Big Beat presents one of its most prestigious compilations ever, with a project that has taken almost two years to put together. A well-deserved, all-encompassing CD tribute to the late Martin Hannett – probably the highest-profile UK record producer of the Punk and post-Punk era.

Apart from the Smiths, Hannett produced almost every one of the most important Manchester bands -from the Buzzcocks and Magazine, via Joy Division and New Order through to the Stone Roses and Happy Mondays - and almost all of those that he produced are represented here.
Repertoire ranges from big UK chart hits (‘Pretty In Pink’, ‘Jilted John’, ‘Electricity’) to hard-to-find cuts by non-Manchester bands such as U2 and the Only Ones, and encompasses everything from Punk to New Romantic to Indie Dance.

One of the few post-1970s UK record producers to be as revered as the records he produced, Hannett died in 1991 but his influence lives on in every single indie record that’s made to this day.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Boredom - BUZZCOCKS
2. Cranked Up Really High - SLAUGHTER AND THE DOGS
3. Jilted John - JILTED JOHN
4. I Don't Want To Be Nice - JOHN COOPER CLARKE
5. Dream Sequence 1 - PAULINE MURRAY AND THE INVISIBLE GIRLS
6. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock - U2
7. Transmission - JOY DIVISION
8. Conduct - THE DURUTTI COLUMN
9. Electricity - ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK
10. The Light Pours Out Of Me (Second Version) - MAGAZINE
11. In A Lonely Place - NEW ORDER
12. Oh Lucinda (Love Becomes A Habit) - THE ONLY ONES
13. Nightshift - THE NAMES
14. The Last White Christmas - BASEMENT FIVE
15. Pretty In Pink - PSYCHEDELIC FURS
16. Friendly Fires - SECTION 25
17. Rebecca's Room - WASTED YOUTH
18. All Tomorrow's Parties - NICO AND THE INVISIBLE GIRLS
19. Quick As Rainbows - KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION
20. Wrote For Luck - HAPPY MONDAYS
21. She's A Rainbow - WORLD OF TWIST