Win a Madman Joy Division related DVD box set - subs only - answer provided

[culturebird]

Stay with this. Take off your socks if you are uncomfortable or unaccustomed to the idea of them being knocked off because this metaphor is going to go somewhere. It's going to be tied up with a nice little bow and you're going to have to resist the urge to applaud. The "Fourier transform" is a mathematical function essential to digital processing that takes a complex signal and deconstructs it into its consituent sinusoids and expresses them in terms of frequency and amplitude. A bunch of smooth, regular waves that, when you add them up, become something complex.

Joy Division were the same way. The dominant harmonic was always Ian Curtis followed by Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook and Stephen Morris. That's indisputable, but there were many other factors that turned them from a band into something iconic. Post-industrial decay in Manchester. The svengali-like Tony Wilson. Curtis's epilepsy, troubled marriage and tempestuous affair. Peter Saville. Martin Hannet. Rob Gretton. Nazi imagery, Burroughs and a whole mess of other allusions and influences.

Without Fourier transforms you wouldn't have the image on the cover of Unknown Pleasures, the digital delay on 'She's Lost Control' or, hell, the whole song 'Digital'. What you sure as shit wouldn't have without all this digital signal processing is a box set of DVDs that constitute a pretty thorough deconstruction of Joy Division's history and subsequent influence.

The box set includes Michael Winterbottom's piquaresque Manchester-to-Madchester history 24 Hour Party People, Anton Corbijn's sombre Curtis biopic Control and Grant Gee's comprehensive, eponymous documentary Joy Division. Buy it here. Or, guess what poopies? Thanks to Madman we have a copy to give away.

This week's question:

She's lost

a) Control again

b) Her phone again

c) That loving feeling

d) Eat a sandwich, Portman.

To be in the running send your answer and postal address to brisbane.win@rightanglestudio.com.au. Winners will be notified by email. Subscriber only entry. Not a subscriber? It's free you pornstars! Sign up at www.fourthousand.com.au

[helga22]

correct link: http://www.fourthousand.com.au/

[helga22]

Answer: She's lost

a) Control again


"She's Lost Control" is a song by British post-punk band Joy Division.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She%27s_Lost_Control

[mnew9]

I cannot seem to find the Joy Divison comp on that link. I've also checked the website without luck. Can anyone show me where to find it?

Many thanks. 

[Luck_E_Unicorn]

The comps normally come in the email you get as a subscriber.

[mnew9]

Thanks Luck_E_Unicorn. That's probably why I couldn't find it on the website.