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Here wo go again--more noise from a once highly influential

Daniel W. Kelly | Long Island, NY United States | 07/06/2009

(2 out of 5 stars)

"With a package this full of remixes, I was hoping that maybe at last we'd get at least one Depeche Mode remix worthy of a dancefloor. But once again, we get one raucous, noisy mix after another that can't even hold a candle to the industrial artists Depeche Mode has been seeming to try to imitate since the early 90s. The ONLY version here that has a dance club feel is the last, the 'disco' mix, but a beat alone doesn't make it a good dance song.



This band once brought us some of the best synth dance music going and influenced countless other synth groups of the 80s, but these days, they just keep failing to get us back onto the dancefloor. Why not hire the best club mixers in the business and leave the dark brooding sounds for the albums? This way, they could tap into two markets and satisfy fans from all spectrums of their near thirty year career.



Oh, and don't expect to find a surprise good mix on the other part of this 2-CD set. The one lone remix on that two tracker is a boring downtempo mix."