Out 17 March on Mute / BMG is Inspiral Carpets’ “The Complete Singles” compiling all of the Manchester band’s 24 singles to date. “The Complete Singles” coincides with the start of a major UK tour kicking off in Northampton in March.

The album will be available on double vinyl, and as a 3CD set with an exclusive remix bonus disc. Included on that 3rd disc are classic, rare and unreleased remixes from across their career alongside two new unreleased mixes, from The Go! Team and Martyn Walsh & Simon Lyon.

The Complete Singles sees all of the band’s singles remastered and available on one album for the first time. From 1988’s “Keep The Circle Around” to their latest single, 2015’s “Let You Down”.

Inspiral Carpets introduced the mainstream to the ‘Madchester’ sound which you can also find back in those other Manchester bands the Stone Roses and Happy Mondays.

Here is the tracklist of the bonus tracks on the 3CD set.

1. Dragging Me Down – Jon Dasilva Remix
2. This Is How It Feels – The Go! Team Remix*
3. Caravan – No Windscreen Mix (Justin Robertson)
4. Generations – Denmark 2 Germany 0 mix (Fortran 5)
5. Commercial Reign – Rub-A-Dub Mix (Forgemasters)
6. You’re So Good For Me – Like A Tonic Remix (Mark Reeder & Micha Adam)
7. Dubville – (Chris Nagle)
8. Two Worlds Collide – The Twelve Inch Mix (Mike Pickering & Paul Heard / M People)
9. Saturn 5 – High Energy Mix (Paul Van Dyk)
10. This Is How It Feels – Robbery Mix (PK & Dashboard)
11. Skidoo – Possession Mix (Justin Robertson)
12. Bitches Brew – Horse (Fortran 5)
13. Changes – Martyn Walsh & Simon Lyon Remix*
14. Uniform – Scripka Mix (featuring The Balanescu Quartet)

Inspiral Carpets 2023 Tour

• 23 March – Northampton, Roadmender
• 24 March – Newcastle, Boiler Shop
• 25 March – Oxford, 02 Academy
• 26 March – Brighton, Concorde 2
• 31 March – Cambridge, Junction
• 1 April – Manchester, Albert Hall
• 2 April – Nottingham, Rescue Rooms
• 8 April – Leeds, 02 Academy
• 13 April – Glasgow, SWG3 Galvanizers
• 14 April – Sheffield, Leadmill
• 15 April – London, 02 Shepherds Bush Empire
• 21 April – Coventry, HMV Empire
• 22 April – Frome, Cheese & Grain
• 25 May – Holmfirth
• 26 May – Hull, Welly
• 27 May – Neighbourhood Festival
• 15 June – Buckley, Tivoli
• 16 June – Cardiff, Tramshed
• 17 June – Sign of the Times Festival
• 20 July – Dunfermline, PJ Molloys
• 21 July – Edinburgh, Liquid Rooms
• 22 July – Kubix Festival
• 24 August – Derby, Hairy Dog
• 25 August – Norwich, Epic Studios
• 26 August – Victorious Festival

And for those who don’t know the band, check the below videos.

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New Order just released “Be a Rebel (Arthur Baker Remix)”, the latest in the series of versions of their single. For this new remix, the band is rejoined by Arthur Baker (Afrika Bambaataa, Soulsonic). When he first worked with New Order in 1983, it was the band’s first work with a collaborator and the sessions in New York spawned New Order classics “Thieves Like Us” and “Confusion”.

At the same time the band also announced a “Be a Rebel” remix double 12” and CD, which bring together all 11 remixes of the track, out on 27 August 2021. Also added to the 12 inch and CD releases are unreleased remixes by two new artists: Berlin based modular synthist JakoJako and from Maceo Plex’s label, Ellum recording artist Melawati.

In December, the band put out “Be A Rebel (Remixes Part One)”, a collection of three reworkings of the song from DJs Paul Woolford and Maceo Plex as well as New Order’s Bernard Sumner (Outlaw Mix). Mark Reeder’s Dirty Devil Remix was released in February and joins Stephen Morris’ T34, Bernard Sumner’s (Renegade Spezial Edit), and all the other remixes and original mixes compiled on the CD single.

On 7 May, New Order release “Education Entertainment Recreation (Live at Alexandra Palace)” on album and film. It was their only UK show of 2018 (9 November) at London’s Alexandra Palace and the first live show released on Blu-Ray from the band’s now established line-up of Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris, Gillian Gilbert, Phil Cunningham and Tom Chapman.

Here’s the new remix.

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UPDATE: Kraftwerk co-founder Ralf Hütter has confirmed the sad news.

(Photo by Daniele Dalledonne, Trento, Italy) According to various reports Florian Schneider, known as one of the founding members of the electronic music group Kraftwerk, is no more. The musician who was part of the band until his departure in November 2008 would have died a few days ago at the age of 73 after losing his battle against cancer. The news was first spread by producer Mark Reeder and DAF-member Robert Görl and according to Ouest France confirmed by Schneider’s family.

A bicycle pump meant the end of his membership of Kraftwerk

Florian Schneider-Esleben founded Kraftwerk with Ralf Hütter in 1970 after meeting in 1968 while studying at the Academy of Arts in Remscheid. They played improvisational music together in the ensemble Organisation. Before meeting Hütter, Schneider had played with Eberhard Kranemann in the group Pissoff from 1967 to 1968. From 1968 to 1969, Schneider played flute, with Ralf Hütter on Hammond organ, Eberhard Kranemann on bass and Paul Lovens on drums.

