Factory Records: Communications 1978-1992

Factory Records: Communications 1978-1992


Factory Records: Communications 1978-1992 [promo disc one front cover detail]

Download: UK 12.08 (Rhino)
4CD: UK 19.01.09 (Rhino)

Tracklisting

Sketch For Summer [2:57]
Messidor [2:31]
A Little Mercy (Duet) [2:33]
Otis [4:17]*
Home [5:39]

[all MP3, 256 kbps]

* - mp3 only

Notes

4CD box set chronicling the history of Factory Records and featuring five tracks by The Durutti Column. Also known as the Factory Box Set (promo copies exist with this title). Compiled by Jon Savage, with an essay by Paul Morley, and artwork by Peter Saville.

Full release date 12 January 2009 but digital download available from Amazon.co.uk and possibly other sources since December 2008.

Otis doesn't appear on the 4CD version, only on the Amazon download. There are other, non-Durutti Column differences between the tracklistings of the digital download and CD versions.

Reissued in 2019 as an 8LP silver vinyl box set with slightly revised title: 'FACTORY: Communications 1978-92'

Treatise on the Steppenwolf Soundtrack

Treatise on the Steppenwolf Soundtrack

CD: UK 04.08.08 (LTM LTMCD 2518)

Tracklisting

A Beautiful Thought (Pt 1)
Stupid Steppenwolf (Pt 1)
Stupid Steppenwolf (Pt 2)
The Mothers & the Fathers
A Wolf of the Steppes
Interlude
The Title on the Cover
Divided
Magic Theatre
Soul Track
Harry Dreams the Dream
A Beautiful Thought (Pt 2)
Lullaby (live)
Mello (live)

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After 30 years, the first soundtrack album from Vini Reilly. Treatise on the Steppenwolf is the soundtrack to the performance piece by experimental theatre group 12 Stars, written and directed by Gerard McInulty, and first staged in Glasgow in May 2003. Previously unreleased, the CD combines the original studio recordings of the 12 pieces performed during the Glasgow run, as well as two bonus live tracks recorded at the event, one featuring spoken-word narrative by cast member Carolyn Allen. Booklet includes images from live performance and artist quotes. 14 tracks, 60 minutes of music.

Available direct from LTM from March 2008 and in good record shops from August 2008.

Sunlight to Blue... Blue to Blackness

Sunlight to Blue... Blue to Blackness

CD: UK 23.06.08 (Kooky Records kookydisc 27)

Tracklisting

1. Glimpse
2. Contact
3. Messages
4. Ged
5. Ananda
6. Never Known Version
7. So Many Crumbs And Monkeys!
8. Head Glue
9. Demo For Gathering Dust
10. Cup A Soup Romance
11. Grief

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Cup A Soup Romance

Cup A Soup Romance

CDR: UK 25.04.08 (Scream City SC4.1)

Tracklisting

Cup A Soup Romance

Credits

This CD was given away free with Scream City 4, April 2008
Taken from the Kooky Records album Sunlight to Blue... Blue to Blackness

Scream City thanks Vini, Phil and Alex.

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Limited edition of 144 copies 1-track CD-R given away with the 4th issue of Scream City (a Factory Records fanzine). All copies sold out via eBay inside 3 days.

Live in Bruxelles 13.8.1981

Live in Bruxelles 13.8.1981

CD: UK 12.07 (LTM LTMCD 2499)

Tracklisting

Sketch for Dawn
Messidor
Jacqueline
Conduct
Sketch for Summer
Danny
Stains (Useless Body)
The Missing Boy
Self Portrait (Version)
For Belgian Friends
Interview

Notes

Live In Bruxelles comprises a complete live performance by Vini Reilly and Bruce Mitchell at the Place de la Monnaie (Muntplein) in Brussels, Belgium, together with a lengthy after-show chat with Vini. The ten song live set contains DC favourites such as Conduct and Sketch for Summer, as well as several rarely heard numbers including Stains, Danny and Messidor. The attractive booklet for this digitally remastered CD includes extracts from the original event programme, as well as background notes and archive images. 11 tracks, 60 minutes.

Available direct from LTM and in good record shops.

Fidelity

Fidelity

CD: BE 04.96 (Les Disques du Crépuscule TWI 976-2)
CD: UK 12.07 (LTM LTMCD 2512) *

Tracklisting

Fidelity
For Suzanne
Future Perfect
Abstract of Expression
G & T
Remember Me
Sanko
Grace
Guitar For Mother
Storm For Steve
My Only Love *

Credits

Written and played by Vini Reilly
Produced & programmed by Laurie Lexicon
Elli R. Rudge - Vocals
Front cover photograph by Pamela Kay

With thanks to: Michel, Joelle, Anthony, Bridget, Bruce + Mitchell posse, Suzanne - Without whom..., Stu, Hammock by Alchemy, Stevie, Lee, Kia, Dean and all Wardley Crew, Salford Crew, Elli Rudge for wonderful vocals, Rudge Family, Rosalind (for Egyptian postcard), Atlas Bar, Michel Pitrik (for hair), Hadgett, Pamela Kay for wild photography (+ Joseph assistant cameraman), Ollie Harris (guitar technician), Penny and Pete (for the introduction to Laurie) and Johnny too!

© Crépuscule, 1996
Published by Movement of the 24th January Publishing.

LTM reissue notes

First released by Les Disques du Crepuscule in April 1996, Fidelity features ten tracks written and performed by Vini Reilly, with occasional guest vocals by Elli Rudge. In addition to Vini's trademark guitar style, the album also features sleek programmed beats and synth textures. The CD also features one bonus track, My Only Love, originally issued in 1995 on a free CD with Total Guitar magazine. The booklet includes background notes, and the text of the original press release. 11 tracks. 65 minutes of music.