Video 5 8 6

"Video 5 8 6"
Single by New Order
B-side	"As You Said"
Released	22 September 1997
Recorded	1982
Genre	Electronic[1] experimental[2]
Length	22:23
Label	Touch
Producer(s)	New Order
New Order singles chronology
"Blue Monday-95" (1995) "Video 5 8 6" (1997) "Crystal" (2001)

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"Video 5 8 6", originally titled "Prime 5 8 6",^[4][5] is an electronic instrumental piece and twenty-fourth single written and produced in 1982^{[citation needed]} by the British group New Order.^[6] In December 1982, the track was initially released in two sections in Touch Music's first cassette magazine, Feature Mist.^[4][6][7] Touch re-released the entire track as a CD single in 1997.^[4][7]

Composed primarily by Bernard Sumner and 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".^[4] After Factory Records' Tony Wilson asked New Order for twenty minutes of "pap", it was first played in public during the opening of The Haçienda on 21 May 1982.^[4]

On release it reached #86 on the main British singles chart^[8] and #19 on the British 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 structure.^{[citation needed]}

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