Depeche Mode - Remixes 81-04 Audio CD
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Band: Depeche Mode
Title: Remixes 81-04
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Release Date: 2004-10-26
Media: Audio CD
Tracks: 1: Never Let Me Down Again (Split Mix)/Depeche Mode & Dave Bascombe 2: Personal Jesus (Pump Mix)/Francois Kevorkian 3: Barrel Of A Gun (Underworld Hard Mix)/Underworld 4: Route 66 (The Beatmasters Remix)/The Beatmasters 5: Useless (The Kruder + Dorfmeister Session)/Kruder + Dorfmeister 6: In Your Room (The Jeep Rock Mix)/Johnny Dollar & Portishead 7: Home (Air “Around The Golf” Remix)/Air 8: Strangelove (Blind Mix)/Daniel Miller & Rico Conning 9: I Feel You (Renegade Soundwave Afghan Surgery Mix)/ 10: Just Can’t Get Enough (Schizo Mix)/Depeche Mode & Daniel Miller 11: Halo (Goldfrapp Remix)/Goldfrapp 12: Enjoy The Silence (Reinterpreted)/Mike Shinoda
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Great remix album If you like Depeche Mode and you like electronica, you'll love this album. This album takes many great DP hits to the techno club.
darkwave synth-pop music at its best!
This is a five star album
. Members
Dave Gahan
Martin Gore
Andrew Fletcher
Former members
Vince Clarke
Alan Wilder
This remix album is absolutely amazing! The vocals and keyboards mix very well to create some dark yet danceable songs.
Loved it!!
"Enjoy the Silence" is one of my favorites and although I never tire of the original version, the remix is awesome. I've been a huge fan since the 80's and this CD puts a new spin on all their great hits. I'd recommend adding this one to your collection. . . .
Enjoyable for those who like DM in all their manifestations
But, if you hate that type of music, I would be surprised by the fact that you liked DM. I agree - if you don't like electronica or dance, you will probably hate this CD (I have not heard the entire 3-CD set, just the 1 CD version). I thoroughly enjoyed this CD, even more than I thought I would. I have a mixed tolerance for remixes so I was not sure I would like the CD. However, I was pleasantly surprised by the range that I heard on the CD (even if it was all electronic). I was espcially blown away by "Halo" and "Enjoy the Silence. " Like another reviewer, I agree that "Barrel of a Gun" is positively hideous but that song serves as the exception not the rule for this CD. "Route 66" and "Just Can't Get Enough" are wonderful throw backs to the originals. Unlike one reviewer who felt that these remixes were simply extended versions of the originals, I would disagree in several places ("In Your Room" is a fantastic example of a completely reworked song. ) I too would like to have seen something after Ultra on this album but I suppose that is simply more incentive to buy the larger CD compilation.
Depeche Mode Remixes 1
It is difficult to remix Depeche Mode when they have such great songs to begin with. This is a one disc set of a slimmed down version of the three-disc remix set which is available for a lot more money. So I find it hard to add anything new to the originals to make them seem better.
Some of the beats are okay and some remixes work better than others. The list price is way too much for what you get.
Overall though, you'd be much better starting with the individual albums themselves.
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