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In audio production, '''sampling''' is the reuse of a portion (or sample) from a sound recording within another recording. As pioneers of the electronic music genre in the early 1980's, [[Depeche Mode]] were among the first acts to make use of new sampling technology within a traditional pop music format.
 
Among the thousands of original samples recorded and utilized by Depeche Mode to enhance the atmosphere of their musical output are many that originated elsewhere, including brief passages of musical recordings by other artists, snippets of audio from television shows, radio broadcasts, films, environmental sounds, and more. Analysis of these '''sample sources''' and how they are manipulated is a common topic of discussion among fans of the group.
 
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= Information =
 
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Within reason, this page aims to document all verifiable sound sources for many of the musical parts used by [[Depeche Mode]] in the production of their studio albums, official remixes, and live performances, as well as the samples used in the production of former Depeche Mode member [[Alan Wilder|Alan Wilder's]] [[Recoil]] studio albums, official remixes, live performances, and other works.
 
Due to the passage of time, fading memories, and the inherent nature of the samples described in this article (which were often transposed, reversed, tweaked, processed, layered, and otherwise manipulated nearly beyond recognition), there is unavoidable potential for journalistic error or misattribution. To combat this, the content of this article is comprised of verified quotes from band members and recording personnel, verifiable sources with citations wherever possible, audio examples, and independent research voluntarily contributed by Depeche Mode and Recoil fans across the world. It is written with the humble goal of providing an interesting document on this topic in a tabular format that is organized, well-researched, and reasonably accurate.
 
This article differentiates samples by their origin: '''Self-made samples''', which describes any material originally recorded by Depeche Mode or Recoil, and '''Sourced samples''', which describe samples which were not originally recorded by either group. In addition to confirmed samples, this article also covers samples that are commonly misreported as being used but have been directly refuted by a member or associate of Depeche Mode or Recoil.
 
As ever, if you notice an error on this page, please feel free to [mailto:[email protected] contact us].
 
= Depeche Mode =
 
== <i>Speak And Spell</i> ==
<i>Speak And Spell</i> does not contain samples from any identifiable sources.
 
== <i>A Broken Frame</i> ==
<i>A Broken Frame</i> does not contain samples from any identifiable sources.
 
== <i>Construction Time Again</i> ==
 
{{Sample source
|song=[[Everything Counts]] (various live versions)
|artist=[[Depeche Mode]]
|releaseyear=1983
|smsample1=Woodwind-like sample
|smsnotes1=Two samples with a woodwind-esque timbre (presumably derived from a synthesizer and subsequently sampled), comprise the famous riff played by [[Alan Wilder]] during the outro as heard in performances of 'Everything Counts' during the [[:Category:1987-1988 Music For The Masses Tour|1987-1988 Music For The Masses]] and [[:Category:1990 World Violation Tour|1990 World Violation]] tours. Notably, one of the two samples is played monophonically with a smooth portamento layered with multiple other sampled and synthesized parts to form the main melody in the middle eight section of the studio recording of '[[Shake The Disease]]'.
|smsample2=One-shot guitar chug
|smsnotes2=Part of the "chugging" guitar rhythm heard most obviously during the opening bars and throughout '[[Mercy In You]]' is sampled, transposed up several notes, and filtered to produce a rhythmic element best heard during the choruses and break section of 'Everything Counts' as it was performed on the [[:Category:1993 Devotional Tour|1993 Devotional Tour]].
|smsample3=Resonant synth pad
|smsnotes3=A resonant synth pad is used to play a series of chords during the outro of 'Everything Counts' as it was performed on the [[:Category:1993 Devotional Tour|1993 Devotional]] and [[:Category:1994 Exotic Tour|1994 Exotic]] tours. This resonant pad can also be heard during the choruses of the song as it was performed on the World Violation tour and throughout the '[[Walking In My Shoes (Grungy Gonads Mix)]]'.
|ssample1=Breathing sound
|ssource1='''Kraftwerk - 'Tour de France'''' - 1983
|sstatus1=Unconfirmed
|ssample2=Intro sweep
|ssource2='''Kraftwerk - 'Die Roboter'''' - 1978
|sstatus2=Unconfirmed
|snumberofrows=2
|}}
 
{{Sample source
|song=[[The Landscape Is Changing]]
|artist=[[Depeche Mode]]
|releaseyear=1983
|ssample1=Spoken word in German
|ssource1='''Einstürzende Neubauten - 'Merle (Die Elektrik)''''
|sstatus1=Unconfirmed
|snumberofrows=1
}}
 
== <i>Some Great Reward</i> ==
 
{{Sample source
|song=[[Blasphemous Rumours]]
|artist=[[Depeche Mode]]
|releaseyear=1984
|smsample1=Metallic snare
|smsnotes1=The heavy snare used throughout the song is produced by recording the sound of a hammer smashing against a concrete floor. Alan says in the November 1984 issue of International Musician And Recording World:
<blockquote>
"We sampled some concrete being hit for what turned out to be the snare sound. All that entailed was us hitting a big lump of concrete with a sampling hammer. The engineer / producer we use, Gareth Jones, has got this brilliant little recorder called a Stellavox which we use with two stereo mikes and it's as good as any standard 30ips reel-to-reel but this is very small and therefore very portable. So we just took the Stellavox out into the middle of this big, ambient space and miked up the ground and hit it with a big metal hammer. The sound was… like concrete being hit. I can't really put it any other way."
</blockquote>
 
Wilder later recalled in a Q&A on the official Recoil project site:
 
<blockquote>"It was a hammer on a concrete floor if I recall correctly."<ref name="shuntSGR">Source: [http://oldsite.recoil.co.uk/forum/qa/dmsgr.htm SHUNT : ARCHIVES : DEPECHE MODE : SOME GREAT REWARD]</ref></blockquote>
|smsnumberofrows=1
}}
 
{{Sample source
|song=[[Master And Servant]] (Slavery Whip Mix)
|artist=[[Depeche Mode]]
|releaseyear=1984
|ssample1=Drum elements
|ssource1='Relax' - Frankie Goes To Hollywood - 1983
|sstatus1=Disproven
|snotes1=The Face magazine reported in February 1985:
<blockquote>
''[...] One of the most popular drum sounds on the Fairlight computer, for instance - the machine used by Trevor Horn to create many of Frankie's sounds - is that of Led Zeppelin...''
 
Alan Wilder: "No, I don't mind admitting it. We nicked a beat off one of Frankie's records and stuck it on our 12-inch. But I mean the actual sound, not the idea. It's not a drum sound that sells a record anyway, it's the whole song and the musical ideas. [...]"
</blockquote>
 
Electronics & Music Maker magazine then reported [http://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/i-want-your-samples/1944 in 1986]:
<blockquote>
''In response to a complaint that Depeche Mode stole a Frankie Goes To Hollywood drum sound, Frankie's engineers replied that the Frankie drum sound was actually a Linn - itself a recording!''
</blockquote>
 
Wilder directly refutes this claim in a Q&A on the official Recoil project site in response to a fan question regarding the authenticity of the story as reported in an unofficial 1986 biography <i>Depeche Mode: Some Great Reward</i> by Dave Thompson:
 
<blockquote>"Surprisingly, no truth whatsoever."<ref name="shuntSGR"></ref></blockquote>
|snumberofrows=1
}}
 
{{Sample source
|song=[[People Are People]] (Are People People? Mix)
|artist=[[Depeche Mode]]
|releaseyear=1984
|ssample1=Doo-wop vocal sample
|ssource1='''The Citadels - 'When I Woke Up This Morning'''' - 1964
|sstatus1=Confirmed
|snotes1=Credit to <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.bratproductions.com/ Daniel Barassi]</span> for this discovery.<ref> Source: User 'fishureprice' (Brat/Daniel Barassi) Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/Bif2G7gD7ui/ post]</ref>
|snumberofrows=1
}}
 
== <i>Catching Up with Depeche Mode</i> ==
 
[[File:1985-Martin-EII.jpg|252px|thumb|right|1985 photograph of Martin Gore with the EMU Emulator II sampler keyboard during the recording of '[[Shake The Disease]]'. Photo by <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.ebay.com/usr/magicmomentsug4u eBay seller magicmomentsug4u]</span>, retrieved via <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.facebook.com/groups/depechemodeclassicfansphotosandvideos Facebook group “Depeche Mode Classic Photos And Videos”].</span>]]
 
{{Sample source
|song=[[Shake The Disease]]
|artist=[[Depeche Mode]]
|releaseyear=1985
|smsample1=Vibraphone-like percussive bell
|smsnotes1=A filtered vibraphone-like percussive bell element is employed during the post-chorus sections layered with a variety of other parts, including a separate bell sample and synthesized parts. This distinctive sound would also see use in several other [[Depeche Mode]] songs recorded at the time such as '[[It Doesn't Matter Two]]' and '[[But Not Tonight]]'.
|smsample2=Metallic percussive element
|smsnotes2=A textured, highly-resonant percussive element with a high frequency is used during the post-chorus sections layered with several other parts and processed with reverb. The sample is re-triggered to play in time with the bell melody, and is played in two ways: one where the sample is re-triggered in time with the bell melody and then allowed to play out (or allowed to play from beginning to end) on the seventh keypress, and one where the sample cuts away on the seventh keypress without playing in full. Notably, this sample is also used in a variety of other songs recorded by Depeche Mode between 1984 and 1985, including '[[It Doesn't Matter]]'.
|smsample3=Hi-hats (open and closed)
|smsnotes3=A basic 4/4 hi-hat rhythm comprised of one closed and one open hi-hat is employed throughout the verses and chorus sections. These hi-hat parts would also be used in several other songs produced during that time, including 'But Not Tonight' and '[[Here Is The House]]'.
|smsnumberofrows=3
}}
 
== <i>Black Celebration</i> ==
 
{{Sample source
|song=[[Fly On The Windscreen]]
|artist=[[Depeche Mode]]
|releaseyear=1986
|smsample1="Over and done with" Daniel Miller vocal sample
|smsnotes1=[[Alan Wilder]] confirms the origin of this vocal sample in a Q&A on the official Recoil project site:
 
<blockquote>"'Over and done with' courtesy of Daniel Miller if memory serves correct."<ref name="shuntBC">Source: [http://oldsite.recoil.co.uk/forum/qa/dmblack.htm SHUNT : ARCHIVES : DEPECHE MODE : BLACK CELEBRATION]</ref></blockquote>
|ssample1="Their living hell" vocal sample
|ssource1='''Peter Jennings, ABC News (Television News Report, unidentified date)'''
|sstatus1=Likely
|snotes1=Jennings was an active news anchor from 2/1/1965 to 4/1/2005. It is likely the exact date of the report sampled by Depeche Mode occurred sometime before or between November 1985 and December 1985 at the latest.
|snumberofrows=1
}}
 
