Depeche Mode - Demo Compilation (1980)

[@cybertaiga9534]

'Ice Machine' is the best demo in this collection. You can see an early OMD/Human League influence on these songs. Andy Fletcher's actual bass guitar work is phenomenal on these songs.

[@cherrpup]

5:08 - 8:10 Fletch and his bass guitar... RIP Fletch(

[@Watcher4111]

So he didnt Just push one keyboard key... RIP Fletch, DM is one of my Favorite bands

[@petercarrington948]

Ice machine demo is so polished and professional. Love that song. Ahead of it's time.

[@flannerymonaghan-morris4825]

Yeah. Completely surprised that it was a demo. And to think that they were so young at the time that the demo was released…plus from what I heard that Dave himself had NO idea what he was getting into during that audition…

[@trollgoodman7808]

Should have been on Speak & Spell

[@Midian974]

Wonderfull !!! Ice Machine always my favourite 💓 Love you so much - i saw DM twice at Stade de France Kiss From Réunion Island 🫶 Fletch will be always on our minds 💖

[@lesimprosdulezardvert1342]

Incredible, Vince Clarke on the singing at the beginning... he has a good voice !

[@nudawnfades]

Interesting to hear that 'Ice Machine' was an actual lyric in the original demo. I'm guessing that's why they kept it as the title . A great listen.

[@treyhudson73]

Just look at those wee babies! Thank you Universe for bringing them together and inspiring them to inspire US!

[@berggeist76]

This is Gold ❤️ Fan since 1989. i never heard the Demo A Versions. Thanks for sharing. Rest in Peace, Fletch 💔

[@paul6925]

Fascinating to hear their first demos! I love all the music that came out of the turmoil of 1970s and blossomed into the early 80s

[@MarioSalimon]

Indeed. It's way more interesting - although not as polished - as the developments that came out in the 80s. I liked reading Mars By 1980, about electronic music's history, and listening to a historical string of electronic music in just a few hours. One can easily connect this Depeche Demo to music that was being made by the end of the 1950s.

[@paul6925]

@@MarioSalimon True! Most people never hear about the pioneers that influenced popular electronic music. I haven't read that book but I'll take a look at it.

[@bosonbreeder]

You can clearly hear how Vince was inspired by The Cure/Robert Smith when singing on "Television Set" 1:48. There's a couple of interviews on YT where he describes how their 1979 debut "Three Imaginary Boys" was a major reason for him getting into music. Funny how two of my absolute favorite bands were more connected than I ever thought back then.

[@bildkistl]

Photographic sounds way more inspired by Cure than TV imho!

[@bosonbreeder]

@@bildkistl Maybe. I was mostly referring to how Vince sings just like Robert on TV Set. Basildon -> Blackpool. :)

[@psterud]

Cool. I'm also hearing quite a bit of Gary Numan and Kraftwerk influence.

[@arkadiuszlaskowski4043]

@@bildkistl ktoś pojechał

[@manugahan1965]

Depeche Mode,The Cure,Kraftwerk....😍😍😍

[@HenningUhle]

Very cool... It's interesting how "Photographic" was developed from Demo A over Demo B to the album version. Great experience. Thank you.

[@Cthulberg]

I didn't compare them or anything, but there's also the version of Photographic from the Some Bizzare compilation. I think that also differs from Demo B here.

[@user-it3zd6wz3v]

I think album's PHOTOGRAPHIC is not good version

[@HenningUhle]

@@user-it3zd6wz3v Yes, you are right. There was a live recording published with an unofficial bootleg. I am not sure where this came from. But THIS version of "Photographic" was by far the best one.

[@user-it3zd6wz3v]

I saw that version PHOTOGRAPHIC on Rock'Am'Ring Live video DM some years ago.

[@prodriver165]

The earliest version of Photographic sounds like Punk Rock

[@mikhailmorgul1244]

yes

[@mikhailmorgul1244]

yes

[@mikhailmorgul1244]

yes

[@mikhailmorgul1244]

yes

[@mikhailmorgul1244]

yes

[@jimijojimie6321]

Gold⭐️ thank you !! That bass on ice machine sounds like it’s a bass guitar, could be Fletch’s greatest recorded moment 😃

[@80ssynthfan48]

@@My_Fair_Lady clearly nonsense.

[@Nenko_Music]

true

[@mkr8019]

it would have been cool if they'd actually used the bass guitar more often and live occasionally.

