Mute have this week confirmed that the upcoming 21st Anniversary edition of The Innocents will be released as a standard CD edition, via digital download and also in a Deluxe Edition featuring 2 CDs and a DVD.
The Innocents 2009 will be released on October 26th and I will post tracklistings and more information as soon as I have it!
This year sees the sixtieth anniversary of the 45-rpm vinyl single and US label Rhino are marking the event by releasing a series of Digital 45's which includes a download of Erasure's 'A Little Respect' / '“Like Zsa Zsa Zsa Gabor”' which is available digitally with it's original artwork.
Other artists honoured in the project include Prince, a-Ha, En Vogue, and Jackson Browne. See Rhino's website for more details.
Vince Clarke has created several pieces of original instrumental music for the upcoming audiobook of Tonya Hurley's young adult novel 'ghostgirl'. The audiobook will be released this month by Recorded Books and available unabridged on CD and tape via the company's website and as a digital download on itunes and audible.com. the audiobook is narrated by Parker Posey.
Vince is also working on a score for the audio edition of 'ghostgirl: Homecoming' which will be released later this year.
Info from Vince Clarke's official website.
On August 10th Erasure will release Erasure.Club, a six-track EP of previously unreleased club mixes of classic Erasure tracks.
You can hear 90-second previews of all six mixes below using the audio player below.
Lexer Music is now taking PRE-ORDERS for the Erasure.Club remix EP plus three exclusively designed T-shirts at the Official Erasure Shop. The pictures below are from photographs of finished shirts to give you an idea of the true shirt colours and to show the quality of the screenprinting.
'Phantom Bride', from Erasure's 1988 album The Innocents, will be released by Mute Records as a special EP on October 12th. Featuring brand new remixes from Almighty, Frankmusik, Dogmatix and Vince Clarke the EP will be released as a CD and via digital download.
More information when we have it!
Mute Records have announced that the much anticipated 21st anniversary edition of Erasure's 1988 album The Innocents will be released on October 26th and will be available as a standard and a deluxe edition.
More details when we have them!