Cool As Ice: The Be Music Productions [Original recording remastered]

Be Music | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 4, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 1983
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: LTM
• ASIN: B0000D9PNV
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,028,571 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Can't Afford to Let You Go

2. Looking from a Hilltop [Mega Mix]

3. Reach for Love

4. Love Tempo

5. Cool as Ice

6. The Only Truth [12" Mix]

7. Atom Rock

8. Babcock+ Wilcox

9. Fate/Hate

10. Tell Me

11. Beating Heart [12" Remix]

12. Theme

Editorial Reviews

LTM are proud to present COOL AS ICE a compilation of stone classic old school 80's electro & dance cuts produced by Be Music the tag used by all four members of New Order. The set will be available both on CD & as a limited DJ friendly double vinyl set. \n\nLargely produced between 1983 & 1984 for release on Factory Records & Factory Benelux the full tracklist runs thus: \n\n52nd STREET CAN'T AFFORD (TO LET YOU GO) 6.50\nSECTION 25 LOOKING FROM A HILLTOP 8.07 *\nMARCEL KING RE

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fairly Good 80s Compilation of Minor Club Hits, November 21, 2003

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Thomas Horan (Chapel Hill, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cool As Ice: The Be Music Productions (Audio CD)

This CD compiles 12" dance singles released by the Factory label and its subsidiaries between 1983 and 1985. All of these songs were extremely well produced by individual members of New Order sometimes working in conjunction with Donald Johnson of A Certain Ratio.

Overall, this collection is something of a front-loaded, mixed bag. About half of these songs really deserved to go to the top of the charts. "Can't Afford To Let You Go," which samples Scott Walker's "Time Operator," is just amazing. There's a superlative mix of Section 25's classic "View From a Hilltop." I also really like Marcel King's soulful "Reach For Love." And finally, I think Quando Quango's "Atom Rock", which features Johnny Marr on guitar, may be the best dance track since "Blue Monday."

Unfortunately, the remaining songs on this album are pleasant enough but basically forgettable. It's exciting to discover a compilation of eighties dance music made up of mainly unfamiliar songs, but some of these tunes slipped into obscurity for good reason.

4.0 out of 5 stars obscure yet brilliant, July 25, 2009

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globalove "karim djkreemy" (BIG APPLE) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Cool As Ice: The Be Music Productions (Audio CD)

this is a brilliant compilation for bands that are really obscure from the factory days - yet all these tracks were played in more underground dance clubs globally yet hold up so well today - in fact i play them mixed with so many contemporary bands. Hard to find these original length tracks anywhere on CD. I recommend this album as well as Twice as Nice (the second compilation). Twice as Nice: Be Music/Dojo/Kamins/Baker Productions