[@allisonthompson9065]

This is great!! Thank you!! 🙏 DM is my fave forever! Saw Violater Tour and Faith and Devotional. Hope to see them in 2023!! 👍

[@bicyclist2]

Lucky you.

[@spektrum8740]

I'm extremly obsessed with those Demos you posted here. I have a very special feeling for early Depeche Mode.. never able to describe it.

[@Marc_Tittmann_Music]

Is it some feeling of being connected to the past? Or are you a musician/ aritist yourself and creating stuff on your own? I'm making music myself and I feel I'm in the same process as my idols like Depeche Mode, so it connects me to their phase when they were in their beginnings

[@spektrum8740]

@@Marc_Tittmann_Music yeahh. You really got it. I thought like no one will ever feel the same like me.. but here you are. Ofcrs yeah, i'm a musician and the music i make is highly inspired by them, in addition i'm only 18 just like they used to be on early 80s when they just started releasing their singles. I think that feeling you can never have it until you're a musician who's trying to make your work getting famous like your favorites artists/bands used to do at the beginning of their careers!

[@simonstewart872]

This takes me back... I saw DM in 1980 on the Some Bizzare tour I think they played with Blancmange at the Limit club in Sheffield. Loved them ever since.

[@RetroMuseumHQ]

Absolutely fantastic

[@HipixOFFICIAL]

That Ice Machine demo has always given me "high schoolers in a band" vibes.

[@flannerymonaghan-morris4825]

Well, technically, they WERE high school aged at the time that they recorded that demo…

[@vilhjalmrwt]

Ialways knew id find some old depeche mode music! Here it is!!!! Blown away to say the least

[@lys84]

Merci pour le partage 😄😄😄😄😄 super sympa ces démos de DM 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 Affectueuse pensées pour Fletch 😭😭😭😭

[@hynos323]

Thank you so much for this upload.

[@markg3293]

Ice machine awesome demo, love DM 80's sound

[@michelleburke7574]

So young but already you could hear the class and commitment ❤

[@zannemoonstone]

Super precious 💜💜💜 Thank you

[@johnhall9825]

Fascinating stuff, thanks for sharing these gems🎹🙏

[@giusy.cancelliere]

Thank you guys, very interesting stuff

[@peteykwia2752]

Die Demos sind cool, man kann es rausholen, ein bißchen verarbeiten, und in die Welt damit!!! 👍👍👍🤩

[@Fhoving]

Amazing tape - thank you so much for the upload! It’s always impressive how daring to be amateurish is the basis for learning, great achievement and - eventually - global fame. RIP Andy.

[@user-lr5ph1gk5j]

Первый раз я слушаю в такой композиции

[@user-dx3ph1jy6y]

Это просто открытие, достали с полок!!! Спасибо !

[@Anyta7703]

Интересно было всё это послушать, спасибо!

[@pascalmarfaing4945]

Precious collector !

[@bicyclist2]

I love early DM. I've been a big fan since the early 80's. I used to listen to DM on cassette tape in my Sony walkman and boom box. This brings back memories of my youth. Thank you.

[@vilhjalmrwt]

Yeah! Me too

[@Mascardinho]

Outstanding post. A nice way to show so many people why we loved Depeche Mode years before they were born :D

[@varvara_is_curious]

Wow, a demo! I've always wanted to hear it. Thanks!

[@leninzacarias916]

El viejo sonido del primer Depeche Mode es tan nostálgico!!

[@jordicanoperez8510]

Increíble documento sonoro. Apenas conocía un par de temas. Gracias por difundirlo.

[@e.g.348]

One of the best tapes I ve ever heard , thank you very much for this 💎👃🙌

[@atheistleopard2484]

Photographic and Ice Machine best ones on here.

[@ultramet]

I’ve had these for several years. I didn’t know there was a Demo A and Demo B though. I’ve always like Radio News. That could have been a strong track.

[@waynespencer3036]

Great to hear this. Really fascinating to hear how the songs developed in the very early days. Thank you for uploading this.

[@traciepearce1888]

Would be great to bring all these songs out on to a cd.🎹

[@traciepearce1888]

@@defcreator187 Our even both.

[@wumpboy2700]

Wie wunderbar ist das denn 🖤🖤🖤🙌 Danke dafür

[@djmodechicago7671]

Very nostalgic.. I feel like I'm hearing old audio from my own childhood. Thanks for the upload ❤

[@gigteevee6118]

An excellent collection ❤

[@Photonicpainter]

Great unique recordings, may be earliest DM demos, many thanks for it!