To know how the band sounded like this, make sure to check this Kraftwerk gig from 1970 which landed on YouTube.

Originally Schneider’s main instrument was the flute, which he would treat using electronic effects, including tape echo, ring modulation, use of pitch-to-voltage converter, fuzz and wah-wah, allowing him to use his flute as a bass instrument. He also played violin (similarly treated), electric guitar (including slide guitar), and made use of synthesizers (both as a melodic instrument and as a sound processor). Later he also created his own electronic flute instrument. After the release of their 1974 album, “Autobahn”, his use of acoustic instruments diminished.

Schneider did not perform on any of the dates of the Kraftwerk 2008 world tour (his last performance with the band was November 2006 in Spain). His position onstage was filled by Stefan Pfaffe, an associate working for the band as a video technician. According to a close associate of the group, Schneider left Kraftwerk on 21 November 2008, due to a dispute… over a bicycle pump.

In 2015 Schneider and Dan Lacksman with help of Uwe Schmidt released an electronic ode, “Stop Plastic Pollution”, for ocean environment conservation as part of a campaign “Parley for the Oceans”.

Some more rare live recordings from the early years of Kraftwerk

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New Order has released a brand new remix EP, “Music Complete: Remix”, ahead of their upcoming US tour dates, including a pair of Coachella performances. “Music Complete: Remix” EP features remixes of tracks from the band’s 2015 album “Music Complete” including remixes that were previously commercially unavailable as well as Takkyu Ishino’s “Tutti Frutti” remix that was included on the exclusive Japanese 12” by the same name.

Check out the EP below:

Additionally, New Order recently announced the release of “NOMC15”, a live album recorded at Brixton Academy in November 2015, and captured by Mute Records live recording division Live Here Now. Set for release on May 26, 2017, the album will be available on double CD, triple clear vinyl (180g) and high definition download, all featuring new artwork by Warren Jackson.

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Chief editor of Side-Line – which basically means I spend my days wading through a relentless flood of press releases from labels, artists, DJs, and zealous correspondents. My job? Strip out the promo nonsense, verify what’s actually real, and decide which stories make the cut and which get tossed into the digital void. Outside the news filter bubble, I’m all in for quality sushi and helping raise funds for Ukraine’s ongoing fight against the modern-day axis of evil. Besides music I’m also an SEO and AI content flow specialist and have an interest in everything finance from stocks to crypto. There is music in everything!

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You can now listen to Erol Alkan’s extended rework of “Singularity” taken from New Order’s forthcoming single, out on March 25, 2016 and available right here on vinyl. The new single, available on 12” and download, features remixes from Erol Alkan, Liars, Tom Rowlands of The Chemical Brothers and JS Zeiter, and is available now for pre-order in different versions.

The video for the original track (which you can see here) is a fast-paced collage of footage taken from “B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989”, the story of Mark Reeder’s life in 1980s West-Berlin. Damian Hale, the man responsible for the visuals that make up New Order’s stage show, edited the video. “Singularity” features scenes of a city divided by the Wall showing a cultural inter-zone in which everything and anything seemed possible.

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Chief editor of Side-Line – which basically means I spend my days wading through a relentless flood of press releases from labels, artists, DJs, and zealous correspondents. My job? Strip out the promo nonsense, verify what’s actually real, and decide which stories make the cut and which get tossed into the digital void. Outside the news filter bubble, I’m all in for quality sushi and helping raise funds for Ukraine’s ongoing fight against the modern-day axis of evil. Besides music I’m also an SEO and AI content flow specialist and have an interest in everything finance from stocks to crypto. There is music in everything!

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New Order has announced the release of their video for their latest single, “Singularity,” out March 25, 2016 on Mute. The video is a fast-paced collage of footage taken from “B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989”, the story of Mark Reeder’s life in 1980s West-Berlin. Damian Hale, the man responsible for the visuals that make up New Order’s stage show, edited the video. “Singularity” features scenes of a city divided by the Wall showing a cultural inter-zone in which everything and anything seemed possible.

You can watch the video here:

It’s not just a coincidence that Reeder pops up in New Order’s video. In 1981, Reeder formed the synthpop-rock duo Die Unbekannten (later renamed as Shark Vegas) and toured Western Europe with New Order in 1984. In 1986, Shark Vegas released the 12″ single “You Hurt Me” which was produced by Bernard Sumner. In September 2009, he released a collaboration album of reworks of tracks by Blank & Jones titled “Reordered” for which he rewrote and replayed all the tracks. This album features vocals by artists as Robert Smith of The Cure, Steve Kilbey of The Church, Bernard Sumner, Claudia Brücken of Propaganda and Anne Clark. On his last studio album 6 of the 13 tracks feature vocals by Bernard Sumner.

Oh, in 1991, Reeder discovered the teenage Paul van Dyk, guiding and paving his way to build up his now international DJ superstardom. In short, he’s a well connected man.

In the meantime New Order has also been announced as headliner at the Teenage Cancer Trust show of April 23rd at the Royal Albert Hall.

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