{{Sample source
|song=[[It Doesn't Matter Two]]
|artist=[[Depeche Mode]]
|releaseyear=1986
|smsample1=Vibraphone-like percussive bell
|smsnotes1=A vibraphone-like percussive bell element is employed to mysterious and dramatic effect respectively during the later verses and on the final note of the song. This distinctive sound would also see use in several [[Depeche Mode]] songs produced at or around the same time, including '[[Shake The Disease]]' and 'But Not Tonight'.
|smsnumberofrows=1
}}
 
{{Sample source
|song=[[A Question Of Time]]
|artist=[[Depeche Mode]]
|releaseyear=1986
|smsample1=Guitar-like pluck
|smsnotes1=A brief "plucked" guitar-like sound reminiscent of a guitar or processed piano sample is used in chorus with a bass part to form the bassline. Notably, this sample is also used to play a four note sequence as a fill sporadically throughout 'But Not Tonight'.
|ssample1=Moan-like vocal sample
|ssource1='''The Chanters - 'She Wants To Mambo'''' - 1954<br><small>(Re-release by Jazzman Records in 2014)</small>
|sstatus1=Officially confirmed
|snotes1=The second feminine moan in 'She Wants To Mambo' is sampled and played in a descending two note passage with EQ for added top-end during the chorus sections of 'A Question Of Time'. [[Martin L. Gore|Martin Gore]] confirmed the use of the sample in the August 1986 issue of Electronics & Music Maker:
 
<blockquote>"It's not that audible, though. It's a sample from a record called 'She Wants to Mambo', an old doo-wop disc. At the end of each verse, the woman who sings sort of moans. We sampled this moan and played it up a few notes, which made it sound like a girl moaning. We used it on the chorus section of 'A Question of Time'."<ref>Source: [http://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/modes-of-operation/1937 Muzines.co.uk : Articles : Modes Of Operation (Electronics & Music Maker, August 1986)]</ref></blockquote>
 
In addition to its use in the chorus sections, the sample is also used as a unique "Wha-, wha-, wha-" vocal-like hit that is played repetitively on every step and half step following the percussion fill during the intro and throughout the song's outro. Rather than playing out from start to finish as it does during the chorus sections, the sample is played with a fast Decay five notes down from its root key and detuned slightly to form the unique rhythmic hit.
|snumberofrows=1
}}
 
{{Sample source
|song=[[Here Is The House]]
|artist=[[Depeche Mode]]
|releaseyear=1986
|smsample1=Mandolin-like sampled guitar
|smsnotes1=[[Martin L. Gore|Martin Gore]] told Electronics and Music Magazine in 1986:
<blockquote>"[...] Then there’s the mandolin-like part on 'Here is the House'. That was an acoustic guitar sampled twice — once on a down-stroke and once on an upstroke. We used them on alternate notes, so every other note was a downstroke and all the in-between notes were up-strokes. It sounded very funny — almost like a real player."<ref name="HITH"></ref>
</blockquote>
|smsnumberofrows=1
}}
 
{{Sample source
|song=[[But Not Tonight]]
|artist=[[Depeche Mode]]
|releaseyear=1986
|smsample1=Mandolin-like sampled guitar
|smsnotes1=Sampled upstroke and downstroke guitar elements originally sampled for use in 'Here Is The House' are layered with another sampled part to produce the lead riff. [[Martin L. Gore|Martin Gore]] told Electronics and Music Magazine in 1986:
<blockquote>"[...] Then there’s the mandolin-like part on 'Here is the House'. That was an acoustic guitar sampled twice — once on a down-stroke and once on an upstroke. We used them on alternate notes, so every other note was a downstroke and all the in-between notes were upstrokes. It sounded very funny — almost like a real player."<ref name="HITH">Source: [http://noyzelab.blogspot.com/2014/09/modes-of-operation-depeche-mode.html Electronics and Music Magazine]</ref>
</blockquote>
|smsample2=Vibraphone-like percussive bell
|smsnotes2=A vibraphone-like percussive bell element is employed during the latter half of each verse section, utilising a 1/4 delay to achieve a hypnotic "bouncing" sound. This distinctive sound would also see use in several other [[Depeche Mode]] songs produced at or around the same time, including 'Shake The Disease' and 'It Doesn't Matter Two'.
|smsample3=Resonant bell sample
|smsnotes3=A rich, resonant bell sample is layered with a choral-esque part (possibly a Synclavier) to create a highly-textured counter melody as heard in its chorus sections. This bell sample would later be used in the introduction of '[[Strangelove]]', '[[Nothing]]', and the [[Recoil]] instrumental '[[Grain]]'.
|smsample4=Guitar-like pluck
|smsnotes4=A brief "plucked" guitar-like sound plays a tight four note sequence with an immediate Release as a fill sporadically throughout 'But Not Tonight'. This sample is also used in chorus with a bass part to form the bassline of 'A Question Of Time'.
|smsample5=Hi-hats (open and closed)
|smsnotes5=A sequenced 4/4 hi-hat rhythm comprised of one closed and one open hi-hat is employed throughout the song. These hi-hat parts are also used in several other songs produced at or around the same time, including 'Here Is The House' and 'Shake The Disease'.
|smsnumberofrows=5
}}
 
{{Sample source
|song=[[Fly On The Windscreen]] (Death Mix)
|artist=[[Depeche Mode]]
|releaseyear=1986
|ssample1="I don't care how you feel!" vocal sample
|ssource1='''Richard Pryor - Unidentified film'''
|sstatus1=Unconfirmed
|ssample2="Help the dying" vocal sample
|ssource2='''Steve Kroft, CBS News (Television News Report, unidentified date)'''
|sstatus2=Likely
|snotes2=Kroft was an active television news anchor with CBS news starting in 1980. It is likely the exact date of the report sampled by Depeche Mode occurred sometime before or between approx. November 1985 and December 1985 at the latest.
|snumberofrows=2
}}
 
{{Sample source
|song=[[Sometimes]]
|artist=[[Depeche Mode]]
|releaseyear=1986
|ssample1="Sometimes" vocal sample
|ssource1='''Louis Armstrong - 'Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child'''' - 1958
|sstatus1=Likely
|snotes1=Credit to Home user 'personal cheese' for this discovery.<ref>Source: Home user 'personal cheese' forum [https://www.depeche-mode.com/forum/index.php?topic=32731.msg760399#msg760399 post]</ref>
|snumberofrows=1
}}
 
== <i>Music For The Masses</i> ==
 
=== Self-made samples ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width: 100%;"
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song release year
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Sample Description
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Notes
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Never Let Me Down Again]]'
| rowspan="2" | 1987
|| Processed guitar riff
|| In a July 4, 2019 interview with Super Deluxe Edition, Dave Bascombe recalled the production of the guitar riff:
 
<blockquote>"[...] I remember [[Martin L. Gore|Martin]] had his guitar, and it’s used quite a bit… the beginning of ‘Never Let Me Down’ for example…. what a wonderful, happy accident that was. It was supposed to start with the snare drum and then go straight in, but because of the nature of technology at the time, the guitar rift[sic] was played, then we sampled it into the Synclavier [early digital synthesizer/digital sampling system] and it just kicked off as soon as it got code at the beginning of the track and we all went ‘wow, that’s great’, so that was an accident."<ref name="DBASCOMBE">Source: [http://www.superdeluxeedition.com/interview/producer-dave-bascombe-on-depeche-modes-music-for-the-masses/ Super Deluxe Edition July 4, 2019 Producer Dave Bascombe on Depeche Mode's 'Music For The Masses']</ref></blockquote>
|-
|| Lead melody - one "guitar-like" pluck, one solo vocal-like pad with short loop
|| The lead melody of 'Never Let Me Down Again' as it has been performed live since its debut is comprised of a guitar-like pluck sample combined with a solo vocal-like pad with a short loop (itself derived from a non-looped sample that is used in conjunction with yet another vocal-like sound to intensify the final four bars of each verse section in 'I Want You Now').
 
Other notable appearances of the the guitar-like sample include a two-note fill during the verses of 'Strangelove'. In addition to its use in 'Never Let Me Down Again' and 'I Want You Now', the aforementioned solo vocal-like pad is also used to play a melody during the chorus sections of 'Nothing'.
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Strangelove]]'
| rowspan="1" | 1987
|| Resonant bell sample
|| [[Strangelove]] employs a rich bell sample layered with other samples to form the counter melody sound heard during its intro, chorus sections and outro. Other notable uses of this bell sample include the choruses of '[[But Not Tonight]]' as well as the [[Recoil]] instrumental '[[Grain]]'.
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | '[[I Want You Now]]'
| rowspan="2" | 1987
|| Female 'ah' vocal samples / Sample of multiple laughing girls
|| Two girls described by Wilder as "hanging around" the studio during the recording of <i>Music For The Masses</i> were utilized during the production of 'I Want You Now'. The women were recorded performing distinct 'ah' vocal "utterances" that act in place of snares alongside comparable vocals provided by Gore throughout the song. Wilder recalled in a Q&A on the official Recoil project site:
 
<blockquote>"...I think it was a couple of girls who were hanging around the studio - thought we'd make use of them ;-)"<ref name="shuntMFTM">Source: [http://oldsite.recoil.co.uk/forum/qa/dmmftm.htm Shunt Q&A: ARCHIVES : DEPECHE MODE : MUSIC FOR THE MASSES]</ref></blockquote>
 
In a July 4, 2019 interview with Super Deluxe Edition, Dave Bascombe recalls the vocals were recorded at Guillaume Tell studio by models in the area during Paris Fashion Week:
 
<blockquote>"...It was Fashion Week when we were in Paris which terrible, you know [laughs] so models turned up at the studio and we got them to do the samples, just to get it a bit more hi-fi!"<ref name="DBASCOMBE"></ref></blockquote>
|-
|| 'Breathing' accordion loop
|| The "breathing" effect heard throughout 'I Want You Now' is produced by an accordion being inflated and deflated without depressing a key.<ref name="shuntMFTM"></ref>
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Nothing]]'
| rowspan="2" | 1987
|| Hi-hat derived from the sound of a pneumatic coach door shutting
|| In a July 4, 2019 interview with Super Deluxe Edition, Dave Bascombe recalls the unique production of a hi-hat as used in 'Nothing' and other album songs:
 
<blockquote>"We dug out a few of their old samples and I brought a lot of mine as well, which were more in the vein of just regular snare drums and kicks, although I did use, there’s one interesting sound which is used as a high hat on, I think ‘Nothing’, or maybe a few things, which is a pneumatic coach door shutting. Anyway, we did swap a few things around like that.  I had an Emulator II [sampler/keyboard], we’d swap discs and so on."<ref name="DBASCOMBE"></ref></blockquote>
|-
|| Solo vocal-like pad with short loop
|| A solo vocal-like pad with a short loop (derived from a non-looped sample that is used in conjunction with yet another vocal-like sound to intensify the final four bars of each verse section in 'I Want You Now') is used to play a melody during the chorus sections of 'Nothing'.
 
