Written and produced by Martin Gore, work began on ‘MG’ following the final dates of Depeche Mode’s ‘Delta Machine’ tour in March 2013 at Gore’s home studio in Santa Barbara. An entire instrumental album had been in his thoughts for some time, particularly since he has been writing instrumentals for Depeche Mode since 1981.

A Mike Oldfield box set of the Warner era will be issued in October this year.
The Studio Albums 1992-2003 gathers together the eight albums released on the label, starting with 1992′s follow-up to the seminal Tubular Bells and ending again with that same album but this time the 2003 re-recording. In between are two further TB-related albums – Tubular Bells III (1998) and The Millennium Bell (1999).
The other four albums are 1994′s The Songs Of Distant Earth, Voyager from 1996, Guitars (1999) and Tr3s Lunas which was issued in 2002.