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Podcast: Take 5
Episode: New Order’s Bernard Sumner with the songs that made him
Description: There’s a family tree of modern music and one of its biggest branches is New Order.The Manchester band, formed in the wake of Joy Division’s untimely end, have fed into the sound of almost every band and artist you’ve loved for, for forty years. Even if you’re not a fan, you can trace their blueprint across all you hear. Their transformation from post punk to electronic music, swept up kids who would go on to become techno DJ’s, rock bands, pop acts, and everything in between.In the 80’s, they were th...