========================================================================================== DEPECHE MODE REMIX BOOTLEG CDS (Last Updated 03/16/2001) ========================================================================================== ========================================================================================== TABLE OF CONTENTS ========================================================================================== 1 REMIX CD'S (INDEX + FINAL VERDICT) 2 REMIX CD'S - TRACKLISTINGS AND REVIEWS (main section) 3 CD'S WHICH ARE NOTHING MORE THAN OFFICIAL MIXES (near end) 4 CD'S WHICH SOME PEOPLE THINK ARE DM BUT ARE REALLY NOT (near end) 5 CD'S I'VE HEARD OF BUT DON'T HAVE ANY INFORMATION ON YET (near end) 6 CONTRIBUTORS ========================================================================================== REMIX CD NAME BEST, WORST, OR ALL AVAILABLE ELSEWHERE -------------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------- 001........................................ 911 Remix.................................. A Broken Frame Remixed.....................All available elsewhere A Remarkable Mode.......................... A Strange Collection Part 1................All available elsewhere A Strange Collection Part 2................ Another Sort of Bootleg.................... Apologize 1999............................. Apologize 2001............................. Atrophy Bong Megamixes.....................Best of the Best for Megamixes Black Album................................ Black Violation............................ Black Celebration Limited Edition Remix....All available elsewhere Blasphemous Dreams......................... Blended / That Girl DJ Blended............. California Mixes........................... Classic Beats - Vol 1 / Classic Remixes(e).All available elsewhere Classic Beats - Vol. 2..................... Classic Techno [Niagra] Mixes Vol.1 (c1)... Classic Techno Mixes Vol.2 (secret remixes) (c2). Club Tunes Vol 1........................... Club Tunes Vol 2........................... Coming Back To You......................... Cosmic Blues............................... Counterfeit LP............................. Dance Bong 13..............................All available elsewhere Dance Club Remixes......................... Dance Mixes 99............................. Dancing In My Shoes (n).................... Dangerous Truth............................ Devoted Edits.............................. Devotions Remixed.......................... Digital Razormaids 1 (d1).................. Digital Razormaids 2 (d2).................. Diversions................................. DJ's Revenge (First Strike) (b1)........... DJ's Revenge - Digital Technology.......... DPM (the Remixes vol 1) (f)................ DPM 2 (the Remixes vol 2).................. DPM 3 (the Remixes vol 3) / Neo Classics... Elite Recordings (k).......................All available elsewhere ELIXIR..................................... ELIXIR II (see Modetrix)................... Enjoy The Mixes............................All available elsewhere Erotic Integration......................... Fast Fashion Vol.1.........................All available elsewhere Fast Fashion Vol.2.........................All available elsewhere Fast Fashion Vol.3.........................All available elsewhere Fast Fashion Vol.4.........................All available elsewhere Fast Fashion Vol.5.........................All available elsewhere First Violation by H. Null.................Best of the Best! Forbidden Fruits - the Hedonist Mixes......Worst of the Worst! Forgotten Tunes From the Ground............ Fourplay (h)............................... Freestate Summer Special 2000.............. Grey City Under an Orange Sky ............. Grey City Under an Orange Sky Are People?.. Grey City Under an Orange Sky Level 2...... Grey City Under an Orange Sky 3rd Dimension Grey City Under an Orange Sky Studio Dubs.. Gold Collection............................ Gold Edition 2............................. Gold Edition 3............................. Gold Edition 4............................. Goretrax And Lost Mixes....................Worst of the Worst! Halo....................................... Happiest Boys.............................. HeadStar 27 (Strike 27)....................Best of the Best! Heart Gore Modern Times (strike 14)........Best of the Best for Martin Gore Tracks! Heaven Mixes / Devoted Forever............. Heavenly Surrender......................... Hint of Anesthesia CD 1.................... Hint of Anesthesia CD 2.................... Hint of Anesthesia CD 3.................... Hits from the Bong......................... Hommage (strike 15)........................ Hot Wire Mix Vol. 2........................ Hot Wire Mix Vol. 3........................Worst of the Worst! Hot Wire Mixes Instrumental ............... Hypnotized................................. Idle Hands................................. Japanese Radio Specials (Itashi & Tandao) (Strk25/26?). Kick in the Shunt.......................... Looking Back Maximum 1..................... Looking Back Maximum 2..................... Looking Back Maximum 3..................... Looking Back Maximum 4..................... Looking Back Special Collection of......... Lost Mixes, the............................Worst of the Worst! Lust Mixes (new/fake 14th Strike).......... Master Mixes MIR 201.......................All available elsewhere Master Mixes MIR 202....................... Martin Gore Hotel Piano CD................. Martin Gore's Studio Tapes (o)............. Master and Extension....................... Medium Rare................................ Millennium 33.............................. Mixator - DJ's Violation on Depeche Mode... Mixes 108..................................Worst of the Worst! Mixo Phone................................. Mode of Obsession Vol 1.................... Mode of Obsession Vol 2....................All available elsewhere Modetrix: ELIXIR II........................ More of Mode............................... More Substance............................. More Than a Remix I........................ More Than a Remix II....................... More Than a Remix III...................... More Than a Remix IV....................... Music for the Masses - Lmtd Edition Remix..All available elsewhere Mute Records Soundarchive.................. Mysterious Mixes........................... Neo Classics............................... Netbeat.................................... Netbeat 2nd Edition........................ New Digital Razormaid Customize Series II.. Niagara Radiostation Mix (g)............... Nine Killers on Highway 28 (Strike 28).....Best of the Best! NonStop.................................... Now This is Fun (Strike 24)................ Omega Mode 1............................... One........................................ Only When I Lose Myself Maximum............ Only When I Play My Mixes..................Best of the Best! Personal Devotion.......................... Personal Mode.............................. Personal Jesus - DJ Reach Out Mixes........ Philip's Modern Girl....................... Pimp Mix................................... Polished Gold (Forbidden Fruits 2)......... Promotional................................Worst of the Worst! Prozac Nation 2............................ Rare and Unreleased Mixes Vol 1.01......... Reconstruction Time Again.................. Remix Special 1............................ Remixes (Trance and Dance)................. Remixes by the Black Day Fan Club.......... Remixes from the Heart.....................Best of the Best! Remotivate the Pleasure 3 - In Your Room... Reworked Volume 1..........................Worst of the Worst Royal Mixes Vol.1.......................... Royal Mixes Vol.2..........................All available elsewhere Sambrero Vol. 1............................ Scum Sucking Whores Mix....................All available elsewhere Second Violation by H. Null................Best of the Best! Shark Attack............................... Sight...................................... Simple Pleasures Part I.................... Simple Pleasures Part II................... Snare CD #1Snare CD #2..................... Some Great Reward Mixes....................All available elsewhere Songs Of Faith And Devotion: Remix (i1)....Worst of the Worst Songs Of Faith And Devotion: Strange Versions. Songs Of Martin L. Gore (j)................ Songs Of Martin L. Gore - Remixes Vol. 2 (MG's Studio Tapes: Remix Vol. 2) Sounds of Mode............................. Spacer Remixes 1999 (Strike 29)............ Strike(Second) (b2)........................ Strike(Third) (b3)......................... Strike(Fourth) (b4)........................ Strike(Fifth) (b5)......................... Strike(Sixth) (b6)......................... Strike(Seventh)............................ Strike(Eighth).............................Best of the Best! Strike(Ninth).............................. Strike(Tenth).............................. Strike(Eleventh)........................... Strike(Twelfth)............................ Strike(Twelfth and ahalf).................. Strike (Nineteenth)........................Best of the Best! Strikes Again..............................All available elsewhere Substance.................................. Sunshine Mixes (new/fake 13th Strike)...... The 12 Inches by Jonnathan McBride (strk 22). Technograph................................ Total Remixed.............................. Travelling................................. Triumph Der Lust (Forbidden Fruits 3)...... Ultimate Ultra Remixes by ML Gee II (strk 21). Ultra - Singles Remixes.................... Ultra - The Remix Album....................Best of the Best! Ultra Maximum.............................. Ultra Maximum 2............................ Ultra Megamode 1998 (Strike 25/26?)........ Ultra Rare Trax 1 (a1)..................... Ultra Rare Trax 2 (a2)..................... Ultra Rare Trax 3 (a3)..................... Ultra Rare Trax 4 (a4)..................... Ultra Rare Trax 5.......................... Ultra Remixes - The Ultra Remixes by ML Gee (strk 18). Ultra Studio Outtakes...................... Various Mixes Vol 3........................ Venetian Dreams............................ Vinyl Only Remixes......................... Violated Sended by Mike Paige.............. Violator 2000.............................. Violator-Limited Edition Remix Album.......All available elsewhere Violator Remixed........................... Walking To The Shoreline Part 1 (strk 16).. Walking To The Shoreline Part 2 (strk 17).. We Create A Monster........................ White Album, The...........................Worst of the Worst X FAN CLUB SERIES LTED. ED. CD............. World in Hoschis Eyes......................Worst of the Worst World of Sound and Harmony (strike 20)..... Last: CD's which I have no info on Key: The cryptic-looking code next to each track is a cross-reference to which CDs in this document contain that track. An 'x' appearing in this code means that the track is available on an official release still in print. A '?' means that I'm not sure exactly what the mix is, so I don't know whether it's on any other CDs. Track titles are (usually) as they appear on the CD or packaging, but I ignore minor errors like typos. Notes for each disk follow the track listing. A Note on the Strike Series: So far, this are no Strikes after 29 that I know of. Someone's been posting some on Ebay lately, claiming that they're the 30th Strike, 31st, 32nd, etc. I picked up one such "strike" (master CD), and it was pretty poor quality (most taken from MP3's, pops between tracks, even a few skips), so I doubt that these are real strikes. Then I saw multiple people posting different CD's and calling them the same Strike numbers, so now I know they're just using the Strike name to make some quick bucks. And to top it off, now they're going back and using old strike numbers again, like 13, 14, 15, and 16. In my discog, I will refer to such Strikes as "new/fake." ======================================================================= 001 ======================================================================= 1 Love In Itself (#7) 5:14 2 Barrel Of A Gun (Soft Mix) 6:30 3 If You Want (Extended) 4:55 4 The Things You Said (Alternate Version) 6:35 5 What's Your Name (Extended Remix) 5:14 6 In Your Room (Innocent Mix) 6:39 7 Just Can't Get Enough (TechnoMix) 6:25 8 Monument (Electro Remix) 3:57 9 It's No Good (Future) 7:30 10 Shake The Disease (Shaken, Not Stirred) 8:27 11 Walking In My Shoes (Jazzy Studio Outtake) 5:31 12 Boys Say Go! (First Studio Session) 2:42 ======================================================================= 911 Remix ======================================================================= 1 Strange love (Future Mix) 2 Enjoy the silence (Future Mix) 3 Halo (911 Remix) 4 Walking in my shoes (911 Remix) 5 Behind the wheel/Route 66 (Mega Dub) + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + I've never seen this CD, but I have seen many of the remixes on other CD's. See You is a good mix, though the hard pounding bass really does not fit the song. The Walking in my Shoes mix repeats the first few notes again and again for a full 2 minutes, and you tend to fall asleep before figuring out that the rest of the mix is practically the single. Track 5 is from the vinyl-only release Behind the Wheel / Route 66. All 5 tracks were included in Classic Beat Vol 2, by the way. ======================================================================= A BROKEN FRAME REMIXED ======================================================================= 1 Leave in silence Long Silence Mix 2 My secret garden Joye N'Fun Mix 3 Monument Reggaelectric Mix 4 Nothing to fear Noogman's Revenge 5 See you 991 Remix (911 Remix) 6 Oberkorn, it's a small town Development Mix 7 The meaning of love Remix 8 Excerpts from: My secret garden 9 The great outdoors 10 Now this is fun JMB & Speedy Jay Mix 11 The sun & the rainfall TR 808 Mix + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Tracks 6, 8, and 9 are official versions. Tracks 1, 2 are from Japanese Radio Specials Track 3 is from Strike 8 Track 4 is from Strike 9 Track 5 is from 911 Remix Track 7 is probably from World of Sound and Harmonie Track 10 is from Now This is Fun Track 11 is also the Remix 1995 Final Verdict: All stollen from other boots. ======================================================================= A REMARKABLE MODE ======================================================================= Mega Mix Part One 57.09 Mega Mix Part Two 64.31 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + I know nothing. Must be a 2-CD collection. ======================================================================= A STRANGE COLLECTION PART 1 ======================================================================= 1 Never let me Down Again Wall of 303 Rmx 2 Enjoy the Silence Blue Mix 3 OWILM Funk da Brat 4 Get the Balance Right Heavenly White Mix 5 Everything Counts T.ando Remix 6 Waiting for the Night Brat Mastermix 7 It s no Good Club 69 Future Mix 8 Happiest Girl Pump up the House Mix 9 Judas Bonus Beat 10 Enjoy the Silence Strings of Silence + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Don't know anything about this boot, except for some of the titles. Track 1, 3, 5 are from Headstar 27 Track 2 is from Strike 10 Track 4 is the Class X Mix Track 6 is from Hommage Track 7 is from Strike 29 Track 8 is from 12" by Jonathan McBride Track 9 is from DPM1, last 2 minutes of the Bombastic Mix, from Strike 8 Track 10 is an excerpt from The Quad: Final Mix Final Verdict: Sorry. ======================================================================= A STRANGE COLLECTION PART 2 ======================================================================= 1 down in the boondocks 2 only when i lose myself (josh abraham mix) 3 just can t get enough (no source mix) 4 stripped (psycho drum mix) 5 kaleid (when world mix) 6 dangerous (hazchemix edit) 7 policy of truth (pavlov s dub) 8 people are people (on usound remix) 9 enjoy the silence (m 3) 10 waiting for the night (space dub mix) 11 nothing (simenon & saunders mix) 12 monghi (previously unreleased track 1990) 13 world in my eyes (jp) 14 walking in my shoes (1998) + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Don't know anything about this boot, except for some of the titles. The following are official mixes: 5, 6, 7, 8 (it's the Special Edition), and 11 (it's either the Zip Hop Mix or the Dub). Track 1 is a genuine Martin Gore demo, available on boots like Ultra Rare Trax 4, etc Track 2 is on every new bootleg to come out. Track 3 is from Gold Collection. Track 10 is from the Sixth Strike. Only tracks I don't recognize by name: 4 (but I can guess), 9, 13, 14. Monghi has appeared on various Demo collections, and sounds like it could be legit, but I can't say for sure. ======================================================================= ANOTHER SORT OF BOOTLEG ======================================================================= 1 A Song For Europe Dave Gahan tribute to Roxy Music 2 Stripped Tour Backing Tape 3 Useless Remix 4 Waiting for the Night Sonic Integration 5 Lie to Me Remix 6 Personal Jesus Tour Backing Tape 7 A Question of Lust Tribute by Dune 8 My Posessions 9 Master & Servant Tour Backing Tape 10 Enjoy the Silence Tour Backing Tape 11 Blasphemous Rumours Soundcheck 12 Behind the Wheel Tour Backing Tape 13 Bong 29 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + First off, everything on this CD sounds like it came from an MP3 file. I don't know if that's just where my source got it, or if this is how the real CD is. But there are some interesting (and not so interesting) things on this CD. The tour backing tapes are interesting, though boring to listen to by themselves. It's like karaoke. But these are the tracks which Depeche Mode uses tapes to play during the live concerts; everything else, they do live. A Song for Europe is a tribute by Dave Gahan (lyrics only, don't know who does the music) for Roxy Music. Excellent song; very un-Depeche, yet so Dave Gahan at the same time. Useless Remix is not the official version. It's quite different, and includes clips from DM interviews. Waiting for the Night and Lie to Me are typical bootleg type remixes; neither fantastic nor sucky. Actually, the more I hear Lie to Me, the more I like it. Question of Lust is performed by Dune, which is almost like hearing a symphony perform DM. A female vocallist sings. Hard to say if I like or not. I have also heard Dune perform Somebody (via MP3), and I think they did AQOL much better. I don't know what "My Posessions" is supposed to be. It's a 54 second piece maybe made up of DM instrumentation, but it's nothing noteworthy. Might be a demo, but I haven't heard of it or seen it on other demo CD's. Blasphemous Rumors is badly recorded. Sounds terrible. Bong 29 is a mix of OWILM and Surrender. It's okay. Also includes some interview footage of Martin talking about OWILM. Final Verdict: Depends if you're interested in the tour backing tapes or not. ======================================================================= APOLOGIZE 1999 ======================================================================= 1. The Instrumentals 10:51 2. Nothing - Dub 6:38 3. Enjoy the Silence - Bryan's Remix 7:04 4. Lie to Me - Deep Beat Remix 5:37 5. Freestate - Mesmerising Remix 6:07 6. The Things You Said - Harmony Mix 6:42 7. Sun & The Rainfall - Remix 1995 5:28 8. Waiting for the Night - Sonic Integration 6:09 9. Useless - Air 10 Mix 5:08 10. Halo - Frisco L. Mix 5:33 11. It Doesn't Matter Two - Spherical Mix 7:06 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Track 1 is a cut & paste mix of the instrumentals from Ultra (Jazz Thieves, Slowblow, Painkiller, Uselink). Track 2 is from the vinyl-only release of Strangelove. Track 3 is not a Brian Transeau (BT) Mix, as you might think. It's a cut & paste mix using official versions. Track 4 is from World of Sound & Harmony Track 5 is one of the better mixes on this CD. Mild percussion & instrumentation were added, so it pretty much keeps the feeling of the original. Appears on other boots, but is from the internet so it's not FROM any certain CD. Track 6 is from Strike 12 1/2. Track 7 is from Heart Gore Modern Times Track 8 is from the internet and not FROM any CD that I know of (though it appears on a few others). Mild instrumentation is added; works really well. At one point the music fades and sounds of a crowd are heard. Track 9 is a shorter version of the Air 20 Mix (which was 7:49), which was on the vinyl-only release of Useless. Track 10 is from Walking to the Shoreline Part 1. Okay mix; uses footage from an audience-recorded live LP, so quality is not all that good. Track 11 is from Songs of Martin L Gore Vol 2. Final Verdict: Nothing you can't get elsewhere, except tracks 1, 3(maybe), and 9, which aren't special enough to warrent getting this CD. I suspect the title is in apology to all the other CD's they ripped off in making this. ======================================================================= APOLOGIZE 2001 ======================================================================= 1 The Love Thieves ML Gee Mix 2 Fly on the Windscreen Light & Shadow Mix 3 Personal Jesus DJ Reach Out Mix #3 4 Only When I Lose Myself Windscreen Mix 5 Surrender Everything Remix Edit 6 In Your Room Dark Vibes Mix 7 Here is the House Safar Mix Edit 8 People are People UK DJ Mix 1999 9 Enjoy the Silence/Policy of Truth Megamix + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + 1 probably In The Mood Mix by ML Gee 4 from ELIXIR. 5 from Only When I Play my Mixes 6 from Strike 9 7 probably a shorter version of the Safar Violation. 9 seems to be new, and is appearing on many new boots. ======================================================================= ATROPHY BONG MEGAMIXES ======================================================================= On-USound Megamix Part 1 On-USound Megamix Part 2 On-USound Megamix Part 3 Enjoy the Silence - Extended Ricky Rich instrumental Photographic - Tribute by Bigod 20 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + These are really good megamixes! Depending on what other bootlegs you have, you might already have these remixes, sometimes under different names. Enjoy the Silence is pretty boring, though; 23 minutes long! The Photographic tribute is pretty good if you like tributes. Final Verdict: If you like megamixes, these are top! ======================================================================= BLACK ALBUM, THE ======================================================================= 1 World In My Eyes Distortion Mix 4:57 2 Motherless Child Dark Wave Mix 3:58 3 In A Manner Of Speaking Trendy Mix 6:07 4 Photographic Focus Mix 5:31 5 Rush Spiritual Mastermix 8:31 7 Nothing To Fear Noogman`s Revenge 5:45 8 Just Can`t Get Enough 1991 Remix 5:34 9 Everything Counts Absolute Mix 6:00 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Track 1 is from Strike 12 « Track 2 is from Strike 14 Track 3 is probably the "Trandy Mix" from Strike 14 Track 4 is from Strike 8 Track 5 is from Strike 11 Track 7 is from Strike 9 Track 9 is the official version. Track 8 (JCGE) is the only remix name I don't recognize from another CD. Maybe they misspelled 911 Remix? Final Verdict: Most (if not all) available elsewhere. ======================================================================= BLACK CELEBRATION LIMITED EDITION REMIX ======================================================================= 1 A Question Of Lust Wall City Mix 2 Stripped Razormaid Mix 3 A Question Of Time Class X Mix 4 Behind The Wheel Dub (from the US Promo 12) 5 Here Is The House Martin Gore-Vocals Mix 6 New Dress Razormaid Mix 7 A Question Of Lust Minimal Mix 8 But Not Tonight Margouleff Mix 9 A Question Of Time Razormaid Mix 10 Celebration Megamix is the Discotrax Mix 11 Violence 12 I Feel No Guilt + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Track 1 is the New Town Mix without the live remix at the end. Track 2 is a cut-down version of Breathing in Fumes. Track 3 is a Razormaid mix. Track 4 is mislabeled as Question of Lust Margouleff US Radio Mix Track 5 is a demo recording, good, but found many other places. Track 6 is from Strike 3. Track 7 is the official version. Track 8 is the official Extended Mix (yes, Margouleff did this mix). Track 9 is a duplicate? Tracks 11 and 12 are not even Depeche Mode! Why do the bootleggers keep putting these on CD's??? // Why do Violence and I Feel No Guilt keep turning up on these CD's?! Because these are old Martin L. Gore tracks. There are rumours these tracks are tacken from an old tape Martin gave to a friend as a birthday present or such. Just look at the Gore Trax CD. // Actually, these are a group called Red Flag, who are very DM-sounding. They are not DM. Final Verdict: all celebrated elsewhere ======================================================================= BLACK VIOLATION (a new/fake Strike) ======================================================================= 1 World in my eyes (N.i.p.7"remix) 6:00 2 Here is the house (Safar violation for the masses remix) 12:29 3 It doesnt matter two (Montana dub mix) 6:13 4 Fools (Danmark mix) 4:14 5 Never let me down again (Safar violation for the masses remix) 6:27 6 Behind the wheel (Dub) 6:03 7 I want you now (Wads mix) 4:27 8 Nothing (Dub mix) 6:39 9 I feel you (Rem dm remix) 3:43 10 Strangemix 14:16 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + This CD is new as of September, 1999, and I don't know why he called it the 15th Strike when there've already been 29 real Strikes, and even most of the fraud's have named their "Strikes" up to 35 so far. Fake name aside, there's some great stuff on this CD that should not be passed up! Mixed in with the usual stuff available everywhere else, of course. 1 is actually the Bogus Brothers Dub from the Fifth Strike. 2 is an awesome, original, long trance mix of this song. Very good! 3 is a shorter version of the Montana Mix from Walking to the Shoreline II. Hard, pounding beat and rhythm jives up this song, and though it's a bit too long, it's a good mix. The real Montana Mix is 8:02, so perhaps someone else thought it was too long and decided to trim it down. 4 sucks. It's just the left channel poured through both chanels so that you can only hear one half of that 2-sided rhythm they use to start the song off with. 5 kicks ass. It's a trance mix very similar to the REM DM mix, and has "cymbols" from WIME in there, along with the breathing from I Want You Now. Main rhythm is based off the aggro mix. 6 is very similar to another old version... I can't think of it right now. Nothing big. 7 is a conqueror. Hip hop beat, with various pieces of IWYN over it; it's not just the original song with a beat laid over it. Very different. 8 is from the vinyl-only release of Strangelove. 9 is a great mix from the internet; see Netbeat for more detail. 10 was an old vinyl megamix supposed to be by the ON-USound people (the style agrees with that, but the not-quite-on-time mixing suggests otherwise). Pretty good if you've never heard it, but this was taken from an old scratchy vinyl, so the sound quality isn't good. Final Verdict: Tracks 2, 5, 7, and 9 are required listening! ======================================================================= BLASPHEMOUS DREAMS ======================================================================= 1. mega mode part 2 14.09 2. useless us promo edit 4.07 3. classic modes 11.33 4. celebration mix 14.03 5. strangemix 14.12 6. photographic photogenic rmx 4.28 7. i sometimes wish (deathwish rmx) 3.37 8. blasphemous rumours 3.56 9. personal jesus instr. dub mix 3.10 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Don't know much about this boot. Track 1 is from Ultra Mega Modes, I think. Track 4 is from Niagra Radio Station Mix Track 5 is on various other boots. Tracks 6 and 7 are the Usound mixes, found on many other boots. ======================================================================= BLENDED Or THAT GIRL DJ BLENDED ======================================================================= 1 A Little Respect - Erasure 2 Stop! - Erasure 3 Chains Of Love - Erasure 4 Who Needs Love Like That - Erasure 5 Oh L'Amour - Erasure 6 Give Me, Give Me, Give Me - Erasure 7 Policy Of Truth - Depeche Mode 8 Enjoy The Silence - Depeche Mode 9 Pain - Depeche Mode 10 Behind The Wheel - Depeche Mode 11 Personal Jesus - Depeche Mode 12 Everything Counts - Depeche Mode 13 Blasphemous Roumours - Depeche Mode 14 People Are People - Depeche Mode 15 Everything Counts - Depeche Mode 16 Circus Break - Depeche Mode 17 Just Can't Get Enough - Depeche Mode 18 Master And Servant - Depeche Mode 19 Broken Dreams - Erasure 20 Ship Of Fools - Erasure 21 Push Me - Erasure 22 Sometimes - Erasure 23 It Doesn't Have To Be - Erasure 24 Run To The Sky (12" Remix) - Erasure 25 Always (12" Remix) - Erasure 26 Heaven (I Want You) (12" Remix) - Camoouflage - bonus track 27 That Smiling Face (12" Remix) - Camouflage - bonus track 28 Wishing (12" Remix) (12" Remix) - Flock Of Seaguls - bonus track ======================================================================= CALIFORNIA MIXES ======================================================================= 1 Fly on the windscreen DJ Mix 4:30 2 I want you now US DJ Remix 3:21 3 Waiting for the night Edited DJ Version 6:18 4 Disconet Medly Full Mix 12:07 5 Policy of truth Boys Mastermix 6:07 6 I feel you Mastermix 8:18 7 Stories of old DJ Mix 4:12 8 Waiting for the night Full DJ Version 8:30 9 Personal Jesus US Mastermix 9:17 10 The Sin Mix US DJ Medley 7:09 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + All Brat Mixes (is this true?)... Poor Quality -------- The Brat has mentioned that when he makes demo mixes (demos of what his mixes will finally be like), people have stolen them to sell. You can identify them because they all have a booming voice in them saying "it's the Brat Mastermix!" He says they are poor quality because they are demos, and the final versions are not available anywhere (he only plays them at DJ functions, I believe). ======================================================================= CLASSIC BEATS (VOLUME 1) Or CLASSIC REMIXES (e) ======================================================================= 1 5:28 d1ek Breathing In Fumes (Razormaid) 2 6:45 a1b3d1e New Dress (Razormaid) 3 9:11 a1d1e Master/Set Me Free (Razormaid) 4 7:54 a3e Strangelove (Fresh mix) 5 7:19 a2b4e Just Can't Get Enough (Base mix) 6 8:11 b4c2ekl Master And Servant (Power mix) 7 3:45 a2b4d2el A Question Of Lust 8 11:41 c1ek It's Time For A New Life Megamix 9 13:08 e The Broadway Medley ---- Track 4 is the Fresh Ground mix. Track 5 is the ON-USound Mix Track 7 is the Robert Margouleff mix, from a US promo 12".. Track 8 is also the It's Time For A New Life Megamix Track 9 is also the Disconet Megamix + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Along with DJ's, one of the first bootleg cd's produced. Not the best bootleg around, however. QUALITY = 7 1: Breathing In Fumes (Razormaid Mix) 5:28 2: New Dress (Razormaid) 6:45 Incredible, find better quality on 3rd Stike. 3: Master...Set Me Free (Razormaid) 9:11 A stellar example of what really good mixing can do. 4: Strangelove (Fresh Mix) 7:54 Great mix previously only on UK 12" promo. 5: Just Can't Get Enough (Base Mix) 7:19 *okay* version. Would be good, but is SHITTY quality, and too quiet. 6: Master and Servant (Power Mix) 8:11 AKA Hammerhead mix. *okay* version. 7: A Question of Lust 3:45 Credited to Robert Margouleff. Different intro. Sounds like the single. 9: The Broadway Medly 13:08 Very good megamix! -------- 1: This is basically the original except a bit shorter. 2: There is no fancy remixing, it is merely altered by repeating several parts. 3: This track starts off as Master and Servant, goes into the Slavery Whip Mix and then leaps into Set Me Free (Remotivate Me). It is altered only a bit by cutting and pasting. 4: This track features the Pain Mix and a sample of an artist saying SUPER DJ. Again only a bit of cut & paste 5: This track is a mixture of the original and the live version as heard on the B-side of Love In Itself. The beat is alter a bit and the track is edited with a phase shifting device which makes it sound as if you're listening to from far off and the wind is taking away the sound periodically. 6: This is the Slavery Whip Mix. It is edited a lot. There is a sample of a voice saying POWER every once in a while and the rest is cut up, repeating bit's and echoing parts repeatedly. 7: This comes closest to the remix on the limited edition cassette single. No special effects. 8: A megamix 9: A good mix, because some of the songs mixed together are remixes rather than the standard single versions. This makes for a more interesting mix...but the songs aren't as mixed-up as in the previous track. Tracks 1-3 appear to be mastered from CD whereas the rest is mastered from vinyl. The overall sound quality is quite good. Distributed by Classic-Beats PO BOX 12047 San Francisco CA 94114 Final Verdict: All classically available elsewhere ======================================================================= CLASSIC BEATS (VOLUME 2) ======================================================================= 1 Strangelove Future Mix 2 Enjoy The Silence Future Mix 3 Halo 911 Mix 4 Walking In My Shoes 911 Mix 5 Death's Door Live Milano June '93 6 Get Right With Me Edit Version 7 Nothing Zip Hop Mix 8 Nothing Dub Mix 9 Death's Door Athmosphere Mix 10 Behind The Wheel/Route 66" Mega Dub + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, and 10 are from 911 Remix. In fact, that IS 911 Remix; all 5 tracks. Track 5 is available on the Mute Tonal Evidence 6 promo cassette, and the "In Your Room" CD Single. Track 6 is taken from a VOX magazine sampler tape. Tracks 7 and 8 are from the US 12" of Strangelove. Track 9 is an actual exclusive track! An unreleased mix, unavailable (sofar) on any other bootleg CD. Track 10 is taken from the US 12" of "Behind The Wheel". ======================================================================= CLASSIC TECHNO [NIAGRA] MIXES VOL.1 (c1) or CLASSIC TECHNO MIXES: THE MEGAMIXES ======================================================================= 1 11:41 c1ek Classic Modes (Megamix) 2 17:47 c1 Megamode 1 (Megamix) 3 14:17 c1 Megamode 2 (Megamix) 4 16:32 c1g Celebration Mix (Megamix) 5 4:03 b1c1 Blasphemous Dreams (remix) ---- Track 1 is the It's Time For A New Life Megamix. Track 5 is Dreaming Of Me (Discotrax mix). + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Great Megamixes! Some disturbance on the high end, but otherwise good quality. QUALITY=7 1: Classic Modes 11:41 Decent megamix of classic Dmode tunes 2: Megamode 1 17:47 Pretty cool megamix of tunes up to MFTMasses. 3: Megamode 2 14:17 Even better megamix of mostly MFTM tunes. Great Mix! 4: Celebration Mix 16:32 Righteous, bone-chilling megamix of Black Celebration tunes & earlier songs -------- Quality-wise, it's not bad. I've only previewed it briefly since its purchase. One of the mixes starts off with "Little 15", with clearly audible vinyl pops. Other than that, it sounds ok. ======================================================================= CLASSIC [NIAGRA] TECHNO MIXES VOL.2 (c2) ======================================================================= 1 5:33 c2l Just Can't Get Enough (Master mix) 2 8:12 b4c2ekl Master And Servant (Hammerhead mix) 3 8:44 a2b6c2gl Nothing (Art of Mix) 4 4:09 a2b3c2lx Route 66 (Nile Rodgers remix) 5 7:36 b4c2l Never Let Me Down (Groovy mix) 6 5:35 b4c2lm World In My Eyes (Mixx-Rite remix) 7 4:35 a2b3c2l Photogenic (remix) 8 3:36 a2b3c2l Deathwish (remix) 9 8:21 c2gln The Official Megamix ---- Track 2 is the Power mix. Track 4 is available on the "Earth Girls Are Easy" soundtrack. Track 7 is an On-USound remix of "Photographic". Track 8 is an On-USound remix of "I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead". ---- Classic Techno NIAGRA Mixes also has the following 3 tracks from Ultra Rare Trax 2. 