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Depeche Mode: Remixes 81-04

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Label: Mute Records
Released: 2004.10.25
Time:
 88:32
Category: Synthpop
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Rating: ******.... (6/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.depechemode.com
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Purchase date: 2013
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Never Let Me Down Again (Split Mix) - 9:32
[2] Personal Jesus (Pump Mix) - 7:47
[3] Barrel of a Gun (Underworld Hard Mix) - 9:36
[4] Route 66 (Beatmasters Mix) - 6:18
[5] Useless (The Kruder + Dorfmeister Session™) - 9:06
[6] In Your Room (The Jeep Rock Mix) - 6:19
[7] Home (Air "Around the Golf" Remix) - 3:55
[8] Strangelove (Blind Mix) - 6:32
[9] I Feel You (Renegade Soundwave Afghan Surgery Mix) - 4:57
[10] Just Can't Get Enough (Schizo Mix) - 6:45
[11] Halo (Goldfrapp Remix) - 4:22
[12] Enjoy the Silence (Reinterpreted) - 3:32

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Martin L. Gore - Keyboards, Guitar, Vocals
Dave Gahan - Lead Vocals
Andrew Fletcher - Keyboards

Former members:
Vince Clarke (1980-81) - Keyboards
Alan Wilder (1982-95) - Keyboards, Drums

Roland Brown - Compilation
Intro - Design
Paul Morley - Liner Note
Jonathan Kessler - Management
Mike Marsh - Mastering

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2004 CD Mute LCDMUTEL8



Remixes 81-04 is an album by British electronic music group Depeche Mode which was released on 25 October 2004. It was the band's first release since Daniel Miller's independent label Mute Records was acquired by industry major EMI in 2002. It features well-known remixes from the band's back catalog as well as previously unavailable mixes. There are three versions of Remixes 81–04. The main version has 2 CDs. The limited-edition version has the same two CDs, plus a bonus CD with mostly new remixes. There is also a one-CD release with selections from all three discs. The booklet, found in all three versions, features an essay by Paul Morley. A special "Secret Website" (now offline) could be unlocked with the CDs. During the promotion of the limited three-CD edition of Remixes 81–04, the above mentioned site was launched for fans who bought the bundle, which featured exclusive goodies. There was a special digital download-only bundle entitled Remixes 81···04 Rare Tracks, which is now offline for all songs except one listed below. It was accompanied with official artwork (also download-only). Users who bought the entire bundle could burn the tracks to a 90-minute CD-R (the whole album lasts 88:32) and print the artwork. In this case, you may say that the album has four CDs. It was followed by a second remix album, Remixes 2: 81-11 on 3 June 2011.

wikipedia.org



Schon in den frühen Achtzigern haben sich Depeche Mode - vielleicht mehr als andere Bands - an Remixe rangewagt und diese auch geschickt genutzt, in dem sie ab 1984 von jedem Single-Release mindestens zwei unterschiedliche Versionen veröffentlichten. Die Fülle an Material stellte schon eindrucksvoll die im Frühjahr 2004 komplettierte Singles-Box-Sets-Serie da. Einen gelungen Überblick ihrer Remix-Historie bietet jetzt die Compilation Remixes 81-04. Erfreulich hieran, dass nicht ausschließlich Single-Hits ausgewählt wurden, sondern mit "Shout", "Rush" oder "Pain Killer" auch B-Seiten den Weg auf die Scheibe fanden und so wieder einem breiteren Publikum zugänglich werden. Für Depeche-Mode-Einsteiger und Remix-interessierte im Allgemeinen ist Remixes 81-04 ein echter Tipp. Jedem Sammler sei dieses limitierte Triple-CD-Set empfohlen, denn hier finden sich neben zahlreichen Neu-Interpretationen von 2004 u.a. auch Daniel Millers "World In My Eyes"-Remix, der wegen seiner Seltenheit und seiner Güte zu Recht einen besonderen Status unter den DM-Remixen hat.

Ulf Behlen - Amazon.de



There was a time when you could walk into your average record store and find the singles section by spotting the big block of black rows. These rows signaled the whereabouts of the Ds and tended to eat up a disproportionate space of the singles section. In 2004, the Mute label condensed all of these releases into Remixes 81-04, which itself was ironically (or fittingly) presented in multiple versions. This particular version is a triple-disc set that attempts to function as a representative sampling of Depeche Mode's innumerable remixes. It does an admirable job, making a point to highlight glorified extended versions and radical reworkings alike. François Kevorkian, for instance, uses his invaluable understanding of the inner workings of both disco and dub to extend and sensitively tweak "Personal Jesus" for the dancefloor, transforming it into something that he would likely spin while DJing. Air, however, alter "Home" to the point where it sounds like one of their own moody, downcast productions -- Martin L. Gore plays guest instead of host. One of the most thrilling remixes shows no respect to the source material; Adrian Sherwood's decimation of "People Are People," from 1984, is a succession of jackhammering beats, agitated noise fragments, bizarre vocal interjections. In order to entice hardcore fans who already have the old remixes on the original single releases (or the six exhaustive box sets), a handful of new remixes were commissioned. Most of these appear in the latter half of the third disc, and at least half deserve to be in the company of the better-known reshapes. "Clean" is turned into a bristly acid gallop by Colder, and the new rhythm winds up coming close to mirroring "Personal Jesus." Rex the Dog reaches all the way back to "Photographic," providing layer upon layer of bursting synth. Ironically (or fittingly), Paul Morley - who, as one of the tricksters behind the ZTT label (Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Propaganda), came up with the idea that you could never have a track remixed too many times - pens the liner notes.

Andy Kellman - AllMusic.com
 

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