Wednesday, March 27, 2019

New Order: Sub-Culture

From Discogs:
New Order's tenth single. Released on 28 October 1985. The first of three collaborations with US remixer John Robie.

This was the first New Order single to be drastically remixed from the album version for single release. It is believed that Peter Saville disliked the remixes so much that he refused to do a proper sleeve for it. Therefore, it is packaged in a plain black sleeve with cut-outs for the labels. Saville did the typography on the labels though.
That's fascinating, and I have to agree. The original album version is much better. The flip side, on my Canadian pressing, is Subvulture, though some international pressings have Dub-Vulture on side two.

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