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Alan Wilder

real name Alan Charles Wilder

Hammersmith, United Kingdom · b. 1959-06-01

Alan Wilder is credited on 1,652 releases across 149 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1979–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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1,652

Credits

149

Albums

6

Decades active

765

In collections

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Alan Charles Wilder was born on June 1st 1959 in Hammersmith, West London, England. An electronic musician, composer, arranger and record producer. Alan is best known as a former member of Depeche Mode. He is also the founder of an electronic music project named Recoil. Recoil started as a side project to Depeche Mode, but when he left the latter in 1995, it evolved into Wilder's primary project. Wilder has also provided production and remixing services to the bands Nitzer Ebb, and Curve.
On June 1st 1995, Alan made the difficult but inevitable decision to leave Depeche Mode and announced his departure.

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1,652 releases · 149 albums · active 1979–2026

  • Performance · 2,037
  • Production · 210
  • Other credits · 174
  • Engineering · 135

Studios: Hansa Tonstudios · The Garden · Music Works · Konk Studios

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