COMMUNITY - Sets the World in Motion
Community A New Order Tribute
CAT No: RETRO-01 (Community Album)
CAT No: RETRO-02 (Community EP)
Release Date June 1, 2004
Almost a year ago, designer Mike Nguyen (USA), musician Alejo Parella (Argentina) and webmaster of neworderonline Nicolas LeBlanc (Canada) - all long standing fans of the English band New Order - had the idea of creating a CD as a tribute to their favourite band.
So, using the vehicle of neworderonline.com the most popular New Order website on the internet they ran a competition for other fans to submit their own cover versions of classic New Order tracks and a few from the bands side projects.
This kind of compilation CD has been attempted before, yes, but not on the same kind of scale and with the same degree of talent and determination not to mention the incredible effort by so many different from all corners of the world. Musicians responded from many x different countries across the globe. Not one of these bands had met before in person and for many, this was their first contact with the producers of the CD.
As it turned out, this was a mammoth, time consuming undertaking - involving rehearsals, bands booking studio time, submissions by bands, collation of those submissions, fans voting on those submissions, working on designs, applying for publishing and reproduction rights, mastering, printing, and finally distribution of the CD.
Every track on the CD was voted for by subscribers to neworderonline.com, with an elimination round for each batch of tracks, so this CD is truly a representation of the tastes of New Order fans across the world.
Accompanying this release is a CD EP, containing further cover versions, both by bands featured on Community and those that didnt quite fit the mould, but still deserved an airing.
That makes twenty four tracks in total around a third of the total submissions, so you can imagine the overall quality of all the submitted tracks.
Was it worth the effort?
Well, here you can judge for yourself. This compilation includes the following tracks:
ARTIST / TRACK LISTING Community Album
Visit www.neworderonline.com/Community.aspx for more information and samples.
kREMLIN Sooner Than You Think
Captain Black Procession
Evaluna Thieves like Us
Labster Face Up
Project Wintermute Transmission
Unfaith True Faith
Cloudless Some Distant Memory
Slightlynarrow Soundsystem Heart And Soul
C Bentley In A Lonely place
Dance Upon Nothing Bizarre Love Triangle
International The Perfect Kiss
Flight Dreams Never End
Spiral Of Silence Dead Souls
La Fin De Tout 586
The Minus One We All Stand
Almanso Angel Dust
ARTIST / TRACK LISTING Community EP
Visit www.neworderonline.com/CommunityEP.aspx for more information and samples.
Almanso Ceremony
The Minus One Dreams Never End
C Bentley Temptation
Manumatic Love Less
Almanso Angel Dust (Remix)
Known Pleasures Leave Me Alone
Nemesis Crystal
Some of the featured artists have been faithful to the original recordings and others have approached their favourite tracks in truly original and innovative ways.
Regardless of approach, the quality of each cover version on this CD truly speaks for itself and each one reflects the hours of hard work involved.
Any one of the featured tracks on the Community project would quite easily stand up as an excellent piece of work on its own of high enough quality both performance and production to be featured in the playlist of any forward-thinking radio station.To hear streaming audio of the submissions that didnt make the final release, for whatever reason, please log on to the internet and visit: www.neworderonline.com/Community/
"It is nice to see that the internet finally has a major purpose. Releasing a CD through the internet is something unique. People from all around the world working together for a common end. And seeing it becoming a reality is a great pride for all of us. We all think this is "our" tribute because everyone collaborated one way or another. This is our way to say "thank you" to New Order, those guys who put music to the soundtrack of our lives". -Almanso (Argentina)
"From a time in which the world seems more divisive than ever, I'm pleased to contribute to a global project featuring artists from Argentina, France, the US, Greece, Northern Ireland, Belgium, Canada, Australia, Brazil and the UK. You could be forgiven for thinking this was New Order meets the Eurovision song contest but you'd be wrong, this is a classy and diverse album of subtle misinterpretations."- kREMLIN (UK)
"This has been very exciting for me personally because, while I've been in a couple of bands, this is the first thing I've recorded by myself and the first time singing on a track. I learned a lot from doing this and from the people I've met and now I'm working on an album of original material."- Manumatic (USA)
We feel our version is quite laid-back, and that is the spirit we were pursuing. Yet, the arrangement is quite faithful to the original version, if you but pay attention to it. -INTERNATIONAL (BRAZIL)
CONTACTS:
For further information regarding this release, please contact:
Michael Nguyen
Retroforward
100 East 23rd Street, #3F
Baltimore, MD 21218
mike@retroforward.com
community@neworderonline.com
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AVALANCHE 3 / COMMUNITY RELEASE PARTY
NO COVER CHARGE!
THE BLUE ROOM
2321 18th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
Sunday 30 May 2004 @ 8 p.m. Memorial Day Weekend!
Special NewOrder party!
The music of New Order, Joy Division and all the side projects spun the entire evening! Plus, Celebrate the release of COMMUNITY: A NEWORDERONLINE TRIBUTE. Copies of COMMUNITY and COMMUNTYEP will be given away that night!
Go to neworderonline.com for more information and visit MEDUSA PROMOTIONS.
