As we are now in the year of 2012, and most acts from the 1980s are considered outdated; everything from the over-permed hair to the parachute pants to the New Wave-style music seems a little past its prime.
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The week's list of new releases is somewhat short, considering that most labels, bands, and music fans in general are currently gathered in Austin for SXSW.
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Vince Clarke and Martin Gore might have conquered the world together as members of Depeche Mode 's original lineup, which held together for just one album, 1981's Speak and Spell.
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As Depeche Mode prepare to enter the studio in late-March to record their thirteenth album, we find that Martin Gore hasn't been the only one making waves in his free time.
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VCMG, the new project by synthpop pioneers Vince Clarke and Martin Gore, marks the first time the two musicians have worked together since they were both members of Depeche Mode in the early Eighties.
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Voting is now open for MTV Brand New For 2012 as, for the first time ever for an unsigned artist, Context was named the final nominee.
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VCMG release one of 2012's most anticipated musical collaborations with the album 'Ssss', out on Mute on 12 March 2012.
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In the years since the release of their debut album, released 30 years ago next month, Depeche Mode's roots in the Essex New Town of Basildon – a part of England that nobody talks about and which lacks the cache of Joy Division's Manchester, The Human League's Sheffield, or OMD's Liverpool – has been a persistent focus of derision.
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Vince Clarke's impact on the pop music world, particularly his pioneering synthesizer work, can't be understated.
Read MoreMelancholic early Eighties electropop gave way to synth groups whose music gushed with simpler upbeat feeling.
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Erasure's global trek is a tastemaker for the release of the group's 14th studio album, titled "Tomorrow's World," that will be released in October and was produced by Frankmusik.
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It's September 1985 and my 15-year-old self thinks he is on to something.
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NME's Stuart Maconie had the answer he anticipated.
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Artistically, Gore had come a long way by 1986.
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His influence was felt almost immediately as a producer on May's Rythim Is Rhythim project.
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The cyclical nature of all things musical has birthed a genuine revival in the fortunes of synthesizer music – you know this, as it's impossible to miss.
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I'm cheating by doing a re-post of a previous thing seen and heard on TVV .
Read MoreFirst up on this week's podcast, Ben Beaumont-Thomas speaks to Cee Lo Green, a rapper and singer who got his start with Atlanta's Goodie Mob before going on to form Gnarls Barkley with Danger Mouse.
Read MoreIf you spend any time at all listening to apologists for the music industry, you will hear (over and over again) two primary justifications for its existence: i) that they find and nurture talent and ii) that it's the only way for artists to reach the top tier of music stardom.
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This generation of dream-pop artists are more successful than most genre revivalists, which aside from great songwriting can be attributed to dream-pop's straying from anything resembling "outdated".
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Earlier this year, London's Angular Recording Corporation released a compilation album entitled Cold Waves And Minimal Electronics .
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Vince Clarke may be best known for his work with Depeche Mode and Erasure, but he is also known for helping shape pop music as one half of synth-pop duo Yaz .
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