Depeche Mode - Wagging Tongues Remixes

Label: Columbia US
Format: 12"
Cat: 196588 48151
Released: 20 Dec 23
Genre: Coldwave / Synth / Techno
Tags: Techno , Breakbeat, Downtempo 

Tracklist
Side 1
1. "Wagging Tongues" (Hawtin Gaiser remix) (6:29)

Side 2
1. "Wagging Tongues" (Daniel Avery remix) (4:30)
2. "Wagging Tongues" (Henning Baer's 808 remix) (4:49)

Depeche Mode's 'Wagging Tongue' was first released in 2023 as the star number from the indelible synthpop band's comeback album and swansong, Memento Mori. Something of downtempo musical elegy, the original track is a crisp exercise in melancholy uplift, colliding the band's usual synthetic arpeggiations with grass-is-greener lyrical themes. Now, however, comes a new ten-track remix bundle, of which select remixes have been chosen for a set of limited releases on wax. Most of the artists enlisted for the job have done a stellar job, amping up the tempo to a neatly electrified 130-ish-bpm, while indulging the zeitgeist's penchant for well-rounded but beefy sonics. On this one, none other than Daniel Avery sticks out with a futureological cosmic electro take, while Hawtin Gaiser opts for knocking big-room techno, and Henning Baer cools things down with a cityscape-soaring 808 remix.