Blue Monday 'review' from The Guardian (20th August)

[nickking]

Taken from http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayre ... 50,00.html:

"New Order - Blue Monday (So Hot Mix by 808 State)

Chris Cottingham
Friday August 20, 2004
The Guardian

When Kylie performed Can't Get You Out of My Head at the 2002 Brit awards her party-piece was to segue the original backing track into New Order's Blue Monday. The resulting hybrid was immediately christened Can't Get Blue Monday Out of My Head (and appears on the soundtrack to forthcoming Brit film Layer Cake). But Kylie wasn't the first artist to co-opt the biggest selling 12-inch of all time for a bit of live oomph.
In the late 1980s, electronic pioneers 808 State augmented their set with acid house interpretations of both Blue Monday and Confusion (the follow-up, also from 1983). Fifteen years on and with trendier clubs in the grip of an acid house revival, London-based avant garde label Rephlex is releasing the 808 State mixes for the first time.

"They were staples because they were easy to programme," says 808 State founder Graham Massey. "And they bought you an extra 10 minutes before you got bottled off. There was a lot of hostility to what we were doing early on. Change will always do that."

Blue Monday: in yer face - again."

[markus]

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