Anton Corbijn en Joy Division

[julesath]

Off topic, but does anyone know what kind of record player Anton is using here? I'm looking for one with built in speakers but most seem really crappy.

[themoz3]

sawa doco on this guy

sounded like a wanker

problem with this bloke is he thinks he is an important as the music artists...but he isnt, hes just support personnel..

[butobuto1]

@themoz3 you're dead wrong! corbijn is one the best rock photographers of his time! aside from that he made some great film work, not in the least 'control' a sort of biography of ian curtis, which is visually fantastic

[Snyltegjesten]

I don't understand a word of this, but Anton... he's amazing. Gotta love that man.

[InterZlatan8]

Translation:

"History TV"

"Best Pop-album according to Anton Corbijn"

(Disorder plays)

[InterZlatan8]

On top of the list, well I didn't have a No. 1at first, as it changes from day to day, but it was a great time the late 70s, early 80s, a lot of great records were released, but the album from that period that was very important for me, and still is, is Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division, their first LP. It's the original cover from the 70s, with the original artwork which had barely any information on it, let me put it on. It's not my record player, so I hope it works

(She's lost control plays

[hellolauratube]

@InterZlatan8 thank you so much for translating!

[InterZlatan8]

This is Side 2, She's lost control, first track on Side 2. I'm doing a film about Joy Division at the moment, entitled Control, and is partly because of this song

Let me put on Side 1

(Disorder plays)

The album starts very strong, the song Disorder. The album is now 27 years old, but if the album would be released today, it would still sound modern. They had a producer, Martin Hannett, who sort of invented sounds, and it sounds fantastic,

[InterZlatan8]

and the intensity of the vocals, but also the performance, very stripped-down, but very intense, the drummer almost being a drum-machine, it's not a normal drumsound. The grey Manchester is being translated to record in a very colourful way. I think it's great.

The sound off course doesn't come across well here at the airport; let's go to another song, New dawn fades, also a fantastic song

(NDF plays)

This is a typical Joy Division sound, a loud, low bass on all the albums

[InterZlatan8]

with simple guitar riffs on top of it, and the very tight, machine-like drumming, influenced by Kraftwerk, Velvet Underground, David Bowie, Brian Eno, actually the song is a bit faster, the record player is a too slow. With this song in particular, I can see Ian making his dance-moves on stage, which were born out of his problems with epileptic attacks, his moves almost are epileptic, I had never seen someone dance like Ian Curtis

I'm here at Schiphol Airport, kind of a strange place for this

[InterZlatan8]

but when you're at home playing this music, it brings you back to those days in the late 70s when I first went to England, I went there for this band, a big decision at that point, when you are young, England seemed further away than today, but my decision to go there was because of this music.

I'm happy to know that when I'm playing this album, it turned out that decision was right, because the music hasn't lost any of its power. Actually I like it even better now.

[InterZlatan8]

I'll put on another song from Side 2

I had a friend back then, Bart, and we would listen to each others records, new ones that we had bought, and he had this album, played it to me, and at first I didn't like it that much, I wanted to leave, but he insisted that I listen to the whole album.

So it took some time before I liked it, and the outcome of it was huge

(Shadowplay plays)

[InterZlatan8]

Can't we turn this up? I touched the wrong button just now, I didn't know

Martin Hannett would go bananas I he could found out how we are playing the record.

Unfortunately a lot of people involved with the band have passed away, Ian Curtis, who hanged himself in 1980, aged 23, they just finished recording their second album, it wasn't released yet, so his legacy is in fact 2 albums, and a few singles.

Both Martin Hannett and Rob Gretton, their manager also passed away.

[InterZlatan8]

I did a couple of photo shoots with them in the last 6 months of Ian's life, when I lived in England, and I also made a video 8 years after his death for a compilation album, so I was involved at the time, the pictures I took have become very meaningful over the years.

Just after Ian died, the pictures were seen in a different light, one I never intended

( I remember nothing plays)

A trip to England for me is always a trip to Unknown pleasures thanks to him. Thank you.

[jazzisfab]

damn my inability to speak Dutch!

[LunaSeaSane]

As he plays the songs, he's talking about the cover (a minimal/striclty informative design), how the grey colors from Manchester have reflected in the sort of black & white sound of Joy Division. He mentions Kraftverk, Velvet Undeground & David Bowie as influences. Also Ian's epilepsy & suicide.

Among other things. The man's a fan.

And a great photographer, by the way.

[insignificus]

Interesting. Can't wait to see the movie.

[Leslie091]

Ja ik ben het helemaal met je eens, ik ben ook fan van hem vanwege depeche mode

[Ninasappelsap]

Hij is zoiezo echt een geweldige fotograaf en dan nog nederlands ook.

En Depeche Mode en Anton Corbijn is gewoon geweldig.

[femfromholland]

Goeie keus Joy Division; luister ik ook nog best vaak. Lekker donkere, grauwe muziek alleen geen aanrader als je beetje down bent.

[robbertzzz]

yep...de meester

[AngelindaNetherlands]

Anton Corbijn! Joy Division was te verwachten als zijn keuze :P

[drikkie67]

the greatest photographer of his generation and the most influential band of the post-punk generation, thank you for this post.

[netherlands2]

Onvolprezen meester van het beslissende moment.

[notreimagination]

@netherlands2 you're kidding me right? the decisive moment, met wie breng je dat automatisch in verband?