10 4:27 a2l But Not Tonight (Robert Margouleff mix) 11 5:52 a2b1d1gkl Behind The Wheel (Razormaid remix) 12 3:48 a2b4d2el A Question Of Lust (Robert Margouleff mix) + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Less megamixes, new songs, rarities! QUALITY = 7.5 Good disc! 1: Just Can't Get Enough (Mastermix) 5:31 2nd best remix with Yaz samples! 2: Master and Servant (Hammerhead mix) 8:11 B-side of the incredible Pimp Mix (which should be put on disc), AKA M&S (Power MIx). Okay mix. 5: Never Let Me Down Again (Groovy Mix) 7:35 Similar to the Tsangarides Mix, has a 1 min intro of flipping through radio stations! In my opinion, the best mix of NLMDA, also on B-side of the eclectic pimp mix! 6: World In My Eyes (Mixx-Rite Remix) 5:35 Cool remix with samples from Enjoy the Silence, scratching, an overall house feel and other samples! 9: The Official Megamix 8:21 Pretty cool megamix -------- I scanned through a little of each track at the dealer's. The JCGE track was the best mix of it I've ever heard. The drum production was excellent; bordering on BB Little 15. The Official MegaMix also sounds promising. -------- Excellent sound quality. Mixes are OK for dj/bootleg mixes. See notes on certain tracks. Master and Servant / Hammerhead Mix 8:12 This is the Power mix from the Classic Beats remix bootleg. It has that annoying "Power" vocal sample all over. World In My Eyes / Mixx-rite remix 5:35 Basically the Kiss-a-mix with some more samples. Deathwish / remix 3:36 The On-U-Sound remix from Ultra Rare trax #2. Sound quality not nearly as good as U-R-T#2, but still ok. The Official Megamix 8:21 Pretty good sound quality. ======================================================================= CLUB TUNES VOL 1 ======================================================================= 1 Little 15 Neo Classic Edit 4:34 2 Halo Shiny Example Mix 7:51 3 Higher Love Club Mix 6:45 4 The Bottom Line Remix 5:14 5 Faith Healer Radio Edit 4:52 6 Dangerous In My Arms Mix 7:32 7 Leave In Silence Electro Dub 6:42 8 Flexible Unchained Mix 3:13 9 Freestate Poison Mix 3:25 10 New Dress Razormaid 6:35 11 It`s No Good Shuffel Mix 6:29 12 People Are People Razormaid 6:30 13 Strangelove Blind Remix Edit 3:57 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Track 1 is a cut-down version of the Classic Mix from Strike 8. Track 2 is from Personal Devotion Track 3 is the Higher Mix from Strike 8 Track 6 is from the internet; okay but nothing too special. Tracks 7 and 11 are from ELIXIR. Track 8 is the 94 Remix (Harp Remix) from Hommage Track 9 is from Devoted Forever/Heaven Mixes Track 10 is from Strike 3 Track 12 is from Strike 2 Hmmm, that leaves track 4 as possibly new, but somehow I doubt it. Final Verdict: Yawn ======================================================================= CLUB TUNES VOL 2 ======================================================================= 1 Policy Of Truth Stone Cold Dub 6:26 2 Sister Of Night Remix 8:58 3 Never Let Me Down Again Groovy Mix 7:34 4 Behind The Wheel / Route 66 Megamix 7:55 5 Walking In My Shoes Mouth & Ziska Mix 6:36 6 Nothing Dallas Beat Mix 8:46 7 Happiest Girl Remix 7:14 8 Halo 12"inch 6:38 9 Barrel Of A Gun Hard Tune Mix 5:42 10 Happiest Girl Pure Sex Mix 5:50 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Track 3 is from many places, is also the Solid Remix from Strike 9. Track 4 is from a vinyl only release Track 5 is from SOFAD Strange Track 6 is from Niagra Radiostation Mix Track 8 is the 911 Remix Track 9 is from Strike 19 That leaves tracks 1, 2, 7, and 10 to be possibly new mixes. Don't bet your money on it. Track 1 is probably new; I've seen "Stone Cold" mixes appearing on the net recently, and even downloaded one (JCGE). Track 2 almost matches the timing of the Triad Mix (might be). ======================================================================= COMING BACK TO YOU ======================================================================= 1 Coming Back To You 3.34 2 Sister Of Night (Triad Mix) 9.00 3 Halo (911 Re-remix) 6.38 4 Death's Door (Ambient Mix) 6.37 5 Love Thives (Ripper Remix) 8.41 6 Useless (Meddel Werx Remix) 4.03 7 Sister Of Night (Acoustic) 4.31 8 A Question Of Lust (Acoustic) 3.57 9 Enjoy The Silence (Acoustic) 4.01 10 Never Let Me Down Again (with Billy Corgan) 7.22 11 Only When I Lose Myself (Josh Abrahams Remix Edit) 3.55 12 Only When I Lose Myself (Josh Abrahams Remix) 4.24 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Track 1 is a tribute by Martin Gore to Leonard Cohen. Track 2 is from Ultra Rare Trax 5. Tracks 7-10 are from the KROQ Almost Accoustic Christmas. Track 12 is on most new boots, and I don't know about track 11, though I suspect it's merely a shortened version of 12. ======================================================================= COSMIC BLUES ======================================================================= 1 Blue Dress Secret Mix 4:54 2 Here is the House Orchestral Mix 6:09 3 Insight Organic Mix 5:52 4 Barrel of a Gun Development Mix 10:27 5 Coming Back to You Forest Mix 4:00 6 Dangerous Sad Mix 8:55 7 Only When I Lose Myself Mysterious Mix 6:37 8 It's No Good Deep Mix 7:29 9 The Love Thieves Orchestral Mix 7:11 10 Freestate Rhythm n Blues Mix 8:18 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + All are original mixes by "DK," and are on the medium/higher end of the coolness scale. Extra beats and instrumentation are added; they're not cut & paste mixes. I didn't always like the beats chosen (ex.Blue Dress, & the fast beat used briefly in BOAG), but that might just be me. Some brief notes... 1. OK... this is one where I think the new beat does not match the song. 2. Great mix! Good use of using fragments to build new riffs. Well-fitting instrumentation added, etc. 3. Good, too. There's a kinda phasing effect (2 sounds played almost exactly at the same time) that really kick ass (hard to describe). 4. Cool one... uses the soft mix as a base and adds beat & instrumentation to turn BOAG into a nice romantic ballad. Oh, there's some fast stuff too. 5. I always thought CBTY needed a little more to it. DK accomplishes that, and it's an improvement on the original. 6. Like the others, more beat & instrumentation. Good mix. 7. Yeah! Starts off with the harder low notes to rev you up, then fades away into a slower mix for a bit, mixing the vocals with other instrumental parts with new instrumentation... then goes into the regular song with a good new beat and the low hard notes more often throughout the song. A definite highlight. 8. Mostly the Club 69 Mix, with a little more instrumentation added, but not enough to really make it a different mix. 9 & 10. Pretty good, in the same style as his others. Can't think of anything special to write about them. Final Verdict: Yes! ======================================================================= COUNTERFEIT LP ======================================================================= 1 Compulsion 7:35 2 In A Manner Of Speaking 7:49 3 Smile In The Crowd 9:36 4 Gone 6:21 5 Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth 3:26 6 Motherless Child 3:42 7 Compulsion 2 8:21 ======================================================================= DANCE BONG 13 ======================================================================= 1 Strange love (Blind Mix) 2 Strange love (The Fresh Ground Mix) + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Track 1 is an official mix. Track 2 is also an official mute release, but was a special DJ limited release only, though it is available on other bootlegs. Final Verdict: Not. ======================================================================= DANCE CLUB REMIXES ======================================================================= 1 Only When I lose Myself Gus Gus Dance Remix 5.05 2 Temp Catalan Dance Remix 6.55 3 Enjoy The Silence Ricki Tick Dance Mix 5.35 4 Its No Good BT Dance Dub Mix 7:54 5 Everything Counts Bomb The Dance Mix 5:32 6 Strangelove Dance BONG13 Mix 8.05 7 I Feel You Renedance Soundwave 4.58 8 But Not Tonight US 12* Dance Remix 6.17 9 Master And Servant Black And Blue Dance Mix 8.02 10 Behind The Wheel UK Radio Dance Mix 4.00 11 Never Let Me Down Again Tsangarides Dance Mix 4.23 12 Photographic On-US 12" Dance Remix 4.39 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + First, name the tracks correctly. Tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 are official remixes for sure (temp is Surrencer, Renedance Soundwave Mix is the Afghan Surgery Mix). Track 4 is on many boots. Not sure about the others, but I wouldn't trust this CD for anything. ======================================================================= DANCE MIXES 99 ======================================================================= 1 everything counts absolut mix 6.04 2 its no good club 69 future mix 8.06 3 personal jesus kazan cathedral mix 4.18 4 barrel of a gun underworld hard mix 9.39 5 a question of time extended mix 6.40 6 world in my eyes mayhem mode mix 4.54 7 behind the wheel/route 66 megamix 7.49 8 policy of truth capitol mix 8.00 9 stripped highland mix 6.43 10 enjoy the silence hands and feet mix 7.19 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Ripoff. Tracks 1,4,5,8,9, and 10 are official mixes. Track 7 is official too, but was a vinyl-only release. Track 1 is on many other boots, most notably Strike 19 Track 3 is from DJ's Revenge Track 6 is from Strike 3 (among many others) Final Verdict: Dance to something else. ======================================================================= DANCING IN MY SHOES (n) ======================================================================= 1 25:17 n Megamix 2 8:17 c2gln DM Minimix 3 6:08 b1d2kn Little 15 4 5:27 n Just Can't Get Enough 5 5:51 n Strangelove ---- Track 1 might be the On-USound megamix #3 Track 2 is The Official Megamix. Track 3 is the Bogus Brothers mix. Track 4 is the Future Mix of JCGE taken from '93 Future Mix CD 0.01. This Mix is also included in the 7th Strike!! Track 5 is the Powerhouse Mix taken from DJ CD "Powerhouse Club Classics Volume One". You can also find this Mix on the 6th Strike. Boring mix with a so-called "Riding 32"-Marker for DJs in order to mix two songs together!! + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + The last two mixes are UNRELEASED - that is, I can't find them on any other remix bootlegs, singles, promos, ANYTHING! [See comments above for tracks 4 and 5]. Just Can't Get Enough kicks ass - as good as the Rubberband mix, it starts out with that Yeah! Woo! from Rob Base - It Takes Two. Very houseish, has sirens and heavy bass. Stranglove is - frustrating. It's a very simple mix, although it starts out differently from any other mix. It's not the razormaid mix, nor the network charts mix, not off of the promo cd, not the fresh mix - it's frustrating, because it sounds like the kind of mix you'd find off of a cd single, very well made. The times differ from any other, so I'm pretty sure it's an unreleased mix. OK, the 25 minute megamix - this mix KICKS ASS! It's very well made, quality is good as the Pimp mix, New Mode Mega '90, and Front-Dep-Nitz. This isn't one of those where they transfer to one song and just play it for a while - it actually remixes the songs in a razormaidish way, almost all of the songs are mixed up, have added beats and sounds and words mixed in all the time, and best of all, it has SOFAD songs! It starts out by flashing just the words from three songs, everything counts, people are people, and leave in silence, then, in a distorted voice, cuts out the music and says, 'This is a new...Depeche Mode mix,' gives the intro for Strangelove, then mixes in the songs...SOFAD songs, all remixed differently from any yet released... [This sounds like the On-USound mix # 3] Here's the song listing: I Feel You, Walking In My Shoes, Mercy In You, Enjoy the Silence (slow), Dangerous, Never Let Me Down Again, Love in Itself, Everything Counts, Policy of Truth, Little 15 (bogus bros), Enjoy the Silence, Strangelove, People are People, Blasphemous Rumours, World In My Eyes, Leave in Silence, Behind the Wheel, Just Can't Get Enough (live), Master and Servant, Get the Balance Right, Route 66 (beatmasters), Set Me Free (Remotivate Me), Pleasure Little Treasure, Personal Jesus, Work Hard (!), See You, Meaning of Love. Overall, awesome mix of new and old, all remixed, this disc is definitely worth the money just for this megamix! If you see it, I'd recommend picking it up. -------- The remix of Just Can't Get Enough sounds like the Future Mix... Not the Future Mix cd.. there was a short lived vinyl Remix service in the early 90's called Future Mix, put out by DJ Vlad and DJ Sonic... Just Cant Get Enough was on the first edition... Had the Rob Base sample and all... the time listed on the 12" is 5:23, so it sounds like it could be the same one... ======================================================================= DANGEROUS TRUTH ======================================================================= 1. it's no good (laventy remix) 2. stripped (dusty bones mix) 3. everythin counts (high in the sky mix) 4. headstar (headhunter remix) 5. only when i lose myself (johny l. remix edit) 6. painkiller (adams dub) 7. surrender (masterman mix) 8. useless (big L remix) 9. it's no good (deep groove remix ) ======================================================================= DEVOTED EDITS ======================================================================= 1 Shake The Disease Extended Edit 15:26 2 Barrel Of A Gun Gunners Mix 12:47 3 The Landscape Is Changing The lenght is changing 6:55 4 Personal Jesus FMMSPP 13:46 5 Strange Love Strange makes your heart smile 9:52 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + NOTHING more than cut & paste of official mixes to make them longer. Sometimes other bootleg mixes are used, but never anything exclusive to this CD. All 5 of these mixes have waaay too much looping of small parts of the song that just seem to go on forever without change.... Sometimes a few pieces are overlapped to try to invent a new sound, but the little dose of creativity doesn't do much to curb the boredom. Final Verdict: If you see it for free, it might be worth picking up, but other than that, save your money. Buy a candy bar. ======================================================================= DEVOTIONS REMIXED ======================================================================= 1 6:43 Mix Of Devotion (Merciful Edit) 2 7:54 Higher Love (Adrenaline Mix) 3 4:53 One Caress (Sentimental Mix) 4 2:50 Get Right With Me (Last DIY Loop Da Loop Edit) 5 5:34 Rush (Spiritual Guidance Mix) 6 6:22 In Your Room (Jeep Rock Mix) 7 5:15 My joy (Slowslide Mix) 8 6:14 Walking In My Shoes (Random Carpet Mix) 9 6:53 I Feel You (Nylon Mix) 10 3.09 Condemnation (Arpegiator Edit) 11 6:44 Death's Door (Jazz Mix) 12 6:27 Slowblow (Darren Price Mix) + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Tracks 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, and 12 are all official mixes. Tracks 3, 4, and 10 are available on other boots Tracks 1 and 9 I'm not sure about. May be new. ======================================================================= DIGITAL RAZORMAIDS (disc 1) (d1) ======================================================================= 1 7:08 a1b1d1 Strangelove 2 6:58 a3b2d1h Happiest Girl 3 5:27 d1ek Breathing In Fumes 4 6:30 b2d1h People Are People 5 6:45 a1b3d1e New Dress 6 9:12 a1d1e Master/Set Me Free 7 6:20 b1d1k Get The Balance Right! 8 6:53 b1d1 A Question Of Time 9 5:54 b3d1h Nodisco 10 6:41 a2b1d1gkl Behind The Wheel ---- Despite the title, this is NOT a genuine Razormaid release. The two Digital Razormaids discs are available as a 2 CD set. All tracks are Razormaid mixes. Track 3 is listed as "Stripped". + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Sound quality: top form. Only one thing: they lie. The following on the CD are not Razormaid: Everything Counts (its the Simenon/Saunders mix), Little 15 (disappointment!) it's the Bogus Brothers mix, Stripped (Breathing in Fumes), Question of Lust (it's Margouleff's mix). But Not Tonight was interesting: a hybrid extended and Margouleff mix. ======================================================================= DIGITAL RAZORMAIDS (disc 2) (d2) ======================================================================= 1 7:40 a1b2d2g World In My Eyes 2 6:07 b1d2k Pleasure, Little Treasure 3 6:30 a2b2d2g Sea Of Sin 4 5:33 d2x Everything Counts 5 4:19 a4b1d2kmx Personal Jesus 6 3:48 a2b4d2el A Question Of Lust 7 6:49 b2d2gh It's Called A Heart 8 8:02 b2d2h Master And Servant 9 6:05 b1d2kn Little 15 10 6:05 a1b2d2 Enjoy The Silence ---- Again, this is not a genuine Razormaid release. Track 4 is the Simenon/Saunders mix, available on the US "EC" 12". Track 5 is the Kazan Cathedral mix, available on the "Just Say Da" CD. Track 6 is the Margouleff mix, from a US promo 12". Track 9 is the Bogus Brothers mix. All other tracks are Razormaid mixes. + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + See Razormaids CD 1. ======================================================================= DIVERSIONS ======================================================================= 1 Enjoy the Silence Video Edit 2 Fly on the Windscreen Unheard of Mix 3 Happiest Girl Pulsating Orbital Vocal Mix 4 It's Called a Heart Emotion Remix 5 Nothing Dub 6 Only When I Lose Myself Josh Abraham Remix 7 Route 66/Behind the Wheel Mega Single Mix 8 Rush Black Sun Remix 9 Strangelove Remix Edit 10 Useless CJ Bolland Ultrasonar 7" Edit 11 Song for Europe Dave Gahan's contribution to the Roxy Music tribute. + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Not much new here. The only one that might be exclusive to this CD is the Black Sun Remix 1 is available on other boots. Tracks 3, 4, 5, 7, and 9 are official remixes, though some exist only on vinyl. I don't know about 10... sure it's just a shorter version of the official mix. May also be a vinyl-only thing. Track 2 is a mix done by myself, ripped from MP3 and put on a CD. See Elixir for the real thing. Track 6 is on just about every new boot that comes out. Excellent mix, by the way. Track 11, if you don't have this song, is a must-have. ======================================================================= DJ'S REVENGE (b1) or THE FIRST STRIKE ======================================================================= 1 3:12 b1kx Photographic (Some Bizarre edit) 2 4:12 a4b1d2kmx Personal Jesus (Kazan Cathedral mix) 3 7:43 b1k Just Can't Get Enough (Disconet mix) 4 6:55 b1d1 A Question Of Time (Class-X remix) 5 6:56 b1 Behind The Wheel (Disconet mix) 6 6:25 b1d1k Get The Balance Right! (Class-X remix) 7 6:05 b1d2kn Little 15 (Bogus Brothers mix) 8 3:52 b1c1 Dreaming Of Me (Discotrax mix) 9 6:14 b1d2k Pleasure, Little Treasure (Razormaid mix) 10 6:22 a2b1d1gkl Behind The Wheel (Razormaid mix) 11 6:57 a1b1d1 Strangelove (Razormaid mix) 12 7:19 a2b1k Dangerous (Art of Mix) ---- Track 1 is available on the "Some Bizarre" compilation. Track 2 is available on the "Just Say Da" sampler CD. + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + This three-part series is comparable with the rest of the bootlegs as having the best quality. This was the first bootleg to my knowledge produced by some DJ's in Germany. Great disc! QUALITY = 9 1. Photographic (Some Bizarre Edit) Sound quality good. Harder-sounding mix than the album version. 2 Personal Jesus (Kazan Cathedral Mix) Housier than the original, with samples saying, "the Lord Jesus Christ himself" and "I'm not crazy any more!". 3: Just Can't Get Enough (Disconet Mix) Fairly good cut-and-paste of the Schizo mix, with a whooping sort of UFO sound used throughout. 4: A Question of Time (Class-X Mix) A classic razormaid mix // Standard cut n paste 5: Behind the Wheel (Disconet Mix) One of the best BTW remixes! // Very unremarkable, says another Standard cut and paste, with some stuttering and disco effects... pretty good, says another yet. 6: Get The Balance Right (Class-X Mix) Awesome razormaid classic! // Standard cut n paste 7: Little 15 (Bogus Brothers Mix) Incredible dance mix! Wow! Adds a funky beat to the track. Sound quality is OK except for a bit of vinyl noise. The actual mix is great though--some thought was put into the arrangements. 8: Dreaming of Me (Discotrax mix) -A few effects added to the original, and a longer instrumental break. A fairly good mix, a bit of vinyl noise. 9: Pleasure, Little Treasure (Razormaid Mix) A bit better than your standard cut and paste mix. 10: Behind the Wheel (Razormaid Mix) Great quality remix. 11: Strangelove (Razormaid Mix) Better quality than URT mix. Instrumental breaks at the beginning and end, otherwise nothing unusual. 12: Dangerous (Art of Mix) A bit of minor cutting and pasting, and the standard long instrumental bit at the end, finishing with some zooming car sounds. Dodgy sound quality for a few seconds in the middle. -------- Little 15 (Violation 15) mixed by the bogus Brothers is the best bootleg mode mix I've heard. They competely revampted the tune. The bass line is very effective, as is the incidental cresendo wave synth added on top. The drum additions are also first class. My only disappointment is that the origional source was so poor. The transcription from the Bogus Brothers remix 12' to CD was poor. The 'real' Little 15 was badly recorded as well. Though I realize they had to use vinyl to speed up the song, better recording equipment would have really enhanced the refinished product. This one song, easily, was worth the 25 bucks it cost me for the CD. Final Verdict: Though not so good by today's standards, it was the bomb in its time. Best tracks from this CD are 1, 2, 5, 7, and 8, in my opinion. ======================================================================= DJ'S REVENGE - DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY (a new/fake Strike) ======================================================================= 1 Walking In My Shoes - Loop Guru Mix 2 In Your Room - Hiroshima Mix 3 Fly On The Windscreen - Extended Live Mix 4 In Your Room - Ambient Mix 5 Enjoy The Silence - Mode To Enjoy Mix 6 Memphisto - Logic Mix 7 Higher Love - Rise *GRID* Mix 8 Technology Megamix + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + This CD is new as of September, 1999, and I don't know why he called it the 18th Strike when there've already been 25 real Strikes, and even most of the fraud's have named their "Strikes" up to 35 so far. I know nothing about any of the tracks on this CD. ======================================================================= DPM1: THE REMIXES - VOL. 1 (f) ======================================================================= 1 13:18 f Megamix Part 1 2 10:51 f Megamix Part 2 Or... 1 A Question Of Lust Answer Edit Mix (is also the Ambient Mix) 2 Fly On The Windscreen Brutal Remix 3 Strangelove Re-Blinded Mix 4 Policy Of Truth Never Again Mix 5 Behind The Wheel Mastermix 6 Personal Jesus Who Is... Mix (Actually done by the Germix Remix Service.) 7 Behind The Wheel Megamix (Actually the ON-USound Megamix "Behind The Mix".) 8 Judas Bonus Beat + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + I have seen 2 different track listings for this CD. I don't know which one is correct; the one with the 2 megamixes or the one with the 8 tracks. ----- Only has two megamixes on it, but they are excellent! People say that this is a pretty common disc. QUALITY = 9 1: Megamix part 1: Great mix of old tunes! 2: Megamix part 2: 2nd best mix of Violator tunes! ----- I have the version with the 8 tracks, and they're pretty good. Bonus Beat is just the last 2 minutes of the Bombastic Mix, but the Bombastic Mix is annoying; the only good part being the last 2 minutes! Bravo to whoever figured that out. Final Verdict: It's worth it. ======================================================================= DPM2: THE REMIXES - VOL. 2 ======================================================================= 1 Somebody The Lonely Mix (actually done by the Germix remix service) 2 It's Called A Heart Slow Mix (Taken from the UK limited 12", and original issue German CD single for "ICAH") 3 I Feel You Arienne Remix (Taken from the bootleg CD "Songs Of Faith And Devotion Remix Album") 4 Halo Dark Tone Remix (Taken from the bootleg CD "The 10th Strike") 5 Enjoy The Silence The Quad: Final Mix (Taken from the UK extra limited 12" This copy is missing the final 30 seconds) 6 I Want You Now Number 5 Mix 7 Leave In Silence Jingle Jangle Mix (Taken from the bootleg CD "The 9th Strike") 8 Master & Servant ON-USound Science Fiction Dance Hall Classic 9 Mode Megamix The Mixophone bootleg megamix. ======================================================================= DPM3: THE REMIXES - VOL. 3 Or Neo Classics ======================================================================= 1 Little 15 (Neo Classic Edit) 4:31 2 Barrel of A Gun (One inch Punch Mix Version 2) 5:24 3 In Your Room (Dark Vibes Mix) 6:37 4 Useless (Air 10 Mix) 5:04 5 Blue Dress (Extended Version) 6:00 6 Home (Extended Grantby Mix) 6:07 7 Never Let Me Down Again (Tsangarides Aggro Split Mix) 9:20 8 World In My Eyes (The Bogus Brothers Oil Tank Remix) 8:19 9 Route 66 (the Nile Rodgers Extended Mix) 5:09 10 It's No Good (Club 69 Vocal Edit Mix) 6:03 11 Coming Back To You (Tower Of Song Version) 3:33 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Track 1 is a cut-down version of the Classic Mix from Strike 8. Track 2 is from the vinyl-only release of Barrel of a Gun. It is exactly the same as the regular One Inch Punch Mix, except the beat has an additional piece to it. Track 3 is from Strike 9 Track 4 is a cut-down version of the Air 20 Remix. Probably why they called it Air 10. Track 5 seems exclusive to this CD, but isn't much more than a cut & paste Razormaid-style mix. Track 6 is longer than the Grantby Mix, hence the title Extended Grantby Mix Track 7 is just what it sounds like; cut & paste between the Aggro, Split, and Tsangaridies Mixes. Track 8 is a cut & paste mix of the Bogus Brothers Dub from Strike 5 and the official Oil Tank Mix. Track 9's extended part seems to be no more than the fact that the 2 drumbeats that introduce the version of Route 66 are then played backwards before the song starts. Track 10 is a cut-down version of one of the Club 69 Mixes. Track 11 is from Hommage Final Verdict: W.O.T. (That's "Waste of Time.") ======================================================================= ELITE RECORDINGS (k) ======================================================================= 1 8:08 b4c2ekl Master And Servant (Power mix) 2 7:41 b1k Just Can't Get Enough (Disconet mix) 3 3:09 b1kx Photographic (Some Bizarre edit) 4 4:10 a4b1d2kmx Personal Jesus (Kazan Cathedral mix) 5 7:12 a2b1k Dangerous (Art of Mix) 6 6:20 b1d1k Get The Balance Right! (Class-X mix) 7 11:41 c1ek Time For A New Life megamix (Odd mix) 8 6:02 b1d2kn Little 15 (Bogus Brothers mix) 9 6:19 a2b1d1gkl Behind The Wheel (Razormaid mix) 10 6:08 b1d2k Pleasure, Little Treasure (Razormaid mix) 11 5:27 d1ek Breathing In Fumes (Razormaid mix) + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Final Verdict: Apparently recorded from other boots. ======================================================================= ELIXIR - The Senator Scratch & milliByte Mixes ======================================================================= 1. Fly on the Windscreen - Unheard of Mix 7:37 2. It's No Good - Shuffle Mix 6:27 3. Leave in Silence - Electro Dub 6:44 4. Mercy In You - Shadow of a Train Mix 5:18 5. Only When I Lose Myself - Windscreen Mix 5:32 6. Pleasure Little Treasure - Basement Mix 6:50 7. Dreaming of Me - Bigstar Mix 5:05 8. Stripped - Down to the Trance 8:22 9. Something to Do - Do Something V 0.02 2:46 10. Shunt - A Horror Story 8:54 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + All mixes on this CD are all-original, and very creative. 3 of them were posted to the internet at one time or other, and those 3 have been ripped repeatedly for many other boots (taken from MP3 form, of course). Those were tracks 1, 2, and 8. This CD exists only on CD-R format. Anyone claiming to sell it on real CD simply stole and has a more expensive CD Writer. Don't pay them money for something you can get pretty much for free. Tracks 1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, and the hidden track 11 - by Senator Scratch Tracks 2, 3, 6, and 9 - milliByte 1 Starts off with "touch me" with the black celebration voices in the background. Something weird is always done with the word "tonight," whether that be zipping it left and right, or stretching it out to twice it's normal length. Near the end there's a lot of fun with that "boyying" sound, and then the beat doubles up on itself as it fades away. If you listen close, you can hear a special phase-effect on the drums right as it fades. 2 This mix was created because of a discussion on the``bong'' mailing list concerning mixing style. Many fans were disappointed by the mixes of the Songs that were taken from ULTRA (remember theHome CD with the Jedi Knights Remix?), and mixes that were danceble but not destroying the song were never released (It's no Good Club69 mixes). MilliByte started to make the "Shuffle Mix". It was never really announced, but after 10 months or so, several people started to e-mail him concerning that mix. One of them was Senator Scratch. 3 LIS was an experiment of putting some little electro and EBM elements into a Depeche Mode classic. If you examine it closer, you will find tiny pieces of :WUMPSCUT: and VNV Nation songs in it. Nothing big, just some noises. It's not like the original at all! From the very beginning, as you hear the truncated "oh" echoing, you know it's going to be different. A very dancable beat with a sort of pounding hiss that goes back and forth accompanies most of the mix. Some lyrics are present, but more in a repeated dub-style. Made for the dance club. Has various electronic sound effects and a few references to Enjoy the Silence. 4 The chorus is scratched into existence for a few seconds before the new funkified beat comes in. There is some turntable scratching, then a low hollow bass as the voice echoes far in the background. The main beat comes in for a second a fades out like a dark train passing by. Later on, SS did some different stuff (more experimenting, really), with different parts of the beat, and took that part at the end that's half backwards/half forwards and turned it backwards for an interesting but similar to the original effect. 5 OWILM has the FOTW beat added on it, hence the name. It also has some of milliByte's standard stuttering breaks throughout the song, and the voice sounds phased sometimes. The "Touch Me" from FOTW even makes a guest appearance. A lot of great effects near the end as parts of the song are turned backwards and looped. 6 This one has a very bassy, very hollowed out sound to it, and starts off with some of the standard notes, which have different effects thrown on them after a while, and finally sparks out. The low guitar break from the Join mix comes in for a while, accompanied by a weird jive beat, which was put together from various Nothing instruments. Lots of faded voices in the background groan back and forth during the song. It fades out with a sped-up version of the end-voices from the Glitter Mix. This track has a secret extra minute on it, where a slowed-down version of the beat comes back and then fades away. 7 There is some noise reduction used to give a slightly different sound to the song, but not much else is different. A tiny bit of eighties-style stuttering. Broken glass sound near the beginning. Has the phrase "like association whore" repeated a few times. Not that great a mix. 8 Senator's favorite! Starts off with the familiar strum, then a high techno sound fades in, along with a warped version of the chugalug car sound. Then the hardest bass he could find comes in and stays for the song, along with the high left-right cymbal. It's very long and repetetive, made for the club atmosphere. Themes of stripped are all throughout the song, but put together in ways different than the original. Near the middle a sample from Breathing in Fumes was raised it up in pitch and turned it into an acid sound. There are creepshow-like versions of the words "let me see you stripped down to the" repeating over itself row-row-row-your-boat style. Other words start to come in later. The song fades away the same way it came in, with the high-pitched techno sound and the warped chugalug. 9 This one has some hard beats put on it, and uses pieces from the regular and metalmix versions. The voice is hyper-muted and zooms left and right. Great effect. The song has the feeling of "falling apart" at it's end that's quite cool. 10 Senator did this one the way he did because the song Shunt seemed the perfect setting for a horror story. The mix is easy to identify, because it has voice clips from The Thing all throughout. Almost a full minute of left-right weaving horror throughout the middle will make your heart race if you're listening to it with headphones. Also has some irony points, like Blair saying "seems to be normal" during all the monster sounds, and the monstrous voice mocking MacReady's "I know I'm human." 