They're very dismissive of Detroit techno in their (auto) biog, I checked the index, at least Dave Gahan was quite patronising about that early recogintion in Detroit. I doubt they follow it on the basis of that.
> im sitting here watching the new depeche mode video (the track is pretty > nice actually, i might have to give this album a chance after not liking > their last 2) and there's all these weird scenes in the video of a > computer generated underwater vessel driving around with them in it, > totally straight off of some drexciya artwork. i wonder if maybe they or > the art director for the video had any inspiration for this? > > tom >