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Chapters: Christian Eigner, Lukas Ligeti, Thomas Lang, Manfred Hausleitner. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Christian Eigner (born 3 March 1971 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian drummer, composer, live and session musician. He has been performing with Depeche Mode's live band since 1997, as drummer, occasional backing vocalist and, more recently, occasional keyboard player on 2009's Tour of the Universe, notably on the encore track "Waiting for the Night". He has played drums on DM's albums Exciter, Playing the Angel and Sounds of the Universe, as well as the non-album single/EP Only When I Lose Myself. He has also co-written Depeche Mode tracks with singer Dave Gahan and programmer Andrew Phillpott since 2005, most notably the Grammy-nominated Depeche Mode single "Suffer Well" together with "Nothing's Impossible" and "I Want It All" from the album Playing the Angel, as well as Gahan's 2007 solo effort Hourglass, which he and Phillpott co-produced. On the 2009 release of "Sounds of the Universe," he co-wrote three tracks with Gahan and Phillpott, called "Hole to Feed", "Come Back" and "Miles Away/The Truth Is". In 2005, Eigner released an album titled Recovery. The album's vocals were provided by Czech-born singer Barca Baxant, formerly of Austrian Electro-Duo SPG (Silicone Pumpgun). Following their work with Dave Gahan on his solo album Hourglass in July 2007, Eigner and programmer Andrew Phillpott started using the production name "Das Shadow". The pair are managed by Daryl Bamonte, who has a long standing association with Depeche Mode. To date, they have released two mixes for Gahan (as B sides for the "Hourglass" singles), were featured on Yazoo's Reconnected EP with a reworked version of 'Ode to Boy' and more recently created a Das Shado...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=6029368 ... Read more