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Alan Charles Wilder (born 1 June 1959) is an English musician, composer, arranger, record producer and member of the electronic band Depeche Mode from 1982 to 1995. After his departure from the band, the musical project Recoil became his primary musical enterprise, which initially started as a side project to Depeche Mode in 1986.
Recoil is a musical project created by English musician and former Depeche Mode member Alan Wilder. Essentially a solo venture, Recoil began whilst Wilder was still in Depeche Mode as an outlet for his experimental, less pop-oriented compositions. Once he announced his departure from the group in 1995, Recoil became Wilder's primary musical ...
101 is a live album and documentary film by the English electronic music band Depeche Mode, released on 13 March 1989 by Mute Records.It chronicles the final leg of the band's Music for the Masses Tour and the final show on 18 June 1988 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.
With the addition of Alan Wilder in 1982, Depeche Mode’s classic lineup was complete, and the band kicked off its peak period a year later with the non-LP single “Get the Balance Right!” and ...
The band rehearsed for the tour in Pensacola, Florida, the same city where the tour kicked off. [7] It was the first time the band has performed live in the state, and the band received some flak from locals who didn't understand their appearance; Alan Wilder was quoted to Rolling Stone saying "I've been called a faggot about twenty times today, mostly from guys leaning out of trucks.
Alan Wilder in 2010. In 1991, Depeche Mode contribution "Death's Door" was released on the soundtrack album for the film Until the End of the World. Film director Wim Wenders had challenged musical artists to write music the way they imagined they would in the year 2000, the setting of the movie.
After Clarke left Depeche Mode to form Yazoo (and, later on, Erasure), Fletcher, Gore, and Gahan continued on with Alan Wilder, who played with the band from 1982 to 1995.
After completing Depeche Mode's most successful album, Violator, and subsequent World Violation Tour (with Nitzer Ebb as the support act), Wilder co-produced Nitzer Ebb's 1991 album Ebbhead. This cemented both a good personal and working relationship with the band's lead singer Douglas McCarthy. [2]