How do you make a hugely-anticipated album even more exciting? Drop the lead single with some truly great remixes. Mute already had us drooling with the idea of what the great experimentalists Matmos would do with the surprisingly gentle ‘No. 1 Against The Rush’ (though we hope it has something to do with human fat
Gudrun Gut talks to Vince Clarke & Martin L. Gore
Mutual influence is a funny thing. Especially across generations. Ideas and methods reinterpreted by their originators through the filter of those they’ve inspired can be a source of creative evolution, but it can also be a recipe for (result of?) creative dead ends. Since their last collaboration over thirty years ago on Speak and Spell, – more
EB Exclusive: VCMG – Aftermaths (Gesaffelstein Remix)
We’ve been talking about this grande techno release since long. And today we’re serving the next portion, aka the exclusive pre-listening of Monsieur Gesaffelstein’s re-edit of VCMG’s instant classic, entitled ‘Aftermaths’ – more
VCMG – First listen EB Exclusive
As we reported last week, VCMG is the brand new techno project from Depeche Mode founding members Vince Clarke and Martin Gore. Fusing stripped down percussion, Teutonic precision and dank, brutal walls of rhythmic noise, “highly anticipated” is not even close. Gore most notably has shown an increasing interest in the purer strains of techno – more
VCMG is Vince Clarke and Martin Gore
Yes, you read that right. Vince Clarke of Depeche Mode, Yazoo and Erasure has joined forces with one time band mate Martin Gore for a new techno project called VCMG with an album to be released on Mute next Spring. The project was inspired by Clarke’s increasing interest in minimalist techno sounds and when – more
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