SECTION 25 - From The Hip (Deluxe Expanded Edition) - 4CD Box Set [SEP 12]

Limited Deluxe Expanded Edition 4CD Box Set: Box and inner wallets reproduce the original iconic cover art by Peter Saville and Trevor Key, which features the cryptic colour-coding favoured by Saville at that time. Includes 16 page booklet. 

Factory Benelux presents an expanded 4xCD box set remastered edition of From The Hip, the pioneering 1984 electro album by cult Factory Records group Section 25, produced by Bernard Sumner.

Recorded in 1983, From The Hip was the band’s third album for Factory and the first to pursue a more accessible musical direction, thanks largely to the influence of new members Jenny Cassidy and Angela Flowers. Embracing state of the art Roland electronics, Section 25 graduated from barbed post-punk to smooth electronic pop, much of which prefigured techno and house styles, and spawned an enduring club/dance hit in Looking From A Hilltop (Megamix).

The original 1984 album appears on Disc 1, newly remastered by Peter Beckmann,
along with the Megamix and Restructure versions of Hilltop, along with non-album
singles Beating Heart and Dirty Disco II.

Disc 2 features newer Hilltop remixes by Stephen Morris, Wrangler and Outernationale, as well as a BBC radio Kid Jensen session and the original 1983 album demos for From the Hip.

Disc 3 collects together various electronic sketches and demo tracks from 1983 and 1984, plus several more remixes, while Disc 4 captures desk-recorded highlights from shows in Baton Rouge and Los Angeles during their North American tour in 1985, showcasing the hard sequencer patterns and TB-303 ‘bass squiggle’ later adopted as a signature sound of acid house. The box and inner wallets reproduce the original iconic cover art by Peter Saville and Trevor Key, which features the cryptic colour-coding favoured by Saville at that time.

The 16 page booklet contains liner notes by Jon Savage, Bernard Sumner, Vin Cassidy and Angela Cassidy.

Tracklisting:

Disc 1
1. The Process
2. Looking From a Hilltop
3. Reflection
4. Prepare to Live
5. Program For Light
6. Desert
7. Beneath the Blade
8. Inspiration
9. Looking From a Hilltop (Restructure)
10. Looking From a Hilltop (Megamix)
11. Dirty Disco II
12. Dirty Disco II (Pre-Mix)
13. Beating Heart (12” Remix)
14. Back to Wonder (12” Version)
15. Beating Heart (12” Version)

Disc 2
1. Looking From a Hilltop (BBC session)
2. Reflection (BBC session)
3. Warhead (BBC Session)
4. Another Hilltop (Stephen Morris Remix)
5. Program for Light (Outernationale Remix)
6. Looking From a Hilltop (Outernationale Remix)
7. Reflection (Young Image)
8. The Process (1983 demo)
9. Looking From a Hilltop (1983 demo)
10. Prepare to Live (1983 demo)
11. Reflection (1983 demo)
12. Desert (1983 demo)
13. Program for Light (1984 vocal mix)

Disc 3
1. Tchaiko
2. Loving No-One
3. Days Pass By
4. Firefly
5. Beating Heart (early mix)
6. Back to Wonder (early mix)
7. 4TMI
8. Deus Ex Machina
9. Slinky
10. Sweet Forgiveness
11. Desert (Shane Fahey Remix)
12. Looking From a Hilltop (Wrangler Remix)
13. Dirty Disco II (Portion Control Remix)
14. Beating Heart (Absolute Body Control Remix)

Disc 4
1. The Process (live 1985)
2. Looking From a Hilltop (live 1985)
3. Prepare to Live (live 1985)
4. Beneath the Blade (live 1985)
5. Inspiration (live 1985)
6. Reflection (live 1985)
7. Program for Light (live 1985)
8. Dirty Disco II (live 1985)
9. Crazy Wisdom (live 1985)
10. Desert (live 1985)
11. Boogie Beat (live 1985)