New Order rose from the ashes of Joy Division, the British post-punk pioneers, in the early 1980s, becoming one of the first electropop bands to achieve mainstream success in the US. Their single Blue Monday was a benchmark in dance, and in the subsequent recordings they managed to achieve a perfect balance between technology and the craft of the pop song. Technique, from 1989, embraced the Balearic
… House sound of Ibiza, where they recorded much of the album, and acid house. The following year, New Order recorded the official song for England's participation in the World Cup. This single World In Motion reached # 1 on the UK charts and remains probably the only good example of a World Cup song! Band leader Bernard Sumner also flirted with Johnny Marr, under the name Electronic, while sporadically gathering the famous quartet for new recordings - Get Ready (2001) and Waiting For The Sirens Call (2007) - and world tours.more
