New Order
British rock group
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- In Joy Division/New Order
/New Order, British rock group who, as Joy Division, refined the external chaos of 1970s punk into a disquieting inner turmoil, ushering in the postpunk era, and later, as New Order, pioneered the successful fusion of rock and 1980s African American dance music styles. The…
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Factory Records
- In Factory Records: Manchester’s 24-Hour Party People
The survivors reemerged as New Order, who provided the soundtrack to Factory’s other great project of the 1980s, the Hacienda, the club where dance music was coupled with postpunk. From that arty mélange came Simply Red, the Happy Mondays, the Stone Roses, and the manic-depressive rants of the Smiths,…
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