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5LP : The first 1000 copies of the box set are pressed on coloured vinyl: disc 1 (black); disc 2 (clear); disc 3 (yellow); disc 4 (red); disc 5 (silver).
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5 LP expanded deluxe box set version of the debut album from Manchester's Section 25, originally released in 1981.
Produced by Martin Hannett, apparently with some assistance from Ian Curtis of Joy Division before his untimely demise.
The 16 page booklet features unseen images by noted photographer Philippe Carly and texts by founder members Larry and Vin Cassidy. Also included is the first ever interview with guitarist Paul Wiggin, whose sudden departure in late 1981 saw Tony Wilson try (and fail) to recruit pre-Smiths teenager Johnny Marr as replacement. Recorded as a trio at Pink Floyd’s Britannia Row studio in London in January 1981, Always Now combined austere post-punk rhythm and noise with elements of Can, Krautrock and modern psychedelia. Disc 2 gathers together several non-album singles from 1980 and 1981, including "Charnel Ground", "Je Veux Ton Amour" and debut EP "Girls Don’t Count" – the latter produced by mentors Rob Gretton and Ian Curtis. Disc 3 offers a complete live show professionally recorded at Groningen (Netherlands) on 26 October 1980, as part of a Factory package tour. Disc 4 is part-improvised second studio album "The Key of Dreams", recorded and produced by the band themselves a few months after "Always Now", and released by Factory Benelux in June 1982. Disc 5 consists of further experimental material recorded in 1981 and self-released on a cassette called "Illuminus Illumina". This final disc closes with an extended (and previously unreleased) live encore jam recorded with all four members of New Order at Reading University on 8 May 1981.
