out now: De/Vision – Strange Days [Popgefahr Records]

Artist:
De/Vision

Title:
Strange Days

Label:
Popgefahr

Cat#:
POP 022

Release Date:
June 2013

Format:
4xCD & digital

Tracklist:
CD01-01)
Dinner Without Grace

CD01-02)
Your Hands On My Skin

CD01-03)
Slum Child

CD01-04)
Perfect Mind

CD01-05)
Time Stands Still (Tonight)

CD01-06)
The Way You Treat Me

CD01-07)
To Be With You

CD01-08)
Falling

CD01-09)
The Day Before Yesterday

CD01-10)
Try To Forget

CD01-11)
Can Feel The Drive

CD01-12)
Try To Forget
(Forget-Me-Not Mix)

CD01-13)
Dinner Without Grace
(Pastoral Mix)

CD01-14)
Hunters

CD01-15)
From Time Out Of Mind
(In Memorial Mix)

CD02-01)
Free From Cares

CD02-02)
Soul-Keeper

CD02-03)
At Night

CD02-04)
Dress Me When I Bleed

CD02-05)
Like A Sea Of Flames

CD02-06)
Skip This Page

CD02-07)
Love Me Again

CD02-08)
Moments We Shared

CD02-09)
Blue Moon

CD02-10)
Time

CD03-01)
Unversed In Love

CD03-02)
Blue Moon
(Limited)

CD03-03)
Moments We Shared
(Divided)

CD03-04)
Drive

CD03-05)
Blue Moon
(Radio Edit)

CD03-06)
Call My Name

CD03-07)
Blue Moon
(12″ Mix)

CD03-08)
Endlose Träume

CD03-09)
Dress Me When I Bleed
(Bloodless Mix)

CD03-10)
Pseudo Fusion

CD04-01)
I Regret

CD04-02)
Dawn

CD04-03)
Sweet Life

CD04-04)
Like The Sun

CD04-05)
Harvester

CD04-06)
Today’s Life

CD04-07)
Scars

CD04-08)
Keep Your Dreams Alive

CD04-09)
Wages Of Sin

CD04-10)
Bleed Me White

CD04-11)
Take Me To The Time

CD04-12)
Daydreamin’

CD04-13)
Sweet Life
(Little Bear Mix)

CD04-14)
Crystallized

CD04-15)
I Regret
(Lab Mix)

CD04-16)
Sexy Moves

CD04-17)
Scars
(Jab Dub)

CD01 is the album “World Without End”, CD02 is “Unversed In Love”, CD03 is bonus for “Unversed In Love”, CD04 is “Fairyland?”.

Info (English):
This very fair priced 4CD BOX-SET contains the first 3 albums, that appeared on the German Strange Ways Records label (Wolfsheim, Beborn Beton, Goethe Erben, Carlos Peròn…) in completely remastered quality.

De/Vision’s debut album ‘World without End’ in 1994 was following a number of self-produced singles and tapes and also features the first single ‘Try to Forget’ on Strangeways (1993). The album was an instant success in the scene and also included the single ‘Dinner without Grace’, released after the album. The new remastered Version in this box features 5 bonus-tracks, taken from the singles ‘Try to forget’ and ‘Dinner without Grace’.

It was with the following singles ‘Love me Again’, ‘Blue Moon’ and ‘Dress me when I bleed’ and the album ‘Unversed in Love’ (1995) that the band found their big breakthrough in Germany and all over Europe. Frankly: I firmly believe that ‘Unversed in Love’ is still one of the best synth-pop albums of all times and even after 18 years I don’t get tired of listening to it.

‘Fairyland?’ was the last album released on Strangeways and featured the singles ‘Sweet Life’ and ‘I regret’ – both highly successful, but not really ‘my cup of tea’… The remastered version of ‘Fairyland?’ comes with 5 remixes, taken from the two singles.

The Bonus-CD features additional tracks, taken from various singles and EPs released in the Strange Ways Years and all deleted for many years. The Box thus features a total of 52 Tracks, many of them unavailable for very long, and at a very fair price! A MUST not only for fans of De/Vision but all lovers of quality electropop!

Info (German):
Wir schreiben das Jahr 1993. Mit Try to forget veröffentlichen DE/VISION ihre erste Single auf dem Hamburger Label Strange Ways Records. Innerhalb kürzester Zeit erobern die Jungs die Herzen der Electro-Pop Gemeinde und im darauffolgenden Jahr erscheint mit World without end das erste Album der Band, mit dem sie bereits einen ordentlichen Achtungserfolg verbuchen kann und gleichzeitig den Grundstein für ihren weiteren Erfolg legt.

Unzählige Konzerte und die Veröffentlichung des zweiten Longplayers Unversed in love 1995, mit welchem die Musiker erneut ihr Gespür für eingängige Melodien beweisen, lassen die Fanschar stetig wachsen. Mit Blue Moon, der zweiten Singleauskopplung aus jenem Album, können DE/VISION sogar einen kleinen Radiohit landen. 1996 schnuppert die Band dann zum ersten Mal Chartluft, nachdem ihr drittes Album Fairyland? auf Platz 87 der Media Control Charts einsteigt.

20 Jahre später erscheinen diese 3 Alben + Bonusmaterial nun erstmals in einer exklusiven 4CD Box. Strange Days beinhaltet somit das Schaffen der Band während ihrer Zeit bei Strange Ways Records. Alle Songs wurden digital überarbeitet. Ebenso wurde das Artwork komplett neu gestaltet, wofür Steffen Keth, Sänger der Band, sämtliche Photos beigesteuert hat.

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