Daughters dirige 'Personal Jesus 11'

Recordam-se de Patrick Daughters? O famoso director do vídeo de 'Wrong' também dirigiu o vídeo de 'Personal Jesus 11' que deverá ser conhecido em breve.

Enquanto aguardamos, recordamos o excelente vídeo de 'Wrong':

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Alan Wilder vai ao fundo do baú

Ainda pouco se sabe mas consta que Alan Wilder vai ao fundo do baú buscar algumas relíquias para leiloar. O leilão vai decorrer no sitio Heritage Auctions (maior leiloeiro de coleccionáveis) a partir de 22 de Julho.

Depeche mode? Recoil? Não se sabe mas provavelmente serão listados artigos de ambos. A expectativa é enorme uma vez que vão ser leiloados alguns artigos nunca vistos (pelo menos em leilão). Preparem a carteira meus amigos, é que parece-me que desta vez vão ser necessários muitos euros.

P.S. - Vídeo interessante.

RECOIL | Selected Events 2011

Já há muito tempo que aqui no blog não se fala de RECOIL, e seria imperdoável não o fazer, uma vez que os 'Selected Events 2011' já começaram.
Depois do grande sucesso no ano 2010, com passagens pela América do Sul, América do Norte e Europa, os ‘Selected Events’ voltam a acontecer em 2011 com algumas actuações já agendadas na Europa.
O arranque da segunda leg deu-se no passado dia 1 em Manchester, com um set list actualizado e com o Alan a apresentar um novo visual.

Seguem-se alguns dos melhores momentos do evento de Manchester.

+ 'THE KILLING GROUND' - 'NLMDA' - 'IN YOUR ROOM'


+ 'URANOKEMIA' - 'SHUNT' - 'WARM LEATHERETTE'


+ 'PERSONAL JESUS'


+ 'WANT'

Por fim fica aqui a agenda dos ‘Selected Events 2011’ e o respectivo vídeo promocional.

01/04/2011 - Manchester, Reino Unido - Academy 1, Manchester - Facebook
08/05/2011 - Tallinn, Estónia - Rock Cafe - Facebook
10/05/2011 - Vilnius, Lituânia - Forum Palace - Facebook
11/05/2011 - Ventspilis, Letónia - The Centre of Performing Arts - Facebook
13/05/2011 - Londres, Reino Unido - Roundhouse - Facebook
11/06/2011 - Paris, França - Le Zénith - Facebook
12/06/2011 - Leipzig, Alemanha - Wave Gotik Treffen - Facebook

DJ Fletch | Vídeo de NLMDA e BTW

Aqui fica mais um vídeo de Never Let Me Down Again (Eric Prydz Remix) e Behind the wheel (Vince Clarke Remix) do DJ set de Andy Fletcher do passado dia 17 em Melbourne na Austrália.

Ambas as remisturas, muito boas diga-se, farão parte do próximo álbum de remisturas dos Depeche Mode a editar brevemente. Pela amostra promete.

Happy Birthday RUI !

Rui Raposo (also known as "The Darkest Star"), criador do Depeche Mode Portugal está hoje de parabéns! Porque é um dia especial e também pelo enorme contributo que tem prestado à devoção nacional, fica aqui um video inédito (e no qual o próprio Rui "desenferruja" as cordas vocais ao som de Enjoy The Silence!), em nome de todos os fãs portugueses, com votos de um muito Feliz Aniversário!

DJ Fletch | Videos de Kiev

Aqui ficam alguns vídeos relativos ao DJ set de Andy Fletcher no passado sábado no Crystal Hall, em Kiev, Ucrânia, com casa cheia e público a aderir em euforia, principalmente aos temas dos Depeche Mode. Durante a noite, Andy Fletcher brindou os presentes com temas de La Roux, Hurt, New Order, remisturas já conhecidas dos DM e... algumas novas: Never Let Me Down Again, Behind The Wheel, Wrong e Personal Jesus. O novo album de remisturas, por aquilo que aqui se pode ouvir, promete.

:: Wrong ::


:: A Pain That I'm Used To ::


:: Suffer Well ::


:: Never Let Me Down Again + Behind The Wheel ::


:: Personal Jesus ::

DM | by Scala & Kolacny Brothers

Do heavy metal à música infantil, da electrónica ao pop e ao rock, com um simples piano ou até ao acordeão, são centenas e centenas de covers, dos mais diversos quadrantes que germinam, a cada dia, por esse youtube fora. Vistos como uma mera banda dos 80's por alguns, ou como uma enorme influência musical para muitos, os Depeche Mode estão mesmo em todas! Deliciem-se com este coro ;)

Kerry Hopwood e os Depeche Mode

O produtor e programador Kerry Hopwood, em entrevista conduzida por Niels Kolling para o sítio The Black Hit Of Space, fala sobre do seu trabalho realizado com os Human League. Como Kerry tem uma ligação forte aos Depeche Mode as perguntas foram surgindo. É sobre os Depeche Mode a parte da entrevista que aqui se transcreve.

