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VCMG reveal ‘EP2/Single Blip’ artwork, tracklisting and release details, PLUS ‘SSSS’ album preorder (25 January 2012)

VCMG – the much anticipated collaboration between Vince Clarke and Martin L. Gore (Depeche Mode) – will precede the March 12th release of their debut album ‘Ssss’ with a second EP entitled ‘EP2/Single Blip’ which will be released on February 27th.

Here’s the official press release announcing the second EP;

VCMG ANNOUNCE DETAILS OF ‘EP2/SINGLE BLIP’

VCMG – ‘EP2/SINGLE BLIP’ NEW EP RELEASED 27 FEBRUARY 2012

DEBUT ALBUM ‘SSSS’, OUT 12 MARCH 2012

EP2/Single Blip – from Vince Clarke and Martin L. Gore’s highly anticipated collaboration, VCMG – rears its head on 27 February 2012, with remixes from Byetone and Mathew Jonson.

A pounding motorik beat heralds the start of this minimal electronic tour de force. With primal drums and puckering bleeps, it’s an industrial battle cry of the darkest proportions, setting teeth on edge with nails-across-blackboard screeching, ominous synths and spiraling rhythms.

EP2/SINGLE BLIP TRACKLISTING

Single Blip
Single Blip – Byetone remix
Single Blip – Mathew Jonson remix

EP2/Single Blip remixes come courtesy of sparce electronic artist Byetone, aka Berliner Olaf Bender, co-founder and the man responsible for the iconic design output at Raster-Noton. His 2011 album Symeta featured in Fact and The Quietus’ end of year polls, and previous remix credits inc Modeselektor and eLan.

Alongside is a remix from Mathew Jonson, co-founder of Wagon Repair label and one-quarter of electronic improvisers Cobblestone Jazz. Canadian born Jonson has previously remixed the likes of Plastikman, Tiga and Chemical Brothers to great acclaim.

‘SSSS’ – the debut album by VCMG – is out on 12 March 2012 and boasts ten tracks of the same Teutonic turn-ons. Written and produced by Clarke and Gore, the album was mixed by Timothy ‘Q’ Wiles and recorded and engineered by Sie Medway Smith and Clarke.

Mastered by Stefan Betke (aka Pole), the album demonstrates Clarke and Gore’s shared love of electronic music and marks the arrival proper of this enigmatic duo who have teamed up again after thirty years.

Speaking to MOJO this month, Clarke says the collaborative process was “really about exchanging colours… like two people doing a painting in a different room,” and Gore confessed his preference for “anything that’s a bit darker… with a driving rhythm.”

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VCMG announces ‘Single Blip’ EP and ‘Ssss’ album (10 January 2012)

VCMG – Vince Clarke’s techno project with his former Depeche Mode bandmate, Martin L. Gore – has announced that their debut album will be called ‘Ssss’ and will be released on March 12th.

The duo will also follow the project’s first release – December’s EP1/Spock – with a second EP entitled EP2/Single Blip, again via download and on 12″ vinyl. More details of that soon…

Here’s the official press release announcing the album;

VCMG ANNOUNCE ALBUM DETAILS

VINCE CLARKE AND MARTIN L. GORE RELEASE ‘SSSS’ 12 MARCH 2012

VCMG release one of 2012′s most anticipated musical collaborations with the album ‘Ssss’, out on Mute on 12 March 2012.

It marks the long awaited reunion of electronic pioneers Vince Clarke (Erasure/ Yazoo/ Depeche Mode) and Martin L. Gore (Depeche Mode), who have joined forces for the first time in over thirty years to craft a 10-track album which demonstrates their mutual love of electronic music.

After initial tentative discussions, and a meeting at Short Circuit presents Mute festival in London, where they both performed, these two influential musicians and songwriters worked in a typically unique way. Clarke and Gore worked alone in their respective studios, communicating only via email and exchanging files until the album was ready. The album includes the recent 12” EP1/Spock, described by The Quietus as “one of the best tracks of 2011”, plus the forthcoming EP2/Single Blip.

‘Ssss’, written and produced by Vince Clarke and Martin L. Gore, was mixed by Timothy ‘Q’ Wiles, recorded and engineered by Sie Medway Smith and Vince Clarke and mastered by Stefan Betke (aka Pole).

Full remix details for EP2/Single Blip, the follow up to EP1 / Spock – out now on 12″ / download and featuring remixes by Edit-Select, Regis, DVS1 and XOQ – will follow.

