New Order - Blue Monday (Live on Roland Juno DS-88)

A live attempt of one of the best studio masterpieces of the 20th century. If you like this, please consider donating so I can keep this music thing going. Any donations, no matter how small, would be massively appreciated. http://paypal.me/tommonksmusic

Recorded entirely live, apart from the bass+drum loop I sequenced into the phrase pad beforehand, and a couple of vocal overdubs. The Juno DS is quite a powerhouse, especially for 80s stuff. All stock presets, too! Par the odd cutoff/vibrato. It's got a great sampling function too if you wanna go the extra mile for authenticity, which I unfortunately only discovered after filming this video haha!

It's a slightly different arrangement rather than a note-for-note recreation, which is inevitable being performed live by one person who didn't write the song, rather than in a studio by four people who did! That said, I did try and keep at least the vibe faithful to the original and I hope you enjoy it! It's also mashed up with a couple of other tunes, partially because I was vibing it, and partially to confuse the copyright police.

Blue Monday © Factory Records, 1983
I didn't write this song. Gillian Gilbert, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Bernard Sumner did. It'd be silly to claim that I had any involvement in composing Blue Monday considering how well known it is and how it came out 13 years before I was born. But you can't be too careful nowadays! T x

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