Factory Benelux

1 July 2025

Factory Benelux presents an expanded and remastered 4xCD box set edition of this pioneering elecro classic from Section 25, with the original 1984 album now augmented with singles, remixes and session and live tracks. Album produced by Bernard Sumner or New Order, with artwork by Peter Saville and Trevor Key.

Album remastered in 2025 by Peter Beckmann at Technology Works. Release date is 12 September 2025. Initial copies of the box set ordered direct from FBN include free 'So Far' DVD. For further details including tracklists click here

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12 March 2025

DURUTTI COLUMN / A Life of Reilly / book

In 1978 Tony Wilson founded Factory Records to release music by The Durutti Column, the unique music ensemble built around the singular talents of virtuoso guitarist Vini Reilly.

Written - and meticulously researched - by Shadowplayers author James Nice, this authorised biography offers a fascinating insight into the extraordinary triangular relationship between Vini Reilly, Bruce Mitchell and band manager Tony Wilson, as well as the enduring cultural influence of The Durutti Column’s peerless Factory label catalogue.

A Life of Reilly includes candid input from Vini himself, as well as band and family members, and details Vini’s troubled Manchester upbringing, cult stardom in Japan, punk rock glory at the Roxy, radical auto-destructive sandpaper sleeves, diversions into neoclassical orchestration and glossy electronica, dazzling collaborations with Martin Hannett, Morrissey and Stephen Street, and hellacious Hacienda happenings.

The third publishing venture for Burning Shed, the book is presented as a deluxe limited hardback edition with quarter bound cloth spine.

272 pages. 218mm wide x 216mm deep.

'I never imagined a book of my life. It’s amazingly detailed and factually correct. Good sense holds sway and the hard-won research gives real clarity. It’s quite wonderful for me and my family, and it means a great deal to end on positivity.' (Vini Reilly)

'The Return of the Durutti Column is still to me one of the most beautiful and magical records ever made.' (Steven Wilson)

'Vini's guitar sound paintings create colours and textures only visible in the mind. A true psychedelicist.' (Bobby Gillespie)

'An extremely gifted and unique guitarist, with a wonderful way of fusing almost classical guitar technique with something more ambient and spacious.' (Bill Nelson)

A Life of Reilly is available exclusively from Burning Shed (click here to order)

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21 August 2023

CRISPY AMBULANCE / Fin + Frozen Blood / FBN 18 CD

Factory Benelux presents a double disc anthology of singles, radio sessions and live tracks by cult Manchester group Crispy Ambulance, all recorded between 1980 and 1982.

Disc 1 is forceful live album Fin, comprising live performances mix-desk recorded around Europe and the UK during the winter of 1981-1982. Most of this material was never recorded in the studio and captures the band at their most powerful and hypnotic. The album closes with three bonus studio tracks, including both sides of the rare debut single on Aural Assault from 1980 (AAR 01), as well as Black Death, the b-side of 1982 single Sexus on Factory Benelux (FBN 18). 70 minutes of music.

Disc 2 is archive collection Frozen Blood, which includes both sides of the 10" single released on Factory Records (Fac 32) in 1980, all eight tracks from radio sessions for Piccadilly Radio (July 1980) and John Peel (January 1981), plus seven late-period live songs taped in 1982 but never studio recorded. 72 minutes of music, all transferred from the original master tapes.

FBN 18 CD features new artwork and an updated band biography. 32 tracks, 142 minutes of music in total.

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Tunnelvision Watching the Hydroplanes FBN 38		The Durutti Column Obey the Time FBN 274 / CD
Nine track anthology on clear vinyl by Tunnelvision, including their 1981 Factory single Watching the Hydroplanes (produced by Martin Hannett) and demo tracks produced by Peter Hook. Outer sleeve printed in PMS silver and green. Limited edition of 500 copies, includes digital copy (MP3).		Remastered 2xLP and boxed 3xCD editions of the classic 1990 album by Vini Reilly, with bonus tracks including singles, remixes, outtakes and a previously unreleased live performance from Manchester recorded in 1990.

Section 25 Always Now FBN 3-045		Various Artists New Order Presents Be Music FBN 60 / CD
Remastered 5xLP boxed edition of the classic 1981 album produced by Martin Hannett. Bonus disc includes singles, outtakes, complete live concert, improvised albums The Key of Dreams and Illuminus Illumina, as well as an unreleased live jam with New Order.		3xCD and double vinyl collection of mixes and productions by members of New Order, including tracks by Section 25, Factory Floor, ACR, Marnie, The Other Two, Quando Quango, Marcel King, Beat Club and New Order themselves.