RECORD ON: NEW ORDER - POWER, CORRUPTION & LIES
1 X 70' hD/ 4k
DIRECTED BY DAVID BARNARD
A WHITE LIGHT FILM PRODUCTIOn
Record On is a major brand-new 3-part series exploring the context of the times around the making of a ground-breaking album by the world’s most prominent artists.
Each episode looks at the motivations of the artists to write and record the album they did at that particular moment in time and how that album came to reflect those times, becoming a cultural icon in itself.
The series takes its tone from the social, cultural and political focus of what was happening around the time each album was written and recorded and how this is reflected in the artists’ music and the performance.
This film unravels the creative process and recording of New Order’s 1983 album, Power, Corruption & Lies and explores the themes inside the album, particularly that of a band finding new directions and moving-on from its past.
With the band’s newly acquired sequencers and keyboards, ‘electronic instrumentation’ quickly became the key song-writing process and sound-points – out of which came the global smash-hit Blue Monday.
The film takes a look outside-of-the studio-window, as the digital-age began to percolate through all parts of society – commerce and financial trading, offices and home entertainment.
Power, Corruption & Lies (a title lifted from George Orwell’s novel, Animal Farm) gives its audience a sense of motion from an austere European futurism to modern-day invention. The band were always heavily influenced by German electronic pioneers Kraftwerk as Joy Division were also, to a reworked English neo-romanticism.