SSSS (STUMM441) TRACKLISTING:

Lowly
Zaat
Spock
Windup Robot
Bendy Bass
Single Blip
Skip This Track
Aftermaths
Recycle
Flux

“Fusing stripped down percussion, Teutonic precision and dank, brutal walls of rhythmic noise, “highly anticipated” is not even close.” – Electronic Beats

“Aimed squarely at the wee small hours of the club” – Fact

VCMG’s first release now available on 12″ vinyl (19 December 2011)

EP1/SPOCK, the first EP to come from the Vince Clarke and Martin L. Gore techno project VCMG, is now available to buy in a special 12″ vinyl edition.

12″ VINYL TRACKLISTING
A – Spock – Album version / Spock – Edit Select Remix.
B – Spock – Regis Remix / Spock – XOQ Remix

EP1/SPOCK is available to buy from good music retailers including LEXER MUSIC and MUTE BANK.

VCMG release EP1/SPOCK today as Beatport download (30 November 2011)

EP1/SPOCK, the first EP to come from the Vince Clarke and Martin L. Gore techno project VCMG, is available to download exclusively from Beatport from today until December 12th when it will become available from all good online retailers.

DOWNLOAD NOW FROM BEATPORT – NEW SITE | OLD SITE

TRACKLISTING
Spock – Album version / Spock – Edit Select Remix / Spock – Regis Remix / Spock – DVS1 Voyage Home Remix / Spock – XOQ Remix

EP1/SPOCK will also be released on 12″ vinyl on December 19th and you can pre-order that format from all good record shops, including LEXER MUSIC and MUTE BANK.

VCMG reveal artwork for ‘Spock’ EP (22 November 2011)

Following yesterday’s announcement (below) about the the release of ‘Spock’, the first EP to come from the Vince Clarke and Martin L. Gore project VCMG, here’s the artwork.

EP1/SPOCK will be available initially as a global exclusive on Beatport from November 30th, and then from all online outlets from December 12th with a 12″ release following on December 19th.

TRACKLISTING
Spock – Album version / Spock – Edit Select Remix / Spock – Regis Remix / Spock – DVS1 Voyage Home Remix / Spock – XOQ Remix

VCMG (Vince Clarke & Martin Gore) - EP1 / SPOCK

Vince Clarke and Martin L. Gore announce VCMG (21 November 2011)

Mute have today announced details of the much anticipated collaboration between Vince Clarke and Martin L. Gore and you can find all the information available so far in Mute’s official press release below;

VINCE CLARKE AND MARTIN L. GORE ANNOUNCE DETAILS OF BRAND NEW COLLABORATION

After 30 years working on their respective ongoing music projects, Vince Clarke (Erasure / Yazoo / Depeche Mode) and Martin L. Gore (Depeche Mode) come together for the first time since 1981 as VCMG to release a brand new album on Mute, preceded by a series of EPs.

VCMG is the fruit of initially tentative discussion and subsequent enthused collaboration where Vince and Martin, both influential as pioneers in electronic music, get to exercise their lifelong love of the genre as the techno-inspired VCMG.

As Vince explains: “I’ve been getting into and listening to a lot of minimal dance music and I got really intrigued by all the sounds… I realised I needed a collaborator… so it occurred to me to talk to Martin.”

Says Gore: “Out of the blue I got an e-mail from Vince just saying, ‘I’m interested in making a techno album. Are you interested in collaborating?’ This was maybe a year ago. He said, ‘No pressure, no deadlines,’ so I said, ‘OK’.”

The writing and recording of the album was done in a typically unique way with the pair working alone in their respective studios, communicating only via email, exchanging files until the album was ready. It was in May 2011 that the pair met for the first time to discuss the project when they both performed at Short Circuit presents Mute festival in London.

The album (title to be announced soon) was produced by Vince Clarke and Martin L. Gore and mixed by the influential Californian electronic artist Überzone/Q and will be released in the spring of 2012.

The first release is an EP entitled Spock. EP1 / SPOCK will feature remixes from Edit-Select, aka Tony Scott, the UK DJ / producer and founder of EditSelect Records whose previous remix credits include Speedy J, Death In Vegas and Gary Beck; Regis, British techno musician Karl O’Connor, member of the Sandwell District collective and co-founder of Downwards Records); Zak aka DVS1, founder of Hush Records and one of the most prominent figures in US dance music counts techno innovator Derrick May amongst his biggest fans, with his second ever release on May’s own Transmat plus XOQ, the alter ego of Überzone / Q, who mixed the VCMG album.

EP1/SPOCK will be available initially as a global exclusive on Beatport on 30 November, and then on all DSPs from 12 December with the 12″ release following on 19 December 2011.

