RELEASES

SSSS   Album Tracklisting Lowly Zaat Spock Windup Robot Bendy Bass Single Blip Skip This Track Aftermaths Recycle Flux

EP3 - AFTERMATHS   12" VINYL Aftermaths Aftermaths / LFO remix Aftermaths / Alva Noto remix   DIGITAL TRACK LISTING Aftermaths Aftermaths / Alva Noto remix Aftermaths / Christoffer Berg remix Aftermaths / Gesaffelstein remix Aftermaths / LFO remix Aftermaths / Vince Clarke remix

EP2 - SINGLE BLIP   12" VINYL Single Blip Single Blip / Byetone remix Single Blip / Matthew Jonson remix   DIGITAL TRACK LISTING Single Blip Single Blip / Matthew Jonson remix Single Blip / Terrence Fixmer remix Single Blip / Byetone remix Single Blip / Wolfgang Voigt Auramix

EP1 - SPOCK   DIGITAL Spock / Album Version Spock / Edit Select Remix Spock / Regis Remix Spock / DVS1 Voyage Home Remix Spock / XOQ Remix   12" VINYL Spock / Album Version Spock / Edit Select Remix Spock / Regis Remix Spock / XOQ Remix

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VCMG - EP3 / AFTERMATHS

NEW EP RELEASED 20TH AUGUST 2012

FEATURING REMIXES BY VINCE CLARKE, LFO ALVA NOTO & MORE

ALBUM 'SSSS' OUT NOW

VCMG release EP3 / Aftermaths on 20 August 2012, with remixes from Vince Clarke, LFO, Alva Noto and more.

Taken from Ssss, out on Mute now and voted # 2 in The Quietus' recent Albums of the Year So Far, the project is the long awaited reunion of electronic pioneers Vince Clarke (Erasure / Yazoo / Depeche Mode) and Martin L. Gore (Depeche Mode), who joined forces for the first time in over thirty years to craft a 10-track album which demonstrates their mutual love of electronic music.

NYSU have produced a series of clips, based on the album, watch them here.

Following on from the remix packages available for EP1 / Spock and EP2 / Single Blip, remixes for EP3 / Aftermaths come from techno pioneer LFO, aka Mark Bell, who produced Depeche Mode's Exciter and Alva Noto, aka Carsten Nicolai, multi disciplinary artist and co-founder of the Raster-Noton label whose forthcoming project, Diamond Version (with Olaf Bender aka Byetone), will be released on Mute. The digital release features additional remixes from Vince Clarke, Gesaffelstein who has recently remixed Zombie Zombie and Sweden's Christoffer Berg, whose previous remixes inc Moby and Metronomy.

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VCMG - EP2 / SINGLE BLIP

NEW EP RELEASED 27 FEBRUARY 2012

DEBUT ALBUM 'SSSS', OUT 12 MARCH 2012

EP2 / Single Blip - from Vince Clarke and Martin L. Gore's highly anticipated collaboration, VCMG - rears its head on 27 February 2012, with remixes from Byetone and Mathew Jonson.

A pounding motorik beat heralds the start of this minimal electronic tour de force. With primal drums and puckering bleeps, it's an industrial battle cry of the darkest proportions, setting teeth on edge with nails-across-blackboard screeching, ominous synths and spiraling rhythms.

EP2 / Single Blip Tracklisting:
Single Blip
Single Blip - Byetone remix
Single Blip - Mathew Jonson remix

EP2 / Single Blip remixes come courtesy of sparce electronic artist Byetone, aka Berliner Olaf Bender, co-founder and the man responsible for the iconic design output at Raster-Noton. His 2011 album Symeta featured in Fact and The Quietus' end of year polls, and previous remix credits inc Modeselektor and eLan.

Alongside is a remix from Mathew Jonson, co-founder of Wagon Repair label and one-quarter of electronic improvisers Cobblestone Jazz. Canadian born Jonson has previously remixed the likes of Plastikman, Tiga and Chemical Brothers to great acclaim.

'SSSS' - the debut album by VCMG - is out on 12 March 2012 and boasts ten tracks of the same Teutonic turn-ons. Written and produced by Clarke and Gore, the album was mixed by Timothy "Q" Wiles and recorded and engineered by Sie Medway Smith and Clarke.

Mastered by Stefan Betke (aka Pole), the album demonstrates Clarke and Gore's shared love of electronic music and marks the arrival proper of this enigmatic duo who have teamed up again after thirty years.

Speaking to MOJO this month, Clarke says the collaborative process was "really about exchanging colours... like two people doing a painting in a different room," and Gore confessed his preference for "anything that's a bit darker…with a driving rhythm."

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VCMG Announce Album Details
Vince Clarke And Martin L. Gore Release 'Ssss' 12 March 2012

VCMG release one of 2012's most anticipated musical collaborations with the album 'Ssss', out on Mute on 12 March 2012.

It marks the long awaited reunion of electronic pioneers Vince Clarke (Erasure/ Yazoo/ Depeche Mode) and Martin L. Gore (Depeche Mode), who have joined forces for the first time in over thirty years to craft a 10-track album which demonstrates their mutual love of electronic music.

After initial tentative discussions, and a meeting at Short Circuit presents Mute festival in London, where they both performed, these two influential musicians and songwriters worked in a typically unique way. Clarke and Gore worked alone in their respective studios, communicating only via email and exchanging files until the album was ready. The album includes the recent 12" EP1 / Spock, described by The Quietus as "one of the best tracks of 2011", plus the forthcoming EP2 / Single Blip.

'Ssss', written and produced by Vince Clarke and Martin L. Gore, was mixed by Timothy "Q" Wiles, recorded and engineered by Sie Medway Smith and Vince Clarke and mastered by Stefan Betke (aka Pole).

Full remix details for EP2 / Single Blip, the follow up to EP1 / Spock - out now on 12" / download and featuring remixes by Edit-Select, Regis, DVS1 and XOQ - will follow.

"Fusing stripped down percussion, Teutonic precision and dank, brutal walls of rhythmic noise, "highly anticipated" is not even close." - Electronic Beats
"aimed squarely at the wee small hours of the club" - Fact

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Vince Clarke And Martin L. Gore Announce Details Of Brand New Collaboration

After 30 years working on their respective ongoing music projects, Vince Clarke (Erasure / Yazoo / Depeche Mode) and Martin L. Gore (Depeche Mode) come together for the first time since 1981 as VCMG to release a brand new album on Mute, preceded by a series of EPs.

VCMG is the fruit of initially tentative discussion and subsequent enthused collaboration where Vince and Martin, both influential as pioneers in electronic music, get to exercise their lifelong love of the genre as the techno inspired VCMG.

As Vince explains: "I've been getting into and listening to a lot of minimal dance music and I got really intrigued by all the sounds... I realised I needed a collaborator... so it occurred to me to talk to Martin."

Says Gore: "Out of the blue I got an e-mail from Vince just saying, 'I'm interested in making a techno album. Are you interested in collaborating?' This was maybe a year ago. He said, 'No pressure, no deadlines,' so I said, 'OK'."

The writing and recording of the album was done in a typically unique way with the pair working alone in their respective studios, communicating only via email, exchanging files until the album was ready. It was in May 2011 that the pair met for the first time to discuss the project when they both performed at Short Circuit presents Mute festival in London.

The album (title to be announced soon) was produced by Vince Clarke and Martin L. Gore and mixed by the influential Californian electronic artist Überzone / Q and will be released in the spring of 2012.