Alan Wilder

Alan Wilder is the kind of musician I find genuinely fascinating, the classically trained craftsman inside an electronic band. His years in Depeche Mode from 1982 to 1995 covered their most ambitious period, and I tend to credit a lot of that sonic depth to arrangers like him who actually understand structure. What I admire is that he didn't just coast afterward: Recoil, which began as a side project back in 1986, became his main creative outlet once he left. That's an artist following his own ear rather than a brand. The Hammersmith-born Englishman clearly cared about sound design as much as songs.

Name (English)

Alan Wilder

Name (Japanese)

アラン・ワイルダー

Reading

あらん・わいるだー

Born

June 1, 1959 (age 67)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Boar

Origin

Hammersmith, United Kingdom

Occupation

composer / songwriter / record producer / drummer / musician

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://recoil.co.uk/
• Xhttps://x.com/recoilofficial
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AF%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AB%E3%83%80%E3%83%BC

Tags

• composer
• songwriter
• record producer

Last updated

2026-06-02

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