[@davidviner4932]

42 years ago, doesn't seem it, I remember them in Basildon when I was 14

[@JaveDMode]

Heard some stuff I never heard before. And some stuff I have heard before and didn't believe was them [Ice Machine], but now, now I don't know what to believe but I think... I don't know what to think! The first couple of songs were totally CoS with Vince singing, but the "Dave" songs just don't sound like Dave. Craziness!

[@davidjohnwenzel]

Wonderful

[@Toymortal]

I can't help but feel that the final recorded versions on Speak And Spell have lost some of the punk energy on show here, which I find surprising given Daniel Miller's general credentials at the time. The Vince Clarke demos sound great with his voice on them. I can only wonder at what would have happened if they had found a more punk orientated label with these demos instead of Mute.

[@delivrance3961]

wow!!! pure treasure!!!

[@madjidhamdini8114]

12:59 Oh man the cassettes tape ! im from 1977 i know what's ^^ i had more than 1000 cassetes , i builded my first computer in 2004 and forget tape band ....today 2022 i have just 3 cassettes and put them in my venerable 1978 ITT Grettings from Belgium

[@KuroMicra]

Thank you for this.

[@croiners4166]

Thanks

[@carmine1151]

Photographic it's something like punky, and it reminds me of The Prodigy

[@CatoMinor]

It reminds me a lot of the Human League of The Dignity Of Labour.

[@cutalin]

photographic sounds so cool, like a kind of Cure

[@PeterParker-nc5ke]

WoW!

[@user-jq2ru4rn3x]

если уж на то пошло, выкладывайте полные версии песен, а не кусочки их 😠

[@user-qu9gs3es3p]

Photographic - great!! There is a Ghost of modern time and I like it..

[@etc834]

Photographic will give you an Addiction :)

[@OktavedesLichts]

its´s so good!!! love it thank you ❤💖💛❤

[@DepecheModeChannel]

I love 3:31

[@samuelledouarin7528]

Une approche tres intéressante de certains morceaux, comme Photographic, joué ici vitesse Grand V, et brut de décoffrage

[@broilerfresser9707]

EXZELLENT 💖 💖 💖

[@sexobscura]

Such an underrated band Swear that's a Burundi beat

[@Rolanoid]

You can hear the strong OMD influence on the Ice Machine demo.

[@grouplocomotives]

Thanks! 🖤❤️

[@qjho]

Тут слышится Винс Кларк за микрофоном, в принципе не плохо!

[@BiseUshery]

В самом начале этих демо-аудиозаписей, видеозаставки, фотографии. 0:01 Вот это старое фото молодого Винса Кларка (1980 год) 😁

[@qjho]

@@BiseUshery я знаю как он выглядит)

[@Roman-ft5xp]

Ice mashine,моя любимая!

[@mikhailmorgul1244]

Great thanks

[@ryanjohnson8659]

He's definitely trying different vocals. Perhaps a little KraftWerk and Gary Newman sound. But from the start they liked harmonizing their voice. It's cool seeing how they experimented to develop their own "voice."

[@amethystgirl]

🖤🖤 DM FOREVER!!!! 🖤🖤

[@BonesJovi]

Всегда считал фотки ранних «депешей» очень милыми и смешными… Пока не поймал себя на мысли, что прошло уже сорок лет, и мы потеряли Флетча.

[@IvanTereshok]

Первая часть действительно раритет

[@UberSynth]

Great demos all Dave had to do was hit start and stop on a drum machine and sing 🎤

[@manugahan1965]

Insieme al libro "Oltre il Muro di Berlino" è allegato un cd compilation di musica New Wave e Post Punk di gruppi della Germania Est molto interessante!

[@albertmurillo7522]

Vince Clark's voice sounds similar to Marc Almond of Soft Cell

[@TheDevoted101]

sympa la bass à la maniere de Joy Division sur la demo de Ice Machine. Culte !

[@Nenko_Music]

Fletch is playing :)

[@josemariagomezruiz1818]

Ice machine ❤❤❤

[@user-me3hh7ou6h]

🔥🔥🔥👍👍👍

[@ricarcam100]

Muy Interesante, Saludos

[@ChrisPalmerPiano]

At 8:42 I hear a C64 Soundmonitor patch, or hallucinate.

