In anticipation of the upcoming tour, this is a tribute to the band who has provided the soundtrack to my life. From 1983-present, ML Gore & Co have been a singular creative force. This is actually the shorter of 2 mixes I made, the longer one being almost 8 hours long. It’s a mixture of album tracks and remixes, nothing is weird or obscure for its own sake; if it’s a remix and it’s here, I like the remix.
Incidentally, the thumbnail art was the result of prompting Stable Diffusion with “Depeche Mode forever”.. I think it’s hilarious as it apparently associates the band with Dave, and synthesized 4 pseudo-Daves as, like aging Italian guys for some reason.

RIP Andrew Fletcher

Depeche Mode forever


***(note: There's no real reason why in this nearly single artist playlist I mashed a Maduk song in there right in the start, confusing the listener hopelessly perhaps. It was an accident and I thought it sounded good so I left it but if the comments suggest people think I should just chop the mix off at the start of track 3, I'll do it.)

I've been  kind of a hyperventillating fanboy for  Rameses B for some time.
He spans the gamut from date-rapey old school prog trance, to yer basic wubwubwub,
to FM bells arcing thru no-doubt mathermatically sound crystalline arpeggiations like the perfect fractal asshole of God.
In a similar essay trying to put to words his body of work, I breathlessly described "shimmering psychedelic malestrom, relentlessly uplifting like a gif loop of the final scene in any 90's live action Disney movie, the film's protagonist and ingenue twirling and shopping maniacally thru Manhattan, oblivious to the children of color she's scattered and knocked unconscious with her swinging shopping bags, the sky impossibly full of stars and manifest destiny, a giddy slice of pre-Trump American naive confidence. Or something like that."

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