Other notable appearances of this sample include the lead melody as heard in live performances of 'Never Let Me Down Again' and as a vocal stab layered with yet another vocal-like sound during the final four bars of each verse section in 'I Want You Now'.
|-
|}
 
=== Sourced samples ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width: 100%;"
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song release year
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Sample Description
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Source of sample
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Source release year
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Status
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Notes
|-
| rowspan="4" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Never Let Me Down Again]]'
| rowspan="4" | 1987
|| Classic John Bonham drum one-shots
|| '''Beastie Boys - 'Rhymin' And Stealin''''
|| 1982
|| Officially confirmed
|| The heavy drums of Led Zeppelin's 'When The Levee Breaks' sampled on the Beastie Boys song 'Rhymin And Stealin' were subsequently sampled by Depeche Mode. One-shot samples of the bass drum and snare drum are sampled and sequenced to form the primary drum pattern of 'Never Let Me Down Again'. Wilder confirmed in a Q&A on the official Recoil project site that 'Never Let Me Down Again' employs some drum elements originally from Led Zeppelin's 'When The Levee Breaks' which were sampled second-hand from a rap record. The sampled parts would later be re-purposed for '[[Halo]]' and '[[Get Right With Me]]'.
 
<blockquote>"From memory, the drums were sampled from Led Zeppelin's 'When the Levee Breaks' (but secondhand from a rap record). It is one of the most commonly used drum samples – for obvious reasons as it has that very special "Bonham" sound. The same snare drum sound appears on [Depeche Mode's] 'Get Right With Me'. I've also heard that snare on a Massive Attack record and many others. I think <i>Violator</i> was the first album that we used whole performance drum loops to create rhythm tracks, as opposed to programmed single drum sounds, and 'Halo' was one of the first tracks we recorded for Violator in fact. [[Flood]] and I were listening to quite a lot of hip hop and rap records at the time – those artists were the forerunners when sampling larger sections of rhythms and grooves. And the unusual feels that were created on those albums really influenced <i>Violator</i> and <i>Songs Of Faith And Devotion</i>."</blockquote>
 
In a July 4, 2019 interview with Super Deluxe Edition, Dave Bascombe recalls how the sampled percussion came to be used in 'Never Let Me Down Again':
 
<blockquote>"['Never Let Me Down Again' is the one] that hit me when I first heard that demo, I thought that’s just fantastic. My sole contribution, well not my sole contribution – this is before we got to Paris, we were round at Alan’s house – and I said ‘right, I want to use ‘When The Levee Breaks’ [Led Zeppelin] drums on this.’ I know that it’s been used 10 billion times now, but they were still quite new then and I’d always loved those drum sounds and as I say they weren’t a cliched thing then, so I suggested using them for the main kick and snare. But I actually loved that track, still do."<ref name="DBASCOMBE"></ref></blockquote>
|-
|| Classic John Bonham drum one-shots
|| '''Led Zeppelin - 'When The Levee Breaks''''
|| 1971
|| Officially confirmed
|| Wilder confirmed in a Q&A on the official Recoil project site that 'Never Let Me Down Again' employs some drum elements originally from Led Zeppelin's 'When The Levee Breaks', which were sampled second-hand from a rap record. (Beastie Boys - 'Rhymin And Stealin').
|-
|| N/A
|| '''Gary Wright - 'Love Is Alive''''
|| 1976
|| Unconfirmed
||
|-
|| Guitar riff and drum elements
|| '''3rd Bass - 'Wordz Of Wisdom, Pt. 2''''
|| 1989
|| Officially confirmed
|| American hip-hop group 3rd Bass employed an uncredited sample of the opening guitar riff from Depeche Mode's 'Never Let Me Down Again' for their 1989 track 'Wordz Of Wisdom, Pt. 2'. Depeche Mode were fond of their use of the sample, and would in turn sample it back from 'Wordz Of Wisdom, Pt. 2' and employ it during the live interlude of 'Never Let Me Down Again' as performed on the [[:Category:1990 World Violation Tour|1990 World Violation Tour]]. Wilder would later use this sample and other elements from 'Wordz Of Wisdom, Pt. 2' in the live production of '[[In Your Room]]' as part of Recoil's 2010-2011 [[:Category:2010-2011_"Selected_Events"|Selected Events tour]].
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[I Want You Now]]'
| rowspan="1" | 1987
|| Female orgasm vocal samples (x2)
|| '''Unidentified pornographic film''''
|| ?
|| Confirmed
|| The pornographic film sampled by Depeche Mode for use in the production of 'I Want You Now' is likely to have enjoyed an official release on VHS or Betamax cassette and would have been in widespread circulation by July 1987.
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Nothing]]'
| rowspan="2" | 1987
|| Classic John Bonham drum one-shots
|| '''Beastie Boys - 'Rhymin' And Stealin''''
|| 1982
|| Confirmed
|| Wilder confirmed in a Q&A on the official Recoil project site that 'Never Let Me Down Again' employs some drum elements originally from Led Zeppelin's 'When The Levee Breaks' which were sampled second-hand from a rap record. (Beastie Boys - 'Rhymin And Stealin'). The "Bonham" snare drum sample is processed and re-purposed for the snare sequence of 'Nothing'. The primary fill sequence features the snare playing a descending "melody" of 3-3-2, where each number corresponds to the number of snare hits and the key of the snare descends by one note from its root key every three hits.
|-
|| Classic John Bonham drum one-shots
|| '''Led Zeppelin - 'When The Levee Breaks''''
|| 1971
|| Confirmed
|| Wilder confirmed in a Q&A on the official Recoil project site that 'Never Let Me Down Again' employs some drum elements originally from Led Zeppelin's 'When The Levee Breaks' which were sampled second-hand from a rap record. (Beastie Boys - 'Rhymin And Stealin'). The "Bonham" snare drum sample is processed and re-purposed for the snare sequence of 'Nothing'. The primary fill sequence features the snare playing a descending "melody" of 3-3-2, where each number corresponds to the number of snare hits and the key of the snare descends by one note from its root key every three hits.
|-
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Strangelove]]' (The Fresh Ground Mix)
| rowspan="1" | 1987
|| N/A
|| '''Cameo - 'Word Up''''
|| 1986
|| Unconfirmed
||
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Route 66]]' (Beatmasters Mix)
| rowspan="1" | 1987
|| "They come from everywhere to take the challenge", "If they can name it they can claim it", "It's big money, high hopes, near misses, and love and kisses", "So, join host Tom Kennedy, tonight at 7:30, and 'Name That Tune!'" vocal samples from a television promotion for the television game show Name That Tune
|| Unspecified television advertisement for '''<i>Name That Tune</i>''' (game show)
|| ?
|| Confirmed
||
|-
|}
 
== <i>Violator</i> ==
 
=== Self-made samples ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width: 100%;"
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song release year
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Sample Description
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Notes
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | '[[World In My Eyes]]'
| rowspan="2" | 1990
|| Primary snare
|| The origin of the primary snare sound used throughout the production of 'World In My Eyes' (and, relatedly, its similar-but-different counterpart audible during the electronic interlude during the album version outro of 'Personal Jesus') is unclear. Wilder posits in a Q&A on the official Recoil project site:
 
<blockquote>"Can't remember exactly. I think we made it from scratch or it could be a combination of analogue and a sample."<ref name="shuntVIO"></ref></blockquote>
|-
|| Minimoog/ARP 2600 bass
|| The origin of the bass is a combination of a series of unique synthesized parts, including a frequentially 'dark' synth bass with a heavy low frequency Moog-like quality, a velocity-sensitive synthesized bass part with a high resonance and slight filter cutoff settings, and a potentially ring-modulated velocity-sensitive synthesized bass part with a subtle filtered white noise setting (likely produced by the ARP 2600, though this is not confirmed). Wilder summarizes its production in a Q&A on the official Recoil project site:
 
<blockquote>"Again, can't remember exactly -most likely a combination of Moog and Flood's Arp."<ref name="shuntVIO"></ref></blockquote>
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Personal Jesus]]'
| rowspan="2" | 1989
|| 'Stomp' drum elements
|| Wilder recalls in separate Q&A and Editorial features on the official Recoil project site:
 
<blockquote>"The main stomps... [were] a recording of 2 or 3 people jumping up and down on flight cases."
<ref name="shuntVIO"></ref><ref>Source: [http://oldsite.recoil.co.uk/ SHUNT : ARCHIVES : REPORT : EDITORIAL : VIOLATOR]</ref></blockquote>
|-
|| Slide guitar fill
|| Producer [[Flood]] recalled the production of the unique slide guitar element in his 2011 Mute Short Circuit presentation:
<blockquote>"If I had the slide guitar part here, I could show it, but I always heard that as screaming voices, and there was one evening when they're all looking at me going 'What are you talking about? It's a slide guitar.' And [[Dave Gahan|Dave]] going 'What, just screaming to something" I go "Yeah, just scream to anything!" He goes "What, like this? Rahhh!" I went "Great!" So they sampled it and put it with the guitar that slides up, and that's why it sounds — it sounds like a slide guitar, but it's not quite a slide guitar, and that's something that they'd obviously learned from [[Daniel Miller|Daniel]], and I had learned from Daniel, this thing of meticulously crafting something and building it."
</blockquote>
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Halo]]'
| rowspan="2" | 1990
|| Minimoog/ARP 2600 bass
|| The origin of the bass is a combination of likely two or more unique synthesized parts, including a frequentially 'dark' synth bass with a heavy low frequency Moog-like quality performed with a sensitive velocity setting for dynamic sonic changes per note, with an additional velocity-sensitive bass part produced with an identifiable square oscillator modulated in the synthesizer pipeline (likely produced by the ARP 2600, though this is not confirmed). Wilder summarizes its production in a Q&A on the official Recoil project site:
 
