{"id":6865,"date":"2025-11-21T13:05:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T13:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/introducing-the-ultimate-music-guide-joy-division-and-new-order-152256\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T13:05:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T13:05:04","slug":"introducing-the-ultimate-music-guide-joy-division-and-new-order-152256","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/introducing-the-ultimate-music-guide-joy-division-and-new-order-152256\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing\u2026The Ultimate Music Guide: Joy Division and New Order"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As we look forward into 2026 and find big anniversaries awaiting celebration \u2013 50 years since their formation, for example \u2013 with our latest Deluxe edition Ultimate Music Guide<\/a>, we\u2019ve taken the opportunity to reflect in depth on the genius of Joy Division.<\/p>\n

When we spoke to him to introduce the first edition of the mag in 2019, drummer Stephen Morris told us that although the group were formed during punk, Warsaw, (as they were then called), quickly moved beyond their heavy guitar riffing and boyish posturing \u2013 and all the \u201c1-2-3-4\u201d, as Stephen puts it \u2013 into something far more considered. With the explosion of the movement having laid waste to the ground, Joy Division were free to make something completely new in its place.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Warsaw it was all about the riff,\u201d he said, \u201cbut Joy Division was all about the space.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was a thrilling but exposed new terrain, in which an individual musician had no place to hide. The tragedy of Ian Curtis taking his own life is indivisible from the gravity of the band\u2019s work, but the solemnity of their visual language suggested that they imagined their music as being a monument to a brief existence even while it was ongoing.<\/p>\n

The passing of Ian Curtis, however, wasn\u2019t the end of the story for the remaining members of Joy Division. Having started to discover a music that was elegant and modern, the group were unwilling to give up their calling. \u201cNot to denigrate Ian in any way,\u201d says Stephen, \u201cbut we wanted to take it on somewhere. The question we were asking is, \u2018What are we doing?\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

The answer to that, it turned out, was investigating the possibilities of a hybrid electronic\/guitar music with New Order. The succeeding years have delivered exceptional albums (the darkly melodic Low-Life<\/strong>, celebrating its 40th<\/sup> anniversary, is a current favourite round here), a few of history\u2019s all-time greatest singles, and \u2013 more recently \u2013 some powerful new one-off collaborations.<\/p>\n

All round, it certainly doesn\u2019t feel as if this is the end of the story. \u201cYou always want to do something better than last time,\u201d Stephen Morris told me in 2019. \u201cI think we all find it daunting starting with nothing. It\u2019s like you\u2019ve got a mountain to climb and no-one can remember where they\u2019ve put the ropes. But when New Order\u2019s good, it\u2019s fantastic.\u201d<\/p>\n

The issue is in shops today. But you can get your copy here<\/a> now. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The post Introducing\u2026The Ultimate Music Guide: Joy Division and New Order<\/a> appeared first on UNCUT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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