Martin Hannett's Personal Mixes [UK] (2007)

About this title: If you are an absolute Joy Division diehard, you might want to dig into Martin Hannett's Personal Mixes. Although the first eight tracks of the disc are clips of studio white noise, a few false starts, a couple minutes of keyboard tuning, and some occasional chit-chat in the talk-back mike, the disc has some interesting moments during the six songs included here: dry versions of "Autosuggestion" and "From Safety to Where...?," slightly alternate versions of "Passover," "Heart and Soul," "24 Hours," and multiple takes of "Decades" (titled "N4"). It is interesting to hear a little more reverb, ...

Tracks:

1. Synth Tone
2. Hannett's Lift Recording, Pt. 1
3. Joy Division Keyboard Doodles
4. Hannett's Lift Recording, Pt. 2
5. Joy Division Number False Start 1
6. Curtis, Hannett, Gretton Interplay, Chit Chad and Cup Smashing
7. Hannett Speaks
8. Joy Division Number False Start 2
9. From Safety to Where
10. Autosuggestion
11. Heart and Soul
12. N4 Europop
13. 24 Hours
14. Passover
15. N4
16. N4 [Continued]
17. The Eternal
18. The Eternal [Continued]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.