Complete Music Explained

Complete Music
Type:remix
Artist:New Order
Cover:New Order - Complete Music.svg
Alt:Same artwork as the original album, but with colour schemes of purple, orange, pink, yellow, light blue, and light green covering every space in between lines.
Label:Mute
Prev Title:Music Complete
Prev Year:2015

Complete Music is a remix album by English band New Order, released on 13 May 2016[1] [2] by Mute Records. It is an alternative version of the band's tenth studio album, Music Complete (2015), featuring extended versions of all 11 tracks from the original album.

Background

The cover features the same geometric design as Music Complete, with a modified colour palette. Two new exclusive mixes of "Nothing but a Fool" and "Superheated" are included, which are different from those on the eight-LP vinyl box set of Music Complete.

Of the release, Bernard Sumner explained:

"We've given [the music] to different mixers, and they've chopped it up and rearranged it and stripped it back, so it's like another take on the original album [...] Some of [the songs] are radically different, but rather than like a remixer who would write a new set of music, they used the music that we'd already incorporated in the songs, but warped it in a way that was very interesting."[3]

Notes and References

  1. New Order Unveil 'Complete Music' Extended Album. Legaspi. Althea. 30 March 2016. Rolling Stone. 16 August 2016.
  2. Web site: New Order – Complete Music: The new extended mix edition of Music Complete. neworder.com. 30 March 2016. 11 April 2016. 19 April 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160419162623/http://www.neworder.com/newordernow/2016/3/30/complete-music-the-new-extended-mix-edition-of-music-complet.html. dead.
  3. Web site: New Order's next album is coming: Bernard Sumner talks "Complete Music," Peter Hook and why it's important to "glow for a very long time". Doherty. Mike. Salon. 23 March 2016. 11 April 2016.