''MG'' is the second solo studio album by English musician and Depeche Mode member

Martin Gore Martin Lee Gore (born 23 July 1961) is an English songwriter, musician, singer, record producer and DJ. He is one of the founding members of the electronic rock band Depeche Mode and is the band's main songwriter. He is the band's guitarist a ...

, and the first to include self-penned material rather than cover-versions. It was released on 27 April 2015 by Mute Records and consists of sixteen

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instrumentals. A music video for "Europa Hymn", directed by M-I-E and incorporating illustrations by Jan L. Trigg, was released to

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in February 2015.

Reception

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, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, ''MG'' received an average score of 70, based on 12 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

Track listing

''MG Remix'' EP

Martin Gore announced a remix EP, available on double 12” vinyl and digital download via Mute. The EP includes remixes by Andy Stott, Virgil Enzinger and Christoffer Berg, alongside two previously unreleased tracks. In association with BitTorrent, Gore also launched a remix competition for the track “Featherlight”. The winning remix is included on the digital release of Gore's EP. ''MG'', released on Mute in April 2015 marks the first solo instrumental album from Depeche Mode's Martin Gore. Described by ''

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'' as “a careful sculpting of electricity and air”, the album creates an absorbing and emotional sonic landscape. The deadline for submission was August 21, with a winning remix announced August 31.

Studio equipment

According to interviews with Martin Gore published in ''Electronic Musician'' (July 2015), ''Keyboard Magazine'' (July 2015) as well as video-interview on his official website, Gore mentioned some instruments (mainly synthesizers, modular synthesizer systems, drum machines) and other equipment he used in the album recording: *

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modular system *

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* Gleeman Pentaphonic * 88 DOTCOM system * Aries modular system * Digisound 80 modular system * Synton Fenix *

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* ARP Solina String Ensemble * Arturia MiniBrute * Elektron Analog Four * Elektron Analog Rytm * Dewanatron Swarmatron * Octave Plateau Voyetra Eight polyphonic synthesizer module * Moog Minimoog Voyager * Moog Memorymoog * Tiptop Audio Trigger Riot * Noise Engineering Zularic Repetitor drum module *

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mixing console *

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(DAW) and other equipment.

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of ''MG''. *

– art direction, design, production * Q – mixing ; additional programming * Will Hinton II – studio assistance * Stefan Betke – mastering * Jonathan Kessler – management * Paul A. Taylor – art direction * Jan L. Trigg – illustration

Charts

References

External links

Album information from the official Martin Gore website
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