Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:22:28 +0200 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/ en-EN contact@hearthis.at contact@hearthis.at https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/ https://img.hearthis.at/e/r/a/_/uploads/16668/image_user/w1400_h1400_q70_ptrue_v2_----cropped_e3a7d1ef9291664b73ec431462ce11b8poster-square.jpg no no https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/billie-ray-martin-dj-mix-main-set-june-2016/ Angel Mora & Tatsu - I’m Free (Acid Mix)
Detroit Filthiest - Detroit vs. Everybody (Instrumental)
SanXero - 'Rescue Me' (Harry Romero Remix)
Tiger Tooth - Monkey Baboon (Krames Remix)
Tiger Tooth - Tiger Asylum (Power Outage Remix)
Ossie - Hard Bass, Mutha Fucker
Jakobin & Peletronic - Don't You (Oli Furness' Natty Weave Remix)
Park & Sons - Uncle Carl (Dub Mix)
Tolis Q feat Ja Hill - Misery loves company
Murk vs Arthur Baker - Miami
Seven Davis Jr - Dancing On The Sun (Instrumental)
Detroit Filthiest - Layaway (Instrumental)]]> Angel Mora & Tatsu - I’m Free (Acid Mix)
Detroit Filthiest - Detroit vs. Everybody (Instrumental)
SanXero - 'Rescue Me' (Harry Romero Remix)
Tiger Tooth - Monkey Baboon (Krames Remix)
Tiger Tooth - Tiger Asylum (Power Outage Remix)
Ossie - Hard Bass, Mutha Fucker
Jakobin & Peletronic - Don't You (Oli Furness' Natty Weave Remix)
Park & Sons - Uncle Carl (Dub Mix)
Tolis Q feat Ja Hill - Misery loves company
Murk vs Arthur Baker - Miami
Seven Davis Jr - Dancing On The Sun (Instrumental)
Detroit Filthiest - Layaway (Instrumental)]]> 908902 no no Wed, 01 Jun 2016 12:14:01 +0200 2016-06-01T12:14:01+02:00 1:00:38 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/oooohyeah/
The 41 samples uploaded here on bandcamp are only examples of some elements of the Vocal sample Pack.
You will be receiving a dropbox download link to a zip file of approx. 3 GB of Vocal Samples. All files are 24 bit

There are in total 404 files contained in 29 folders.

The theme of this sample pack is that it is arranged into ‘songs’ (themes). This means that each folder/section lends itself to building whole songs out of them. You can of course chose to use the samples in any way you chose, and mix and match as you please. Each sample in this pack works with every other one or on it’s own. Each folder/theme contains additional ad libs. All samples are suitable for any kind of music, for house music but also other types of electronic music or any other genre.

This is the content of the sample pack:

Main Folder 1: 100 bpm mid-tempo:
- Folder 1: Ad libs
- Folder 2: Feels so right
- Folder 3: The sound
Each folder contains sub-folders with ad libs.

Main Folder2: 120 bpm
- Folder 1: Falling
- Folder 2: House sounds

Main Folder 3: 120 bpm
- Folder 1: Positive Noise
- Folder 2: Sold City
Sold city folder contains sub-folder with ad libs

Main Folder 4: 124 bpm
- Folder 1: Lover
- Folder 2: Positive Noise (Sweet Music)
- Folder 3: What you gonna do
- Folder 4: Heavy game
Folders 1 and 4 contain sub-folder with ad-libs

Many thanks for reading and I hope you get much pleasure out of working with my vocals. I had a ball making this sample pack and it was a challenge for me to just stand in front of the microphone day after day and make things up on the spot. It is not how I normally work, and when it all came pouring out in the end, after deciding on a ‘theme’ or ‘song name’, I was surprised and pleased with the results. The sample pack was recording using Neve pre-amps and EQ and other state of the art recording equipment, and I am very pleased with the sound quality. I hope you will be too.
credits
released May 29, 2016

All recording by Billie Ray Martin.]]>
The 41 samples uploaded here on bandcamp are only examples of some elements of the Vocal sample Pack.
You will be receiving a dropbox download link to a zip file of approx. 3 GB of Vocal Samples. All files are 24 bit

There are in total 404 files contained in 29 folders.

The theme of this sample pack is that it is arranged into ‘songs’ (themes). This means that each folder/section lends itself to building whole songs out of them. You can of course chose to use the samples in any way you chose, and mix and match as you please. Each sample in this pack works with every other one or on it’s own. Each folder/theme contains additional ad libs. All samples are suitable for any kind of music, for house music but also other types of electronic music or any other genre.

This is the content of the sample pack:

Main Folder 1: 100 bpm mid-tempo:
- Folder 1: Ad libs
- Folder 2: Feels so right
- Folder 3: The sound
Each folder contains sub-folders with ad libs.

Main Folder2: 120 bpm
- Folder 1: Falling
- Folder 2: House sounds

Main Folder 3: 120 bpm
- Folder 1: Positive Noise
- Folder 2: Sold City
Sold city folder contains sub-folder with ad libs

Main Folder 4: 124 bpm
- Folder 1: Lover
- Folder 2: Positive Noise (Sweet Music)
- Folder 3: What you gonna do
- Folder 4: Heavy game
Folders 1 and 4 contain sub-folder with ad-libs

Many thanks for reading and I hope you get much pleasure out of working with my vocals. I had a ball making this sample pack and it was a challenge for me to just stand in front of the microphone day after day and make things up on the spot. It is not how I normally work, and when it all came pouring out in the end, after deciding on a ‘theme’ or ‘song name’, I was surprised and pleased with the results. The sample pack was recording using Neve pre-amps and EQ and other state of the art recording equipment, and I am very pleased with the sound quality. I hope you will be too.
credits
released May 29, 2016

All recording by Billie Ray Martin.]]> 904662 no no Sun, 29 May 2016 16:01:44 +0200 2016-05-29T16:01:44+02:00 0:04 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/the-deeper-hours-dj-mix-june-2016/ For bookings contact: Jill Thompson ]]> For bookings contact: Jill Thompson ]]> 898002 no no Tue, 24 May 2016 12:16:54 +0200 2016-05-24T12:16:54+02:00 1:04:58 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/07-the-long-and-lonely-fall/
Release date: 13 May 2016
Label: Sonnenstahl Records
Catalogue no:
LP SREC008
CD SREC108

Distribution: billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/
And all digital & physical stores
Style: Soul, rhythm & blues, country

Tracklist:

1. Your Ghost Is Right Behind Me 6. One Way Street
2. Two Cents For A Heart Of Gold 7. The Long And Lonely Fall
3. Strongheaded Woman 8. The Fool You’re Looking For
4. That’s How Strong My Love Is 9. Skin On The Wheel Of Time
5. The Glittering Gutter

Billie Ray Martin describes herself as “a kid from Hamburg’s red-light district, who wanted to be a soul singer, but ended up playing repetitive machine music, while still trying to be a soul singer".

Billie has never been easy to categorise. Clearly a soul singer, her career however has seen her mostly as a pioneer of house and electronic music, most notably her groundbreaking work with Electribe 101 and her seminal hit Your Loving Arms. Her explorations have led her further into the worlds of ambient music and drum & bass among other areas of electronica.

Her 2001 album 18 Carat Garbage had found her in Memphis, recording with Al Green’s and Aretha Franklin’s musicians, then adding cutting edge electronic sounds and textures to the production once back in Hamburg. The album was released in Germany, and on UK import sold several thousand copies in the first week of release alone.

The Soul Tapes is the natural conclusion and a ‘first’ for Billie: no electronic music this time. Billie realised her long-held dream of recording an album that is equally influenced by Hi-Records (Al Green, Ann Peebles, Willie Mitchell) as it is by ’60s garage records. It is also not devoid of a certain country twang, and even Bo Diddley peeks through the door on one song.

Billie Ray Martin and producer/writer Jon Tiven were introduced in New York in the mid ’90s and had started drafting the odd song, together with Sally Tiven. Further writing sessions followed, until it was decided that there was an album of songs worth recording.

Booked into New York’s 900 Broadway Studio, Jon and Billie were thrilled to find themselves working where Keith Richards had recorded his first solo album. Under this omen Jon Tiven brought the musicians in, not least world famous drummer Simon Kirke. Jon’s credits include albums produced for Wilson Pickett, Bobby Womack and Willie Nelson as well as numerous awards and Grammy nominations.

It was not until 2014 that the opportunity arose to mix the album, re-record many of the vocals, add production and instruments and determine exactly the final sound of the album.

The results are convincing and powerful and show once again Billie’s refusal to conform to trends, preferring as she does, to create them. On The Soul Tapes, with the help of Jon Tiven on guitar, Sally Tiven on bass, Simon Kirke on drums and mix engineer Steve Honest, and a variety of guest musicians, Billie journeys through all things soul and rhythm & blues. A soul tour de force !

]]>
Release date: 13 May 2016
Label: Sonnenstahl Records
Catalogue no:
LP SREC008
CD SREC108

Distribution: billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/
And all digital & physical stores
Style: Soul, rhythm & blues, country

Tracklist:

1. Your Ghost Is Right Behind Me 6. One Way Street
2. Two Cents For A Heart Of Gold 7. The Long And Lonely Fall
3. Strongheaded Woman 8. The Fool You’re Looking For
4. That’s How Strong My Love Is 9. Skin On The Wheel Of Time
5. The Glittering Gutter

Billie Ray Martin describes herself as “a kid from Hamburg’s red-light district, who wanted to be a soul singer, but ended up playing repetitive machine music, while still trying to be a soul singer".

Billie has never been easy to categorise. Clearly a soul singer, her career however has seen her mostly as a pioneer of house and electronic music, most notably her groundbreaking work with Electribe 101 and her seminal hit Your Loving Arms. Her explorations have led her further into the worlds of ambient music and drum & bass among other areas of electronica.

Her 2001 album 18 Carat Garbage had found her in Memphis, recording with Al Green’s and Aretha Franklin’s musicians, then adding cutting edge electronic sounds and textures to the production once back in Hamburg. The album was released in Germany, and on UK import sold several thousand copies in the first week of release alone.

The Soul Tapes is the natural conclusion and a ‘first’ for Billie: no electronic music this time. Billie realised her long-held dream of recording an album that is equally influenced by Hi-Records (Al Green, Ann Peebles, Willie Mitchell) as it is by ’60s garage records. It is also not devoid of a certain country twang, and even Bo Diddley peeks through the door on one song.

Billie Ray Martin and producer/writer Jon Tiven were introduced in New York in the mid ’90s and had started drafting the odd song, together with Sally Tiven. Further writing sessions followed, until it was decided that there was an album of songs worth recording.

Booked into New York’s 900 Broadway Studio, Jon and Billie were thrilled to find themselves working where Keith Richards had recorded his first solo album. Under this omen Jon Tiven brought the musicians in, not least world famous drummer Simon Kirke. Jon’s credits include albums produced for Wilson Pickett, Bobby Womack and Willie Nelson as well as numerous awards and Grammy nominations.

It was not until 2014 that the opportunity arose to mix the album, re-record many of the vocals, add production and instruments and determine exactly the final sound of the album.

The results are convincing and powerful and show once again Billie’s refusal to conform to trends, preferring as she does, to create them. On The Soul Tapes, with the help of Jon Tiven on guitar, Sally Tiven on bass, Simon Kirke on drums and mix engineer Steve Honest, and a variety of guest musicians, Billie journeys through all things soul and rhythm & blues. A soul tour de force !

]]> 827151 no no Fri, 13 May 2016 00:00:00 +0200 2016-05-13T00:00:00+02:00 5:05 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/08-the-fool-youre-looking-for/ 827152 no no Thu, 12 May 2016 09:31:39 +0200 2016-05-12T09:31:39+02:00 3:40 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/04-thats-how-strong-my-love-is/
Release date: 13 May 2016
Label: Sonnenstahl Records
Catalogue no:
LP SREC008
CD SREC108

Distribution: billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/
And all digital & physical stores
Style: Soul, rhythm & blues, country

Tracklist:

1. Your Ghost Is Right Behind Me 6. One Way Street
2. Two Cents For A Heart Of Gold 7. The Long And Lonely Fall
3. Strongheaded Woman 8. The Fool You’re Looking For
4. That’s How Strong My Love Is 9. Skin On The Wheel Of Time
5. The Glittering Gutter

Billie Ray Martin describes herself as “a kid from Hamburg’s red-light district, who wanted to be a soul singer, but ended up playing repetitive machine music, while still trying to be a soul singer".

Billie has never been easy to categorise. Clearly a soul singer, her career however has seen her mostly as a pioneer of house and electronic music, most notably her groundbreaking work with Electribe 101 and her seminal hit Your Loving Arms. Her explorations have led her further into the worlds of ambient music and drum & bass among other areas of electronica.

Her 2001 album 18 Carat Garbage had found her in Memphis, recording with Al Green’s and Aretha Franklin’s musicians, then adding cutting edge electronic sounds and textures to the production once back in Hamburg. The album was released in Germany, and on UK import sold several thousand copies in the first week of release alone.