11 Forget it. We ain't tellin' you anything. Final Verdict: Trust me. ======================================================================= ENJOY THE MIXES ======================================================================= 1 14:10 Strangemix 2 3:28 I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead (on usound remix) 3 8:28 Policy of Truth (art of mix) 4 8:21 The Official Megamix 5 8:53 Nothing (art of mix) 6 9:14 Master ans Servant Set Me Free (Razormaid Mix) 7 7:40 World in my Eyes (Razormaid Mix) 8 5:16 Just Can't Get Enough (remix) 9 6:30 Sea of Sin (Razormaid Mix) + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Final Verdict: All enjoyed elsewhere ======================================================================= EROTIC INTEGRATION ======================================================================= 1 Waiting for the Night Sonic Integration 6:06 2 I Feel You REM DM Remix 3:26 3 People are People Hot Trax Mix 6:42 4 Freestate Mesmerizing Mix 5:52 5 Dangerous Daredevil Mix 5:39 6 Lie to Me Deep Beat Edit 2:14 7 I Want You Now Different Dyslexic Integration 3:57 8 Never Let me Down Again REM DM Remix 4:35 9 Master & Servant Erotic Integration 3:35 10 Rush Black Sun / Coil Mix 5:57 11 Only When I Lose Myself Crayfish in Burgundy Mix 2:32 12 People are Everything Hitmix Megamix 6:46 13 The Bottom Line Y2K Edit 2:58 14 Pleasure Little Treasure Radiotrance Mix 4:02 15 Strangelove Triangle DM / New Order Megamix 7:19 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + All good and new stuff here. The only disappointment on here was the Deep Beat Edit, which is a cut-down version of the Deep Beat Remix from World of Sound and Harmony. Most of the Integrations and REM DM mixes are on the CD Netbeat; see my review of Netbeat for these. Many of these mixes are exclusive to this CD: Track 3 is very hyped up with lots of vocal dj-type samples. Track 5 is similar to an Integration mix, simple. Track 7 is called Dyslexic Integration, but is not the same as the Dyslexic Integration from Netbeat. Same idea, but a much faster beat is used. I suggest the title Schizophrenic Integration. Track 9 is awesome; very techno! Uses the ON-USound mix as a base but adds a whole lot more. Track 11 uses a live recording of OWILM as a base, and is short, but good. Track 12 is a mix of People are People, Everything Counts, and Get the Balance Right. The songs were combined as if Depeche Mode had really only written 1 song instead of 3. Pretty cool. Track 14 is similar to the version from ELIXIR, but this one is faster-paced, more of a dance-your-ass-off mix, and it's not done by the same person. It's an excellent, mix (could it be a REM DM mix?), but it came from a low-quality MP3, and MP3 flutter is terrible. I would love to get the master track of this! Final Verdict: It's only weakness is the MP3 flutter that is heard in many of the songs. ======================================================================= FAST FASHION V. 1 ======================================================================= World in my Eyes NIP Believe Mix (Bass Mix) Dangerous Art of Mix Behind the Wheel/Route 66 Ivan Ivan Mega Single Mix (Mega-Single-Mix) But not Tonight US 7" Remix (Margouleff Mix) Sea of Sin Church Mix (Razormaid) Happiest Girl Lettfield & Lydon Mix (Razormaid) Get the Balance right Heavenly white Mix (Class-X) Boys say go Roland SH-01 Mix (Session Version) Enjoy the Silence Strings of Silence (Extract from The Quad: Final Mix) Policy of Truth Mix of Lie (Art of memorandum Mix) MEGAMIX Violating hear Mix (ON-USound Megamix 1991 Part2) Flexible Unchained Mix ('94 Remix) + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Most of the mixes are taken from other bootlegs with some different track-names!! -------- I bought all three from a record fair earlier this year. They are almost all bootleg/DJ remixes of Mode tracks. Even some old BRAT Mixes on there. The only thing I will say is that practically all these mixes have been released before, just under different names. There were very few I hadn't already got across various tapes/CD's. There's stuff like Art of and Razormaid mixes, all they've done is renamed the mixes for these Cd's. The sound quality is excellent though. I would check BRAT's "Bootleg Remix Index" to see if they are on there, he will list the proper mix names so you can see whether it's worth spending the money on something you may already have. But I like them. Final Verdict: Forget ======================================================================= FAST FASHION V. 2 ======================================================================= Walking in my Shoes Forbidden Fruits Mix (from SOFAD Strange Versions) Compulsion Evolution Mix A Question of Lust Ambient Mix (Answer Edit Mix) I feel you BRAT Mastermix Judas unreleased Studio Demo (Bonus Beat) Fly on the Windscreen Turbo Mix Ice Machine Shake Mix Strangelove Discothek Mix Halo John McDonald Remix (911 Version) World in my Eyes Razormaid CD i8-Mix My Joy H.I.S. Mix Get the Balance right Yello Mix (Cover version!!) + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + See Comments for Fast Fashion Vol. 1 ======================================================================= FAST FASHION V. 3 ======================================================================= Behind the Wheel Razormaid i-18 Mix The Sun & the Rainfall TR 808 Mix (Remix 1995) People are People Razormaid Strangelove Narf-re-blinded Walking in my Shoes Grand Piano Mix (911 Version) New Dress Razormaid Personal Jesus BRAT Mastermix Enjoy the Silence Razormaid Little 15 Audio Science (exclusive??) I feel you Dying Mix (Turkish Slaughter Version) + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + See Comments for Fast Fashion Vol. 1 ======================================================================= FAST FASHION V. 4 ======================================================================= Question of Time (Tanzhouse) Rush (Strange thing) The Things you Said (Daydream mix) In Your Room (Favourit Innocence mix) Enjoy the Silence (Silent dub) Rush (rush for you Dub) Told you So (Rythm beat mix) It's Called a Heart (Brutal mix) Behind the Wheel (Fiesta mix) Two Minute Warning (Synth-Mix) + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + => Most of the mixes are taken from other bootlegs with some different track-names!! ======================================================================= FAST FASHION V. 5 ======================================================================= World in my eyes MOBY's Dub Pipeline Mysterious Ways Mix I feel you Each Breath You Take Mix Higher Love Club Mix Dreaming of me Picture Mix It's called a heart Extended Rough Mix Stripped Mountain Mix Clean Territory Mix I want you little 15 Remix + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + => Most of the mixes are taken from other bootlegs with some different track-names!! ======================================================================= FIRST VIOLATION BY H. NULL ======================================================================= 1 Everything Counts Full Energy Vocal Dub 2 Blasphemous Rumours Summer Day Dance Cut 3 Only When I Lose Myself Re-Recorded Powerpack 4 Enjoy the Silence Remix 5 Policy of Truth 4 GP Edit 6 Personal Jesus I Got Mad Mix 7 World in my Eyes Around the World 8 Strangelove Featuring Janet 9 Home Experiment 10 Get the Balance Right Departed 11 Blasphemous Rumours Death Mix + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Awesome! All the remixes are in a similar style, as they're all done by the same guy, and the best thing about this CD is, H. Null is very original. His mixes aren't like everyone else's. His creativity and personality show up in every mix on this CD. 1 Has parts from the original song and from Meat Beat's version. Great mix, though I admit it was annoying to hear that radio-tuning sound from the beginning of MBM's version repeated 100+ times in the song. Only my opinion. 2 Starts off with the ending part, with other beats and rhythms, moves into the lyrics, and has more breaks between the verses to play around with instrumentation and stuff. Well done! 3 This one mostly comes from the official versions, though like everything else, it is remixed a lot. Has a snatch of backward lyrics near the middle. 4 Lots of samples of "enjoy the silence" at many different pitches for the first minute or so, almost annoying. Variants of many official mixes can be heard throughout. I like the snipet near the middle where the lyrics all but disappear and tons of vinyl popping is amplified (just for a few seconds). 5 This one actually has some of WIME mixed in with it. Also adds voice samples like "Let me tell you, it's much too late to change events." Probably the author's voice. 6 Starts off with a thunderstorm and the doorbell sound ringing repeatedly. Sounds like someone's trying to get in! Great remix! The breathing is even rearranged in some parts (hard to explain this one). 7 Integrates the Cure's version with DM's, plus samples like "I can't get no sleep." This one is really hip-hopped up, with lots of other non-DM stuff mixed in, including various rap lyrics, and "Whoomp, there it is!" 8 Featuring the girl from When Harry Met Sally having lots of orgasms during the song. Also, the voice from Policy of Truth returns, reciting Strangelove lyrics. 9 Not much to this one. Mostly one of the official mixes, with some extra cymbols, and some Blasphemous Rumours sounds later on, followed by Any Second Now overlaid. I guess that's why it's called Experiment. 10 Not a bad mix; pretty standard, really, to quote Dr. Evil. 11 This mix to the original song is like Black Day is to Black Celebration. There's this whiny horn throughout (hard to describe)... what the hell instrument is this anyway? Can't decide if I like this mix or not. Really. I can't. Final verdict: Too unique to pass up! See Also Second Violation by H. Null ======================================================================= FORBIDDEN FRUITS - THE HEDONIST MIXES ======================================================================= 1. Never Let Me Down Again (Groovy Wax Mix) 6:53 2. Enjoy The Violation Mix 10:45 3. The Strange People Mix Medley 3:40 4. I Feel You (More Fun Mix) 5:38 5. Strangelove (Fresh Ground Mix) 7:48 6. Policy Zoom Megamix 10:05 7. Mix Of Faith And Devotion 24:48 8. Master & Servant (Power Mix) 8:09 ---- Track 1 is the Groovy Mix. Track 2 is the ON USound DPM Megamix, Part 2 Track 3 is the Strangelove (bomb the bass remix) with a tiny bit of People are People in it. What's the point? Track 4 is the Turkish Slaughter Mix from SOFAD Strange Versions. Track 6 is New Mode Mega 90 (Mixophone). Starts a few minutes into the mix, at "Policy Of Truth" Track 7 is the ON USound DPM Megamix, Part 3 with the beginning cut off Final Verdict: If I wanted cut-off songs, I'd take scisors to my record collection. ======================================================================= FORGOTTEN TUNES FROM THE GROUND ======================================================================= 1. DMC international mega mix 8.21 2. violation medley 7.32 3. new mode mega 90 mix 16.06 4. servant & mastermix 19.32 5. insight (within mix) 4.41 6. btw/ route 66 (mega single rmx) 4.24 7. pimpf (t.m.e. version) 6.27 8. here is the house (demo) 4.33 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Don't know anything about this. Track 5 might be the tribute by Children Within Track 6 is also on Remixes From the Heart Track 8 is the Martin Gore Demo, found on quite a few other boots ======================================================================= FOURPLAY (h) ======================================================================= 1 9:04 a2b3h Enjoy The Silence (Indefinite mix) 2 7:51 b2hx Behind The Wheel/Route 66 (Ivan Megamix) 3 5:55 b3hx Everything Counts (Alan Moulder mix) 4 4:53 b3hmx World In My Eyes (Mayhem Mode) 5 5:48 b3d1h Nodisco (Razormaid) 6 7:59 b2d2h Master And Servant (Razormaid) 7 6:24 b2d1h People Are People (Razormaid) 8 6:55 a3b2d1h Happiest Girl (Razormaid) 9 6:46 b2d2gh It's Called A Heart (Razormaid) 10 8:09 a1b2hm Policy Of Truth (Art of Memorandum Mix) ---- Track 2 is Behind the Wheel/Route 66 (megamix), available on the US BTW/R66 12" and CD. Track 3 is available on the US "EC" 12" and the rereleased "EC" CD. Track 4 is listed as "World In My Eyes (Mode To Joy)" and is available on the Japanese "WIME" CD. + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + After recently listening to LCD Bong 20 for the first time in a while it turns out that the 4th track on Fourplay is mislabelled. It is labelled World In My Eyes (Mode To Joy) but is in fact World In My Eyes (Mayhem Mode) also off LCD Bong 20. ======================================================================= FREESTATE SUMMER SPECIAL 2000 ======================================================================= 1 Freestate Waveline 6:22 2 Personal Jesus Touch Faith Sinners Mix 7:11 3 Strangemix 14:09 4 Waiting for the Night Johannesburg 93 5:59 5 Shake the Disease Houston 90 5:12 6 In Your Room Snatiago 94 6:38 7 Never Let me Down Again Santiago 94 5:05 8 It's Called a Heart Birmingham 86 5:29 9 Blasphemous Rumours Believe in Jesus Mix 9:42 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Track 1 has samples of the lyrics superimposed in different places, but hardly anything else. Track 2 is pretty much a cut & paste mix. Track 3 was a limited edition vinyl mix. Tracks 4-8 are live tracks of varying quality. Track 9 is the only track that can really be called a "remix" on here. It actually has some phased effects and other instruments and stuff... not bad. Final Verdict: Good for the Live stuff and Blasphemous Rumours. ======================================================================= GREY CITY UNDER AN ORANGE SKY ======================================================================= 1 It's No Good Club 69 Radio Edit 3:55 2 Question of Time Millennium Remix 9:19 3 Only When I Lose Myself DJ Dub Version 5:42 4 Clean Unreleased 12" Mix 8:39 5 Home Extension Mix 6:32 6 Enjoy the Silence Silent Dancefloor 2000 7:51 7 Barrel of a Gun Barrel of the Dub 5:55 8 My Secret Garden Unreleased 12" Mix 6:16 9 Personal Jesus Final Version 8:09 10 Question of Time Armageddon Remix 4:23 11 Route 66 Arizona Dub Mix 4:51 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + A mix of new, old, good, bad... the original mixes, while excellent, sometimes have that "tinny" sounds that comes from using noise reduction to extract pieces of music. Track 1: There is no such thing; it's a shorter version of the Club 69 Mixes. Track 2 is awesome! The mixer uses a lot of that "whump whump" sound that goes back & forth in the Extended Remix. Track 3 is the Caustic Dub Track 4 is cool! Starts off with the T-1000's theme (from T2), and has a couple elements of IFY(Babylon Mix) and scratches from WIMS before Clean starts. Much like the regular song after that Track 5 is a mix between the various official versions. Track 6 is the Sasha & Digweed mix. Track 7 is mostly cut & paste of the regular song (the instrumental parts between verses). Has chorus lyrics but no verse lyrics. Track 8 is pretty much the regular song, though there are some high-pitched metallic noises in some verses. Track 9 is cut & paste of official versions. Track 10 I think is the live mix, with a heavy drumbeat and a few other things added in. Track 11 is an extended version of the Beatmasters mix. A little cut & paste & overlays here and there. Final Verdict: A little of everything, good, bad, and ugly. ======================================================================= GREY CITY UNDER AN ORANGE SKY - LEVEL TWO ======================================================================= 1 6:59 Halo Dark Tone Mix 2 10:14 Blasphemous Rumours Flashghost 3 3:22 Policy Of Truth Y2K Single Edit 4 7:49 Here Is The House Performance Mix 5 5:44 Stripped Y2K Single Edit 6 4:43 Master & Servant It's A Lot Mix 7 7:46 It's Called A Heart Subsonic Edit 8 7:11 But Not Tonight Raw Edit 9 7:04 Rush Yeti Mix 10 5:51 Personal Jesus Y2K Single Edit 11 5:00 Nothing Waveline ---- + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Track 1 is from Strike 10 (and a bad copy of it at that) Track 2 is an original mix. Lot of wavery sounds for the first few minutes, but they go away. The normal song follows, with extra instrumental solos here and there. Track 3 is a shorter version of one of the official mixes (I forget which) Track 4 is excellent mix! Extra beats and sounds, plus extra instrumental solos! Track 5 is cut & paste of the Highland mix, it seems. Track 6 is okay... I like the extra grumbling notes they added here and there. As you might guess, there's a lot of the "it's a lot." Track 7 is mostly from the Emotion Remix & dub, with a lot of effects done on the various sounds. Then it's mostly the regular Emotion Dub with some echoing here & there. Track 8 seems to be cut & paste of regular versions. Track 9 is a low-down bass dub, with lots of low notes to shake your speakers! I almost expect to hear Rob Zombie sing the lyrics instead of Dave! Has some good breakdown sections & instrumental segments. A must-hear! Track 10 is cut & paste of official versions and the "I'm not crazy anymore" mix. Track 11 is simply the Zip Hop mix overlaid on itself a fraction of a second later so that the whole thing echoes. Not worth much. Final Verdict: A little of everything, good, bad, and ugly. ======================================================================= GREY CITY UNDER AN ORANGE SKY - THIRD DIMENSION ======================================================================= 1 6:17 Everything Counts (911 7" Mix) 2 6:26 It's Called A Heart (Black Edit) 3 5:29 Puppets (No String Attached Mix) 4 5:13 Only When I Lose Myself (Class X Edit) 5 3:45 New Life (1999 Remix) 6 7:20 Tora! Tora! Tora! (Soundwave Version) 7 16:08 French Megamix 8 18:09 Mega Mode Medley ======================================================================= GREY CITY UNDER AN ORANGE SKY - ARE PEOPLE PEOPLE? ======================================================================= 1 5:15 What's Your Name Extended Version 2 4:56 In Your Memory Alternative Version 3 6:23 Freestate Subsonic Edit 4 3:37 People Are People E-Cut 5 6:12 Photographic Hightec 1993 6 7:47 In Your Memory Uppermix 7 9:07 Policy Of Truth Mastermix 8 3:52 Told You So Demo 9 5:08 Pipeline Demo 10 4:41 And Then Demo 11 4:43 Love In Itself Demo 12 4:11 Lie To Me Demo ======================================================================= GREY CITY UNDER AN ORANGE SKY - STUDIO DUBS ======================================================================= 1 3:13 The Things You Said Clubmix 2 3:44 Rush UK DJ Edit 3 5:01 Halo Single Edit 4 4:04 Fly On The Windscreen Germix 5 4:04 Shake The Disease Germix 6 5:01 Black Celebration US Version 2001 7 6:51 Only When I Lose Myself Triplemix 8 5:26 Lie To Me Australian Dub 9 5:27 Satellite Extended Hate 10 8:33 Sacred Secret Believer Remix 11 6:36 Little 15 Full Neo Classic Remix ======================================================================= GOLD COLLECTION ======================================================================= 1. Just Can't Get Enough - No Source Remix 5.25 2. Enjoy the Silence - Indefinite Mix 9.07 3. Strangelove - Bomb the Bass Mix 6.36 4. Policy of Truth - Arabian Mix 6.12 5. Route 66 - Nile Rodgers Mix 4.11 6. Personal Jesus - Brat Mastermix 9.20 7. Master & Servant/Set me Free - Razormaid Mix 9.14 8. World in my Eyes - Dub Mix 6.00 9. A Question of Lust - Gore Trance Mix 7.32 10. Never let me down again - Western Remix 7.06 11. Flexible - Harp Remix 3.14 12. Boys Say Go - Rough Mix 2.44 --- Track 8 is not the Dub In My Eyes Mix Track 10 is the Solid Remix (I think) Track 11 is the 94 Remix from Hommage (I think) + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Final Verdict: Worth it just for tracks 1, 4, and 9, though some of the others are good too. ======================================================================= GOLD EDITION 2 ======================================================================= 1 Only When I Lose Myself promo 2 Song For Europe 3 It`s No Good maxi mix 4 Megamix 5 Violence 6 Stripped reremix 7 All By Themselself 8 It`s No Good hardmix 9 Cliche 10 Halo demo 11 Feel No Guilt 12 Enjoy The Silence demo 13 If You Want demo 14 Told You So demo 15 Shake The Disease demo 16 I Want You Now demo ======================================================================= GOLD EDITION 3 ======================================================================= 1 Barrel of a gun 3 Phase Mix 2 Useless GJ Bolland Funky Sub Mix 3 It's no good Raremix 4 Freestate Mesmerizing Version 5 Uselink Reactive Mix 6 Only when I lose myself Josh Abrahams Mix 7 One Caress R Mouth on the search for 8 Little 15 Opera Mix 9 Clean E-Dog Mix 10 Waiting for the night Sonic Integration 11 World in my eyes Trance Mix 12 Sometimes I wish I was dead PIMPFS Big Beat Mix 13 Indian Rubber Megamix Part 1 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Tracks 1 and 2 are official versions Track 4 is a standard extra-beat boot mix... okay, but nothing big. Track 6 is on tons of boots because it kicks ass. Track 7 is from SOFAD Strange Track 8 is from Only When I Play My Mixes Track 10 is an okay mix, kinda like track 4. So that leaves tracks 3, 5, 9, 11, 12, and 13 that I don't know about. ======================================================================= GOLD EDITION 4 ======================================================================= 1 Never let me down again REM Mix 2 World in my eyes D.J. Remix 1998 3 Enjoy the silence Dance Mix 4 Fly on the windscreen Unheard of Mix 5 People are people Metal Edit 6 Lie to me Rain Mix 7 Master & Servant Teroed Mix 8 Shake the disease Big Mix 9 Stripped Down to the Trance + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Track 1 might be the REM DM mix, which isn't too bad. See Mysterious Mixes for description. Tracks 4 and 9 were taken from MP3's on the internet. See ELIXIR for the truth. Track 5 is from 12" Remixes by Jonathan McBride. Track 6 is from Lost Mixes, which isn't worth the CD-R it was burned onto. Track 8 is from Now This is Fun I don't recognize tracks 2, 3, or 7. ======================================================================= GORETRAX AND LOST MIXES ======================================================================= 1 2:46 Down in the boondocks 2 4:36 Violence 3 4:55 I Feel no Guilt 4 4:42 Here is the House 5 2:39 I Love you Love Me Love 6 4:12 Blue Dress (Black Mix) 7 3:29 I Want You Now (Sex Mix) 8 3:41 Shame (Child Mix) 9 3:11 Stories of Old (Ring my Bell Mix) 10 4:58 Lie to Me (Rain Mix) 11 4:05 Things You Said (In the Hall Mix) 12 4:07 Here is the House (Home Mix) 13 4:34 If you Want To (Pot Mix) 14 6:01 Waiting for the Night (Martin's Vocal Mix) 15 4:43 Black Celebration (Celebration Mix) 16 4:42 Halo (Silencer Mix) 17 4:06 Nodisco (No Dancing Mix) 18 4:39 More than a Party (Party out Mix) + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + The Goretrax also exist as a 5 track 12-inch which was told to come with a magazine, but I think it's a bootleg. -------- Blue Dress: decent though at first you can't even tell it's mixed I want you now: great sex song (hence it called (sex mix) Shame: good mix Lie to Me: better than the original in my opinion Waiting for the night: a bit too blah Black Celebration: kick ass Halo: kickass as well Everything else is not really worth mentioning. They're neither good nor bad in the extreme... -------- What is this piece of shit? First off, forget about tracks 6-18. That's the tracklist to the boot Lost Mixes (hence the title Goretrax AND LOST MIXES). Read my description of Lost Mixes to see what pieces of shit that is. Which leaves the first few tracks, available so many other places. Violence and I Feel No Guilt, there's no consensus as to whether these are real or not. I vote "not." There are only 3 songs on this boot that are worth anything if you don't already have them: 1, 4, and 5. Final Verdict: Martin would be offended! ======================================================================= HALO ======================================================================= 1 Halo Studio Outtake 2 Personal Jesus Kazan Cathedral Mix Promo 3 Dangerous Hazchemix Edit Promo 4 Enjoy the silence Radio Version Promo 5 Enjoy the silence Ricki Tik Tik Extended Mix Promo 6 Policy of truth Radio Version Promo 7 Kaleid Backing Tape Promo 8 World in my eyes John Marsh Mix 9 World in my eyes Bogus Brothers Mix Promo 10 Halo Bogus Brothers Mix Promo 11 Halo Daniel Miller Uncomfortable Mix Promo 12 Personal Jesus Brat Mastermix 13 Waiting for the night Brat Mastermix 14 Policy of truth Brat Mastermix + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Tracks 7, 12, 13, and 14 are from Hommage (Strike 15) Some of these other names sound familiar, and might be from other boots (tracks 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11) ======================================================================= HAPPIEST BOYS (a new/fake Strike) ======================================================================= 1. World in my Eyes Dub'99 8:14 2. It's no Good Shuffle Mix 6:33 3. Wolking In My Shoes Moonlight Mix 6:46 4. Happiest Girl Pump Up The Beat Mix 8:33 5. Policy of Truth Dub '99 8:12 6. Dangerous Alterdub 5:43 7. I Want You Now Dyslexic Mix 3:48 8. Somebody Spiral Tribe Mix 4:36 9. Leave In Silence Jangle Mix 8:08 10. Little 15 Fantasy Vibes Mix 7:04 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + - - - - Tracks that are from other boots - - - - - Track 1 is the Holy World Mix from Strik 10 (was certainly not done in 1999). Track 3 is the Moon Mix from Strike 8. Track 4 is the Pump Up The House Mix from McBride's CD. Track 5 is the Ambi Dub 98 from 12" by Jonathan McBride. Track 9 is the Jingle Jangle Mix from Strike 9. Track 10 is the Classic Mix from Strike 8. - - - - Tracks that are (may be) new - - - - - Track 2 was done by Millibyte, and the MP3 ripped from a web site. This track is becoming available on a couple of CD's (converted from MP3), but the CD-quality track is only available one place... See ELIXIR for details. Track 6 is new; not too bad. Track 7 may be the Dyslexic Integration, which isn't a bad mix (was available on the web, but nowhere else, as far as I know) Track 8 is new, standard beat layover, but gives the song the same feel as the Home Air Around the Golf Mix. Final Verdict: Well, tracks 6,7,8 are good mixes, though nothing phenomenal. Worth having, but not at a huge price. ======================================================================= HEADSTAR 27 Or THE TWENTY-SEVENTH STRIKE ======================================================================= Only When I Lose Myself Funk Da Brat Mix 8:05 Surrender Romantic Mix 6:26 HeadStar Apollo 808 Mix 7:28 Everything Counts T. Ando Remix 8:24 Strangelove Reloop 911 Mix 9:07 Never let me Down Again Wall of 303 Remix 10:47 Route 66 Miles Away Mix 10:46 Behind the Wheel 27 Speciala Mix 9:43 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + This boot is awesome! Personally, I like the older mixes better than I like the OWILM mixes (first 3 tracks), but either way, this boot is worth picking up. All tracks are equally intriguing. All use various official mixes and add additional beats and instrumentation. All are original (not ripped from other boots). Final Verdict: These mixes kick my ass! Definitely a top 10! ======================================================================= HEART-GORE MODERN TIMES Or THE FOURTEENTH STRIKE ======================================================================= "Compulsion" (Remix I) "Things Must Change" (Remix 1995) A remix of "The Sun & The Rainfall". "Compulsion II" (Shockwave Mix) Another remix of "Compulsion". "In A Matter Of Speaking" (Trandy Mix) "Smile In The Crowd" (Orirntal Mix) I didn't make a typo. "Gone" (Tribal Remix) "Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth" (Dub Line Mix) "Motherless Child" (Dark Wave Mix) "Walking In My Shoes" (911 Mix) A remix by the 911 Remix Service. "Faith Healer" (Healed Mix) The mix is from the B side of the RECOIL "Faith Healer" 7". "Strangelove" (Future Mix) A remix from the Future Mix Remix Service. "Masters & Servants" (Demo Version) This is "Master & Servant", taken from the crap "Promotional" 2 CD bootleg compilation. Source unknown, but DEFINATELY not a demo. Sounds like someone who just got a sampler is figuring out what it does, and poorly! + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + The layout, and mixes, appearing on this CD make it seem like it's the 14th Strike. You might ask "14"? Well, there's 1-12, then the 12 « (theoretically 13), and then there's this CD, but the only identifying mark on the CD is a 14. The mixing style stays in the same feel as the 8-12 Strikes. If you liked those mixes, you might like these. -------- Great CD! A few of these tracks might be available elsewhere, but most of them (specifically the well-done Counterfeit EP remixes) cannot be found anywhere else that I know of! Bravo on these mixes! Exceptions to the excelence: Trck 9: *okay* mix. The first few notes are looped for a full 2 minutes, making you fall asleep before you even hear the rest, which is pretty much the regular song. Track 12: Cut & pasted together from the Voxless mix... it's the remixer's crappy demo, not DM's, and not even worth listening to. Final Verdict: I really like these! ======================================================================= HEAVEN MIXES Or DEVOTED FOREVER ======================================================================= 1 It's No Good Good Mix 6:43 2 See You Beat Mix 4:02 3 People are People Mega Metal Edit 7:32 4 Enjoy the Silence Video Mix 4:23 5 Dangerous On the Edge Mix 5:41 6 Freestate Poison Mix 3:19 7 Just Can't Get Enough Master Mix 5:23 8 Megamix for the Masses 7:31 9 Sea of Sin Razormaid Mix 6:32 10 Shake the Disease Funky Mix 5:44 11 Rush Corner Mix 5:55 12 Sun & the Rainfall Fresh Mix 5:30 13 Faith Healer Dub Mix 4:43 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + 1 Awesome mix! Like the club 69 mixes from the 19th Strike, but better! 2 Is the 911 Remix from World of Sound and Harmony 3 Is the Metal Edit from 12" by Jonathan McBride 5 Is the Hazchemix from the offically released Maxi-Single 6 Is the Ultra Remix from Ultra: The Remix Album 7 Is the No Source Remix from Gold Collection 9 Is from the Niagra Radiostation Mix 10 Is the 97 Remix from World of Sound and Harmony 11 Is the Red & Blue Acido Version from SOFAD Strange Versions 12 Is the Remix 1995 from Heart-Gore Modern Times As you can see, most of these are just taken from other bootlegs and renamed! Maybe all of them (I just don't know about a few of them). They're good/great mixes! They're just available elsewhere. Final Verdict: What sucks is track 1 kicks so much ass, if you don't have it, you'd better get this CD for that track! ======================================================================= HEAVENLY SURRENDER ======================================================================= 1 Freestate waveline 6.26 2 Never Let Me Down Again split dub 5.32 3 Useless deadlinemix 9.19 4 Only When I Lose Myself josh abrahamns mix edit 3.35 5 Black Celebration remix99 4.57 6 The Sun And The Rainfall modemaidenmix 5.23 7 Just Can`t Get Enough remixsingleedit 99 3.45 8 Barrel Of A Gun dub 5.51 9 World In My Eyes rem dm remix 5.02 10 Enjoy The Silence fast mix 5.42 11 Strangelove triangle mix 7.19 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Many of these sound like new titles! Track 4 is from other boots Track 6 is the Remix 1995 from various other boots Tracks 9, 10, and 11 are from the internet and are great! I'm pretty sure the Triangle mix is the Strange Love Triangle Megamix (mixing DM and New Order). ======================================================================= HINT OF ANESTHESIA Disk 1 ======================================================================= 1. Black Celebration (remix) 2. Fly on the Windscreen (remix) 3. A Question of Lust (Gore Trance Mix) 4. A Question of Time (Class-x Mix) 5. Barrel of a Gun (Underworld Hard Mix) 6. It's No Good (Bass Bounce Mix) 7. Happiest Girl (Jack Mix) 8. Useless (CJ Bolland Funky Sub Remix) 9. Enjoy the Silence (Sasha & Digweed Mix) 10. Slowblow (Darren Price Mix) + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Tracks 5, 6, 7, 8, and 10 are all official mixes. Track 3 is from Gold Collection Track 4 is from DJ's Revenge Hard to say about tracks 1 and 2, with names like that. ======================================================================= HINT OF ANESTHESIA Disk 2 ======================================================================= 1. I Feel You (REM DM remix) 2. Enjoy the Silence (remix) 3. Little 15 (Classic Mix) 4. People are People (Razormaid) 5. Photographic (remix) 6. Barrel of a Gun (Underworld Soft Mix) 7. Strangelove (Razormiad Mix) 8. In Your Room (remix) 9. Rush (Spiritual Guidance Mix) 10. Higher Love (Adrenaline Mix) 11. Personal Jesus (Acoustic Mix) 12. Only When I lose Myself (remix) + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Track 1 is a great track from the internet. Check out the CD Netbeat. Tracks 6, 9, 10, and 11 are official mixes. Track 3 is from Strike 8 Track 4 is from Strike 2 Track 7 is from the Razormaid CD. Hard to say about tracks 2, 5, 8, and 12. ======================================================================= HINT OF ANESTHESIA Disk 3 ======================================================================= 1. My Joy (7 inch remix) 2. Shake the Disease (remix) 3. Get the Balance Right (remix) 4. Happiest Girl (Orbital Mix) 5. It's No Good (Ultra Mix) 6. Everything Counts (Absolute Mix) 7. World in My Eyes (Razormaid Mix) 8. Waiting for the Night (Can I Feel You Mix) 8. Just Can't get Enough (remix) 9. Policy of Truth (remix) 10. Personal Jesus (remix) + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Tracks 1, 4, and 6 are official mixes. Track 8 is from the internet, but I haven't heard it so I can't say if it's good or not. Track 5 is either from Ultra: The Remix Album; or The Ultra Remixes. Track 7 is from the Razormaid CD. Track 8 is an original, though it is mostly just the regular song with alternating beats of Stripped and Fly on the Windscreen overlayed. I'm actually surprised how well the Stripped beat goes, and the FOTW beat kinda works, too, but the transitions are awkward and it always takes you a minute to get used to it when it switches back to FOTW. Hard to say about tracks 2, 3, 9, and 10. I suspect these are either official or from other boots, and are just named this way to get you to buy the CD. ======================================================================= HITS FROM THE BONG ======================================================================= CD 1 1. Barrel of a Gun - French DJ Edit 2. Policy of Truth - gp Edit 3. Rush - Coil Black Sun Remix 4. It's No Good - BT Ultraviolet Remix Edit 5. It's No Good - BT Trance Dub 6. It's No Good - BT Trance Vocal 7. Surrender - Everything Remix Edit 8. Nothing - Dub Mix 9. World in my Eyes - Trip Mode 10. Strangelove - Featuring Janet CD 2 11. Stripped - Burning Fairchild Mix 12. Behind the Wheel/Route 66 Megadub 13. Barrel of a Gun - Hard Tune Mix 14. It's No Good - Club 69 Future Mix 15. It's No Good - Club 69 Future Dub 16. It's No Good - Club 69 Funk Dub 17. It's No Good - French DJ Edit 18. Little 15 - Opera Mix 19. In Your Room - Live on Letterman 20. Waiting for the Night - Live Johannesburg 94 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Tracks 2 and 10 are from First Violation by H. Null. Tracks 5, 6 are from Remixes from the Heart, and 4 may be too under a different name. Tracks 7 and 18 are from Only When I Play my Mixes Track 8 is from the vinyl-only release of Strangelove Track 9 is from Ultra Rare Trax 3 Track 11 is from Nine Killers on Highway 28 Track 12 is from the vinyl-only release Behind the Wheel/Route 66 Megamix Tracks 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17 are from Strike 19 Tracks 3 and 19 are from the internet and are on other boots, but not FROM any of them. Track 20 is probably from a live boot. Final Verdict: Good mixes, but all but maybe 2 taken from somewhere else. ======================================================================= HOMMAGE Or THE FIFTEENTH STRIKE ======================================================================= 1. Boys Say Go! - Unreleased Rough Mix 2. Coming Back To You - Unreleased track (Martin Gore tribute to Leonard Cohen) 3. Rush - K-ROQ Mix 4. Policy of Truth - Brat Mastermix 5. I Feel You - Brat Mastermix 6. Waiting for the Night - Brat Mastermix 7. Personal Jesus - Brat Mastermix 8. Stripped - Extended Dub Mix 9. Walking in my Shoes - Random Gonads Mix 10. My Joy - H.I.S. Mix 11. Flexible - 94 Remix 12. Kaleid - Concert Intro Version + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Pretty good mixes! Especially the Kaleid concert tape! See California Mixes for info on the Brat Mixes (these are some of the ones he mentioned). Track 3 is pretty good; has a clip "rush" that's repeated at different pitches throughout the song. Track 9 is a cut & paste mix of the Random Carpet and Grungy Gonads mixes. Track 10 is like a Razormaid Mix. Track 11 is pretty good. Final Verdict: Sure, why not? ======================================================================= HOT WIRE MIX VOL. 2 ======================================================================= 1 Rush kroq extended 6.44 2 Walking In My Shoes the proacted mix 7.50 3 Higher Love infinitymix 6.27 4 World In My Eyes bassmix 5.44 5 Condemnation condemnated to love 4.31 6 Mercy In You confidential 5.06 7 I Feel You brat mastermix 8.11 8 Enjoy The Silence melancholic dancemix 7.22 9 See You alloutmix 0.40 10 If You Want edit 3.20 11 Kroqmegamixmedley 10.31 12 Walking In My Shoes rogers spiritual of life 5.23 13 Enjoy The Silence ricki tiki promomix 5.54 14 Condemnation alloutmix 1.05 15 Behind The Wheel / Route 66 backingtape 10.15 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Tracks 1 and 7 are from Hommage. Track 12 is from SOFAD Strange. I don't know about the rest of these; could be different stuff. Check out Hot Wire Mix Vol 3 though, before you consider getting this one. ======================================================================= HOT WIRE MIX VOL. 3 ======================================================================= 1 intro (vol.3) 1:38 2 never let me down again (extemporize mix) 8:53 3 judas (bombastic) 8:20 4 fly on the windscreen (fly mix) 6:12 5 in your room (the 9th version) 6:59 6 photographic (high tec 93) 6:11 7 tora! tora! tora! (soundwave vs) 7:29 8 everything counts (1994 edit) 4:05 9 clean (don t criticize it mixed edit) 4:04 10 monument (reaggaelectric mix) 6:46 11 my joy (my mix) 5:26 12 stripped (extended dub) 8:08 13 rush (sensitive mix) 7:17 14 master & servant (for isabelle - who is the master?) 