Section 25 - Always Now (Remastered) (1981/2024)

Limited five CD set. Factory Benelux is proud to present a deluxe edition of Always Now, the debut album by Section 25, originally issued on Factory Records in 1981 and produced by Martin Hannett. Recorded as a trio at Pink Floyd's Britannia Row studio in London, Always Now combined austere post-punk rhythms with elements of Can, Krautrock and modern psychedelia. Also includes non-album singles, a live show, their 2nd album, The Key of Dreams, and rare experimental recordings.

Tracklist
Always Now + Singles
1-1 Friendly Fires
1-2 Dirty Disco
1-3 C.P.
1-4 Loose Talk (Costs Lives)
1-5 Inside Out
1-6 Melt Close
1-7 Hit
1-8 Babies In The Bardo
1-9 Be Brave
1-10 New Horizon
1-11 Haunted
Engineer – Chris Nagle, John Brierley
1-12 Charnel Ground
Engineer – Chris Nagle, John Brierley
1-13 Human Puppets
1-14 Knew Noise
Producer – Ian Curtis, Rob Gretton
1-15 Up To You
Producer – Ian Curtis, Rob Gretton
1-16 Girls Don't Count
Producer – Ian Curtis, Rob Gretton
1-17 Oyo Achel Ada
1-18 After Image
1-19 Red Voice
Recorded By – Section 25

Peel Session + Live 1980/81
2-1 One True Path (Peel Session)
Engineer – Harry Parker
Producer – Bob Sergeant*
2-2 Babies In The Bardo (Peel Session)
Engineer – Harry Parker
Producer – Bob Sergeant*
2-3 Hit (Peel Session)
Engineer – Harry Parker
Producer – Bob Sergeant*
2-4 Je Veux Ton Amour (7")
Engineer – John Caffery*
Producer – Martin Hannett
2-5 Friendly Fires (Outtake)
2-6 One True Path (Outtake)
2-7 Loose Talk (Live)
2-8 Human Puppets (Live)
2-9 Knew Noise (Live)
2-10 Friendly Fires (Live)
2-11 Girls Don't Count (Live)
2-12 New Horizon (Live)
2-13 Haunted (Live)
2-14 You're On Your Own (Live)
2-15 One Step (Live)

The Key Of Dreams + Singles
3-1 Always Now
3-2 Visitation
3-3 Regions
3-4 The Wheel
3-5 No Abiding Place
3-6 Once Before
3-7 There Was A Time
3-8 Wretch
3-9 Sutra
3-10 The Beast
3-11 Sakura
Programmed By[Synth] – Bernard Sumner
3-12 Hold Me
3-13 Sakura (Matrixmix)
3-14 You Leave Me No Choice
Bass, Vocals – Simon Topping
Performer – Bethany Cassidy, Stephen Stringer, Vin Cassidy

Illuminus Illuminae
4-1 Fallen Monument
4-2 Are You There?
4-3 Virtually Everything
4-4 Tape Loop
4-5 Subferior
4-6 Cry
4-7 In The Garden Of Eden
4-8 Rigi Rigi
4-9 Floating
4-10 Opening
4-11 Alone Pt 1
4-12 Untitled
4-13 Rose Apple Island
4-14 Open Those Eyes
4-15 Reading University Jam
Accompanied By[With] – New Order
Recorded By[Audience Recording] – Duncan Haysom
Written-By – Bernard Sumner, Gillian Gilbert, Laurence Cassidy*, Paul Wiggin, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris, Vincent Cassidy*
4-16 Mirror

Live In America And Europe 1982
5-1 God's Playground (Pt. 1)
5-2 Babies In The Bardo
5-3 Trident
5-4 Dirty Disco
5-5 Sakura
5-6 Inside Out
5-7 One True Path
5-8 Floating
5-9 The Beast
5-10 You Leave Me No Choice
5-11 God's Playground (Pt. 2)
5-12 Warhead
5-13 Haunted
Performer[SXXV Joined By Members Of] – Crispy Ambulance