Editing Video 5 8 6 (section)

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{{Infobox song
| name          = Video 5 8 6
| cover         = Video_5_8_6_New Order.jpg
| alt           = 
| type          = single
| artist        = [[New Order (band)|New Order]]
| album         = 
| B-side        = "As You Said"
| released      = 22 September 1997
| recorded      = 1982
| studio        = 
| venue         = 
| genre         = *[[Electronic music|Electronic]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Simpson |first1=Dave |title=New Order: 10 of the best |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/aug/06/new-order-10-of-the-best |website=The Guardian |access-date=5 August 2024 |date=6 August 2014}}</ref>
*[[experimental music|experimental]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Petridis |first1=Alexis |title=New Order’s 30 greatest tracks – ranked! |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jan/07/new-order-30-greatest-tracks-ranked |website=The Guardian |access-date=5 August 2024 |date=7 January 2021}}</ref>
| length        = 22:23
| label         = [[Touch Records|Touch]]
| composer      = 
| lyricist      = 
| producer      = New Order
| prev_title    = [[Blue Monday (New Order song)|Blue Monday-95]]
| prev_year     = 1995
| next_title    = [[Crystal (New Order song)|Crystal]]
| next_year     = 2001
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |author=Bush, John |title=Review: ''Video 586&nbsp;– New Order'' |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/video-586-mw0001020470 |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=26 January 2013}}</ref>
}}
"'''Video 5 8 6'''", originally titled "'''Prime 5 8 6'''",<ref name="Johnson, Mark 1984. Pg. 103">Johnson, Mark. ''An Ideal For Living: An History of Joy Division.'' London: Bobcat Books, 1984. Pg. 103.</ref><ref>Flowers, Claude. ''New Order + Joy Division: Dreams Never End.'' London: Omnibus Press, 1995. Pg. 51.</ref> is an [[electronic dance music|electronic]] [[instrumental]] piece and twenty-fourth single written and produced in 1982{{citation needed|date=March 2010}}<!--http://www.niagara.edu/neworder/singles/video586.html says 1981 composition & use for Hacienda opening--> by the British group [[New Order (band)|New Order]].<ref name="ReferenceA">{{Cite web |url=http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/catalogue/t1_feature_mist.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=10 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091203111109/http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/catalogue/t1_feature_mist.html |archive-date=3 December 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In December 1982, the track was initially released in two sections in [[Touch Music]]'s first [[cassette magazine]], ''Feature Mist''.<ref name="Johnson, Mark 1984. Pg. 103"/><ref name="ReferenceA"/><ref name="touchmusic.org.uk">{{cite web |url=http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/archive/history/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=2011-05-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608160345/http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/archive/history/ |archive-date=8 June 2011}}</ref> Touch re-released the entire track as a CD single in 1997.<ref name="Johnson, Mark 1984. Pg. 103"/><ref name="touchmusic.org.uk"/>

Composed primarily by [[Bernard Sumner]] and [[Stephen Paul David Morris|Stephen Morris]], "Prime 5 8 6"/"Video 5 8 6" was an early version of "5 8 6" (from ''[[Power, Corruption & Lies]]''), which contained rhythm elements that would later surface on "Ultraviolence" and the 1983 hit "[[Blue Monday (New Order song)|Blue Monday]]".<ref name="Johnson, Mark 1984. Pg. 103"/> After [[Factory Records]]' [[Tony Wilson]] asked New Order for twenty minutes of "pap", it was first played in public during the opening of [[Fac 51 Haçienda|The Haçienda]] on 21 May 1982.<ref name="Johnson, Mark 1984. Pg. 103"/>

On release it reached #86 on the main British singles chart<ref name="ChartlogUK">{{cite web | title = UK Chartlog | url = https://www.zobbel.de/cluk/CLUK_N.HTM | publisher = zobbel.de | access-date=22 June 2010}}</ref> and #19 on the British [[indie (music)|indie]] chart. [[Bassist]] [[Peter Hook]] has said the key to the title "5 8 6" can be found in another of the group's songs, "Ecstasy"; 5, 8 then 6 is the song's [[bar (music)|bar]] structure.{{Citation needed|date=July 2009}}

A video was released for the song called Primitive 586 on the [[Factory Records discography|FACT 56, IKON 3]] VHS and BETA tape 'A Factory Video', the footage is mostly primitive 80s computer graphics.