The Soul Tapes is the natural conclusion and a ‘first’ for Billie: no electronic music this time. Billie realised her long-held dream of recording an album that is equally influenced by Hi-Records (Al Green, Ann Peebles, Willie Mitchell) as it is by ’60s garage records. It is also not devoid of a certain country twang, and even Bo Diddley peeks through the door on one song.

Billie Ray Martin and producer/writer Jon Tiven were introduced in New York in the mid ’90s and had started drafting the odd song, together with Sally Tiven. Further writing sessions followed, until it was decided that there was an album of songs worth recording.

Booked into New York’s 900 Broadway Studio, Jon and Billie were thrilled to find themselves working where Keith Richards had recorded his first solo album. Under this omen Jon Tiven brought the musicians in, not least world famous drummer Simon Kirke. Jon’s credits include albums produced for Wilson Pickett, Bobby Womack and Willie Nelson as well as numerous awards and Grammy nominations.

It was not until 2014 that the opportunity arose to mix the album, re-record many of the vocals, add production and instruments and determine exactly the final sound of the album.

The results are convincing and powerful and show once again Billie’s refusal to conform to trends, preferring as she does, to create them. On The Soul Tapes, with the help of Jon Tiven on guitar, Sally Tiven on bass, Simon Kirke on drums and mix engineer Steve Honest, and a variety of guest musicians, Billie journeys through all things soul and rhythm & blues. A soul tour de force !

]]>
Release date: 13 May 2016
Label: Sonnenstahl Records
Catalogue no:
LP SREC008
CD SREC108

Distribution: billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/
And all digital & physical stores
Style: Soul, rhythm & blues, country

Tracklist:

1. Your Ghost Is Right Behind Me 6. One Way Street
2. Two Cents For A Heart Of Gold 7. The Long And Lonely Fall
3. Strongheaded Woman 8. The Fool You’re Looking For
4. That’s How Strong My Love Is 9. Skin On The Wheel Of Time
5. The Glittering Gutter

Billie Ray Martin describes herself as “a kid from Hamburg’s red-light district, who wanted to be a soul singer, but ended up playing repetitive machine music, while still trying to be a soul singer".

Billie has never been easy to categorise. Clearly a soul singer, her career however has seen her mostly as a pioneer of house and electronic music, most notably her groundbreaking work with Electribe 101 and her seminal hit Your Loving Arms. Her explorations have led her further into the worlds of ambient music and drum & bass among other areas of electronica.

Her 2001 album 18 Carat Garbage had found her in Memphis, recording with Al Green’s and Aretha Franklin’s musicians, then adding cutting edge electronic sounds and textures to the production once back in Hamburg. The album was released in Germany, and on UK import sold several thousand copies in the first week of release alone.

The Soul Tapes is the natural conclusion and a ‘first’ for Billie: no electronic music this time. Billie realised her long-held dream of recording an album that is equally influenced by Hi-Records (Al Green, Ann Peebles, Willie Mitchell) as it is by ’60s garage records. It is also not devoid of a certain country twang, and even Bo Diddley peeks through the door on one song.

Billie Ray Martin and producer/writer Jon Tiven were introduced in New York in the mid ’90s and had started drafting the odd song, together with Sally Tiven. Further writing sessions followed, until it was decided that there was an album of songs worth recording.

Booked into New York’s 900 Broadway Studio, Jon and Billie were thrilled to find themselves working where Keith Richards had recorded his first solo album. Under this omen Jon Tiven brought the musicians in, not least world famous drummer Simon Kirke. Jon’s credits include albums produced for Wilson Pickett, Bobby Womack and Willie Nelson as well as numerous awards and Grammy nominations.

It was not until 2014 that the opportunity arose to mix the album, re-record many of the vocals, add production and instruments and determine exactly the final sound of the album.

The results are convincing and powerful and show once again Billie’s refusal to conform to trends, preferring as she does, to create them. On The Soul Tapes, with the help of Jon Tiven on guitar, Sally Tiven on bass, Simon Kirke on drums and mix engineer Steve Honest, and a variety of guest musicians, Billie journeys through all things soul and rhythm & blues. A soul tour de force !

]]> 827145 no no Fri, 13 May 2016 00:00:00 +0200 2016-05-13T00:00:00+02:00 2:57 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/06-one-way-street/
Release date: 13 May 2016
Label: Sonnenstahl Records
Catalogue no:
LP SREC008
CD SREC108

Distribution: billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/
And all digital & physical stores
Style: Soul, rhythm & blues, country


Tracklist:

1. Your Ghost Is Right Behind Me 6. One Way Street
2. Two Cents For A Heart Of Gold 7. The Long And Lonely Fall
3. Strongheaded Woman 8. The Fool You’re Looking For
4. That’s How Strong My Love Is 9. Skin On The Wheel Of Time
5. The Glittering Gutter

Billie Ray Martin describes herself as “a kid from Hamburg’s red-light district, who wanted to be a soul singer, but ended up playing repetitive machine music, while still trying to be a soul singer".

Billie has never been easy to categorise. Clearly a soul singer, her career however has seen her mostly as a pioneer of house and electronic music, most notably her groundbreaking work with Electribe 101 and her seminal hit Your Loving Arms. Her explorations have led her further into the worlds of ambient music and drum & bass among other areas of electronica.

Her 2001 album 18 Carat Garbage had found her in Memphis, recording with Al Green’s and Aretha Franklin’s musicians, then adding cutting edge electronic sounds and textures to the production once back in Hamburg. The album was released in Germany, and on UK import sold several thousand copies in the first week of release alone.

The Soul Tapes is the natural conclusion and a ‘first’ for Billie: no electronic music this time. Billie realised her long-held dream of recording an album that is equally influenced by Hi-Records (Al Green, Ann Peebles, Willie Mitchell) as it is by ’60s garage records. It is also not devoid of a certain country twang, and even Bo Diddley peeks through the door on one song.

Billie Ray Martin and producer/writer Jon Tiven were introduced in New York in the mid ’90s and had started drafting the odd song, together with Sally Tiven. Further writing sessions followed, until it was decided that there was an album of songs worth recording.

Booked into New York’s 900 Broadway Studio, Jon and Billie were thrilled to find themselves working where Keith Richards had recorded his first solo album. Under this omen Jon Tiven brought the musicians in, not least world famous drummer Simon Kirke. Jon’s credits include albums produced for Wilson Pickett, Bobby Womack and Willie Nelson as well as numerous awards and Grammy nominations.

It was not until 2014 that the opportunity arose to mix the album, re-record many of the vocals, add production and instruments and determine exactly the final sound of the album.

The results are convincing and powerful and show once again Billie’s refusal to conform to trends, preferring as she does, to create them. On The Soul Tapes, with the help of Jon Tiven on guitar, Sally Tiven on bass, Simon Kirke on drums and mix engineer Steve Honest, and a variety of guest musicians, Billie journeys through all things soul and rhythm & blues. A soul tour de force !
]]>
Release date: 13 May 2016
Label: Sonnenstahl Records
Catalogue no:
LP SREC008
CD SREC108

Distribution: billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/
And all digital & physical stores
Style: Soul, rhythm & blues, country


Tracklist:

1. Your Ghost Is Right Behind Me 6. One Way Street
2. Two Cents For A Heart Of Gold 7. The Long And Lonely Fall
3. Strongheaded Woman 8. The Fool You’re Looking For
4. That’s How Strong My Love Is 9. Skin On The Wheel Of Time
5. The Glittering Gutter

Billie Ray Martin describes herself as “a kid from Hamburg’s red-light district, who wanted to be a soul singer, but ended up playing repetitive machine music, while still trying to be a soul singer".

Billie has never been easy to categorise. Clearly a soul singer, her career however has seen her mostly as a pioneer of house and electronic music, most notably her groundbreaking work with Electribe 101 and her seminal hit Your Loving Arms. Her explorations have led her further into the worlds of ambient music and drum & bass among other areas of electronica.

Her 2001 album 18 Carat Garbage had found her in Memphis, recording with Al Green’s and Aretha Franklin’s musicians, then adding cutting edge electronic sounds and textures to the production once back in Hamburg. The album was released in Germany, and on UK import sold several thousand copies in the first week of release alone.

The Soul Tapes is the natural conclusion and a ‘first’ for Billie: no electronic music this time. Billie realised her long-held dream of recording an album that is equally influenced by Hi-Records (Al Green, Ann Peebles, Willie Mitchell) as it is by ’60s garage records. It is also not devoid of a certain country twang, and even Bo Diddley peeks through the door on one song.

Billie Ray Martin and producer/writer Jon Tiven were introduced in New York in the mid ’90s and had started drafting the odd song, together with Sally Tiven. Further writing sessions followed, until it was decided that there was an album of songs worth recording.

Booked into New York’s 900 Broadway Studio, Jon and Billie were thrilled to find themselves working where Keith Richards had recorded his first solo album. Under this omen Jon Tiven brought the musicians in, not least world famous drummer Simon Kirke. Jon’s credits include albums produced for Wilson Pickett, Bobby Womack and Willie Nelson as well as numerous awards and Grammy nominations.

It was not until 2014 that the opportunity arose to mix the album, re-record many of the vocals, add production and instruments and determine exactly the final sound of the album.

The results are convincing and powerful and show once again Billie’s refusal to conform to trends, preferring as she does, to create them. On The Soul Tapes, with the help of Jon Tiven on guitar, Sally Tiven on bass, Simon Kirke on drums and mix engineer Steve Honest, and a variety of guest musicians, Billie journeys through all things soul and rhythm & blues. A soul tour de force !
]]> 828473 no no Thu, 12 May 2016 09:31:25 +0200 2016-05-12T09:31:25+02:00 2:58 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/strongheadedwomanradioedit16bit/ https://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/album/strongheaded-woman
and all digital stores worldwide
Release date: 15 April 2016
Label: Sonnenstahl Records
Catalogue no:
SREC109

Distribution: billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/
And all digital & physical stores
Style: Soul, rhythm & blues, country

Tracklist:

1. Strongheaded Woman (radio edit)
2. Strongheaded Woman (full length version)
3. The Glittering Gutter (Mooli remix)

As a prelude to the album The Soul Tapes (to be released on 13 May 2016), Billie Ray Martin releases Strongheaded Woman as the lead single - an epic tale of a Las Vegas slot machine addict seemingly meeting her Rhinestone Cowboy, only to discover that he’s just another cheap hit and run sleazebag.

The single includes the Mooli remix of the album track The Glittering Gutter – a song about the downfall of Billie's place of upbringing, the red light district of Hamburg. The Mooli remix adds the kind of darkness that typifies some of Billie's output over recent years. Mooli have taken an already epic track and given it the Portishead treatment, complete with soundtrack style strings.

Billie has never been easy to categorise. Clearly a soul singer, her career however has seen her mostly as a pioneer of house and electronic music, most notably her groundbreaking work with Electribe 101 and her seminal hit Your Loving Arms. Her explorations have led her further into the worlds of ambient music and drum & bass among other areas of electronica.

Her new album The Soul Tapes is a ‘first’ for Billie: no electronic music this time. Billie realised her long-held dream of recording an album that is equally influenced by Hi-Records (Al Green, Ann Peebles, Willie Mitchell) as it is by ’60s garage records. It is also not devoid of a certain country twang, and even Bo Diddley peeks through the door on one song.

Billie Ray Martin and producer/writer Jon Tiven were introduced in New York in the mid ’90s and had started drafting the odd song, together with Sally Tiven. Further writing sessions followed, until it was decided that there was an album of songs worth recording.

Booked into New York’s 900 Broadway Studio, Jon and Billie were thrilled to find themselves working where Keith Richards had recorded his first solo album. Under this omen Jon Tiven brought the musicians in, not least world famous drummer Simon Kirke. Jon’s credits include albums produced for Wilson Pickett, Bobby Womack and Willie Nelson as well as numerous awards and Grammy nominations.

It was not until 2014 that the opportunity arose to mix the album, re-record many of the vocals, add production and instruments and determine exactly the final sound of the album. The results are convincing and powerful and show once again Billie’s refusal to conform to trends, preferring as she does, to create them.

](http://)]]> https://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/album/strongheaded-woman
and all digital stores worldwide
Release date: 15 April 2016
Label: Sonnenstahl Records
Catalogue no:
SREC109

Distribution: billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/
And all digital & physical stores
Style: Soul, rhythm & blues, country

Tracklist:

1. Strongheaded Woman (radio edit)
2. Strongheaded Woman (full length version)
3. The Glittering Gutter (Mooli remix)

As a prelude to the album The Soul Tapes (to be released on 13 May 2016), Billie Ray Martin releases Strongheaded Woman as the lead single - an epic tale of a Las Vegas slot machine addict seemingly meeting her Rhinestone Cowboy, only to discover that he’s just another cheap hit and run sleazebag.

The single includes the Mooli remix of the album track The Glittering Gutter – a song about the downfall of Billie's place of upbringing, the red light district of Hamburg. The Mooli remix adds the kind of darkness that typifies some of Billie's output over recent years. Mooli have taken an already epic track and given it the Portishead treatment, complete with soundtrack style strings.

Billie has never been easy to categorise. Clearly a soul singer, her career however has seen her mostly as a pioneer of house and electronic music, most notably her groundbreaking work with Electribe 101 and her seminal hit Your Loving Arms. Her explorations have led her further into the worlds of ambient music and drum & bass among other areas of electronica.

