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News (July 98)

Latest news related with Depeche Mode. No unbelievable rumours you can find here! All news're taken from BONG (Official fan club), Official DM Web-site, Mute Records, Reprise Records and whole internet. Updated as soon as possible (once a week usually). Compiled by Alex Davie.

Hot newS

  • New video compilation!
  • Only When I Lose Myself NEWS
  • North American dates will be available in the middle of July
  • Three NEW DM tracks are completed
  • Club 69 mix of It's No Good on CD!
  • Singles 86 98 UK Promo Compilation
  • European Tour Dates announced April 20th
  • Possibly DM'll come Moscow next tour!
  • Depeche Mode return to the road
  • Depeche News!!!
  • MTV (USA) is aired a Depeche Mode "Rockumentary"
  • New design of "Music For The Masses" sleeve
  • DJ Shadow's remix of "Painkiller"
  • Erasure "covers" Depeche Mode
  • New (second!) Recoil single
  • O-o-ps! New TRIBUTE! (updated July 31th info!)
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  • It's very likely that NEW video compilation will be released around the same time as the album.
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  • At the end of June Reprise Records has released a promo CD-R, containing "Only When I Lose Myself " and two other tracks, "Headstar" and "Tempt" (click here for details). It is not known if these songs will be included on the Greatest Hits double CD, or if they will just be b-side tracks. Bong Magazine reports that the first single will include a track titled "Surrender", whether this is "Tempt" under a different working title, or a different song completely, is not known.
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    Further info about "Only When I Lose Myself"

  • Depeche Mode has filmed the video to "Only When I Lose Myself" in New York City during July. The video is directed by Brian Griffin.
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  • Depeche Mode were in Abbey Road Studios (from 13th April till 1st May) putting the finishing touches on their 2CD Greatest Hits album, due out in October. The completed new tracks are "Only When I Lose Myself", "Headstar" and "Tempt". Tim Simenon produced the new songs.
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  • Club 69 (Peter Rauhofer) has released two mix CD compilations on Twisted Records. They are called "Club 69 Future Mix - The Collected Remixes Of Peter Rauhofer" (Vol. 1 & 2). The highlight for DM fans is track one on disc1. Peter received permission to include his Club 69 Future Mix of "It's No Good" on the CD. Keep in mind this is NOT the entire track. Since this is a mix CD, the track, after about 6:30, segues into the next track (in this case, Falco's "Der Kommissar"). Also, the track has been slightly re-edited from the version that appears on the US Promo 12", but at least you can own some of it. For those of you who don't have this DM mix, this is the news you have been waiting for!
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    The label details are as follows:

    CLUB 69 FUTURE MIX - the collected remixes of Peter Rauhofer (Volume 1)

    Twisted/MCA TWD-11792 (CD)

  • On Monday April 20, at press conference in Cologne, Germany DM announced their European Tour dates for this year. The European dates set from September 9th to October 17th. No North-American dates're announced at this press conference. Its assumed that the North American dates will be from late October to December, with more to possibly follow in early 1999.
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    Detailed info - here.

  • Sounds like sensation! There are some "seems like truth" rumours that Depeche Mode will go to Russia (including Moscow and St. Petersburg) during their The Singles Tour! I don't know are they really will be here but I pray that they do it anyway!
  • Depeche Mode return to the road this autumn. The band embark on an extensive two-month UK and European tour in September and October, with further dates in the US to follow in November and December. The new tour is entitled "The Singles Tour 86-98". This is the first time Depeche Mode have been seen in concert since Exotic part of their Devotional tour in 1994.
  • The band were in Eastcote Studios (from 9th March till 10th April) recording 2-3 new tracks for the Greatest Hits DCD. Tim Simenon produce all new material.
  • The first single is tentatively scheduled to be released in early August, with the double album to follow in mid October.

    The new album has no working title as of yet, but Richard Blade, a DJ on KROQ 106.7 in L.A., and a close personal friend to the band, confirmed on air that the tour will start in Europe in September, and that the new 2CD set is tentatively titled "Caught Up with DM".

    There are rumours that the first Depeche Mode song to be recorded for the new Greatest Hits compilation is titled "Higher Ground".

