Remember that old saying that ‘time mends old wounds’? Well, considering they’ve been around for more than three decades the same applies to synth-pop pioneers Depeche Mode.

After exiting the group in 1981and leaving principal songwriting duties to Martin Gore, DM founder and later mastermind of Yazoo and Erasure Vince Clarke has seemingly buried the hatchet with his former collaborators, announcing the birth of a new techno project from Gore and himself.

As reported by NME, the pair’s partnership comes after Clarke remixed Behind The Wheel for the latest Depeche Mode remix collection and will see the light of day shortly.

“Out of the blue I got an e-mail from [Clarke] just saying, ‘I’m interested in making a techno album. Are you interested in collaborating?’,” Gore explained of the pair’s reconciliation. “This was maybe nine months, a year ago. He said, ‘No pressure, no deadlines,’ so I said, ‘OK,’ and that’s what we’ve been doing the last six months. It was something different, and we didn’t have conversations about it…it was more just like e-mails and file-sharing. It was something completely different – no vocals, all instrumental stuff.”