bad lieutenant gets new order remix treatment

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Bernard Sumner has managed to stay busy since New Order's demise. He released and toured in support of his new band Bad Lieutenant's debut album, Never Cry Another Tear. And he collaborated with Hot Chip on a throbbing throwback track for Converse.

Now he's taken one of the more danceable Bad Lieutenant tunes and given it a proper remix release, complete with the same extensive treatment given so many New Order singles back in the day.

You can purchase the "Twist Of Fate" remix package on iTunes for less than 5 bucks. It comes with 4 versions of the title track and a bonus James Bright remix of "Poisonous Intent."

The video for the Koishii & Hush Remix is equal parts Doctor Who and Team America:


(via Slicing Up Eyeballs)

One remix was held back and is being offered as a free download. Stream the Reeder's No Fate Radio Remix below and click the arrow link in the toolbar to download:



Nice one, Barney.

barney's shadow

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A little more than a month ago, Converse UK released a fresh collaboration between New Order's Bernard Sumner, Hot Chip and Hot City entitled "Didn't Know What Love Was".

They promised a video to go along with the old school synth pop jam, and today our friends at Slicing Up Eyeballs dug it up on YouTube.

The clip features Bernard and his shadow, Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard of Hot Chip and their doppelgangers, plenty of stop motion effects, and a cameo from New Order drummer Stephen Morris:



To download the track free, hear alternate takes and watch short films about each of the artists, check out the Converse Music Blog.

Somewhere in an alternate universe, this song is a #1 hit. I want to go to there.

all barney all the time

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As we excitedly mentioned yesterday, today you can download Bernard Sumner's new track featuring Hot Chip and Hot City for free at the Converse UK site.

"I Didn't Know What Love Was" surprisingly — or expectedly, depending on your point of view — kicks all kinds of ass:

IDKWLW by oldwaver

All the talk about Barney this week has me seriously jonesing for some New Order. If you are as well, may I humbly recommend New Order - 316. The 2-DVD set has a '98 set from the Reading Festival...  you can watch that at your own risk.

Worth the price alone is the first disc featuring one of New Order's first US appearances, a November 1981 show at the Ukrainian National Home in New York City. Just check out "Ceremony" and you'll be sold:



God bless Barney. Peter Hook, not so much.

bernard sumner and hot chip kick it for converse

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On the heels of Monday's post looking back at Electronic comes the news that Converse is releasing a brand new collaboration between Bernard Sumner, Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard of Hot Chip, and new kid Hot City.

The UK Converse website will offer the track, "I Didn't Know What Love Was", as a free download tomorrow.

It's part of a year-long celebration of music that has also mashed up Kid Cudi, Rostam Batmanglij of Vampire Weekend and Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast, and features an upcoming release with Graham Coxon of Blur.

The Sumner/Hot Chip track would be right at home in the Electronic catalogue. The piano line is reminiscent of "Disappointed" and the song soars to equally grand synth-pop heights:

IDKWLW by oldwaver

A video for "I Didn't Know What Love Was" is due November 7. For now, enjoy Barney retrace his steps through Manchester in a pair of Chuck Taylors:

reminiscing about electronic

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Morrissey once called Johnny Marr's post-Smiths project with Bernard Sumner and Neil Tennant "totally useless".

 
I'm not going to try to convince Moz otherwise...  however, I do have a soft spot in my heart for Electronic. Sure, in retrospect I can admit the whole thing was a bit cheesy. The synths and strings were over the top, the guitar work of Johnny Marr was thin, and the entire idea of a synth-pop supergroup was really quite silly.

Still, I wore this record out. It spoke to me. Maybe it just quelled my desire for new material from the defunct Smiths and distracted me from the maybe-they're-broken-up maybe-they're-not saga of New Order. Or perhaps I just wasn't as cynical back then.

Regardless, I still get misty when I hear "Getting Away With It":



"Feel Every Beat" was another favorite, but seeing it live from 1992 you can witness hip-hop Barney starting to lose his mind:




Electronic put out three albums over the course of the 90's, none nearly as good as the first. But now that Marr has moved on to The Cribs and Sumner is carrying on with Bad Lieutenant, I think it's safe to look back on that debut with fondness.

It appears Barney does, too: