"Video 5 8 6" | ||||
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Single by New Order | ||||
Released | 22 September 1997 | |||
Recorded | 1982 | |||
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Length | 22:23 | |||
Label | Touch | |||
Producer(s) | New Order | |||
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"Video 5 8 6", originally titled "Prime 5 8 6",[4][5] is an electronic instrumental piece and twenty-fourth single written and produced in 1982[citation needed] by the British group New Order.[6] In December 1982, the track was initially released in two sections in Touch Music's first cassette magazine, Feature Mist.[4][6][7] Touch re-released the entire track as a CD single in 1997.[4][7]
Composed primarily by Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris, "Prime 5 8 6"/"Video 5 8 6" was an early version of "5 8 6" (from Power, Corruption & Lies), which contained rhythm elements that would later surface on "Ultraviolence" and the 1983 hit "Blue Monday".[4] After Factory Records' Tony Wilson asked New Order for twenty minutes of "pap", it was first played in public during the opening of The Haçienda on 21 May 1982.[4]
On release it reached #86 on the main British singles chart[8] and #19 on the British indie chart. Bassist Peter Hook has said the key to the title "5 8 6" can be found in another of the group's songs, "Ecstasy"; 5, 8 then 6 is the song's bar structure.[citation needed]
A video was released for the song called Primitive 586 on the FACT 56, IKON 3 VHS and BETA tape 'A Factory Video', the footage is mostly primitive 80s computer graphics.
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