Vince Clarke & Martin Gore are working on a techno-ish track called Zaat.
Vince Clarke & Martin Gore are working on a techno-ish track called Zaat.
No word on how soon you’ll be able to here this reunion of early Depeche Mode members. Clarke’s keeping busy working on a children’s record for Rounder Records, the latest Erasure album and a possible collaboration with Amanda effin’ Palmer.
Clarke wrote most of the songs for the band’s 1981 debut “Speak & Spell”, before departing to form the synthpop duo Yazoo with Alison Moyet and later, the duo Erasure with Andy Bell.
During the touring and promotion for “Speak & Spell”, Clarke began privately to voice his discomfort at the direction the band were taking. In November 1981 Clarke publicly announced that he was leaving Depeche Mode. When asked about his departure from Depeche Mode in the VH1 Behind the Music television series he added: “We were pretty young and very lucky, and things had happened very quickly for us and I don’t think we were really mature to handle the situation”.
Initial talk of Clarke continuing to write material for the group ultimately amounted to nothing (Clarke offered the remaining members of Depeche Mode the track “Only You”, but they declined. It went on to become a UK top ten hit for Yazoo).Gore, who had written “Tora! Tora! Tora!” and the instrumental “Big Muff” for Speak & Spell, was forced to become the band’s new songwriter.
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