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FAC. DANCE 02 Out Next Week
STREAM: Ad Infinitum - "Telstar"
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Cover art for FAC. DANCE 02
On September 18th, Strut will release the second album in
the FAC. DANCE series, bringing together sought after
12" versions and rarities from Manchester's revered Factory Records
imprint. Featured on the compilation is a song by Ad Infinitum, a band
composed of members of A Certain Ratio and New
Order. The group only recorded one single, a cover of Joe Meek's 'Telstar' recorded
in 1984. Hear the rare track over at The Fader.
Ad Infinitum:
Determined to craft a pop hit of her own, Factory worker
Lindsay Reade added original lyrics to The Tornadoes' hit Sixties
instrumental, then roped in a raft of Manchester luminaries including Andy
Connell and Martin Moscrop from ACR, Eric Random, and a choirboy. Disaster
struck when Joe Meek's publishers refused to clear Reade's lyrics.
"I knew it wouldn't be a hit in that
event," sighs Reade. "We salvaged things but it didn't
correspond to my vision at all. Hooky (Peter Hook) came in and remixed
the whole track; it felt like a drastic haircut and sounded a bit disco when
he'd finished. He put my voice through a Vocoder so the words couldn't be
distinguished. The sleeve was a bit state-of-the-art for its time. Each one
had a hologram of a spaceship stuck to it. I'd managed to get a job lot of
these holograms cheap. I called the band Ad Infinitum, inspired by something
Tony had typed on the envelope of one of his letters." - Lins
Numero Uno Ad Infinitum
More about FAC. DANCE 02:
Despite a reputation for austere post-punk, Factory
Record's first decade produced a slew of landmark dance records, primarily
brought to the label by Rob Gretton, who valued tunes and beats over
Situationist theory and laboratory experiments in popular art. Conversely,
founder Tony Wilson disparaged pure dance music as lacking intellectual
rigour. As a result, this second collection of early Factory dance sides
occupies a compelling middle ground.
Revisiting the peerless studio work of Martin Hannett, Be
Music (the collective pseudonym of New Order members Bernard Sumner, Stephen
Morris and Peter Hook) and ACR drummer Donald Johnson, among others, FAC.
DANCE 02 fleshes out Factory's varied early forays into dance
territory, widening the spectrum yet further from Volume One. The early
version of A Certain Ratio's angular funk classic "The Fox" from
the band's debut album To Each... rubs shoulders with Cheba Fadela's Algerian
rai blast, "N'Sel Fik"; Kalima's uplifting dancefloor jazz also
features, along with a sprawling electro dub of 52nd Street's UK boogie
classic "Can't Afford"; we spotlight Dutch electronic band Minny
Pops with the motorik "Blue Roses" alongside the heavy dub and
reggae stylings of The Wake, X-O-Dus and ACR alter ego Sir Horatio; the Manchester
/ New York axis is also revisited once again with two potent post-punk funk
blasts from E.S.G., the first US band to appear on Factory.
FAC. DANCE 02 is released in conjunction with
Factory Records Ltd. The CD and LP packages feature detailed track notes by
Factory biographer James Nice, together with rare photos. The digital version
of the album features five tracks not featured on the physical formats.
CD 1
1. A CERTAIN RATIO - THE FOX 3.47
2. ESG - MOODY 2.46
3. MINNY POPS - BLUE ROSES 2.33
4. THICK PIGEON - BABCOCK + WILCOX 3.44
5. BITING TONGUES - MEAT MASK SEPARATIST 4.57
6. SIR HORATIO - SOMMADUB 7.18
7. X-O-DUS - SOCIETY 4.20
8. THE DURUTTI COLUMN - SELF PORTRAIT 4.40
9. SECTION 25 - KNEW NOISE 4.43
10. SHARK VEGAS - YOU HURT ME 6.59
11. FADELA - N'SEL FIK 7.06
12. KALIMA - LAND OF DREAMS 6.47
CD 2
1. 52nd STREET - CAN'T AFFORD (Unorganised mix) 10.02
2. NYAM NYAM - FATE 8.06
3. A CERTAIN RATIO - LUCINDA 3.53
4. ESG - YOU'RE NO GOOD 3.09
5. SWAMP CHILDREN - SOFTLY SAYING GOODBYE 4.09
6. QUANDO QUANGO - GO EXCITING (12" mix) 5.57
7. SURPRIZE - IN MOVIMENTO 5.33
8. ANNA DOMINO - TAKE THAT 4.13
9. THE WAKE - HOST 7.57
10. ROYAL FAMILY AND THE POOR - VANEIGEM MIX 6.22
11. SECTION 25 - SAKURA 3.58
12. AD INFINITUM - TELSTAR 3.13
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