Bernard Sumner of Electronic
90′s supergroup Electronic featuring Bernard Sumner of New Order/Joy Division, Johnny Marr of The Smiths and Neil Tennant of Pet Shop Boys is re-releasing their debut self titled album on March 11, 2013 in an expanded and remastered edition, featuring some previously unreleased tracks.

The tracklist is:

Tracklisting

CD 1
1. Idiot Country (2012 – Remaster)
2. Reality (2012 – Remaster)
3. Tighten Up (2012 – Remaster)
4. The Patience Of A Saint (2012 – Remaster)
5. Getting Away With It (2012 – Remaster)
6. Gangster (2012 – Remaster)
7. Soviet (2012 – Remaster)
8. Get The Message (2012 – Remaster)
9. Try All You Want (2012 – Remaster)
10. Some Distant Memory (2012 – Remaster)
11. Feel Every Beat (2012 – Remaster)

CD 2
1. Disappointed (Stephen Hague 7” Inch Version) (2012 remaster)
2. Second To None (Edit) Previously unreleased
3. Lean To The Inside (Edit) Previously unreleased
4. Twisted Tenderness (Guitar / Vocal Mix) Previously unreleased
5. Idiot Country Two (12” Version)
6. Free Will (Edit) Previously unreleased
7. Until The End Of Time (Edit) Previously unreleased
8. Feel Every Beat (Edit) Previously unreleased
9. Getting Away With It (Instrumental) (2012 remaster)
10. Turning Point (Edit) (2012 remaster)
11. Visit Me (Edit) Previously unreleased
12. Twisted Tenderness (Instrumental) Previously unreleased

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Edited by user 11 January 2013 10:09:53(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

There are some posts on this in the solo projects forums. Quite honestly I can't find much to get excited about here.

Great to see some electronic activity, but a bit random...

Disc 2 covers all electronic periods and really this is the disc 2 we should have had for the best of; a comprehensive collection of all bsides

And wasn't this remastered already in the late 90s?

Odd.

ALLY, Q for you, (just watched my electronic tv appearances compilation-after hearing this splendid news)...anyway...still dont know who the bassist was when they did that Jo Whilley show late on Ch4 99'. Obviously Jimi G is was not & Ged was still sat on the stool.
Was it who played on the T.T album or just a bloke for the tv ???

The one that looks like Craig Cash (Hooky's nemesis - how fitting)?

TT bass was Marr, Sumner, Goodwin and Phil Spalding (and it's not him in the TV performances)

Yeah by Owen Morris November 93 for the Parlaphone 94 rerelease, 'a warm-up for Autumn 94's follow-up (SIC!)'. Couldn't hear the difference myself.

This is cos it was originally posted in the Digital Republic forums then moved here.

A Shorter version of Visit Me and Twisted Tenderness without any singing? Yeah, cant wait

Agree, no need for a remaster.

I'd like to get my hands on the alternative versions of TT though, they suggest that there was a TT single planned once.

Neither could I... Maybe a slightly crisper sound was all, not worth shelling out for twice... and a couple of years later the bargain bins in Woolworths (RIP) were packed with the remastered release.

Releasing each album seperately with each albums associated BSides and demos and remixes and live / TV performance versions would have been the way to go IMO, although this is New Order related stuff, which never goes about things the easy or logical way - All part of the allure in a way I s'pose.

Well, not long after the "Get The Message Best Of" came out (2006/7) they did pretty much do what you suggest:

Electronic (Special Edition)
Raise The Pressure (Special Edition)
Twisted Tenderness (Special Edition)

These weren't physical releases nor remastered but were good representations of each album's "era" and widely available on digital outlets.

The key difference between the 1994 "grey" reissue of the debut and the original Factory "red" release was the later inclusion of "Getting Away With It" which was not in the original running order. Personally, I thought Owen Morris did a great job with the sound and turned a rather flat sounding early-90s CD into something a bit crisper with better bass. You do notice it more through headphones but each to their own...

I'm looking forward to this new one, I agree the second disc is a bit of a random bunch but literally anything unreleased from Electronic is welcome. I'm hoping the Raise The Pressure "edits" are earlier, less polished mixes so we can hear more of the song-writing and less of the production bells and whistles which ruled that album from start to finish (Sumner/Marr later admitted as much).

Edited by user 14 January 2013 15:47:59(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

I'm probably too much of a technophobe or, technically speaking, a twot to pick up any remastering differences, not like a radical remix reworking to my ears. My guess for this 'unreleased' batch of edits is that they're simply that, edited versions of the originals like what they did on One True Passion V 2.0. I can edit myself by switching off the CD and shooting my wad all over Melanie C's pretty, doe-like eyes instead. Still, always nice to have news from the Lec. I'm STILL missing the Until The End Of Time reworkings!

Will it be available from hmv?