Her new album The Soul Tapes is a ‘first’ for Billie: no electronic music this time. Billie realised her long-held dream of recording an album that is equally influenced by Hi-Records (Al Green, Ann Peebles, Willie Mitchell) as it is by ’60s garage records. It is also not devoid of a certain country twang, and even Bo Diddley peeks through the door on one song.

Billie Ray Martin and producer/writer Jon Tiven were introduced in New York in the mid ’90s and had started drafting the odd song, together with Sally Tiven. Further writing sessions followed, until it was decided that there was an album of songs worth recording.

Booked into New York’s 900 Broadway Studio, Jon and Billie were thrilled to find themselves working where Keith Richards had recorded his first solo album. Under this omen Jon Tiven brought the musicians in, not least world famous drummer Simon Kirke. Jon’s credits include albums produced for Wilson Pickett, Bobby Womack and Willie Nelson as well as numerous awards and Grammy nominations.

It was not until 2014 that the opportunity arose to mix the album, re-record many of the vocals, add production and instruments and determine exactly the final sound of the album. The results are convincing and powerful and show once again Billie’s refusal to conform to trends, preferring as she does, to create them.

](http://)]]> 827128 no no Thu, 14 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0200 2016-04-14T00:00:00+02:00 3:41 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/03-strongheaded-woman/ https://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/album/strongheaded-woman
and all digital stores worldwide
Release date: 15 April 2016
Label: Sonnenstahl Records
Catalogue no:
SREC109

Distribution: billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/
And all digital & physical stores
Style: Soul, rhythm & blues, country

Tracklist:

1. Strongheaded Woman (radio edit)
2. Strongheaded Woman (full length version)
3. The Glittering Gutter (Mooli remix)

As a prelude to the album The Soul Tapes (to be released on 13 May 2016), Billie Ray Martin releases Strongheaded Woman as the lead single - an epic tale of a Las Vegas slot machine addict seemingly meeting her Rhinestone Cowboy, only to discover that he’s just another cheap hit and run sleazebag.

The single includes the Mooli remix of the album track The Glittering Gutter – a song about the downfall of Billie's place of upbringing, the red light district of Hamburg. The Mooli remix adds the kind of darkness that typifies some of Billie's output over recent years. Mooli have taken an already epic track and given it the Portishead treatment, complete with soundtrack style strings.

Billie has never been easy to categorise. Clearly a soul singer, her career however has seen her mostly as a pioneer of house and electronic music, most notably her groundbreaking work with Electribe 101 and her seminal hit Your Loving Arms. Her explorations have led her further into the worlds of ambient music and drum & bass among other areas of electronica.

Her new album The Soul Tapes is a ‘first’ for Billie: no electronic music this time. Billie realised her long-held dream of recording an album that is equally influenced by Hi-Records (Al Green, Ann Peebles, Willie Mitchell) as it is by ’60s garage records. It is also not devoid of a certain country twang, and even Bo Diddley peeks through the door on one song.

Billie Ray Martin and producer/writer Jon Tiven were introduced in New York in the mid ’90s and had started drafting the odd song, together with Sally Tiven. Further writing sessions followed, until it was decided that there was an album of songs worth recording.

Booked into New York’s 900 Broadway Studio, Jon and Billie were thrilled to find themselves working where Keith Richards had recorded his first solo album. Under this omen Jon Tiven brought the musicians in, not least world famous drummer Simon Kirke. Jon’s credits include albums produced for Wilson Pickett, Bobby Womack and Willie Nelson as well as numerous awards and Grammy nominations.

It was not until 2014 that the opportunity arose to mix the album, re-record many of the vocals, add production and instruments and determine exactly the final sound of the album. The results are convincing and powerful and show once again Billie’s refusal to conform to trends, preferring as she does, to create them.

]]> https://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/album/strongheaded-woman
and all digital stores worldwide
Release date: 15 April 2016
Label: Sonnenstahl Records
Catalogue no:
SREC109

Distribution: billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/
And all digital & physical stores
Style: Soul, rhythm & blues, country

Tracklist:

1. Strongheaded Woman (radio edit)
2. Strongheaded Woman (full length version)
3. The Glittering Gutter (Mooli remix)

As a prelude to the album The Soul Tapes (to be released on 13 May 2016), Billie Ray Martin releases Strongheaded Woman as the lead single - an epic tale of a Las Vegas slot machine addict seemingly meeting her Rhinestone Cowboy, only to discover that he’s just another cheap hit and run sleazebag.

The single includes the Mooli remix of the album track The Glittering Gutter – a song about the downfall of Billie's place of upbringing, the red light district of Hamburg. The Mooli remix adds the kind of darkness that typifies some of Billie's output over recent years. Mooli have taken an already epic track and given it the Portishead treatment, complete with soundtrack style strings.

Billie has never been easy to categorise. Clearly a soul singer, her career however has seen her mostly as a pioneer of house and electronic music, most notably her groundbreaking work with Electribe 101 and her seminal hit Your Loving Arms. Her explorations have led her further into the worlds of ambient music and drum & bass among other areas of electronica.

Her new album The Soul Tapes is a ‘first’ for Billie: no electronic music this time. Billie realised her long-held dream of recording an album that is equally influenced by Hi-Records (Al Green, Ann Peebles, Willie Mitchell) as it is by ’60s garage records. It is also not devoid of a certain country twang, and even Bo Diddley peeks through the door on one song.

Billie Ray Martin and producer/writer Jon Tiven were introduced in New York in the mid ’90s and had started drafting the odd song, together with Sally Tiven. Further writing sessions followed, until it was decided that there was an album of songs worth recording.

Booked into New York’s 900 Broadway Studio, Jon and Billie were thrilled to find themselves working where Keith Richards had recorded his first solo album. Under this omen Jon Tiven brought the musicians in, not least world famous drummer Simon Kirke. Jon’s credits include albums produced for Wilson Pickett, Bobby Womack and Willie Nelson as well as numerous awards and Grammy nominations.

It was not until 2014 that the opportunity arose to mix the album, re-record many of the vocals, add production and instruments and determine exactly the final sound of the album. The results are convincing and powerful and show once again Billie’s refusal to conform to trends, preferring as she does, to create them.

]]> 827137 no no Fri, 15 Apr 2016 07:45:18 +0200 2016-04-15T07:45:18+02:00 5:58 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/the-glittering-gutter-mooli-remix/ https://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/album/strongheaded-woman
and all digital stores worldwide

Release date: 15 April 2016
Label: Sonnenstahl Records
Catalogue no:
SREC109

Distribution: billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/
And all digital & physical stores
Style: Soul, rhythm & blues, country

Tracklist:

1. Strongheaded Woman (radio edit)
2. Strongheaded Woman (full length version)
3. The Glittering Gutter (Mooli remix)

As a prelude to the album The Soul Tapes (to be released on 13 May 2016), Billie Ray Martin releases Strongheaded Woman as the lead single - an epic tale of a Las Vegas slot machine addict seemingly meeting her Rhinestone Cowboy, only to discover that he’s just another cheap hit and run sleazebag.

The single includes the Mooli remix of the album track The Glittering Gutter – a song about the downfall of Billie's place of upbringing, the red light district of Hamburg. The Mooli remix adds the kind of darkness that typifies some of Billie's output over recent years. Mooli have taken an already epic track and given it the Portishead treatment, complete with soundtrack style strings.

Billie has never been easy to categorise. Clearly a soul singer, her career however has seen her mostly as a pioneer of house and electronic music, most notably her groundbreaking work with Electribe 101 and her seminal hit Your Loving Arms. Her explorations have led her further into the worlds of ambient music and drum & bass among other areas of electronica.

Her new album The Soul Tapes is a ‘first’ for Billie: no electronic music this time. Billie realised her long-held dream of recording an album that is equally influenced by Hi-Records (Al Green, Ann Peebles, Willie Mitchell) as it is by ’60s garage records. It is also not devoid of a certain country twang, and even Bo Diddley peeks through the door on one song.

Billie Ray Martin and producer/writer Jon Tiven were introduced in New York in the mid ’90s and had started drafting the odd song, together with Sally Tiven. Further writing sessions followed, until it was decided that there was an album of songs worth recording.

Booked into New York’s 900 Broadway Studio, Jon and Billie were thrilled to find themselves working where Keith Richards had recorded his first solo album. Under this omen Jon Tiven brought the musicians in, not least world famous drummer Simon Kirke. Jon’s credits include albums produced for Wilson Pickett, Bobby Womack and Willie Nelson as well as numerous awards and Grammy nominations.

It was not until 2014 that the opportunity arose to mix the album, re-record many of the vocals, add production and instruments and determine exactly the final sound of the album. The results are convincing and powerful and show once again Billie’s refusal to conform to trends, preferring as she does, to create them.

]]> https://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/album/strongheaded-woman
and all digital stores worldwide

Release date: 15 April 2016
Label: Sonnenstahl Records
Catalogue no:
SREC109

Distribution: billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/
And all digital & physical stores
Style: Soul, rhythm & blues, country

Tracklist:

1. Strongheaded Woman (radio edit)
2. Strongheaded Woman (full length version)
3. The Glittering Gutter (Mooli remix)

As a prelude to the album The Soul Tapes (to be released on 13 May 2016), Billie Ray Martin releases Strongheaded Woman as the lead single - an epic tale of a Las Vegas slot machine addict seemingly meeting her Rhinestone Cowboy, only to discover that he’s just another cheap hit and run sleazebag.

The single includes the Mooli remix of the album track The Glittering Gutter – a song about the downfall of Billie's place of upbringing, the red light district of Hamburg. The Mooli remix adds the kind of darkness that typifies some of Billie's output over recent years. Mooli have taken an already epic track and given it the Portishead treatment, complete with soundtrack style strings.

Billie has never been easy to categorise. Clearly a soul singer, her career however has seen her mostly as a pioneer of house and electronic music, most notably her groundbreaking work with Electribe 101 and her seminal hit Your Loving Arms. Her explorations have led her further into the worlds of ambient music and drum & bass among other areas of electronica.

Her new album The Soul Tapes is a ‘first’ for Billie: no electronic music this time. Billie realised her long-held dream of recording an album that is equally influenced by Hi-Records (Al Green, Ann Peebles, Willie Mitchell) as it is by ’60s garage records. It is also not devoid of a certain country twang, and even Bo Diddley peeks through the door on one song.

Billie Ray Martin and producer/writer Jon Tiven were introduced in New York in the mid ’90s and had started drafting the odd song, together with Sally Tiven. Further writing sessions followed, until it was decided that there was an album of songs worth recording.

Booked into New York’s 900 Broadway Studio, Jon and Billie were thrilled to find themselves working where Keith Richards had recorded his first solo album. Under this omen Jon Tiven brought the musicians in, not least world famous drummer Simon Kirke. Jon’s credits include albums produced for Wilson Pickett, Bobby Womack and Willie Nelson as well as numerous awards and Grammy nominations.

It was not until 2014 that the opportunity arose to mix the album, re-record many of the vocals, add production and instruments and determine exactly the final sound of the album. The results are convincing and powerful and show once again Billie’s refusal to conform to trends, preferring as she does, to create them.

