With several acclaimed albums and EPs to his name, remixes for everyone from Moby to Modeselektor and compilations for respected series’ like LateNightTales, you could forgive Trentemoller for thinking there wasn’t much else left to do. But rather than resting on his laurels, the producer released Reworked/Remixed, a double album full of the Dane’s best remixes, alongside the best remixes of his own tracks by others.

“It was a great opportunity for me to put those remixes together,” he says in hesitant English. “Some of the remixes were quite hard to get and some of them have only been released on vinyl and stuff like that.”

Speaking to inthemix, Anders Trentemøller explains that it was easy to pick the tracks because he was only interested in the best work from the past three years. “The most difficult thing was actually to find the right order in which the tracks should be,” he says. “Finding a way of building up the album so it’s possible to listen to it from beginning to end, and still having the feel of an organic album with the same dynamic as a studio album. That was maybe the biggest challenge for me.”

After breaking new ground on his 2006 debut album The Last Resort, Trentemøller went on to secure his place in the annuls of superb music with 2010’s Into the Great Wide Yonder. Capable of producing music that spans a breadth of style and emotion, he says the music he makes has a lot to do with the mood he is in that day. “I really like to make music without thinking too much about certain types of grooves or what style of music it is, so often when you listen to my studio albums it’s maybe a little bit chaos like,” he laughs.

“After thinking too much about what I’m doing, I very often cannot work, so for me it’s about being very spontaneous. When I’m inspired, I can often sit in the studio for like 12 hours and just work. Then maybe I’ll go for two weeks without anything, and suddenly the right vibe is there. I’ve just learned that I have to respect that feeling.”

Reworked/Remixed features tracks originally released by the likes of UNKLE, The Do, Franz Ferdinand and Modeselektor. A big fan of Depeche Mode, Trentemøller explained that his version of Wrong from their 2009 Grammy nominated release Sounds of the Universe was one of the hardest remixes for him.

“Some songs are really easy to remix,” he says. “And I can do it really quick because I get inspired by the song, but this was a little bit more difficult to get into I think.” Did he feel a bit of pressure remixing for someone he’s a personal fan of? “Yeah, kind of. But that was not the worst thing. It was more that the song was quite hard for me to kind of fit into my own sound,” he says.

“Depeche Mode for me were one of the bands that I listened to when I was a teenager, so I was, of course, very happy when they asked me to remix them. But then I had some problems with the song because, to be honest, I don’t think it was one of their best songs and the vocals were quite aggressive.”

A combination of being keen to please his heroes and the challenges the song presented just meant he needed to work harder to get a result. “I think I actually did about eight or nine different remixes before I was happy with what I ended up with on the album,” he says. “Sometimes some songs are really easy to remix and I can do it really quick because I get inspired by the song, but this was a little bit harder to get into I think.”

So did Trentemøller get to meet Depeche Mode and hear the group’s verdict on the song directly? “When you remix people, especially the bigger names, you are rarely meeting them,” he explains. “It is something that you do much more in the studio and send it back.”

“I also very often do remixes without getting any money for them, because I really like the bands and the songs that they are doing,” he says. “So it’s not always for me important if they are a well-known name, it’s really very much about their music.”

Trentemoller Remixed/Reworked is out now through HFN Music/Balance Music; distributed through EMI.