Coming soon: A two-disc collection of Factory Record’s “dancefloor-friendly” rarities
When people think of Factory Records, it’s probably safe to say that they think of the label’s pioneering and influential post-punk aesthetic, e.g., Joy Division, New Order, Durutti Column. But as FAC. DANCE will reveal, the label also has a substantial dance music legacy.
FAC. DANCE is focussed on dancefloor-friendly 12″ mixes and rarities from the label’s early days, spanning skeletal, dubwise studio work from Martin Hannett and pioneering productions from New Order’s Bernard Sumner and A Certain Ratio’s Donald Johnson under their BeMusic and DoJo guises. There are contributions too from New York legends Arthur Baker and Mark Kamins, and a number of killer oddities – the schizoid funk of Blurt’s ‘Puppeteer’, the jazz-funk of Kalima and Swamp Children, the reggae of X-O-Dus’s ‘See Them A’Come’ (produced by Dennis Bovell).
FAC. DANCE will be released by Strut on October 10 on 2xCD, 2xLP, and digital. Here’s the complete track listing:
CD 1
- Section 25 — “Looking From A Hilltop” (Megamix)
- A Certain Ratio — “Wild Party”
- Quando Quango — “Love Tempo”
- 52nd Street — “Express”
- Swamp Children — “Little Voices”
- Biting Tongues — “Boss Toyota Trouble”
- The Durutti Column — “For Belgian Friends” (Valuable Passages version)
- Royal Family & The Poor — “Art On 45”
- A Certain Ratio — “Knife Slits Water” (12-inch version)
- Section 25 — “Dirty Disco”
- Blurt — “Puppeteer”
- X-O-Dus — “See Them-A-Come”
CD 2
- New Order — “Confusion” (Original 12″ mix)
- Shark Vegas — “Pretenders Of Love”
- 52nd Street — “Cool As Ice” (Jellybean Mix)
- Streetlife — “Act On Instinct” (Hot Swedish Mix)
- The Hood — “Salvation!” (Nitromix)
- Abecedarians — “Smiling Monarchs”
- Quando Quango — “Atom Rock” (Mark Kamins Mix)
- Marcel King — “Reach For Love” (New York Remix)
- 52nd Street — “Look Into My Eyes”
- Quando Quango — “Genius”
- Swamp Children — “You’ve Got Me Beat”
- The Durutti Column — “Madeleine”
Via Elastic Heart and Fact Magazine