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Depeche Mode - Remixes 1981-2004 (CD 2004)

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Track Listing
1. Never Let Me Down Again (Depeche Mode & Dave Bascombe split mix)
2. Personal Jesus (Francois Kevorkian pump mix)
3. Barrel Of A Gun (Underworld hard mix)
4. Route 66 (Beatmasters mix)
5. Useless (Kruder & Dorfmeister session mix)
6. In Your Room (Johnny Dollar & Portishead jeep rock mix)
7. Home (Air 'Around The Golf' remix)
8. Strangelove (Daniel Miller & Rico Conning blind mix)
9. I Feel You (Renegade Soundwave Afghan surgery mix)
10. Just Can't Get Enough (Depeche Mode & Daniel Miller schizo mix)
11. Halo (Goldfrapp remix)
12. Enjoy The Silence (reinterpreted by Mike Shinoda)

Details
Number of CDs:	1
Producer:	Depeche Mode, Flood, JB, Tim Simeno
Recording Type:	Studio
Distributor:	EMI
Recording Mode:	Stereo

Album Notes
Depeche Mode: Dave Gahan, Alan Wilder, Vince Clarke, Andrew Fletcher, Martin Gore.Producers: Flood; JB; Depeche Mode; Tim Simenon; David BascombeCompilation Producer: Roland Brown.Liner Note Author: Paul Morley.Recording information: 1981 - 2004.Since their emergence in the early 1980s, Depeche Mode has made the remix an integral part of their art. Their remix catalogue, in fact, outweighs their studio releases by a significant margin, and knowing where to begin sifting through the towering stack of extended singles can prove tricky. Fortunately, REMIXES 81-04 offers a Reader's Digest version of the band's remixes, boiling down the best from Mute's three-disc set of the same name, and providing casual fans with a manageable starting point. REMIXES 81-04 acts, on one hand, as a sampler of the band's remix history, but also includes new mixes by contemporary studio wizards.While not comprehensive, REMIXES 81-04 is outstanding nonetheless, highlighting the group's club-friendly, industrial-tinged dance beats while leaving room for their brooding melodic pop. The oldest mix, Daniel Miller's "Just Can't Get Enough" (1981), with its Kraftwerk-inspired electro-boogie, bears its age but is still compelling. Highlights include Kruder & Dorfmeister's acid-lounge treatment of "Useless," Air's lush re-invention of "Home," and Dave Bascombe's work on "Personal Jesus," which deepens the song's throbbing, hard-driving groove. In all, the album offers a fine cross-section of Depeche Mode's remarkable talent for invention and reinvention.

Editorial Reviews
3 stars out of 5 - [T]hey invest the track with new meaning or power....Sometimes they simply remind you how great the song itself was in the first place.
Mojo

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