This week, remixes of Depeche Mode’s “Soothe My Soul” entered the Billboard Dance chart at #47. The second single from Delta Machine is the follow-up to “Heaven,” which scored the veteran synthpop band their 10th #1 on the chart.

The commercial package for “Heaven” was seriously downtempo, with all credit for Depeche Mode’s chart-topping achievement due to Freemasons’ promo-only remix. “Soothe My Soul,” however, wisely presents some additional opportunities for moving the masses to the masses.

Many of the remixes merely enhance the song’s already swinging beat, but Steve Angello (Swedish House Mafia) and Jacques Lu Cont (aka Stuart Price) transform “Soothe My Soul” into a seven-minute epic. The team-up marks Price’s third time remixing Depeche Mode, following “A Pain That I’m Used To” and “Wrong” (the latter under his Thin White Duke alias), while Angello celebrates his first.

“Depeche Mode and Jacques Lu Cont are heroes to me, so when the opportunity came, there was not a single doubt in my mind,” Angello remarked to Rolling Stone last month. You can definitely hear what each brought to the (turn)table.

This week, Depeche Mode debuted an additional remix of “Soothe My Soul” that reminds me of their longtime collaboration with the late Peter Rauhofer.

Of the many tragic realizations following Rauhofer’s untimely death in May is that never again will we hear him add his deep, dark touch to a new (or old) Depeche Mode song. By my count, the legendary DJ remixed no less than five: “It’s No Good,” “I Feel Loved,” “Wrong,” “Peace,” and “Behind The Wheel.”

However, Destructo‘s remix of “Soothe My Soul” traverses similarly murky territory. The Los Angeles DJ’s mix was no doubt completed prior to Rauhofer’s passing, but there’s an overlap in approach that I find soothing.

Purchase Depeche Mode – “Soothe My Soul” (Steve Angello vs. Jacques Lu Cont Remix) via iTunes, Amazon MP3. No word on a release date for the Destructo Remix.