Caught it today on the replay.Rarely play the album now but i enjoyed particularly hearing again Way Of Life, All Day Long and Every Little Counts.Brought back to mind that 1986-87 era.Thing with Brotherhood for me was i didn't take to it in a massive immediate way like i had with Low Life the year before.Obviously BLT stood out from the start as a stone cold classic but the rest took me a while back then.

Excuse my ignorance, and inherent laziness, but where does one find this?

Paradise, weirdo, as it is when it was, broken promise what a run of tunes they are, some of new orders finest more guitary moments. Never get bored. I still like way of life which round off the A side just not quite up there the the 4 proceeding ones.

I may be about to expose a gap in my own NO knowledge (until now) and perhaps fill in a gap for some other people at the same time (?).
I gave the above a listen today, and then decided I wanted to give Angel Dust a full play.
So I found this, a 12" version of Angel Dust. It's been sitting on YouTube since 2016 (YT channel called "Unreleased Versions"). I don't think I've ever heard this before. It didn't come out with the '09 Brotherhood reissue AFAIK, so where did it leak from?

New Order - Angel Dust (12 Inch Version)


Listening with fresh ears, the guitar is very "State Of The Nation" isn't it? Bernard doesn't speak too highly of the track in the above program, but I'm enjoying this extended version.

It features some middle eastern vocals in there, of course. This version more so than the album version. "Where are they from?", I used to wonder. I believe they're from this Lebanese singer. From around 0:44 to 1:06 below (for the bit around 0.10 to 0:31 in Angel Dust above). Also the bit from around 0:47 above is I think at about 2:05 onwards in the video below. Also the bit at the very end of Angel Dust is at 2:56 below.

Dunya Yunis - Abu Zeluf


This sample was also used by David Byrne & Brian Eno on a track called Regiment, the B-side to their 1981 single The Jezebel Spirit. Sleeve design by Eno and some bloke called Peter Saville(!).

The A & B-side of that single appeared on their album My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts. On the same album another track, The Carrrier samples a dfferent part of this Dunya Yunis piece. The album credits sleeve typography to... that Peter Saville bloke.

Brian Eno & David Byrne - Regiment


You may have also heard a sample of the track in Santiago by Yellow, and (massively pitched up) in MARRS' Pump Up The Volume (UK 12") at around 3:46.

Edited by user 18 April 2022 12:53:20(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Possibly fan made. I can't hear any completely exclusive bits on this "twelve inch version".
I had a go at listing the structure of each version of the track. If it is a fan edit, they put quite a lot of work into it IMHO.
I've put some little "structure" lists (with times being very approximate) under spoiler tabs, so as not to bore anyone.

I actually thought people might be more excited about the sample source of the Arabian vocals. The WhoSampled website does list the
Dunya Yunis track for MARRS & Eno but as I type this, it doesn't currently list Angel Dust as a track that samples it.

I also wonder if the Peter Saville connection may have prompted NO to listen to the Eno/Byrne album and subsequently remember the vocal sample.




EDIT: wait, there's a "Seven Inch Version" too.
It follows the album version exactly until 2:35 at which point we get the "who told you that I would be back" bit from earlier in the song repeating here (similar to the "12 inch version"), and then we get a shorter guitar ending than the album version (not faded out though). If this has been fan-edited, it is reeeeeally well done.

Edited by user 19 April 2022 05:16:45(UTC)  | Reason: 7 inch version

Great find, D.I really like the long 2 minute+ intro on the long version.Very reminiscent of 80s New Order 12" releases. I felt the last couple of minutes though was just repeating earlier sections.

That jump at 2.35 on the short version jars a bit!

My gut feeling however is it's fan made. The long version is done well though, maybe the fan has the multi tracks? There's ones for BM and BLT out there ( and even the LWTUA multis)so quite possible there's multi tracks for Angel Dust too.

I'm not sure I heard anything that's not on Angel Dust or Evil Dust but will give them another listen when get more time.