  • MTV (USA) played a "Rockumentary Remix" of Depeche Mode at 9 pm on April 10th. It contains previous footage from MTV's earlier "Rockumentary" from 1993 and some recent MTV News clips about Dave's troubles, as well as the rumored Greatest Hits album/tour at the end of 1998.
  • Mute Records (UK) has re-issued some of the DM back catalog CDs in their "Mid-Price" series. For this release, Mute has designed an entirely new sleeve design of Music For The Masses!
  • It was unreleased track from BOAG done by DJ Shadow. It has a lot of samples. But now Mo Wax Records (UK) has pressed up a limited edition (3000) 12" single of the DJ Shadow mix of "Painkiller" (officially called DJ Shadow vs. Depeche Mode - "Painkiller" - Kill The Pain Mix).
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  • Nice surprise! I heard that Erasure performed a fan-club-only concert in Manchester, England (on December 13th, 1997) and one of the songs performed was Just Can't Get Enough (!). Seems like Vince proud of his old hits!
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  • The new (second) Recoil single - "Stalker" - was released on March 9th (Mute). It contains the following tracks:
    1. Stalker Punished mix
    2. Missing Piece Night Dissolves
    3. Red River Cargo  

    For details click here.

  • There is completed info about new Depeche Mode tribute album to be released by US label 1500 Records (a Polygram company) at August 4th (in Russia this tribute is already released). The compilation was named "various artists for the MASSES" (catalogue number - 31454 0919-2/4/1) and it's a joint venture between Polygram and A&M. The artwork features a shot of the desert taken by Martyn Atkins who has done various album covers for DM in the past. Here's tracklisting:
    1. Smashing Pumpkins Never Let Me Down Again 4:52
    2. God Lives Underwater Fly On The Windscreen 5:22
    3. Failure Enjoy The Silence 4:22
    4. The Cure World in My Eyes 4:51
    5. Dishwalla Policy Of Truth 3:45
    6. Veruca Salt Somebody 4:05
    7. Meat Beat Manifesto Everything Counts 5:23
    8. Hooverphonic Shake The Disease 3:58
    9. Locust Master And Servant 3:40
    10. Self Shame 4:12
    11. Monster Magnet Black Celebration 4:16
    12. Rabbit In The Moon Waiting For The Night 7:34
    13. Apollo 440 I Feel You 5:21
    14. Gus Gus Monument 5:21
    15. DefTones To Have And To Hold 2:52
    16. Rammstein Stripped 4:44

    Total Time: 73:56



    Warm newS

  • Spending Christmas
  • NEWS from DEPECHE MODE!
  • "Barrel of a Gun" on DVD!
  • "Useless" single (UK & US)
  • Recoil "Unsound Methods" album (and single)
  • Latest on Dave Gahan
  • Trancemode Express 2.01
  • Band on vocations
  • Gahan's vocal contribution
  • Another stuff from Diesel Christ
  • Barrel Of The Sons - Ultrasounds dedicated to Depeche Mode
  • RECONSTRUCTION TIME - A TRIBUTE COMPILATION
  • The band spent Christmas at home. Only Martin and his family went for a short holiday in the Caribbean, left on Boxing Day and came back just after the New Year. Dave spent the week before Christmas with his son Jack in London and then spent Christmas and the New Year in the New York. Fletch stayed at home and spent the holydays with his family.
  • Martin has been very busy lately this year, writing new songs, and the band could be in studio as early as the New Year, working on a handful of new songs for inclusion in a double CD package, featuring all the band's hits since 1986. This package doesn't have a title yet, but it could be released late next summer. The band are also considering touring in the Autumn of 1998.
  • Reprise Records has released a promotional DVD disc (Digital Video Disc) that contains the music video for "Barrel Of A Gun". Disc contains 19 videos of various Reprise artists (including Depeche Mode). The catalog number is PRO-DVD-8825. Disc is packaged in one of those standard DVD holders that looks like a large Digi-Pak.
  • Useless was released on October, 20th in Great Britain. There're 2 CDs + 12", but each CD contains a video (wow!) as multimedia track. (CD1 - "Barrel of a Gun", CD2 - "It's No Good").Remixers of the single are Alan Moulder, CJ Bolland, Barry Adamson, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Cosmic Blues and Carl Craig. See "Useless" (Mute) details here.
  • The Useless video was filmed on Friday, August 29th, in Wells (UK) by Anton Corbijn. (Thanks God!). Music TV's are playing it with great pleasure now!
  • The release of Home as single in the USA is cancelled. Some tracks from it were included in CD, maxi CD and double A side 12" "Home/Useless" that were released in US on November 18th. It will contain best "Home" and "Useless" remixes. Maxi CD in its enhanced part has ALL (wow!) DM'97 videos!!! Overall, the quality of this CD is superior to the Mute UK pressings (in regards to the enhanced CD part). CD is in Booklet Grabber Pak.
  • First single from the new Recoil album "Unsound Methods" is "Drifing". The single was out on October, 13rd.
  • The album was released on October, 27th. Album ID is Stumm 159. By the way, again there's appeared some guest musicians on the album like Douglas McCarthy (Nitzer Ebb), Maggie Estep and Hildia Cambell, who already did the background vocals on SOFAD. The whole album sounds like the album "Bloodline". Here is the complete tracklisting:

    1. Incubus
    2. Driftin
    3. Luscious Apparatus
    4. Stalker
    5. Red River
    6. Control Freak
    7. Missing Piece
    8. Last Breath
    9. Shunt

    PCDStumm159 (thin jewel case, metallic green sleeve with X-Ray picture cover)

    Luscious Apparatus [6:01]
    Drifting [6:34]
    Stalker [6:42]
    Shunt [6:46]

    PLCDStumm159 (thin jewel case, different black X-ray picture to above)

    Luscious Apparatus [6:01]

    For New Recoil details click here.