]]> 827143 no no Fri, 15 Apr 2016 07:44:36 +0200 2016-04-15T07:44:36+02:00 4:22 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/theopiates-areyouloathsometonightmaster/ The song is about Liz and Richard, in 'you know what film'. And not just a bit of my sense of summer heat boredom, when your partner adds to the heavyness. Oh, I feel a drama coming on....
File under: Billie writes another country/soul drama story that could be set in the mid west, or The deep south somewhere.....
credits


Written by Billie Ray Martin
Programmed and produced by Robert Solheim: soundcloud.com/robertsolheim]]> The song is about Liz and Richard, in 'you know what film'. And not just a bit of my sense of summer heat boredom, when your partner adds to the heavyness. Oh, I feel a drama coming on....
File under: Billie writes another country/soul drama story that could be set in the mid west, or The deep south somewhere.....
credits


Written by Billie Ray Martin
Programmed and produced by Robert Solheim: soundcloud.com/robertsolheim]]> 215453 no no Fri, 15 May 2015 10:17:31 +0200 2015-05-15T10:17:31+02:00 4:23 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/are-you-loathsome-tonight-demo/ All rights Bilie Ray Martin ]]> All rights Bilie Ray Martin ]]> 210414 no no Fri, 15 May 2015 10:17:01 +0200 2015-05-15T10:17:01+02:00 5:24 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/black-breakers-demo/ Bandcamp subscribers get the vocal acapellas, backing vocals, ad libs and song demos of this unreleased song.
I would like to make this available for you to do your own productions with.
go to billieraymartin.bandcamp.com to get it
Subscribers also get new single, demo exclusives, unreleased songs, backcatalogue items.
(if you plan to make your results public in any way, contact me first)]]> Bandcamp subscribers get the vocal acapellas, backing vocals, ad libs and song demos of this unreleased song.
I would like to make this available for you to do your own productions with.
go to billieraymartin.bandcamp.com to get it
Subscribers also get new single, demo exclusives, unreleased songs, backcatalogue items.
(if you plan to make your results public in any way, contact me first)]]> 199021 no no Fri, 08 May 2015 08:29:23 +0200 2015-05-08T08:29:23+02:00 4:42 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/black-breakers-demo-w-just-ad-libs/ Bandcamp subscribers get the vocal acapellas, backing vocals, ad libs and song demos of this unreleased song.
I would like to make this available for you to do your own productions with.
go to billieraymartin.bandcamp.com to get it
Subscribers also get new single, demo exclusives, unreleased songs, backcatalogue items.
(if you plan to make your results public in any way, contact me first)]]> Bandcamp subscribers get the vocal acapellas, backing vocals, ad libs and song demos of this unreleased song.
I would like to make this available for you to do your own productions with.
go to billieraymartin.bandcamp.com to get it
Subscribers also get new single, demo exclusives, unreleased songs, backcatalogue items.
(if you plan to make your results public in any way, contact me first)]]> 199022 no no Fri, 08 May 2015 08:29:32 +0200 2015-05-08T08:29:32+02:00 4:40 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/05-billie-ray-martin-pacemaker-original-extended-version/ The Pacemaker single (1998) produced and programmed by the very talented Bill Lee in NYC, part of the Crime and punishment EP in it's orig. version.
Lyrically the song describes my record-breaking impatience.
The backing vocal arrangements reflect my obsession with Ike and Tina Turner's Ikettes arrangements, and generally Ike and Tina's music.
The song started out as a Billie and the Deep song in 1983
https://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/track/pick-it-up
The track was later re-recorded as "The Pacemaker" and appeared as a bonus track on the I've Never Been To Memphis CD in 2001.
https://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/track/the-pacemaker

Credits: Produced, Programmed By – Bill Lee
Written by Billie Ray Martin, Bill Lee, Vinny Vero]]> The Pacemaker single (1998) produced and programmed by the very talented Bill Lee in NYC, part of the Crime and punishment EP in it's orig. version.
Lyrically the song describes my record-breaking impatience.
The backing vocal arrangements reflect my obsession with Ike and Tina Turner's Ikettes arrangements, and generally Ike and Tina's music.
The song started out as a Billie and the Deep song in 1983
https://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/track/pick-it-up
The track was later re-recorded as "The Pacemaker" and appeared as a bonus track on the I've Never Been To Memphis CD in 2001.
https://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/track/the-pacemaker

Credits: Produced, Programmed By – Bill Lee
Written by Billie Ray Martin, Bill Lee, Vinny Vero]]> 199112 no no Sun, 19 Apr 2015 12:58:18 +0200 2015-04-19T12:58:18+02:00 8:52 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/01-billie-ray-martin-pacemaker-single-mix/ Lyrically the song describes my record-breaking impatience.
The backing vocal arrangements reflect my obsession with Ike and Tina Turner's Ikettes arrangements, and generally Ike and Tina's music.
The song started out as a Billie and the Deep song in 1983
https://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/track/pick-it-up
The track was later re-recorded as "The Pacemaker" and appeared as a bonus track on the I've Never Been To Memphis CD in 2001.
https://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/track/the-pacemaker

Credits: Produced, Programmed By – Bill Lee
Written by Billie Ray Martin, Bill Lee, Vinny Vero]]> Lyrically the song describes my record-breaking impatience.
The backing vocal arrangements reflect my obsession with Ike and Tina Turner's Ikettes arrangements, and generally Ike and Tina's music.
The song started out as a Billie and the Deep song in 1983
https://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/track/pick-it-up
The track was later re-recorded as "The Pacemaker" and appeared as a bonus track on the I've Never Been To Memphis CD in 2001.
https://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/track/the-pacemaker

Credits: Produced, Programmed By – Bill Lee
Written by Billie Ray Martin, Bill Lee, Vinny Vero]]> 199102 no no Sun, 19 Apr 2015 12:58:20 +0200 2015-04-19T12:58:20+02:00 3:44 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/02-billie-ray-martin-pacemaker-e-smooves-mission-vocal/ The Pacemaker single (1998) produced and programmed by the very talented Bill Lee in NYC, part of the Crime and punishment EP in it's orig. version.
Lyrically the song describes my record-breaking impatience.
The backing vocal arrangements reflect my obsession with Ike and Tina Turner's Ikettes arrangements, and generally Ike and Tina's music.
The song started out as a Billie and the Deep song in 1983
https://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/track/pick-it-up
The track was later re-recorded as "The Pacemaker" and appeared as a bonus track on the I've Never Been To Memphis CD in 2001.
https://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/track/the-pacemaker

Credits: Produced, Programmed By – Bill Lee
Written by Billie Ray Martin, Bill Lee, Vinny Vero]]> The Pacemaker single (1998) produced and programmed by the very talented Bill Lee in NYC, part of the Crime and punishment EP in it's orig. version.
Lyrically the song describes my record-breaking impatience.
The backing vocal arrangements reflect my obsession with Ike and Tina Turner's Ikettes arrangements, and generally Ike and Tina's music.
The song started out as a Billie and the Deep song in 1983
https://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/track/pick-it-up
The track was later re-recorded as "The Pacemaker" and appeared as a bonus track on the I've Never Been To Memphis CD in 2001.
https://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/track/the-pacemaker

Credits: Produced, Programmed By – Bill Lee
Written by Billie Ray Martin, Bill Lee, Vinny Vero]]> 199110 no no Sun, 19 Apr 2015 12:58:23 +0200 2015-04-19T12:58:23+02:00 7:15 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/03-billie-ray-martin-pacemaker-e-smooves-sub-mission-dub/ The Pacemaker single (1998) produced and programmed by the very talented Bill Lee in NYC, part of the Crime and punishment EP in it's orig. version.
Lyrically the song describes my record-breaking impatience.
The backing vocal arrangements reflect my obsession with Ike and Tina Turner's Ikettes arrangements, and generally Ike and Tina's music.
The song started out as a Billie and the Deep song in 1983
https://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/track/pick-it-up
The track was later re-recorded as "The Pacemaker" and appeared as a bonus track on the I've Never Been To Memphis CD in 2001.
https://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/track/the-pacemaker

Credits: Produced, Programmed By – Bill Lee
Written by Billie Ray Martin, Bill Lee, Vinny Vero]]> The Pacemaker single (1998) produced and programmed by the very talented Bill Lee in NYC, part of the Crime and punishment EP in it's orig. version.
Lyrically the song describes my record-breaking impatience.
The backing vocal arrangements reflect my obsession with Ike and Tina Turner's Ikettes arrangements, and generally Ike and Tina's music.
The song started out as a Billie and the Deep song in 1983
https://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/track/pick-it-up
The track was later re-recorded as "The Pacemaker" and appeared as a bonus track on the I've Never Been To Memphis CD in 2001.
https://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/track/the-pacemaker

Credits: Produced, Programmed By – Bill Lee
Written by Billie Ray Martin, Bill Lee, Vinny Vero]]> 199105 no no Sun, 19 Apr 2015 12:58:26 +0200 2015-04-19T12:58:26+02:00 6:14 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/06-billie-ray-martin-pacemaker-ambient-mix/ The Pacemaker single (1998) produced and programmed by the very talented Bill Lee in NYC, part of the Crime and punishment EP in it's orig. version.
Lyrically the song describes my record-breaking impatience.
The backing vocal arrangements reflect my obsession with Ike and Tina Turner's Ikettes arrangements, and generally Ike and Tina's music.
The song started out as a Billie and the Deep song in 1983
https://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/track/pick-it-up
The track was later re-recorded as "The Pacemaker" and appeared as a bonus track on the I've Never Been To Memphis CD in 2001.
https://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/track/the-pacemaker

Credits: Produced, Programmed By – Bill Lee
Written by Billie Ray Martin, Bill Lee, Vinny Vero]]> The Pacemaker single (1998) produced and programmed by the very talented Bill Lee in NYC, part of the Crime and punishment EP in it's orig. version.
Lyrically the song describes my record-breaking impatience.
The backing vocal arrangements reflect my obsession with Ike and Tina Turner's Ikettes arrangements, and generally Ike and Tina's music.
The song started out as a Billie and the Deep song in 1983
https://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/track/pick-it-up
The track was later re-recorded as "The Pacemaker" and appeared as a bonus track on the I've Never Been To Memphis CD in 2001.
https://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/track/the-pacemaker

Credits: Produced, Programmed By – Bill Lee
Written by Billie Ray Martin, Bill Lee, Vinny Vero]]> 199111 no no Sun, 19 Apr 2015 12:58:33 +0200 2015-04-19T12:58:33+02:00 8:56 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/billie-ray-martin-and-aerea-negrot-off-the-rails-original-version/ 11 track digital release. Out 18.Oct 2014 on Disco Activisto Records
Available at billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/ and all digital stores worldwide.
allready supported by:
Luke Solomon, Snuff Crew, Danny Tenaglia, Tensnake, Arthur Baker, Just Kiddin, Todd Edwards, Sean Johnston, Sister Bliss (Ministry Of Sound
Radio)....and many more.
“Ben Hur took longer to complete”, said Aerea Negrot (ex-Hercules and Love Affair chanteuse) when she and Billie had finally recorded their vocals, having tried to get together for over a year. Thus the new ‘Baccara of House’, as they jokingly called themselves, were on a roll. A match made in house-heaven, the two voices combine to create a somewhat Grace Jones-esque epic vocal fest with an old-school tinge.

Produced by Britain's finest, multi-talented producer Waterson, and co-produced by BRM.
The remixes blow all expectations with an extremely well crafted Napoleon mix (aka Simon Mills of Bent), bringing to mind classic Chicago heroes, Ray Grant’s massive dose of Disco meets House Infusion and an outstanding Moroder-esque workout from Electrosexual. The icing on the cake comes from Aerea herself with classic house-style mixes drawing on the vocal powers of this tune.
Written by: Billie Ray Martin & Waterson
Produced by: Waterson (additional production by brm)
Mixed by: Billie Ray Martin & Steve Honest
at hackney road studios, london]]> 11 track digital release. Out 18.Oct 2014 on Disco Activisto Records
Available at billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/ and all digital stores worldwide.
allready supported by:
Luke Solomon, Snuff Crew, Danny Tenaglia, Tensnake, Arthur Baker, Just Kiddin, Todd Edwards, Sean Johnston, Sister Bliss (Ministry Of Sound
Radio)....and many more.
“Ben Hur took longer to complete”, said Aerea Negrot (ex-Hercules and Love Affair chanteuse) when she and Billie had finally recorded their vocals, having tried to get together for over a year. Thus the new ‘Baccara of House’, as they jokingly called themselves, were on a roll. A match made in house-heaven, the two voices combine to create a somewhat Grace Jones-esque epic vocal fest with an old-school tinge.

Produced by Britain's finest, multi-talented producer Waterson, and co-produced by BRM.
The remixes blow all expectations with an extremely well crafted Napoleon mix (aka Simon Mills of Bent), bringing to mind classic Chicago heroes, Ray Grant’s massive dose of Disco meets House Infusion and an outstanding Moroder-esque workout from Electrosexual. The icing on the cake comes from Aerea herself with classic house-style mixes drawing on the vocal powers of this tune.
Written by: Billie Ray Martin & Waterson
Produced by: Waterson (additional production by brm)
Mixed by: Billie Ray Martin & Steve Honest
at hackney road studios, london]]> 85413 no no Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:05:05 +0200 2014-10-17T23:05:05+02:00 6:28 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/billie-ray-martin-and-aerea-negrot-off-the-rails-radio-edit/ 11 track digital release. Out 18.Oct 2014 on Disco Activisto Records
Available at billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/ and all digital stores worldwide.
allready supported by:
Luke Solomon, Snuff Crew, Danny Tenaglia, Tensnake, Arthur Baker, Just Kiddin, Todd Edwards, Sean Johnston, Sister Bliss (Ministry Of Sound
Radio)....and many more.
“Ben Hur took longer to complete”, said Aerea Negrot (ex-Hercules and Love Affair chanteuse) when she and Billie had finally recorded their vocals, having tried to get together for over a year. Thus the new ‘Baccara of House’, as they jokingly called themselves, were on a roll. A match made in house-heaven, the two voices combine to create a somewhat Grace Jones-esque epic vocal fest with an old-school tinge.

Produced by Britain's finest, multi-talented producer Waterson, and co-produced by BRM.
The remixes blow all expectations with an extremely well crafted Napoleon mix (aka Simon Mills of Bent), bringing to mind classic Chicago heroes, Ray Grant’s massive dose of Disco meets House Infusion and an outstanding Moroder-esque workout from Electrosexual. The icing on the cake comes from Aerea herself with classic house-style mixes drawing on the vocal powers of this tune.
Written by: Billie Ray Martin & Waterson
Produced by: Waterson (additional production by brm)
Mixed by: Billie Ray Martin & Steve Honest
at hackney road studios, london]]> 11 track digital release. Out 18.Oct 2014 on Disco Activisto Records
Available at billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/ and all digital stores worldwide.
allready supported by:
Luke Solomon, Snuff Crew, Danny Tenaglia, Tensnake, Arthur Baker, Just Kiddin, Todd Edwards, Sean Johnston, Sister Bliss (Ministry Of Sound
Radio)....and many more.
“Ben Hur took longer to complete”, said Aerea Negrot (ex-Hercules and Love Affair chanteuse) when she and Billie had finally recorded their vocals, having tried to get together for over a year. Thus the new ‘Baccara of House’, as they jokingly called themselves, were on a roll. A match made in house-heaven, the two voices combine to create a somewhat Grace Jones-esque epic vocal fest with an old-school tinge.