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Being as big a fan of Depeche Mode, I have to sneak in some questions about the work you’ve done with Basildons finest. Congratulations on the brilliant job you did as musical director on their recent tour. I went to the Berlin, Copenhagen, Bremen, Paris and Horsens gigs and it kept getting better with the 2 latter ones the highlight for me.

Thanks for the kind comments about the DM tour, I think we were in a good place and by all accounts the feedback has been positive about the sound and look of the show plus I think Dave were putting in some great performances.

Really glad you enjoyed the shows in Paris, the boys certainly enjoyed them as the crowd were so enthusiastic even though Martin was quite ill on the first night, he still pulled off a good gig.

Horsens seemed very dry sounding, I guess due to the size but not too bad to work with.

Working as musical director on DMs last 2 tours, how involved are you in the pre-production of the live tracks? Are you programming what the band tell you to or do you have creative input as to what bits to extend or remix?

Well there is a long list of potential songs that we start out with and then I work by myself getting those together and then we'll get together a few weeks later and try and get it down from say 40 to 30 so I can concentrate on them more and then I'll do another stint before we go into rehearsals.

It is very loose with what to do, there may be suggestions about a direction for a track but on the whole I just get on with it and make of it what I want but I don't ever want to go too off piste with their stuff as I think sometimes it can alienate audiences when tracks become too overworked or vastly different. My main aim is at some point to have prepared the definitive version of a DM track for live.

This time around I remade a lot of the sounds so that sonically it would sound better than before and also changed the way I work with Christian with regards sound processing plus giving Pete sounds he can manipulate on synths rather than samples from the record, which was how it used to be done due to the complexity of DM recordings.

Any track that was particular interesting to deconstruct for live programming?

I think Photographic is the most fun in a way as I did that, just how they would have done it with three synths and a drummer (machine).

You also worked as programmer on the Ultra album, so how did Depeche Mode do things differently in the studio compared to The Human League?

Very similar in fact - Philip and Martin come in with songs and whether we go about things in the right way or the wrong way is another discussion but we tend to get into the studio, have our take on what we want to do with a track and just crack on with it.

So you may even not hear anything for a few hours as we're all beavering away on headphones but the we all emerge and start throwing sounds, parts, ideas together etc.

It is a bit of an isolated way of working at times but it is really because we just want to get as many ideas out for the project in the time frame and getting good sounds, for instance, is never a quick process.

Of the songs you've worked on with Depeche Mode my favourite track is Sister of Night and I was chuffed to bits as it was introduced in full band version on the recent tour. Just mindblowing! Any memories of making this cracker in the studio?

It is one of my favourite's too. Lot's of memories about this one, some a bit painful I'm afraid to say as it was a difficult time for the band but we got there in the end with Sister.

We had done an initial recording session in London and then moved all the gear over to work at Electric Ladyland in New York for a month or so. Sister, in the form you know it as now, emerged from this session.

The demo was really like a Bill Withers track, you like "Lovely Day" very nice but one day, we took it in another direction as that is what you do with DM tracks, deconstruct the song and rebuild with noises. Dave Clayton came up with most of the parts on this and I just did the drum programming to his amazing stuff.

The painful memories of this track were that Dave was not very well at the time and as Q and I were left to do the vocals, it was a very hard emotionally as Dave was trying his best to sing but was clearly not well enough to do so.

In the end the vocals took many days to do and I ended up comping (making lines of songs from words and syllables) as best I could and patching it together as best I could from the many, many takes we had. In the end, I doubt many people would hear what it took to get that vocal, which is good in a way.

Did it cause any problems as you programmed it for the tour?

It was a delight revisiting the track just to hear the sounds again in isolation.

I'm a little surprised that Depeche Mode didn't play more songs from the Sounds Of The Universe album on the tour, especially gems like Perfect, In Sympathy and Corrupt. So were they programmed and rehearsed?

Yes, we actually rehearsed more stuff off the new album than before except Perfect (much to my dismay) but as the band said, sometimes there are songs that, with the best will in the world, just don't seem to lend themselves to being done live.