VCMG - Vince Clarke & Martin L. Gore

EP1 / SPOCK TRACKLIST
Spock – Album version / Spock – Edit Select Remix / Spock – Regis Remix / Spock – DVS1 Voyage Home Remix / Spock – XOQ Remix

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VCMG photographs by Travis Shinn

Vince Clarke remixes ‘Behind The Wheel’ for Depeche Mode (31 May 2011)

Vince Clarke’s remix of Depeche Mode’s classic ‘Behind The Wheel’, taken from the Depeche Mode remix album ‘Remixes 2: 81-11′ which is due for release on June 6th, has appeared on YouTube, have a listen…

Another thumbs up for Vince Clarke’s remix of ‘Sweet Suburban Disco’ for Billie Ray Martin (31 March 2011)

Chicago’s Windy City Times has paid tribute to Vince Clarke’s remix of Billie Ray Martin’s ‘Sweet Suburban Disco’ single in their recent review…

It is report-card time, and Billie Ray Martin earns another A+. The forward-thinking artist has issued a string of magnificent singles like ‘Undisco Me’, ‘Just Fascination’ and ‘The Crackdown’ while her loyal fan base waits in anticipation of her next move. Her latest, ‘Sweet Suburban Disco’, does not disappoint as she tells the story of a woman finding solace on the dance floor. Erasure’s Vince Clarke offers a tremendous remix, giving the track more body and depth.

See below to listen to the remix.

Vince Clarke remixes Depeche Mode for new ‘Remixes 2: 81-11′ compilation (23 March 2011)

Depeche Mode announced today that they will release a remix compilation entitled ‘Remixes 2: 81-11′ on June 6th, a release that will include a Vince Clarke remix of ‘Behind The Wheel’.

The release will be available in a number of formats, including a 3-CD edition, an edited 1-CD edition and a boxset containing six 12″ vinyl singles.

TRACKLISTING (3-CD EDITION)

CD1: Dream On – Bushwacka Tough Guy Mix (2001); Suffer Well – M83 Remix (2006); John The Revelator – UNKLE Reconstruction (2006); In Chains – Tigerskin’s No Sleep Remix (2009); Peace – SixToes Remix (2009); Lilian – Chab Vocal Remix Edit (2006); Never Let Me Down Again – Digitalism Remix (2006); Corrupt – Efdemin Remix (2009); Everything Counts – Oliver Huntemann And Stephan Bodzin Dub (2006); Happiest Girl – The Pulsating Orbital Vocal Mix (1990); Walking In My Shoes – Anandamidic Mix (1993); Personal Jesus – The Stargate Mix (2011); Slowblow – Darren Price Mix (1997)

CD2: Wrong – Trentemøller Club Remix (2009); World In My Eyes – Dub In My Eyes (1990); Fragile Tension – Peter Bjorn and John Remix (2009); Strangelove – Tim Simenon/Mark Saunders Remix (1998); A Pain That I’m Used To – Jacques Lu Cont Remix (2005); The Darkest Star – Monolake Remix (2006); I Feel You – Helmet At The Helm Mix (1993); Higher Love – Adrenaline Mix Edit (2004); Fly On The Windscreen – Death Mix (1985); Barrel Of A Gun – United Mix (1997); Only When I Lose Myself – Dan The Automator Mix (1998); Ghost – Le Weekend Remix (2009)

CD3: Personal Jesus – Alex Metric Remix Edit (2011); Never Let Me Down Again – Eric Prydz Remix (2011); Behind The Wheel – Vince Clarke Remix (2011); Leave In Silence – Claro Intelecto ‘The Last Time’ Remix (2011); In Chains – Alan Wilder Remix (2011); When The Body Speaks – Karlsson And Winnberg Remix (2011); Puppets – Röyksopp Remix (2011); Tora! Tora! Tora! – Karlsson And Winnberg (from Miike Snow) Remix (2011); Freestate – Clark Remix (2011); I Want It All – Roland M. Dill Remix (2011); A Question Of Time – Joebot Presents ‘Radio Face’ Remix (2011); Personal Jesus – Sie Medway-Smith Remix (2011)

Vince Clarke contributes to the Bob Moog Tribute Library (21 March 2011)

Vince Clarke is among the stellar line-up of synth artists, remixers and sound designers who have contributed sounds to a new Bob Moog Tribute library of sounds for Omnisphere.

The library – consisting of 2 GB of new sounds and 739 patches created by musicians such as Ryuichi Sakamoto, Jean Michel Jarre, Hans Zimmer and Danny Elfman – is onsale now for $100, with all proceeds going to benefit the Bob Moog Foundation.

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