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The Crepuscule and Factory Pages
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This site tells about the mysterious Les Disques Du Crepuscule from Brussels and the mythical Factory label from Manchester, and their countless connections.

poster (57cm x 96cm) by benoît hennebert for a concert in brussels, friday may 15 1981. First off all you can find label histories of Les Disques Du Crepuscule, Factory and Factory Benelux. These were originally written for magazines: NME (UK), Record Collector (UK) and Magic (Fr), but reworked for this site.

Then you can glance through what is very likely the most comprehensive Crepuscule discography ever compiled (once described by the NME as "solving the mystery of the Marie Celeste"). There are separate discographies of all Crepuscule's sister- and sub-labels, such as Operation Twilight, Crepuscule Au Japon and Interior Music. A LTM discog is also included.

Next are the Factory and Crepuscule Image Banques.

Alan Hempsall's legendary Joy Division interview, from January 1980, can be found here too, and there also is an exclusive, intrigueing article on early Factory Records by Howard Slater, which is both a personal and theoretical attempt to get to grips with his obsessions about Factory's early years. Slater even managed to persuade Karl Marx to review Joy Division's Closer!


New and upcoming LTM releases Isolation Ward - Point Final (LTMCD 2545) | out now
The Other Two - The Other Two & You (LTMCD 2551) | out now
The Other Two - Super Highways (LTMCD 2553) | out now


A Certain Ratio - Force (LTMCD 2552) | due out February 22 2010
Antena - Bossa Super Nova (LTMCD 2554) | due out April 12 2010

Further due: CD's/downloads by The Wake, Section 25, A Certain Ratio and Paul Haig, as well as more volumes in the Auteur Labels series (Rob's Records, IPR).


Go to FULL LTM RECORDINGS MAILORDER CATALOGUE

Visit the LTM Recordings website at www.ltmrecordings.com


Site index I | LABEL HISTORIES
Les Disques Du Crepuscule
Factory Communications Ltd.
Factory Benelux

II | LABEL DISCOGRAPHIES | for historical reference only*
Les Disques Du Crepuscule - TWI 001 to TWI 777
Les Disques Du Crepuscule - TWI 800 to TWI 1980
Les Disques Du Crepuscule - sublabels, foreign operations and licensees
Les Disques Du Crepuscule - miscellaneous licensed and related releases
Les Disques Du Crepuscule - artists a to k
Les Disques Du Crepuscule - artists l to z
Les Disques Du Crepuscule - compilations a to z
LTM (Boutique/Les Temps Modernes)

*note: artists who only appear on (a) compilation(s) have no entry in the artists a to z catalogues. please check the compilations catalogue and use the 'search' or 'find' option of your browser.

III | IMAGES
Crepuscule Image Banque
Factory Image Banque

IV | ARTICLES AND INTERVIEWS
Perfect Stylistic Attitude | Peter Saville interviewed by James Nice
Graveyard And Ballroom: A Factory Records Scrapbook | by Howard Slater
A Day Out With Joy Division | by Alan Hempsall
Among The Trumpet Thieves: ACR And Section 25 In Europe | by Larry Cassidy
Stark Beauty Mocked By Parrot | J. Ashford on The Power Of Theatrical Madness

poster (50cm x70cm) by claude stassart for a concert in brussels, friday october 31 1980, with the durutti column, a certain ratio, section 25 and the names. V | BAND HISTORIES | by James Nice
A Certain Ratio
Berntholer
Crispy Ambulance
Josef K/Paul Haig
Ludus
Marine Minny Pops
The Names
The Royal Family And The Poor
Section 25
Stockholm Monsters
Tunnelvision
The Wake

VI | BAND DISCOGRAPHIES
Crawling Chaos
Crispy Ambulance
Josef K/Paul Haig
Marine
Minny Pops
The Names
The Royal Family And The Poor
Section 25
Tunnelvision - Vee VV
The Wake