7:18 15 strangelove (quick mix) 2:59 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + All of these are sucky low quality, first off.... Track 2 alternates between the single and the aggro (or split) mix. Cut & Paste. Tracks 3 and 10 (which rocks) are from Strike 8. Track 4 sounds like crap. Low quality, tape-wavering, quiet, sped-up. Switches between Final version, Quiet version, and regular. Track 5 is half of the Apex Mix and half of the Live Version. What for, I don't know. Track 6 is anything but high tech; sounds like the regular version (but badly recorded). Track 7... well, they added some spooky wavering sounds in the background, and did some cut & paste. Track 8, cut & paste (you're sick of hearing those words from me, aren't you?) Track 9... OK, I won't. Final Verdict: It sucks so bad, I can't even finish reviewing it. ======================================================================= HOT WIRE MIXES INSTRUMENTAL ======================================================================= 1 Any Second Now 7" Mix 2 My Secret Gareden 7" Mix 3 Master And Servant Voxless 4 It Doesn`t Matter Instrumental 5 Shout Love to Dub 6 To Have And To Hold Instrumental 7 Behind The Wheel Dub Remix 8 Little 15 Dub Mix 9 Deaths Door Atmosphere Mix 10 Walking In My Shoes Ritual Mix 11 Condemnation Strange Mix 12 Policy Of Truth Instrumental 13 Master And Servant Instrumental 14 Nothing To Fear Somebody Enough Mix 15 Master And Servant UK Instrumental + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Tracks 1, 2, and 3 are official mixes. I don't know anything about the others. ========================================================================================= HYPNOTIZED ========================================================================================= 1 I Feel You REM remix 3:29 2 It`s No Good dead line mix 9:11 3 Depeche Mode Hitmix 6:50 4 I Feel You trance mix 4:02 5 Something To Do dead line mix 8:43 6 Dangerous in your arms mix 7:42 7 Enjoy The Silence estatic integration 2:46 8 Sister Of Night waving version 8:53 9 Halo hardline 6:30 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Track 1 is the REM DM mix, available on many boots Track 2 uses mostly official extended versions, but other things are added. Pretty good mix. Track 3 is a megamix with Everything Counts, People are People, Get the Balance Right, and Blasphemous Rumors. Well integrated, and it's more than just "some of this song, then some of that song." Things are mixed together creatively Track 4 is like a remake of the Swamp Mix, sort of. It has the heavy guitar riff mixed in it. Good creative mix. Track 5 uses the metal mix as a base and adds stuff to it. Makes it sound a little more full. Track 6 and 7 are from the internet, and are different, not too bad. Track 8 uses other boot versions (I'm hearing the scratching in the background), but is different. Verses are laid on top of instrumental pieces, or over other verses ("breaking down your will, move in for the kill" overlaps "an eternal flame, that burns in desires name"). It's interesting, but not too different. Track 9 is pretty much the original, with some cut & paste stuff to make it longer. Highlights: Original tracks, not from other boots, except 1 and 7. Lowlights: Some are heavy with MP3 flutter (track 3 has it bad). Final Verdict: Glad I got it but could have lived without it. ========================================================================================= IDLE HANDS ========================================================================================= 1 Rush black sun coil remix 2 Only When I Lose Myself josh abrahams mix 3 Tora! Tora! Tora! studio session 4 Big Muff studio Session 5 Photographic studio session 6 Get The Balance Right 1986 Soundboard live 7 Until Death 1990 backstage cover of front 242 8 Ice Machine 1990 martin gore piano performance 9 Question of lust flood remix 10 Song for Europe 11 It's No Good brian transeu remix 12 It's In Everyone excerpt of david gahan singing 13 Alan Wilder: Soundtrack Theme (minimal) 14 Happiest Girl pulsating orbital vocal remix 15 Gone To Tears 1990 backstage performance + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Shit, I don't know, but this one sound quite interesting! Also, kick-ass cover! Track 2 is on every new boot to come out, and it's awesome Track 9 is a vinyl-only official version Track 11 kicks ass, and is from Only When I Play My Mixes and probably Remixes From The Heart (which is where 3 BT mixes are) ========================================================================================= JAPANESE RADIO SPECIALS - REMIXES BY ITASHI AND TANDAO Or Strike 26 (or 25?) ========================================================================================= REMIXES by Itashi 1 The meaning of love (Love RMX '98) 7:06 2 Leave in silence (Long Silence Mix '98) 10:08 3 My secret garden (Joye 'n fun Mix '98) 9:12 4 Get the balence right (Itashi Balance Mix) 10:19 5 Everything counts (911 rmx '98) 10:00 REMIXES by Tandao 6 Work hard (X-San rmx '98) 9:46 7 Love in itself (Tokyo-Master Mix) 8:47 8 Fools (Mighty-Boob-Mix) 8:39 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + When I first heard this CD, I thought "well, these are OKAY... but nothing great" but a few listens later, I really grew to like this one. These are really good mixes; not like some sucky Razordmaid-like cut & paste mixes. At first they seem like official versions with different beats added, but they are really much better than that. Very long mixes. It's hard to describe, but I highly recommend this boot. Final Verdict: It grows on you. ========================================================================================= A KICK IN THE SHUNT ========================================================================================= 1 Black Box Black Chrome Electro Edit 6:18 2 Edge to Life Black Chrome vs Poppy Mix 5:53 3 Bloodline Stone Cold Chrono Mix 6:37 4 Curse Stone Cold Nation Mix 4:44 5 Last Call for Liquid Courage Stone Cold African Skies Mix 5:09 6 Shunt Stone Cold Warm Extension 5:39 7 Bloodline Stone Cold Remix Edit 3:30 8 Curse Stone Cold Nation Mix Edit 3:45 9 Interview with Alan Wilder on Radio 21 (English/French) 30:04 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + This is the first exclusive Recoil boot that I know of! Good mixes overall; I like what they've done. Especially Track 1. Final Verdict: Sure! ========================================================================================= LOOKING BACK MAXIMUM 1 ========================================================================================= 1 Policy of truth 2 If you want 3 Told you so 4 Higher love 5 Halo 6 Never let me down again - live Zrich 98 7 I want you now - live 94 ========================================================================================= LOOKING BACK MAXIMUM 2 ========================================================================================= 1 Walking in my shoes 8:58 2 The sun and the rainfall 8:03 3 Pipeline 9:16 4 Stories of old 6:00 5 Everything counts 8:56 6 In your room - live at david letterman show 1998 3:46 7 Barrel of a gun - live KROQ Christmas 98 6:08 8 A Question of lust - live KROQ Christmas 98 3:50 9 Behind the wheel - live KROQ Christmas 98 5:37 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Tracks 7, 8, and 9 are from the KROQ Christmas boot (found under quite a few different tiles not in this discog because it's a live boot). Track 6 is a great little number, and I don't know of any other place to get it, except on the internet. ========================================================================================= LOOKING BACK MAXIMUM 3 ========================================================================================= 1 Rush Extended 6.12 2 But Not Tonight Extended Re-edit 7.42 3 Get The Balance Right Extended 5.32 4 Clean Extended 7.48 5 Black Celebration Extended 8.09 6 A Question Of Lust Flood Mix 5.12 7 If You Want Live 5.15 8 Shame Live 4.15 9 Blasphemous Rumours Live 5.27 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Tracks 6,7,8, and 9 are from the vinyl-only release of A Question of Lust. I don't know about the others, except that they could use some more creative mix names. ========================================================================================= LOOKING BACK MAXIMUM 4 ========================================================================================= 1 Fly On The Windscreen extended 12.01 2 In Your Room extended 8.10 3 My Joy extended 5.47 4 World In My Eyes extended 6.35 5 Song For Europe extended 8.52 6 Musical Interlude 3 1.12 7 Memphisto 3.39 8 Enjoy The Silence 2.03 9 Sibeling 2.21 10 Yesterday london 29/09/1998 2.43 ========================================================================================= LOOKING BACK SPECIAL COLLECTION OF UNRELEASED SONGS ========================================================================================= New Baby Dirty All Right Now Take A Look A Me Now All By Themselfes Down In The Boondocks I Feel No Guilt I Love You Love Me Love Until You Saw The Sea Violence Return To Oberkorn Trans Canada I Like It Reason Man Television Set The Price Of Love Tomorrow`s Dance + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + In my other discography, I go into detail on most of these songs. But some of these I've never heard of, like New Baby, Dirty All Right Now, Take a Look at me Now, and Trans Canada. ======================================================================= THE LOST MIXES ======================================================================= 1 Blue Dress 2 I Want You Now 3 Shame 4 Stories of Old 5 Lie to Me 6 The Things You Said 7 Here is the House 8 If You Want 9 Waiting for the Night 10 Black Celebration 11 Halo 12 Nodisco 13 More Than a Party + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Remix names? Who cares? These aren't remixes; they're just the regular songs, recorded with that effect you get when your headphones aren't plugged in all the way. There's another boot out there like this called REWORKED (I didn't write the review for that one and there's no track listing, so these could be the same for all I know). What was the point? Final Verdict: They should have stayed lost! ======================================================================= LUST MIXES (new/fake 14th Strike) ======================================================================= 1. A question of time pre-release promo instrumental version 2. A question of lust flood version 3. It's called a heart razormaid dub version 4. Shake the disease pre-release promo version 5. It doesn't matter ii montana vocal edit version 6. But not tonight pre-release promo version 7. I feel you pre-release promo intro-edit version 8. Walking in my shoes pre-release promo edit version 9. World in my eyes dub in my eyes version 10. Happiest girl the pulsating orbital vocal version 11. Personal jesus reach out dub version 12. Halo unreleased dub version 13. Kaleid when worlds version 14. Behind the wheel/route 66 megadub version ======================================================================= MASTER MIXES MIR 201 ======================================================================= 1 Behind the Wheel / Route 66 Extended Megamix 2 Just Can't Get Enough Music Factory Megamix / No Source Mix 3 Strangelove Discotech Mix 4 Enjoy the Silence Brynans Remix 5 Policy of Truth Oriental Mix 6 Nothing Art of Mix 7 Dangerous Sensual Mix 8 Fly on the Windscreen Nobu Bros Mix 9 Two Minute Warning Synth Mix 10 Home Gravity Mix + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Tracks 1 and 7 are official versions Track 4 is the Ecstatic Dub, Track 10 is the Grantby Mix. Tracks 2,3,8, and 9 are from other boots. Track 5 is not the Oriental Mix. It's the On-USound Megamix #2, from Atrophy Bong Megamixes. Final Verdict: All available elsewhere. ======================================================================= MASTER MIXES MIR 202 ======================================================================= 1 It's No Good Bryans Padeed Mix 2 World in my Eyes Holy World Mix 3 Walking in my Shoes Mouth and Ziska Mix 4 Leave in Silence Jingle Jangle Mix 5 Rush Red & Blue Mix 6 Halo Dark Tone Mix 7 In Your Room Dark Vibes Mix 8 Ultramix Mastermixed 9 Motherless Child Solo Mix 10 Enjoy the Silence Harmonium + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Track 1 seems to be exclusive. Starts off with old TV dialogue (just what is it that you want to do; we wanna be free...), then is the first half of the single version, followed by the 2nd half of the Hard Floor mix. Waste of time. Track 10 is an official Version Tracks 3 and 5 are from SOFAD Strange. Tracks 2 and 6 are from the 10th Strike Tracks 4 and 7 are from the 9th Strike Track 8 is a megamix of official mixes of Useless, BOAG, ING, Track 9 is from Counterfeit and is not remixed here. -------- Final Verdict: All available elsewhere except track 1, which is a waste. ======================================================================= MARTIN GORE HOTEL PIANO CD ======================================================================= This CD was apparently recorded in a hotel somewhere in Koln, Germany. There is no official name for this boot, I don't believe, nor a real track listing. It sounds like he's playing for maybe 3 other people. One of them must've had a tape recorder sitting on the floor, but the sound quality is tolerable. You can hear hotel staff clinking stuff as they clean. They laugh, joke around, and Martin screws up everything, usually not even finishing the songs. But like I said, this seems to be a group of friends having fun, so it's not like it's a concert or anything, and Martin is more than likely drunk. There are about 22 tracks on the CD, and Martin sings a variety of songs, things like "In the Ghetto," "She Drives Me Crazy," "Rock & Roll Suicide," "Coming Back To You," and even DM's "Sometimes" and "Question of Lust," which the guests sing along with, so they're obviously DM fans. Genuine? I don't think there's any doubt that it's Martin! This isn't anything you'll like if you're just into mainstream DM, but if you're a collector of rare stuff, then this is an absolute must! -------- It was recorded in the Cologne Hyatt Hotel on may 8th(?) 1997 when the band was in Germany for their "RTL Samstag Nacht"-appearance. About 10 people hang around in the bar with Martin during this session. Martin is talking to Anne several times. She is Anne Berning from german record label Intercord, also mentioned in Steve Malins' biography. Final Verdict: The ultimate Mode rarity! Not pleasant to listen to, but good to have. ======================================================================= MARTIN GORE'S STUDIO TAPES (o) ======================================================================= Contains some of the usual Martin Gore songs, plus some tracks sung by Dave on the final versions (eg. Told You So), plus: ?:?? b4o Violence ?:?? b4o I Feel No Guilt ?:?? a3o I Love, You Love, Me Love ?:?? a3o Down in The Boom Docks ?:?? o Until You Saw The Sea + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + First four are also on Goretrax and Lost Mixes Until You Saw the Sea... not sure, sounds like Martin IMHO Final Verdict: You can get these elsewhere. ======================================================================= MARTIN GORE'S STUDIO TAPES VOL. 2 See SONGS OF MARTIN GORE VOL 2 Or MARTIN GORE'S STUDIO TAPES: REMIX VOL. 2 ======================================================================= ======================================================================= MASTER AND EXTENSION ======================================================================= 1 Construction Mix 2 Strangemix 3 Servant And Mastermix 4 Sanni's Dance Mix + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Tracks 2 and 3 are vinyl-only DJ mixes, and I suppose the other two probably are as well. Strangemix is pretty cool, but I haven't heard any of the others. ======================================================================= MEDIUM RARE ======================================================================= 1 Kaleid world violation tour intro 3:26 2 Moderation Megamix part 1 9:37 3 It`s No Good club 69 future mix 8:37 4 Perversion Demo 9:30 5 Shake The Disease martin gore demo 4:15 6 Useless cj bolland radio edit 4:03 7 Here Is The House safar mix 12:10 8 Kaleid safar mix 6:19 9 Moderation Megamix part 2 10:31 10 It`s No Good club 69 future funk mix 5:04 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Track 1 is probably the Concert Intro from Hommage. Tracks 3 and 10 appears on many boots, most notably Strike 19. Track 5 is probalby the geniune MLG demo from various demos CD's I have no idea what Perversion is. The 2 Safar Mixes... Here is the House is great! I don't know about Kaleid though. ======================================================================= MILLENNIUM 33 ======================================================================= 1 Only when i lose myself josh abraham edit 2 Stripped magic mix 5:16 3 People are people club mix 8:10 4 Personal jesus reach out mix 5 Personal jesus reach out dub 6 Personal jesus funky breaks version 7 Rush exotic frisco version 8 Flexible bert bevans remix 9 Master and servant demo 10 Stories of old demo 11 Lie to me demo 12 Shake the disease demo 13 Down in the boondocks session 14 I love, you love, me love session 15 Never turn your back on mother earth flexi version + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Track 1 is from many other boots. Track 7 might be from Walking to the Shoreline 1 or 2... Tracks 9, 10, 11, and 12 are on various demo CD's and are actual demos. Tracks 13 and 14 are songs done by Martin for a friend. Track 15 came on a flexi-recoed in some fan's magazine. I have no idea if it's any different than the version from Counterfeit. Track 2 is new, and well put-together. I got a crappy MP3 download of the track, and I hope the CD version is better quality. It seems to be a disassembly mix, where the mixer took beats and vocals apart and put them back together in varying ways. Track 3 is a techno dance-floor mix (aptly called the Club Mix), that simply rocks! Like before, I got a crappy MP3 download of this, so I hope the version from the CD is better quality, because it's possibly the most creative mix of this song yet! ======================================================================= MIXATOR - DJ'S VIOLATION ON DEPECHE MODE ======================================================================= World in my eyes Dreamtime Mix / Razormaid Mix 7:41 Personal Jesus I'm Not Crazy Anymore / Kazan Cathedral Mix 4:15 Halo Hellfire Mix / Bobus Brothers Mix 6:31 Waiting for the night L.A. Lunar Mix 9:08 Enjoy the silence Megasilence Mix / Triad Mix 10:50 Policy of truth Never Again Remix / Art of Mix 8:25 Clean Noogie's Mix / Dealer Mix 6:08 Happiest Girl Razormaid Mix 7:02 Sea of Sin Razor Cuts Mix 6:59 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Most available elsewhere... Not sure about Enjoy the Silence... that may be new. -------- (German Fan-Club only CD, limited to 1000 copies) ======================================================================= MIXES 108 ======================================================================= 1 A Question Of Lust fragile independence 6:31 2 A Question Of Lust cosmos little 6:53 3 Behind The Wheel milk mix 6:01 4 Behind The Wheel drive mix 6:58 5 But Not Tonight extended mix 6:05 6 Shame aom mix 6:12 7 Clean truth mix 7:18 8 Enjoy The Silence triad mix 11:12 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Stay away! The full title is actually "Mixes From Tape 108," and from the sound of it, Tape 108 has been eaten by its walkman many times, and is in fact still being digested. The quality is so low as to make this unlistenable and unfixable even with modern technology. There are a couple mixes that might be interesting if they surface on a better quality boot (Shame & Clean), but intil then, forget it. Final Verdict: On a scale from 1 to 10, it's a .108 ======================================================================= MIXO PHONE ======================================================================= 1 New Mode Mecca 90 2 Mode Megamix ======================================================================= MODE OF OBSESSION VOL 1 ======================================================================= 1 Behind The Wheel (Disconet) 2 Dangerous (Daredevil Mix) 3 Enjoy The Silence (Razormaid!) 4 Happiest Girl (Naive Mix) 5 It's No Good (Ultra Mix) 6 People Are People (Hot Tracks Mix) 7 Policy Of Truth (Art Of Mix) 8 Sea Of Sin (Razormaid!) 9 On-U-Sound Megamix Part 1 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Most of these are from old old boots (except track 5; it's from a newer old boot). The only names I don't recognize are tracks 2 and 4. ======================================================================= MODE OF OBSESSION VOL 2 ======================================================================= 1 A Question Of Lust (Answer Edit Mix) 2 Boys Say Go! (Rough Mix) 3 Dreaming Of Me (House Mix) 4 Fly On The Windscreen (Brutal Mix) 5 Ice Machine (Kild Mix) 6 It's Called A Heart (Ext. Mix) 7 Master & Servant (Razormaid!) 8 Photographic (Photogenic Mix) 9 On-U-Sound Megamix Part 2 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Same here. Most of these are from the oldest of the old boots (like, you know Strike ONE). Possible new mixes are... wait, none of them. =============================================================================== MODETRIX - ELIXIR II - Mind Bending Remixes by Matty & Senator Scratch =============================================================================== 1. Nodisco New Millennium Mix 5:36 2. Enjoy the Silence Martin's Solo Funky Joint 4:55 3. Fools Chimminy Chime Mix 4:07 4. Nodisco Particle Accelerator Mix 2:18 5. Painkiller Pleasurable Mix 5:10 6. Flexible Yogi Kudu in the Box Mix 4:39 7. Some Great Reward A Dark Trance 5:41 8. Only When I Lose Myslef Abbey Road Mix 4:25 9. Headstar neoMorpheus Mix 9:25 10. Headstar Cypher's Dub 3:39 11. Master & Servant Who Let me Do This Mix? 1:12 Another project by Senator Scratch, this time with the very talented Matty. All mixes on this CD are all-original, and very creative. 2 of them have been posted to the net, tracks 1 and 11. This CD exists only on CD-R format. Anyone claiming to sell it on real CD simply stole it and has a more expensive CD Writer. Don't pay them money for something you can get pretty much for free. Some notes.... Track 1 is distinguishable because it has an awesome dyslexic chant near the end that use to be the "this ain't nodisco" phrase. This is the type of mix Senator was not able to accomplish with ELIXIR'S Dreaming of Me. Track 2 introduces Matty. He is a very talented mixer; his mixes are more hip-hop club dance and always have great rhythm! Track 3 is okay... Senator played with the chimes from Fools, and it almost turned out awesomely, except that the original notes were not in perfect time, so the chime part at the end sounds a little out of time... Track 4 - A dark mix of sounds, you would never know this came from Nodisco if I didn't tell you! Track 5 - Matty has a secret he doesn't want you to know! Though the voiceclips of "feel a sharp burning pain, really very painful," etc fit in perfectly with the song Painkiller, they're really from a cassette tape on Sexually Transmitted Diseases! Sharp burning pain indeed! Track 6 is another hip-hop masterpiece by Matty, very good! Track 7 is not a megamix. It uses instruments (but not whole riffs) from various songs on the album to create a trance mix reminiscent of ELIXIR's Stripped mix. Every song on the album is used (but not b-sides), though you may have to turn the song backwards to find some of them. There is a couple of riffs of It Doesn't Matter at the end; this was originally going to be a remix of that song. Track 8 - Matty seems to have found some lost Beatles tapes which contain a song that sounds an awful lot like DM's OWILM. How strange. Track 9 - Welcome to the Modetrix. Morpheus has the coolest voice, and that voice lectures wonderfully with elements of Headstar as a backdrop. Also includes some sounds like the helicopter explosion and the Trinity kick. Track 10 - This is an instrumental version for those who want to hear some of what was done with Headstar without the Morpheus voice. Track 11 - Treat me Like a Dog - Woof... Woof... Woof Woof! ======================================================================= MORE OF MODE ======================================================================= 1. Barrel of a gun psycho mix 6:41 2. Clean evil's mix 5:37 3. Halo demo version 3:15 4. Happiest girl orbital vocal mix 7:44 5. Insight within mix 4:40 6. It's no good club 69 funk dub 5:05 7. It's no good club 69 future mix 8:50 8. Peronal jesus instumental dub mix 3:09 9. Song for europe unreleased track 4:36 10. Strangelove disconet mix 3:42 11. The lovethieves silence mix 7:16 12. Useless us promo edit 4:06 13. Surrender 6:12 14. In your room live in l.a. at the cnbs channel 98 3:37 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + On some tracks you can hear MP3 flutter, so we know this isn't a master CD. But there are a few things here definitely worth having. 1: This mix involves various official versions overlapping at times and such; basically a summary of the official mixes. 2: Starts off with the album version, then cuts into the Dealer Mix for the rest of the song. What's the point? Oh, yeah, the one edit they did was a beat off, by the way. 3: Available on most demo CD's; almost exactly like the full version; not very demo-like. 4: I'm not familiar with this mix. It's almost exactly the Pulsating Orbital Mix, but slightly different (and longer) 5: This is the tribute by Children Within, from the Barrel of the Sons tribute. 6 and 7: All 3 of these can be found on Strike 19 (only 2 are on this CD). 8: Excellent dub mix featuring live footage; maybe made from tourbacking tapes? 9: Dave's tribute to Roxy Music, found on many boots. 10: This doesn't sound like DM at all; more like a tribute (possibly using tourbacking tapes?) Excellent instrumental track! (Don't confuse with the Discotech mix) 11: From Ultra Remix: The Ultra Remixes 12: Is this for real? It's basically the single (remix), but there's a female voice singing with them! 13: The official version 14: This is the live performance on the Dave Letterman Show. Excellent track if you don't have it. Final Verdict: A mish-mash of good, bad, and stolen-from-other-boots-stuff. ======================================================================= MORE SUBSTANCE ======================================================================= 1 2:20 Radio Promotion (History) 2 2:26 Radio Promotion (Interview Part I) 3 4:26 Radio Promotion (Interview Part II) 4 3:20 Some Remix (Intro) 5 5:52 Happiest Girl (Pure Sex Mix) 6 4:19 In Your Room (Zeypher Only Remix) 7 4:55 World In My Eyes (Demoversion) 8 3:35 Stripped (Andy Vask'El Mix) 9 3:15 World In My Eyes (X F Mix) 10 14:30 A Broken Mix 11 11:33 Behind The Wheel / Route 66 (Megaremixmedley) 12 2:26 Everything Counts (Dub 2000) + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Don't know much... Track 6 is a tribute, just someone with a keyboard probably. Sounds like a MOD file. It's all right. Track 8 has been on the net, and it's awesome! The words have been replaced with a synthesizor voice, kinda like the BiGod 20 version of Photographic. A definite must-have! Track 9 is probably the X-Files mix, which is a shorter version of the REM DM mix, with the X-Files theme laid over it. It does work, by the way, if you like XF. ======================================================================= MORE THAN A REMIX I ======================================================================= 1 Pleasure Little Treasure (Instrumental Reverse Edit) 2 Waiting for the Night (Sonic Integration) 3 It Doesn't Matter Two (Brief Integration) 4 It's No Good (BT Mix) 5 Barrel of a Gun (Tiny Edit) 6 Master and Servant (Zeroed Fade Mix) 7 Master and Servant (The Modeness Mix) 8 Useless (German Web Mix) 9 Only When I Lose Myself (Josh Abraham Remix) 10 Only When I Lose Myself (Crayfish in Burgandy Remix) 11 Fly on the Windscreen (Metallurgy Mix) 12 I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead (Pimpf Bio Beat Mix) 13 Master and Servant (Exotic Integration Mix) 14 Lie To Me (German Web Mix) 15 It's No Good (Rough Mix) + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Don't know anything about this CD, except for few tracks I've heard off of the web. I believe this is a CD-R collection of MP3's ripped from the internet. Track 3 is okay, mostly the regular song with an extra beat thrown on it. Not too exciting. Track 7 is excellent! This guy did really well with M&S! Track 9 is awesome, too. The legendary Josh Abraham Remixexs are starting to appear on many boots now. Track 11 is the Unheard Of Mix. See ELIXIR for details. ======================================================================= MORE THAN A REMIX II ======================================================================= 1 Useless (CJ Bolland US Jukebox 7" Edit) 2 Walking In My Shoes (French DJ Edit) 3 The Love Thieves (French DJ Edit) 4 Useless (French DJ Edit) 5 Dangerous (Daredevil Mix) 6 Flexible (Alan's Playground) 7 I Want You Now (Live '94 Soundboard) 8 Shake the Disease (Demo Version) 9 Strangelove (Rough Version) 10 One Caress (Soundcheck Version) 11 I Want You Now (Pre Mix Demo) 12 Crying in the Chapel (Hotel Excerpt) 13 Strangelove (French Promo sung by Martin) 14 It Doesn't Matter (Live to Music of Somebody) 15 Stripped (Senator Trance Mix) 16 Only When I Lose Myself (EPK Acapella) 17 Drunk Phone Call by Dave Gagan + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Don't know much about this CD, except for the few tracks I've heard off of the web. I believe this is a CD-R collection of MP3's ripped from the internet. Track 7 is a good live version; lots of bass in it. Track 15 is interesting.... if it's what I think it is, it's Stripped - Down to the Trance, a remix done by... ME. See Elixir for details. ======================================================================= MORE THAN A REMIX III ======================================================================= 1 I Want You Now (Dyslexic Integration) 2 It's No Good (French DJ Edit) 3 Barrel of a Gun (French DJ Edit) 4 A Question of Lust (Flood Mix) 5 Stripped (Tricky perVersion) 5:15 6 Useless (Meddlewerx Mix) 7 Freestate (Mesmerizing Mix) 8 A Song for Europe 9 Agent Orange (Rough Mix) 10 In the Ghetto (Hotel Excerpt) 11 Something to Do (Soundcheck) 12 Home (Live Ultra Launch Party) 13 Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth (Live) 14 Clean (Live SOFAD Tour) 15 Waiting for the Night (Live SOFAD Tour) 16 Happy Birthday Alan Wilder 17 Strange Note from Dave Gahan + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Don't know a lot of mixes on this CD, either. I believe this is a CD-R collection of MP3's ripped from the internet. Track 1 is an okay mix. A few things added, but not a wide deviation from the original song. Track 4 is an official mix that was only released on vinyl, available on a few other boots I think.... Track 5 is not bad... a pretty "normal" mix incorporating the official mixes (and briefly the live 101 mix) with more complex beats than the original had. Track 8 is available many other places; great song! Tracks 9 and 11 are from a couple of Demos CD's. The soundcheck one is interesting but recorded very badly. Agent Orange is okay, but is very close to the final song, and is in poor quality (as are most demos and pre-mixes). If he picked 2 demos to put on this CD, I'm surprised he picked these two. Track 17 may be the "drunk" call to KROQ, but I don't know. ======================================================================= MORE THAN A REMIX IV ======================================================================= 1 Pre Speak & Spell Era Concert Intro 2 I Like It (Live 81) 3 A Question of Lust (Live SOFAD Tour) 4 It's No Good (Live Tonight Show) 5 Big Muff (BBC Radio Show) 6 Lie To Me (Demo) 7 Happiest Girl (Pulsating Vocal Orbital) 8 The Bottom Line (Y2K Edit) 9 I Want You Now (DD Disco Mix) 10 Behind the Wheel (DJ Slim Mix) 11 Useless (Tee Jay Mix) 12 Rush (Black Sun Remix) 13 Strange Love Triangle (DM/New Order Megamix) 14 Personal Jesus (Ineffaceable Mix) 15 Barrel of a Gun Single (Mega Mix I) 16 Barrel of a Gun Single (Mega Mix II) + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Don't know hardly anything about this CD, either. I believe this is a CD-R collection of MP3's ripped from the internet. Track 1 is pre Speak & Spell. Track 6 is an excellent demo. It's from the Demos and Pre-Mixes CD's. Track 8 is a pretty bare mix. A few notes added in the background, but that's about it. ======================================================================= MUSIC FOR THE MASSES - LIMITED EDITION REMIX ======================================================================= 1 Never Let Me Down Again FM Power Mix Is the Groovy Mix, with the radio tuning noise cut from the beginning. 