New Order to Re-Issue ‘The Best & The Rest Of New Order’

New Order have announced plans to release ‘The Best & The Rest Of’ remastered collection, featuring previously unreleased remixes.

Bringing together, for the first time ever, the band’s acclaimed compilations ‘The Best Of New Order’ and ‘The Rest Of New Order’, the new collection features fully remastered audio alongside an expansive selection of remixes, including many previously unreleased, by SubSub, Richie Hawtin and Joe T. Vannelli.

The album will be released via Warner Music on July 17.

Originally released in 1994, ‘The Best Of New Order’ brought together a definitive selection of the band’s singles from 1985, featuring 7-inch mixes alongside four newly created ‘94 mixes. The compilation featured many of their most iconic tracks, including ‘True Faith’, ‘Bizarre Love Triangle’, ‘Blue Monday 88’, ‘Regret’ and ‘World In Motion’. The companion remix album, ‘The Rest Of New Order’, followed in 1995, re-imagining the band’s catalogue, most notably featuring ‘Blue Monday-95’, remixed by German electronic duo Hardfloor.

The 4CD deluxe limited edition version will contain ‘The Best Of and The Rest Of’ (both remastered), plus two additional CDs of rare and unreleased remixes. It will be available on striped back 2CD, and also 2LP and 3LP editions, both cut at Abbey Road.

Joy Division and New Order are set to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame later this year. Peter Hook, the band's former bass player, has said there were talks for a Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame performance and says Oasis “could be the intermediaries” for a New Order reunion.

Hook played bass with Joy Division until they became New Order when Ian Curtis took his own life in 1980, before parting ways with the band in 2007.

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