Making a record with 'Depeche Mode' is not a simple process. It's quite complicated and long. We have the luxury of time. I'm not sure that's such a good thing when you're being creative.
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There are definite reference points to older Depeche Mode records.
I just don't think you can make records easily and have them be great. It's a process. You've got to get really lucky all the time, or you've got to work like mad.
A band like Depeche Mode would go out and record them hitting a trash can with a steel rod or something and recording it. And that would be one of their sounds of the drums. I love the creativeness of that kind of really raw sampling.
Normally, you go into the recording studio, make a record and then take it on the road and you think... wow... I could have done THIS to it, or something.
I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time.
That's the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a record, and you're remembered that way.
Every record I do is a learning process for how I want to do the next one.
People are really set in their ways in how they produce records, and I was at least open enough to where I knew I wanted to do something totally different.
As part of Depeche Mode, I don't think it's right for me to be using my own songs for a solo project. I'm not a very prolific songwriter, so I keep those for Depeche Mode.
Making records is fun. It's not some big statement. You're allowed to make mistakes.
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