BILLIE RAY MARTIN THE CRACKDOWN PROJECT

Billie Ray Martin
The Crackdown Project
feat. stephen mallinder, maertini broes & lusty zanzibar
the crackdown orig. version produced by maertini broes
executive producer brm
just fascination orig. version produced by lusty zanzibar
executive producer brm
mixed at audio park studio berlin by mike vamp and brm
volume 1 - Sold Out To Disco
catalogue number: DAREC1001
- The Crackdown (Original Version) Feat. Stephen
Mallinder and Maertini Broes.
- The Crackdown (Original Version) Dub
- The Crackdown (Original Version) Instrumental
- The Crackdown (Original Version) Radio edit
- Just Fascination (Original Version) Feat. Lusty Zanzibar - Just Fascination (Original Version) Dub
- Just Fascination (Original Version) Instrumental
- Just Fascination (Original Version) Radio edit
- Just Fascination: A Copycat Remix
- Copycat Dub
- Just Fascination: Celebrity Murder Party Remix
- Celebrity Murder Party Dub
- Celebrity Murder Party Instrumental
- Just Fascination: Divide and Kreate Remix
- Divide and Kreate Dub
- Divide and Kreate Instrumental
- Just Fascination: Flying White Dots Remix
- Flying White Dots Dub
- Flying White Dots instrumental
feat. stephen mallinder,
maertini Broes
& lusty zanzibar
release date: 15 february 2010
volume 2 - Darkness Restored
catalogue number: DAREC 1002
- The Crackdown: Oicho Remix (by David Harrow)
- The Crackdown: Phil RetroSpector Remix
- Phil RetroSpector Dub
- Phil RetroSpector Instrumental
- The Crackdown: Light Programme Remix
(By Stephen Mallinder and Stephen Cobby)
- Just Fascination: Dunproofin Remix
- Dunproofin Instrumental
- The Crackdown: Year Zero Remix
- The Crackdown: Dunproofin’ Remix
- Dunproofin’s Dub
- Dunproofin Instrumental Mix
- The Crackdown: Celebrity Murder Party Remix
feat. stephen mallinder,
maertini Broes
& lusty zanzibar
release date: March 2010
The crackdown album by cabaret
voltaire has always meant so much
to me on so many levels. Here was
a band who had signed to a major
label and had made their first so
called 'commercial album' but had
far from sold out instead they had
pursued further their unique path and
conquered dance floors in the process.
The production is mind-blowing to this
day and the combination of flood and
cv of course is explosive.
Cv's music to me to this day is the
sexiest music ever recorded and this
goes for all of their music, even the
early albums. There is something
reaching deeper and it still expands my
perception of what music can deliver.
Then there are mals's deep, sexy
vocals, which preceded in a way later
approaches by the house pioneers
such as fingers inc. etc.
In wanting to combine that kind of
music with soul I am in good company.
As I learned later many northern bands
like the human league and soft cell
had a similar plan. To me Sheffield was
for a time the centre of the musical
universe that shaped me as a kid and
made me want to do what I ended up
doing to this day.
The sheer power of the crackdown
album made me always want to do
cover versions knowing full well that no
one could beat the originals ever.
Mal and I had been chatting for a
number of years (I could never really
believe I had actually met one of my
all-time heroes), planning to do this
and that together and now as mal puts
it: 'we finally did it'.
I jokingly told him in a recent e-mail
that I had just finished the job of selling
cv out to disco and Mal thought it was
hilarious.
In fact however the remixes I got back
from the team of remixers that were
recruited by apc's simon iddol blew my
mind far beyond disco-interests. They
are not just remixes but worthy and
artistic reworks of the tracks we had
produced. This elevated the project
for me and I could wholeheartedly
get behind it. It is known that I don't
release many records and one of the
reasons is that I am only releasing
things when I feel that the quality is
right and some kind of new ground
is explored. The remixes made me
believe in this project on a whole new
level.
Having said that the original versions
we produced had already gotten me
pretty convinced we were on the right
wavelength.
I had contacted maertini broes in
Berlin. I felt that their sound simply
excelled and was more convincing
certainly than a lot of stuff that comes
out of Berlin, and had the kind of
electronic elements I love.
Lusty Zanzibar had released a record,
which I had come across and loved,
and as we shared the same distributor I
asked whom he was and was told that
he was a cv fan. That settled things and
he took to the task in no time, delivering a
melodic and epic nu-disco fest.
In delivering the 2 EPs 'sold out to disco'
and 'darkness restored' I hope to show that
the best of songs inspire a creativity that
can make you want to shake your booty
or massaging your cerebral parts equally.
Enjoy.
billie ray martin
Stephen Mallinder: “Billie and I had
been planning to work together for a
number of years and now we finally did
it.”
BRM: “I could never do justice to the
original songs but can have a damn good
time trying.”
artwork & photography: j.abromeit
the crackdown written by stephen mallinder and richard kirk published by universal music
just fascination written by stephen mallinder and richard kirk published by universal music
special thanks to wolfgang tillmans
www.billieraymartin.com
www.myspace.com/lustyzanzibar
www.maertinibroes.de
www.myspace.com/mikevamp
disco activisto records berlin 2010
distributed by believe digital
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