Vince is currently relocating the studio to New York and pictures of that are promised soon…

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TRACKLISTING

• No. 1 Against The Rush
• No. 1 Against The Rush (Vince Clarke Remix)
• No. 1 Against The Rush (Matmos Remix)
• We’ll Never Learn

“…a hugely enjoyable ride, Clarke and Gore’s duelling synths creating an entirely instrumental soundtrack to the sci-fi movie playing inside your own head.” – The Independent

“…it feels like a natural progression from synthpop into more hard-edged material and robust pop sensibilities shine through amid the bleeps and filthy basslines.” – The Guardian

“SSSS is a fine piece of work – and regardless of the back-story, it’s quite amazing in its own right: an instrumental technofest that you could quite easily enjoy down the rave-up or while engaging in some housework. And that makes it mission accomplished so far as anyone with ears should be concerned. Tremendous stuff.” – BBC Music

“This is the most potent and inventive electronica album I’ve heard in ages, a masterclass in punchy bleepscaping.” – The Independent

“The end product is stern, frigid and heavy minimalist-techno, which also happens to be pop as fuck: urgent, impatient, sculpted, immediate, and incident-packed. Who needs vocals when you have a combined 60 years of pop-mastery on your side? That Ssss is also coherent, is a victory for experience and downright classiness.” – Drowned In Sound

“The beats just keep coming, as unstoppably relentless as a Boris Johnson speech… this is a tremendous album.” – The Arts Desk

TRACKLISTING

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

ORDER

‘Ssss’ is currently available to order via digital download, on CD, and as a limited edition vinyl album.

‘SSSS’ DOWNLOAD – MUTE BANK – / iTUNES UK / iTUNES DE / iTUNES USA

‘SSSS’ CD – LEXER MUSIC / MUTE BANK / AMAZON UK / AMAZON US / AMAZON DE

‘SSSS’ VINYL – LEXER MUSIC / MUTE BANK

The second VCMG release – ‘EP2 / Single Blip’ – is available to download from all good download stores. This release will be available as a five-track digital download and a three-track 12″ vinyl limited edition (available from next week) and the tracklistings look like this…

‘EP2/SINGLE BLIP’ – DOWNLOAD

Single Blip – Original Mix / Single Blip – Matthew Jonson Remix / Single Blip – Terrence Fixmer Remix / Single Blip – Byetone Remix / Single Blip – Wolfgang Voigt Auramix

ORDER – MUTE BANK / AMAZON UK / AMAZON US / iTUNES UK / iTUNES DE / iTUNES USA

‘EP2/SINGLE BLIP’ – VINYL

Single Blip – Original Mix / Single Blip – Byetone Remix / Single Blip – Matthew Jonson Remix

ORDER – LEXER MUSIC / MUTE BANK

The VCMG album ‘Ssss’ is now available to you for a sneaky listen, a week before its release on March 12th (March 13th in the USA). We have different media partners streaming the album in different parts of the world, so rather than list them all here you should go over to VCMG’s OFFICIAL FACEBOOK PAGE which through the power of technological magic will automatically display the link to your local stream!

TRACKLISTING

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

‘Ssss’ is currently available to preorder via digital download, on CD, and as a limited edition Vinyl Album.

‘SSSS’ DOWNLOAD – MUTE BANK – / iTUNES UK / iTUNES DE / iTUNES US available next week

‘SSSS’ CD – LEXER MUSIC / MUTE BANK / AMAZON UK / AMAZON US / AMAZON DE

‘SSSS’ VINYL – LEXER MUSIC / MUTE BANK

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TRACKLISTING

• Single Blip – Original Mix [5:47]
• Single Blip – Matthew Jonson Remix [11:11]
• Single Blip – Terrence Fixmer Remix [5:34]
• Single Blip – Byetone Remix [6:26]
• Single Blip – Wolfgang Voigt Auramix [5:12]

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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.”

+ ‘SSSS’ ALBUM AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER

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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