2 Strangelove Razormaid Classic Mix (Razormaid Mix) 3 Little 15 Bogus Brothers (is "Violation 15" Bogus Brothers Mix) 4 Behind The Wheel Disconet Mix 5 Nothing Dallas Mix (is the Mix Of Art / Art of Mix) 6 To Have And To Hold Icelandic Taster Mix (source unknown) 7 Strangelove Miller Remix (ss the Pain Mix) 8 Route 66 Rodgers Mix (is Route 66/Behind The Wheel" Mega-Single Mix) 9 Behind The Wheel Dub 10 Pleasure, Little Treasure Razormaid 11 Behind The Wheel - Roze 66 - Megamix Is "Behind The Wheel/Route 66" Megamix, available on the US 12" and the US Promo CD. 12 Death's Door Sleleton Key Mix Final Verdict: The masses may want to skip this one. ======================================================================= MUTE RECORDS SOUNDARCHIVE ======================================================================= 1 erasure - cry so easy (unrelease single edit) 2 dm - a question of lust (unreleased promo remix) 3 dm - useless (cosmic blues studio workout) 4 dm - behind the wheel (shep petibone mix - 11:36) 5 dm - but not tonight (unreleased promo mix) 6 erasure - sensless (testremixversion) 7 dm - two minute warning (remixedit) ======================================================================= MYSTERIOUS MIXES (a new/fake Strike) ======================================================================= 1. Higher Love (Club Mix) (Higher Mix) 2. In Your Room (Dark Mix) (Dark Vibes Mix) 3. Enjoy the Silence (Psycho Dub) (Harmonium Ecstatic Integration) 4. World in my Eyes (Club Mix) (Old School Club Mix) 5. Never let me down again (instrumental remix) (REM DM Mix) 6. The Thing you said (club mix) (Ecstatic Integration ?) 7. It doesn't matter Two (Spherical Mix) 8. Pipeline (Mysterious Ways Mix) (Arab Mix) 9. Shake the Disease (Big Mix '99) 10. Fly on the windscreen (Brutal angel remix) (Brutal Mix) + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Most of these were just taken from other boots; a few are from the internet (MP3 files). Track 1 is the Higher Mix from Strike 8. Track 2 is the Dark Vibes Mix from Strike 9. Track 3 is an MP3 from the internet actually called Enjoy the Silence - Harmonium - Ecstatic Integration. It's a pretty interesting little mix. It's the Harmonium version with some varying beats laid on top of it. Track 4 is the Old School Club Mix from 12" Remixes by Jonathan McBride. Track 5 is a neat little track from the net, actually called the REM DM Mix. It is sped up, and has various NLMDA rhythms on it, including parts from the Aggro mix. The sound is really crappy, though, because of the MP3 encoding, which is quite obvious in this mix. If whoever made it puts it on a real CD, it should be pretty good. Track 6, I believe, is one of the Integration mixes from the net, but I can't be sure. It's okay, mostly the regular song, with parts repeated for length, with an extra beat laid on top. Track 7 is from Songs of Martin L Gore Vol. II Track 8 is the Arab Mix from Strike 9. Track 9 is from Now This is Fun, 12 Inches by Jonathan McBride, and Ultra Maximum. Track 10 is the Brutal Mix from DPM #1. Final Verdict: Good only for tracks 3, 5, and maybe 6. =============================================================================== NETBEAT =============================================================================== 1. any second now (s. battle mix) 2. a question of lust (frail integration) 3. enjoy the silence (orchestral excertpt) 4. waiting for the night (sonic integration) 5. i want you now (dyslexic integration) 6. it doesn t matter two (brief intergration) 7. freestate (mesemrizing) 8. i feel you (rem dm remix) 9. master & servant (exotic integrtaion) 10. never let me down again (rem dm mix) 11. only when i lose myself (no good sad mix) 12. rush (coil mix) 13. the bottom line (y2k edit) 14. enjoy the silence (harmonium ecstatic integration) 15. world in my eyes (rem dm mix) 16. yesterday (martin l. gore live) + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Track 3 is probably the middle of the Quad mix, judging by the title. Track 4 is on Another Sort of Bootleg and a few others. Track 7 is from Only When I Play my Mixes Track 16 is from the Martin Gore Hotel Piano CD. Most of these are from the internet, and many of them are pretty good. Three of the most creative ones on here are the REM DM remixes. They're as different from the original songs as, say, the Afghan Surgery Mix. The integration mixes are nice but basic; usually the regular song with a few light instruments laid over them (I'm not saying it's a bad thing). The Y2K edit is similar. Rush Coil Mix is great, as well. Oh, and the NoGOOD Sad Mix of OWILM is a slow, quiet, disturbing piece; very creative indeed! Track 8, for example, kinda has that Afghan Surger Mix quality to it, though not quite that hard hitting. Some of the musical notes laid over it are really good, especially the one that sounds like a female voice going "doooooo." No, this has nothing to do with REM as far as I can tell; perhaps it's the mixer's alias or something. Since most of these tracks were never "officially" released on any CD, this is probably the best place to get most of them! Final Verdict: Runs neck to neck against the Erotic Integration CD. =============================================================================== NETBEAT 2ND EDITION =============================================================================== 1 Fly on the windscreen single edit 2 Enjoy the silence bassline single extended edit 3 Just can't get enough remix edit 2000 4 Dreaming of me millennium 5 A Question of time instrumental 6 Somebody anybody mix 7 Sweetest Perfection phasing mix 8 Enjoy the silence fast mix 9 Barrel of a gun dub mix 10 Sea of sin blue enya razormaid 2000 11 Never turn your back on mother earth live 1994 12 Martin Gore - in the ghetto + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Tracks 6 and 7 are from Songs of Martin Gore Vol 2 Track 8 is an excellent mix from the internet! I can't say about the rest of them. ======================================================================= NEW DIGITAL RAZORMAID - CUSTOMIZE SERIES II ======================================================================= 1. Breathing In Fumes 2. Enjoy The Silence 3. Strangelove 4. Happiest Girl 5. People Are People 6. World In My Eyes 7. Sea Of Sin 8. Behind The Wheel 9. Pleasure Little Treasure 10. It's Called A Heart 11. A Question Of Time ======================================================================= THE NIAGARA RADIOSTATION MIX (g) ======================================================================= 1 6:30 c1g Celebration Mix (part 1) 2 7:11 c1g Celebration Mix (part 2) 3 1:48 g Question Of Time (Instrumental Dance Version) 4 4:49 g Behind The Wheel/Route 66 (Rubble Dubble mix) 5 3:43 g Set Me Free (US-Radio mix) 6 8:35 a2b6c2gl Nothing (Dallas Raw mix) 7 6:36 a2b1d1gkl Behind The Wheel (Boston mix) 8 8:21 c2gln The Official Megamix 9 7:33 a1b2d2g World In My Eyes (Dreamtime mix) 10 6:47 b2d2gh It's Called A Heart (Razormaid) 11 6:27 a2b2d2g Sea Of Sin (Razormaid) -------- Tracks 1 and 2 combine to make most of the full Celebration mix. Track 4 is the regular Megamix, sped up to about 135 BPM. Tracks 4 and 5 are mixed together; the track number changes from 4 to 5 about 50 seconds too early. Track 6 is Nothing (Art of Mix). Track 7 is the Razormaid mix. Track 9 is the Razormaid mix. + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Great quality mixes of even more mixes nobody's heard of! QUALITY = 8 1: Celebration Mix 6:40 Strange - about 1/3 of the original mix 2: Question of Time - Timeless mix - 7:05 Strange - About the Second third of the Celebration mix. When you add the times up, though, it doesn't equal the length of the original. 3: Question of Time (Instrumental Dance Version) 1:48 Just how it sounds. 4: Route 66 (Rubble Dubble Mix) 3:59 Different version of R66 - it's cool! 5: Set Me Free (US-Radio Mix) 4:34 Starts with Behind the Wheel, mixes into Set Me Free - sweet. 7: Behind the Wheel (Boston Mix) 6:36 sounds like razormaid! 8: The Official Megamix. 8:21 Pretty cool. 10: It's Called A Heart (Self Made Mix and Remix) 13:15 Actually two separate tracks/songs: 6:47 Self Made Mix : AKA It's Called A Heart (Razormaid) 6:27 Remix : Actually Sea of Sin (Razormaid) Weird!!! -------- This bootleg doesn't really contain anything that can't be got anywhere else--most of the tracks are mislabelled, they seem to be mostly just Razormaid mixes and the usual megamixes. My theory is that it's just a recording of a radio broadcast (the sound overall is good though). Celebration Mix A really good mix, notable because it contains some good album tracks, not just the hits. Sound is good but not perfect--it's slightly fuzzy at the high end and there are a few vinyl pops at the beginning. On this CD this is tracked as two parts. Question of Time (Instrumental Dance Version) This is just the first 1:48 of the New Town mix. Behind The Wheel/Route 66 (Rubble Dubble Mix) The standard Behind The Wheel/Route 66 megamix, sped up to about 135 BPM. It's blended into the next track, and the tracking is screwed up. Set Me Free (US-Radio Mix) Sounds very normal. The last 13 seconds is taken up with applause. Nothing (Dallas Raw Mix) Opens with about 2 seconds of the Dallas theme, then into Nothing, seeming punchier than usual. A few sound effects, sirens etc. The song is cut and pasted to make it a lot longer. There's about one more second of the Dallas theme in the middle. Behind the Wheel (Boston Mix) is theRazormaid Mix. See my comments for this on DJ's Revenge. The Official Megamix Good, but the sound is not great. There's a bit of hiss on the high end (especially the S's). World In My Eyes (Dreamtime Mix) It's Called A Heart (Razormaid) Sea of Sin (Razormaid) These are all Razormaid mixes. See my comments for them on The Second Strike. Final Verdict: OKAAAAAY. ======================================================================= NINE KILLERS ON HIGHWAY 28 Or THE TWENTY-EIGHTH STRIKE ======================================================================= 1 OWILM 11.05 itashi s way 99 mix 2. Painkiller 6.32 speedy budocan rmx 3. Surrender 7.39 tokyo burner rmx, tand 4. Headstar 5.10 highway 28 mix 5. Barrel of a Gun 7.35 itashi s rmx 99 6. It s no Good 8.37 gunman rmx, seattle 99 7. Home 8.10 jay s party edit 8. Useless 7.11 freestyle mix 9. Stripped 10.02 burning fairchild rmx + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + AWESOME!!!!!!! The first 4 tracks are set up like a megamix and are very dancable! BOAG and HOME are the low points. ING is okay, but it really kicks back into swing with Useless and Stripped, two very creative mixes! Final Verdict: Killers Indeed! Get At All Costs! ======================================================================= NonStop ======================================================================= 1 (SHUFFLE) IT'S NO GOOD 6:23 2 (CLUB MIX) BUT NOT TONIGHT 3:13 3 (LOST VERSION) ONLY WHEN I LOSE MYSELF 4:16 4 (REPERFORMANCE) FOOLS 4:33 5 (PARANOID-MIX) JUST CAN'T GET ENOUGH 5:18 6 (REPERFORANCE) WAITING FOR THE NIGHT 5:15 7 (PRETEND MIX) LITTLE 15 6:10 8 (DARKER) HALO 7:11 9 (IN A CASE LIKE THIS) SOMEBODY 4:15 10 (REPERFORMANCE) INSIGHT 4:28 11 ("AT DUSK" VERSION) WAITING FOR THE NIGHT 6:27 12 (RARE RADIO EDIT) THE BOTTOM LINE 2:46 13 (REPERFORMANCE) POLICY OF TRUTH 3:52 ======================================================================= NOW THIS IS FUN Or THE TWENTY-FOURTH STRIKE ======================================================================= 12 Inch Remixes by DJ Mel 1 Barrel of a Gun Slo-Mo RMX '98 9:20 2 The Bottom Line Mellow Mix '98 6:15 3 Sister of Night Big Mix '98 9:37 4 It's no good Promo 12"-RMX 8:49 5 Insight Ambi-Mix 7:53 12 Inch Remixes by Jonathan McBride 6 Just can't get enough Long version '98 10:35 7 Any Second now JMB-Mix 7:35 8 See you Pump up Mix '98 7:26 9 Now this is Fun JMB & Speedy Jay Mix 6:58 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Tracks 1-5: 12-Inch Remixes by DJ Mel => all taken from Ultra Maximum 1 Tracks 6-9: 12-Inch Remixes by Jonathan McBride (exclusive Mixes!!) -------- 1 is basically the mix from Ultra Remix - The Ultra Remixes, but cut & pasted a little bit 2-5 are all cut & paste mixes, using the regular versions of the song 6-9 are new, creative mixes of older songs. Extra instrumentation, etc. Pretty good. Final Verdict: If you have Ultra Maximum 1, forget it. Otherwise, you can get this one. ======================================================================= OMEGA MODE 1 ======================================================================= 1 Black Celebration - Haunebu Mix 10:49 2 It`s Called A Heart - Colorado Mix V2 7:21 3 Fly On The Windscreen - Odyseey 5:19 4 Stripped - Metropolis Experiment I 7:48 5 Shake The Disease - Understand Dub 5:28 6 Dressed In Black - Black Shadows 4:35 7 Breathing In Fumes - Metropolis Experiment II 4:33 8 A Question Of Lust - Apology Mix 5:41 9 Sometimes - Extended Embarassing 4:20 10 But Not Tonight - Mix At Nightfall 6:30 11 Flexible - Re-Flex Mix 4:41 12 Black Day - Celebration Mix 1:30 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + These are all original mixes by the same guy, indentifiable because they all have the clip "from beyond" near the beginning of the song. Excellent mixes, sort of ELIXIR-style in it's sound-extraction techniques and rearrangement! Final Verdict: Oh, Yeah! ======================================================================= ONE ======================================================================= 1 Rush long version 14:06 2 Personal Jesus restomped telephone 9:15 3 Only When I Lose Myself Josh Abrahams Remix 4:24 4 Never Let Me Down Again Technoversion`99 4:41 5 Little Reconstruction 8:33 6 It`s No Good B.T. remix 7:52 7 I Want You Now dyslexic integration 3:43 8 Behind The Wheel raw ride 5:19 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Track 4 is the REM DM Mix. -------- Good news: There is some stuff exclusive to this boot! Bad News: It's not that good. Track 1 is a cut & past conglomeration of various official mixes and the bootleg KROQ Mix (from Hommage). Track 2 is another cut & paste mix of official versions, but sounds more like the regular Telephone Stomp mix followed by the accoustic, which then fades away. Track 3 is on every new boot to come out. Track 4 and 7 are from the internet... great tracks, but they can be found on other CD's, like NetBeat. Track 5 is a megamix mostly from the Construction Time Again era. Songs are Everything Counts (reprise), Told You So, Two Minute Warning, Love in Itself, And Then. Track 6. One of 4 BT mixes, all of which can be found on Remixes from the Heart. Track 8 is the single. Twice. At once. Itit Doublesbles Upup Soso Everythinging Isis Echoedoed Twiceice Forfor Thethe Entireire Songong. Whywhy? Scarry thing is, it doesn't sound quite as badbad as you might thinkthink. Final Verdict: No big deal. ======================================================================= ONLY WHEN I LOSE MYSELF MAXIMUM ======================================================================= 1 Only When I Lose Myself 9:11 2 Surrender 9:32 3 Headstar 5:13 4 Only When I Lose Myself Live in Copenhagen 11/09/98 5:25 5 I Feel You Live in Copenhagen 11/09/98 6:57 6 It`s No Good Live in Copenhagen 11/09/98 4:39 ======================================================================= ONLY WHEN I PLAY MY MIXES (a new/fake Strike) ======================================================================= 1 Only When I Lose Myself (Josh Abrahams Remix) 4:26 2 It's No Good (Brian Transeau Remix) 7:53 3 Song For Europe (Tribute to Roxy Music) 4:32 4 Only When I Lose Myself (Triply Dark Remix) 5:42 5 Surrender (Everythig Remix Edit) 5:22 6 Freestate (Mesmeraizing Remix) 6:04 7 It's No Good (Club 69 Funk Dub Mix) 5:07 8 Useless (Time and Again Remix) 7:22 9 Barrel Of a Gun (3 Phase mix) 5:26 10 Stripped (Dawn [or Down] to Mix) 8:24 11 Little 15 (Caruso Mix / Opera Mix) 5:12 12 I Want You Now (Live '94 Soundboard Remix) 4:44 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + 1 This is an awesome mix! I've heard an MP3 of it, and it rocks! I've also seen the Josh Abraham Mixes (aparently more than one) selling on eBay for over 130 dollars! Popular, indeed. In fact, just about every new bootleg I see has this song now. 2 This is the B.T. Future House Mix from Remixes From the Heart (BT is apparently Brian Transeau). 3 Great song if you don't have it, but the beginning is slightly cut off; the song fades in. It isn't like this if you get it from another bootleg, like Another Sort of Bootleg, 4 Seems to be an exclusive mix. Mostly has a backward sampling of the beginning lyrics (as does another mix, not the same as this), and dark weird music. Really cool mix! 5 Good, disco-style mix; lost of echoing of "everything is so unreal" 6 A pretty good mix; not much is done with it except some extra instrumentation added; does add feel to the song though. 7 One of the Club 69 Remixes; excellent, as all of them are! 8 Great mix; includes interview auto of Martin; also on Another Sort of Bootleg (just called Remix) 9 From the vinyl maxi-single to Barrel of a Gun. This is the first time I've seen it on CD. It is simply recorded from vinyl, however, and you can hear the pops and stuff. 10 Whaddya know? It's my mix! Stripped - Down to the Trance, taken from MP3 and put on a CD.. See Elixir for the real version. 11 From Strike 12 « 12 Wonderful! This is the soundboard recording of the live version (without the crowd). Definitely a must-have! -------- I doubt this is really the 30th Strike. The Strikes are usually higher quality than this. These were usually ripped from MP3 files from the net, and even though I have an original CD (not a CD-R), there are loud snaps between songs as though it was recorded from a primitive CD Writer. On the other hand, the songs on there are really good! So if you can't find them anywhere else, you might as well pick this up. Final Verdict: Has some gems, if you don't already have them. ======================================================================= PERSONAL DEVOTION ======================================================================= 1. RUSH (Emergency Mix) 7:50 2. HALO (Shiny Example Mix) 7:52 3. WALKING IN MY SHOES (Stomping Along Nicely Mix) 9:42 4. STRIPPED (Lowland Mix) 8:55 5. HOME (Spring Clean Mix) 9:04 6. IF YOU WANT (Extended Mix) 6:37 7. PERSONAL JESUS (Touch Faith Sinners Mix) 7:16 8. I FEEL YOU (Retouched Multimix) 10:05 9. MASTER AND SERVANT (New Servant Mix) 6:39 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + This particular release is a little "special". Only 50 ORIGINAL copies in circulation , and I happen to be the proud owner of NUMBER 2! OK,OK....so you are saying "What's the big deal?" Well..this CD was COMPLETELY remixed by a very good friend of mine , who goes by the name of SNARE. SNARE owns a recording studio,and in his spare time,"plays" with the little musical numbers performed by DEPECHE MODE. "SO WHAT" you may say....."lots of people do that!!" BUT....not to this standard. This CD is the BEST remix CD I have come across. Where have you seen a remix of HOME that is better than ALL the official releases?? It's worth the asking price for that track alone!! Let alone the other 8. -------- On the one hand, this CD features all original mixes. On the other hand, those mixes are usually just a conglomeration of official mixes. But I do have to say they're a lot better than your standard cut & paste Razormaid mixes. This guy does a lot more rearranging of stuff. I'll put it this way: If you prefer mixes that are nothing like the original (ie Are People People?), you'll find this CD boring. If you like your mixes to be like the regular songs (ie ETS - Hands & Feet Mix), then you should like this one. 1 Rush - mostly a mixture of some of the official versions with this looping sound throughout. 2 Halo - mostly cut & paste of the album version. 3 WIMS - mostly cut & paste of the official remixes 4 Stripped - combines the single, extended, and 101 live version well. Even the skeleton-voice from Breathing in Fumes makes an appearance or two. This one I like. 5 Home - This one is meant to sound like a school symphony is actually playing the song! Whether or not that's the case, who knows? Very creative (yet completely true to the song). The regular song is mixed in here too, vocals and all. 6 If You Want - one of the best mixes on this CD. At first, you'll think "oh this is just the album version" but then it gets spiced up here and there, and turns out to be a really good extended version. 7 PJ - Mostly cut & paste of official versions. 8 IFY - Mostly cut & paste of official versions. Uses the Storm mix to take a little break in the middle. 9 M&S - Mostly cut & paste type stuff, but I like what he did with the "It's a lot" section. Final Verdict: It's okay. ======================================================================= PERSONAL MODE ======================================================================= 1. no disco (12 inch) 2. sea of sin (extended razormaid) 3. freestate (ultra) 4. a question of lust (short edit) 5. the bottom line (extended version) 6. it s called a heart (extended razormaid) 7. pleasure little treasure (long version) 8. the sweetest perfection (violator 12 inch) ======================================================================= Personal Jesus - DJ Reach Out Mixes ======================================================================= 1 Personal Jesus Reach Out 2 Personal Jesus Funky Breaks 3 Personal Jesus Reach Out Dub + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + These are good! A bit repetetive on the "reach out and touch faith" (it's in fact looped through the entire song!), but it really works! As you might have guessed, the third track is pretty much a shorter version of track 1. Too bad there's only 3 tracks on the CD.... Final Verdict: Good! ======================================================================= PHILIP'S MODERN GIRL ======================================================================= 1 5:23 Just Can't Get Enough (future mix) 2 6:29 Personal Jesus (germix) 3 4:52 Somebody (germix) 4 6:27 Strangelove (discotech mix) 5 2:43 Shout (love to dub mix) 6 5:49 World in my Eyes (bass mix) 7 7:00 Stripped (akash's sex shop extension) 8 9:26 1987 Medley 9 15:28 Enjoy the Silence - The Final: Quad Mix (same as Quad: the final mix) 10 4:51 Faith Healer - single radio promo 11 3:48 Faith Healer - healed mix + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + 1 is from the 7th Strike. 2 is from DPM1 3 is from DPM2 4 is from the Sixth Strike 5 is a great little instrumental mix based off of Shout. Also on Royal Mixes 2 6 is the Bogus Brothers' Dub from the Fifth Strike 7 seems to be exclusive to this boot. Just official mixes pasted over each other, sometimes 2 run at the same time to produce an echo effect. Speed sounds quirky at times. 8 might be the Music for the Masses Megamix from the Sixth Strike (I can't remember). 9 is the official version 10 is probably the single. 11 is from Heart Gore Modern Times. Final Verdict: This one is worth skipping. ======================================================================= PIMP MIX ======================================================================= 1 19.02 Pimp Mix (Megamix) 2 8:09 Master & Servant (Hammerhead Mix) 3 7:34 Never Let Me Down Again (Groovy Mix) ======================================================================= POLISHED GOLD - FORBIDDEN FRUITS II ======================================================================= 1 Policy of Truth FM Radio Mix 2 Behind the Wheel FM Radio Mix 3 Strangelove Blind Remix Edit 4 Personal Jesus (Who is Jesus) Remix 5 Master & Servant Single Remix 6 Route 66/Behind the Wheel Megamix No. 2 7 Boys Say Go BBC Radio Session 21.6.81 8 A Question of Time Phil Harding Extended Remix 9 Never let me Down Again Single Remix 10 Walking in my Shoes Chris' Original Mega-Sound Remix 11 Enjoy the Silence Video Mix 12 I Feel You Cutoff Metal Mix 13 Route 66 ML Gore Accoustic Version 14 Route 66 Dave Allen Remix Edit 15 But not Tonight US 7" Mix 16 Shake the Disease Fade Mix 17 Faith Healer Radio Edit 18 Behind the Wheel US DJ Mix 19 A Question of Lust One Canal Mix 20 Pimpf Strict Edit Midi Mix ---- Track 3 is a shorter version of the Blind Remix Track 6 is a cutoff version of one of the regular megamixes Track 7 is the Rough Mix Track 8 is the Extended Remix (bong 12) Track 9 is the Tsangarides Mix Track 13 is the little excerpt from the Live 101 video where Martin is playing the guitar Track 20 is the last 30 seconds of Pimpf, faded in to sound like track 1 of LIVE 101 (without the crowd) + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + These are mostly single versions or regular mixes with a piece cut off (tracks 1,2,3,5,10,12,14,15,16,17,18,19), or are official mixes with different names. Final Verdict: I should've been forbidden to buy this thing. ======================================================================= PROMOTIONAL ======================================================================= DISC 1 1 Never Let Me Down Again (Japanese Video Edit) Split Mix, faded early 2 Personal Jesus (Who Is) Germix remix service 3 Route 66 (Acoustic version) a small excerpt from the home video of "101", and it ISN'T Route 66! 4 Master & Servant (Single Edit) taken from the US promo 7". 5 Shake The Disease (Fade Mix) LP mix, faded early 6 It's Called A Heart (Emotion Dub) Taken from the US 12" 7 But Not Tonight (US Single Version) Taken from the US 7" 8 Dressed In Black (Pre-release) Taken from the Record Mirror EP. 9 Dangerous (Hazchemix Edit) Taken from the UK Ltd. 7" 10 Faith Healer (Healed Mix) Taken from the UK promo 7" 11 Boys Say Go (Session Version for BBC Radio 1 on June 21, 1981) Taken from the UK 2-CD set "1 & Only-25 Years of Radio One. 12 Enjoy The Silence (Second Ecstatic Dub) Ecstatic Dub, slightly edited. 13 Master & Servant (Demo) Source unknown, but DEFINATELY not a demo. Sounds like someone who just got a sampler is figuring out what it does, and poorly! 14 Shake The Disease (Demo) source unknown, but DEFINATELY not a demo 15 unlisted track - "Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth (1987 Xmas Flexi disc, given out by the UK fan club "Bong") DISC 2 1 Behind The Wheel (US DJ Mix) Taken from the US promo 12" 2 Behind The Wheel (Radio Edit) Taken from the UK 7" test pressing-same details as ULTRA RARE TRACKS #1. 3 Enjoy The Silence (Video Edit) The soundtrack from the promo video, available on the home videoof Strangetoo. 4 Policy Of Truth (UK Radio Edit) Taken from the UK promo CD-Single 5 Strangelove (Blind Edit) Taken from the US 3" CD & promo CD. 6 A Question Of Lust (One Canal Mix) Remix Edit, from the US promo 7"/12". 7 Everything Counts (Live Edit) Taken from the US Promo CD 8 I Feel You (Intro Edit) Taken from the US Promo CD 9 Walking In My Shoes (Album Edit/Single Edit) Both tracks taken from the US promo CD. This bootleg plays both songs as track #9. There is no increment in track #'s. 10 Route 66/Behind The Wheel (Mega Single Mix II) Mega Single Mix 11 Faith Healer (Radio Edit) Taken from the UK promo 7" 12 Enjoy The Silence (Ricki Tik Tik Mix Promo) Ricki Tik Tik Mix, slightly re-edited. 13 I Want You Now (Japanese 3" version) Taken from the Japanese 3" CD. Basically, it just fades out "I Want You Now" before "To Have & To Hold" starts. + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + This is a waste. 2-disc set. The disc's track listings are reversed on the sleeve. In other words, disc 1 plays disc 2, and disc 2 plays disc 1's tracks. ======================================================================= PROZAC NATION 2 ======================================================================= 1 8:07 Only When I Lose Myself (Brat Master Medley Mix) 2 9:46 Behind The Wheel (Future 27 Specials Remix) 3 7:03 It's No Good (M.L.Gee's Drum'n'Bass Mix) 4 6:27 Strangelove (Future Funk Club Mix) 5 7:33 Halo (Strike Phase 10 Mix) 6 4:53 Somebody (Germix) 7 7:38 Barrel Of A Gun (Itashi's Manga Mix) 8 7:12 Useless (Cosmic Blues Digi-Mix) 9 5:10 Little 15 (Slow Dub Club Mix) 10 5:00 World In My Eyes (Distorted Club Remix) 11 3:57 Nothing (US 7" Remix Edit) + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Some titles I recognize, some sound very familiar, so I'm guessing that all tracks are taken from other CD's. Track 1 - could it be the Funk Da Brat Mix from Headstar 27? Same time. Track 2 is the 27 Specials Mix from Headstar 27. Track 5 might be from Strike 10 Track 6 is from DPM2, Phillips Modern Girl, etc. Nice mix, until near the end where the mixer couldn't keep the overlaid beat with the song. Track 7 is probably Itashi's Way from 9 Killers. ======================================================================= RARE AND UNRELEASED MIXES VOL 1.01 ======================================================================= Disc1: 1. Enjoy The Silence (The Quad) (Official) 2. It's No Good (Ultraviolet Mix) (New boot?) 3. Strangelove (Fresh Ground Mix) (Old boot) 4. Rush (Coil Black Sun Mix) (New boot) 5. Behind The Wheel/Route 66 (Megamix) (Vinyl-Only) 6. Master & Servant (On-U Sound Mix) (Vinyl-Only) 7. World In My Eyes (Trip Mode Mix) (Old boot) 8. A Question Of Lust (Flood Mix) (Vinyl-Only) 9. Personal Jesus (Kazan Cathedral Mix) (Old boot) 10. Barrel Of A Gun (3 Phase Mix) (Vinyl-Only) 11. Boys Say Go (Peel Session) (Probably the Rough Mix) Disc 2: 1. Enjoy The Silence (Video Mix) (Old boot) 2. But Not Tonight (Margouleff's Extended Remix) (old boot) 3. Route 66 (Nile Rodgers Mix) (Old boot) 4. Nothing (Dub Mix) (Vinyl-Only) 5. It's No Good (Club 69 Future Mix) (New boot) 6. People Are People (On-U Sound Mix) (Vinyl-Only) 7. Behind The Wheel (12" Dub Mix) (Vinyl-Only) 8. Master & Servant (U.S. Black 'n Blue Mix) (Vinyl-Only) 9. It's Called A Heart (Emotion Mix) (Vinyl-Only) 10. Rush (Wild Planet Mix) (Vinyl-Only) 11. Only When I Lose Myself (Josh Abraham Mix) (new boot) + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Boring! OK, so they stole some official mixes, a few vinyl-only official mixes, and took a few of the newer mixes from the internet. ======================================================================= RECONSTRUCTION TIME AGAIN (not the tribute album) ======================================================================= 1 Love in itself '97 Remix 2 Fools Mighty Boob Mix 3 Pipeline Mysterious Ways Mix 4 Everything counts Absolut Mix 5 Two minute warning Synth Mix 6 Shame Dawn Vocal Mix 7 Work hard X-San Remix 8 Told you so Rhythm Beat Mix / Noog that Beat Mix 9 And then... Demo 10 Get the balance right Balance Mix + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Well, already I recognize most of these from other boots. Tracks 1 and 6 are from World of Sound and Harmonie Tracks 2 and 7 are from Japanese Radio Specials Track 3 is the Arab Mix from Strike 9 Track 4 is an official mix. Track 5 and 8 are from Strike 10 Track 9 is an actual demo, pretty interesting. Track 10 might be the Itashi Balance Mix from Japanese Radio Specials ======================================================================= REMIX SPECIAL 1 ======================================================================= 1 Only When I Lose Myself Josh Abrahams Mix 2 It s No Good Club 69 Future Dub 3 Enjoy the Silence Blue Mix 4 Judas Bombastic Mix 5 Personal Jesus Kazan Cathedral Mix 6 World in my Eyes Mayham Mode Mix 7 Route 66 Nile Rodgers Remix 8 Strangelove Blind Remix Edit 9 It s Called a Heart Razormaid Long Mix 10 I Sometimes Wish I was Dead ON-USound Remix 11 Little 15 Bogus Brothers Mix 12 Somebody Spiral Tribe Mix + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Track 1 is from the Nineteenth Strike Track 3 is from the Tenth Strike Track 4 is from the Eighth Strike Track 5, 11 are from DJ's Revenge Track 6, 7,10 are from the Third Strike ======================================================================= REMIXES (TRANCE AND TRANCE) ======================================================================= 1 Rush Red & Blue Acid 2 Walking in my Shoes Orbit Trance Remix 3 New Dress Razor Techno 4 Stripped Razor Maid Mix 5 Walking in my Shoes Grungy Gonads Mix 6 Higher Love Roger 2 Speed Mix 7 My Joy Slow Slide 8 Enjoy the Silence Razormaid Mix 9 Policy of Truth Art of Noise Rx 10 Personal Jesus Crazy Anymore Mix / Kazan Cathedral Mix 11 Just Can't Get Enough Rubber Band 12 I Feel You Turkish Rx + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Tracks 1, 6, and 12 are from SOFAD Strange Tracks 2, 5, and 7 are official versions (track 2 is the Random Carpet Mix) Track 9 is probably the Art of Mix. There are no DM songs remixed by the Art of Noise. Track 10 is from Ultra Rare Tracks 4 Track 11 is from the 5th Strike ======================================================================= REMIXES BY THE BLACK DAY FAN CLUB ======================================================================= There is a web page out there called The Black Day Fan Club. I emailed the guy there and asked him about this CD. This was his reply: --------- Hi! Greetings from Poland! I know what you're talking about, but this is some kind of compilation of remixes, which I recorded for one gay [he probably meant "guy"]. They were taken from other concert bootlegs. He called it " Remixes by the Black Day Fan Club" and I even don't know what there was. Greetings - Szymon - Black Day Club - Poland http://www.infos.com.pl/blackday ======================================================================= REMIXES FROM THE HEART ======================================================================= 1 Only When I Lose Myself Josh Abraham Mix 4:26 2 It`s No Good Club 69 Funk Vocal Mix 8:52 3 It`s No Good BT Future House Mix 7:54 4 It`s No Good BT Trance Vocal Mix 9:41 5 It`s No Good BT Trance Dub Mix 8:54 6 Behind The Wheel/Route 66 Mega-Single Mix 4:14 7 Behind The Wheel/Route 66 Mega-Dub 6:14 8 Strangelove Mix Edit 3:51 9 Nothing US 7" Mix 3:59 10 Nothing Dub 6:40 11 Just Can`t Get Enough Musicfactory Mix 5:36 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Track 1 is starting to be on every bootleg now. Excellent mix! Tracks 2-5 are some of the best ING mixes you will ever hear! Nothing like any of the official versions, but they kick your ass like IFY's Afgahn Surger Mix! Some of these appear on various other boots, too, because they rock! Track 6 I'm not sure about. Track 7 is from the vinyl-only release of this mix, which came with the Megamix (7:50), but I don't know where this Mega-Single Mix came from. Apparently, it's just the shorter version of the Megamix, and if it was ever released as a single, I don't know about it. Track 8 I can't place... sounds just like the single, but the beginning isn't like any of the official versions nor the Hijack mixes (starts off with 2 drumbeats, then the regular song)... maybe from the video? Track 9 I've never heard before. It's like a single mix of the Zip Hop Mix (released only on vinyl). Track 10 is only released on vinyl, which came with the Zip Hop Mix and the Highjack Mix of Strangelove. Track 11 is the No Source Mix from Gold Collection. Don't know why it was put on this boot; doesn't seem to fit. Final Verdict: It's a YES, especially for the BT mixes of It's No Good! ======================================================================= REMOTIVATE THE PLEASURE VOL 3 ======================================================================= 1 Starjana 2 In Your Room Apex Mix 3 Condemnation 4 In Your Room Extended Zephyr Mix 5 Dangerous Hazchemix 6 In Your Room Fav Innocent Mix 7 Enjoy The Silence Let`s f. here you 8 In Your Room The Jeep Rock Mix 9 Everything Counts Bomb The Bass Mix 10 Higher Love Adrenaline Mix 11 In Your Room Zephyr Mix 12 World In My Eyes Oil Tank Mix 13 Policy Of Truth live 14 Fly On the Windscreen Live 15 World In My Eyes Live 16 Never Let Me Down Again Live 17 Cliche Demo 18 Enjoy The Silence Demo 19 Interlude Demo 20 Halo Studio Demo 21 If You Want to Demo 22 Monghi Demo 23 Shake The Disease Demo 24 Love In Itself Demo + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + First off, the following are all official mixes: Tracks 1-5, 8-16 (9 is the simenon-saunders remix, the Absolut Mix, also called Bomb the Bass Mix because Simenon and Saunders are members of the band Bomb the Bass) Track 7 is probably the live ETS from Dogma, where Dave yells "let me fuckin' year you" The demos are cool, taken from various Demos CD's. Monghi and Cliche are unreleased demos; ones that were never realized into actual songs. ======================================================================= REWORKED VOLUME 1 ======================================================================= 1 Ice Machine 2 Monument 3 Told you so 4 Something to do 5 Master & Servant 6 It s called a heart 7 Fly on the windscreen 8 A Question of time 9 Stripped 10 Sacred 11 Halo 12 Mercy in you 13 Rush + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + These are not different songs. These songs were taken directly from the official Mute CD's, but passed through an effect box before they were mastered here. Basically, it's the same concept as a karaoke machine. This CD basically reverses the polarity of the stereo channels. Mess around with a headphone jack, and you'll possibly achieve the same effect as was used on this CD. Personally, I've used the effect that the bootlegger have used here, to extract out-of-phase sounds for remixes that I've done. Martin's backgrounds seem to stand out the most. The bootleggers missed a LARGE amount of cool songs that show off this effect MUCH better! These songs have no mix names, since they aren't mixes. Final Verdict: Suuuuuck! ======================================================================= ROYAL MIXES VOL 1. ======================================================================= 1 6:27 Strangelove (discotech mix) 2 8:10 Higher Love (sky mix / higher mic) 3 4:53 Photographic (pogo mix / tribute by BiGod20) 4 9:36 Mode Medley (calais mix) 5 6:08 Waiting for the night (real night mix / real noogman mix) 6 21:41 Enjoy the Silence (risky business mix) 7 7:10 Little 15 (fantasy mix / classic mix) 8 5:30 Photographic (objectiv mix / focus mix) 9 2:43 shout (best mix) + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Between Royal Mixes 1 and 2, these people managed to rip off the entire Eighth Strike. Or perhaps it's the other way around. How should I know? 1 From the Sixth Strike this time 2 is the Higher Mix from the Eighth Strike 3 a Tribute by BiGod20. B-side to BiGod's single America 4 a megamix containing Work Hard, Everything Counts, New Dress, Strangelove, People are People, Leave in Silence, Nodisco, Just Can't Get Enough, Fools, and Get the Balance Right. Don't know if this appears on any other boot. 5 is the Real Noogman Mix from the Eighth Strike 6 Might be the same mix from Atrophy Bong Megamixes? This mix is just many of the official versions cut & pasted together. No extra mixing / instrumentation / samples were added. Vinyl scratches are audible. 