Produced by Britain's finest, multi-talented producer Waterson, and co-produced by BRM.
The remixes blow all expectations with an extremely well crafted Napoleon mix (aka Simon Mills of Bent), bringing to mind classic Chicago heroes, Ray Grant’s massive dose of Disco meets House Infusion and an outstanding Moroder-esque workout from Electrosexual. The icing on the cake comes from Aerea herself with classic house-style mixes drawing on the vocal powers of this tune.
Written by: Billie Ray Martin & Waterson
Produced by: Waterson (additional production by brm)
Mixed by: Billie Ray Martin & Steve Honest
at hackney road studios, london]]> 85410 no no Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:06:42 +0200 2014-10-17T23:06:42+02:00 4:27 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/billie-ray-martin-and-aerea-negrot-off-the-rails-aerea-negrot-edit/ 11 track digital release. Out 18.Oct 2014 on Disco Activisto Records
Available at billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/ and all digital stores worldwide.
allready supported by:
Luke Solomon, Snuff Crew, Danny Tenaglia, Tensnake, Arthur Baker, Just Kiddin, Todd Edwards, Sean Johnston, Sister Bliss (Ministry Of Sound
Radio)....and many more.
“Ben Hur took longer to complete”, said Aerea Negrot (ex-Hercules and Love Affair chanteuse) when she and Billie had finally recorded their vocals, having tried to get together for over a year. Thus the new ‘Baccara of House’, as they jokingly called themselves, were on a roll. A match made in house-heaven, the two voices combine to create a somewhat Grace Jones-esque epic vocal fest with an old-school tinge.

Produced by Britain's finest, multi-talented producer Waterson, and co-produced by BRM.
The remixes blow all expectations with an extremely well crafted Napoleon mix (aka Simon Mills of Bent), bringing to mind classic Chicago heroes, Ray Grant’s massive dose of Disco meets House Infusion and an outstanding Moroder-esque workout from Electrosexual. The icing on the cake comes from Aerea herself with classic house-style mixes drawing on the vocal powers of this tune.
Written by: Billie Ray Martin & Waterson
Produced by: Waterson (additional production by brm)
Mixed by: Billie Ray Martin & Steve Honest
at hackney road studios, london]]> 11 track digital release. Out 18.Oct 2014 on Disco Activisto Records
Available at billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/ and all digital stores worldwide.
allready supported by:
Luke Solomon, Snuff Crew, Danny Tenaglia, Tensnake, Arthur Baker, Just Kiddin, Todd Edwards, Sean Johnston, Sister Bliss (Ministry Of Sound
Radio)....and many more.
“Ben Hur took longer to complete”, said Aerea Negrot (ex-Hercules and Love Affair chanteuse) when she and Billie had finally recorded their vocals, having tried to get together for over a year. Thus the new ‘Baccara of House’, as they jokingly called themselves, were on a roll. A match made in house-heaven, the two voices combine to create a somewhat Grace Jones-esque epic vocal fest with an old-school tinge.

Produced by Britain's finest, multi-talented producer Waterson, and co-produced by BRM.
The remixes blow all expectations with an extremely well crafted Napoleon mix (aka Simon Mills of Bent), bringing to mind classic Chicago heroes, Ray Grant’s massive dose of Disco meets House Infusion and an outstanding Moroder-esque workout from Electrosexual. The icing on the cake comes from Aerea herself with classic house-style mixes drawing on the vocal powers of this tune.
Written by: Billie Ray Martin & Waterson
Produced by: Waterson (additional production by brm)
Mixed by: Billie Ray Martin & Steve Honest
at hackney road studios, london]]> 85399 no no Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:06:59 +0200 2014-10-17T23:06:59+02:00 6:30 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/billie-ray-martin-and-aerea-negrot-off-the-rails-aerea-negrot-dub/ 11 track digital release. Out 18.Oct 2014 on Disco Activisto Records
Available at billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/ and all digital stores worldwide.
allready supported by:
Luke Solomon, Snuff Crew, Danny Tenaglia, Tensnake, Arthur Baker, Just Kiddin, Todd Edwards, Sean Johnston, Sister Bliss (Ministry Of Sound
Radio)....and many more.
“Ben Hur took longer to complete”, said Aerea Negrot (ex-Hercules and Love Affair chanteuse) when she and Billie had finally recorded their vocals, having tried to get together for over a year. Thus the new ‘Baccara of House’, as they jokingly called themselves, were on a roll. A match made in house-heaven, the two voices combine to create a somewhat Grace Jones-esque epic vocal fest with an old-school tinge.

Produced by Britain's finest, multi-talented producer Waterson, and co-produced by BRM.
The remixes blow all expectations with an extremely well crafted Napoleon mix (aka Simon Mills of Bent), bringing to mind classic Chicago heroes, Ray Grant’s massive dose of Disco meets House Infusion and an outstanding Moroder-esque workout from Electrosexual. The icing on the cake comes from Aerea herself with classic house-style mixes drawing on the vocal powers of this tune.
Written by: Billie Ray Martin & Waterson
Produced by: Waterson (additional production by brm)
Mixed by: Billie Ray Martin & Steve Honest
at hackney road studios, london]]> 11 track digital release. Out 18.Oct 2014 on Disco Activisto Records
Available at billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/ and all digital stores worldwide.
allready supported by:
Luke Solomon, Snuff Crew, Danny Tenaglia, Tensnake, Arthur Baker, Just Kiddin, Todd Edwards, Sean Johnston, Sister Bliss (Ministry Of Sound
Radio)....and many more.
“Ben Hur took longer to complete”, said Aerea Negrot (ex-Hercules and Love Affair chanteuse) when she and Billie had finally recorded their vocals, having tried to get together for over a year. Thus the new ‘Baccara of House’, as they jokingly called themselves, were on a roll. A match made in house-heaven, the two voices combine to create a somewhat Grace Jones-esque epic vocal fest with an old-school tinge.

Produced by Britain's finest, multi-talented producer Waterson, and co-produced by BRM.
The remixes blow all expectations with an extremely well crafted Napoleon mix (aka Simon Mills of Bent), bringing to mind classic Chicago heroes, Ray Grant’s massive dose of Disco meets House Infusion and an outstanding Moroder-esque workout from Electrosexual. The icing on the cake comes from Aerea herself with classic house-style mixes drawing on the vocal powers of this tune.
Written by: Billie Ray Martin & Waterson
Produced by: Waterson (additional production by brm)
Mixed by: Billie Ray Martin & Steve Honest
at hackney road studios, london]]> 85401 no no Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:06:59 +0200 2014-10-17T23:06:59+02:00 6:28 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/billie-ray-martin-and-aerea-negrot-off-the-rails-electrosexual-remix/ 11 track digital release. Out 18.Oct 2014 on Disco Activisto Records
Available at billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/ and all digital stores worldwide.
allready supported by:
Luke Solomon, Snuff Crew, Danny Tenaglia, Tensnake, Arthur Baker, Just Kiddin, Todd Edwards, Sean Johnston, Sister Bliss (Ministry Of Sound
Radio)....and many more.
“Ben Hur took longer to complete”, said Aerea Negrot (ex-Hercules and Love Affair chanteuse) when she and Billie had finally recorded their vocals, having tried to get together for over a year. Thus the new ‘Baccara of House’, as they jokingly called themselves, were on a roll. A match made in house-heaven, the two voices combine to create a somewhat Grace Jones-esque epic vocal fest with an old-school tinge.

Produced by Britain's finest, multi-talented producer Waterson, and co-produced by BRM.
The remixes blow all expectations with an extremely well crafted Napoleon mix (aka Simon Mills of Bent), bringing to mind classic Chicago heroes, Ray Grant’s massive dose of Disco meets House Infusion and an outstanding Moroder-esque workout from Electrosexual. The icing on the cake comes from Aerea herself with classic house-style mixes drawing on the vocal powers of this tune.
Written by: Billie Ray Martin & Waterson
Produced by: Waterson (additional production by brm)
Mixed by: Billie Ray Martin & Steve Honest
at hackney road studios, london]]> 11 track digital release. Out 18.Oct 2014 on Disco Activisto Records
Available at billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/ and all digital stores worldwide.
allready supported by:
Luke Solomon, Snuff Crew, Danny Tenaglia, Tensnake, Arthur Baker, Just Kiddin, Todd Edwards, Sean Johnston, Sister Bliss (Ministry Of Sound
Radio)....and many more.
“Ben Hur took longer to complete”, said Aerea Negrot (ex-Hercules and Love Affair chanteuse) when she and Billie had finally recorded their vocals, having tried to get together for over a year. Thus the new ‘Baccara of House’, as they jokingly called themselves, were on a roll. A match made in house-heaven, the two voices combine to create a somewhat Grace Jones-esque epic vocal fest with an old-school tinge.

Produced by Britain's finest, multi-talented producer Waterson, and co-produced by BRM.
The remixes blow all expectations with an extremely well crafted Napoleon mix (aka Simon Mills of Bent), bringing to mind classic Chicago heroes, Ray Grant’s massive dose of Disco meets House Infusion and an outstanding Moroder-esque workout from Electrosexual. The icing on the cake comes from Aerea herself with classic house-style mixes drawing on the vocal powers of this tune.
Written by: Billie Ray Martin & Waterson
Produced by: Waterson (additional production by brm)
Mixed by: Billie Ray Martin & Steve Honest
at hackney road studios, london]]> 85406 no no Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:06:49 +0200 2014-10-17T23:06:49+02:00 6:48 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/billie-ray-martin-and-aerea-negrot-off-the-rails-electrosexual-dub/ 11 track digital release. Out 18.Oct 2014 on Disco Activisto Records
Available at billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/ and all digital stores worldwide.
allready supported by:
Luke Solomon, Snuff Crew, Danny Tenaglia, Tensnake, Arthur Baker, Just Kiddin, Todd Edwards, Sean Johnston, Sister Bliss (Ministry Of Sound
Radio)....and many more.
“Ben Hur took longer to complete”, said Aerea Negrot (ex-Hercules and Love Affair chanteuse) when she and Billie had finally recorded their vocals, having tried to get together for over a year. Thus the new ‘Baccara of House’, as they jokingly called themselves, were on a roll. A match made in house-heaven, the two voices combine to create a somewhat Grace Jones-esque epic vocal fest with an old-school tinge.

Produced by Britain's finest, multi-talented producer Waterson, and co-produced by BRM.
The remixes blow all expectations with an extremely well crafted Napoleon mix (aka Simon Mills of Bent), bringing to mind classic Chicago heroes, Ray Grant’s massive dose of Disco meets House Infusion and an outstanding Moroder-esque workout from Electrosexual. The icing on the cake comes from Aerea herself with classic house-style mixes drawing on the vocal powers of this tune.
Written by: Billie Ray Martin & Waterson
Produced by: Waterson (additional production by brm)
Mixed by: Billie Ray Martin & Steve Honest
at hackney road studios, london]]> 11 track digital release. Out 18.Oct 2014 on Disco Activisto Records
Available at billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/ and all digital stores worldwide.
allready supported by:
Luke Solomon, Snuff Crew, Danny Tenaglia, Tensnake, Arthur Baker, Just Kiddin, Todd Edwards, Sean Johnston, Sister Bliss (Ministry Of Sound
Radio)....and many more.
“Ben Hur took longer to complete”, said Aerea Negrot (ex-Hercules and Love Affair chanteuse) when she and Billie had finally recorded their vocals, having tried to get together for over a year. Thus the new ‘Baccara of House’, as they jokingly called themselves, were on a roll. A match made in house-heaven, the two voices combine to create a somewhat Grace Jones-esque epic vocal fest with an old-school tinge.

Produced by Britain's finest, multi-talented producer Waterson, and co-produced by BRM.
The remixes blow all expectations with an extremely well crafted Napoleon mix (aka Simon Mills of Bent), bringing to mind classic Chicago heroes, Ray Grant’s massive dose of Disco meets House Infusion and an outstanding Moroder-esque workout from Electrosexual. The icing on the cake comes from Aerea herself with classic house-style mixes drawing on the vocal powers of this tune.
Written by: Billie Ray Martin & Waterson
Produced by: Waterson (additional production by brm)
Mixed by: Billie Ray Martin & Steve Honest
at hackney road studios, london]]> 85407 no no Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:06:44 +0200 2014-10-17T23:06:44+02:00 6:33 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/billie-ray-martin-and-aerea-negrot-off-the-rails-napoleon-remix/ 11 track digital release. Out 18.Oct 2014 on Disco Activisto Records
Available at billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/ and all digital stores worldwide.
allready supported by:
Luke Solomon, Snuff Crew, Danny Tenaglia, Tensnake, Arthur Baker, Just Kiddin, Todd Edwards, Sean Johnston, Sister Bliss (Ministry Of Sound
Radio)....and many more.
“Ben Hur took longer to complete”, said Aerea Negrot (ex-Hercules and Love Affair chanteuse) when she and Billie had finally recorded their vocals, having tried to get together for over a year. Thus the new ‘Baccara of House’, as they jokingly called themselves, were on a roll. A match made in house-heaven, the two voices combine to create a somewhat Grace Jones-esque epic vocal fest with an old-school tinge.

