A tribute album dedicated to producer Martin Hannett who died in
April 1991. As well as OMD, this album featured contributions from Joy Division,
A Certain Ratio, New Order, U2 and Happy Mondays.
OMD's debut single Electricity (backed with Almost) was released on Factory.
At Tony Wilson's (Factory supremo) suggestion, Andy and Paul went to Cargo Studios
in Rochdale with Factory producer Martin Hannett to record better quality versions
of the songs.
There was some debate between the band and Tony Wilson (Factory supremo) over
which versions of the songs to include. Wilson favoured Hannet's polished versions
while Andy and Paul, not convinced by Hannet's over-lush production, wanted
the original versions. A compromise was struck so that OMD's version of Electricity
was included with Hannet's take on Almost on the flipside.
Ironically, London didn't have access to the original master tapes and so
couldn't include the version of Almost that originally appeared on the single.
The version that appears here is actually the one recorded at Cargo and remixed
by Chester Valentino (aka Paul Collister) and OMD and originally appeared on the
debut album Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark and also the third single release
of Electricity. |
