Composition of Sound Let's get Together 1980

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In March 1980, Vince Clarke, Martin Gore and Andy Fletcher formed a band called Composition of Sound, with Clarke on vocals/guitar, Gore on keyboards and Fletcher on bass.

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[kellerman1138]

@bodydave And if the words of Clarke and Miller, combined with the simple facts of what equipment they were using to produce certain sounds and the fact that those sounds are on this demo, isn't enough to convince you of the reality of all this, then I suspect nothing I say ever will, so I'll just leave it at that.

[bodydave]

@kellerman1138 say a draw

[Devotee84]

The old photos are awesome !!!!! phenomenal, what happened to the guys, the best band of all time !!!!! I love DEPECHE MODE :-)))) Enjoy Holger

[anysecondnow81]

this is a classic!!

[bodydave]

@MrWolverineDK exactly

[MrWolverineDK]

@bodydave You are welcome, but at the same time. I stand corrected, if it is " fake" (which I doubt). Cause why would a documentary (shown on television too) have the song in it, if it was a fake ? Since then the video with Dave singing the song (on youtube) would be fake too. So I stand on my original post, it is not a fake in the sense, as a fake demo or a fake song. Cause fake DM songs, I know a few off, where some of them were Red Flag songs, and others were Colour Theory.

[kellerman1138]

@bodydave … and if we move on to synths - both sounds and playing style - it's also clear that this isn't even an early DM recording, it's most likely from after Speak & Spell, probably 1982 or very late 1981 at the earliest, supported by the fact that Vince sings lead. It isn't impossible that DM recorded this demo in a studio before or during S&S, however unlikely it may be, but it is impossible for this to be a CoS recording from like half a year before they started working with Miller.

[kellerman1138]

@bodydave … and by the time the band started recording with Miller at the end of 1980 they'd been DM for months, and since this demo has the DM drum sounds too, it really couldn't have been made before the end of 1980, hence this recording isn't a CoS recording …

[kellerman1138]

@bodydave Don't take my word for it, take Miller's (youtube.com/watch?v=DA_HLtD2o­LU). At 03:35 Miller explains that until DM worked with him they hadn't even used a sequencer before, and it was his ARP 2600 that was used for most of the sounds on the Speak & Spell recordings, and that includes the bass drum that sounds nothing like the KR-55 bassdrum (it's a resonant lo-cut filter closing quickly produced with an analogue synth, and not a preset drum sound in a drum machine) …

[kellerman1138]

@bodydave Don't take my word for it, take Vince's (youtube.com/watch?v=DA_HLtD2o­LU). At 02:23 Vince shows you DM's own simple drum machine that they used at home and live, and it's not the Korg KR-55 used later on on the official DM recordings as well as this demo. And even if they'd bought/borrowed/rented a KR-55 for the demo session the bass drum isn't the one used on the demo or the official recordings, that's a synced/sequenced analogue synth sound and not a drum machine.

[ludvanbeethoven1]

@bodydave No, Ive heard martin say it too, that COS was prior to dave joining them.

[kellerman1138]

@bodydave I'm really not talking about publication, I'm talking about the first studio session which was Photographic (bizarre) just before Dreaming of Me that was recorded in dec 1980, and also … I can assure that "discs" didn't enter into the equation in 1980.