Produced by Britain's finest, multi-talented producer Waterson, and co-produced by BRM.
The remixes blow all expectations with an extremely well crafted Napoleon mix (aka Simon Mills of Bent), bringing to mind classic Chicago heroes, Ray Grant’s massive dose of Disco meets House Infusion and an outstanding Moroder-esque workout from Electrosexual. The icing on the cake comes from Aerea herself with classic house-style mixes drawing on the vocal powers of this tune.
Written by: Billie Ray Martin & Waterson
Produced by: Waterson (additional production by brm)
Mixed by: Billie Ray Martin & Steve Honest
at hackney road studios, london]]> 11 track digital release. Out 18.Oct 2014 on Disco Activisto Records
Available at billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/ and all digital stores worldwide.
allready supported by:
Luke Solomon, Snuff Crew, Danny Tenaglia, Tensnake, Arthur Baker, Just Kiddin, Todd Edwards, Sean Johnston, Sister Bliss (Ministry Of Sound
Radio)....and many more.
“Ben Hur took longer to complete”, said Aerea Negrot (ex-Hercules and Love Affair chanteuse) when she and Billie had finally recorded their vocals, having tried to get together for over a year. Thus the new ‘Baccara of House’, as they jokingly called themselves, were on a roll. A match made in house-heaven, the two voices combine to create a somewhat Grace Jones-esque epic vocal fest with an old-school tinge.

Produced by Britain's finest, multi-talented producer Waterson, and co-produced by BRM.
The remixes blow all expectations with an extremely well crafted Napoleon mix (aka Simon Mills of Bent), bringing to mind classic Chicago heroes, Ray Grant’s massive dose of Disco meets House Infusion and an outstanding Moroder-esque workout from Electrosexual. The icing on the cake comes from Aerea herself with classic house-style mixes drawing on the vocal powers of this tune.
Written by: Billie Ray Martin & Waterson
Produced by: Waterson (additional production by brm)
Mixed by: Billie Ray Martin & Steve Honest
at hackney road studios, london]]> 85404 no no Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:06:51 +0200 2014-10-17T23:06:51+02:00 6:06 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/billie-ray-martin-and-aerea-negrot-off-the-rails-napoleon-oooh-mix/ Available at billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/ and all digital stores worldwide.
allready supported by:
Luke Solomon, Snuff Crew, Danny Tenaglia, Tensnake, Arthur Baker, Just Kiddin, Todd Edwards, Sean Johnston, Sister Bliss (Ministry Of Sound
Radio)....and many more.
“Ben Hur took longer to complete”, said Aerea Negrot (ex-Hercules and Love Affair chanteuse) when she and Billie had finally recorded their vocals, having tried to get together for over a year. Thus the new ‘Baccara of House’, as they jokingly called themselves, were on a roll. A match made in house-heaven, the two voices combine to create a somewhat Grace Jones-esque epic vocal fest with an old-school tinge.

Produced by Britain's finest, multi-talented producer Waterson, and co-produced by BRM.
The remixes blow all expectations with an extremely well crafted Napoleon mix (aka Simon Mills of Bent), bringing to mind classic Chicago heroes, Ray Grant’s massive dose of Disco meets House Infusion and an outstanding Moroder-esque workout from Electrosexual. The icing on the cake comes from Aerea herself with classic house-style mixes drawing on the vocal powers of this tune.
Written by: Billie Ray Martin & Waterson
Produced by: Waterson (additional production by brm)
Mixed by: Billie Ray Martin & Steve Honest
at hackney road studios, london]]> Available at billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/ and all digital stores worldwide.
allready supported by:
Luke Solomon, Snuff Crew, Danny Tenaglia, Tensnake, Arthur Baker, Just Kiddin, Todd Edwards, Sean Johnston, Sister Bliss (Ministry Of Sound
Radio)....and many more.
“Ben Hur took longer to complete”, said Aerea Negrot (ex-Hercules and Love Affair chanteuse) when she and Billie had finally recorded their vocals, having tried to get together for over a year. Thus the new ‘Baccara of House’, as they jokingly called themselves, were on a roll. A match made in house-heaven, the two voices combine to create a somewhat Grace Jones-esque epic vocal fest with an old-school tinge.

Produced by Britain's finest, multi-talented producer Waterson, and co-produced by BRM.
The remixes blow all expectations with an extremely well crafted Napoleon mix (aka Simon Mills of Bent), bringing to mind classic Chicago heroes, Ray Grant’s massive dose of Disco meets House Infusion and an outstanding Moroder-esque workout from Electrosexual. The icing on the cake comes from Aerea herself with classic house-style mixes drawing on the vocal powers of this tune.
Written by: Billie Ray Martin & Waterson
Produced by: Waterson (additional production by brm)
Mixed by: Billie Ray Martin & Steve Honest
at hackney road studios, london]]> 85397 no no Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:07:08 +0200 2014-10-17T23:07:08+02:00 6:06 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/billie-ray-martin-and-aerea-negrot-off-the-rails-ray-grant-2-am-mix/ 11 track digital release. Out 18.Oct 2014 on Disco Activisto Records
Available at billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/ and all digital stores worldwide.
allready supported by:
Luke Solomon, Snuff Crew, Danny Tenaglia, Tensnake, Arthur Baker, Just Kiddin, Todd Edwards, Sean Johnston, Sister Bliss (Ministry Of Sound
Radio)....and many more.
“Ben Hur took longer to complete”, said Aerea Negrot (ex-Hercules and Love Affair chanteuse) when she and Billie had finally recorded their vocals, having tried to get together for over a year. Thus the new ‘Baccara of House’, as they jokingly called themselves, were on a roll. A match made in house-heaven, the two voices combine to create a somewhat Grace Jones-esque epic vocal fest with an old-school tinge.

Produced by Britain's finest, multi-talented producer Waterson, and co-produced by BRM.
The remixes blow all expectations with an extremely well crafted Napoleon mix (aka Simon Mills of Bent), bringing to mind classic Chicago heroes, Ray Grant’s massive dose of Disco meets House Infusion and an outstanding Moroder-esque workout from Electrosexual. The icing on the cake comes from Aerea herself with classic house-style mixes drawing on the vocal powers of this tune.
Written by: Billie Ray Martin & Waterson
Produced by: Waterson (additional production by brm)
Mixed by: Billie Ray Martin & Steve Honest
at hackney road studios, london]]> 11 track digital release. Out 18.Oct 2014 on Disco Activisto Records
Available at billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/ and all digital stores worldwide.
allready supported by:
Luke Solomon, Snuff Crew, Danny Tenaglia, Tensnake, Arthur Baker, Just Kiddin, Todd Edwards, Sean Johnston, Sister Bliss (Ministry Of Sound
Radio)....and many more.
“Ben Hur took longer to complete”, said Aerea Negrot (ex-Hercules and Love Affair chanteuse) when she and Billie had finally recorded their vocals, having tried to get together for over a year. Thus the new ‘Baccara of House’, as they jokingly called themselves, were on a roll. A match made in house-heaven, the two voices combine to create a somewhat Grace Jones-esque epic vocal fest with an old-school tinge.

Produced by Britain's finest, multi-talented producer Waterson, and co-produced by BRM.
The remixes blow all expectations with an extremely well crafted Napoleon mix (aka Simon Mills of Bent), bringing to mind classic Chicago heroes, Ray Grant’s massive dose of Disco meets House Infusion and an outstanding Moroder-esque workout from Electrosexual. The icing on the cake comes from Aerea herself with classic house-style mixes drawing on the vocal powers of this tune.
Written by: Billie Ray Martin & Waterson
Produced by: Waterson (additional production by brm)
Mixed by: Billie Ray Martin & Steve Honest
at hackney road studios, london]]> 85414 no no Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:04:25 +0200 2014-10-17T23:04:25+02:00 6:44 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/billie-ray-martin-and-aerea-negrot-off-the-rails-ray-grant-6-am-mix/ Available at billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/ and all digital stores worldwide.
allready supported by:
Luke Solomon, Snuff Crew, Danny Tenaglia, Tensnake, Arthur Baker, Just Kiddin, Todd Edwards, Sean Johnston, Sister Bliss (Ministry Of Sound
Radio)....and many more.
“Ben Hur took longer to complete”, said Aerea Negrot (ex-Hercules and Love Affair chanteuse) when she and Billie had finally recorded their vocals, having tried to get together for over a year. Thus the new ‘Baccara of House’, as they jokingly called themselves, were on a roll. A match made in house-heaven, the two voices combine to create a somewhat Grace Jones-esque epic vocal fest with an old-school tinge.

Produced by Britain's finest, multi-talented producer Waterson, and co-produced by BRM.
The remixes blow all expectations with an extremely well crafted Napoleon mix (aka Simon Mills of Bent), bringing to mind classic Chicago heroes, Ray Grant’s massive dose of Disco meets House Infusion and an outstanding Moroder-esque workout from Electrosexual. The icing on the cake comes from Aerea herself with classic house-style mixes drawing on the vocal powers of this tune.
Written by: Billie Ray Martin & Waterson
Produced by: Waterson (additional production by brm)
Mixed by: Billie Ray Martin & Steve Honest
at hackney road studios, london]]> Available at billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/ and all digital stores worldwide.
allready supported by:
Luke Solomon, Snuff Crew, Danny Tenaglia, Tensnake, Arthur Baker, Just Kiddin, Todd Edwards, Sean Johnston, Sister Bliss (Ministry Of Sound
Radio)....and many more.
“Ben Hur took longer to complete”, said Aerea Negrot (ex-Hercules and Love Affair chanteuse) when she and Billie had finally recorded their vocals, having tried to get together for over a year. Thus the new ‘Baccara of House’, as they jokingly called themselves, were on a roll. A match made in house-heaven, the two voices combine to create a somewhat Grace Jones-esque epic vocal fest with an old-school tinge.

Produced by Britain's finest, multi-talented producer Waterson, and co-produced by BRM.
The remixes blow all expectations with an extremely well crafted Napoleon mix (aka Simon Mills of Bent), bringing to mind classic Chicago heroes, Ray Grant’s massive dose of Disco meets House Infusion and an outstanding Moroder-esque workout from Electrosexual. The icing on the cake comes from Aerea herself with classic house-style mixes drawing on the vocal powers of this tune.
Written by: Billie Ray Martin & Waterson
Produced by: Waterson (additional production by brm)
Mixed by: Billie Ray Martin & Steve Honest
at hackney road studios, london]]> 85411 no no Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:06:21 +0200 2014-10-17T23:06:21+02:00 4:51 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/billie-ray-martin-and-aerea-negrot-off-the-rails-ray-grant-6-am-dub/ 11 track digital release. Out 18.Oct 2014 on Disco Activisto Records
Available at billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/ and all digital stores worldwide.
allready supported by:
Luke Solomon, Snuff Crew, Danny Tenaglia, Tensnake, Arthur Baker, Just Kiddin, Todd Edwards, Sean Johnston, Sister Bliss (Ministry Of Sound
Radio)....and many more.
“Ben Hur took longer to complete”, said Aerea Negrot (ex-Hercules and Love Affair chanteuse) when she and Billie had finally recorded their vocals, having tried to get together for over a year. Thus the new ‘Baccara of House’, as they jokingly called themselves, were on a roll. A match made in house-heaven, the two voices combine to create a somewhat Grace Jones-esque epic vocal fest with an old-school tinge.

Produced by Britain's finest, multi-talented producer Waterson, and co-produced by BRM.
The remixes blow all expectations with an extremely well crafted Napoleon mix (aka Simon Mills of Bent), bringing to mind classic Chicago heroes, Ray Grant’s massive dose of Disco meets House Infusion and an outstanding Moroder-esque workout from Electrosexual. The icing on the cake comes from Aerea herself with classic house-style mixes drawing on the vocal powers of this tune.
Written by: Billie Ray Martin & Waterson
Produced by: Waterson (additional production by brm)
Mixed by: Billie Ray Martin & Steve Honest
at hackney road studios, london]]> 11 track digital release. Out 18.Oct 2014 on Disco Activisto Records
Available at billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/ and all digital stores worldwide.
allready supported by:
Luke Solomon, Snuff Crew, Danny Tenaglia, Tensnake, Arthur Baker, Just Kiddin, Todd Edwards, Sean Johnston, Sister Bliss (Ministry Of Sound
Radio)....and many more.
“Ben Hur took longer to complete”, said Aerea Negrot (ex-Hercules and Love Affair chanteuse) when she and Billie had finally recorded their vocals, having tried to get together for over a year. Thus the new ‘Baccara of House’, as they jokingly called themselves, were on a roll. A match made in house-heaven, the two voices combine to create a somewhat Grace Jones-esque epic vocal fest with an old-school tinge.

