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Desert Island Dicks
Love Will Tear Us Apart

Single 2010 on Amoebic Industries label
(Alternative Rock, Noise, Indie Rock, J-pop, Mouth Music, Avant-garde, Hard Trance, Ambient, Dark Ambient, Power Electronics)

Two covers of Joy Division's biggest hit "Love Will Tear Us Apart" released for Valentine's Day. The first version, subtitled "consecutive mix", is sampled from 103 existing versions of the song by a variety of stylistically divergent artists. Each cover version is represented by a one- or at most two-bar sample, which are reassembled in the order of the original song. The second, subtitled "simultaneous mix", simply plays all 103 versions at the same time. Sampled artists (in order): Joy Division, Vitamin String Quartet, Magick, Scapula Elevata, Chuzpe, Hanky Park feat. Peter Hook, Flowing Tears & Withered Flowers, Bis, Jah Division, Broken Social Scene, Everyone's a Crook vs. ILS, The Blood Divine, Complete Stone Roses, Clock Strikes 13, Nordloef, Evelyn Evelyn, Michael John, Albert Kuvezin & Yat-Kha, Trance to the Sun, Rebecca Hancock and the Prison Wives, New Order, Hawksley Workman, Last Days of Radio, Paul Young, Ecstatics, Dahmnait Doyle, In the Nursery, Boy Division, Bloom 05, Nouvelle Vague, Swans (red version), Ortzroka, Rodolphe Burger, Kaycee (Gus Gus mix), Fall Out Boy, The Cure, Invisible Limits, Squarepusher, Slapper, Die Art, Cienfuegos & Mimi Maura, The Sky About to Rain, The Diary, V/Vm, Jose Gonzalez, Kiki & Herb, Sensifer, The Shanes, Pribata Idaho, Amadea & the In-Betweeners, Eon Blue Void, U2, The Real Bang, Kismet, Philistine, Calexico, Kvinton, Peltz, Michelle Darkness, Honeyroot, Dumb Blonde, Dead., Poon Up!, Ian Field, Final Virus, Swans (black version), Tiger Baby, Mike Relm, Testament, Red House Painters (live), The Motion Sick, Tea Party, The King, Schulz, Lispboston, 10,000 Maniacs (live) (allegedly), Jenny K Jones, Even Vast, P. J. Proby, Jansky Noise, Nerina Pallot, Itty Bitty Kitty Titties vs. Big Fat Cat Tats, Oysterband, Simple Minds, Morten Abel, Ghost Parade, Susanna and the Magical Orchestra, Stanton-Miranda, Pixeltoy, Jarboe, Albanopower, The Parsonage, Brothers Past, 12:24, Unbroken, Worm Is Green, Slumber Party, The Carnival of Fools, Opium Den, World Wide Spies, Acrojunk, djstranger, Wundergraft, Philip Boa & The Voodooclub

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