Side 1 of a Depeche Mode cassette compilation, recorded circa September/October 1998.
I posted Side 2 in May this year and I still haven't got around to buying the current Depeche Mode album, Memento Mori, despite really liking the lead single, Ghosts Again. A testament to the amount of other great music that's been released this year but despite being the first gig I ever went to and my obsessive need to buy all of their singles through to, well, around the end of 1998 I was still never what you'd describe as a devotional fan.
I did like their singles and pick of remixers though and I think this mixtape is a pretty good example that when they were good, they were very good.
William Orbit's Random Carpet Mix of Walking In My Shoes pops up on compilations in a full length 8+ minute version, but I prefer the six-and-a-half minute edit that appeared on the original CD single.
The KLF remix is a relative rarity. They didn't do that many in their time but they were always worth hunting down. As is Dan The Automator's trip hop take on standalone single Only When I Lose Myself, only pipped as my favourite mix of the song by Loo & Placido's mash-up with Dr. Dre from 2006 aka Still Losing Myself.
Not quite a mash-up, but Art Maharg drops a cheeky Enya sample into his edit of Sea Of Sin. His and Joseph Watt's (mostly) bootleg Razormaid mixes were often as good as and occasional better than the commercial releases.
I've found the 21st Century remixes a very hit-and-miss affair to be honest, leaning towards the latter. In the right hands, though? Mode magic.
1) Walking In My Shoes (Random Carpet Mix By William Orbit) (Single Version) (1993)
2) Everything Counts (Remix By Tim Simenon & Mark Saunders) (1989)
3) It's No Good (Album Version By Tim Simenon) (1997)
4) Personal Jesus (Holier Than Thou Approach) (Remix By François Kevorkian) (1989)
5) Only When I Lose Myself (Dan The Automator Mix By Dan Nakamura) (1998)
6) Policy Of Truth (Trancentral Mix By The KLF aka Bill Drummond & Jimmy Cauty) (1990)
7) Sea Of Sin (Razormaid's Orinoco Flow Edit By Art Maharg) (1990)
8) Rush (Spiritual Guidance Mix By Jack Dangers) (1993)
Side Two, including revived links to previous Depeche Mode selections, can be found here
Very much looking forward to listening to these - going to see them for the first time in Jan 2024 - one of those groups that through the 90's and 00'ies I was hoping they would play locally so I'm going to the O2 in London ....should be good!
ReplyDeleteThanks. I've only seen DM in the flesh so to speak the once, though I've seen quite a few of their concerts on the big and small screen, from 101 at the cinema to Spirits In The Forest on Sky Arts fairly recently. In that context, they're pretty spectacular so I can imagine how great it'll be when you're there in the audience, experiencing it all live.
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