Always Now

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Album Info

Release Date: 2019-08-01

Label: Factory Benelux

Limited edition of 1000 copies. LPs housed in heavy outer case slipcase printed in PMS 123C with spot varnish. Includes near LP-sized 16-page booklet and MP3 copy. All tracks are newly re-mastered from the original quarter-inch tapes.

Disc 1 (Black Vinyl)
Always Now
Recorded at Britannia Row, London, February 1981. Originally released as Always Now on Factory Records (Fact 45) in August 1981.

Disc 2 (Clear Vinyl)
Forty Fives
C1 to C3 recorded at Cargo Studio, Rochdale, September 1979. Originally released as the 7" single Girls Don't Count on Factory Records (Fac 18) in July 1980.
C4 recorded at Cargo Studio, Rochdale. Originally released on the compilation album Hicks From The Sticks in April 1980.
C5 is an outtake from Always Now.
D1 and D2 recorded at Cargo Studio, Rochdale, July 1980. Originally released as the 7" single Charnel Ground / Haunted on Factory Benelux (FAC BN 3-006) in October 1980.

Disc 3 (Yellow Vinyl)
Live Master
E1 to E5 and F1 and F2 recorded live at the Vera Club, Groningen, Netherlands on 26 October 1980. Previously included with the 2015 Factory Benelux Always Now CD reissue.
F3 recorded live at the PaardVan Troje club, Den Haag, Netherlands on 1 November 1980.
F4 recorded live at Rock City, Nottingham on 18 April 1981.

Disk 4 (Red Vinyl)
The Key of Dreams
Recorded at SSRU during 1981. Originally released as the album The Key Of Dreams on Factory Benelux (FBN 14) in June 1982.

Disc 5 (Silver Vinyl)
Illuminus Illumina
I1 to I7 recorded at SSRU during 1981. Originally released as the cassette Illuminous Illuminae via Relevant Music in 1982.
J1 recorded at Singleton Street Rehearsal Unit (SSRU). Originally released on the compilation EP Blackpool Rox E.P. in August 1980.
J3 recorded live at Reading University on 8 May 1981 as an combined encore jam with New Order.

Durations approximate per physical recordings.