Pre-show DJ sets

Notes

Since 2001, Martin Gore has been selecting obscure songs, usually of the minimal techno variety, to be played in the last hour before Depeche Mode appears on stage. Fans have attempted to identify these tracks, which was made easier once Shazam became available. Please note that sometimes Martin would swap one or more tracks with new ones during a tour, so if you attended one concert then you may not have heard all of these tracks for that tour. Below are the lists of these songs, sorted per tour, but with no internal order. This page is a work in progress and will be updated later.

2001 Exciter Tour

This mix has been released as a very limited CD-R promo named 'Electric Performer' by Mute Records to radios around Europe. Depechemode.com presented a mostly complete list at the time:

1. Kid 606 - track 8
2. Thomas Brinkmann - track 2
3. Kriedler - Circles
4. Stewart Walker - unknown
5. Isan - Skeek
6. David Bowie - Out-take
7. Marineville - unknown
8. White Noise - unknown
9. Signer - track 4
10. Schlammpeiziger - Auger...
11. Hip Young Things - excerpt from 'Console Yourself' Compilation
12. Sergej Auto - unknown
13. Kandis - Lunar Corona
14. Octagon Man - unknown
15. Electronicat - Shuffle Tiiiime

2005-2006 Touring The Angel

This list was presented on Depechemode.com at the time:

1. Audion - Vegetables
2. Lawrence - Winter Green
3. Metope - Rebird
4. Heartthrob - Hot Sugar Candy Apple Taffy
5. Alex Smoke - Lost In Sound
6. Woody McBride - Sinsentrikken Ut I 2 Spor
7. Rene Breitbarth - Cooling The Plasma
8. Metope - 33
9. Motor - Yak
10. James T Cotton - The Dancing Box
11. T. Raumschmiere - An Army Of Watt

2009-2010 Tour Of The Universe

This list has also been presented on Depechemode.com, except that a fan had identified one more track which is at the bottom:

1. Kjofol - Thirteen People
2. Minilogue - Hundraelva
3. Andre Kronert - Salzwasserliebe
4. Ben Klock - Check For Pulse
5. Simone Tavazzi - Poltergeist (Perc Mix)
6. Maetrik - Envy
7. Ki.Mi - StereoKubizm
8. Marko - Everything Turns Black (Alex Bau Mix)
9. The Chain - Letting Go
10. Popof - Serenity
11. Ben Klock - Sub-Zero
12. Dusty Kid - Lynchesque
13. FLG - Amplifier
14. Guy Gerber - Timing
15. Jurek Przezdziecki - Qwerty Poema
16. Loco Dice - Breakfast At Nina's (Onur Ozer mix)
17. Mini Mode - Ombra
18. Noir - Ragnarok
19. Ryan Davies - Spicyal Sound
20. Simian Mobile Disco - 10,000 Horses Can't Be Wrong
21. Max Cooper - Harmonisch Serie
22. Rainer Weichhold - Bamboo (Format B Mix)
23. X.L.R.8.R - Clubnight
24. Lawrence - Sunrise

2013-2014 Delta Machine Tour

This list was shazamed by fans:

1. Elektrabel - Ripplin
2. Darmec - Fashion
3. Fabbro - Pulsing Essence
4. Gianni Grambone - Human Reason
5. Michael Badal & Avtar Araie - Displacement
6. Mike Duz - Bad Choice
7. Monobox - The Construct
8. Plastikman - Spastik
9. Ross Harper - Pink Boots
10. Alex Xhela - 303 Mode
11. Antonio Mazzitelli - Underground Movement
12. Artech - Maximalesk (Artech Minimalesk Mix)
13. Asterdose - T.I.M.E. To Get Down (From The Biblical Garden MIx)
14. Clouds - Optic

2017-2018 Global Spirit Tour

This list was shazamed by fans:

1. Dense & Pika - Cartoon Heart (Slam Track Series Remix)
2. Sian - Axiomatic
3. Julian Jeweil - Blue
4. Atom™ & Tobias. - Physik E7532
5. Vessels - Elliptic (Barker & Baumecker remix)
6. Gello Geens - Delusion
7. VSK - Echinopsis
8. Setaoc Mass - Poidub
9. Ben Klock & Marcel Dettmann - Phantom Studies
10. Deorro - Five Hours
11. DJ M-Traxxx - The Wrath Of Nia (DJ Yoko Remix)
12. Emanuele Millozzi & Luke Sky - Dark Side (Andres Gil Tech Side Remix)
13. Mario Ochoa - Infamous
14. Mind Against & Aether - Eclipse
15. Mindorfear - Black Hole
16. Ozgur Ozkan - Calm Before The Storm
17. Ralph Kings - Danceria
18. Shao - Sensi

2023-2024 Memento Mori Tour

A list of tracks for the 2023 and 2024 legs of the Memento Mori Tour. Thanks to 'Welshmode' for shazaming and compiling this list on Spotify:

1. Taupe - Flood
2. Petter B - Filtered Tone Sequence
3. PWCCA - Null Mutation
4. Henning Baer - Burning Chrome
5. Marcel Dettmann - Seduction (feat. Emika)
6. Efdemin - America (Terrence Dixon MInimal Detroit Mix)
7. Marcel Dettmann - Lightworks
8. Terence Fixmer- Matière Noire
9. Mark Reeve - Temptation
10. Temudo - Niiv
11. Henning Baer - On Craft (SFT Mix)
12. Heiko Laux & Joel Mull - Slight Munch
13. Charlotte de Witte - Apollo
14. Robag Wruhme - Wuzzelbud FF
15. Toto Chiavetta - Higher Than A Bird
16. Kontal - K43
17. Rob Hes - Titan
18. Holden Federico - Inner Order
19. OFF/GRID - Walk The Walk
20. Border One - Apex
21. Mark Broom - Rush
22. SigfreedoM - I Wanna Be Your Slave vs Bulldozer
23. Beroshima - Interplugreaction (Henning Baer Remix)
24. RE-ST - Molva Rausch
25. Uncertain - Renegade
26. Olaf Stuut - Crown Shyness
27. Sandro Galli - Ionosfera
28. Tsibo - M25
29. Tonikattitude - Code 23 B
30. TWR72 - Mouse
31. Samuel L Session & Van Czar - First Man
32. Aladarus & Shabaam - Shabbat In Chicago