The legendary synthpop duo De/Vision is back. Sorta.
Earlier this year, I started noticing an intriguing project called DeVision Redux popping up on festival lineups like NCN and Terminus. The project also toured Germany over the summer and continues to play shows across Europe this fall and into 2026.
We’ve since learned that DeVision Redux is a reactivated version of the German project, featuring original De/Vision singer Steffen Keth alongside another legend of dark electronic music, Daniel Myer, behind the keys. On stage, they perform De/Vision classics like “Try to Forget” and “Your Hands on My Skin.” Daniel Myer is of course known for Haujobb, Architect, DSTR, Covenant, and numerous other projects.
What once looked like a touring project took another dimension today: DeVision Redux has released their first music, reworked versions of the 2016 track “Synchronize,” which originally appeared on the De/Vision album 13. The release includes three mixes—8am Bar Mix, Radio Edit, and JXXL Mix—along with “Drifter The Opener,” the piece that kicks off their live shows. All four tracks are produced by Daniel Myer.
On Myer’s Bandcamp page, one message stands out: “More to follow!” It remains to be seen whether DeVision Redux will record original material or continue reshaping De/Vision classics.
If “Synchronize” sounds a little different than you remember, that’s intentional. DeVision Redux describes the project this way:
DeVision Redux is a new format of De/Vision, which in no way means the end of the actual band. DeVision Redux is an additional format and stands for the most important tracks of De/Vision in a clubbier, more modern, partly also more minimalistic, but purely electronic guise.
De/Vision’s last album was 2018’s Citybeats
So what’s going on with the original De/Vision? It’s been seven long years since they released their last album, Citybeats, which included “They Won’t Silence Us” and “In the Still of the Night.” They did, however, play a number of shows in 2024 and celebrated their 35th anniversary the year before.
Thomas Adam, the other longstanding member of the duo, remains an active part of De/Vision by all accounts. But we don’t know why he isn’t producing new music or performing. In a 2018 interview with Messed!Up Magazine, he revealed that he’d grown weary of touring, which could hint at his absence:
I don’t know how other bands think about this but it was a lot more fun to be on tour 15 years ago than today. And do you know why? When we were on tour back then everybody was talking and partying or played Playstation together—we had fun together. Today everybody is busy with social media and their own stuff, stuck behind a laptop, so being on tour is really not as fun as it was ten or 15 years ago.
I’ve complained many times about that kind of bullshit, that everyone is stuck in their own business, and I can miss the times when we had time off after shows, had a beer together, and just did stupid stuff. It’s not bad today but not as fun. Sad but true (laughs).