Produced by Britain's finest, multi-talented producer Waterson, and co-produced by BRM.
The remixes blow all expectations with an extremely well crafted Napoleon mix (aka Simon Mills of Bent), bringing to mind classic Chicago heroes, Ray Grant’s massive dose of Disco meets House Infusion and an outstanding Moroder-esque workout from Electrosexual. The icing on the cake comes from Aerea herself with classic house-style mixes drawing on the vocal powers of this tune.
Written by: Billie Ray Martin & Waterson
Produced by: Waterson (additional production by brm)
Mixed by: Billie Ray Martin & Steve Honest
at hackney road studios, london]]> 85412 no no Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:05:23 +0200 2014-10-17T23:05:23+02:00 5:08 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/five-takes-on-borrowed-time-take-1/ billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/album/five…ut-andy-ep

The song ‘On Borrowed Time’ deals with Andy Warhol's fictional confession, in which he reflects on his existence and a life he always experienced as less than real. With music by electronic producer and soul singer Waterson, who is riding high on the airwaves with his single 'When You Tell Me That You Love Me'.

Billie: “Colin and I wanted to create a track that's based mostly on drums and noise. Colin had created a lovely track with different keyboard parts. I kept telling him to remove it all and just keep the 'weird bits' and do 'more of those'. What Colin then came back with surpassed all my expectations. I was immediately inspired to record my usual five takes, that I record of any vocal. I never rehearse songs or vocals after they've been written so this was the perfect vehicle to illustrate the process. Lyric sheet in hand, not knowing what I was going to do, we recorded the vocals.
I'll let Colin tell the rest of the story.“

‘The project started out life as a traditionally structured song, with chords, on a piano, comprising verse, bridge, chorus, verse, bridge, chorus, coda. From this point, I deconstructed the piece until there were no 'pretty bits' left (as per the brief from Billie), and had the basis for Take One. That initial song is part rhythm, part sound design, part field recording and part music. Everything fills a space to create the whole but no one thing overpowers the other.

I then set about altering each take by starting with 'faders down' every time. It was a great way to create different versions because everything seemed fresh and gave a new sonic identity (with familiar components) to each new mix. I evolved the initial process from the first take where Billie had kept suggesting I drop more and more elements, and kept finding myself with ever more interesting versions.

I also started to hear a thread throughout all five takes, as if the versions were supporting the story of the song in an overall story - like a concept. I love the sadness and bareness of the last take, where it sounds almost 'like a vigil' (Billie heard it too), and the way it ends hopeful and transcendent. I followed the original brief in terms of 'taking things out' and also followed my internal guide in a stream of consciousness approach.

Some of the sounds are actually field recordings from the streets of New York (the spirit of Warhol can still very much be felt in Manhattan) and it's not every day one would able to use all five, unrehearsed takes of a singer, but with Billie Ray I was - and then some. I feel the arrangements of each version match and mirror the characteristic of the accompanying vocal, as if talking to one another.‘]]> billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/album/five…ut-andy-ep

The song ‘On Borrowed Time’ deals with Andy Warhol's fictional confession, in which he reflects on his existence and a life he always experienced as less than real. With music by electronic producer and soul singer Waterson, who is riding high on the airwaves with his single 'When You Tell Me That You Love Me'.

Billie: “Colin and I wanted to create a track that's based mostly on drums and noise. Colin had created a lovely track with different keyboard parts. I kept telling him to remove it all and just keep the 'weird bits' and do 'more of those'. What Colin then came back with surpassed all my expectations. I was immediately inspired to record my usual five takes, that I record of any vocal. I never rehearse songs or vocals after they've been written so this was the perfect vehicle to illustrate the process. Lyric sheet in hand, not knowing what I was going to do, we recorded the vocals.
I'll let Colin tell the rest of the story.“

‘The project started out life as a traditionally structured song, with chords, on a piano, comprising verse, bridge, chorus, verse, bridge, chorus, coda. From this point, I deconstructed the piece until there were no 'pretty bits' left (as per the brief from Billie), and had the basis for Take One. That initial song is part rhythm, part sound design, part field recording and part music. Everything fills a space to create the whole but no one thing overpowers the other.

I then set about altering each take by starting with 'faders down' every time. It was a great way to create different versions because everything seemed fresh and gave a new sonic identity (with familiar components) to each new mix. I evolved the initial process from the first take where Billie had kept suggesting I drop more and more elements, and kept finding myself with ever more interesting versions.

I also started to hear a thread throughout all five takes, as if the versions were supporting the story of the song in an overall story - like a concept. I love the sadness and bareness of the last take, where it sounds almost 'like a vigil' (Billie heard it too), and the way it ends hopeful and transcendent. I followed the original brief in terms of 'taking things out' and also followed my internal guide in a stream of consciousness approach.

Some of the sounds are actually field recordings from the streets of New York (the spirit of Warhol can still very much be felt in Manhattan) and it's not every day one would able to use all five, unrehearsed takes of a singer, but with Billie Ray I was - and then some. I feel the arrangements of each version match and mirror the characteristic of the accompanying vocal, as if talking to one another.‘]]> 130527 no no Mon, 10 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0200 2012-09-10T00:00:00+02:00 4:45 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/five-takes-on-borrowed-time-take-2/ http://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/album/five-takes-a-song-about-andy-ep


The song ‘On Borrowed Time’ deals with Andy Warhol's fictional confession, in which he reflects on his existence and a life he always experienced as less than real. With music by electronic producer and soul singer Waterson, who is riding high on the airwaves with his single 'When You Tell Me That You Love Me'.

Billie: “Colin and I wanted to create a track that's based mostly on drums and noise. Colin had created a lovely track with different keyboard parts. I kept telling him to remove it all and just keep the 'weird bits' and do 'more of those'. What Colin then came back with surpassed all my expectations. I was immediately inspired to record my usual five takes, that I record of any vocal. I never rehearse songs or vocals after they've been written so this was the perfect vehicle to illustrate the process. Lyric sheet in hand, not knowing what I was going to do, we recorded the vocals.
I'll let Colin tell the rest of the story.“

‘The project started out life as a traditionally structured song, with chords, on a piano, comprising verse, bridge, chorus, verse, bridge, chorus, coda. From this point, I deconstructed the piece until there were no 'pretty bits' left (as per the brief from Billie), and had the basis for Take One. That initial song is part rhythm, part sound design, part field recording and part music. Everything fills a space to create the whole but no one thing overpowers the other.

I then set about altering each take by starting with 'faders down' every time. It was a great way to create different versions because everything seemed fresh and gave a new sonic identity (with familiar components) to each new mix. I evolved the initial process from the first take where Billie had kept suggesting I drop more and more elements, and kept finding myself with ever more interesting versions.

I also started to hear a thread throughout all five takes, as if the versions were supporting the story of the song in an overall story - like a concept. I love the sadness and bareness of the last take, where it sounds almost 'like a vigil' (Billie heard it too), and the way it ends hopeful and transcendent. I followed the original brief in terms of 'taking things out' and also followed my internal guide in a stream of consciousness approach.

Some of the sounds are actually field recordings from the streets of New York (the spirit of Warhol can still very much be felt in Manhattan) and it's not every day one would able to use all five, unrehearsed takes of a singer, but with Billie Ray I was - and then some. I feel the arrangements of each version match and mirror the characteristic of the accompanying vocal, as if talking to one another.‘
]]> http://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/album/five-takes-a-song-about-andy-ep


The song ‘On Borrowed Time’ deals with Andy Warhol's fictional confession, in which he reflects on his existence and a life he always experienced as less than real. With music by electronic producer and soul singer Waterson, who is riding high on the airwaves with his single 'When You Tell Me That You Love Me'.

Billie: “Colin and I wanted to create a track that's based mostly on drums and noise. Colin had created a lovely track with different keyboard parts. I kept telling him to remove it all and just keep the 'weird bits' and do 'more of those'. What Colin then came back with surpassed all my expectations. I was immediately inspired to record my usual five takes, that I record of any vocal. I never rehearse songs or vocals after they've been written so this was the perfect vehicle to illustrate the process. Lyric sheet in hand, not knowing what I was going to do, we recorded the vocals.
I'll let Colin tell the rest of the story.“

‘The project started out life as a traditionally structured song, with chords, on a piano, comprising verse, bridge, chorus, verse, bridge, chorus, coda. From this point, I deconstructed the piece until there were no 'pretty bits' left (as per the brief from Billie), and had the basis for Take One. That initial song is part rhythm, part sound design, part field recording and part music. Everything fills a space to create the whole but no one thing overpowers the other.

I then set about altering each take by starting with 'faders down' every time. It was a great way to create different versions because everything seemed fresh and gave a new sonic identity (with familiar components) to each new mix. I evolved the initial process from the first take where Billie had kept suggesting I drop more and more elements, and kept finding myself with ever more interesting versions.

I also started to hear a thread throughout all five takes, as if the versions were supporting the story of the song in an overall story - like a concept. I love the sadness and bareness of the last take, where it sounds almost 'like a vigil' (Billie heard it too), and the way it ends hopeful and transcendent. I followed the original brief in terms of 'taking things out' and also followed my internal guide in a stream of consciousness approach.

Some of the sounds are actually field recordings from the streets of New York (the spirit of Warhol can still very much be felt in Manhattan) and it's not every day one would able to use all five, unrehearsed takes of a singer, but with Billie Ray I was - and then some. I feel the arrangements of each version match and mirror the characteristic of the accompanying vocal, as if talking to one another.‘
]]> 130528 no no Mon, 10 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0200 2012-09-10T00:00:00+02:00 4:49 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/five-takes-on-borrowed-time-take-3/ http://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/album/five-takes-a-song-about-andy-ep


The song ‘On Borrowed Time’ deals with Andy Warhol's fictional confession, in which he reflects on his existence and a life he always experienced as less than real. With music by electronic producer and soul singer Waterson, who is riding high on the airwaves with his single 'When You Tell Me That You Love Me'.

Billie: “Colin and I wanted to create a track that's based mostly on drums and noise. Colin had created a lovely track with different keyboard parts. I kept telling him to remove it all and just keep the 'weird bits' and do 'more of those'. What Colin then came back with surpassed all my expectations. I was immediately inspired to record my usual five takes, that I record of any vocal. I never rehearse songs or vocals after they've been written so this was the perfect vehicle to illustrate the process. Lyric sheet in hand, not knowing what I was going to do, we recorded the vocals.
I'll let Colin tell the rest of the story.“

‘The project started out life as a traditionally structured song, with chords, on a piano, comprising verse, bridge, chorus, verse, bridge, chorus, coda. From this point, I deconstructed the piece until there were no 'pretty bits' left (as per the brief from Billie), and had the basis for Take One. That initial song is part rhythm, part sound design, part field recording and part music. Everything fills a space to create the whole but no one thing overpowers the other.

I then set about altering each take by starting with 'faders down' every time. It was a great way to create different versions because everything seemed fresh and gave a new sonic identity (with familiar components) to each new mix. I evolved the initial process from the first take where Billie had kept suggesting I drop more and more elements, and kept finding myself with ever more interesting versions.

I also started to hear a thread throughout all five takes, as if the versions were supporting the story of the song in an overall story - like a concept. I love the sadness and bareness of the last take, where it sounds almost 'like a vigil' (Billie heard it too), and the way it ends hopeful and transcendent. I followed the original brief in terms of 'taking things out' and also followed my internal guide in a stream of consciousness approach.

Some of the sounds are actually field recordings from the streets of New York (the spirit of Warhol can still very much be felt in Manhattan) and it's not every day one would able to use all five, unrehearsed takes of a singer, but with Billie Ray I was - and then some. I feel the arrangements of each version match and mirror the characteristic of the accompanying vocal, as if talking to one another.‘
]]> http://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/album/five-takes-a-song-about-andy-ep


The song ‘On Borrowed Time’ deals with Andy Warhol's fictional confession, in which he reflects on his existence and a life he always experienced as less than real. With music by electronic producer and soul singer Waterson, who is riding high on the airwaves with his single 'When You Tell Me That You Love Me'.

Billie: “Colin and I wanted to create a track that's based mostly on drums and noise. Colin had created a lovely track with different keyboard parts. I kept telling him to remove it all and just keep the 'weird bits' and do 'more of those'. What Colin then came back with surpassed all my expectations. I was immediately inspired to record my usual five takes, that I record of any vocal. I never rehearse songs or vocals after they've been written so this was the perfect vehicle to illustrate the process. Lyric sheet in hand, not knowing what I was going to do, we recorded the vocals.
I'll let Colin tell the rest of the story.“

‘The project started out life as a traditionally structured song, with chords, on a piano, comprising verse, bridge, chorus, verse, bridge, chorus, coda. From this point, I deconstructed the piece until there were no 'pretty bits' left (as per the brief from Billie), and had the basis for Take One. That initial song is part rhythm, part sound design, part field recording and part music. Everything fills a space to create the whole but no one thing overpowers the other.

I then set about altering each take by starting with 'faders down' every time. It was a great way to create different versions because everything seemed fresh and gave a new sonic identity (with familiar components) to each new mix. I evolved the initial process from the first take where Billie had kept suggesting I drop more and more elements, and kept finding myself with ever more interesting versions.

