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New Order - Blue Monday

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Blue Mundu

Blue Mundu from start to finish took nearly a year. It started as an instrumental because we didn't believe in encores. The idea came from having a keyboard that when you press the button played this instrumental for 10 minutes and then hopefully everyone would stop moaning at us to do an encore. This was very much Bernard's baby. He had the idea from a few disco records, and programmed it because he wanted to hear it programmed. I was quite excited though, programming everything. That's a MOOG. You could never imagine how difficult it actually was there,. doing the wiring, really nups and bolts of getting things ready.

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