VII | WORDS
Essential Reading


48 Related sites Minuscule Music | Crepuscule's 'World' collection
Operation Twilight - Official Site
Why Not Productions | French film company formerly associated with Crepuscule France
24 Hour Party People (FAC 433) | official site for the movie about Factory Records
Dennis Remmer's Factory Discography
Sebastian Luetzow's Factory Overseas Discography
John Cooper's Cerysmatic Factory | huge site with news and many images of posters, artifacts etc.
Ikon Video - Official You Tube site | the entire FACT 125 and other stuff

Factory Records Complete Graphic Album (FAC 461)
The Durutti Column - Official Site
Rob Stanzel's Durutti Column Web Page (FAC 2.26) | incl. audio files
The Durutti Column - Official Gigography
World In Motion - New Order Site (FAC 441)
Factory Records Site (FAC 421)
Love Is The Law - Official Section 25 Site
Crispy Ambulance - Official Site

Crawling Chaos - Official Site
The Aural Drug - Crispy Ambulance Site
AcrMcr - Official A Certain Ratio Site
A Certain Ratio - Official Gigography
Cabaret Voltaire - Unofficial Site
Minny Pops - Official Site
Rob Stanzel's The Names Page
The Martin Hannett Biography Project

Baker Design | started carreer for Operation Twilight in '82/'83
Ben Kelly Design | feat. FAC 51, FAC 201, FAC 251, Saville Apartment etc.
Saville Parris Wakefield - Official Site
Peter Saville Graphic Design
Sleeve Designed By Peter Saville
Peter Saville site
Mark Holt Design | former 8vo
Mark Farrow | designed FAC 41, FAC 58, FAC 66 etc., before moving on to...

Josef K Site
Isabelle Antena - Official Site
Paul Haig's ROL Ltd.
Cardiffians: The Young Marble Giants Web Archive
Mundoblaineo - Blaine L. Reininger's Homepage
Winston Tong - Official Site
Virginia Astley Site
Biting Tongues - Official Site

Isolation Ward's My Space Page
Simon Rigot's Official Berntholer Page
(Japanese) Mikado Site
Marina Records | Pale Fountains, Josef K etc.
Wim Mertens, In Act - Official Site
Dancing Through Dark Times - The Passage Site
New Wave Photos By Philippe Carly | New Order, Joy Division, The Names, Minny Pops etc.
Bureau Of Public Secrets | Situationist International, Ken Knabb etc.


Mailing lists/Discussion groups Factory Records Discussion Group at Yahoo
Durutti Column Mailing List at Topica
Durutti Column Discussion Group at Yahoo
A Certain Ratio Discussion Group at Yahoo
Wim Mertens Forum at Yahoo

send correction, additions, comments, complaints to: Frank Brinkhuis frankbri@wxs.nl
notice: please do not contact me to ask if I have any spare copies of rare Factory or Crepuscule product for sale, because I don't. sorry.


thanks to: Joelle Dagry, Emmanuel Cervo, Neil Jones, Isabelle Corbisier, Greg Hennessee, Eric Mason, Jerry Nilson, Robert Stanzel, Marc Berger, Dennis Remmer, Tom Zimmer, John Cooper, Maximillian Mark Medina, Peter Tunney, Randal McIlroy, Harry Young, Stefan Kassel, Mike O'Conner, Sebastian Lützow, Volker Harrach, Robert Phan, Bruce Carle, Fernando Lopez De Victoria, William Alberque, Scott, Paul, Dan Maryon, Regis Nicolas, R. Stevie Moore, Roland Weissflog, Jun Okamoto, Paolo Cesaretti, Enrico Conti, Juan Dapena, Don Reigner, Mats Artvin, Walter Robotka, Michael Eastwood, Cesar Gomes, Etienne Vernaeve, Mike Stein, Justin Bur, Garry Clennell, Pablo Eekman, Howard Slater, Steven Hankinson, Alan Hempsall and Larry Cassidy.

special thanks to: James Nice, Franz Regnot, Klaus Tackenberg and Tsurutani Yuhki.

no thanks at all to: Generation Terrorist magazine (Thailand) and Magic magazine (France).

all contents Copyright © 1995-2010 by Frank Brinkhuis.