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<metadesc>'Memphisto' is an instrumental song produced during the recording of 1990 album Violator by Depeche Mode. It was released as a B-side to the single 'Enjoy The Silence' on January 16, 1990.</metadesc><nowiki/>
<metadesc>"Memphisto" is an instrumental song produced during the recording of 1990 album Violator by Depeche Mode. It was released as a B-side to the single "Enjoy The Silence" on 16 January 1990.</metadesc><nowiki/>

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Memphisto
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Song Memphisto
By Depeche Mode
Songwriter Martin L. Gore
Produced by Depeche Mode
Flood
Recorded at Puk Studios, Denmark
Logic Studios, Milan
Length (mm:ss) 4:02
Tempo 109.936 BPM
Time signature 3
4
Key G Major
Engineering assistance Daryl Bamonte
Dick Meaney
David Browne
Mark Flannery
Mixed by François Kevorkian
Recorded 1989
Originally released 16 January 1990
Live performances as Depeche Mode 0 times *
Total live performances 0 times *

"Memphisto" is an instrumental song produced during the recording of 1990 album Violator by Depeche Mode. It was released as a B-side to the single "Enjoy The Silence" on 16 January 1990.

Notes

An uncredited band member tells Poster Seductores magazine in 1990: "We like cinema and we like to create special [atmospheres] with our music. In a way, 'Memphisto' is our homage to that esoteric cinema."

Martin Gore clarifies the origin of the song's title in an April 1993 interview for Bong magazine: "It was the name of a make-believe film I invented about Elvis as the devil."[1]

Dates where Memphisto was played

Memphisto has never been played live.


1981-1985: Ice Machine • Shout • Any Second Now • Now, This Is Fun • Oberkorn (It's A Small Town) • The Great Outdoors • Work Hard • Fools • In Your Memory • (Set Me Free) Remotivate Me • Flexible • Fly On The Windscreen
1986-1989: But Not Tonight • Breathing In Fumes • Black Day • Christmas Island • Agent Orange • Pimpf • Pleasure, Little Treasure • Route 66 • Stjärna • Sonata No. 14 in C • Dangerous
1990-1998: Memphisto • Sibeling • Kaleid • Happiest Girl (Jack Mix) • Sea Of Sin (Tonal Mix) • My Joy • Death's Door • Painkiller • Slowblow • Surrender • Headstar
2001-2009: Easy Tiger • Dirt • Zenstation • Free • Newborn • Better Days • Oh Well
2013-2017: All That's Mine
2000-2008: New York Nights • Don't Look Back
2003-2008: Stand Up • Maybe • Closer • Tomorrow • Love Will Leave
2003-2015: Life Is Strange • Left Hand Luke And The Beggar Boys • De Nada • Gifting


References

  1. ↑ Source: Bong 18, April 1993 ASK MARTIN
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