electronic :: news

thursday 31 august 2006 :: rhino records, the label which will release the get the message best of in the usa, have generously given a limited number of promotional posters to the ideal copy, which will be included with the new compilation on a first come, first served basis. it’s the only online retailer which has this offer, and it’s a strictly limited amount. as an exclusive to feel every beat, you can choose to have your poster rolled rather than folded, by adding “rolled poster 4.99/10.99” to the comments section when you make your purchase. the small extra charge is $4.99 for us buyers or $10.99 for those outside america; the extra fee goes toward a sturdy poster mailer and expedited shipping rather than the poster itself, which is only available with the cd. items like this will soon be in high demand so get there first!

saturday 19 august 2006 :: amazon.co.uk has added second nature and prodigal son to the tracklisting for get the message. the inclusion of electronic’s seventh single is nothing short of essential—as well as being a classic song in its own right it means that, excluding promos, every a-side will be included on the compilation.

monday 24 july 2006 :: according to nme.com a new electronic compilation will be released in september 2006. get the message: the best of electronic will be issued by emi in the uk on monday 18 and rhino in the us the next day, and features the following tracks: getting away with it, get the message (single mix), feel every beat, disappointed (single mix), forbidden city, vivid (radio edit), all that i need, for you, imitation of life (new edit), out of my league, like no other, twisted tenderness and late at night (radio edit). the cd is available to pre-order at 101cd.com, amazon.co.uk, amazon.com, cd wow! and play.com, and is also available with an accompanying seven-track dvd.

tuesday 28 march 2006 :: the current special edition of q, which focuses on the manchester music scene from punk onwards, features a four-page interview (titled “get the message”) with johnny marr. electronic are mentioned twice, and a photograph of marr and sumner backstage with pet shop boys is included. “when electronic formed there was a revolution in music, in club culture, in drugs, in fashion… i would have been an absolute idiot to miss it. both of us needed to work with someone on a personal level who understood the trip that both of us had been through with our groups.” electronic’s first album gets an honourable mention in a list of recommended mancunian albums; unknown pleasures, power, corruption and lies and the queen is dead are featured more prominently. the title of the magazine is rather opportunistic (“morrissey & the story of manchester”), but the content itself is terrific.

wednesday 22 february 2006 :: shug sludden’s two-disc dvd set feel every beat/the promos, more than a decade in the making, was finally released today through new order online it’s available free to whoever is interested, but it’s strongly recommended that anyone with the means to make more copies and distribute them further do so. the artwork for the cases and discs, designed by rich bertovic and shug, can be obtained from the distributors. the first disc contains every promotional film from getting away with it to late at night, while the second boasts almost every television appearance by the band, including rare footage from mtv and top of the pops. it’s an incredible achievement.

sunday 29 january 2006 :: johnny marr and bernard sumner both appeared at the manchester v cancer concert at the evening news arena on saturday, playing individually with the healers and new order, and together with doves (whose frontman jimi goodwin played bass on twisted tenderness) on two songs—covers of lou reed’s vicious and r dean taylor’s there’s a ghost in my house. the healers’ set comprised there is a light that never goes out, denial denial, the sparks of life, down on the corner and how soon is now?, while new order’s set was as follows: transmission, she’s lost control, shadowplay, atmosphere, twenty four hours, warsaw, love will tear us apart and ceremony.

as bernard sumner proclaimed, it was the first time they would play twenty four hours since ian curtis’ passing. they played no new order material. conversely, the healers’ denial denial and the sparks of life are both new songs, scheduled for release this spring on their second album. bernard and johnny’s involvement with doves bridged the healers and new order, who played before and after them respectively. it was not an electronic reunion, but it was the first time that marr and sumner had played together onstage since 1991—they also joined doves, peter hook, andy rourke and shaun ryder for an encore of happy mondays’ wrote for luck. an historic day.