Julio Gutiérrez ● (𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚜): October 2024


Official Videos · Blog Section




Post · Blog Section


Thursday 3 October 2024

Vinyl records is not a best format

"Vinyl records is not a best format than all digitalism material we are having these days. Today the digital format has a volume and body never achieved before, in the mix transitions the deejay nowadays has more hard to not be discovered in mistaken because the volume of the body on beats has more force and relevance in sound and it's more easy to be catched in an error of wrong tempo transition. Technology gives more quality to the sound that 20 or 30 years ago, and it is something many people knows and nobody speaks about it. We are trapped in a nostalgic romanticism that do not let us see the reality. In the 80s the wave of a track had more low volumen in the body than these days, not in a high scale, in the width and in 20 or 30 years more it will achieve more volume on the body and giving quality to the sound and things will become more hard still, be sure."

Tuesday 1 October 2024

Joy Division

Gatefold 2lp, inner sleeves of demos 1978/79 beautiful release and quality.

Joy Division were an English post-punk band formed in Salford in 1976. The group consisted of vocalist, guitarist and lyricist Ian Curtis, guitarist and keyboardist Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter Hook and drummer Stephen Morris.

Sumner and Hook formed the band after attending a June 1976 Sex Pistols concert. While Joy Division's first recordings were heavily influenced by early punk rock, they soon developed a sparse sound and style that made them one of the pioneering groups of the post-punk genre and movement. Their self-released 1978 debut EP An Ideal for Living drew the attention of the Manchester television personality Tony Wilson, who signed them to his independent label Factory Records. Their debut album Unknown Pleasures, recorded with producer Martin Hannett, was released in 1979.

Curtis struggled with personal problems, including a failing marriage, depression, and epilepsy. As the band's popularity grew, Curtis's health condition made it increasingly difficult for him to perform; he occasionally experienced seizures on stage. He died by suicide on the eve of what would have been the band's first North American tour in May 1980, aged 23. Joy Division's second and final album, Closer, was released two months later; it and the single "Love Will Tear Us Apart" became their highest-charting releases.

Between July and October 1980, the remaining members, with the addition of keyboardist and guitarist Gillian Gilbert, regrouped under the name New Order. They were successful throughout the next decade, blending post-punk with electronic and dance music influences. In 2023, both Joy Division and New Order were nominated as one act for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.