THE Basildon synth kings have always been the sort of outfit you’d guess would lend themselves to the occasional remixing, so with Depeche between albums, a combination of their earlier and more recent work has come in for attention.
The one-disc version of Remixes 2 (a three-disc offering is also available) boasts a slightly haphazard selection and some of the chosen tracks (Dream On, In Chains) will never be all that arresting no matter how many machines are thrown at them.
Eric Prydz steals the show by giving Never Let Me Down Again the pounding treatment he gave Pink Floyd’s The Wall, and the ever-reliable Jacques Lu Cont expertly splices up A Pain That I’m Used To. But new versions of Wrong and John The Revelator add little to the originals, while Oliver Huntermann and Stephan Bodzin’s take on Everything Counts is a mess. One for the die-hard Depeche-ites only.
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