7 is the Classic Mix from... you guessed it... the Eighth Strike 8 is the Focus Mix from the Eight Strike. 9 Exclusive mix! At least if this comes from another boot, I've never heard it! Short instrumental mix, most of it is just added beat & instrumentation, with some of Shout overlaid with it. I really like it! Final Verdict: Might be worth it for tracks 3 and 9. ======================================================================= ROYAL MIXES VOL 2. ======================================================================= 5:59 World in my Eyes Hammer Mix / Bogus Brothers Dub 6:58 Any Second Now Timeless Mix / Clockwise Mix 6:33 Who Is...? Inri Mix / Who is Jesus Mix 8:21 Judas FDP Mix / Bombastic Mix 8:05 Question of Lust Peep Show Mix / Answer Mix 25:04 Australian Megamix Medley 6:09 Clean Dealer Mix / Noogie's Mix 6:41 Monument S. Battle Mix / Reggaelectric Mix + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Between Royal Mixes 1 and 2, these people managed to rip off the entire Eighth Strike. Or perhaps it's the other way around. How should I know? 1 is the Bogus Brothers Dub from the Fifth Strike 2 is the Clockwise Mix from the Eighth Strike (here we go again) 3 is the Who is Jesus Mix (Personal Jesus) from Polished Gold 4 is the Bombastic Mix from the Eigth Strike 5 is the Answer Mix from the goddamn Eighth Strike 6 is the On-USound Megamix 3 (I think) 7 is Noogie's Mix. These people really liked the Eighth Strike, didn't they? 8 is the Reggaelectric Mix from the Eighth Strike. Final Verdict: Everything is available elsewhere, namely, the Eighth Strike. ======================================================================= SAMBRERO VOL. 1 ======================================================================= 1 4:12 Personal Jesus (Kazan Cathedral Mix) 2 7:40 World in my Eyes (Razormaid Mix) 3 2:42 Boys Say Go (BBC Session 21.06.82) 4 9:04 Enjoy the Silence (Indefinite Mix) 5 ?:?? Rabinka Enjoy Sweet (Megamix) 6 ?:?? Rush (Natali-Love Mix) 7 7:08 Strangelove (Razormaid Mix) 8 6:30 Personal Jesus (Germix mix) 9 6:58 Happiest Girl (Razormaid Mix) 10 4:58 World in my Eyes (Mayhem Mode Mix) 11 7:19 Dangerous (Art of Mix) + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + All of these are available elsewhere, except herhaps Tracks 5 and 6. I don't recognize these titles. ======================================================================= SCUM SUCKING WHORES MIXEX ======================================================================= 1 7:39 Never Let Me Down Again (Groovy Mix) 2 3:50 Behind The Wheel (DJ remix) 3 4:08 Route 66 (Nile Rodgers Mix) 4 3:48 A Question Of Lust (Robert Margouleff Mix) 5 6:30 Halo (Bogus Brothers Mix) 6 8:02 Strangelove (Freshground Mix) 7 5:38 World In My Eyes (mixx-Rite Mix) 8 4:10 Fools (Danmark Mix) 9 7:10 Just Can't Get Enough (ON-USound remix) 10 5:58 World In My Eyes (Bogus Brothers dub?) 11 3:45 Faith Healer (Radio/edit) + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + All available elsewhere. ======================================================================= SECOND VIOLATION BY H. NULL ======================================================================= 01. Stripped holy vision 7:13 02. Fly On The Windscreen take off 7:04 03. Pleasure Little Treasure snowflake mix 5:46 04. Shake The Disease something has survived mix 7:51 05. Lie To Me chainsaw remix 7:28 06. Leave In Silence not quite quiet mix & reprise 7:44 07. Black Celebration outer space mix 5:44 08. Something To Do aggressive steel mix 6:38 09. Any Second Now lsd mix 6:20 10. Dangerous part two 4:01 11. Clean xtreme short trip 3:07 12. The Things You Said speed up dub 4:46 13. Judas an afternoon in ireland 7:24 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + He did it again! Another CD full of smashing & creative mixes that keep you reeling! His "pattern" on this CD is to double up on stuff (which sounds corny when I say it but turns out awesomely), and power up on the drums as though a heavy metal band were filling in for DM's usual drum machine. I know it's hard to describe this guy's mixes in text, but I'm gonna try anyway: Track 1 has a lot of cool stuff. In one verse, the words "come with me" repeat after each phrase, kinda like "the handshake" did in Everything Counts in Larger Amounts. Sometimes he uses the high notes backwards, which sound so good you'd wonder why DM didn't do that originally.Only down-side: the dark notes he adds have a click at the beginning which really get on my nerves. Track 2 has a LOT of doubled-up stuff, everything from the high notes to the beat, to the lyrics. Sounds great! It's also the first mix I've heard that incorporates the Death Mix in it! Track 3... well, similar description. Lots of doubled up stuff and hard rock beats. Does some neat phasing effects. Track 4 uses a lot of pieces from Edit the Shake, except he has the drumbeats going back & forth instead of just hanging on one side like the original. He incorporates those drums into the regular verses too. Track 5 might be the most "normal" of his mixes. I like the way he works the lyrics to say "come on and make me think that at the end of the game..." after the breakdown near the end. Track 6 starts with wind with the Quiet Mix, then incorporates some notes from one of the Its No Good mixes (A Parker Mix?) for most of the song. Track 7 has a lot of laser type noises in it, and a lot of a stringy instrument that I can't remember if it's in the original song or not. Incorporates parts of the Black Tulip Mix. Track 8 starts off with an electrocution sound. I like the beat he constructed with the Metal Mix and some heavier drums. Track 9 has a hyped up drum & bass beat, and has a glass breaking sound in it a lot. He uses a phased version of that beat that goes from high notes to low notes, along with the vocal version of the song. Sometimes it really gets phased up! Track 10 is sped up (I think), and a lot more rhythm placed on it. Uses elements from the Hazchemix. Track 11 is a short little dub mix. Track 12 uses... the TranceMode version I think. Also has DM interview clips and some other perky drumbeat that almost reminds me of Popcorn. The regular song is in there too by the way. Track 13 is the oddest track on there (First Violation had Blasphemous Rumours Death Mix, well here's the weird one for this CD). That's not a bagpipe is it? I certainly feel like I'm in Ireland :) Final Verdict: Procure! ======================================================================= SHARK ATTACK CD1 ======================================================================= 1 Waiting For The Night (Moogman Mix) is the album version 2 Fly On The Windscreen (Nobu Bros. Mix) Taken from THE SIXTH STRIKE ======================================================================= SIGHT ======================================================================= 1 World in my Eyes (Trip Dub Mix) 6:00 2 Dangerous (Dare To Mix) 5:40 3 Everything Counts (BeatBox 911) 10:00 4 Happiest Girl (Pulsating Vocal Mix) 8:00 5 Ice Machine (Shaken) 7:00 6 Insight (Future Vision Remix) 5:00 7 It's No Good (A-P Mix) 6:15 8 Master & Servant (ModeMix) 5:19 9 People Are People (2B Mix) 2:23 10 Route 66 (N-R Remix) 4:12 11 Somebody (Lonely Body Mix) 4:56 12 Useless (K-D Mix) 6:15 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + According to the person selling this on eBay, "pressed by SAAR in Milan, Italy catalogue "SAAR MILANO CD MODE 113" and copyright dated 2000. The copyright info is in Italian, but the date is clear on the picture." Some of the titles sound suspicious; like they're just slightly renamed to confuse the fact that these are old mixes? Others might be new; who knows? ======================================================================= SIMPLE PLEASURES PART I ======================================================================= 1 New Dress 2 Happiest Girl 3 World in my Eyes 4 Shake the Disease 5 Leave in Silence 6 Blasphemous Rumours 7 Strangelove 8 People are People 9 Behind the Wheel 10 Never let me down Again 11 My Joy 12 Dangerous 13 Only When I Lose Myself + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + All tracks original remixes by Marc Nicholson except tracks 11-13 for promotional use only, all tracks are mixed together (but not as one track, they are individually cued). -------- I don't know anything about this boot, except for the comments above, which came from the guy who was trying to sell it on Ebay. ======================================================================= SIMPLE PLEASURES PART II ======================================================================= 1 People are People 2 Behind the Wheel / Route 66 3 Fools 4 Get the Balance Right 5 Just Can't Get Enough 6 Everything Counts 7 Enjoy the Silence 8 Little 15 9 Policy of Truth 10 But Not Tonight 11 Walking in my Shoes + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + All tracks original remixes by Marc Nicholson except track 10 for promotional use only, all tracks are mixed together (but not as one track, they are individually cued). -------- I don't know anything about this boot, except for the comments above, which came from the guy who was trying to sell it on Ebay. ======================================================================= SNARE CD # 1 ======================================================================= 1 No Disco (Class-X Remix) 5:54 2 Get The Balance Right (Class-X Remix) 6:24 3 People Are People (Razormaid Remix) 6:28 4 Master...Set Me Free (Razormaid Remix) 9:15 5 It's Called A Heart (Razormaid Remix) 7:52 6 A Question Of Time (Class-X Remix) 6:57 7 New Dress (Razormaid Remix) 6:48 8 Behind The Wheel (Razormaid Remix) 6:38 9 Pleasure , Little Treasure (Razormaid Remix) 6:21 10 Personal Jesus (Kazan Cathedral Mix) 4:19 11 Enjoy The Silence (Razormaid Remix) 6:10 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + I think all of these are available elsewhere, and besides, are just cut & paste mixes, anyway. Kazan Cathedral Mix is okay, but it's also on DJ's Revenge. Final Verdict: Next! ======================================================================= SNARE CD # 2 ======================================================================= 1 Breathing In Fumes (Razormaid Remix) 5:31 2 Never Let Me Down Again (Groovy Mix) 7:31 3 Behind The Wheel (Powermix) 7:00 4 Dangerous (Edit Of CD Addiction Mix) 6:53 5 Policy Of Truth (Art Of Memorandum Mix) 8:14 6 World In My Eyes (Razormaid Remix) 7:36 7 Sea Of Sin (Razormaid Remix) 6:30 8 Depeche Mode / Yazoo - Servant and Mastermix Medley 19:31 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + All available elsewhere, except track 8, and maybe track 4. -------- Track 8 was released on vinyl a long time ago. The b-side was a Kraftwerk megamix. ======================================================================= SOME GREAT REWARD MIXES ======================================================================= 1 Master And Servant (Slavery Whip Mix) 2 Something To Do (Metal Mix) 3 People Are People (Different Mix) 4 In Your Memory (Slick Mix) Actually the "Slik Mix". 5 Somebody (Remix) This is the remix from the Singles 81-85 (Catching Up With). 6 (Set Me Free) Remotivate Me (Release Mix) The bootleggers cut the first beat. 7 Master & Servant (Voxless) 8 People Are People (ON-USound Mix) 9 Master & Servant (ON-USound Mix) 10 In Your Memory (Original Version) Actually the 7" mix. 11 (Set Me Free) Remotivate Me (Original Version) Actually the 7" mix, with a beat cut. 12 It Doesn't Matter Two (Instrumental) 13 I Love, You Love, Me Love (Martin Gore-Demo) 14 Down In The Boondocks (Martin Gore-Demo) + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + All these tracks are available elsewhere, mainly on commercially released CD's. ----- Final Verdict: Reward, my ass! ======================================================================= SONGS OF FAITH AND DEVOTION: REMIX (i1) 1993 ======================================================================= 1 5:31 i1 I Feel You 2 4:05 i1 Walking In My Shoes 3 3:28 i1 Condemnation 4 4:17 i1 Mercy In You 5 3:35 i1 Judas 6 6:16 i1 In Your Room 7 2:38 i1 Get Right With Me 8 4:10 i1 Rush 9 3:39 i1 One Caress 10 4:59 i1 Higher Love ---- All tracks are remixes (re-edits, really) of the regular album versions. + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + There are no markings on the back except for a CD number and the track listing, havent got it with me at the moment, so dont no what the number is. The cover is the four lads on the front, the same pic as on the inside of the IFY CD, with the four blobs on the front, it has "Remix" written in the bottom left hand corner, the inside pic is the one of dave sitting by the pool, from the Select Mag. The CD itself has no mention of DM at all, just a big "REMIX" written on it, with the usual copyright messages. As for the songs themselves, Judas,One Caress, GRWM & Rush are completely crap, Higher love is mixed with Steve Winwoods version, Condemnation now has a dance beat to it, like this one a lot, but has some stupid annoying beeps all the way through IFY,WIMS & Mercy in you are OK, nothing special. In your room is the best on the thing, has a harder sound to it. -------- Hello all, just thought I'd tell (read: WARN) you about a new boot to hit the streets. It's a good thing I got a tape copy of it for free otherwise I'd be upset. Apparently there is a new CD out called 'Songs of Faith and Devotion: The Remix Album" out. This is not the same thing that I've heard mentioned here about a compilation of DM covers from SoFaD. What these guys did is took each song from SoFaD and added a beat (and in some cases a couple of extra samples) to the song. I haven't finished listening to the whole thing, but I'm about half way through and I don't expect it to get any better. In most cases the beat overpowers and in some cases completely drowns out the song itself. In addition I recieved a xerox of the cover art, liner notes and CD itslef. The cover is a copy of the SoFaD promo picture with all four of the members, with The Reminx Album in really poor writing (it looks like it was done by hand with a Sharpie). The inside photo has Dave sitting by a pool with his legs spread wide. I couldn't tell what the Back photo was, but it looked like another SoFaD promo shot. -------- The DM guru at a local store said that he had a hard time finding it. Judging by the quality of it (actually, it has no quality. It's so bad that you can't mention it in the same sentence as the word "quality") I would hope that it continues to be hard to find and nobody buys it. God, it's awful. --- I found the SOFAD remix album a couple of days ago, and heedless of all warnings, I bought it. In retrospect, I should have listened to the warnings. It really is bad. The crapiness isn't in the sound quality, though, it's in the remix quality. The sound quality is actually not all that bad. In most cases they just took a tape loop with some music on it (either their own drum beat or something from the song) and played random lyrics from the song at various times. Often, the tape loop goes on and you sit there hoping for something different. In all, the whole thing is repetitive, generic, very poorly done, and painful to the ears. These aren't even amusingly bad remixes, as Love in Itself 4 and the It's Called a Heart (slow mix) are. They are just plain rotten. My advice is that unless you're a die-hard must-have everything collector, don't get it. If, however, you do need to have everything then you'll ignore this warning anyway and do what you want. (like I did. :) Final Verdict: Run like Hell! ======================================================================= SONGS OF FAITH AND DEVOTION: STRANGE VERSIONS (i2) 1993 ======================================================================= 1 5.40 i2 I Feel You (Turkish Slaughter mix) 2 5:27 i2 Walking In My Shoes (Roger G's Ritual Of Life mix) 3 6:28 i2 Walking In My Shoes (Mouth and Ziska Marriage mix) 4 7:10 i2 Condemnation (Arpeggitator mix) 5 5:13 i2 Mercy In You (Roger G's Old School mix) 6 5:30 i2 Judas (Whispered Sex mix) 7 6:59 i2 Get Right With Me (Blast do Loopda Loop mix) 8 5:52 i2 Rush (Red and Blue Acid mix) 9 3:39 i2 One Caress (R.Mouth on the Search for K-Tel mix) 10 ?:?? i2 Higher Love (Roger G. Doublespeedbeat mix) ---- Track 6 is labeled as In Your Room. + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + The cover is exactle the same as SOFAD except it is in Brown and Red. All the mixes are much better than any other bootleg mixes I've heard. Even better than the Razormaid mixes,the Art mixes and bogus brother mixes which I previously thought were the best. Tracks 2,3,4 and 7 tend to get too repetetive but the ones to look for are Rush, I Feel you and Mercy in You ,which I think to be the best because they are the least repetitive. Mind you, all the others are f**king excellent for bootleg mixes. I Feel You (Turkish Slaughter mix) Starts with drum beat and then goes into the guitar playing what is IFY but it is played in a different arrangement giving a different melody. Samples of dave singing "I feel you" and "This is the morning of our love,its just the dawning of our love" as taken from the HATH mix of IFY. Half way the static blurts in and stops the song which blasts into life two seconds later Over the top of all this is a loop of different keyboard chords. Walking In My Shoes (Roger G's Ritual Of Life mix) Totally different music.Its a piano playing with a drum beat in the background. Samples of Dave singing "Try walking in my shoes,you'll stumble in my footsteps" as taken from th random carpet mix (I think). Also the first verse is looped twice at the beginning followed by more "try walking in my..." then it is repeated again. Some wierd backing noises kick up towards the beginning. Walking In My Shoes (Mouth and Ziska Marriage mix) Starts the same as the album mix,but it is looped about 4 times with an increasing drum beat in the background. As with IFY the beginning is sampled in different abouts and arranged to provide a new melody.The second verse is the one used in this mix along with the second half of the first verse, (ie starts with "morality would frown upon..." and ends with the part "I'm not looking for absolution..." rather than "I'm not looking for a clearer conscience..." as in th original song) Condemnation (Arpeggitator mix) Starts with keyboard synth style music before sampling "Condemnaton/why/ because my duty/was only to beauty/that was my crime" that is the only part of the song used in the whole mix. Tends to get very repetitive. Still a good mix. Mercy In You (Roger G's Old School mix) Drum beat with added synth. Samples of "Boys say go" along with multiple samples of "for the mercy in you". Good mix. Rush (Red and Blue Acid mix) This is a very very good mix of Rush. It starts with a single synth playing a very basic Rush melody (from the beginning of Rush). As it progresses a drum beat moves in and increases along with th synth before finally blasting into the first bars of Rush. Samples of the word "rush" are speeded up and liberally scattered in the mix. The line "I come up to meet you, up there somewhere" is repeated twice at the beginnig then once more half way through the song. Also used is the line "when I come up/when I rush/I rush for you". The added synth makes a solo run for a few bars during the middle before returning to Rush (album mix). One Caress (R.Mouth on the Search for K-Tel mix) Basically, it's just "one caress" with added noises of a waterfall or something in the background. Final Verdict: Great CD! ======================================================================= THE SONGS OF MARTIN L. GORE (j) ======================================================================= 1 5:08 j A Question Of Lust (Flood mix) 2 3:32 jx One Caress 3 3:54 jx Judas 4 4:28 jx Somebody 5 4:45 jx It Doesn't Matter 6 2:51 jx It Doesn't Matter II 7 1:55 jx Sometimes 8 2:49 jx World Full Of Nothing 9 2:36 jx Black Day 10 6:14 jx Pipeline 11 3:53 jx Death's Door 12 4:44 jx Sweetest Perfection 13 4:34 jx Blue Dress 14 2:38 jx Any Second Now 15 2:37 jmx Enjoy The Silence (Harmonium) 16 3:59 jx The Things You Said 17 3:27 jx I Want You Now 18 6:19 jx Route 66 (Beatmasters mix) ---- Track 1 was available on the UK "AQOL" cassette and the German 12" (now both out of print). All other songs are available on various official releases. + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + I've only seen one copy of this cd so far (the one I bought), but I'd expect that it'll become more available soon since in my opinion, it's one of the better ones out there. The sound quality is _excellent_. -------- The first version of "AQOL" was different from the album version, but I'm not sure where it came from. Other than that, the other songs seemed straight off the albums. Sound quality seemed fine, though I wasn't listening through a very good stereo. -------- Funny little remark: I've got two of these; one with Martin and one with Dave on the cover. (The Dave-Cover is also used for Part Two by Speedy Jay!!) ======================================================================= SONGS OF MARTIN GORE VOL 2 Or MARTIN GORE'S STUDIO TAPES: REMIX VOL. 2 ======================================================================= 1 A Question of Lust Trust in Lust Mix 7:32 2 One Caress Sentimental Mix 4:48 3 Judas Gently Mix 5:51 4 Somebody Anybody Mix 4:35 5 It doesn't matter Hep House Mix 6:34 6 It doesn't matter II Spherical Mix 7:05 7 Sometimes Down in the City Mix 6:20 8 World full of Nothing Steinway Mix 5:27 9 Black Day Prophecy Mix 3:57 10 Pipeline Kodo Mix 8:33 11 Death's Door Six String Mix 4:22 12 Sweetest Perfection Phasing Mix 5:09 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + exclusive mixes!! -------- These are good, creative mixes. Not the best in the world, but pretty good! I like them. There are a few that aren't too good, but many of them are so good that this disk is definitely worth getting! 1 This is the Gore Trance Mix. 2 Mostly a simple beat laid over the song. Not bad but not that notable either. 3 Reminds me of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Ever heard Pompeji by Camouflage (b-side of The Great Commandment)? 4 Great beat laid over it, but gets misaligned right where martin says "to my way of thinking in fact she'll often disagree." Once the mixer figures this out, he stops the beat, waits for the next verse, and starts up the beat again, then fades it away prematurely. Too bad. It could have been a great mix, but it's pretty much ruined. 5 The notes sound different, as though passed through a light effects machine. I think it's just techno notes laid over the original ones in such a way that they blend. High voice saying "hep!" through way too much of the song. A good mix, other than that annoying "hep!" 6 Whole other rhythms and notes added into this; making It Doesn't Matter Two barely a part of this new song. Uses both the instrumental and the regular version. Well-done. 7 Longer intro, then the regular song, but when it ends, it starts back up again into a more trance-like mix, with just the piano part of Sometimes sticking with it. I hate Sometimes, but I like this mix of it. 8 Gospel and Soul! Great beat for this song, plus other sound effects on there, too. Testify! 9 They've made a whole new song out of this one! The rhythm is great, though I don't think it quite aligns right with the song once the lyrics start. For some reason it doesn't really ruin the song like you might think, though. 10 Metallic industry beat makes Pipeline more of a construction project. They also use the running-railcar sound from Construction Time Again in the intro. They also laid some more groaning-like sound over the music in parts; gives it a slightly creepier sound. Excellent! 11 Some light notes added, but I don't believe it's that much different than either the regular or the Jazz Mix. 12 Extra beats added, nothing too significant here. Okay mix. ======================================================================= SOUNDS OF MODE ======================================================================= 1 enjoy the silence 4.19 (classic mix) 2 dangerous 3.03 (hazechemix) 3 enjoy the silence 3.14 (instrumental edit) 4 pimpf 6.28 (axis level mix) 5 behind the wheel/Route 66 4.28 (mega single mix) 6 strangelove 7.07 (bong very extended mix) 7 lie to me 5.36 (deep beat mix) 8 mega pimpf mix 18.52 9 Mixo phone mode 13.51 10 policy of truth 5.57 (dj vision mix) 11 it s no good 4.15 (video mix) + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + CD comes in brilliant looking triple fold out digipack with absolutely nice looking promo pictures of the band. -------- I've never seen this CD, but I have a few guesses, which may be true or totally unfounded.... Track 1 is probably the single Track 2 is porbably the official Hazchemix Track 4 is probably the Trance Tribute 1.01 version of Pimpf by Axis 01 Track 5 is the 7" mix released in the US. Tracks 8 and 9 are from vinyl. Track 7 is from World of Sound and Harmony ======================================================================= SPACER REMIXES 1999 Or THE TWENTY-NINTH STRIKE ======================================================================= 1 See You 9.22 Speedometer 2000 Mix 2 Leave in Silence 7.47 Sentimantal Journey 99 3 Just can t get Enough 9.09 Spirit Mix 4 Shake the Disease 9.47 Ambient Mix 5 Set me Free 7.17 Warp 2029 Mix 6 Flexible 6.58 Studio 69 Mix 7 Fly on the Windscreen 7.44 Light & Shadow Mix 8 Love in Itself 7.09 Bassbumper Mix 9 People are People 7.10 Da Brat Spacer Mix + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + OK / Good CD in general; most of the tracks are pretty good, the likes of World of Sound & Harmony, etc, and some tracks aren't all that hot. All mixes have the same feel; may have all been done by the same person. Tracks 1-6 are pretty good. Various beats, instrumentation, etc is added, and parts of the song rearranged to make these mixes better than your standard cut & paste mixes of Razormaid. The beats used are appropriate to the original song; they don't stand out as being "wrong" (except maybe Shake the Disease; the main beat added to that one sounds cheap and garbled). Hard to go into too much detail with these, but they are pretty good mixes. The fire gets lost around Track 7. Tracks 7 and 8 aren't much more than the original songs with a beat laid over them. Granted, they're good beats, but now-a-days, we expect more in a remix. Track 9 has some computer-generated sounds over it (KMFDM-style noise that raises or drops in tone), plus extra beats and stuff. Mostly uses the single and the Special Edition. The name suggests this is by The Brat, but when I asked him, he said he had never remixed this song. Actually I think there's a rapper called Da Brat. ======================================================================= THE FIRST STRIKE ======================================================================= See DJ's Revenge ======================================================================= THE SECOND STRIKE (b2) ======================================================================= 1 6:33 a3b2m Halo (Bogus Brothers mix) 2 6:25 b2d1h People Are People (Razormaid mix) 3 6:51 a3b2d1h Happiest Girl (Razormaid mix) 4 6:06 a1b2d2 Enjoy The Silence (Razormaid mix) 5 8:02 b2d2h Master And Servant (Razormaid mix) 6 7:57 b2hx Behind The Wheel/Route 66 (Ivan Megamix) 7 7:45 a1b2d2g World In My Eyes (Razormaid mix) 8 6:48 b2d2gh It's Called A Heart (Razormaid mix) 9 6:27 a2b2d2g Sea Of Sin (Razormaid mix) 10 8:08 a1b2hm Policy Of Truth (Art Of 'Memorandum' Mix) + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Continuing a great tradition started by DJ's, the quality of these tracks are great (except one), and has THE best razormaid remixes available! QUALITY = 8.5 1: Not great quality. Rumor has it that this mix along with the Uncomfortable mix were available on a promo where only 50 original copies were pressed before they were caught! Very poor sound quality. It sounds as if it was recorded with the recording level set far too high. There is a lot of distortion. Definitely NOT worth listening to. See the Fifth Strike, where this mix is not as loud and overloaded. 2: People Are People The best mix of PaP you will ever find! Pretty good. Standard Razormaid type mix, though, ie, bits and pieces of the original song cut and pasted together in different places. Nice mix. Contains some vocal "let me take you on a trip" samples, and the same Twins Peaks chords used in Moby's "Go". The instrumental breaks are interestingly done, keeping the feel of the original but adding new twists. 3: Happiest Girl Incredible best-quality mix of this song! Standard type Razormaid remix. Sound quality is also not that great, but still much better than Halo. 4: Enjoy the Silence Breathtaking. I'd like to hear this mix on the dance floor! Somewhat better then the first three tracks. It contains samples from other ETS remixes as well, unlike the PAP and HG remixes which seem to use only the original song. Okay mix. Standard Razormaid cut & paste of official remixes. 5: Master And Servant Pretty cool. Good sound quality. Seems to contain bits and pieces from the Slavery Whip Mix and US Black and Blue Mix. A fine remix of MAS, in my opinion. Razormaid. Yawn. 6: Behind The Wheel / Route 66 Sounds VERY similar to the BTW/R66 megamix on the BTW 12" single (20858-0). In fact, on the credits of this 12" it lists the megamix as being done by "Ivan Ivan". The playing times of these two mixes differ by only 7 seconds, so I am willing to bet that it is the same song. 7: World In My Eyes Samples galore make this the shit! An interesting remix of WIME. The phrase "music, nonstop" is repeated several times during the song. It also contains a sample from the song "Leave in Silence". This one is pretty creative. Are we sure it's Razormaid? A "spot the sample" mix. Starts out with some Kraftwerk samples: "Music, non-stop" from "Musique Non Stop", and various bits from the Computer World album. Heavily processed vocals near the beginning, and lots of little synthy sounds. Later a riff from Snap's "The Power", and the "Woo woo"s from "Leave In Silence". There's even a bit of "World In My Eyes" :) Overall this is a very busy mix, quite good if you like that sort of thing. 8: It's Called a Heart Just cut & paste of the Emotion Remix and Dub 9: Sea of Sin Stellar performance by the guys from LA! It doesn't sound like Razormaid did much remixing on this song. It seems as if they just took one of the remixes off of the WIME single and did some very slight alterations to it. Samples Enya's "Orinoco Flow" for sixteen bars in the middle. Otherwise a standard cut 'n' paste, but quite a good one. 10: Policy of Truth The Art of Mix people complete these incredible Violator remixes with a hit mix of their own! About halfway through this mix it blends into Strangelove, then back to POT. It sounds like there are quiet samples from other DM songs at the same point, but i'm not quite sure which ones. Starts with some bits from "Enjoy The Silence" before leaping into "Policy Of Truth". Later during an instrumental break we get bits of one of the "Strangelove" remixes and some faint "Just Can't Get Enough"s! Again, a busy mix, and quite enjoyable. 11. But Not Tonight (Margouleff Mix /6:17) Nonexistant. It's labelled on the CD, but it's not there. See Strike 3. Final Verdict: Average at it's best (whatever that might mean) ======================================================================= THE THIRD STRIKE (b3) ======================================================================= 1 9:08 a2b3h Enjoy The Silence (Indefinite mix) 2 6:17 b3 But Not Tonight (Robert Margouleff mix) 3 7:08 b3 Strangelove (Joseph Watt remix) 4 7:59 b3 (Set Me Free) Remotivate Me (Joseph Watt remix) 5 6:45 a1b3d1e New Dress (Razormaid mix) 6 5:54 b3d1h Nodisco (Razormaid mix) 7 4:58 b3hmx World In My Eyes (Mayhem Mode) 8 5:58 b3hx Everything Counts (Alan Moulder remix) 9 4:16 a2b3c2lx Route 66 (Nile Rodgers mix) 10 3:48 b3 Behind The Wheel (DJ remix edit) 11 4:38 a2b3c2l Photographic (On-USound remix) 12 3:42 a2b3c2l I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead (On-USound remix) ---- Track 1 is the Hollywood mix. Track 2 is different from the version on Ultra Rare Trax 2. Track 7 is available on the Japanese "WIME" CD. Track 8 is available on the US "EC" 12" and the rereleased "EC" CD. Track 9 is available on the "Earth Girls Are Easy" soundtrack. Track 12 is "Deathwish". + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Rounding out a great three-part series, this great-quality disc adds more razormaid and other great mixes! Quality = 9 1: Enjoy the Silence (Indefinite Mix) 9:08 Much better quality than URT2. 