As Chtcheglov so protested, “We are bored in the city.” This tired urbanism was not just an aesthetic crime, but more so, a psyche-crushing offense. “Everyone is hypnotized by production and conveniences.” Staleness had set in imagination and experimentation evaporated. “A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization,” he wrote. The contemporary city had grown tedious, the French theorist and poet decided, as urban space and time had been squandered on hackneyed surfaces, dated relics, and cold mechanization. The album was given the Factory Identifier FACT14 (Vinyl), or FACT14-C (Cassette).In 1953, a 19-year-old Ivan Chtcheglov delivered a manifesto that ripped a hole in the modern landscape. On this edition, the Hannett tracks were included on a bonus 7-inch single on hard vinyl. The die-cut was based on the 1978 Factory 'bar graph' logo designed by Peter Saville. In 2013 a modified version was issued as a vinyl album by Factory Benelux (FBN-114) with an 11-inch square sheet of coarse glasspaper attached to the inner sleeve, visible through a die-cut in the front cover. "Sketch for Summer"/"Sketch for Winter" was released as a single (Gap Records SFA-491) in Australia, with a sleeve by Andrew Penhallow of Gap. The damaging to adjacent LPs led to the album frequently being placed separated from the rest, which may have been the idea for the cover. Some later pressings featured a sixth untitled track on side two. A regular printed sleeve for later copies was designed by Steve Horsfall. The sleeves were assembled by members of the bands and label-mates Joy Division and A Certain Ratio. The original 3600 LP sleeves were made of coarse sandpaper (similar to the Situationist book Mémoires), designed to scratch LPs which were placed on either side of it. The initial two thousand copies also included a flexi-disc single with two tracks by producer Martin Hannett: "First Aspect of the Same Thing" and "Second Aspect of the Same Thing".
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