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THE RADIO ONE SESSIONS
Strange Fruit
April 12 2004

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UK

2004

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Track Listings
 
1. True Faith
2. Isolation
3. Touched
4. Atmosphere
5. Paradise
 
6. Slow Jam
7. Your Silent Face
8. Close Range
9. Rock The Shack
10. Transmission (Enhanced)

 

  • With the bust ups and bankruptcy hatchets of the "Republic" era conclusively interred, Manchester dance legends New Order kissed, made-up and reconvened in 1998 for some exultant festival headline slots and their first John Peel radio session since 1982. In Session kicks off with the five cuts reworked for Peel in November 1998 (the last recordings to feature keyboard player / button pusher Gillian Gilbert as a fully operational band member) and is essential listening for the house makeover of "True Faith" and the chiming dance ebullience of "Isolation", the latter several rave pills removed from the stark oppression of the classic Joy Division original.

    The second session--four cuts recorded for Steve Lamacq's Evening Session in October 2001--corresponds with the release of the much-garlanded comeback album Get Ready and features an intriguing arrangement of "Close Range" that defers more to the original demo version than the final album cut. Elsewhere, the red-herring, slacker shuffle of "Rock the Shack" (featuring a barely audible Bobby Gillespie, apparently) is a source of irritation amongst New Orderites who prefer metronomic electronic punctiliousness to Bacchanalian horseplay (not that the same people ever complained about "Sister Ray") but the fragile neo-classical grandeur of "Your Silent Face" is on firmer ground. The live-in-basement video of "Transmission" (commissioned as a gift for John Peel to celebrate his 40 years at Radio 1) finds the old mopes of yore to be chubbier and more comfortably at ease with their own legend than ever before.

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