"Die Form is a French post-industrial and electronic band formed in 1977-78. The name Die Form means 'the form/shape' in German and is also a play on the English word 'deform'. It is the primary project of electronic musician and multimedia artist Philippe Fichot. He began his own record label to release experimental cassettes as Die Form, starting with 'Die Form 1' in the late 1970s. Whilst the project was still in its infancy, the underlying concepts were already evident: esoteric electronic experiments with an underlying theme of erotism, death, and other taboo subjects."
"Depeche Mode's true origin dates back to 1980, when Vince Clarke and Andy Fletcher formed a band called Composition Of Sound. With Clarke on vocals & guitar and Fletcher on bass, the pair were soon joined by Martin Gore as a third instrumentalist. Dave Gahan joined the ensemble after Clarke heard him sing a rendition of David Bowie's 'Heroes'. With the advent of affordable synthesizers and the increasing popularity of electronic music, the group began pursuing a synth-pop direction and changed their name to Depeche Mode, after a French fashion magazine of the same name, meaning 'Fashion Dispatch'."
