A Factory Novelty Record
Ad Infinitum - Telstar [2001856 (FAC 96) PRT 1984 24-Bit FLAC] Did you know there was a very rare twelve inch version? I've ripped my crackly seven inch pressing a few times for the old ESWA blog, but never this hard-to-find Portuguese twelve inch pressing. Ad Infinitum was a project by New Order's bass swinger Peter Hook and Lindsay Reade (former wife of the late Tony Wilson) with some help from Eric Random, plus a few Factory luminaries. This anonymous 7" single, a cover of the Joe Meek classic was released in early 1984 in a unique hologram sleeve. The A-side featured an electronic version of the track - if you listen closely you can hear Hook's treated bass, New Order's old sequencers and what sounds like the same guitar used on Everything's Gone Green . I'm not too sure what Lindsay was doing on the record, although she initiated the project with a vocal version which was abandoned following Meek's objections, leaving her with just a few baaa....