"One, two, three, four - kick them right out the door!" (2021 upgrade)

Joy Division live @ Effenaar, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

18th January 1980

Photo by Peter Cox

In memory of Ian K. Curtis (15-jul-1956 - 18-may-1980)

Summer 2021 remastered

Track list:

01. Love Will Tear Us Apart
02. Digital
03. New Dawn Fades
04. Colony
05. These Days
06. Ice Age
07. Dead Souls
08. Disorder
09. Day of the Lords
10. Autosuggestion
11. Shadowplay
12. She's Lost Control
13. Transmission
14. Interzone
15. Atmosphere
16. Warsaw

Duration: 01:02:08
Quality: 8+/10

More info about concert: Joy Division Central

Download:

Mega (~400 Mb)

Do not redistribute in MP3 or any other lossy format

Never sell for monetary gain (and do not redistribute to people who might!)

PS
Dear guest, if you have any of JD's master-tapes or rare bootlegs - please(!) write a comment.

Cheers

New Order at Rochdale. Master.

New Order live @ College Of Arts, Rochdale, UK

19th December 1980

Spring 2020 remastered

Track list:

01. In A Lonely Place
02. The Him
03. Mesh
04. Procession
05. Truth
06. Cries & Whispers
07. Dreams Never End
08. Ceremony
09. Senses

Duration: 00:40:33
Quality: 8-/10
Source: master tape

Download:

Mega (~200 Mb)

Do not redistribute in MP3 or any other lossy format

Never sell for monetary gain (and do not redistribute to people who might!)

PS
Dear guest, if you have any of JD's master-tapes or rare bootlegs - please(!) write a comment.

Cheers

Shadowplay - 40th Anniversary Remaster

Hi there! 

In connection with the anniversary of the first performance of Joy Division on TV we want to please you our rework of famous recording.

We planned to post it on the 20th of September but didn't have time due to the complexity of some works.

Let me introduce ... 
Color-corrected, upscaled to Full HD, coming from the best possible sources, and... for the first time with full intro and outro!

We hope you'll enjoy unseen previously videos and the best possible quality.

Credits:
Reamstering of video & audio, mixing & synced by Fage
Colour-correction, opening & titles by Fadedge (aka Sin Nerv)

Enjoy!

Then Love... Love Will Tear Us Apart... Again...

Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

18th or 28th of April 1980 / Promo Video

Hi there! 

How we know... all JD collectors have problems with sources, I think. Some of the better versions of recordings are guarded as if they were not concert tapes or just videos but state secrets! 
That's why I did this post..........

Photo by Anton Corbijn @ LWTUA Video Session

The idea to rework the "Love Will Tear Us Apart" video came to me in August 2013, when the channel "Joy Division" first came onto YouTube. Initially, I was shocked by how badly Rhino hadhandled the video. Seriously, it looks like they only had a VHS of HATYM just uploaded it onto YouTube without any reworking, you know. Just look at this:

What could they do? 
As we know (correct me if I'm wrong), the clip was shot on 16mm film. In today's "digital" format, it's resolution exceeds the 2K video format (yep, it's actually slightly better than Full HD). For comparison: VHS is equivalent to about half of a DVD (360i instead of 576i). So, if they could scan it frame-by-frame in the 'restoring' liquid, they could have achieved incredible results! Take a look at this restored film:

And that's only 8mm! Just imagine what the 16mm would look like. 

What did I do? 
Not so much, to be honest. If in 2013 I thought that the problem was an imperfect software, I now realize that the problem is in the source. All official releases are poor. When I got, in my opinion, the best DVD source (2009, "Rage: In Love"), I realized that I couldn't improve the quality too much, but I could try to fix the colors. So I focused on this; I tried to add more details to it. I worked on audio too, of course, trying to synchronize audio with video. 

I planned to post it on the 28th of April or, maybe, on the 18th of May, but couldn't wait that long. 

Let me introduce ... 
Color-corrected, upscaled to Full HD, coming from the best possible DVD source, the most famous song of Joy Division - "Love Will Tear Us Apart." 
Enjoy! 

Note: I could not upload the video onto YouTube, because it violates their copyright rules, so I used another video hosting site. I hope that you will not have any problems with this. 

Live. Best! Part 2.

The best versions of Joy Division live performance! Part 2. [FLAC]
Remastered.

Photo from 08/02/1979 YMCA, Prince Of Wales Conference Centre, London

Track list:
01. I Remember Nothing (1979.10.26 Electric Ballroom, London)
02. Interzone (1979.07.13 The Factory, Manchester)
03. Glass (1979.07.27 Imperial Hotel, Blackpool)
04. Leaders of Men (1979.08.27 Open Air Festival, Leigh)
05. Love Will Tear Us Apart (1980.02.29 The Lyceum, London)
06. She's Lost Control (1979.12.18 Les Bains Douches, Paris)
07. Isolation (1980.05.02 High Hall, Birmingham)
08. Warsaw (1980.01.18 Effenaar, Eindhoven)
09. Disorder (1980.04.03 The Moonlight Club, London)
10. Atrocity Exhibition (1979.11.02 Winter Gardens, Bournemouth)
11. Dead Souls (1979.09.08 Futurama One Festival, Leeds)

Download: [MediaFire]

Your hopes, your dreams, your paradise... [Upgrade]

11th January 1980 Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

In Memory of Ian Curtis. R.I.P.

Photo from Paradiso. By vinz.

Post by Darkman:

When May 18th rolls around every year, it’s impossible not to think about how tragic this day is in Joy Division’s short but brilliant history. Few others have achieved as much in such a short amount of time.


Today thousands of Joy Division fans will take to their blogs, Twitter, and Facebook accounts, and post personalized massages honoring Ian. With that said, Fage wanted to do something special today for all the fans who follow his blog, to make sure he did his part in celebrating Ian’s memory. A few years ago, some fans were able to get copies of Joy Division’s performance at the Paradiso directly from the Dutch Radio. I was able to get a copy (all those years ago), and provided it for this post. As the Analog Loyalist pointed out in the Joy Division Recycle, this is the finest live JD recording when it comes to sonics. Fage has put a lot of hard work in mastering the raw radio station recording, and the result is staggering.


Interestingly, there was about 35 people at the gig. The performance was also broken up into 2 sets. As Joy Division unleashed their fury on the Dutch fans, the concert was recorded by Omroepvereniging VARA for broadcast on Dutch public radio.


R.I.P Ian Curtis……don’t walk away, in silence…..


The Paradiso, Amsterdam, Jan 11, 1980. VARA Radio Station Master (Remastered by Fage).


1st set:
01. Passover
02. Wilderness
03. Digital
04. Day Of The Lords
05. Insight
06. New Dawn Fades
07. Disorder
08. Transmission


2nd set:
09. Love Will Tear Us Apart
10. These Days
11. A Means To An End
12. Twenty-Four Hours
13. Shadowplay
14. She's Lost Control
15. Atrocity Exhibition
16. Atmosphere
17. Interzone

Duration: 70 mins. Sound quality: 10/10
Info about concert: [Joy Division Central]
Download: [MediaFire]