<blockquote>"I think [it was] created using a combination of the Minimoog and Flood's Arp."<ref name="shuntVIO"></ref></blockquote>
|-
|| Various drum loops
||
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Waiting For The Night]]'
| rowspan="1" | 1990
|| ARP 2600 bass sequence with multiple delays
|| Wilder describes the production of this bass part in a Q&A on the official Recoil project site:
 
<blockquote>"Flood and I had been listening to Tangerine Dream and decided to try and create a similar atmosphere for this track. The main sequence was put together using his ARP and the sequencer that accompanies the synth. Due to its many velocity and filtering possibilities, this unit has a unique quality which is difficult to replicate using a modern-day sequencer triggered by MIDI. Once it has been set-up, in order for the sequence to be transposed to follow the chord structure of the song, I needed to play in each chord change from an external keyboard. A similar principal was applied to achieve the bubbling bass part which, together with the main sequence, forms the backbone of the track. The charm of the ARP sequencer stems from the slight tuning and timing variations that occur each time the part is played. This gives a sense of fluidity and continual change which seems to suit the song."
<ref name="shuntVIO2">Source: [http://oldsite.recoil.co.uk/forum/qa/dviol2.htm SHUNT : ARCHIVES : DEPECHE MODE : VIOLATOR : PAGE TWO]</ref></blockquote>
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Enjoy The Silence]]'
| rowspan="1" | 1990
|| Vocal 'ahs'
|| The outro choir melody is comprised of a series of looped vocal 'ah' samples. Notably, these vocal elements are re-used to dramatic effect as a solo vocal element in 'Memphisto', and are also layered with other processed vocals for use as a choir during the second verse of '[[In Your Room]]' as it was performed on the [[:Category:1993 Devotional Tour|1993 Devotional Tour]]. These vocal 'ah' samples were retired from live use with 'Enjoy The Silence' by [[Depeche Mode]] and replaced with a different sample-based choir element as of the [[:Category:2009-2010 Tour Of The Universe|2009-2010 Tour Of The Universe]] with one exception, where they were included on playback for a [[2013-04-24_Jimmy_Kimmel_Live!,_Sony_Outdoor_Stage,_Los_Angeles,_CA,_USA| live television promotion]].
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Policy Of Truth]]'
| rowspan="2" | 1990
|| Main guitar rhythm
|| The primary guitar rhythm used prominently during the first two verses is produced by a single note played from a guitar, which is processed and looped to provide a built-in vibrato effect. The sample is then allocated across the keyboard for playback. Though not confirmed, a second sample is likely used to produce the faux guitar 'lick' present in the rhythm part in every other bar. Wilder recalled in a Q&A on the official Recoil project site:
 
<blockquote>"It's a single note sampled from a guitar and then looped and played from a keyboard. The loop is what gives it the vibrato effect."<ref name="shuntVIO">Source: [http://oldsite.recoil.co.uk/forum/qa/dmviol.htm Shunt Q&A: ARCHIVES : DEPECHE MODE : VIOLATOR]</ref></blockquote>
|-
|| Hi-hat loops
|| 'Policy Of Truth' employs sampled hi-hat rhythms sequenced as dynamic alternating loops, introducing an evolving rhythm to the song. Wilder explains the benefits of using loops over one-shot samples in a Q&A on the official Recoil project site:
 
<blockquote>"...No two snare beats sound the same when played by a drummer - I like that. That's why I prefer to use lots of drum loops with all the feel (and flaws) of the original performance. Most of the drum sounds on 'Violator' were sampled (apart from obvious electro sounds) but the rhythms were still programmed. Some hi-hat patterns ('Policy' for example) were played and sampled as loops and in the case of 'Halo' and 'Clean' it's all loops. Again, I prefer the looped parts because of the performance element."<ref name="shuntVIO">Source: [http://oldsite.recoil.co.uk/forum/qa/dmviol.htm Shunt Q&A: ARCHIVES : DEPECHE MODE : VIOLATOR]</ref></blockquote>
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Clean]]'
| rowspan="2" | 1990
|| Female 'ah' vocal sample
|| [[Clean]] employs a re-purposed female 'ah' vocal part originally recorded for use in Depeche Mode's '[[I Want You Now]]'. The part is performed in chorus with the snare starting from the second verse. Wilder recalled the recording of this vocal part in a Q&A on the official Recoil project site:
 
<blockquote>"...I think it was a couple of girls who were hanging around the studio - thought we'd make use of them ;-)"<ref name="shuntMFTM">Source: [http://oldsite.recoil.co.uk/forum/qa/dmmftm.htm Shunt Q&A: ARCHIVES : DEPECHE MODE : MUSIC FOR THE MASSES]</ref></blockquote>
|-
|| Various drum loops
||
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Memphisto]]'
| rowspan="2" | 1990
|| Vocal 'ahs'
|| Seemingly unlooped versions of the samples comprising the vocal 'ah' melody heard in the outro of 'Enjoy The Silence' are re-used to dramatic effect as a solo vocal element in 'Memphisto'. Notably, this vocal element is also layered in with other processed vocals for use as a choir during the second verse of [[In Your Room]] as it was performed on the [[:Category:1993 Devotional Tour|1993 Devotional Tour]].
|-
|| Resonant bass stabs
|| Reverberated resonant bass stabs heard throughout 'Clean' are layered in as a bass element in 'Memphisto'.
|-
|}
 
=== Sourced samples ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width: 100%;"
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song release year
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Sample Description
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Source of sample
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Source release year
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Status
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Notes
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[World In My Eyes]]'
| rowspan="1" | 1990
|| Bell tree sample
|| '''Fleetwood Mac - 'Black Magic Woman''''
|| 1982
|| Confirmed
|| This sample is used for two distinct sounds in the production of 'World In My Eyes':
* One version of the sample features oscillating pitch with added reverb that is reversed and played in chorus with a separate sample, producing an exciting "whirl" effect that occurs during the verses and throughout the song.
* A second version of the sample appears on the first bar following the end of the first chorus, with added reverb to create a distancing effect. This sample is used to dramatic effect during the outro to the [[:Category:1993 Devotional Tour|1993 Devotional Tour]] version of 'World In My Eyes'.
 
Credit to Christopher Baird for this discovery.
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Sweetest Perfection]]'
| rowspan="1" | 1990
|| Bell tree sample
|| '''Fleetwood Mac - 'Black Magic Woman''''
|| 1982
|| Confirmed
|| This sample is looped and manipulated to produce a ghostly pad with oscillating pitch and creative panning effects during the verses.
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Personal Jesus]]'
| rowspan="2" | 1989
|| Vocal huffing rhythm
|| '''Kate Bush - 'The Dreaming''''
|| 1982
|| Likely
||
|-
|| 'Preacher' vocal sample "I'm not crazy anymore!"
|| '''<i>A Cry In The Wilderness</i> (film)'''
|| 1974
|| Likely
||
|-
| rowspan="3" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Halo]]'
| rowspan="3" | 1990
|| Classic John Bonham drum loop
|| '''Beastie Boys - 'Rhymin' And Stealin''''
|| 1982
|| Officially confirmed
|| Wilder confirmed in a Q&A on the official Recoil project site that '[[Never Let Me Down Again]]' employs some drum elements originally from Led Zeppelin's 'When The Levee Breaks' which were sampled second-hand from a rap record. The sampled parts would later be re-purposed for 'Halo':
 
<blockquote>"From memory, the drums were sampled from Led Zeppelin's 'When the Levee Breaks' (but secondhand from a rap record). It is one of the most commonly used drum samples – for obvious reasons as it has that very special "Bonham" sound. The same snare drum sound appears on DM's Get Right With Me. I've also heard that snare on a Massive Attack record and many others. I think <i>[[Violator]]</i> was the first album that we used whole performance drum loops to create rhythm tracks, as opposed to programmed single drum sounds, and Halo was one of the first tracks we recorded for <i>Violator</i> in fact. Flood and I were listening to quite a lot of hip hop and rap records at the time – those artists were the forerunners when sampling larger sections of rhythms and grooves. And the unusual feels that were created on those albums really influenced <i>Violator</i> and <i>[[Songs Of Faith And Devotion]]</i>."</blockquote>
|-
|| Classic John Bonham drum break
|| '''Led Zeppelin - 'When The Levee Breaks''''
|| 1971
|| Officially confirmed
|| Wilder confirmed in a Q&A on the official Recoil project site that 'Never Let Me Down Again' employs some drum elements originally from Led Zeppelin's 'When The Levee Breaks' which were sampled second-hand from a rap record (Beastie Boys - 'Rhymin And Stealin'). These samples were later re-purposed for use in 'Halo' and '[[Get Right With Me]]'.
|-
|| Orchestral string samples, including one-shots and looped elements
|| '''Edward Elgar - Unidentified composition'''
|| ?
|| Confirmed
|| Wilder confirmed in a July 27, 2011 interview with electricityclub.co.uk that 'Halo' employs orchestral string elements sampled from an unidentified recording(s) of music composed by celebrated English composer Edward Elgar. The sampled recording would have been released prior to May 1989. The nature of the samples vary, including two one-shot string staccato parts and sampled chords stretched and mixed with additional strings:
 
<blockquote>"For the end choruses, there are some string samples which I think were derived from Elgar. One of my techniques is to find sections of classical strings and transpose / stretch these, then add my own samples, in order to formulate new and unusual arrangements. This was a case in point. The DM track ‘Clean’ utilised classical strings in a similar way."<ref>Source: [http://www.electricityclub.co.uk/the-alan-wilder-interview/ ALAN WILDER Interview - July 27, 2011]</ref></blockquote>
 
Notably, one of two sampled string loops as heard in the ending of 'Clean' are re-purposed for use as orchestral stabs employed for the verse and chorus sections of 'Halo'.
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Policy Of Truth]]'
| rowspan="2" | 1990
|| Main riff
|| '''Unknown Asian instrument sample library/classical Asian music release'''
|| N/A
|| Officially confirmed
|| In a 2016 podcast, [[Martin L. Gore|Martin Gore]] was asked by interviewer [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Bell Rob Bell] about the origin of this sound:
 
<blockquote>
'''Rob Bell''': There's a song on there called 'Policy of Truth': what in the world are those sounds? Do you know what I mean? Like, if someone came from a different planet, and I was just playing any music, I'd be like, "This is a guitar, this is drums, this is harpsichord, this is a flute..." But on that song, if I played them that song, I'd be like, "... That's like a... I don't..."
 
'''Martin Gore''': You mean the main riff kind of sound?
 
