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Here is the 6th Show from Absolute 80's Radio broadcast on 6th October 2013. Howard Jones will be playing November 29th November at Shepherds Bush Empire and 30th November at Birmingham 02 Academy. We have added a date at Epic Norwich on 28th November. 

Howard Jones Radio Show 6 - Absolute 80's 6th Oct 13

My interpretation of the brilliant 1980's synthpop track. There is no lead melody line as I intend of finding a vocalist to perform it at some point! Also, it doesn't quite follow the arrangement of the original, but this will be sorted when I come to record the vocals.

Howard Jones - What Is Love

Depeche Mode - Photographic

Soundcloud collaboration with a great swedish singer https://soundcloud.com/ibehre
Music/back vocals by me
Vocals by https://soundcloud.com/ibehre

Here some songs of ibehre you may like:
https://soundcloud.com/ibehre/this-hollow-man
https://soundcloud.com/ibehre/street-spirit-radiohead-cover
also he did other collaborations,i suggest:https://soundcloud.com/ibehre/addiction

Depeche Mode - Photographic --Cover(Feat@ibehre) <- Vocals

a-ha - Take On Me (Original Version)

The Yamaha CS01II is the first real synthesizer I ever owned. I got it when I was about 14 years old, back in 1985 or so. I noticed that I could get reasonable approximations of most of the sounds from Depeche Mode's "Speak & Spell" album with it, but at the time I didn't have the means to make decent multi-track cover versions, even after I got a 4-track.

Recently I was studying the Depeche Mode 5.1 surround mixes, and realized that I could clearly hear all the distinct parts of alot of the songs, so I decided to throw together some renditions using just my trusty old Yamaha CS01II as the sole sound source (including the drums), just to see how close I could get to the originals.

This version has no vocals at all, but otherwise it comes pretty close to the original. The actual musical arrangement is about 100% accurate. The sounds themselves are of course only approximations, and most of them don't have the same level of timbral detail as the ARP originals. I sequenced the whole thing in Cubase via a Kenton Pro Solo going into the custom CV/Gate inputs on my CS01II, recording each monophonic line in one at a time. Cubase provided the reverb and EQ, otherwise it's all CS01II.

Yamaha CS01II plays BIG MUFF by Depeche Mode

From Shaun Buchanan's 1983 set at The Saint on November 26, 1983

Howard Jones - New Song

Can be purchased here - https://magnum71mixes.bandcamp.com/track/phd-i-wont-let-you-down-magnums-extended-mix

Classic one hit wonder,that reached number 3 in the UK singles chart, sadly there was no commercial 12" release  in Europe as far as i know......

PHD - I won't let you down [1982] (spiral tribe extended edit)

Depeche Mode - Any Second Now (Nick Merenda Reedit)

DEPECHE MODE
The Paradiso
Amsterdam
The Netherlands
September 26th 1981.

Recorded and broadcasted by VPRO Radio.


A great sounding FM broadcast of an early gig. It's incomplete. The right channel seems to have been recorded at a higher level than the left, but other than that it sounds excellent. Dave refers to "What's Your Name?" as "Pretty Boy". 


Setlist: 

01. [3:26] Photographic 
02. [4:15] New Life 
03. [3:59] Ice Machine 
04. [4:03] Big Muff 
05. [2:08] I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead 
06. [3:42] Just Can't Get Enough 
07. [2:45] (Pretty Boy) What's Your Name? 
Total time: 24:19 

Line up: 
Dave Gahan - lead vocals 
Martin Gore - keyboards, backing vocals 
Andrew Fletcher - keyboards, backing vocals 
Vince Clarke - keyboards, backing vocals 

All songs written by Vince Clarke, except for "Big Muff" which was written by Martin L. Gore. 

(Infos taken from delle101.de)

Depeche Mode - Paradiso Amsterdam 1981 - 04 Big Muff

 Silent partners edits takes volume 14 of the black series, with new dancefloor bombs from our friend Jonny Rock, the venerable new master of the cut: C-Edits & welcome our new silent partners, Adriatique and Audino.


Fade to grey

Free Download - Depeche Mode Photographic-chilltronic-remix

Chipsounds VSTi using only the 2A0X (NES) chip.

Depeche Mode - Any Second Now Cover (8-bit)

New Year Message

Hi everyone, I hope you and your families are well. 

As we hurtle towards another year I wanted to let you know how much I appreciate your enthusiastic support. 

It has been a busy year with the completion of the box set project making all the 1st five albums available in lovely remastered form. I am very pleased with the way they turned out and I hope you enjoyed some of the rare tracks we were able to include. 
We managed to take the DIA/HL tour around the world visiting Japan, Australia, the UK, and the US, and it was a blast to play those albums for you. 

A couple of highlights of the year for me were "The song that changed my life" documentary 
http://byutv.org/watch/4de1b9ad-e106-430d-86a7-b8cc514fdbea/the-song-that-changed-my-life-howard-jones

and the Voices Around the World project
http://youtu.be/qqNY1j7nmwc

I hope you are able to download my New Year gift to you of 4 tracks that were recorded live for the documentary which can be downloaded by clicking the download link here.

Next year will be the 30th anniversary of the first single release and it seems like a great excuse to do something special again. I'm planning a show or shows for the end of the year which will feature new music and video composed primarily for live performance and a selection of my favourite tracks from the whole hojo canon. In the new music I hope to write specific parts for audience participation and I hope you will feel like joining in the fun of this (parts will go out before the show). 
We also plan to release a DVD set of all the promo videos to date with remastered audio in the box set format. 

Who knows what else might happen!

Once again thank you for another memorable year!

Couldn't have done it without you!

Please take good care of yourselves! 
Happy New Year
Love
Howard Jones


1 Your Song 320

2 Things Can Only Get Better 320

3 No One Is To Blame 320

4 Don't Always Look At The Rain 320

This is one of my cover to my favorite band. It's just for fun, there is no any goal with it.

DEPECHE MODE COVER - ANY SECOND NOW

Full remix released: https://soundcloud.com/k_master/depeche-mode-big-muff-k_master-remix-full-version

Depeche Mode - "Big Muff (K_Master Bootleg)" [DEMO]

Saga - Big Muff (Depeche Mode Cover)

Hello, my name is Markus, I was born in 65 Geneva Switzerland but my origins are german, so some life time past. 
I learnt piano with different teacher, and  throught conservatoire, and between on my own using my ears.

Enjoyed a lot tweaking keyboards and synths throughout the eighties, were I used a long list of gear, bought and sold for a part.
 like listen to the music from that time and before, favourite seventies, and eighties.

 then also played here and there with different regular pop and rock bands.
 
Couldn't stop to love great Synthesizer, and I experimenting with several machines, 
even when most of them became a lot more virtual today, it was fantastic to get back to all these old clones of unaccessible hardware.

However this my music under the name of horizons that should be less common even if I try to keep a harmonic, like melodic edge along with some more experimental investigations. 
I recorded or composed on time, there is an album called "Dreams of the Maiden", you can check or listen to. 

Thanks for your visit

These are soundbits and glimpses from it, good to listen on the road if you like smooth, or  this also meant to relax. enjoy!

 I have also a blog talking about music and essential albums, with infos and links - but this will be in french. thanks

In another area I spend my time teaching music and the Piano, 
hereby you can also find my french blog related to Piano learning

Musiques à écouter est un blog sur les albums et les musiques qui m'ont marqué, vous aussi, venez et partagez!
Des infos, des videos, et des liens concernant chaque sujet. A bientôt.


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