Comments OffShareA 2-Disk DVD set titled ‘Rewind Depeche Mode 30 Years At The Edge’ is scheduled for a February 22, 2011 release and can pre-ordered on amazon.com. Here is the description as seen on amazon.com: When four lads got together in 1980 sharing a love of the synthesiser sounds then just gaining ground, they could barely [...]
Comments OffShareThe full version of ‘Synth Britannia’ posted yesterday has been removed, but we were to locate eight of the nine segments of the documentary via YouTube. You can watch them all after the jump. Documentary following a generation of post-punk musicians who took the synthesiser from the experimental fringes to the centre of the pop [...]
Comments OffShareFirst official Depeche Mode MaxiMix participation with the 1987 classic single ‘Strangelove’ on Blank & Jones ‘So ’80s’ 3CD compilation. Blank & Jones is a Cologne, Germany based duo, consisting of the members Jan Pieter Blank, known as Piet Blank and René Runge, better known as DJ Jaspa Jones. The album is available now and [...]
Comments OffShare In the late Seventies small pockets of electronic artists such as The Human League, Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle were inspired by Kraftwerk and J G Ballard to dream of the sound of the future against the backdrop of bleak, high-rise Britain. Gary Numan’s 1979 appearance on Top Of The Pops heralded the invention [...]
Comments OffShareOut on February 19th will be the OneTwo single ‘Cloud Nine’. The title track ‘Cloud Nine’ was co-written by Depeche Mode songwriter Martin Gore and also features his guitar work. For OneTwo, a collaboration between OMD’s Paul Humphreys and Claudia Brücken from the German cultact Propaganda, it is the second time the track is being [...]
