Genre: Metal
Location: Spain

Normally Enjoy The Silence is not nearly one of my favorite Depeche Mode songs at all. But this version of Dreamaker, with this thundering double bass really kicks ass. And I loved this one to be on the project DRC. Special thanks to spain again.

Dreamaker begun when vocalist Elisa Martin, guitarist Albert Maroto and drummer Jorge Sáez left Dark Moor, in 2003, due to musical differences. They were soon joined by second guitarist Matias Sosa and bassist Carlos Peña and Dark Moor's former keyboard player, Roberto Camús, who had left the band in 2002, offered to play with Dreamaker, but left the band in a short time and was replaced by Nino Ruiz.

The band received a recording deal from Arise Records for two albums in September of that year, and proceeded to record their first album - Human Device. It was released throughout Europe, Japan and in a few Spanish-speaking countries in early 2004.

Genre: Rock
Location: Hungary

Never Let Me Down Again is a cover classic. Also the band Variola thinks so. Here is their version.

The band was formed in Szeged (South-East Hungary) in 1988, their name was Variola Vera that time, which came from a B-class horror movie. After some changes in the line-up Variola became a popular Hungarian underground band. That time alternative/rock acts in Hungary had lots of opportunity to play club shows even in small towns and these were usually packed with the hungry audience.

They often gigged with the most popular acts from the scene (Tankcsapda, Kispál Ès a Borz, PUF), but the best friendship was established with Sexepil, the first Hungarian act played on MTV. Around 1990-1995 Variola played hundreds of concerts and recorded some demos, but they never released any albums, their lack of money barred they efforts to make a professional material. In the mid '90-s most of the Hungarian underground clubs closed their doors and without an album it was impossible to play in the big festivals, so Variola disbanded temporarily. (except one show in '97)

Genre: Rock
Location: Germany

Today I recieved another fine cover version from my home country. The band named The Jinxs and they supporting this project with their version of Never Let Me Down Again.

The Jinxs founded in 1989. The inspiration for choosing the name of the band was given by the song “Jinx” from the British punk band Peter and The Test Tube Babies. Within the years the band played over 600 shows in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Russia and advanced to a well known band in Germany. The single stars (based on the album – Whatever They Say – Sony Music -1997) increased on place 64 in the German airplay charts and entered on 103 in the German media control charts. It was their biggest commercial success.

In 1999 the Band split up. 2001 the Band re-

Genre: Alternative
Location: Russia

An excellent cover from russia: D.Sign - Dangerous.

Givi Sheroziya talks about the time of recording Dangerous:" With my friend Evgenie Dzega (Sacred) we were going to publish a russian fan's tribute. By means of the internet have collected tracks, have agreed with a record company. But the record company wanted 2000$ for mastering the disk. Present my salary was 15 $ in a month. The similar situation was practically at all participants of the project. For us it was a unreal sum.

15 Rockbands play a tribute to Depeche Mode in Berlin Kulturbrauerei/Kesselhaus on May 31st, 2008. Here you can find the 2-DVD for free download.

The material was recorded by Anne from Offener Kanal Berlin. The DVD authoring with animated menu was done by Suffering. All artwork was done by me. Special thanks go to Till Reinhold (Offener Kanal Berlin) and Tino Meister (Rockbüro Berlin) for giving us the rights to release this DVD. Also I would like to thank the bands who perform on this show.

If you want to download the DVD with artwork, then follow this link: http://www.depechemode-forum.eu/viewtopic.php?t=11799

Genre: Rock
Location: Germany

The ball gets rolling, baby. Mophead performing a Depeche Mode cover of People Are People in a rocking kind of way.

It was a dark and rainy day, when the four Mopheads met the first time to form a new, minatory band. A thunderstorm was roaring over the country of westfalia and brought diluvial rain with blasting thunder over the people. The four already knew each other from the past, in wich they had celebrated legendary shows as the famous rockband "Cosmic Degree" from 1993 to 2001.

They had already seen small and big stages und had supported many bands like L7, H-Blockx, Thumb, Die Sterne, Die goldenen Zitronen or Chumbawamba. But on this historical day Franky (Frank Hilbert), Lemmy (Marc Dönnebrink), Johnny (Mario Dönnebrink) and Eddie (Boris Korthoff) decided to form a new glorios band as "the neighbours of the beast", as MOPHEAD.