'''Rob Bell''': The riff, there's like three or four parts that are like sort of stacked in very tightly in the mix. I assume there's some really subjective aesthetic thing going on where you're just like, "It should sound like striking the edge of a glass bottle mixed with a..." Do you know what I mean? In the studio, are you just, "I'll know it when I hear it"?
 
'''Martin Gore''': I think it's more organic than that. I think part of the sounds that you're talking about are samples that we... even during <i>Violator</i> we were doing quite a bit of sampling, so it probably came from some weird Asian instrument sample CD or a classical Asian music CD, with a [pitch] bend in it.<ref>Source: [https://dmlive.wiki/wiki/2016-01-25_The_RobCast,_Los_Angeles,_CA,_USA 2016-01-25] The RobCast 2016-01-25 Martin Gore interview</ref>
</blockquote>
 
The sample library or classical release in question that was sampled for the main riff components would have been in circulation by 1989. The riff is comprised of two looped samples, one with a natural built-in pitch bend and a short loop, and one without pitch bend with an equally short loop.
|-
|| Delayed, sampled, and looped guitar and/or synthesized part
|| '''Tony Halliday - 'Time Turns Around''''
|| March 1989
|| Likely
|| The looped part appears sporadically throughout Toni Halliday's 'Time Turns Around', and is re-purposed for use during the bridge sections of 'Policy Of Truth'. The song enjoyed a remix by Wilder in the form of the Euro-Tech Mix, therefore it is likely he would have had access to the stem in question. Credit to Home user 'Alex' for this discovery.<ref>Source: Home user 'Alex' forum [https://www.depeche-mode.com/forum/index.php?topic=32731.msg761072#msg761072 post]</ref>
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Clean]]'
| rowspan="2" | 1990
|| Bass guitar
|| '''Pink Floyd - 'One Of These Days''''
|| 1971
|| Disproven
|| Wilder confirmed in a Q&A on the official Recoil project site that 'Clean' does not employ a sample from Pink Floyd:
<blockquote>"I recognise the similarity but It's not a Floyd sample. It was programmed using a combination of analogue synth and sampled bass gtr."[sic]<ref>Source: [http://oldsite.recoil.co.uk/forum/qa/dviol2.htm Shunt Q&A: ARCHIVES : DEPECHE MODE : VIOLATOR]</ref></blockquote>
|-
|| Orchestral string elements
|| '''Unidentified classical music recording, possibly Edward Elgar'''
|| ?
|| Confirmed
|| Notably, one of two sampled string loops as heard in the ending of 'Clean' are re-purposed for use as orchestral stabs employed for the verse and chorus sections of 'Halo'.
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Memphisto]]'
| rowspan="2" | 1990
|| Orchestral string elements
|| '''Unidentified origin; possibly classical music recording, possibly Edward Elgar'''
|| ?
|| Confirmed
|| An orchestral string staccato (one of two) originally heard during the choruses of 'Halo' is re-purposed as a looped bass element with a slow attack throughout 'Memphisto'. It is unclear if this musical part is original or sampled from a third-party source.
|-
|| Orchestral string elements
|| '''Unidentified classical music recording, possibly Edward Elgar'''
|| ?
|| Confirmed
|| Similar to their use in 'Halo', both sampled string loops best heard in the outro of 'Clean' are also used throughout 'Memphisto', notably during the second chorus section onward.
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Happiest Girl]]' (Pulsating Orbital Mix)
| rowspan="1" | 1990
|| Engine idling/orchestral hit sample
|| '''The Tornadoes- 'Telstar''''
|| 1962
|| Confirmed
|| Credit to <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.bratproductions.com/ Daniel Barassi]</span> for this discovery.<ref>Source: Home user 'BRATMix' forum [https://www.depeche-mode.com/forum/index.php?topic=32731.msg760525#msg760525 post]</ref>
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Sea Of Sin]]' (Sensoria Mix)
| rowspan="1" | 1990
|| N/A
|| '''Madonna - 'Vogue''''
|| 1990
|| Unconfirmed
||
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Policy Of Truth]]' (Trancentral Mix)
| rowspan="2" | 1990
|| "I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman" Robert Hoskins vocal sample
|| '''<i>The Long Good Friday</i> (film)'''
|| 1980
|| Likely
||
|-
|| N/A
|| '''<i>My Side of the Story - The "Checkers" Speech</i>, Richard M. Nixon speech broadcast, 1952'''
|| 1952
|| Uncomfirmed
||
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[World In My Eyes]]' (Oil Tank Mix)
| rowspan="1" | 1990
|| N/A
|| '''Kraftwerk - Musique Non-Stop'''
|| 1986
|| Unconfirmed
||
|}
 
== <i>Songs of Faith and Devotion</i> ==
 
=== Self-made samples ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width: 100%;"
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song release year
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Sample Description
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Notes
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[I Feel You]]'
| rowspan="1" | 1993
|| Introductory distorted noise loop
|| [[Alan Wilder]] confirms this particular part is a processed sound that originated from a non-described synthesizer in a Q&A on the official [[Recoil]] project site:
 
<blockquote>"You'd better be prepared to part with some cash - the noise actually comes from a synth."<ref name="shuntSOFAD">Source: [http://oldsite.recoil.co.uk/forum/qa/dmsfd.htm Shunt Q&A: ARCHIVES  :  DEPECHE MODE  :  SONGS OF FAITH AND DEVOTION]</ref></blockquote>
 
Part of the initial transient of the distorted noise loop present in the album version of 'I Feel You' is removed so that the part begins on a brief moment of elevated pitch. This subtle edit produces an exciting result that would see use in all live performances of 'I Feel You' from the [[:Category:1993 Devotional Tour|1993 Devotional Tour]] onward.
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Walking In My Shoes]]'
| rowspan="1" | 1993
|| Processed piano/harpsichord main riff
|| The main riff is a combination of piano and harpsichord processed with liberal amounts of compression and guitar amplifier tremolo. Wilder confirms the composition of this sound in a Q&A on the official Recoil project site:
 
<blockquote>"From that point onwards, Flood and I began to construct the various drum loops, the string arrangements, the main riff (which combined a piano and harpsichord through a distorted guitar amp) and all the other bits and pieces."<ref name="shuntSOFAD"></ref></blockquote>
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Condemnation]]'
| rowspan="2" | 1993
|| Improvised flight case bass drum
|| Wilder describes the recording of various elementary elements of 'Condemnation' in an editorial on the official Recoil project site:
<blockquote>"With experimentation still prevalent, the elementary sounds for the 3rd single, 'Condemnation' were recorded in the basement of the Madrid villa with one person banging a flight case, another clapping and a third scraping the wall with a tambourine.
 
The vocals - which were to have a 'barbershop choir meets gospel Elvis Presley' flavour - proved that [[Depeche Mode]] had not abandoned their desire to find different and exciting ways of producing music. Built up track by track, individual takes were sung by (mainly) [[Martin L. Gore|Martin]] and (sometimes) Alan and then manipulated using vari-speed to produce very low and very high pitches. Once added to [[Dave Gahan|Dave's]] lead vocal, the resulting close harmonies provided the barbershop body of the track."<ref>Source: [http://oldsite.recoil.co.uk/forum/qa/dlives.htm Shunt Q&A: ARCHIVES : EDITORIAL : DM Singles 86-98]</ref>
</blockquote>
|-
|| Tambourine
|| The tambourine fill present at the end of each bar repeating throughout the piece is produced by scraping the tambourine against a wall.
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Judas]]'
| rowspan="2" | 1993
|| "If you want my love" choir
|| This vocal performance is comprised of a large number of individual vocal recordings of individuals employed during the recording of 'Judas', the final album track to be recorded at Chateau du Pape Studio, with each individual's vocal performance multitracked six times each for a total of ninety indiidual voices, with additional delay, reverb, and EQ to introduce an intimate southern church-like quality to the vocals. Wilder describes the recording of this particular part in a Q&A on the official Recoil project site:
 
<blockquote>"15 people (tape op's, studio secretaries, the cook etc...) multitracked 6 times making a total of 90 voices + delays and reverbs. Then we eq'ed the sound to make it seem like it was sung in a deep southern church hall in the 1960's, rather than Wembley stadium."<ref name="shuntSOFAD"></ref></blockquote>
|-
|| Brass
|| 'Judas' and 'Higher Love' each employ similar sample-based brass parts during their respective bridge sections.
|-
| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | '[[In Your Room]]'
| rowspan="6" | 1993
|| Textured variphone pad
|| This textured pad is derived from the variphone and is used to atmospheric effect during the first verse and the outro of 'In Your Room'. A 'fuller' variation of this pad with added distortion is used during the build-up to the outro of '[[Mercy In You]]'.<ref name="shuntSOFAD"></ref>
|-
|| Processed and double-tracked guitar "splang" chord samples
|| Wilder describes the recording of this particular part in a Q&A on the official Recoil project site:
 
<blockquote>"Affectionately known (to me anyway) as 'Splang' rather than 'twoo, twaa and twee', the sound is derived from a guitar. Each chord was sampled individually and then double-tracked with a second but different guitar sound. There is also a string/choir pad (another backwards sound) playing the same chords in the background."<ref name="shuntSOFAD"></ref>
|-
|| Orchestral tremolo string pads
|| A series of sustained orchestral tremolo string parts are employed throughout the track. The strings play in alternating chords to enhance the atmosphere of the choruses and build tension during the third verse's instrumental crescendo.
|-
|| Processed choir pads (reversed)
||
|-
|| Looped "noise" pad
|| A textured loop used sporadically during the introduction of 'In Your Room' is a brief sample of ambient noise with audible wind chimes in the background introducing a "grainy" texture to the sound. The sample is reversed and subsequently looped, then transposed down several notes from its root key for the final result.
|-
|| Vocal 'ahs'
|| Samples comprising the vocal 'ah' melody heard in the outro of '[[Enjoy The Silence]]' are layered in with other processed vocals for use as a choir during the second verse of 'In Your Room' as it was performed on the [[:Category:1993 Devotional Tour|1993 Devotional Tour]].
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Higher Love]]'
| rowspan="1" | 1993
|| Brass
|| 'Judas' and 'Higher Love' employ similar sample-based brass parts during their respective bridge sections.
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[My Joy]]'
| rowspan="1" | 1993
|| Distorted bass hit
|| A distorted bass hit with built-in descending pitch originally recorded as part of the bassline of 'I Feel You' is re-purposed as an accent in 'My Joy'. The sample occurs on the beat at bar forty-seven (1:48) at the start of the break, and plays one note above its root key.
|-
|}
 
