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• By the time theyd made Technique, New Order had transitioned from being a rock band with dance leanings to a dance group with rock remnantsor as bassist Peter Hook put it, they were engaged in an epic power struggle with their sequencers. It wasnt that the band had cut rock conventions entirely (both Run and Dream Attack sound more like The Cure than club music), but that their rock songs took on a nostalgic, almost consolatory role, something to keep you grounded between the straight-on acid house and Balearic elements of Fine Time and Round & Round. (The LP was partly recorded during a four-month stint on the Spanish island of Ibiza; the rest was made at Peter Gabriels Real World Studios near Bath, UK.)

  Not to say that Technique is uneven; if anything, it proved that the band could distill their core emotional themesdetac