[@andee3141]

Soundmonitor was released 1986. I don´t think that DM used it 1980. You Hallucinate :-)

[@manugahan1965]

"Ice Machine " inspiegabilmente non pubblicata su "Speak&Spell"....!

[@Nenko_Music]

fletch on real bass in Ice MAchine ?

[@mstcrow5429]

No promise here. Wonder what they ended up doing.

[@maxir4k]

Sure they have no future.

[@ssssssssssss885]

WOW! Where do you get all this rare material from? Looks like you have the key to the magic box full of stuff I didn't even know exists. Back then I thought I was such a DM expert. :-D

[@cookiedough69]

Most likely from the DM live wiki. If you think this video Is a magic box, that place is a whole wizard's Library.

[@stevehastings5161]

@Kompakt Mode I have most of the master tapes? demos? bbc sessions? & john peel sessions? buried in my closet? in my 🛏️ bedroom? from? ultravox? joy division? new order? tubeway army? gary numan? depeche mode? flock of seagulls? the fixx? the human league? orchestral manouvers in the dark? yaz? etc!

[@stevehastings5161]

I found all of these demo singles on an extremely rare vinyl lp & record called a test pressing with no affiliation to a major record label back in 1980 while record shopping on a saturday afternoon @ the capitol records swap meet in hollywood, california!

[@stevehastings5161]

@Kompakt Mode Well? maybe it is not the holy grail to you? & that is o.k.with me! however? to me & millions of other depeche mode fans? It is definitely a gem! & still extremely rare & very difficult to find on cassette tape? or vinyl lp & record? most test pressings on vinyl lp & record were sealed in plastic with a very thick cardboard cover from the uk & major radio stations in the us! & never came with a typed up? or printed up? playlist? tracklist? or songlist? you had to figure out the names of the songs yourself? It is very similar to a john peel session. except? instead of three to six songs? it is a full length album with all of the songs from this cassette tape! including multiple singles, b-sides & demos I have never heard of before on the radio? or on depeche mode's vinyl lp's & records? it also comes with some live tracks from their very first live gigs in the uk!

[@tobo43]

@@stevehastings5161 You have complete versions of first 4 tracks? They come from a session they did at the Lower Wapping Conker Factory studio in Essex and were never released officially. Its mentioned in Steve Malins Depeche Mode biography as "the holy grail" as was never released. I recorded with my band at the same studio early 80's and the guy engineering gave me a copy of the full recording on cassette (I am the one who put up the snippets originally). I gave copies of the full recordings to Fletch and Martin many years later, and they didn't have them.

[@martincottone8088]

Cantaba bien vince y no entiendo porque no salio en el primer album television set

[@johnk6312]

Exellent this must be when they were using the little dr55 drum machine still bass and guitar in there too I think they would've sounded like a more poppy caberet voltaire had they recorded speak in spell in this way but I'm glad they didnt as SAS is one of the greatest pure synth pop albums ever. Great to hear this though

[@GremlinSpike69]

They were so punk back in the day!

[@gonetoheaven7478]

almost at the level of the early human league

[@vovankrutilev1045]

❤

[@fourdeeman]

Drummachine is an Roland dr-55

[@fourdeeman]

Boss dr-55 i meant

[@Roman-ft5xp]

Очень,похоже!

[@masterandservant8021]

depeche MODE is over.

[@ndwmix]

😍

[@user-oy6xb2hh9f]

THIS IS BASILDON / CROC' S

[@versatile1976]

ice machine

[@tweedtalk5107]

I don't know...I'd like some authentication. I suppose the first tracks could be Vince singing, before they got Dave onboard. There's been so many fakes before. The last three I know are real, as that's the 3-song demo they put together to shop around labels.

[@depechemodelive4336]

I can assure you they are real demo tapes belonging to “Composition Of Sound” (pre-Depeche Mode)

[@tweedtalk5107]

Sorry, didn't mean to cast any doubts. The first does sould like Vince's voice, what little I've heard it, and some of the synth sounds are exactly like the ones did on early live recordings. It's interesting how Vince sang TV Set with a slightly different rythm.

[@gary0liver]

Yes that is Vince singing

[@roseneck3447]

Well I´m not sure but I think the unnamed instrumental was used as a jingle for a TV show at that time, anyone could confirm this?

[@sadmacuser]

Is there no way to get the full versions of the May 1980 demos? This is amazing

[@brunoheggli2888]

Amazing,game over for Tesla!