=== Sourced samples ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width: 100%;"
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song release year
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Sample Description
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Source of sample
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Source release year
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Status
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Notes
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Walking In My Shoes]]'
| rowspan="1" | 1993
|| Drum loop
|| '''Funkadelic - 'Nappy Dugout''''
|| 1973
|| Unconfirmed
||
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Mercy In You]]'
| rowspan="1" | 1993
|| Drum loop
|| '''The Headhunters - 'God Make Me Funky''''
|| 1975
|| Unconfirmed
||
|-
| rowspan="3" style="text-align: center;" | '[[In Your Room]]'
| rowspan="3" | 1993
|| Drum loop
|| '''Rusty Bryant - 'Fire Eater''''
|| 1971
|| Confirmed
||
|-
|| Drum loop
|| '''Simtec & Wylie - 'Bootleggin''''
|| 1971
|| Unconfirmed
||
|-
|| Drum loop
|| '''Melvin Bliss - 'Synthetic Substitution''''
|| 1973
|| Unconfirmed
||
|-
| rowspan="3" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Get Right With Me]]'
| rowspan="3" | 1993
|| Classic John Bonham drum one-shots
|| '''Beastie Boys - 'Rhymin' And Stealin''''
|| 1982
|| Officially confirmed
|| Wilder confirmed in a Q&A on the official Recoil project site that '[[Never Let Me Down Again]]' employs some drum elements originally from Led Zeppelin's 'When The Levee Breaks' which were sampled second-hand from a rap record (Beastie Boys - 'Rhymin And Stealin'). These samples were later re-purposed for use in '[[Halo]]' and 'Get Right With Me'. Massive Attack would use the sampled drum elements from 'Get Right With Me' on the song 'Man Next Door' from their 1998 album <i>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezzanine_(album) Mezzanine]</i>, bringing the number of times this famous drum sound had been directly sampled by an artist only to then be sampled from their record by another artist to a total of three.
|-
|| Classic John Bonham drum one-shots
|| '''Led Zeppelin - 'When The Levee Breaks''''
|| 1971
|| Officially confirmed
|| Wilder confirmed in a Q&A on the official Recoil project site that 'Never Let Me Down Again' employs some drum elements originally from Led Zeppelin's 'When The Levee Breaks' which were sampled second-hand from a rap record (Beastie Boys - 'Rhymin And Stealin'). These samples were later re-purposed for use in 'Halo' and 'Get Right With Me'.
|-
|| N/A
|| '''N.W.A. - Unspecified song'''
|| N/A
|| Unconfirmed
||
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Higher Love]]'
| rowspan="1" | 1993
|| Drum loop
|| '''U2 - 'So Cruel''''
|| 1991
|| Officially confirmed
|| Wilder indirectly confirmed in a response to a question regarding the sonic similarity between the drums of [[Depeche Mode|Depeche Mode's]] 'Higher Love' and U2's 'So Cruel' in a Q&A on the official Recoil project site that a drum loop from U2's 'So Cruel' was utilised by affirming producer [[Flood]] assisted in the production of both records. Depeche Mode would later cover this song, see '[[So Cruel]]'):
 
<blockquote>"Didn't Flood work on both LP's?....."<ref name="shuntSOFAD"></ref></blockquote>
 
The loop is produced by sampling various parts from the introduction of the U2 original, where the piano and vocals are not present and the drum rhythm is most exposed. The sample is stretched to match 'Higher Love's tempo of approximately 98 BPM and subsequently sliced into separate parts for the bass drum and snares, which are sequenced accordingly. The piano remains audible in the final result, adding tone to the loop. A separate slicing process and treatment of this loop is performed for drum fills, where the loop is reversed and repeated every two beats.
|-
| rowspan="3" style="text-align: center;" | '[[My Joy]]'
| rowspan="3" | 1993
|| 'Rolling' percussion fill
|| '''Beastie Boys - 'Funky Boss''''
|| 1992
|| Confirmed
|| The 'rolling' percussion fill audible in the intro of the Beastie Boys' 'Funky Boss' is sampled and stretched via resampling to match 'My Joy's approximately 102 BPM tempo, with light distortion/saturation added to introduce a 'dirty' quality to the part. As it was in the Beastie Boys original, this sample remains in use as a drum fill.
|-
|| Heavy drum loop with built-in bass drum, snare, and programmed hi-hat sequence
|| '''Beastie Boys - 'Pass The Mic''''
|| 1992
|| Confirmed
|| The heavy drum loop present in the brief instrumental break of the Beastie Boys' song 'Pass The Mic' is sampled and stretched via resampling to match 'My Joy's slightly faster BPM. Once matched for tempo, the sample is sliced into two bars, placing the part that originally plays in the second bar (which features a "slurred" quality on the first snare hit) into the first bar, and the remaining content is placed into the second bar. The results are then looped with some light processing added, creating the main drum bed of 'My Joy'. For drum fills, the final beat of the first bar containing a snare hit is sliced and placed prior to the start of the loop. For bars containing reverse percussion fills, a brief snippet of the second bar including just the first bass drum hits and the snare drum is sampled, reversed, stretched, and played from the seventh step in the bar.
 
The drums were originally performed by Mike D. (Michael Diamond) during the recording of <i>Check Your Head</i> at G-Son Studios, Atwater Village, CA. According to the late MCA (Adam Yauch) in 1999:
<blockquote>"One memorable thing about recording 'Pass The Mic' was the drums. We had heard that [Led Zeppelin drummer] John Bonham had used a really long kick drum on something and thought it would be interesting to put his technique to the test. Taking full advantage of the size of the G-Son live room/basketball court, we wrapped a long piece of cardboard from a refrigerator box around the kick drum and then put a mic at the far end of it. Mike played the beat, and we looped it."<ref>Source: [http://www.beastiemania.com/songspotlight/show.php?s=passthemic&band=b Beastiemania Song Spotlight : Pass The Mic]</ref>
|-
|| Orchestral string samples: two looped samples, one one-shot
|| '''Edward Elgar - Unidentified composition'''
|| ?
|| Confirmed
|| Orchestral string elements originally used throughout 'Halo' and during the outro of '[[Clean]]' are re-purposed for 'My Joy's outro. The looped orchestral sample most obviously heard during the fifth bar of the first verse of 'Halo' is reversed, looped, and played from its root key to two notes  above its root key to form the melodic two bar orchestral phrase heard during the line "I'm not a mountain, no, you move me". Next, the first of the two looped orchestral samples heard during the outro of 'Clean' plays three notes down from its root key on the third bar. Finally, the "soaring" one-shot orchestral phrase heard on the final bar of all choruses in 'Halo' besides the first chorus is looped with a short loop point towards the end of the sample and played three notes above its root key with a slow attack and a medium to long release time, forming the orchestral phrase heard on the fourth bar. The resulting four bar sequence then repeats for the remainder of the song.
 
Wilder confirmed in a July 27, 2011 interview with electricityclub.co.uk that 'Halo' (and 'My Joy' by extension) employs orchestral string elements sampled from an unidentified recording(s) of music composed by celebrated English composer Edward Elgar. The sampled recording would have been released prior to May 1989. The nature of the samples vary, including two one-shot string staccato parts and sampled chords stretched and mixed with additional strings:
 
<blockquote>"For the end choruses, there are some string samples which I think were derived from Elgar. One of my techniques is to find sections of classical strings and transpose / stretch these, then add my own samples, in order to formulate new and unusual arrangements. This was a case in point. The DM track ‘Clean’ utilised classical strings in a similar way."<ref>Source: [http://www.electricityclub.co.uk/the-alan-wilder-interview/ ALAN WILDER Interview - July 27, 2011]</ref></blockquote>
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | '[[My Joy]]' (Slow Slide Mix)
| rowspan="2" | 1993
|| Drum loop
|| '''James Brown - 'Funky Drummer''''
|| 1970
|| Confirmed
||
|-
|| Drum loop
|| '''Dexter Wansel - 'Theme From The Planets''''
|| 1976
|| Confirmed
||
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[In Your Room]]' (Jeep Rock Mix)
| rowspan="1" | 1993
|| Drum loop
|| '''Skull Snaps - 'It's A New Day''''
|| 1973
|| Confirmed
||
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Walking In My Shoes]]' (Extended Twelve Inch Mix)
| rowspan="1" | 1993
|| Drum loop with distinct bass drum, "roomy" snares, and ethnic percussion
|| '''The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy - 'Language Of Violence''''
|| 1992
|| Confirmed
||
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Walking In My Shoes]]' (Grungy Gonads Mix)
| rowspan="2" | 1993
|| Drum loop
|| '''Mountain - 'Long Red''''
|| 1972
|| Confirmed
||
|-
|| Orchestral string passage
|| '''Ennio Morricone - 'In Chiesa', from the <i>Ad Ogni Costo</i> (film) soundtrack'''
|| 1967
|| Officially confirmed
|| The string passage in the introduction to this orchestral piece was sampled by the late trip-hop pioneer Jonny Dollar and Portishead member Geoff Barrow.<ref>Source: Alan Wilder [https://www.facebook.com/groups/recoilshunt/permalink/2485386374806770/ Facebook comment]</ref> for use in the '[[Walking In My Shoes (Grungy Gonads Mix)]]'. The sample is stretched to match the tempo of '[[Walking In My Shoes]]', with sixteen manual scratches on the third bar producing an exciting scratch effect. The sample appears in multiple 'Walking In My Shoes' remixes from the period, and has commonly been employed in many performances of this song since its live introduction on the [[:Category:1993 Devotional Tour|1993 Devotional Tour]]. Credit to Christopher Baird for this discovery.<ref>Source: HOME user 'Bairdicus' comment [https://www.depeche-mode.com/forum/index.php?topic=30176.msg758921#msg758921 HOME : Depeche Mode : In General : Simple Questions. Quick Answers]</ref>
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Walking In My Shoes]]' (Random Carpet Mix)
| rowspan="1" | 1993
|| Orchestral string samples
|| '''<i>Doctor Zhivago</i> (film)'''
|| 1965
|| Unconfirmed
||
|-
|}
 
== <i>Ultra</i> ==
 
=== Self-made samples ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song release year
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Sample Description
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Source of sample
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Source release year
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Status
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Notes
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Useless]]' (The Kruder & Dorfmeister Session)
| rowspan="1" | 1997
|| Slide guitar stab
|| '''Depeche Mode - 'Policy Of Truth''''
|| 1990
|| Confirmed
|| The 'Useless' (Kruder & Dortmeister Session) includes a sample of a slide guitar stab from Depeche Mode's '[[Policy Of Truth]]'.
|-
|}
 
