New Order Online - A New Order / Joy Division Web Site

Release Notes

Corvin Dalek's notes:

"Crystal was originally planned as a track exclusively for mfs which bernard gave to mfs label manager, mark reeder. he wrote the song for mark and also sang it and i and a couple of other mfs artists made the music for our versions (not remixes). but after pete tong heard them, he thought it was the best new order single he´d heard since blue monday (not knowing that bernard had given the song to mark as a present) and the project was then rearranged to become a new order record.

what that meant was that mfs were not actually allowed to release it as originally planned - in june 2000 - until new order knew what they were going to do with it.

so much time has gone by without it getting released. pete let me put it on my wet&hard compilation album hotkunst and in the meantime we have now finally been granted permission to release it in germany. the vocals have been used on the new order version of the song (theirs is more guitar sounding) and the track sounds nothing like the mfs versions. their track was produced by steve osborne and mixed by mark stent. new order are currently in realworld studios making tracks for their new album. it´s not sure if the new order crystal will be their new single even...

it´s all a bit confusing though i must say!..."