My favourite from the SOTU sessions are Oh Well. Would love to hear it live with Martin, Dave and Fletch moved to the front with a couple of synths, dim the lights, turn on the stroboscopics and let it rip. Could create a club vibe in a stadium! Can you see its live potential?

Maybe you should come and do the next tour with them Niels.

Listening to Depeche Mode live a hundred times in a row sounds like a wet dreams to die hard DM fans. So are you able to enjoy the show while you're working?

I really enjoy working on all my live shows anyway but with DM it is always special, they are a great band, great fun to be with.

We have, in my opinion, the best front man out there plus added to the fact that each night's DM audience are quite often heads and shoulders above other audiences, there is never a feeling of Groundhog Day.

Any favourite live tracks?

I think my favourite live tracks are when Martin gets up with Pete and then either Never Let Me Down or Stripped.

You were also heavily involved in the production of the Live In Barcelona CD and DVD that has just been released to sum up Tour Of The Universe?

I mixed the live DVD for the SOTU tour with Antony King our sound engineer and I really enjoyed my time back in the studio.

The band were not happy with the mixes that the first guy had done so right after the tour I went in to start some prep work at my studio and then we mixed for a two week period with Antony our FOH guy and then after some comments from the guys I made the tweaks and then did the 5.1 mix.

We mixed it up at Alan Moulder and Floods studio in London and it was a lot of fun, hard work at times I admit but I am looking forward to it's release and hopefully a favourable reaction to what we did as I tried to get over what I think the show should be like with plenty of atmosphere rather than some of the clinical, clean and dry DVD's some bands ending up sounding.

You did a brilliant job as the sound is simply awesome! It's No Good, Jezebel, Never Let Me Down Again and Sister Of Night are some real hightlights. Found lots of new details I didn't noticed at the gigs, real goosebump moments!

I really appreciate your kind words for the DVD.

It is always a bit difficult to please everybody, but I just tried to do what I thought was right for this project (as it is the only way I know how to do things really) as the previous attempts just didn't sound very exciting or how I heard the gig so that was why we took over.
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Ler a entrevista completa aqui.

Vídeo de Kerry a demonstrar como se faz o processamento da bateria num concerto dos Depeche Mode.

Remix | Conversas sobre 'Personal Jesus'

Andrew Wyatt e Mark Ronson que juntamente com Nick Rhodes remisturaram 'Personal Jesus' falam dos vários projectos, de entre os quais a remistura dos DM. Interessante a referência à responsabilidade de remisturar 'Personal Jesus'. Vejam o vídeo:

Para as últimas informações sobre o novo álbum de remixes passem por aqui.

Personal Jesus na Operação Triunfo

Ora parece que por cá as produtoras de televisão também conhecem os Depeche Mode, ou será antes Marilyn Manson? Bem a verdade é recebemos um email de um devoto a informar de que no passado sábado um dos concorrentes da Operação Triunfo cantou o Personal Jesus.

Aqui fica o vídeo:

Recoil | Alan Wilder de volta à Europa

Após 20 noites de grande sucesso, muitas delas com lotação esgotada, a presença de Martin Gore como DJ, Gary Numan, Daniel Myer, Dave Gahan na plateia e um público fantástico está terminada a segunda parte dos Selected Events realizada na América do Norte e do Sul.

A comprovar a fantástica atmosfera vivida nestes eventos vejam o último vídeo update gravado no Quito, Equador.

De regresso à Europa segue-se uma versão actualizada dos eventos 'A Strange Hour', com novos vídeos e setlist actualizado. Vejam o vídeo de promoção.

Será que só eu é que acho estes trailers muito bons?

Lisboa | Para recordar

PUBLICIDADE

Vamos fazer um curto intervalo para publicidade. Voltamos já a seguir! ;)

DVD | Espectacular

DVD | EPK - Electronic Press Kit

Mais um vídeo. Desta vez uma pequena amostra do Electronic Press Kit que promove o concerto gravado em Barcelona. Apreciem.

DVD | Personal Jesus completa!

DVD | Novo vídeo promocianal

Mais uma pequena amostra do que nos espera a partir de dia 8. As expectativas estão muito altas.

DVD | Live in Barcelona #3

DVD | Novos vídeos promocionais

Surgiram nas lojas online, dois novos vídeos de promoção ao DVD da Tour Of The Universe, Live In Barcelona, que tem edição agendada para dia 08 de Novembro.

Pela amostra arrisca-se ser um dos melhores DVDs de sempre em relação à captura de planos (alguns planos da audiência são surpreendentes) e qualidade de imagem. Aguardamos por dia 8 para saber da qualidade de som. Aqui ficam os vídeos, deliciem-se.

DVD | Live in Barcelona #2