Favourites Details
depmod.com The ultimate discography with over 14,000 (!) scans of close to 4,000 items, index to all official tracks and a collector's forum. In 2005 I made the logos for a limited run of T-shirts and jackets sold to forum members and given to the band and others – view front and back.
HOME Ex-Halo/Modesite/Empty World 3 has the best general forum, especially with regards to touring, and is often first with the latest news.
depeche mode dot com The official site sure ain't what it used to be, but it still contains loads of exclusive videos. And thankfully, there is the old site archives.
www.svenner.com DM "datography" with lots of info and images, including an unreleased tracks section with audio samples (go to "Versions"). In German.
raphMODE.net Extremely well-made Flash site. Lots of downloads, for instance Raph's own DM piano tribute and many more or less self-made DM fonts!
Depeche Mode Stuff Zambak's classic collector's reference discography. Also contains some other interesting sections. To be viewed with Internet Explorer.
Shunt The official Recoil website, with an archived Q+A section with loads of interesting facts about DM recordings, touring, members etc – an absolute must read! Also don't miss the 81>85 and 86>98 editorials. Probably the closest we'll ever get to a DM autobiography.
Shops Details
eBay Here you'll find everything that you can't find anywhere else. Sometimes at fantasy prices, sometimes for a fraction of the postage cost.
eil.com / esprit Very expensive but you get what you pay for – if you want your 12″ vinyl to be in mint condition this is the place, the packaging is superb!
Mute Bank Mute's official shop sometimes has some nice exclusives, but beware of their packaging which isn't very good for 12″ vinyl and digipak CD.
Official Depeche Mode Shop Get the current merchandise from here. Great for T-shirts etc, more fragile items may be better to get at the shows. Also see the US shop.
Play.com With UK/EU commercial CD albums and DVD, as well as downloads. Pretty good packaging, free delivery to most of Europe and low prices.
netsoundsmusic.com Marketplace with more than 400 independent stores, both second hand and new.
Tower.com For US commercial releases. There's been some changes to the site recently and I haven't ordered since, but hopefully all is still OK.
Collectors Details
Lars Worm Beck (Denmark) The depmod.com webmaster has a collection crammed with UK vinyls, CDs and much more. All items linked to the discography, of course.
Vladimir Litovkin (Israel) The depmod.com/forum moderator has an impressive collection, take a look at the compilations section to start with! Also contains the old DM value guide, several other collectors' collections (see below) and more.
Shinji (Belgium) Really nice page with sub-sites on DM, Martin, Dave, his collection, the DM TV archives project and more. While some areas are still under construction, I highly recommend the page on Martin which contains detailed info about his various guest appearances.
Philippe Douet (Japan) Lots of Japanese items, most with images. If you see a lot of ?-marks it means you haven't Japanese characters installed (not required).
Pascal Kaszczyk (Spain) Possibly the biggest collection online, and not only records but also all kinds of promotional items and music magazines.
YpErBaLLaD (Italy) With photos of every single item – CD, CD-R, DVD, VHS and boxes – some very rare.
Bogdan (Ukraine) Vinyl collection that contains front, back and label scans of everything – both 7″ and 12″ – truly impressive.
Thomas Dörnte (Germany) An impressive well presented collection including an incredible amount of images of both CD and vinyl.
Martin Sernestrand (Sweden) Really nice design with scans and photos of just about everything.
Steffen Reinecke (Germany) Detailed page with loads of high quality images of the 'Playing the angel' era and later releases. Just like me he has links to depmod.com for all items that are listed there.
Greg Niemczyk (Poland) A blog used to post photos of his vinyl collection – loads of them – in high resolution too. Just scroll down and click the titles to the right.
Marcus James (Canada) Featuring one photo for every album, each capturing all formats as well as singles and videos, giving a good overview of each era.
Stefan Haglund (Sweden) An unusual collection consisting of 7″ singles only, each of which is presented with scans.
Devotional (Spain) Lots of Spanish items, including a page filled with 7″ scans.
Daniel Barassi (USA) Of course the webmaster of the official site has a huge collection. It's presented as a 70+ pages PDF document.
Jens Schwemmer (Germany) Recently redesigned, but all sections aren't online yet. An impressive collection.
Sven Gerlach (Germany) Scans of most items (just in thumb size though) and a cool URL.
VOX (Germany) Nice page with images and tracklistings. Part of dm-tickets.com that contains a huge amount of ticket scans.
Björn Boch (Germany) The entire collection in one very colourful and thanks to that legible page. The index also contains a link to images of his own art.
Alex Picha (Sweden) Part of a really nice homepage this collection is listed in one page too. One of few collections that even lists the tracklistings!
Simon Pykett (England) Nice and clear page, easy to overview and navigate.
John Philipsson (Sweden) An ambitious "Mute Collector Discography" including several DM related artists. To view his DM collection click "All Items" and scroll down.
Francesco (Italy) Another nice page, a really good URL and a very impressive collection.
Chris Brown (England) As suggested by the home page he's really into the 'Counterfeit e.p' – I counted to no less than 43 different formats!
Peter Degn (Denmark) A colourful collection hosted by litovkin.com and made with Excel, just like Chris' collection above.
Raymi Medina-Ortiz (Australia) Fourth collection to be hosted by of litovkin.com – will this ever end, Vlad?!
Tom Bienmüller (Germany) litovkin.com collection number 5. Don't get fooled by the seemingly empty home page!
Kim Stenfeldt (Denmark) litovkin.com collection number 6!!
Jesper Lakman (Denmark) The collection of the webmaster of depechemode.dk.
Barty Rubio (Spain) Another Excel based collection, including matrix readings for many vinyls.
Martin Zero202 (Slovakia) A young guy that recently started collecting. Nice and clear with country flags, depmod links and special thanks to fellow collectors.
Stephen Cox (Ireland) UK completist just like me – he even has the Betamax editions of 'Live in Hamburg' and 'Some great videos'! I still miss these...
Johan Östberg (Sweden) Another collection in one page, it's very long... Also check out the scans of his 7″ collection: jostberg.com/dm/dm.html.
dm_collector (Poland) Apart from his official collection this also lists his live bootlegs. Somehow the "view" icons aren't clickable, maybe they'll be later?
Darkdevoted (France) A blog that lists his collection, including a huge amount of live bootlegs.
Aldo Monteforte (Italy) Not really a collector's page but a Facebook photo album of his collection. To view it you have to be a member though.
Ryan Houston (USA) Another one page collection, generated with Excel. Doesn't collect anymore but as the list is still online I choose to keep it.
Andrew Walk (USA) A true record collector; DM is just one of all artists that are listed on his site. Click the yellow hand. Requires Java. Not updated for years.
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