. Tried the other band members, too, to no avail, and the record companies.”

Whoa, cool...though I am little more surprised by the appearance of Julia Adamson (aka Julia Nagle)! A very underrated Fall member, love her era of the band

The quarter-inch tapes were digitized in 2008, Adamson, who played in The Fall in the late ’90s, notes in the comment thread on Facebook.

hmm

so...

https://soundcloud.com/duncandisorderly-1/the-gifted-fernando

so what happened to those tapes??

Something to do with Jamie Oliver, and that they were the album master tapes? Or some such...