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Jun 15, 2023 · The album's producer was Martin Hannett, a man who already had production credits for John Cooper Clarke and Buzzcocks as well as the two Joy Division tracks on A Factory Sample. This was to prove a crucial decision; Hannett was a difficult man, but a visionary producer, and with Joy Division’s lack of studio experience Hannett had free reign ...
Jun 14, 2019 · In many ways, Hannett needed Joy Division as much as they needed him. Born in 1948, he went to Manchester Polytechnic to study chemistry but sound and technology was always his main...
Soon after, Hannett became closely associated with Joy Division. His production of their albums and singles incorporated looping technology to treat musical notes with an array of filters, echoes and delays. Hannett had a collection of BBD echo devices which he called his "bluetop echo and delay boxes".
Producer Martin Hannett "dedicated himself to capturing and intensifying Joy Division's eerie spatiality". Hannett believed punk rock was sonically conservative because of its refusal to use studio technology to create sonic space. The producer instead aimed to create a more expansive sound on the group's records.
- 1976–1980
- Salford, England
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Apr 22, 2021 · Hannett’s greatest achievement with Joy Division was, arguably, taking the aggressive songs they had been toiling away at and realising that they were so much more than a bunch of short, fast punk tracks.
Jan 25, 2024 · The story of Joy Division. Frost covers the council streets of Macclesfield pinning Ian Curtis ’ young eyes to the ground as he admires the crystallising dust of the cold over cracked paving slabs. But as he strolls along, his gaze is soon broken by a commotion in the driveway at the bottom of his street. A young lad with learning ...
Jul 7, 2022 · That was one of the wonderful things about Joy Division: we didn’t have tapes of us rehearsing the songs, they only existed when you put the four people together.” The decisive factor in shaping Love Will Tear Us Apart came from Hannett, who arranged the elements to highlight Curtis’s exacting but resigned baritone.
