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“Martin Gore brought along his synthesizer – we thought, this is a lot easier than learning chords on a guitar and you only need one finger to play it”: Vince Clarke on the early days of Depeche Mode and his first synth memories

Vince Clarke spoke to MusicRadar a few years back and reminisced with us about those foundational days with his Depeche Mode cohorts

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“I'm really hoping that they will travel to California. Number 1, it's sunny, and number 2, I'm here. What more could you want?”: How Vince Clarke, Neil Arthur and Benge made their Doublespeak synth-pop covers album without ever being in the same room

You've never heard ABBA, The Carpenters or David Essex quite like this before...

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“I bought one in 1984 – I'm looking at it now, still the same one. I plugged it in the other day, bracing myself, and the bloody thing was in tune! I couldn't believe it. Amazing!”: Vince Clarke reveals his favourite synth of all time

Plus, why he disagrees with former Depeche Mode bandmate Martin Gore about Eurorack

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“The synths only let you play one note at a time, which was great as we couldn’t play chords anyway”: How Depeche Mode launched their career with one of the most important synth-pop records ever released

One of the band's biggest tunes marked the end of their first chapter, but became a springboard that would propel both them and its writer to legendary status

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The ultimate synth shoot-out 2026: Hardware classics vs. their software successors - but can you really tell which is which?

Is there really any need to fork out for a hardware synth these days? We place a trio of hardware classics up against some immaculate software doppelgängers

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“I understood it as a great pop song, but I wasn't sure on the very first listen as to whether I liked it or not”: How Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke bottled the sound of heartbreak with Only You

Clarke had created Just Can't Get Enough with Depeche Mode, but Only You would be his most important song

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One of the band's biggest tunes marked the end of their first chapter, but became a springboard that would propel both them and its writer to legendary status

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Hideo Kojima gives his verdict on Tron: Ares, and he's most struck by the Depeche Mode references

The new Tron film is now out in theaters

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“Within an hour we knew we had a massive hit record”: The music theory behind a Depeche Mode classic

Dissecting one of Depeche Mode’s most cherished and universally beloved songs reveals some compelling inner-workings

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Andy Bell is working with Vince Clarke on a new Erasure album

Erasure singer Andy Bell has revealed that he and Vince Clarke have a new record in the pipeline.

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Erasure's Andy Bell reveals how his 'superstitious' nature inspired the title of his new album

Andy Bell's "superstitious" nature inspired the title of his new album 'Ten Crowns'.

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Erasure's Andy Bell believes that he was born to sing

Erasure lead vocalist Andy Bell thinks that singing was his natural calling as he always loved expressing himself with his voice.

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You can stick your Manchester and stick your London: here’s 10 reasons why Essex is responsible for the UK’s best ever artists (as decided by an Essex boy)

Who do you have to thank for Blur, Depeche Mode, punk, Underworld and many more? Not Kent, that’s for sure!

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“As soon as I played the demo I was just like ‘Yes! There he is!’ It was at the level of his old Erasure stuff, of Yazoo and his period of Depeche Mode": Producer Danny L Harle and Olly Alexander on their "extraordinary" collab with a synth-pop legend

“His musical point is so distilled in his music, and he’s the same in the way he talks,” says Harle. “He’s a man of few words”

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Olly Alexander flails on his debut solo album Polari, while Inhaler find their sound on Open Wide

On his first solo album, Alexander explores fascinating themes but struggles to find much of substance of say, while Dublin rock band Inhaler make great strides on their confident third record

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‘It was a really lonely time’: Alison Moyet and Dave Stewart on making Is This Love?

‘The lyrics reflect the fact that I was in quite a dark place – but subverting it all, in a GCSE English kind of way’

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Depeche Mode review – to the newly minted power of two

On the latest leg of their first tour after the death of founding member Andrew Fletcher, fellow Depeche Mode mainstays Dave Gahan and Martin Gore reward fans with hits from across the decades

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Issue 404 of Future Music is out now

Gear of the Year 2023. Plus: Vince Clarke, Danny Daze, Live 12 guide, Daniel Avery, Fantastic Twins, Cubase 13 & much more!

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‘I feel more like myself when I’m Morrissey’: the bizarre lives of tribute acts

With tickets for big-name stars at a premium, it’s a great time to be a tribute act. Artists from ‘Tina Turner’ to the Arctic Numpties take us into their bizarre lives

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Vince Clarke: "Martin Gore brought along his synthesizer, we looked at the thing and thought, this is a lot easier than learning chords on a guitar and you only need one finger to play it"

As synth icon Vince Clarke releases his debut solo album, Danny Turner discovers how he’s embraced the electronic dark side

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Vince Clarke: Songs of Silence review – Covid anxiety fills synthpop star’s debut solo album

Stuck in his studio during lockdown, Clarke recorded this portentous album of wordless, minimalist intrumentals – a soundtrack of dread

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“Martin sang it naked. I turned the piano away as I was playing”: How Depeche Mode recorded their very own ‘Berlin Trilogy’ and became one of the biggest bands in the world

And why it's (almost) as important as David Bowie's hat-trick of Hansa Studio recordings

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"The contractors had to excavate half a sphere in the ground and blow up a massive circular balloon in it." We’d forgotten how gloriously crazy Vince Clarke’s dome-shaped recording studio was. Here’s what it is now.

He had huge hits with Depeche Mode, Erasure and Yazoo, so decided to build a Hobbit house and fill it with synths. We'd have done the same to be honest.

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Murdoch’s nepo baby, asteroid samples and a marathon record – take the Thursday quiz

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

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‘Fletch was meant to outlive us all’: Depeche Mode on death, rebirth and defying the odds

Hit hard by the death of keyboardist Andy Fletcher, Dave Gahan questioned whether he wanted to continue – until Martin Gore’s new songs revived him. Making the most of their lives has never been more important, they say

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