If your knowledge of early 80’s Britpop begins and ends with 24 Hour Party People, you may need to expand your horizons a bit, and there’s probably no better way to geek out with this stuff than the January release of A Factory Box Set. From Pitchfork: “Spreading some 63 Factory favorites across four discs in rough chronological order, A Factory Box Set indeed includes a healthy sampling of Joy Division and New Order, as well as representative offerings from New Order offshoots Electronic, Revenge, and the Other Two. But the set also finds room for other post-punk heavyweights and lesser-knowns (Cabaret Voltaire, A Certain Ratio, Section 25, the Wake, Quando Quango), Madchester staples (Happy Mondays, Northside), and even a few folks who would go on to bigger things (OMD, James). There through it all is perhaps the imprint’s one true constant, the Durutti Column, who gets a track on each of the four discs.”

On a related note, come on down to Local 121 tonight for our weekly party, LOADED! where we play all this stuff and more…

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