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Section 25 ‎– Looking From A Hilltop

Label:
Factory ‎– FAC 108
Format:
Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM, Single
Country:
UK
Released:
Jun 1984
Genre:
Electronic
Style:
Electro, Synth-pop

Tracklist

A Looking From A Hilltop (Restructure) 4:38
B Looking From A Hilltop (Megamix) 8:07

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Notes

This pressing has "MVS" in the runouts, identifying the pressing plant. A nearly identical release, Looking From A Hilltop, does not have "MVS".

Info on labels:
A: Restructure from FACT 90
B: Megamix from FAC 108 A

Durations not printed on release.
Single-sleeve outer jacket with no inner sleeve.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Matrix / Runout (Side A - variation 1): FAC 108 A1 ZEN MEL/cts RW MVS II
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B - variation 1): FAC 108 AA2 MEL/cts GL MVS S2
  • Matrix / Runout (Side A - variation 2): FAC 108 A1 ZEN MEL/cts RW MVS I0
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B - variation 2): FAC 108 AA2 MEL/cts GL MVS SI

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Cat# Artist Title (Format) Label Cat# Country Year
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eurobeat70065

eurobeat70065

April 11, 2017
This was one of my favorite late night tracks when I DJ'd in the 80's at Neo Beach in New Orleans
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HighwireDays

HighwireDays

August 24, 2015
edited about 1 year ago

I had always thought of the Orb's "Little Fluffy Clouds" as the ultimate headphone mindfuck song (and still do), but these tracks are right up there at that impossibly lofty level. They put to shame most of today's "I Love The '80s Strikes Back" practitioners of this sound. By the way, the place rot get both of them digitally is on the CD version(s) of From The Hip.
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8892sales

8892sales

August 3, 2014
edited over 2 years ago

As far as I'm concerned the Megamix of this release is pure, proper electro. Although the vocal whisperings can be pushing it into the realms of synth-pop it's not enough to escape the electro labyrinth imo. Although I can understand why the previous reviewer's comment about it being a proto new beat is also relevant.

This can be played alongside any Afrika Bambaataa And Soul Sonic Force classics, Man Parrish, Two Sisters, Egyptian Lover, Unknown DJ, Kraftwerk, Cybotron, Model 500 etc or any other electro / electro funk / electro rap / techno electro numbers one wishes to throw at it. Absolutely timeless.

Just a few examples where sections of the track have been sampled:

Intellectial Harmonious Sanction EP 'Drift & Dream (Easy Street Records) & (R & S Records) (1991)
Joey Beltram's Direct - Project Breakdown (Allabi Records) (1990) & Joey Beltram - Fuck All You Mother Fuckers
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Betabox

Betabox

December 27, 2013
edited over 3 years ago
The B side Megamix version sounds very New Beat, 4 years avant la lettre...
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Jav

Jav

March 8, 2003

Those that have this record know what an amazing track this is. The remix is an electronic masterpiece; bass heavy,industrial with lush keyboards and allsorts of fuuristic sounding bleeps...The vocal side is sytnth music of the highest order.
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