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Music for the Masses is a Synth-pop act. Their sound grew out of Led Zeppelin, Carl Orff and Ludwig van Beethoven. Those roots explain a lot about how Music for the Masses arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Black Celebration, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Altogether the chart holds 4 connections around Music for the Masses, reaching back through Led Zeppelin. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Music for the Masses is the sixth studio album by the English electronic band Depeche Mode, released on 28 September 1987 by Mute Records in the United Kingdom and Sire Records in the United States. The follow-up to their successful album Black Celebration (1986), it was co-produced by Depeche Mode and David Bascombe. Recorded in Paris and London and mixed in Denmark, it was the first Depeche Mode album to see band member Alan Wilder take control of the production.
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Music for the Masses grew out of Led Zeppelin, Carl Orff and Ludwig van Beethoven, shares an orbit with Black Celebration. 4 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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