2: But Not Tonight (Margouleff Mix) 6:17 Different mix than URT2. 3: Strangelove (Joseph Watt Remix) 7:08 Similar to razormaid mix. 4: Remotivate Me (Joseph Watt Remix) 7:59 Pretty cool. 5: New Dress (Razormaid) 6:45 Climatic, Stimulating, Finger-licking good mix for Di-hard fans! 6: Nodisco (Razormaid) 5:54 First awesome rmaid mix off of first album! 7: World in My Eyes (Mayhem Mode) 4:58 AKA LCD Bong20 mix. Good mix! -------- Enjoy The Silence (Indefinite Mix) Mostly just a cut and paste of the many various official mixes. Sound quality is just OK, with a hissy high end. Spoken voice samples at about 2:50 saying something like "Let's take a trip". Funny little beeps towards the end. Quite good, but the sound does detract from the mix a bit. But Not Tonight (Robert Margouleff Mix) Nice mix, nice instrumentation, not too different from the original. Overall it's very, erm, nice. Strangelove (Joseph Watt Remix) Standard Strangelove remix, nothing special, but quite OK. (Set Me Free) Remotivate Me (Joseph Watt Remix) A good extended mix. Good ending, with just vocals, then a noise burst right at the end. Standard long instrumental bits. New Dress (Razormaid Mix) cut and paste remix with (yawn) long instrumental bits. Pretty good, but nothing astounding. Nodisco (Razormaid Mix) Good cut and paste. World In My Eyes (Mayhem Mode) A nice warm-sounding mix by Jon Marsh. Sounds like his band (The Beloved). Everything Counts (Alan Moulder Remix) Excellent minimal house dub mix. Route 66 (Nile Rodgers Mix) Quite good, not too different, but the instrumental bits are restructured and there is an effect put on the vocal at some points. Behind The Wheel (DJ Remix Edit) Just an edited version. Photographic (On-USound Remix) Vinyl pops faintly audible. The mix is a remix of the "Some Bizarre" album version, not the "Speak And Spell" version. It contains samples of a camera drive motor and some other extra sounds. The first verse is spaced out a bit, and some sort of oscillating effect is put on the whole track. I really like this mix. I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead (On-USound Remix) Again, some vinyl static is audible. The mix itself seems pretty similar, maybe with some EQ, but I'm not sure. Final Verdict: Not worth much. ======================================================================= THE FOURTH STRIKE (b4) ======================================================================= 1 4:25 b4 Enjoy The Silence (Promo mix) 2 3:52 a2b4d2el A Question Of Lust (Margouleff remix) 3 7:21 a2b4e Just Can't Get Enough (On USound remix) 4 8:15 b4c2ekl Master And Servant (Hammerhead mix) 5 7:34 b4c2l Never Let Me Down Again (Groovy mix) 6 7:50 a1b4 It's Called A Heart (Prehistoric mix) 7 5:43 b4c2lm World In My Eyes (Ultimix) 8 3:51 b4 Rush (Dub mix) 9 8:27 b4 I Want You Now (No.5 mix) 10 4:47 b4 Here Is The House (vocal by Martin) 11 4:44 b4o Violence 12 4:58 b4o I Feel No Guilt ---- Track 2 is from a US promo 12". Track 3 is the Base mix. Track 4 is the Power mix. Track 6 is the Razormaid mix from Ultra Rare Trax 1. Track 7 is the Mixx-Rite remix. Track 9 may be the Funky mix (by the Bogus Brothers). Track 10 may be a studio outtake. Tracks 11 and 12 may be Alan Wilder demos. + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + The sound quality is definitely better the URT 3 (my only other bootleg). Overall: Very good sound quality (9/10) for tracks 1-9 Mediocre sound quality for track 10 (6-7/10) Mediocre sound quality for tracks 11-12 (7-8/10) Random notes: I'm quite happy with this purchase. The last three tracks have worse sound quality than the rest of the disc, but I think they are still better than, for example, the two Martin Gore outtakes on Ultra Rare Trax 3. So, you might give them a different rating. Also, I haven't even _heard_ of them existing before, so they may be quite rare. Enjoy The Silence (Promo Mix) An edit; not bad, but nothing that interesting either. A Question Of Lust (Margouleff Remix) Very good mix; not overdone, maybe somewhat _underdone_, but still quite good (although a little short). Just Can't Get Enough (On USound Remix) Lots of samples and a great deal of mixing going on here, including samples of a live version. I think it's pretty good. (slightly worse sound quality) Master And Servant (Hammerhead Mix) Good except for the "POWER" sample (maybe from a radio station announcer?) which is used just _way_ too much. Starts off with 'Treat me like a dog' intro (shorter) from the Slavery Whip Mix. Never Let Me Down Again (Groovy Mix) First 40 seconds is a recording of a scan through a radio dial. Then it starts off with the regular music except that right before the first drum beat, it repeats the intro music again. It does this a number of times before it actually starts (cool effect). The rest is pretty much the same as the original version, until the end, when the Aggro Mix picks up and finishes a couple of minutes later. Groovy! It's Called A Heart (Prehistoric Mix) Sounds like something Razormaid might do. Its good, somewhat complex, but it still isn't great (perhaps because this isn't really my favorite song to begin with). World In My Eyes (Ultimix) Lots of samples (including "enjoy the silence"). I think a little too much mixing is being attempted. Ok, but not my favorite. Rush (Dub Mix) A percussion sequence repeated during the whole song. Short excerpts of music from the original version is interspersed throughout--the excerpt is played then abruptly cut off. I think the only lyrics used are: "Open your sensitive mouth, hold out your delicate hand" and "When I come up, when I rush, I rush for you." I Want You Now (No. 5 Mix) A drum machine sequence repeated throughout the song. A very slightly edited version of the song is played about one-and-a-half times, then the last two full minutes of the song consist of only the drum sequence. A bad excuse for a remix. This Is The House (Sung by Martin) Poor recording, but since it is probably a demo or something similar, I guess it is excusable. "Body and soul come together, as we come closer together" is replaced with "Colors and shapes merge together, as we come closer together." A few other subtle differences, other than it being very bare-bones and highly unproduced. Violence (unreleased track) I Feel No Guilt (unreleased track) Don't have any idea what album these were left off of. They're ok I guess, but I can also see why they were not released (although they're better than, say, "Work Hard" :-) I think IFNG is the better of the two. -------- First, the M & S and NLMDA remixes are on the tail end of the PIMP megamix. I thought that the Rush mix was the same as that on the SOFAD (remixes) disc, but it is in fact slightly different; the regular remixes are better. I Want You now is, as mentioned, an edit with drumbeats, however, I believe that it is the "Funky Mix" by the Bogus Brothers - can anyone back me up? Here is the House - 'Colors and Shapes merge together, as we come closer together' - a mix that defies explanation, it is cool, sounds like it's played with ancient keyboards and Martin singing leads *and* backups at the same time - this song and the next two make the disc worth the money!!! Violence - 'Violence, Infatuation' - a very catchy tune, reminds me of a more upbeat Shake the Disease - very cool, sounds like it was made before Violator, perhaps even earlier, also has samples from Recoil (song '#1') I Feel No Guilt - sounds like it was made around the same time as Violence, and is pretty good. The sound quality for these last three songs is *OK*. IMHO, Here is the House is the coolest 'new' track, with Violence a close 2nd. -------- Rage mail order in England claims that the last 2 tracks on Fourth Strike are Alan Wilder demoes! Final Verdict: Not worth much either ======================================================================= THE FIFTH STRIKE (b5) ======================================================================= 1 6:35 b5 Halo (Comfortable mix) 2 5:58 b5 World In My Eyes (Bogus Brothers' dub) 3 4:13 b5 Fools (unreleased version) 4 6:29 b5 Flexible/Just Can't Get Enough (Hot Trax mix) 5 7:03 b5x Nothing (Justin Strauss remix) 6 6:30 a3b5x Strangelove (Bomb The Bass remix) 7 7:30 b5x People Are People (On-U Sound remix) 8 4:34 b5 Master And Servant (On-U Sound remix) 9 11:46 b5 Music Factory megamix 10 13:02 b5 Disconet megamix ---- Track 4 may be Just Can't Get Enough (Rubber-Band mix). Track 5 is available on the US "Strangelove" 12" and CD. Track 6 is available on the US "Strangelove" 12" and the rereleased "Everything Counts" CD. Track 7 is available on the US "People Are People" 12". Track 8 was available on the UK "Master And Servant" remix 12" (now out of print). Final Verdict: Getting better (has the best vinyl-only mixes on it). ======================================================================= THE SIXTH STRIKE (b6) ======================================================================= 1 6.25 b6x Rush (Wild Planet Mix) 2 6.25 b6 Strangelove (Powerhouse Mix) 3 10.57 a4b6 Enjoy The Silence (Ultra Hot Razor Cut / Triad Mix) 4 6.59 a4b6 Sea Of Sin (Ultra Hot Razor Cut) 5 6.27 b6 Strangelove (Disco Tech-Mix) 6 8.45 a2b6c2gl Nothing (Art of Mix / Dallas Raw Mix) 7 9.00 b6? Waiting For The Night (Space Dub Mix / LA Lunar Mix) 8 9.40 b6 Music For The Masses (Megamix) 9 4.29 b6 Fly On The Windscreen (Nobu-Bros. Mix) ---- Track 1 is available on the US "Condemnation" 12". Track 7 is the L.A. Lunar mix from Ultra Rare Trax 3 (without the "events converge" at the beginning) + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Track 3 sucks! It's just most of the Quad mix, with the Harmonious dub tacked on top of it, not even close to being in-time. Then during the instrumental break of the Quad Mix, they put the single on top of that, again, not even tyring to match the timing. It just sounds like you're playing 2 CD's at one time throughout the whole song. Suuuuuuuuuuuuck! Track 4 is either a regular mix or a cut & paste of regular mixes. Oh yeah, they added samples of the hubcap, phone and "hello?" from Behind the Wheel. Track 5 is Based off the Pain Mix, has some stuttering and lots of samples from things like Front 242, Jesus Christ Superstar, Enjoy the Silence, and more. An okay mix. Track 6 is good and mean. Seems heavier in the bass, lots of sound effects... not the most creative remix, but a good one nonetheless (same as the Dallas Mix on Niagra Radiostation Mix). Track 7 is pretty interesting. Lots of ambiance on top of the song, and a drumbeat which is good, but really poor quality, so that hurts the song. There are a lot of samples, like a kid laughing, telephone ringing, etc, and though annoying, it's really not bad. Overall, I like it. (Also LA Lunar Mix on URT4) Track 9 is awesome! It's simple, just the Quiet Mix with a few extra beats and some house piano on top of it, but it's enough to turn this track into a hip-hop dance mix that really rocks! I love it! Final Verdict: Good for tracks 6, 7, and 9. ======================================================================= THE SEVENTH STRIKE ======================================================================= 1 Black Wax Medley The Mixed Mode 2 Judas Strange Version 3 I Feel You More Fun Mix 4 Mix Of Faith & Devotion 5 Just Can't Get Enough DJ International Rec. Mix (Future Mix remix service) 6 Strangelove Fresh Ground Mix 7 Violator Mix ---- Track 2 is the Whispered Sex Mix from SOFAD Strange Versions Track 3 is the Turkish Slaughter Mix from SOFAD Strange Versions Track 4 is the ON-USound DPM Megamix part 3 with the beginning cut off Track 5 is taken from the UK Promo only 12". Track 7 is the ON-USound DPM Megamix part 2. Final Verdict: Naaah. ======================================================================= THE EIGHTH STRIKE ======================================================================= 1 Little 15 (Classic Mix) - 7:09 2 Photographic (Focus Mix) - 5:36 3 Monument (Reeggaelectric Mix) - 6:45 4 Higher Love (Higher Mix) - 8:16 5 Any Second Now (Clockwise Mix) - 7:11 6 Judas (Bombastic Mix) - 8:22 (on other boots, Bonus Beat is the last 2.5 minutes of this mix) 7 A Question Of Lust (Answer Mix) - 8:04 (on other boots, Answer Edit is a cutoff version of this mix) 8 Clean (Noogie's Mix) - 6:18 9 Walking In My Shoes (Moon Mix) - 6:49 10 Waiting For The Night (The Real Noogman Mix) - 6:33 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Strikes 8-12 feature ALL ORIGINAL, NEW bootleg remixes. They aren't just copies of other bootlegs. -------- These are simply great! I especially love the creative remixes of Monument and Any Second Now, but all of them are really well-done! This is probably the best of Strikes 1-12. 1 A good mix, with an added beat and the sample "Little 15" patched over it here and there. 2 Uses the Some Bizzarre Mix and adds a few cymbals and stuff from there. 3 EXCELLENT mix; using added beats, reaggae-like notes, and pieces from other DM songs, most notably Any Second Now. Also occasionall says "Work" (DM sample from which song I'm not sure). If there's only 1 mix of Monument, I'm glad this is it! 4 Jazzy R&B mix of Higher Love, with woman whispering "I Love You" here and there throughout the mix. 5 Hyped up with beats, and a computer voice saying... something. Uses the extended mix + the album version. 6 Not so hot. Overlays the same measure over the entire song... kinda boring. I personally prefer the Bonus Beat on other bootlegs, which is just the last 2.5 minutes of this mix and doesn't get old like this one does real quick. 7 Has a good rhythm over it, starts off with part of the Minimal mix, and then does the Minimal Mix in whole, but with added stuff throughout. Overall, an okay/good mix. 8 Should be called The Psycho Mix; sounds like the psycho theme laid over parts of it. Mostly just an added beat to the whole thing. 9 Light, jazzy mix. Hard to explain, but I really like it. Lot of remixing; not just a beat laid over the regular song. 10 Almost African-like beat added over this one. Really works with the song, I think. Final Verdict: So good, all the other boots steal from it! ======================================================================= THE NINTH STRIKE ======================================================================= 1 Leave In Silence (Jingle Jangle Mix) 8:05 2 Behind The Wheel (Liquid Mix) 7:01 3 Never Let Me Down Again (Solid Remix) 7:06 4 Nothing To Fear (Noogman's Revenge) 5:47 5 In Your Room (Dark Vibes Mix) 6:40 6 Everything Counts (Whistling Mix) 8:06 7 Strangelove (Wah Wah Mix) 6:57 8 Stripped (Stripping For Mom Mix) 7:22 9 Pipeline (Arab Mix) 6:23 -------- Track 3 is also the Groovy Mix + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Strikes 8-12 feature ALL ORIGINAL, NEW bootleg remixes. They aren't just copies of other bootlegs. For the most part, these are okay - good mixes. 1. Leave in Silence is a good remix, uses the Quiet Mix, which leaves a lot of room for added beats and rearrangement. 4. Nothing to Fear just has part of some annoying techno song laid over the whole thing. You might like it... I hate it. 6. Everything Counts is mostly from the versions released in 1988 along with Live 101, with a little remixing. 8. Mostly just Stripped with a beat laid over it. Pretty simple but I really like the beat they used. 9. Mostly just Pipeline with a beat laid over it. Pretty simple but I really like the beat they used. Final Verdict: Pretty good; all original, most not that remarkable. ======================================================================= THE TENTH STRIKE ======================================================================= 1 It Doesn't Matter Two (Mysterious Mix) 2 Enjoy The Silence (Blue Mix) 3 Black Celebration (Fast Celebration Mix) 4 Two Minute Warning (Synth Mix) 5 World In My Eyes (Holy World Mix) 6 Halo (Dark Tone Mix) 7 Told You So (Noog That Beat Mix) 8 Policy Of Truth (Oriental Mix) + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Strikes 8-12 feature ALL ORIGINAL, NEW bootleg remixes. They aren't just copies of other bootlegs. ---- THIS ROCKS MY ASS!!! This is one of the best boots for remixes of old songs. Most tracks had lots of instrumenation added to them, along with new and interesting rhythms. They aren't just cut & paste mixes, or beat-overlay mixes (where one repeating beat is laid of the Single and it's called a new mix). Most of them take advantage of instrumental riffs to make long, dancable mixes. I think all of these are very creative. Final Verdict: I definitely recommend it! ======================================================================= THE ELEVENTH STRIKE ======================================================================= 1 Behind The Wheel (Long Version) Cut n' paste of the regular versions 2 Dreaming Of Me (House Mix) This one is actually pretty cool 3 The Things You Said (Club Mix) Normal version with a beat added to it 4 I Want You Little 15 (Rough Beat Mix) 2 tracks, both with a jungle beat laid over them (suck!) 5 Ice Machine (Kild Remix) 6 Rush (Spiritual Mastermix) 7 Shake The Disease (Long Version) + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Strikes 8-12 feature ALL ORIGINAL, NEW bootleg remixes. They aren't just copies of other bootlegs. ---- In "I Want You Little 15," they just laid a beat over it, and couldn't get the timing right, so the beat is constantly speeding up and slowing down as the mixer tries to compensate. Total amature SUCK. Final Verdict: Not really worth it, except perhaps for Deaming of Me (House Mix) ======================================================================= THE TWELFTH STRIKE ======================================================================= 1 It's Called A Heart (Mistery Mix) Cut n' paste of the regular versions 2 People Are People (Long Version) Cut n' paste of the regular versions 3 Master & Servant (House Mix) Cut n' paste of the regular versions 4 A Question Of Lust (Tekno Mix) Extended version with an extra beat 5 Just Can't Get Enough (Edit Version) 6 New Dress (Edit Version) Razormaid Mix, though different time 7 Death's Door (is it the Jazz Mix?) (Not listed on sleeve) 8 Behind the Wheel/Just Can't Get Enough/Set Me Free Mix (not listed on sleeve) - what's the point? + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Strikes 8-12 feature ALL ORIGINAL, NEW bootleg remixes. They aren't just copies of other bootlegs. ---- Final Verdict: Not really worth it, except for the first minute of ICAH (Mistery Mix) ======================================================================= THE TWELVE 1/2th STRIKE (there is no 13th Strike) ======================================================================= 1 Little 15 (Opera Remix) 2 All The Things You Said (Harmony Mix) A remix of "The Things You Said". 3 One Caress ('94 Remix) 4 World In My Eyes (Distortion Remix) 5 DPM-Mix Actually the On-USound DPM Megamix 2. 6 On USound Mix Actually the On-USound DPM Megamix 1. 7 Halo (Unr. 12" Version) 911 remix service remix. 8 Ice-Machine (Shake-Mix) 9 Enjoy The Silence (Rub-A-Dub-Mix) 10 Enjoy The Silence (Ricki-Tik-Tik-Mix) Same mix as commercially released, except cut at the beginning. + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + This CD has some great mixes, some available elsewhere, and some that aren't too remarkable. Here's my breakdown: 1,2,3,4,8 = great new mixes! 7,9 = okay new mix 5,6,10 = available elsewhere 1 - A pretty good mix, with new beat and new instrumenation; kinda warbly opera sound in the background throughout... may sound disgusting, but everything fits together nicely 2 - The beginning sounds like a whole song in itself, until Things You Said finally comes into play. The beat isn't too fast, though it's paced well enough to make this song dancable if you wanted to dance. I like it! 3 - Some instrumenation added to this one; no big pounding beat or anything. Great job; great mix 4 - Mayhem Mode was the base for this one, I think, though more instrumentation was added. Heavy bass beat comes in after a little bit. 7 - Cut & Paste mix, with a lot of stuttering used to try to create new beats. Nothing new added. Okay mix, but nothing special. 8 - Hard beat added, sounds kinda corny at first, but once the song gets going, the beat seems to fit. Mostly used cut & paste to make the song longer, but with the beat, it turned out pretty good! 9 - Isn't this the Ecstatic Dub, with the first long "ding" removed from the beginning? Final Verdict: A few things here aren't bad. ======================================================================= THE THIRTEENTH STRIKE Does Not Exist, see Strike 12 and a half. THE FOURTEENTH STRIKE See Heart/Gore Modern Times THE FIFTEENTH STRIKE See Hommage STRIKE 15 (NEW/FAKE) See below regular Strike's STRIKE 18 (NEW/FAKE) See below regular Strike's THE SIXTEENTH STRIKE See Walking to the Shoreline Part 1 THE SEVENTEENTH STRIKE See Walking to the Shoreline Part 2 THE EIGHTEENTH STRIKE See Ultra Remixes - The Ultra Remixes by M.L. Gee ======================================================================= ======================================================================= THE NINETEENTH STRIKE ======================================================================= 1 Barrel Of A Gun (Hard Tune Mix) 05:42 2 It's No Good (Club 69 Future Mix) 08:05 3 It's No Good (Club 69 Future Dub) 07:06 4 It's No Good (Club 69 Funk Dub) 05:07 5 Any Second Now (Live) 02:57 6 Photographic (Live) 03:18 7 Nodisco (Live) 03:06 8 New Life (Live) 04:04 9 Puppets (Live) 03:25 10 Ice Machine (Live) 03:49 11 Big Muff (Live) 04:08 12 I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead (Live) 02:06 13 Tora! Tora! Tora! (Live) 02:55 14 Just Can't Get Enough (Live) 03:50 15 Boys Say Go! (Live) 02:44 16 What's Your Name (Live) 02:50 17 Television Set (Live) 03:16 18 Dreaming Of Me (Live) 03:37 Total Time: 72:15 ---- Live Tracks Manchester Fagin's 11-03-81 Final Verdict: If you don't have the Club 69 mixes, or the BOAG Hard Tune Mix, you need them! ======================================================================= THE TWENTIETH STRIKE See World of Sound and Harmony THE TWENTY-FIRST STRIKE See Ultimate Ultra Remixes or Ultra Remixes by ML. Gee THE TWENTY-SECOND STRIKE See 12 Inches by Jonnathan McBride THE TWENTY-THIRD STRIKE See Venetian Dreams THE TWENTY-FOURTH STRIKE See Now This is Fun THE TWENTY-FIFTH STRIKE See Ultra Mega Modes 1998 THE TWENTY-SIXTH STRIKE See Japanese Radio Specials THE TWENTY-SEVENTH STRIKE See HeadStar 27 THE TWENTY-EIGHTH STRIKE See Nine Killers On Highway 28 THE TWENTY-NINTH STRIKE See Spacer Remixes 1999 **See my special note about the Strike series at the top of this document. ======================================================================= ======================================================================= STRIKES AGAIN ======================================================================= 1 enjoy the silence (razormaid) 2 halo (911 remix) 3 strangelove (discotech) 4 just can't get enough (master mix) 5 violation 15 (bogus bros.) 6 world in my eyes (razormaid) 7 policy of truth (art of mix) 8 clean (noogie's mix) 9 stripped (stripping for mom mix) 10 dangerous (altermixxe) 11 the sun & the rainfall ('95 mix) + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + I absolutely love it! My favorites are ETS, stripped(it has a very reggae/island beat and is very bold and deep--good mix, sounds like the highland mix only better!), dangerous, violation 15(little 15--very dark dance mix), and the sun & the rainfall. the guy who worked at the cd shop told me it was an assorted collection from various "strikes" remix bootlegs. Final Verdict: Rehash! ======================================================================= SUBSTANCE ======================================================================= 1 Royal Megamix 99 27:33 2 Enjoy The Silence / Policy Of Truth megamix 17:40 3 Behind The Wheel alien scifi remix 6:04 4 Sacred rough demo 5:29 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Track 1 is good and bad. It has some creative mixing in there (overlaying of DM songs; ie, Enjoy the Silence drums on NLMDA works really well), but this song is split up between 14 tracks, and there is no attempt at a smooth connection between tracks. In the middle of a vocal, it'll cut off into another song. Terrible! Track 2 has been on a lot of boots lately. It's basically what the name says, a mix of official extended versions of both songs, alternating back & forth, sometimes together, etc. Nothing special. Track 3 is okay... (real quiet) has some extra beats & instrumentation on it, and at one point a narrator's voice gives a little speach ending in "can you stay alive long enough to unravel the mysteries and find a way home?" Track 4 is cool... terrible quality, as these demos usually are, but interesting. Final Verdict: eeeeeeh... ======================================================================= SUNSHINE MIXES (new/fake 13th Strike) ======================================================================= 1. Master and servant pre-release promo version 2. It's called a heart slow mix 3. Flexible pre-deportation mix 4. A question of lust pre-release promo version 5. Strangelove pre-release promo blind-edit mix 6. Behind the wheel/route66 pre-release promo mega-single mix 7. Sweetest perfection phasing version 8. Personal jesus reach out version 9. Waiting for the night martin's vocal version 10. Enjoy the silence the quad: final version 11. Blue dress black version 12. Happiest girl pre-release promo version ======================================================================= TECHNOGRAPH ======================================================================= BLACK WAX MEGAMIX 1. i feel you / walking in my shoes / mercy in you 2. enjoy the silence / dangerous / never let me down again / love in itself 3. everthing counts / policy of truth / little 15 4. enjoy the silence / strangelove / people are people / blasphemous rumours 5. world in my eyes / leave in silence / behind the wheel 6. just can't get enough / master & servant / get the balance right 7. route 66 / pleasure little treasure / personal jesus 8. work hard / see you / the meaning of love / what's your name / new life THE REMIXES 9. question of lust (minimal) 10. but not tonight (robert margouleff mix) 11. personal jesus (telephone stomp mix) 12. just can't get enough (DJ international record mix) 13. strangelove (bomb the bass) 14. behind the wheel (shep pettibone remix) 15. black celebration ( black tulip mix) BONUS 16. two minute warning (live) + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Tracks 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, and 15 are official remixes, sometimes under slightly different names. Track 16 probably is, too. ======================================================================= TOTAL REMIX ======================================================================= 1 In your Room US-Single Edit 2 Blasphemous Rumours US-Single Edit 3 Barrel of a Gun 3 Phase Mix 4 Painkiller Short Mix 5 It's no good Live on RTL 6 Enjoy the Silence The Quad: Final Mix 7 Barrel of a Gun One Inch Punch V2 8 Behind the Wheel Live Lieven 29.07.93 9 Stripped Live Lieven 29.07.93 10 Everything counts Live Lieven 29.07.93 11 Barrel of a Gun US-Radio-Edit + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + CD-R recording not sure about the amount of copies; rather poor quality ======================================================================= THE 12 INCHES BY JONNATHAN MCBRIDE or THE TWENTY-SECOND STRIKE ======================================================================= 1 Policy Of Truth (Ambi Dub '98) 2 Love In Itself (Acoustic Mix) 3 World In My Eyes (Old School Club Mix) 4 Flexible (Latin Mix) 5 Enjoy The Silence (Psycho Electric Dub) 6 Happiest Girl (Pump Up The House Mix) 7 People Are People (Metal Edit) 8 Shake The Disease (Big Mix '98) 9 Pipeline (Chill Out Dub) + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Pretty good CD; better than your average bootleg. Mixes don't always provide a significant change from the original, but the quality is great, and whoever did this knew what they were doing. 1 Starts with the mix that has "I'm not a politician, I'm a business man", then switches to a few other mixes. Not too bad, but not all that different from the regular remixes. 2 This is great! Starts off with just the trumpets in the background, which fades away into Love in Itself 4. But there are more beats and stuff added to it. Still has the sound of Love In Itself 4, but is a little livelier now. 3 Mostly the Dub in my Eyes mix, has Kraftwerk's Pocket Calculator at a few points. Not that notable. 4 Has an added lick to it, and more snare drums. Some warbly sound effects in places. Pretty catchy. 5 Uses the Harmonium Mix as a base, and adds a phased beat to it. Also some other sounds added, and some remixing here and there; it's more than just Harmonium with a beat laid over it. Good mix. 6 Different intro, uses Pump Up the Volume near the middle (including the words). Not the same as the Razormaid Mix, but I think one of these 2 mixers got the idea from the other. 7 More metal added (hence the name). Very cluttered mix; has house-piano, trumpet-like sounds, all kinds of stuff. The verses are pretty much left alone, but in between them is where all the new stuff happens. Final verdict? All right, it kicks ass. 8 Remixed, few things added, sounds a lot like the original extended versions. 9 Starts and ends with a thunderstorm. Some other high instrumentation added throughout the song. Extra clanging. This is not the Kodo-Mix from The Eighth Strike, though they sound similar by description. Excellent mix! Final Verdict: If you like your mixes very similar to the original, this one is great! ======================================================================= TRAVELLING ======================================================================= 1 Strangelove Razormaid Mix 2 Sea of Sin Tonal Mix 3 World in my eyes Kraftwerk Mix 4 Happiest Girl Jack Mix 5 Agent Orange 6 Fly on the windscreen 1985 7 Get the balance right 8 Death's door 9 Just can't get enough Schizo Mix 10 Strange Note by David Gahan + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Tracks 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 are all available on official mixes. ======================================================================= TRIUMPH DER LUST; FORBIDDEN FRUITS III ======================================================================= 1 Enjoy the Silence - Killer Remix 6.05 2 Behind the Wheel - Eighteen Mix 6.38 3 Policy of Truth - Marocco Mix 6.09 4 Strangelove - L.A. Mix 6.30 5 Personal Jesus - F. Kevorkian Remix 4.11 6 Fly on the Windscreen - Flip Side Mix 5.07 7 Never Let Me Down Again - Japanese Video Mix 8.11 8 Get the Balance Right - Combination Mix 7.56 9 People are People - Different Mix 7.12 10 World in my Eyes - Kling-Klang Mix 7.12 11 Compulsion - Evolution Mix 6.28 12 A Question of Lust - Ambient Mix 4.53 13 Death's Door - Blue Angel Mix 2.40 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Official Mixes: 6 (means the b-side), 8, and 9. ======================================================================= ULTIMATE ULTRA REMIXES or ULTRA REMIXES BY ML. GEE PART 2 or THE TWENTY-FIRST STRIKE ======================================================================= 1 The Love Thieves (In The Mood Remix) 2 Barrel Of A Gun (Barrel Of A Drum Mix) 3 Uselink (Ambient Mix) 4 Useless (Bristol Drum 'n' Bass Mix) 5 It's No Good (DnB Mix) 6 Slowblow (DnB Mix) 7 The Bottom Line (Trance House Mix) 8 Home (Hardstep Mix) 9 Freestate (Trance Mix) 10 Jazz Thieves (TripHop Mix) 11 Barrel Of A Gun (Punch Vinyl Mix (Short version)) + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + These are mostly cut & paste mixes from official remixes, with some extra drumbeats and such added on. The quality is good, but they're not really all that different. Love Thieves, for example, doesn't seem worth the effort to remix, while Freestate and Bottom Line are on the more creative side (since there were no official remixes to start from). Sometimes, just the official versions revamped and remixed made for a good new mix, like It's No Good. Final Verdict: Overall, it's not a bad CD, but I wouldn't say you couldn't live without it, either. ======================================================================= ULTRA - THE REMIX ALBUM ======================================================================= 1 Barrel of a Gun 6:34 2 The Love Thieves 8.40 3 Home 8.11 4 It's No Good 6.28 5 Uselink 9.35 6 Useless 5.36 7 Sister Of Night 6.26 8 The Jazz Thieves 3.02 9 Freestate 3.19 10 The Bottom Line 5.13 11 Insight 5.01 12 Untitled (mini-painkiller) 2.41 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + This CD is awesome! Some tracks aren't much more than the regular song with a beat added on (useless, bottom line, jazz thieves, insight) (and even then, the result is often magnificant), and some are totally awesome (boag, uselink, sister of night, freestate). All of them are well-done. These are different than ULTRA REMIX: THE ULTRA REMIXES. They are not the same thing. Final Verdict: Buy! Buy! Buy! ======================================================================= ULTRA MAXIMUM ======================================================================= 1 Barrel of a Gun Slo-Mo RMX '98 9:22 2 The Bottom Line Mellow Mix '98 6:18 3 Sister of Night Big Mix '98 9:38 4 It's no good Promo 12"-RMX 8:52 5 Insight Ambi-Mix 7:54 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + CD-R recording, exclusive mixes. Limited to 77 copies. The boot "Now This is Fun" took all of these mixes and put them on their boot, so if you have that one, you have these mixes already. ========================================================= ULTRA MAXIMUM 2 ========================================================= 1 Useless 7:29 2 The Love Thieves 8:40 3 The Instrumentals 10:50 4 Freestate 9:24 5 Home 8:05 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + CD-R recording, exclusive mixes, Limited to 77?!? "The Instrumentals" includes all Ultra-era instrumentals and b-sides. ======================================================================= ULTRA MEGAMODE 1998 Or Strike 25 (or maybe 26) ======================================================================= Ultra-Mega Mode I 45:38 1 Jazz thieves 3:06 2 Slowblow 3:47 3 The bottom line 5:58 4 Sister of night 7:24 5 Uselink 1:14 6 Useless (Cosmic/k&d) 10:35 7 Painkiller 5:05 8 Freestate 8:30 Ultra-Mega-Mode II 24:28 9 Home 7:05 10 It's no good 4:37 11 Barrel of a gun 12:44 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + These are well-organized long-play megamixes from Ultra (not the kind that switch songs every 2 seconds). Some of the songs are further remixed themselves, so it's not just a string of regular versions. But they're not remixed so much that they lose the DM in them. Excellent mixes! Final Verdict: Kick My Ass and get this CD! ======================================================================= 1992: ULTRA RARE TRAX 1 (a1) ======================================================================= 1 8:47 a1d1e Master/Set Me Free (Razormaid) 2 7:46 a1b4 It's Called A Heart (Razormaid) 3 5:49 a1 Behind The Wheel Take One (Dub mix) 4 4:26 a1m Halo (Uncomfortable mix) 5 7:20 a1b2d2g World In My Eyes (Razormaid mix) 6 8:29 a1b2hm Policy Of Truth (Art of Mix) 7 5:49 a1b2d2 Enjoy The Silence (Razormaid mix) 8 3:52 a1 Behind The Wheel Take Two (Video mix) 9 6:45 a1b1d1 Strangelove (Razormaid mix) 10 6:33 a1b3d1e New Dress (Razormaid mix) 11 6:42 a1mx Death's Door Take One (Joy mix) 12 3:45 a1mx Death's Door Take Two (Blue Angel mix) ---- Track 11 is the Jazz mix, available on the "Condemnation" single. Track 12 is the regular version, available on the "Until The End Of The World" soundtrack. + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Comments: maier chad raymond -------- Overall, this disc has the worst quality out of all of the bootlegs. The other URT CD's quality is better; overall, URT is good because of the incredible rarity of a lot of the songs. QUALITY = 5 (of 10) 4: Halo (Uncomfortable Mix) 4:29 Remixed by Daniel Miller. Very bad quality. 