From the vault. Or the archive if you like. Just thought it would be so much more fun if all these things would see the light here.
12xCD/DVD BOX - Depeche Mode - The Collection (No cat#) IT - Italian Box Set wich Includes:
Speak & Spell (S.I.A.E. DM 09 11),
A Broken Frame (S.I.A.E. DM 09 10),
Construction Time Again (S.I.A.E. DM 09 09),
Some Great Reward (S.I.A.E. DM 09 08),
Black Celebration (S.I.A.E. DM 09 07),
Music For the Masses (S.I.A.E. DM 09 01),
Violator (S.I.A.E. DM 09 02),
Songs Of Faith And Devotion (S.I.A.E. DM 09 03),
Ultra (S.I.A.E. DM 09 04),
Exciter (S.I.A.E. DM 09 05),
Playing The Angel (S.I.A.E. DM 09 06),
Touring The Angel,
Live In Milan (S.I.A.E. DM 09 12)
TV and Sorrisi canzoni Italian Box - Contain all the studio albums plus Touring the Angel dvd - all are sold weekly during the 2009 summer with the magazine.
Depeche Mode - Playing The Angel - Mug (Official)
Depeche Mode - Ultra - VHS EPK (Electronic Press Kit)
1997 UK Mute promotional-only electronic press kit PAL video including interview and music, running time 17:30. Issued in a unique picture slipcase. VSTUMM148
13 Longboxes for Compact Discs
01. Martin L Gore - Counterfeit EP
02. Depeche Mode - People Are People
03. Depeche Mode - A Broken Frame
04. Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
05. Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward
06. Depeche Mode - Music For The Masses
07. Depeche Mode - Violator
08. The Cure - Boys Don’t Cry
09. The Cure - Japanese Whispers
10. Skinny Puppy - Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse
11. Skinny Puppy - Too Dark Park
12. Skinny Puppy - VIVI Sect VI
13. Die Krupps - Metalle Maschinen Muzik
When compact discs first began to appear in the retail stores, the longbox packaging served a transitional purpose, allowing shops to file new compact discs in the same bins originally used for vinyl records. Longboxes were 12” tall, and capable of containing two separate discs when necessary. Most longboxes were full color, with details about the compact disc on the back, and artwork that was frequently taken from the original square album cover art, reworked for the new shape and size. There were generic white longboxes with windows that would display the compact disc cover, as well as clear plastic versions that were an inexpensive substitute for a printed longbox.
Placing the jewelcase within a cardboard enclosure made for a larger and more cumbersome package that would be more difficult to shoplift from retailers.
Longboxes began to fade from popularity as the CDs themselves became more colorful (labels initially printed CDs with a plain black-on-silver appearance). Longboxes were also considered environmentally wasteful and were expensive to produce. In North America, the drive to eliminate longboxes took hold in Canada first.
Black Celebration Beer
Introduced to the market in februay 2005 by Baggårdsbryggeriet Holstebro which went backrupt march 2007. A few month later it was restarted and in the same time the brewery started to make this bottle in 50cl. Unfortunately it was closed down again by the same reasons in 2009 and it is unavailable since then.
“Now it’s about time to present our new Porter (Ale/ Lager), Black Celebration, wich is a tribute to one of those things we love the most, here at the brewery, that is a full dark and tasteful beer. Somebody may also recognize the name from an 80’s record song with Depeche Mode, where they sing ‘I’ll drink to that’ in the chorus, cheers to that! Black Celebration is medium full-bodied with a nice content of smokemalt.”
33 cl, 7,2 %
A promo merchandise from Depeche Modes release of Playing The Angel. A Feather Boa. Still unopened.
Proofsheets for Depeche Modes three Enjoy The Silence 12” that I won from a Mute Records competition in 2007. Some without the typography that the final versions have.
