According to Flood, they did not do a substantial amount of work in Milan, except for the song " Personal Jesus", which was crucial in setting the tone and spirit of the album. The band convened to work on the record with Flood at Mute's WorldWide programming room in London for three weeks after which they flew to Milan for the new sessions at Logic studios. For instance, " Enjoy the Silence" started out as a slow ballad, but at Wilder's suggestion became a pulsating, up-tempo track. The sparse demos allowed the band to take creative liberties with the songs. Several of the basic recordings consisted of vocals over a simple guitar or organ part, with the odd percussion loop, but less sequenced material. After the rigid, limiting effects of almost-finished demos for Music for the Masses, Gore, agreeing to Wilder's request, kept them less complete this time around. There was also a notable change in Gore's demos. Then Fletch and Mart would go away, and they'd come back after we'd worked on it for a while to give an opinion." So we ended up with this unwritten agreement in the band, where we'd all throw together a few ideas at the beginning of a track.
"That's how we made the group work at that time", clarified Wilder, "by accepting that we all had different roles and not actually all trying to do the same thing. With co-producer Flood, Wilder began a complementary working relationship, with Flood able to provide the technical know-how and Wilder working on the arrangements and song textures. We decided that our first record of the '90s ought to be different." We were beginning to have a problem with boredom in that we felt we'd reached a certain level of achievement in doing things a certain way." Martin Gore elaborated, "Over the last five years I think we'd perfected a formula my demos, a month in a programming studio, etc. This time we decided to keep all pre-production work to a minimum. Alan Wilder said, "Usually we begin the making of a record by having extensive pre-production meetings where we decide what the record will actually sound like, then go into a programming studio. Compared to previous efforts, the band decided to try a new approach to recording.
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