Album
Technique
1989 · Electronic, Rock
44 collectors on Gatefold own this
Technique is an Electronic album by Neworder, originally released in 1989. On Gatefold: 132 pressings tracked, owned by 44 collectors.
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Technique is the fifth studio album by English rock band New Order. Released on 30 January 1989 by Factory Records, the album was partly recorded on the island of Ibiza, and incorporates Balearic beat and acid house influences into the group's dance-rock sound. The album was influenced by the then growing acid scene, and Sumner's experiences at Shoom in London. It was also New Order's final studio album to be released under Factory Records (though not their final Factory release, that being the following year's "World in Motion"); the label would declare bankruptcy in 1992 following a severe financial downturn caused primarily by the significant commercial failure of Happy Mondays' Yes Please! Technique was the first New Order album to reach number one on the UK charts, and "Fine Time", the first single from the album, reached number 11. Remixed versions of "Round & Round" and "Run" were also released as singles.
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1Fine Time
- A2All The Way
- A3Love Less
- A4Round & Round
- A5Guilty Partner
Side B
- B1Run
- B2Mr Disco
- B3Vanishing Point
- B4Dream Attack
Sound DNA
- Electronic
- Synth-Pop / New Wave
- synthetic
- bittersweet
- summer
New Order's fifth studio album, released on 30 January 1989 and their last album released on.
Recorded on Ibiza and in Peter Gabriel's.
The album adds Balearic Beat and Acid House influences to the band's typical blend of electronic and rock. The cover is another Peter Saville/Trevor Key cooperation, using a garden ornament cherub statue. Saville thought the bacchanalian image was ironically fitting for the new "drug-fuelled hedonism" in the music scene.
The first New Order album to reach number one in the UK charts. Several tracks were individually released as singles. An instrumental version of "Vanishing Point" was used on the BBC series Making Out.
In the UK, there were several marketing items along with the album release, including an A5 sticker in the NME ("Press Technique"), billboards ("Advertising Technique"), a TV commercial, a set of four A4 paper sheets in green, white, red, and yellow ("Campaign Technique"), and a set of two posters, advertising the different media formats.
Released in the US in January 1989.
In 2008 the album was re-released as 2xCD Collector's Edition set, with the bonus disc containing non-album singles, 12" mixes and b-sides.
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Bernard AlbrechtGUITAR
- Bernard SumnerVOCALS, GUITAR
- Gillian GilbertGUITAR KEYBOARDS
- Peter HookBASS
- Stephen MorrisDRUMS
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