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New Order - Blue Monday

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The Importance of Harmony in Music

It was a totally mad idea because we started off with huge sections and then we didn't have the technology at the time to sequence them all together. Everything had to be programmed in one massive loop. I wanted this sharp clap sound that I did on disco records from the 70s. And then you've got the beat. Recording that as a backing track was very, very arduous. That's me, that's the bass. It's a six string bass guitar that I started using in Joy Division. It's actually tuned the same way as a guitar. An octave down from EADGB. A lot of early new order when we used to play, everybody used to think

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