Wow, it's quiet these days. Which isn't a bad thing, of course. This is the still before the storm, but it does get a little bit boring. So with that in mind, I scoured the news wires for any mention of Modeness, and here's the hits and picks!
The San Diego Union Tribune summed up this years Coachella Festival, and outlined their wish list for next year's installment of the Californian music festival. Not surprisingly, Depeche Mode made the list. (link)
Review site Playback STL don't seem to think any record is to old to be run through it's paces, and reviews last years Hourglass. A decent...
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Home, in cooperation with Get Physical Music, are please to bring you another Booka Shade Contest! Here is your chance to win tickets to see Booka live, a meet and greet with the band, and much more!
The fine folks over at Get Physical Music, and Booka Shade themselves, have given us the opportunity to bring you yet another amazing Booka Shade contest! After their successful remix of Depeche Mode’s “Martyr”, they were sought after again to remix “Kingdom”, the lead single off of Dave Gahan’s new album Hourglass. Gahan has also included their remix of “Kingdom” again as one of the highlights...
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A definitive music anthology weekend of one of the most successful bands to emerge from the New Romantic and New Wave Era in the early 80’s till present.
For over 25 years Depeche Mode have been making ground-breaking, multi-million selling albums, and flying the flag of British musical excellence around the world. Depeche Mode began their existence as a bouncy dance-pop outfit that gradually developed a darker, more dramatic alternative sound. They were one of the first acts to establish a musical identity based completely around the use of synthesizers becoming an enormously dominant musical...
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Glen’s Elemental Podcast 002
Relation – Your Tiny Mind (Lifelike Remix) (Urban\\Torque]
The Presets – This Boy In Love (Jori Hulkkonen Remix) [Modular]
Metro Area – Erodyne [Environ]
Justice – DVNO (Sunshine Brothers Remix) [Downtown]
Depeche Mode – Enjoy The Silence ’08 (White Label)
Simian Mobile Disco – Hustler (Jesse Rose Remix) [Interscope]
Moi Caprice – Lighthouse (Montero Vocal Mix) (Okyo)
Hot Hot Heat – Let Me In (Josh Harris Remix) [Sire]
Metamatics – Personal Jesus (Original Mix) [Hydrogen Dukebox]
Cut Copy – Lights & Music (Boys Noize...
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The new Bomb The Bass album, Future Chaos, is out in May!
It has been 14 years since the last Bomb The Bass album was released and the wait for new material is over, the new album is called "Future Chaos" and it will be released in May of this year.
Tim Simenon, Depeche Mode collaborator, remixer, and producer, is saying that this record is a lot different then past BTB albums, it’s more electronic and the bulk of the music has been created with a Minimoog, the classic vintage synthesiser, giving the tracks a totally unified sound.
"It’s basically a Minimoog album with vocals on it,”...
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