Category Archives: Depeche Mode
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The Depeche Mode lineage has been in the news quite a bit lately. Martin Gore has just released his collaboration with Vince Clark called VCMG. Dave Gahan has contributed vocals to the forthcoming Soulsavers album. With all of that going on, it’s good to step back and take a look at the influence Depeche Mode has played on many modern artists from Synthpop to Goth Rock to Industrial. Depeche Mode has paved the way for many of these bands and in turn, these bands have shown their love with their renditions of Mode classics. Not so much covers as they are tributes to the band that made it possible for them to make the music they do.
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As previously reported, Depeche Mode frontman, Dave Gahan will be providing vocals on the forthcoming 4th album from Soulsavers. While the record, The Light The Dead See, will not be available until May 21st, we are excited to present audio of the first single, Longest Day.
Gahan had this to day about the recordings; “This music gave me the perfect palate to play with the BIG questions that we all ask when life becomes less about what can we GET, than: what can we DO? I’ve been very fortunate, and I’m privileged in my life, so I want to do things I feel really connected to now, otherwise there’s no point. Rich and I had both come out of something difficult. This is something to do with that. It was a wonderful experience”.
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Soulsavers, the music and production duo of Rich Machin and Ian Glover, will release their new album, The Light The Dead See on May 21st. Their previous three LPs have featured a variety of guest vocalists – most notably Screaming Trees vocalist Mark Lanegan, This much anticipated 4th album will have a new voice – Depeche Mode frontman Dave Gahan. The album will be available on CD, LP and as a download.
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The much anticipated project between Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore and ex- DM keyboardist Vince Clark, under the moniker of VCMG, has set the release date for their debut album for March 12th. The album will be titled Ssss.
In December, we got a preview of the first collaboration between Gore/Clarke in over 30 years when they released the Spock EP. The full 10 track Ssss album, showcases their mutual love of Electronic music and will include the 12″ single version of Spock as well as a track from the upcoming EP2, Single Blip.
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As fellow music geeks, your friends at Strangeways know how important it is to make sure that your offspring grow up sharing your love of great music. It’s never too early to start sharing that love of music with your baby. Thankfully, Twinkle Twinkle Little Rockstar has created an entire catalog of relaxing lullaby renditions of your favorite artists including Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, U2, The Police, The Smiths, Radiohead, Coldplay, Muse, The Killers, Arcade fire and more.
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In the wake of the release of VCMG, the Vince Clarke/Martin Gore collaboration, comes the news you have been waiting for. In a recent interview with Spazio Mad, Andy Fletcher intimated that the band plans to meet in January to discuss the follow up to 2009′s Sounds of The Universe.
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Great news for Depeche Mode fans…or ummmm synthpop fans, or just fans of truly great music. 30 years after the release of Depeche Mode’s Speak and Spell, Vince Clarke and Martin Gore are reuniting for brand new music!
The project is called VCMG and was born of Clarke’s recent love of Minimal dance music. He reached out to his old buddy Gore and asked if he might be interested in collaborating on a techno record. Fortunately for all of us, Gore was happy to oblige.
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