Unreleased Joy Division tracks surfacing...

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Martin Rushent dies

This legend worked with Joy Division as well

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Human League Producer Martin Rushent Dies

Martin Rushent, best known for his work as the producer of the Human League’s ‘Dare’ album, has died at the age of 63. Martin’s son Tim announced the news on Facebook. “My father Martin Rushent passed away yesterday at his home in Berkshire,” he wrote. “A lot of people in the industry will have memories of him (good, bad and ugly!) ... if you know of anyone who could contribute to this page that my brother set up then we'd be over the moon. (And so would he as he loved to be talked about!)” Rushent’s daughter-in-law Wendy Swinburne wrote, ”RIP Martin Rushent, Legendary Record Producer, father of my partner and grandfather of our beautiful twin boys xxx” Tim added, “Also ... a bit of an obnoxious twat! But trust me ... he'd love to be remembered this way!”. Martin Rushent was a production innovator and drove the British music scene to the next level in the 80s. While Rushent’s work with the Human League created the iconic 1981 album ‘Dare’ he had worked earlier with T. Rex, David Essex, Fleetwood Mac, Yes and Shirley Bassey. He started to formulate his own technique in the late 70s with the emergence of punk when he worked on records by XTC, Buzzcocks and The Stranglers. Rushent started his own label Genetic is 1980 and signed Ultravox, Visage and Spandau Ballet. It was at that time that he invested £250,000, an incredible amount of money for the time, building a studio in the Berkshire home where he died this weekend. His work continued and reads like a ‘who’s who’ of 80s music. Rushent produced The Go-Gos, Generation X (Billy Idol) Altered Images and Hazel O’Connor. Most recently, he produced the second album for The Pipettes. He was also working on a 30th anniversary edition of ‘Dare’.

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Video of Hook performing unreleased Joy Division song

There's also the video of Rowetta singing Atmosphere:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiG1cUVVLGg&NR=1

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Peter Hook And The Light - Pictures In My MInd - 1102 / 2011 EP

Peter Hook's The Light feat. Rowetta - "1102 / 2011" 4 Track EP Released digitally Monday 9th May 2011 on Haçienda Records. 1 "Atmosphere" (vocals by Rowetta) 2"Insight", (vocals by Rowetta) 3."New Dawn Fades" (vocals by Rowetta) 4. "Pictures In My Mind" (vocals by Peter Hook) www.fac51thehacienda.com / www.peterhook.co.uk Video Directed by John Surdevan & Mark Bristol, Surdevan Creative, www.surdevancreative.com Peter Hook And The Light play Closer for the first ever time Weds 18th May and Thurs 19th May at The Factory, Manchester. For booking enquiries - fletch@fac51thehacienda.com Press enquiries - press@fac51thehacienda.com Read more at www.youtube.com

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Unreleased Joy Division on The Light EP

Peter Hook's band, with covers of Insight, Atmosphere and New Dawn Fades and the previously unreleased Joy Division song, Pictures In My Mind
The Light "1102 / 2011" Debut Ep Out 9/05/11

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Joy Division documentary trailer

This is the trailer for the Joy Division Documentary which will be released in UK cinemas May 2nd. It shows rare images of the band members offstage.