Factory Communications: 1978-92 is a tribute to the label as well as a dedication to the founder, the late Tony Wilson. The project celebrates arguably the most important label in UK pop history, collating rare and obscure tracks from a diverse range of acts. It features 63 tracks including cuts from New Order, Joy Division, The Durutti Column, Happy Mondays, Electronic, A Certain Ratio, Section 25 and many others and includes sleeve notes written by Paul Morley.
Track listing:
LP 1
Digital - By Joy Division
Baader Meinhof - By Cabaret Voltaire
All Night Party - By a Certain Ratio
Electricity - By Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
She's Lost Control (12' Version) - By Joy Division
Time Goes By So Slow - By Distractions
Transmission - By Joy Division
Sketch for Summer - By the Durutti Column
English Black Boys - By X-O-Dus
Love Will Tear Us Apart (2005 Remaster) - By Joy Division
Shack Up (7" Version) - By a Certain Ratio
Girls Don't Count - By Section 25
Sex Machine - By Crawling Chaos
Flight - By a Certain Ratio
Night Shift - By the Names
LP 2
Ceremony - By New Order
Dolphin's Spurt - By Minny Pops
It's Hard to Be An Egg - By John Dowie
Deaf - By Crispy Ambulance
Dirty Disco - By Section 25
Everything's Gone Green - By New Order
Watching the Hydroplanes - By Tunnel Vision
Messidor - By the Durutti Column
Knife Slits Water - By a Certain Ratio
LP 3
Art on 45 - By Royal Family and the Poor
Taste What's Rhythm - By Swamp Children
Temptation (12" Version) - By New Order
Cool As Ice - By 52nd Street
Blue Monday - By New Order
LP 4
Yashar (John Robie Remix) - By Cabaret Voltaire
Love Tempo - By Quando Quango
Talk About the Past - By the Wake
Confusion - By New Order
Reach for Love - By Marcel King
Looking from a Hilltop (Megamix) - By Section 25
LP 5
All at Once - By Stockholm Monsters
Tell Me - By Life (UK)
Without Mercy (Duet) - By the Durutti Column
Hymn from a Village - By James
Trickery - By Kalima
Sounds Like Something Dirty - By a Certain Ratio
Genius - By Quando Quango
Freaky Dancing - By Happy Mondays
When It All Comes Down - By Miaow
LP 6
Brighter - By the Railway Children
Compressor - By Biting Tongues
True Faith (2011 Total Version) [Shep Pettibone 7" Remix] - By New Order
24 Hour Party People - By Happy Mondays
Fine Time - By New Order
W.F.L. (Think About the Future Mix) - By Happy Mondays
Seven Reasons - By Revenge (UK)
LP 7
Hallelujah (Club Mix) - By Happy Mondays
Getting Away with It - By Electronic
Step on (2007 Remaster) - By Happy Mondays
Shall We Take a Trip? - By Northside
World in Motion - By New Order
Kinky Afro (2007 Remaster) - By Happy Mondays
Home - By the Durutti Column
Get the Message (Dna Mix) - By Electronic
LP 8
Take Five - By Northside
Moves Like You (Remix) - By Cath Carroll
Tasty Fish - By the Other Two
Sunshine and Love (Lionrock Remix) - By Happy Mondays