7: Enjoy the Silence (Razormaid) 5:49 Excellent mix, very bad quality. 8: Behind the Wheel Take Two (Video Mix) 3:52 Different from US video 10: New Dress (Razormaid Mix) 6:33 Bad quality -------- I just picked up a bootleg called "Ultra Rare Trax". The mix of songs is excellent. The only unfortunate thing about it is the recording is mediocre at best. Lots of tape hiss. -------- Sound quality is worse than DJ's Revenge. Really nice remixes, though. -------- Well, I'm borrowing my friend's Ultra Rare Trax Vol I.. I bought URT VOl II and returned it (it was horrid! Bad sound quality, bad remixes), but I strongly recommend Ultra Rare Trax Vol I.. Tracks 1,5,6,8, and 9 are especially good remixes w/ decent to good sound quality. Final Verdict: Pass it up. ======================================================================= 1992: ULTRA RARE TRAX 2 (a2) ======================================================================= 1 4:06 a2b3c2lx Route 66 (Nile Rodgers remix) 2 7:12 a2b1k Dangerous (Art of Mix) 3 3:46 a2 Strangelove (U.S. DJ edit) 4 3:36 a2b3c2l Deathwish 5 7:17 a2b4e Just Can't Get Enough (On-USound remix) 6 4:24 a2b3c2l Photographic (On-USound remix) 7 6:30 a2b2d2g Sea Of Sin (Razormaid remix) 8 9:04 a2b3h Enjoy The Silence (Hollywood mix) 9 8:53 a2b6c2gl Nothing (Dallas Beat mix) 10 4:27 a2l But Not Tonight (Robert Margouleff mix) 11 3:48 a2b4d2el A Question Of Lust (Robert Margouleff remix) 12 5:52 a2b1d1gkl Behind The Wheel (Razormaid remix) ---- Track 1 is available on the "Earth Girls Are Easy" soundtrack. Track 4 is an On-USound remix of "I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead". Track 5 is the Base mix. Track 6 is "Photogenic". Track 9 is Nothing (Art of Mix). Track 10 is different from the version on The Third Strike. Track 11 is from a US promo 12". Tracks 11 and 12 are swapped on the CD back cover. + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Although better quality than URT 2, some tracks were still really badly recorded. QUALITY = 7 (out of 10) 5: Just Can't Get Enough (On-USound) 7:19 Quality is not that great. 7: Sea of Sin (Razormaid Remix) 6:27 Awesome remix!! 8: Enjoy the Silence (Hollywood Mix) 9:01 Pretty cool. Incorporates just about every sound from US CD single as well as XLCD imports. 9: Nothing (Dallas Beat Mix) 8:50 Pretty cool remix. 11: Behind the Wheel (Razormaid) 5:51 Just about the shittiest quality of any song on all of the bootlegs. -------- I bought URT Vol II and returned it (it was horrid! Bad sound quality, bad remixes), but I strongly recommend Ultra Rare Trax Vol I.. -------- I picked up Ultra Rare Trax vol. 2 today. The sound quality is MUCH better than that on vol. 1. Tracks 11 and 12 are reversed on the back cover of the label. Track 12 has a lot of tape hiss, and track 5 sounds like it was taken from a bad record. ======================================================================= 1992: ULTRA RARE TRAX 3 (a3) ======================================================================= 1 7:54 a3e Strangelove (Fresh Ground mix) 2 6:55 a3b2d1h Happiest Girl (Razormaid mix) 3 2:38 a3 I Love, You Love, Me Love (Birthday mix) 2:47 a3o Down in The Boom Docks (Spector mix) 4 2:47 a3o Down in The Boom Docks (Spector mix) 5 16:03 a3 New Mode Mecca '90 Megamix 6 6:28 a3b2m Halo (Hellfire mix) 7 4:49 a3 World In My Eyes (Mayhem Mode 2 / Trip Mode) 8 7:23 a3x Something To Do (Metal mix) 9 7:23 a3b5x Strangelove (Bomb The Bass mix) 10 9:08 a3 Waiting For The Night (L.A. Lunar mix) ---- Track 1 is from a UK promo 12". Track 3 on the CD contains two songs, the second of which is repeated in track 4. Tracks 3 and 4 are cover versions sung by Martin Gore. Track 6 is the Bogus Brothers mix. Track 7 is _not_ the officially released Mayhem Mode version. Track 8 is available on the rereleased "Shake The Disease" CD. Track 9 is available on the US "Strangelove" 12" and the rereleased "Everything Counts" CD. Track 10 is remixed by KROQ. + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Overall, pretty good quality. Cool Martin Gore Traxs intended for Counterfeit (However, Andrea Meth doesn't like them...) QUALITY = 8 (out of 10) 1: Strangelove (Fresh Ground Mix) 7:54 Remix by Daniel Miller available only on UK 12" Promo. Pretty cool mix. 2: Happiest Girl (Razormaid Mix) 6:55 Awesome remix!! 3: I Love, You Love, Me Love (Birthday Mix) 5:31 Great remix of an old Gary Glitter track. This track has this song (2:38) and is immediately followed by Down in the Boom Docks (2:47) 5: New Mode Mega '90 16:03 One of the most incredible megamixes I've heard! Mostly from Violator/MFTM albums. 6: Halo (Hellfire Mix) 6:28 Bad quality remix by the Bogus Brothers 7: World In My Eyes (Mayhem Mode) 4:49 Different mix from that of LCD Bong 20. Remix by Jon Marsh of Beloved 10: Waiting For The Night (LA Lunar Mix) 9:08 Very interesting mix indeed by the KROQ station in LA, but never broadcasted. ---- Strangelove (Fresh Ground Mix) A good remix with a different puchy beat. And of course that "Super DJ" sample from Cameo's "Word Up". Happiest Girl (Razormaid Mix) Big booming beat, and some occasional nice drum samples. Good mix, but not very good sound quality, once again sounding as if it was recorded at too high a volume. I mean, come on, how hard can it be? Razormaid released this on CD, the URT folks could have just copied the track digitally or something. Anyway, the result is that the drums sound a bit sick, as if they're played over an out-of-tune FM station. I Love, You Love, Me Love (Birthday Mix) Brilliant! Not great quality sound, but that just adds to the charm! Sounds very much like a home demo, with very cheap and nasty drum and keyboard sounds, and beautifully OTT vocals. Cuts off suddenly, and Down in the Boom Docks starts up. Down in the Boom Docks (Spector Mix) Sounds like a demo, but with better sound quality than the previous track. It's a guitar-based rock number, and sounds to me a lot like something Elvis might have done in one of his rawer moments... New Mode Mecca '90 Megamix This is basically a megamix of "Violator" with a few other bits thrown in. The songs are combined in interesting ways, not just strung together one after another as in some megamixes. Has a really nice finish! There are occasional vinyl pops and a couple of scratches, but overall quality is good. At 15:21 into the track, the stereo image shifts. Just another little mastering "oops". Halo (Hellfire Mix) Not great sound quality, with a bit of static on the hihat and Dave's S's. Sound quality is MUCH better than on The Second Strike. This version is actually listenable. A very good re-edit (as opposed to remix). World In My Eyes (Mayhem Mode Mix) Very minimal dubby house mix, giving the elements of the song a lot of space. The piano chords sound great with just a beat under them. Overall, deep and mellow and very nice. Something To Do (Metal Mix) Strangelove (Bomb the Bass Mix) Opens with a big booming beat and develops into a fairly standard mix. Has a very cool zapgun sound used occasionally. Waiting For The Night (L.A. Lunar Mix) Opens with a strange quote, then a burst of strange sounds as the song starts. Synth washes and sound effects are laid over the song all the way through. A scrappy drumbeat is laid over the middle part of the mix--the drums sound good but are a bit too dominant. Turns into dub halfway through, just a bassline and the drums with some odd samples (babies, telephones etc.), and a few bits of the original song come through at the end to finish it off. Overall this is a GREAT mix, sounding like something the Orb would come up with (although the production is a little rough in places). -------- When the band swung through Texas, they gave a radio interview to a station in Austin, a good friend of mine was able to get through and ask a question to Martin. The question was whether he had recorded I Love You Love Me Love and Down The The Boomdocks for the Counterfeit EP. He replied no, then said, wait! He then stated that he had recorded those two songs earlier in his career mostly as a joke and given them to a friend as a present. He had no idea why anyone would ask about it, but assumed that since we knew, some bootlegger must have gotten a copy of it. So there y'all have it; they are the real McCoy, but not recorded for Counterfeit. Final Verdict: Few okay if you don't have them from elsewhere. ======================================================================= 1992: ULTRA RARE TRAX 4 (a4) ======================================================================= 1 6:57 a4 A Question Of Time (Old Town mix) 2 4:12 a4b1d2kmx Personal Jesus (I'm Not Crazy Anymore mix) 3 10:45 a4b6 Enjoy The Silence (Hot Trax mix) 4 4:25 a4x Are People People? (Adrian "On-U-Sound" Sherwood mix) 5 6:54 a4b6 Sea Of Sin (Razorcats mix) 6 5:05 a4 Fly On The Windscreen (Touch Me mix) 7 6:23 a4 Just Can't Get Enough (Rubber-Band mix) 8 3:25 a4 To Have and To Hold (Icelandic Taster remix) 9 5:35 a4x Dangerous (Hazchemix) 10 6:46 a4x A Question Of Lust (Minimal mix) 11 5:49 a4 Death's Door (Skeleton Key mix) 12 2:10 a4 I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead (Flexi mix) ---- Track 1 is listed as "Question of Lust". Track 2 is the Kazan Cathedral mix, available on the "Just Say Da" CD. Track 3 is the Triad mix, by Ultra Hot Razor Cuts. Track 4 is available on the US "Master And Servant" 12". Track 5 is the Ultra Hot Razor Cuts mix. Track 6 is listed as "Fly on the Window Screen". Track 7 may be the Hot Trax mix. Track 9 is available on the US and Japanese "Personal Jesus" CDs. The liner notes say it is taken from the GBONG7 gatefold 7"; it isn't. Track 10 is available on most "AQOL" singles. + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + These remixes are mostly early recordings of current mixes, and thus the quality isn't the best. QUALITY = 6 4: Are People People? Bizarre remix by Adrian Sherwood. 5: Sea of Sin (Razor Cuts Mix) 6:54 Great remix with Behind the Wheel in it! 7: Just Can't Get Enough (Rubber Band Mix) 6:23 Incredible remix, very danceable and house-sounding, with Flexible mixed in. Best mix yet! 8: To Have and to Hold - Icelandic Taster Remix 3:25 Awesome mix with different keyboard sounds! -------- Overall sound quality is quite good, but some tracks have audible hiss and some sound a little bit muffled. A Question Of Time (Old Town Mix) Sounds pretty much the same as the New Town mix, without the live bits tacked on. Personal Jesus (I'm Not Crazy Anymore Mix) Housier than the original, with samples saying, "the Lord Jesus Christ himself" and "I'm not crazy any more!". Enjoy the Silence (Hot Trax Mix) A mix of most(?) of the official mixes--I can hear all four parts of the Quad mix, and a few other mixes too. During one section of the mix it breaks down to just a rhythm with the Harmonium version laid over the top. That part sounds great--the Harmonium version is slower than the beat, so the vocals have a dreamy "ambient" sound... Anyway, it's definitely a worthwhile mix, probably one of the better cut and paste type mixes I've heard. The bad part is that there's a lot of wow and flutter in some parts, as if the track was mastered from a faulty tape player. Strange, since Hot Trax issued this mix on CD, and their original version doesn't have this problem. Are People People? (Adrian "On-U-Sound" Sherwood Mix) Sea of Sin (Razorcats Mix) Not bad. Fly on the Windscreen (Touch Me Mix) OK, but sounds pretty similar to the original. Just Can't Get Enough (Rubber Band Mix) Quite interesting. This is basically a cheesy house style cover version of "JCGE", with a few samples of the original chorus, as well as the "Flexible" chorus near the beginning. Lots of cliched samples too. To Have and To Hold (Icelandic Taster Mix) Seems "boomier" than the original. Quite good. Dangerous (Hazchemix) House instrumental with many interesting sounds. Sounds very different from the original. A Question of Lust (Minimal Mix) Nice mix, with keyboard sounds and voice, but hardly any percussion. Long instrumental break at the end, with drums and weird noises. But it's so easy to get, why did they put it on this bootleg? Death's Door (Skeleton Key Mix) This seems to be a re-edit of the Jazz mix. The sound is very murky. There are a few extra keyboard sounds and samples, and lots of delayed vocals. Not bad, it preserves the feel of the original fairly well. I Sometimes I Wish I Was Dead (Flexi Mix) Sounds very much like the original. Sound quality is good except for LOTS of vinyl static. -------- He [the BRAT] said that the Question Of Lust (old town mix) is actually the Question of Time (New Town Mix) with the crowd noise removed from the end of the track. -------- 4) Are People People (On-U-Sound) The B-side to L12BONG and to the US 12" for Master And Servant. A BAD song, and not that hard to find. 5) Sea of Sin (Razor Cuts Mix) If this is the "Ultra Hot Razor Cuts" version by Art of Mix, I havent heard it, but a DJ friend has and didnt even bother to copy it, it was so poorly done. 10) Question of Lust (Minimal Mix) Just the b-side to the UK 12" for Question of Lust as I recall, and also called the "Extended Remix" on the US 12" for Question Of Lust/Question of Time. Its basically the same song with a wierd couple minutes of strange keyboards and tweaked, quite vocals at the end. The best mix of this song, IMHO is the version on the a-side to the CBONG11 or the german 12" version of this single. 12) Sometimes I Wish I was Dead (7" Flexi Mix) Not a very different mix from the original version. I have this, but I wonder about the sound quality on the CD as it is coming from a flexi, and many I have seen are not in the greatest of shape. ======================================================================= ULTRA RARE TRAX 5 ======================================================================= 1. Home (Radio Edit Mix) 2. Behind The Wheel (US Promo Dub Mix) 3. Strangelove (U.K. Promo Highjack Mix) 4. It's No Good (Club 69 Future Dub Mix) 5. Enjoy The Silence (U.K. Promo Only Video Mix) 6. Halo (911 DJ Remix) 7. Barrel Of A Gun (One Inch Punch Mix) 8. Never Let Me Down Again (CHR Single Mix) 9. Coming Back To You (Tower Of Song ONLY) M.L.Gore SOLO track. 10. Sister Of Night (Triad Remix) 11. A Question Of Lust (Speedy Jay Remix / Gore Trance Mix) 12. Route66/Behind The Wheel (Mega-Single Mix) + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Now...this is COOL!! The Newest Ultra Rare CD.....and a damn fine one to boot!! Check out the CLUB69 mix of ITS NO GOOD!!! COOL!!!!! ======================================================================= ULTRA REMIX - THE ULTRA REMIXES or ULTRA REMIXES BY M.L. GEE or THE EIGHTEENTH STRIKE (not sure about the last 2 titles) ======================================================================= 1 Barrel of a Gun 8:20 2 The Love Thieves 7:17 3 Home 7:33 4 It's No Good 8:09 5 Sister of Night 8:57 6 Megamix 18:22 - uselink, ING, useless, BOAG, insight 7 Strangelove 7:11 8 Happiest Girl 7:13 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + One of the best bootlegs you'll ever buy! These remixes are better than most of the officially released mixes. Lots of new stuff is added to these; in fact, it makes the regular ULTRA sound incomplete. I recommend this to anyone! Final Verdict: Buy it or you suck! ========================================================= ULTRA STUDIO OUTTAKES ========================================================= 1. Barrel of a gun (studio outtake) 2. The love thieves (studio outtake) 3. Home (studio outtake) 4. It's no good (studio outtake) 5. Uselink (studio outtake) 6. Useless (studio outtake) 7. Sister of night (studio outtake) 8. Freestate (studio outtake) 9. The bottom line (studio outtake) 10. Insight (studio outtake) 11. It's no good (A. Fletcher Slow Mix) 12. Insight (Give Love Rock Mix) + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + That's been the trend lately, in 1999-2000, these studio outtakes and demos CD's. I've heard a few and find them intriguing, but I haven't heard this one. The last 2 seem to be bonus mixes, but don't let the title fool you; I doubt Andy Fletcher has done any remixing for the band, officially or otherwise. ========================================================= VARIOUS MIXES VOL 3 ========================================================= 1 Never Let Me Down Again very extended flying high mix 19:00 2 Strangelove extended bong 10:48 3 A Question Of Lust Robert Margouleff Mix 3:47 4 I Sometimes Whish I Was Dead On Usound mix 3:43 5 Fools danmark mix 4:11 6 Just can`t get enough remix 5:23 7 A Question Of Time Wall City Mix 6:58 8 Waiting For The Night l.a. lunar mix 9:08 9 World In My Eyes Mayhem Mode Dub Mix 4:51 10 Here Is The House Martin Gore Vocal Mix 4:58 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + I recognize some of these... Track 3 sounds like the one on Strike 3, but the time looks different. Track 4 was on a vinyl boot called Strangemix. It's also on many other boots. Track 5 is from the Scum Sucking Whores CD. Track 7 is from the Black Celebration Limited Edition Remixes. Track 8 is from Mixator, Strike 6, Ultra Rare Trax 3. Track 9's time suggests that it is the Mayhem Mode Mix. Track 10 is on many other boots and demo CD's. Unknowns: 1, 2, 6 ========================================================= VENETIAN DREAMS Or THE TWENTY-THIRD STRIKE ========================================================= 1 Barrel of a Gun (live London 10.04.97) 2 I feel you (Throb Mix) 3 Useless (Remix) 4 Walking in my Shoes (Piano Mix) 5 Never let me down again (Tsangarides Mix) 6 It's no good (live London 10.04.97) 7 Home (Grantby Mix) 8 In your Room (Extended Zephyr Mix) 9 FPMIP 10 Happiest Girl (Single Version) 11 A Question of Time (Remix) 12 Policy of Truth (Single Version) 13 Enjoy the Silence (Hands & Feet Mix) 14 Personal Jesus (acoustic) + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + The subtitle "A compilation of rare non-album tracks" says it all! Not sure about WIMS (Piano Mix) which is 5:24. This length doesn't fit to any version I have. -------- Except for The Piano Mix of Walking in my Shoes, all of these are available on official releases. ======================================================================= VINYL ONLY REMIXES ======================================================================= 1. Blaspemious Dreams 3:49 2. Just Can't Get Enough (No Source Remix) 5:25 3. World In My Eyes (Dub Mix) 6:00 4. A Question Of Lust (Gore Trance Mix) 7:32 5. A Question of Time (Techno mir OR Tanzhouse) 9:59 6. It's Called A Heart (Brutal Mix) 7:54 7. Two Minute Warning (synth mix) 8:43 8. Barrel Of A Gun (3 phase mix) from 'Barrel 5:19 9. Rush (wild planet - vocal mix) 6:17 10. Useless (air 20 mix) from 'Useless' 7:52 11. Barrel Of A Gun (one inch punch mix; Version 2) 5:22 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Tracks 8,9,10,11 are official remixes released on vinyl only, as the CD's title suggests. The rest are just bootlegs, found on other boot CD's ======================================================================= VIOLATED SENDED BY MIKE PAIGE ======================================================================= 1 Little 15 Violation 15 2 It's no good Club 69 Future Mix 3 Strange love Discotech Mix 4 Mercy in you Roger G's Old School Mix 5 Just can't get enough Niagara Mix 6 Dangerous Flood Mix 7 A question of lust Answer Me Edit 8 Halo Hellfire Bogus Mix 9 Rush Red & Blue Strange Acid Mix 10 Personal Jesus Horny Brat Mastermix 11 Judas Bonus Beats 12 World in my eyes Slim Fast Violation + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Track 1 from Strike 1 (DJ's Revenge) Track 2 from Strike 19 Track 3 from Royal Mixes Vol 1 Track 4 from SOFAD Strange Versions Track 9 from SOFAD Strange Versions Track 11 from DPM 1 The others I'm not sure of. Tracks 7 , 8, 10 are probably from other boots, but I'm not sure. ======================================================================= VIOLATOR 2000 ======================================================================= 1 world in my eyes Memory mix 4:17 2 sweetest perfection Be-Love-In remix 4:19 3 personal jesus Energy remix 4:56 4 halo Light mix 4:33 5 waiting for the night Be-Love-In remix 6:10 6 enjoy the silence Violation remix 4:36 7 policy of truth Energy remix 5:04 8 blue dress depeche mode remix 4:43 9 clean perfect mix 3:03 10 dangerous be-love-in remix 3:30 11 happiest girl be-love-in remix 4:37 12 sea of sin salt sin remix 4:30 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + All mixes are original ones by someone named "be-love-in." All are very close to the original songs; in fact, they pretty much are the original songs with a few extra things thrown in (more as though this were an "update" to the original Violator). As bland as that might sound, these mixes are actually pretty good, as long as you don't mind the fact that they don't vary too far from the originals (it's just a preference thing). Note that the back cover says "(c) 2000 Mute Remixed Records. Released by Mute Remixed Records under licence from Mute Records." Somehow, I doubt that. ======================================================================= VIOLATOR LIMITED EDITION REMIX ALBUM (m) ======================================================================= 1 ?:?? mx Enjoy The Silence (Ecstatic Dub) 2 ?:?? b4c2lm World In My Eyes (Mixx-Rite remix) 3 ?:?? a3b2m Halo (Bogus Brothers mix) 4 ?:?? mx Enjoy The Silence (Bass Line) 5 ?:?? a4b1d2kmx Personal Jesus (Kazan Cathedral mix) 6 ?:?? a1b2hm Policy Of Truth (Art of Noise-Remix) 7 ?:?? mx Enjoy The Silence (Ricki Tik Tik Mix) 8 ?:?? b3hmx World In My Eyes (Mayhem Mode Mix) 9 ?:?? a1m Halo (Uncomfortable Mix) 10 ?:?? jmx Enjoy The Silence (Harmonium) 11 ?:?? a1mx Death's Door (Original Soundtrack version) 12 ?:?? mx Sibeling 13 ?:?? a1mx Death's Door (Joy mix) 14 ?:?? mx Memphisto ---- Tracks 1, 4, 7, 10, 12 and 14 are available on various "EtS" singles. Tracks 2, 3, 5, and 9 are available on many other boots. Track 6 is the Art Of Mix remix. Track 8 is available on the Japanese "WIME" CD. Track 11 is the regular version, available on the "Until The End Of The World" soundtrack. Track 13 is the Jazz mix, available on the "Condemnation" single. Final Verdict: Forget it! ======================================================================= VIOLATOR REMIXED ======================================================================= 1 World in my eyes - Dub 99 2 Sweetest Perfection - Phasing Mix 3 Personal Jesus - DJ Reach Out Mix 3 4 Halo - Hardline 5 Waiting for the night - Sonic Integration 6 Enjoy the silence - New Digital Razormaid 7 Policy of truth - Never Again Remix 8 Blue Dress - Black Mix 9 Clean - Extended Version + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + I recognize a few of these... Track 2 is from Songs of Martin Gore Vol 2 Track 3 is one of the 3 Reach Out mixes from the CD Reach Out. Track 4 is from Hypnotized Track 5 is from the internet and is on many other boots (good, by the way) Track 7 is from DPM1 ======================================================================= WALKING TO THE SHORELINE PART 1 Or STRIKE 16 ======================================================================= 1 Rush (Live) 6:36 2 Halo (Live) 4:34 3 Behind The Wheel (Live) 5:07 4 Everything Counts (Live) 4:32 5 World In My Eyes (Live) 5:59 6 Walking In My Shoes (Live) 6:28 7 Stripped (Live) 5:07 8 Condemnation (Live) 3:37 9 Rush (Frisco / L. Mix) 6:40 10 Halo (Frisco / L. Mix) 5:31 11 Behind The Wheel (Frisco / L. Mix) 4:54 12 Everything Counts (Frisco / L. Mix) 5:22 13 World In My Eyes (Holy World Mix) 8:11 Total Time: 72:47 ---- Track 1 - 8 live at Shoreline Amphitheater Mountain View/S,Fm CA. on May 14, 1994 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + The recording on the live stuff isn't a very good one. Check a CD like Dogma for much better recordings of these. The mixes at the end are remixes made with the live recordings (added beats and instrumentation). The mix quality isn't too bad, but since the original live source is bad, the mixes didn't turn out very well. The only exception is WIME, which is a pretty good mix taken from the Tenth Strike. Final Verdict: Okay mixes, very low quality. I say forget. ======================================================================= WALKING TO THE SHORELINE PART 2 Or STRIKE 17 ======================================================================= 1 I Want You Now (Live) 4:36 2 In Your Room (Live) 6:21 3 Never Let Me Down Again (Live) 4:48 4 I Feel You (Live) 6:59 5 Personal Jesus (Live) 5:47 6 Somebody (Live) 4:04 7 Enjoy The Silence (Live) 6:42 8 A Question Of Time (Live) 4:13 9 Walking In My Shoes (Moon Mix) 6:46 10 Never Let Me Down Again (Solid Remix / Western Remix) 7:05 11 It Doesn't Matter Two (Montana Mix) 8:02 12 Everything Counts (Frisco / L. Mix) 4:39 13 Rush (Dub Mix) 3:48 Total Time: 73:58 ---- Track 1 - 8 live at Shoreline Amphitheater Mountain View/S,Fm CA. on May 14, 1994 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + The recording on the live stuff isn't a very good one. Check a CD like Dogma for much better recordings of these (a great version of I Want You Now Live is on Only When I Play My Mixes). There are 2 mixes at the end which are remixes made with the live recordings (added beats and instrumentation). The mix quality isn't too bad, but since the original live source is bad, the mixes didn't turn out very well Track 9 is from the Eighth Strike Track 10 is from Gold Collection Track 11 seems to be exclusive fro this boot, okay mix, nothing special. Final Verdict: Okay mixes, very low quality. I say forget. ======================================================================= WE CREATE A MONSTER ======================================================================= 1 It`s Called A Heart Emotion Dub 2 Rush Red and blue Acido Mix 3 Everything Counts 911 Mix 9:58 4 Freestate Mesmerizing Version 5 It`s No Good Shuffel Mix 6 A Question Of Time A New town live Remix 7 Enjoy the Silence Future Mix 8 In Your Room Dark Vibes Mix 9 Personal Jesus Edogg66 5:38 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Track 1 is an official vinyl-only release Track 2 is from SOFAD Strange Track 4 is from the web, found on many boots lately. Track 5 is from the web (MP3)... much better version on ELIXIR (see for details) Track 6 is probably the official Live Version that comes after New Town Mix. Track 7 is from the 911 Remix Album. Track 8 is from Strike 9 Track 3 is new but pretty lame, simply the extended version, lengthened, with an extra beat added on. Track 9 is new. It's an instrumental version, I believe taken from the tourbacking tape (either that, or it simply IS the tourbacking tape). ======================================================================= THE WHITE ALBUM ======================================================================= 1 Lie to Me Truth Mix 6:33 2 It Doesn't Matter Extended 9:24 3 Blasphemous Rumours Church Mix 7:06 4 Leave in Silence Silent Version 7:38 5 Black Celebration Blacker Tulip Mix 8:33 6 My Secret Garden Flowers in the Sun 7:11 7 Love in Itself 5 7:55 8 People are People Brutal Remix 4:41 9 It's No Good Distortion Mix 6:25 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + AVOID! This is amature mixing at it's worst. I'm sure the guy put some effort into it, and I'm sorry to totally trash it so; it sounds kinda like the stuff I threw together as a teenager using a couple of tape players. All are put together from regular versions of the song; different pieces of the song will sometimes be put over each other with no regard for matching the beat, just sounds like 2 stereos playing the same song in different places. Transitions are the roughest you could ever hear-way off time, etc; you could never hope to dance to these tracks or even listen to them. I'm sorry. Avoid at all costs! PS - kudos on the names though; in 16 years, no one else thought to name a Love in Itself mix "5" Final Verdict: White noise would sound better. ======================================================================= THE WORLD OF SOUND AND HARMONY Or THE TWENTIETH STRIKE ======================================================================= 1 See You 991 Remix 3:59 2 New Life Fresh Remix 4:10 3 The Meaning of Love Remix 3:56 4 Love in Itself 97 Remix 4:28 5 Shame Dawn-Vocal-Remix 3:57 6 Lie to me Deep Beat Remix 5:37 7 Something to Do Groove-Ridin'Remix 6:13 8 Shake the Disease 97 Remix 5:43 9 Blasphemous Rumours Joey B. Remix 4:53 10 Just Can't Get Enough 97 Remix 3:47 11 New Dress David D. Remix 6:38 12 If You Want Future Remix 4:33 13 Pleasure Little Treasure Harmony Sound Escape Remix 2:37 14 Painkiller/Barrel of a Gun Couple Remix 1997 6:55 15 Jokin'Dave Live Finish TV 97 0:58 16 It's no Good Live Finish TV 97 3:43 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Exclusive mixes!! ---- These are great mixes, for the most part. Most of them add new beats and instrumentation and rearrange things creatively. Especially if you like older DM, these are some of the best boots out there of the old stuff. Some of them used, as their base, that effect where you only plug the headphones in part way, and some of the stuff seems to disappear, while some stuff seems accentuated. Alone, this would suck, but they added enough other stuff and did some tricks with it. For example, in Shame, the verses (lyrics) are cut out, while "sugery won't cure your pain" stands out. Then the next part is faded, except for the words "stupid, give up, give up, stupid." SUCKY TRACKS: Pleasure little Treasure is just the 2nd half of the Join mix Painkiller/BOAG is pretty much a cut & paste of a few official mixes of these 2 songs. Final Verdict: I Like! ======================================================================= THE WORLD IN HOSCHI'S EYES ======================================================================= 1 Blasphemous Rumours Take Off Mix 7:59 2 Never Let me Down Again Ride Mix 7:54 3 Barrel of a Gun SP Beat Mix 5:44 4 Only When I Lose Myself Control Mix 8:10 5 Fly on the Windscreen Fly Away Mix 7:05 6 New Life Live Longer Mix 5:52 7 Stories of Old New Story Mix 7:15 8 Personal Jesus Bigger Mix 11:58 + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + The whole thing is full of beats that are mislaid and it's hard to listen to because it usually sounds like 2 different songs (with different tempos) are playing at once. On the other hand, I get the impression that Hoschi has a lot of talent, and just hasn't learned how to use his mixing equipment yet. So I hope he sticks with it. Actually, is reminds me of the stuff I used to do years and years ago, before I learned how to lay everything out on the computer. We all start somewhere! You can find Hoschi at www.hoschionline.de. Final Verdict: Give him a few years. ======================================================================= X FAN CLUB SERIES LTED. ED. CD ======================================================================= 1 Surrender (Catalan F.C. out of the Reach Remix) 2 Enjoy the Silence (Killer Remix) 3 barrel of a Gun (Live Version) 4 I Feel You (Turkish Slaughter Remix) 5 Personal Jesus (Telephone Mix) 6 It's Not Good (Promo 12" Mix) 7 Policy of Truth (Morocco Mix) (cutoff version of Oriental/Arabian Mix) 8 Never Let Me down Again (T.sangarides Mix) 9 Strangelove (L.a.mix) 10 Route 66 (Nile Rodgers Mix) 11 Everything Counts (In Large Amounts Mix) 12 Walking in My Shoes (Roger Ritual Mix) 13 in Your Room (Whispered Sex Mix) 14 Personal Jesus (Acoustic Version) + - + - + - + - + - + - + C O M M E N T S + - + - + - + - + - + - + Some of these are obviously official mixes. Others might be. I don't trust this listing at all. For example, they list track 13 as In Your Room - Whispered Sex Mix, which you can see on SOFAD Strange. However, on SOFAD Strange, that was a misprint. The song was really Judas - Whispered Sex Mix. So what did they copy to this boot? So I would expect that track 5 is the Telephone Stomp Mix, 6 is either a Club 69 or BT Mix, and 11 is the In Larger Amounts. Tracks 1, 8, and 14 are definitely official mixes. ======================================================================= CD'S WHICH ARE NOTHING MORE THAN OFFICIAL MIXES ======================================================================= Abstract vol. 1 B-Sides Collected (and many similar titles, incl. B-Sides 86-98, B-Sides 81-85) Dangerous Jesus 101 Excavations (B-Sides) Gold Remixes Greatest Hits 2000 I Feel the Happiest Girl in the World Lost Myself Mode of Remission (except maybe one track - Behind the Wheel - UK 7" Test Pressing Mix) Platinum Collection 2000 Rejoined Remixed Remixes 86-98, Remixes 81-85 Remotivate the Pleasure The Remix Album Sans Vocal (instrumental songs, like Kaleid, Mephisto, etc) ======================================================================= CD'S WHICH SOME PEOPLE THINK ARE DM BUT ARE REALLY NOT ======================================================================= Get the Message Right (NOT DM TRACKS) Real Rare Tracks (NOT DM TRACKS, but does have some old live DM tracks) ======================================================================= CD'S I'VE HEARD OF BUT DON'T HAVE ANY INFORMATION ON YET ======================================================================= Apologize 3000 Apologize 4.0 Hot Wire Mix Vol 1 New Mix in One Go Vol 1 New Mix in One Go Vol 2 Night Versions Pursuasive Ways Remixes Special 1 Ultra - Singles Remixes Various Mixes Vol 1 Various Mixes Vol 2 ======================================================================= CONTRIBUTORS ======================================================================= Bennet McElwee (Mcelwee@bnr.ca, mcelwee@cc.uow.edu.au) and everyone who contributed to his original list continued in 1998, 1999 by... Senator Scratch (JamesS@Iquest.Net) plus contributions by... Ambient Whale Mix (ultraviolatre@hotmail.com) Amy (Cheetara92@aol.com) Bob Velkov (bob.velkov@par.univie.ac.at) Dave Johnson (Pacify@Lineone.Net) Faith/Devotion (DepecheMode@Knuut.de) FREESTATE (info@freestate.de) (HTTP://WWW.FREESTATE.DE/) Markus Schmitz (markus-schmitz@freestate.de) milliByte (milliByte@DeathsDoor.com) Mode to Joy (Ogiese@T-online.De) Shilo Maggi (Maggi101@Pacbell.Net) Marc Wenderhold (Wenderhold@t-online.de) plus... Many sources I don't even recall, who don't even know they are sources. I was using this list as my own personal list for a long time before I decided to post it, so I took anything I found, not bothering to note where I got it. If anyone finds anything of theirs in here, let me know and I will include your name in this section.