=== Sourced samples ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width: 100%;"
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song release year
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Sample Description
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Source of sample
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Source release year
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Status
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Notes
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Painkiller]]'
| rowspan="1" | 1997
|| N/A
|| '''Vanessa Paradis - 'The Future Song''''
|| 1992
|| Unconfirmed
||
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[It's No Good]]' (Hardfloor Mix)
| rowspan="1" | 1997
|| Drum elements
|| '''Fat Larry's Band - 'Down In The Avenue''''
|| 1976
|| Confirmed
|| Credit to Christopher Baird for this discovery.<ref>Source: HOME user Bairdicus comment [https://www.depeche-mode.com/forum/index.php?topic=32731.msg760327#msg760327 HOME : Depeche Mode : In General : Sampled by Depeche Mode]</ref>
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Useless]]' (Cosmic Blues Mix)
| rowspan="1" | 1997
|| "I want to hear you play some bass" vocal sample
|| '''National Lampoon's <i>That's Not Funny, That's Sick</i> (Sketch comedy album)'''
|| 1977
|| Likely
||
|-
|}
 
== <i>Exciter</i> ==
 
=== Sourced samples ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width: 100%;"
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song release year
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Sample Description
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Source of sample
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Source release year
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Status
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Notes
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Dream On]]' (Remix)
| rowspan="1" | 2001
|| N/A
|| '''Kraftwerk - 'The Robots''''
|| 1978
|| Unconfirmed
||
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[The Sweetest Condition]]'
| rowspan="1" | 2001
|| N/A
|| '''Kraftwerk - 'Musique Non-Stop''''
|| 1986
|| Unlikely
||
|-
|}
 
== <i>Playing The Angel</i> ==
 
<i>Playing The Angel</i> does not contain samples from any identifiable sources.
 
== <i>Sounds Of The Universe</i> ==
 
<i>Sounds Of The Universe</i> does not contain samples from any identifiable sources.
 
== <i>Delta Machine</i> ==
 
<i>Delta Machine</i> does not contain samples from any identifiable sources.
 
== <i>Spirit</i> ==
 
<i>Spirit</i> does not contain samples from any identifiable sources.
 
= Recoil =
 
Upon his departure from [[Depeche Mode]] in 1995, [[Alan Wilder]] would expand upon the creative sampling techniques he perfected through the years as a member of Depeche Mode for his [[Recoil]] music project, utilising samples from contemporary music, films, film soundtracks, and samples from his own past work with Depeche Mode.
 
== <i>1 + 2</i> ==
 
=== Self-made samples ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width: 100%;"
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song release year
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Sample Description
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Source of sample
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Source release year
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Status
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Notes
|-
| rowspan="10" style="text-align: center;" | '[[1]]' & '[[2]]'
| rowspan="10" | 1986
|| N/A
|| '''Depeche Mode – '[[Any Second Now]]' (Altered)'''
|| 1981
|| Confirmed
||
|-
|| N/A
|| '''Depeche Mode – '[[If You Want]]''''
|| 1984
|| Confirmed
||
|-
|| N/A
|| '''Depeche Mode – '[[The Sun & The Rainfall]]''''
|| 1982
|| Confirmed
||
|-
|| N/A
|| '''Depeche Mode – '[[Oberkorn (It's A Small Town)]]''''
|| 1982
|| Confirmed
||
|-
|| N/A
|| '''Depeche Mode – '[[The Great Outdoors]]''''
|| 1983
|| Confirmed
||
|-
|| N/A
|| '''Depeche Mode – '[[Shouldn't Have Done That]]''''
|| 1982
|| Confirmed
||
|-
|| N/A
|| '''Depeche Mode – '[[Tora! Tora! Tora!]]''''
|| 1981
|| Confirmed
||
|-
|| N/A
|| '''Depeche Mode – '[[Shake The Disease]]' (Edit the Shake)'''
|| 1985
|| Confirmed
||
|-
|| N/A
|| '''Depeche Mode – '[[Pipeline]]''''
|| 1983
|| Confirmed
||
|-
|| N/A
|| '''Depeche Mode – '[[Blasphemous Rumours]]''''
|| 1984
|| Confirmed
||
|-
|}
 
=== Sourced samples ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width: 100%;"
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song release year
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Sample Description
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Source of sample
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Source release year
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Status
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Notes
|-
| rowspan="7" style="text-align: center;" | '[[1]]' & '[[2]]'
| rowspan="7" | 1986
|| N/A
|| '''Kraftwerk – 'Radioaktivität''''
|| 1975
|| Unconfirmed
||
|-
|| N/A
|| '''Kraftwerk – 'Uran''''
|| 1975
|| Unconfirmed
||
|-
|| N/A
|| '''Kraftwerk – 'Radioland''''
|| 1975
|| Unconfirmed
||
|-
|| N/A
|| '''Duet Emmo – 'Or So It Seems''''
|| 1983
|| Unconfirmed
||
|-
|| N/A
|| '''Duet Emmo – 'Heart of Hearts''''
|| 1983
|| Unconfirmed
||
|-
|| N/A
|| '''The Hitmen – 'Shade in, fade out''''
|| 1981
|| Unconfirmed
||
|-
|| N/A
|| '''Hard Corps - 'Je Suis Passée''''
|| 1985
|| Unconfirmed
||
|-
|}
 
== <i>Hydrology</i> ==
 
=== Self-made samples ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width: 100%;"
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song release year
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Sample Description
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Notes
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Grain]]'
| rowspan="1" | 1988
|| Resonant bell sample
|| 'Grain' uses a re-purposed bell-like sample originally produced for use with [[Depeche Mode]] to atmospheric effect during its atonal outro. This bell sample is also used in the introduction and chorus sections of '[[Strangelove]]' and the chorus sections of '[[But Not Tonight]]'.
|-
|}
 
=== Sourced samples ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width: 100%;"
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song release year
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Sample Description
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Source of sample
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Source release year
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Status
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Notes
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Stone]]'
| rowspan="1" | 1988
|| French vocal sample
|| '''French train announcer, unidentified source'''
|| ?
|| Confirmed
|| Wilder confirmed in a Q&A on the official Recoil project site that Stone employs a vocal sample of a French train announcer, but is unsure of its origin.<ref>Source: [http://www.recoil.co.uk/evidence/qa-vault/qa-recoil/qa-recoil-1-2-hydrology/ Shunt Q&A: ARCHIVES : Recoil : 1 + 2 / HYDROLOGY]</ref>
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[The Sermon]]'
| rowspan="1" | 1988
|| Polish vocal sample
|| '''Report about Pope John Paul II's sermon in Warsaw'''
|| 9 June 1987
|| Confirmed
|| Alan Wilder: <blockquote>"I put the microphone on the shortwave radio, I tried to catch some climatic samples and that was the first thing that happened. I had no idea what they were saying! I liked the sound but it wasn't meant to be an integral part of the track, just atmosphere."<ref>Sources: [http://lodz.wyborcza.pl/lodz/1,35135,7785079,Byly_czlonek_Depeche_Mode_zagra_w_Lodzi__Wywiad.html Interview with Alan Wilder for Wyborcza Poland, 2010-04-19] + [https://komarnicki.pl/interview-alan-wilder-depechemodeforum/ Interview with Alan Wilder for Devotees.pl, 2008-02-21]</ref></blockquote> The two fragments state the following: <blockquote>
"[...] radcy nuncjatury w Lizbonie, którego Ojciec Święty mianował Pronuncjuszem Apostolskim w Tajla[-ndii...]"
 
"[...] wzgórze wypełniło się młodzieżą maturalną… oprócz indywidualnych [inaudible] grup kraj przebyły też dwie pielgrzymki diecezjalne. Pierwsza z Archidiecezji Warszawskiej w liczbie około 8 tysięcy młodzieży [...]"<ref>Transcribed by Aleksandra Lech for DMLiveWiki on 2019-07-30</ref></blockquote>
 
English Google translation:
<blockquote>
"[...] counselor of the nunciature in Lisbon, whom the Holy Father appointed as Apostolic Pronunciator in Tajla..."
 
"[...] the hill was filled with high school graduates ... in addition to individual [inaudible] groups, there were also two diocesan pilgrimages. The first of the Archdiocese of Warsaw in the number of about 8 thousand youth..."
</blockquote>
|-
|}
 
== <i>Bloodline</i> ==
 
=== Self-made samples ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width: 100%;"
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song release year
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Sample Description
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Source of sample
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Source release year
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Status
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Notes
|-
| rowspan="6" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Faith Healer]]'
| rowspan="6" | 1992
|| Bell tree sample
|| '''Depeche Mode - '[[World In My Eyes]]''''
|| 1990
|| Confirmed
|| This sample was originally sampled for use in Depeche Mode's 'World In My Eyes', and is re-used to atmospheric effect in 'Faith Healer'.
|-
|| Snare
|| '''Depeche Mode - '[[World In My Eyes]]''''
|| 1990
|| Confirmed
||
|-
|| Drum fill elements
|| '''Depeche Mode - '[[Personal Jesus]]''''
|| 1989
|| Unconfirmed
||
|-
|| Combination of Xpander 'zap' and Pro One synth bass sweep<ref>Source: Depeche Mode remixer Black Light Odyssey (GearSlutz user 'dubnspace') [https://www.gearslutz.com/board/electronic-music-instruments-and-electronic-music-production/1114803-depeche-mode-enjoy-silence-synth-sweep-sound.html GearSlutz : Forum : Electronic Music Instruments and Electronic Music Production : Depeche Mode Enjoy The Silence synth sweep sound]</ref>
|| '''Depeche Mode - '[[Enjoy The Silence]]''''
|| 1990
|| Confirmed
||
|-
|| "Eyes" vocoded vocal sample
|| '''Depeche Mode - '[[World In My Eyes]]'''' (Dub In My Eyes Mix)
|| 1990
|| Confirmed
||
|-
|| Looped 'ahh' male vocal/choir sample (one of two)
|| '''Depeche Mode - '[[Clean]]''''
|| 1990
|| Confirmed
|| Credit to Christopher Baird for this discovery.<ref>Source: HOME user 'Bairdicus' comment [https://www.depeche-mode.com/forum/index.php?topic=32731.msg760301#msg760301 HOME : Depeche Mode : In General : Sampled by Depeche Mode]</ref>
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Electro Blues For Bukka White]]'
| rowspan="1" | 1992
|| Bass sequence
|| '''Depeche Mode - '[[Waiting For The Night]]''''
|| 1990
|| Confirmed
|| Remixer Ehron VonAllen confirms in an analysis of his [[Jezebel (Recoil song)#Seductress Mix| remix collaboration]] with [[Alan Wilder]] that the latter employed a sequence originally recorded for use with 'Waiting For The Night' as a stem in 'Electro Blues For Bukka White'.
|-
|}
 