  • A Los Angeles County District judge has dismissed the drug charges that had been pending against Depeche Mode frontman Dave Gahan. The singer was arrested last July and charged with possession and being under the influence of cocaine and heroin after overdosing in a Hollywood hotel. He then underwent a drug program under the supervision of the L.A. County probation department. Drug offenders with no prior convictions are usually placed in the program for 12 to 36 months, and Gahan completed about nine months. The district attorney on the case pleaded for longer court supervision, but the judge didn't see it that way.
    from MTV Online
  • A new tribute album : Trancemode Express 2.01 was released on September, 2nd. The first 10.000 copies will come with a Bonus Megamix CD containing a mix of "Blasphemous Rumours", "Fly On The Windscreen", "Photographic", "Everything Counts" and "The Meaning Of Love". Here is the tracklisting of Trancemode 2.01:

    # Band Song
    1. BLASPHEMOUS GARDEN Blasphemous Rumours
    2. GOOD COURAGE A Question Of Time
    3. BYPASS UNIT Just Can't Get Enough
    4. THE MEMORY GARDEN Fly On The Windscreen
    5. INTERFAITH Happiest Girl
    6. RSDR Photographic
    7. BONEHEAD Enjoy The Silence
    8. INTERFAITH Rush
    9. INNERVIEW Everything Counts (Part One)

    10.

    		DIN Everything Counts (Part Two)
    11. DISTANT VOICES The Meaning Of Love
  • The band went off for their holidays in August - Fletch visited Majorka, Martin spent some time on St.Croix in The Virgin Islands and Dave was in Santa Monica.
  • In Juny, Dave Gahan did a song for the Roxy Music Tribute Album "Dreamhome Heartaches... Remaking, Remodelling Roxy Music". The song is called Song for Europe. Executive producer is John Taylor (Duran Duran), producer Hein Hoven. The album was released at the end of September on a small label B5 Records supported by the charity Children's Hospital Los Angeles - High Risc Youth Program. This charity is a compehensive program, which aids homeless and wayward youths in LA and has been studied by other hospitals worldwide as a model program. Go to the B5 RECORDS and listen to a 30 sec. clip (in RealAudio format).
  • In May, Diesel Christ covered the whole ULTRA album. Fucking result - worst then their SOFAD version.
  • There're some news about new tribute album, released in April, called Barrel Of The Sons - Ultrasounds dedicated to Depeche Mode. Tracklisting as follows:

    # Band Song
    1. LAURA EFFECT Barrel Of A Gun
    2. ENCOUNTER The Love Thieves
    3. PROXY Home
    4. AUTOMATIC It's No Good
    5. INFAM Useless
    6. FORBIDDEN COLOURS Sister Of Night
    7. SOMBRE VIEW Freestate
    8. ESTRANGE The Bottom Line
    9. CHILDREN WITHIN Insight
    10. LCD Painkiller
  • Another new tribute album has been released on March, 11th. The compilation is called RECONSTRUCTION TIME - A TRIBUTE COMPILATION [Khazad-Dum KHA 038, Celtic Circle Producions]. Tracklisting as follows:

    # Band Song Time
    1. Amsterdam The Things You Said 4:00
    2. Battery Shame (Switch Mix) 3:29
    3. Ionic Vision Work Hard 4:32
    4. Simbolo World In My Eyes 4:50
    5. KieTheVez Photographic (Live) 4:14
    6. Fading Colours Clean 4:02
    7. Beborn Beton My Secret Garden 4:28
    8. Lights Of Euphoria Ice Machine 4:01
    9. Cycloon To Have And To Hold 3:56
    10. The Merry Thoughts The Sun & The Rainfall 5:53
    11. Reflection V Something To Do 3:36
    12. Inertia Behind The Wheel 5:28
    13. Bio-Tek Walking In My Shoes 5:06
    14. Panic On The Titanic Waiting For The Night 5:06
    15. Black Wedding Any Second Now 3:03
    16. The Escape Enjoy The Silence 5:08

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