Section 25 Always Now LP Vinyl

5xLP in coloured vinyl + download. 47 tracks. Factory Benelux is proud to present a deluxe 5 disc vinyl box set edition of Always Now, the debut album by cult Factory Records group Section 25, produced by legendary sonic architect Martin Hannett and sleeved by Peter Saville. Recorded as a trio at Pink Floyd's Britannia Row studio in London in January 1981, Always Now combined austere post-punk rhythm and noise with elements of Can, Krautrock and modern psychedelia. Key tracks include Friendly Fires, Dirty Disco and New Horizon, along with C.P. (a collaboration with Hannett) and Hit (extensively sampled by Kanye West for the track F.M.L. on his 2016 album The Life of Pablo). Disc 2 gathers together several non-album singles from 1980 and 1981, including Charnel Ground, Je Veux Ton Amour and debut EP Girls Don't Count - the latter produced by mentors Rob Gretton and Ian Curtis (of Joy Division). Disc 3 offers a complete live show professionally recorded at Groningen (Netherlands) on 26 October 1980, as part of a Factory package tour. Disc 4 is part-improvised second studio album The Key of Dreams, recorded and produced by the band themselves a few months after Always Now, and released by Factory Benelux in June 1982. Disc 5 consists of further experimental material recorded in 1981 and self-released on a cassette called Illuminus Illumina. This final disc closes with an extended (and previously unreleased) live encore jam recorded with all four members of New Order at Reading University on 8 May 1981. All tracks are newly re-mastered from the original quarter-inch tapes. The first 1000 copies of the box set are pressed in coloured vinyl: disc 1 (black); disc 2 (clear); disc 3 (yellow); disc 4 (red); disc 5 (silver). The outer case in printed in PMS 123 with spot varnish.

1. A1. Friendly Fires 2. A2. Dirty Disco 3. A3. C.P. 4. A4. Loose Talk (Costs Lives) 5. A5. Inside Out 6. A6. Melt Close 7. B1. Hit 8. B2. Babies in the Bardo 9. B3. Be Brave 10. B4. New Horizon 11. A1. Knew Noise 12. A2. Up To You 13. A3. Girls Don’t Count 14. A4. After Image 15. A5. Human Puppets 16. B1. Charnel Ground 17. B2. Haunted 18. B3. Je Veux Ton Amour 19. B4. One True Path 20. A1. Loose Talk (Costs Lives) (live) 21. A2. Human Puppets (live) 22. A3. Knew Noise (live) 23. A4. Friendly Fires (live) 24. A5. Girls Don’t Count (live) 25. B1. New Horizon (live) 26. B2. Haunted (live) 27. B3. You’re On Your Own (live) 28. B4. One Step Backward (live) 29. A1. Always Now 30. A2. Visitation 31. A3. Regions 32. A4. The Wheel 33. A5. No Abiding Place 34. A6. Once Before 35. B1. There Was a Time 36. B2. Wretch 37. B3. Sutra 38. A1. Fallen Monument 39. A2. Are You There? 40. A3. Virtually Everything 41. A4. Tape Loop 42. A5. Subferior 43. A6. In the Garden of Eden 44. A7. Cry 45. B1. Red Voice 46. B2. Floating 47. B3. Reading Uni Jam with New Order 1981