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Depeche Mode – Black Celebration
Title: Depeche Mode – Black Celebration
Year/Genre: 1986, Synthpop
Condition: NEW
Cultural Facts:
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Recorded in West Berlin’s Hansa Studios near the Berlin Wall, the same complex later used by U2 and David Bowie for their most experimental work.
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The album marked Martin Gore’s full embrace of bleak romanticism, mixing industrial tones with themes of faith, death, and desire.
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Engineer Gareth Jones used early sampling tech and real factory noises, giving the record its cold, mechanical atmosphere that influenced Nine Inch Nails and The Cure’s late-’80s direction.
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