remastered editions to actually be released?
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New Order have reformed to work on a series of reissues, PS can reveal.
All four of the band are working on remasters of their old albums for a series of reissues, which will be released early next year.
Stephen Morris told PS: "I was talking to Hooky a couple of weeks ago, and he's found some old tapes for the extra tracks. We're all getting involved in hunting down unreleased stuff."
Despite reforming to remaster their old albums, New Order are "very unlikely" to release any new music.
Stephen Morris told PS: "I'd say any more new stuff from New Order is very unlikely in the foreseeable future, and any gigs even less likely than that."
He added: "I'd never rule anything out. If you'd said to me in 1994 that we'd make more albums again, I'd have said 'No chance, you've had your chips.'"
Heard this in our CHIPPY.Steve got fish and chips TWICE!Don't think ELVIS was too happy.
Let's be postive about this and spread the word there is a market for it and as fans we want it to happen. Who knows, Warners might even be reading the posts on this website?
I hope they also release the 7 tracks left over from WFTSC sessions, I hope they just don't throw them away in the garbage, I hope they at least release them with the reissues
some of the rumored tracks were
- SUGARCANE
- BROTHERS AND SISTERS
- MADONNA
linus sulanki wrote:
- MADONNA
Heard they renamed this one: 50 year old in a Leotard (with a spotty back)
Im curious as to the unreleased tracks, though im sure Steve and Gillian have an intresting collection. I hope we get some commentary with these albums.
the early albums need a significant sound upgrade, so any "bonus" material is truly that, a bonus. I'd buy these...
JeffMo wrote: the early albums need a significant sound upgrade
why?
i hope you don't mean they need to be run thru a loudness maximizer so they sound as 'good' as your new nickelback cd...
i don't really see why any older new order lps need to be remastered.....
Tarbox23 wrote:
JeffMo wrote: the early albums need a significant sound upgrade
why?
i hope you don't mean they need to be run thru a loudness maximizer so they sound as 'good' as your new nickelback cd...
i don't really see why any older new order lps need to be remastered.....
Brotherhood, the cd version, always sounded _very_ weedy to me. I don't remember the vinyl version being like that though.
Though if its just a question of loudness I suppose if I could be bothered I could rip Brotherhood and try remastering it myself! I guess that wouldn't be as good as doing it with the original mastertapes (you can't put back lost resolution in the volume range, I guess)
hibster wrote: planet sound teletext on channel 4 seems to think so!
Tonight they say the 7 leftover tracks are to be released next year.
hope you don't mean they need to be run thru a loudness maximizer so they sound as 'good' as your new nickelback cd...
Exactly. Just turn the sound up. If that's not good enough turn up the low and high end a bit. No remastering needed.
Doesn't 'remastering' these days mean making them sound worse? Compressing them to play over earbud headphones? I've listened to Blue Monday off old Substance cd, then off International - the Substance version sounds much, MUCH more detailed and rich.
I'm not a super-audiophile so I may not know what I'm talking about...but aren't the 80's issued cds the highest quality?
FtotheDoubleOff wrote: I'm not a super-audiophile so I may not know what I'm talking about...but aren't the 80's issued cds the highest quality?
It's not so much the CD quality as it is how the albums were EQ'ed. They were using a set of standards intended for vinyl pressings, to help compensate for certain factors. The same music can translate very differently, though, when presented in a digital format.
If anything it's just optimizing the sound for CD playback.
HOWEVER: Warners, PLEASE do not compress the hell out of these albums! LOUDER does not mean BETTER.
from hookys blog
"NEW ORDER FINALLY SORTED OUT THE RE-MASTERS OF THE EARLY STUFF, TENTATIVELY ENTITLED THE FACTORY YEARS, SUGGESTED BOX SET IN A COFFIN? NAH IT WAS A JOKE! WAS A PLEASURE TO LISTEN TO THE OLD STUFF AGAIN THO I HAD FORGOTTEN HOW WONDERFUL .......THIEVES LIKE US WAS , ULTRAVIOLENCE AND 5.8.6., GONNA DIG A FEW OUT WHEN I DO THAT GIG WITH SECTION 25 IN NOVEMBER , SHOULD BE INTERESTING.
HAD A WEIRD ONE THO RECENTLY , FOUND? A VAULT FULL OF OLD FACTORY /NEW ORDER TAPES REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO GOIN THRU IT, THE VAULT TURNED UP BECAUSE THE BANK WAS CLOSING DOWN , SO THEY HAD TO EMPTY THEM ? NO ONE KNEW IT EVEN EXISTED? BUT THERES SOME GREAT STUFF IN IT ........................SO WATCH THIS SPACE! ah shit i hate that caps button¬!"
My twopennethworth......
Great to see that this is on the cards of course.
HOWEVER!
The two disc format had better not be one CD and one DVD. I fucking HATE those formats (like the way Depeche Mode did with theirs recently, meaning all the b sides were on the fooking DVD) - but TWO CDs and nice packaging like the JD ones.
Secondly, I'd rather they make full use of BOTH CDS wherever possible to cram as much unreleased and archive stuff as possible - meaning if everything cannot fit on the 2nd CD then at least fill the first CD up as well considering there would be plenty of space left after the 8 or 9 tracks of the original album (otherwise it would be seen as a waste of one CD's full running time potential). Punctuate the programme with a gap and bob's yer uncle.
Completely agree with the double CD approach. Live In Glasgow has a load of old stuff on the bonus disc so would there be enough to justify a DVD for each album anyway?
Maybe the first CD should have the main B-sides and principle remixes after the album, with the extra disc delving deeper for rarer stuff.
Packaging-wise - either standard fold-out jewel case, Super Jewel Box (one disc on top of the other) or a gatefold Digipak a la Depeche Mode, I'd say.
Substance perhaps included with the eight LPs...?
By 'Eck! My Neck! wrote: My twopennethworth......
Secondly, I'd rather they make full use of BOTH CDS wherever possible to cram as much unreleased and archive stuff as possible - meaning if everything cannot fit on the 2nd CD then at least fill the first CD up as well considering there would be plenty of space left after the 8 or 9 tracks of the original album (otherwise it would be seen as a waste of one CD's full running time potential). Punctuate the programme with a gap and bob's yer uncle.
Indeed we need to remember that cds can hold 80 minutes of music and not just 55 like on The Best of JD.
The Pet Shop Boys remasters were just fine - nice crisp remastered version of the original album on Disc 1, mixes, rare tracks, and oddities on Disc 2, and with a nice booklet with artwork and Neil and Chris talking about the recording process and each track individually.
That's how you do it.
In terms of live footage - I see that the new Yazoo box set due out in a few weeks has a section 'Yazoo Live at the BBC'. If Yazoo (!!!) can fucking do it...
If there's one band with a plethora of live BBC performances, it's these mardy twats.
Wooooo! Can't wait for this, would fit nicely next to all my Cure and Depeche remasters (plus an excuse to blow $70 at the record store at one time).
Sheds on a Plane wrote: Wooooo! Can't wait for this, would fit nicely next to all my Cure and Depeche remasters (plus an excuse to blow $70 at the record store at one time).
Cheers! though the New Order covers are fancier then the shite Depeche and The Cure use for covers.
I think that Peter Saville should do som work on the covers for the remastered versions. Not that I don't like the covers but since he´s so good at it he should do some "refreshment" due to new times. I think this could give it a push forward.
Perhaps alot of the eras artwork from the album in the booklet. For example, the cure and depeche both have "unreleased photos" or something to that effect in theirs.
