Vince Clarke and Martin L. Gore Are VCMG

the reunion of Martin and myself happened because I started recording working on a kind of technotrekker and after a couple of tracks I realized that I needed and would like someone to collaborate with so I contacted Martin via email and said you know Zuma are you interested in working with me on this project there's no pressure no timeline and there's no release date it's just something for a bit of fun and we can swap ideas via the Internet Vince's email just said that he was interested in making a minimalist techno record which you know with the two of us involved kind of got a little bit more than minimalist probably because you were sending me about 50 tracks and then I was I don't do it there was no plan or there was no kind of grand scheme or concept for the record it was really just about exchanging ideas yeah of course I was surprised I mean it wasn't something I was expecting but pleasantly surprised you know I've been interested in techno music for a long time and the the prospect of actually doing something with Vince again was quite exciting the whole process of making this record was really easy going there was really no really felt like there was no night no egos involved or you know it was very simple Martin would present an idea and I would and I would I never I would never know what was coming to me and then I would add something and he would never know that what was coming to him and it was build-up but that's what made it extra kind of interesting I think we really didn't analyze this record at all we you know everything was kept to a minimum and the emails were very brief and we just shared files and just you know enjoyed making the music oh yeah okay Vince brought up a fiver ionian all the product I've been aware of what we've both been doing just because we're on the same record label yes if not for any other reason so but now I've not been collecting Depeche Mode remixes mhm well one of the very odd things is that from everything in the mute catalog for some weird reason I get every single erasure release sent to me and I literally don't get anything else you know it's very hard I guess that is honestly the truth I don't know why if someone must have put me on an early night mailing this for arranger not I get everything Vince earlier said that you know for you we're doing a plastic man remix was a big yeah for me they're all mean that was like a because I was asked to do a remix for for plastic man and knowing nothing about techno music he kind of got kind of got me curious and that's when I started looking into techno music and discovering the sounds and the kind of arrangements the people were using now I was just really intrigued and that's what really got me started in the idea of making this particular record I think you know when you make you record when you make a record you try my best record you possibly can for yourself and you're not trying to please anybody else because if he doesn't sound good to you then I'm going to sound good to anybody else any way the name of the title comes from some of the tracks have a kind of a white noise sound in them and I would always known those tracks on the computer as hiss so I'm Martin felt that that was start of the title of an album it was quite cool the songs really evolved by us just sending the track backwards and forwards you know it sighted off with Vince sending me the first couple of tracks that were you know ideas basic ideas that he had and then I would add bits to that and send it back to him and it would he would send it back to me and we'd get back to about version four or five before we felt that we were at a stage where they were ready for mixing so mines mines have like 100 yards or something why okay I usually Drive there yeah those are going to work you know you put it outfit line and you get change and you come home that's weird you don't drive Andy yeah do you seriously oh well just cuz it just feels like you're going to work well what do you drive I've got a Jeep these record sheep a hundred yards it must be that's quite a journey a golf car in the summer a man called Q and originally he was suggested to us by Daniel and the idea was for him to just get the just to mix the first single and we really like the the outcome of that so we asked him to then mix another few tracks and we liked the outcome of that so then we thought why don't we just get him to do the whole thing so we'll have a cohesion and it takes the pressure off us we don't have to do it I think you just kind of brought it all together really I mean you know I think that the tracks were pretty cohesive anyway but he would like obviously mix it and also he add little tiny little touches little gaps I mean and they weren't like obtrusive it was just little details that made the record Sparkle a little more a thing really this is the first dance record I reverse have really made so I think it's just really a dance record it starts off I don't know 126 beats a minute and in sub 128 and I'm like Vince as well I don't really listen much to stuff that I've done before I will listen to this album today because we've just got the copies in oh really yeah so I'm going to put it on in my room and I might dance then what about that and I think the best place to listen to the system is you need to buy yourself a really expensive recording studio then let it sounds great there I heard that famous DJ DJ Andy Fletcher Fletcher oh yeah played it Dileep well in the Wadley fur I replayed it somewhere yeah I don't know you can pay on his old room I bet he played it on his world tour parently oh wow well for me I think he's you know what's really nice because I didn't really know Martin very well in Depeche Mode I didn't know him before it wasn't one of my close mates or and if he knows more closer to Fletcher so I'll probably got to know him better in the last couple of times valve - I've been saying that in all the interviews that I've been doing that I didn't really know Vince very well even when we were together in the band yeah because we were together for a very short time is from like March 1982 about what October November 81 yeah and you know we didn't do long tours then we did three weeks here yeah and then we'd have a big break yeah well no we didn't go to dinner every night or go down the popery particularly you know I think you know so who recorded the album in what three or four week yes exactly yeah he was working it was good a job yeah I popped in and out well not not you know it was just you know explain to the journalist last unit lists what happened was that I had a major road accident loss might be my left big toe and I couldn't stand properly and so I said the tour had to end I couldn't tour anymore and because kids are losing my balance her and so then I decided to quit the band all right is that widely known that's completely untrue now we won't be doing any gigs or anything Martin's started or in the middle of writing the Depeche Mode record and I'm doing music for cartoons so we're kind of tied up now I'd like to think that you know sometime in the future we could possibly do something nice again because I really just it was just really good fun you know maybe jazz right you

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Length: 9min 56sec (596 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 20 2012