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Episode #31 with Vince Clarke Silence, synthesisers & sequences

hen I think of Vince Clarke, I think in colours: The rainbow palette on the cover of the Erasure album Circus. The hyper-real purple on Loveboat. Even the sounds have a garish and quirky quality to them – after all, weren‘t the duo‘s last two studio works called The Neon and Day-Glo? When I think of Vince Clarke, I also think of the video for „Chorus“, in which he and Andy Bell spent a fun day on the beach and Vince doubled as a mad professor turning the knobs on a gigantic modular. „To be honest, it wasn‘t a synth,“ Vince says with

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