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

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.”

+ ‘SSSS’ ALBUM AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER

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