Even without Hook's distinctive bass, every song still sounds unmistakably like New Order, with the intriguing exception of Stray Dog, in which Iggy Pop gruffly intones a poem written by Bernard Sumner at a speed that's at odds with the propulsive backdrop, an effect that's reminiscent of Public Service Broadcasting.
And around the songs and readings, the performers busy themselves creating a backdrop of sound effects - footsteps, rustling leaves, doors opening - more than enough for a month's episodes of The Archers.
Content analyses and studies of control of media industries are typically designed against a backdrop of presumed effects of messages on behavior.
The game is also loaded with sumptuous presentation, bringing its vivid world to life with beautiful 2D animations, lavish backdrops and explosive effects.
Flaring advertisement hoardings are passed along the way - the 1998 World Cup, the foot-and-mouth crisis, millennium night - but in general Morrison keeps his head down, doesn't let the scenery obtrude and allows the lives of his characters to take precedence over backdrops and special effects.
A wider view of the windmill was rendered on a Leavesden soundstage set with a quarter-scale windmill, complete with rotating vanes, painted sky backdrop and special-effects fire.
He'd filmed the music video in his kitchen, against a blanket backdrop, a fact effectively masked by jittery post-production effects.
Onstage, they had a backdrop of elaborate lighting effects.
Such entertainments included both processions and set pieces of entertainment, the latter usually representing allegorical figures who delivered their speeches against a backdrop of spectacular mechanical effects.
The groups gained popularity in the same era – hip-hop's golden age, in the late 80s and early 90s – against a politically charged backdrop, each fighting the effects of Reaganism.