=== Sourced samples ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width: 100%;"
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song release year
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Sample Description
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Source of sample
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Source release year
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Status
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Notes
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Faith Healer]]'
| rowspan="1" | 1992
|| Bell tree sample
|| '''Fleetwood Mac - 'Black Magic Woman''''
|| 1982
|| Confirmed
|| This sample was originally sampled for use in Depeche Mode's 'World In My Eyes', and is re-used to atmospheric effect in 'Faith Healer'.
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Electro Blues For Bukka White]]'
| rowspan="2" | 1992
|| N/A
|| '''David Bowie - 'Aladdin Sane''''
|| 1973
|| Likely
||
|-
|| Bukka White vocal performance
|| '''Bukka White - 'Shake 'Em On Down''''
|| 1937
|| Confirmed
||
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Curse]]'
| rowspan="2" | 1992
|| Diamanda Galás vocal sample
|| '''Diamanda Galás - Unidentified source'''
|| ?
|| Unconfirmed
||
|-
|| Snare
|| '''Digital Underground - 'The Humpty Dance''''
|| 1990
|| Likely
||
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | '[[The Defector]]'
| rowspan="2" | 1992
|| Anthony Hopkins "Closer...", "That is his nature", "No, no, no, no, no" vocal samples
|| '''<i>Silence Of The Lambs</i> (film)'''
|| 1991
|| Likely
||
|-
|| N/A
|| '''LFO - 'El Ef Oh''''
|| 1991
|| Unconfirmed
||
|-
|}
 
== <i>Ebbhead</i> (Nitzer Ebb album) ==
 
[[File:1991-Ebbhead-AW-Interview.png|252px|thumb|right|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hZuwjSfkBc&fbclid=IwAR3D2mv-D0KQTgZwlEXnKEB6H_76Nh26uSn4uQ0WDJNQGFuS-RjKB0MdGys May 29th, 1991 <i>Ebbhead</i> interview with Depeche Mode member Alan Wilder]]]
 
During the downtime between the conclusion of the [[:Category:1990 World Violation Tour|1990 World Violation Tour]] and the recording of <i>Songs of Faith and Devotion</i>, Alan Wilder would step into London's KONK Studios to record Recoil's <i>Bloodline</i> between January and March 1991. A month later, he would return to the studio to produce Depeche Mode support act Nitzer Ebb's <i>Ebbhead</i> record in collaboration with producer Flood and mix engineer Steve Lyon. As with his work in Depeche Mode and Recoil, Wilder would employ samples from a wide variety of sources in the production of this album.
 
Nitzer Ebb's Bon Harris on Wilder's musical prowess in 1991: "Alan has a very musical ear. He's classically trained, so he knows what he's doing when it comes to melody, but has no tolerance for pop - that's quite a good combination."<ref> Source: [https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/1990s/1991/RR-1991-07-05.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3TO7hG8RsWxZVVK0O6h0k82la4HyoAQl85shlWHc-qURs4XWnnfckFFuU American Radio History : Archive: 1991-07-05]</ref>
 
=== Sourced samples ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song release year
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Sample Description
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Source of sample
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Source release year
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Status
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Notes
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | Unidentified song
| rowspan="2" | 1991
|| N/A
|| '''Prince - Kiss'''
|| 1990
|| Unconfirmed
|| In 1991, a fan contest was held where the winner would have the chance to spend a day in the studio with the members of Nitzer Ebb and Wilder during the recording of <i>Ebbhead</i>. During their time in the studio, the contest winner was played back a variety of samples by the group to see if they were able to identify their origin. One sample played to the contest winner was from Prince's 1990 single 'Kiss', which the fan had difficulty identifying. This sample may or may not have made it onto the completed album.
|-
|}
 
== <i>Unsound Methods</i> ==
 
[[File:2000_EPK_AW_PT.jpeg|252px|thumb|right|[https://youtu.be/fhWCe1Gkexg A still of a Pro Tools session during an interview with Alan Wilder in the <i>Unsound Methods</i> EPK]]]
 
=== Self-made samples ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song release year
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Sample Description
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Source of sample
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Source release year
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Status
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Notes
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Incubus]]'
| rowspan="1" | 1997
|| Percussion elements
|| '''Depeche Mode - '[[Clean]]''''
|| 1990
|| Confirmed
|| This percussive loop was originally recorded for use in Depeche Mode's 'Clean', and is re-used among other percussive elements for a rhythmic, tribal atmosphere in 'Incubus'.
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Last Breath]]'
| rowspan="1" | 1997
|| E-bow guitar sample
|| '''Depeche Mode - '[[Walking In My Shoes]]''''
|| 1993
|| Unconfirmed
||
|-
|}
 
=== Sourced samples ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width: 100%;"
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song release year
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Sample Description
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Source of sample
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Source release year
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Status
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Notes
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Incubus]]'
| rowspan="1" | 1997
|| Shouting vocal sample
|| '''Peter Gabriel - 'Rhythm Of The Heat''''
|| 1982
|| Likely
||
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Last Breath]]'
| rowspan="2" | 1997
|| Drum loop
|| '''The Incredible Bongo Band - 'Last Bongo in Belgium''''
|| 1973
|| Likely
||
|-
|| N/A
|| '''Ernest Gold and Pat Boone - 'The Exodus Song (This Land Is Mine)''''
|| 1960
|| Unconfirmed
||
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Shunt]]'
| rowspan="2" | 1997
|| Gated synth element
|| '''Piquet - 'Caress''''
|| 1996
|| Confirmed
||
|-
|| Sub bass and bass drum element
|| '''Massive Attack - 'Better Things''''
|| 1994
|| Likely
||
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Drifting]]'
| rowspan="1" | 1997
|| Gated synth element
|| '''Peter Gabriel - 'Slow Marimbas''''
|| 1985
|| Confirmed
||
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Stalker]]'
| rowspan="2" | 1997
|| Ambient pads
|| '''Peter Gabriel - <i>Birdy</i> (film soundtrack) - Unidentified source song'''
|| 1985
|| Unconfirmed
||
|-
|| N/A
|| '''<i>The Last Seduction</i> (film)'''
|| 1994
|| Unconfirmed
||
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Luscious Apparatus]]'
| rowspan="1" | 1997
|| Introduction guitar chord
|| '''The Cure - 'Club America''''
|| 1996
|| Likely
||
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Control Freak]]'
| rowspan="1" | 1997
|| N/A
|| '''Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell - 'You're All I Need To Get By''''
|| 1968
|| Unconfirmed
||
|-
|}
 
== <i>Liquid</i> ==
 
=== Sourced samples ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width: 100%;"
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song release year
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Sample Description
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Source of sample
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Source release year
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Status
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Notes
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Black Box (Full)]]'
| rowspan="2" | 2000
|| Orchestral string part
|| '''Symphony No. 3 (Górecki)'''
|| 1992
|| Unconfirmed
||
|-
|| N/A
|| '''Plastikman - 'Consumed''''
|| 1998
|| Unconfirmed
||
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Want]]'
| rowspan="1" | 2000
|| Drum loop
|| '''PJ Harvey - 'Is This Desire?''''
|| 1998
|| Likely
||
|-
|}
 
== <i>SubHuman</i> ==
 
=== Self-made samples ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width: 100%;"
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song release year
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Sample Description
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Source of sample
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Source release year
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Status
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Notes
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Allelujah]]'
| rowspan="1" | 2007
|| Processed and double-tracked guitar "splang" chord samples
|| '''Depeche Mode - '[[In Your Room]]''''
|| 1993
|| Confirmed
|| Wilder describes the recording of this particular part in a Q&A on the official Recoil project site:
 
<blockquote>Affectionately known (to me anyway) as 'Splang' rather than 'twoo, twaa and twee', the sound is derived from a guitar. Each chord was sampled individually and then double-tracked with a second but different guitar sound. <ref name="shuntSOFAD"></ref></blockquote>
|-
|}
 
=== Sourced samples ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width: 100%;"
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song release year
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Sample Description
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Source of sample
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Source release year
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Status
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Notes
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Allelujah]]'
| rowspan="2" | 2007
|| N/A
|| '''Tangerine Dream - 'Rubycon''''
|| 1975
|| Unconfirmed
||
|-
|| Drum loop
|| '''Elbow - 'Fugitive Motel''''
|| 2003
|| Unconfirmed
||
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[The Killing Ground]]'
| rowspan="1" | 2007
|| Harmonica and drum elements
|| '''Talk Talk - 'The Rainbow''''
|| 1988
|| Likely
||
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[99 To Life]]'
| rowspan="1" | 2007
|| N/A
|| '''Digital Intervention - 'La Louve''''
|| 2003
|| Unconfirmed
||
|-
|}
 
== Miscellaneous remixes ==
 
=== Self-made samples ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width: 100%;"
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song release year
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Sample Description
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Source of sample
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Source release year
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Status
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Notes
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | '[[In Chains (Alan Wilder Remix)]]'
| rowspan="2" | 2011
|| Ambient pads
|| '''Depeche Mode - '[[The Darkest Star]]''''
|| 2005
|| Confirmed
||
|-
|| Orchestral string arrangement
|| '''Depeche Mode - '[[I Am You]]''''
|| 2001
|| Confirmed
||
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Inheritance]]'
| rowspan="1" | 2012
|| Percussion elements
|| '''Depeche Mode - '[[Nothing's Impossible]]''''
|| 2005
|| Unconfirmed
||
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[Dum Dum Girl]]' feat. Shara Worden
| rowspan="1" | 2012
|| Percussion elements
|| '''Depeche Mode - '[[Nothing's Impossible]]''''
|| 2005
|| Confirmed
||
|-
|}
 
=== Sourced samples ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width: 100%;"
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:5em" | Song release year
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Sample Description
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Source of sample
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Source release year
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Status
! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold; style="width:3em" | Notes
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | '[[I Am Undone (Alan Wilder Remix)]]'
| rowspan="1" | 2011
|| Percussion elements
|| '''Scott Walker - 'Manhattan''''
|| 1995
|| Unconfirmed
||
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align: center;" | [[Jezebel (Recoil song)|A.S.H.I.B. RECONSTRUCTION 2: 'Walking In My Shoes'/'Jezebel']]
| rowspan="1" | 2012
|| Percussion elements
|| '''Tubeway Army - 'Are 'Friends' Electric?''''
|| 1979
|| Unconfirmed
||
|-
|}
 
= References =

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