I also started to hear a thread throughout all five takes, as if the versions were supporting the story of the song in an overall story - like a concept. I love the sadness and bareness of the last take, where it sounds almost 'like a vigil' (Billie heard it too), and the way it ends hopeful and transcendent. I followed the original brief in terms of 'taking things out' and also followed my internal guide in a stream of consciousness approach.

Some of the sounds are actually field recordings from the streets of New York (the spirit of Warhol can still very much be felt in Manhattan) and it's not every day one would able to use all five, unrehearsed takes of a singer, but with Billie Ray I was - and then some. I feel the arrangements of each version match and mirror the characteristic of the accompanying vocal, as if talking to one another.‘
]]> 130526 no no Mon, 10 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0200 2012-09-10T00:00:00+02:00 5:14 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/five-takes-on-borrowed-time-take-4/ http://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/album/five-takes-a-song-about-andy-ep

The song ‘On Borrowed Time’ deals with Andy Warhol's fictional confession, in which he reflects on his existence and a life he always experienced as less than real. With music by electronic producer and soul singer Waterson, who is riding high on the airwaves with his single 'When You Tell Me That You Love Me'.

Billie: “Colin and I wanted to create a track that's based mostly on drums and noise. Colin had created a lovely track with different keyboard parts. I kept telling him to remove it all and just keep the 'weird bits' and do 'more of those'. What Colin then came back with surpassed all my expectations. I was immediately inspired to record my usual five takes, that I record of any vocal. I never rehearse songs or vocals after they've been written so this was the perfect vehicle to illustrate the process. Lyric sheet in hand, not knowing what I was going to do, we recorded the vocals.
I'll let Colin tell the rest of the story.“

‘The project started out life as a traditionally structured song, with chords, on a piano, comprising verse, bridge, chorus, verse, bridge, chorus, coda. From this point, I deconstructed the piece until there were no 'pretty bits' left (as per the brief from Billie), and had the basis for Take One. That initial song is part rhythm, part sound design, part field recording and part music. Everything fills a space to create the whole but no one thing overpowers the other.

I then set about altering each take by starting with 'faders down' every time. It was a great way to create different versions because everything seemed fresh and gave a new sonic identity (with familiar components) to each new mix. I evolved the initial process from the first take where Billie had kept suggesting I drop more and more elements, and kept finding myself with ever more interesting versions.

I also started to hear a thread throughout all five takes, as if the versions were supporting the story of the song in an overall story - like a concept. I love the sadness and bareness of the last take, where it sounds almost 'like a vigil' (Billie heard it too), and the way it ends hopeful and transcendent. I followed the original brief in terms of 'taking things out' and also followed my internal guide in a stream of consciousness approach.

Some of the sounds are actually field recordings from the streets of New York (the spirit of Warhol can still very much be felt in Manhattan) and it's not every day one would able to use all five, unrehearsed takes of a singer, but with Billie Ray I was - and then some. I feel the arrangements of each version match and mirror the characteristic of the accompanying vocal, as if talking to one another.‘]]> http://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/album/five-takes-a-song-about-andy-ep

The song ‘On Borrowed Time’ deals with Andy Warhol's fictional confession, in which he reflects on his existence and a life he always experienced as less than real. With music by electronic producer and soul singer Waterson, who is riding high on the airwaves with his single 'When You Tell Me That You Love Me'.

Billie: “Colin and I wanted to create a track that's based mostly on drums and noise. Colin had created a lovely track with different keyboard parts. I kept telling him to remove it all and just keep the 'weird bits' and do 'more of those'. What Colin then came back with surpassed all my expectations. I was immediately inspired to record my usual five takes, that I record of any vocal. I never rehearse songs or vocals after they've been written so this was the perfect vehicle to illustrate the process. Lyric sheet in hand, not knowing what I was going to do, we recorded the vocals.
I'll let Colin tell the rest of the story.“

‘The project started out life as a traditionally structured song, with chords, on a piano, comprising verse, bridge, chorus, verse, bridge, chorus, coda. From this point, I deconstructed the piece until there were no 'pretty bits' left (as per the brief from Billie), and had the basis for Take One. That initial song is part rhythm, part sound design, part field recording and part music. Everything fills a space to create the whole but no one thing overpowers the other.

I then set about altering each take by starting with 'faders down' every time. It was a great way to create different versions because everything seemed fresh and gave a new sonic identity (with familiar components) to each new mix. I evolved the initial process from the first take where Billie had kept suggesting I drop more and more elements, and kept finding myself with ever more interesting versions.

I also started to hear a thread throughout all five takes, as if the versions were supporting the story of the song in an overall story - like a concept. I love the sadness and bareness of the last take, where it sounds almost 'like a vigil' (Billie heard it too), and the way it ends hopeful and transcendent. I followed the original brief in terms of 'taking things out' and also followed my internal guide in a stream of consciousness approach.

Some of the sounds are actually field recordings from the streets of New York (the spirit of Warhol can still very much be felt in Manhattan) and it's not every day one would able to use all five, unrehearsed takes of a singer, but with Billie Ray I was - and then some. I feel the arrangements of each version match and mirror the characteristic of the accompanying vocal, as if talking to one another.‘]]> 130530 no no Mon, 10 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0200 2012-09-10T00:00:00+02:00 4:46 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/five-takes-on-borrowed-time-take-5/ http://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/album/five-takes-a-song-about-andy-ep

The song ‘On Borrowed Time’ deals with Andy Warhol's fictional confession, in which he reflects on his existence and a life he always experienced as less than real. With music by electronic producer and soul singer Waterson, who is riding high on the airwaves with his single 'When You Tell Me That You Love Me'.

Billie: “Colin and I wanted to create a track that's based mostly on drums and noise. Colin had created a lovely track with different keyboard parts. I kept telling him to remove it all and just keep the 'weird bits' and do 'more of those'. What Colin then came back with surpassed all my expectations. I was immediately inspired to record my usual five takes, that I record of any vocal. I never rehearse songs or vocals after they've been written so this was the perfect vehicle to illustrate the process. Lyric sheet in hand, not knowing what I was going to do, we recorded the vocals.
I'll let Colin tell the rest of the story.“

‘The project started out life as a traditionally structured song, with chords, on a piano, comprising verse, bridge, chorus, verse, bridge, chorus, coda. From this point, I deconstructed the piece until there were no 'pretty bits' left (as per the brief from Billie), and had the basis for Take One. That initial song is part rhythm, part sound design, part field recording and part music. Everything fills a space to create the whole but no one thing overpowers the other.

I then set about altering each take by starting with 'faders down' every time. It was a great way to create different versions because everything seemed fresh and gave a new sonic identity (with familiar components) to each new mix. I evolved the initial process from the first take where Billie had kept suggesting I drop more and more elements, and kept finding myself with ever more interesting versions.

I also started to hear a thread throughout all five takes, as if the versions were supporting the story of the song in an overall story - like a concept. I love the sadness and bareness of the last take, where it sounds almost 'like a vigil' (Billie heard it too), and the way it ends hopeful and transcendent. I followed the original brief in terms of 'taking things out' and also followed my internal guide in a stream of consciousness approach.

Some of the sounds are actually field recordings from the streets of New York (the spirit of Warhol can still very much be felt in Manhattan) and it's not every day one would able to use all five, unrehearsed takes of a singer, but with Billie Ray I was - and then some. I feel the arrangements of each version match and mirror the characteristic of the accompanying vocal, as if talking to one another.‘]]> http://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/album/five-takes-a-song-about-andy-ep

The song ‘On Borrowed Time’ deals with Andy Warhol's fictional confession, in which he reflects on his existence and a life he always experienced as less than real. With music by electronic producer and soul singer Waterson, who is riding high on the airwaves with his single 'When You Tell Me That You Love Me'.

Billie: “Colin and I wanted to create a track that's based mostly on drums and noise. Colin had created a lovely track with different keyboard parts. I kept telling him to remove it all and just keep the 'weird bits' and do 'more of those'. What Colin then came back with surpassed all my expectations. I was immediately inspired to record my usual five takes, that I record of any vocal. I never rehearse songs or vocals after they've been written so this was the perfect vehicle to illustrate the process. Lyric sheet in hand, not knowing what I was going to do, we recorded the vocals.
I'll let Colin tell the rest of the story.“

‘The project started out life as a traditionally structured song, with chords, on a piano, comprising verse, bridge, chorus, verse, bridge, chorus, coda. From this point, I deconstructed the piece until there were no 'pretty bits' left (as per the brief from Billie), and had the basis for Take One. That initial song is part rhythm, part sound design, part field recording and part music. Everything fills a space to create the whole but no one thing overpowers the other.

I then set about altering each take by starting with 'faders down' every time. It was a great way to create different versions because everything seemed fresh and gave a new sonic identity (with familiar components) to each new mix. I evolved the initial process from the first take where Billie had kept suggesting I drop more and more elements, and kept finding myself with ever more interesting versions.

I also started to hear a thread throughout all five takes, as if the versions were supporting the story of the song in an overall story - like a concept. I love the sadness and bareness of the last take, where it sounds almost 'like a vigil' (Billie heard it too), and the way it ends hopeful and transcendent. I followed the original brief in terms of 'taking things out' and also followed my internal guide in a stream of consciousness approach.

Some of the sounds are actually field recordings from the streets of New York (the spirit of Warhol can still very much be felt in Manhattan) and it's not every day one would able to use all five, unrehearsed takes of a singer, but with Billie Ray I was - and then some. I feel the arrangements of each version match and mirror the characteristic of the accompanying vocal, as if talking to one another.‘]]> 130531 no no Mon, 10 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0200 2012-09-10T00:00:00+02:00 5:33 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/billie-ray-martin-the-crackdown-original-version-feat-stephen-mallinder-and-maertini-broes/ Second in line to be out-discoed was the song 'Just Fascination'. This time, the UK's finest Nu-Disco producer Lusty Zanzibar delivered the production. The result is a no holds barred epic groove fest with a Balearic touch.
Remixes were delivered not only by Billie's 'Your Loving Arms' co-writer David Harrow (under his Oicho moniker), but also by super-blog Audio Porn Central's top remix team:
Celebrity Murder Party, Copycat, Divide and Create, Dunproofin, Flying White Dots, Phil RetroSpector, Year Zero have all delivered something that goes beyond mere remixing but they have created stunning artistic reworks of these classic songs.
Released on Billie's Disco Activisto label, which she has re-launched for this and all future releases.

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."

"Really amazing, big tune for the dancefloor... all-time vocal by Billie Ray Martin - just superb" - Carlos Agueda (DJ Substance)
"just when you think it can't get better...absolutely rocking release, amazing production, great vocals from Billie - this should do some damage on the dancefloors" - DJ Nelson, Power FM
"Great vocals (of course)" - Graeme Park
"Now that's a re-make!" - Greg Churchill, George FM, New Zealand
"Rather cool" - Steve Parry, Juice FM
"like this very much - very cool" - Thomas Tuft, Juice FM
"Absolutely amazing. Like Old School meets New School. Love it" - Javier Drada, Resisted Resonance
"Love it" - Jon Pleased
"Dark and moody, with a solid groove. Love this." - Jean Jacques Smoothie
"Love this. Kinda reminds of 'Your Love' with that arpeggio." - Jody Wisternoff (Way Out West)
"Great slice of balearic disco" - Luca (Cazals)
"SOLID! Afterhours delight!" - Still Rob G
"Good stuff from Billie!" - Nico De Ceglia (Codex, London)
"It's all about the original for me. A welcome return for BRM" - Matteo Esse
"Great bass and vocals" - Corbin Dooley, KXCI Arizona]]> Second in line to be out-discoed was the song 'Just Fascination'. This time, the UK's finest Nu-Disco producer Lusty Zanzibar delivered the production. The result is a no holds barred epic groove fest with a Balearic touch.
Remixes were delivered not only by Billie's 'Your Loving Arms' co-writer David Harrow (under his Oicho moniker), but also by super-blog Audio Porn Central's top remix team:
Celebrity Murder Party, Copycat, Divide and Create, Dunproofin, Flying White Dots, Phil RetroSpector, Year Zero have all delivered something that goes beyond mere remixing but they have created stunning artistic reworks of these classic songs.
Released on Billie's Disco Activisto label, which she has re-launched for this and all future releases.

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."

"Really amazing, big tune for the dancefloor... all-time vocal by Billie Ray Martin - just superb" - Carlos Agueda (DJ Substance)
"just when you think it can't get better...absolutely rocking release, amazing production, great vocals from Billie - this should do some damage on the dancefloors" - DJ Nelson, Power FM
"Great vocals (of course)" - Graeme Park
"Now that's a re-make!" - Greg Churchill, George FM, New Zealand
"Rather cool" - Steve Parry, Juice FM
"like this very much - very cool" - Thomas Tuft, Juice FM
"Absolutely amazing. Like Old School meets New School. Love it" - Javier Drada, Resisted Resonance
"Love it" - Jon Pleased
"Dark and moody, with a solid groove. Love this." - Jean Jacques Smoothie
"Love this. Kinda reminds of 'Your Love' with that arpeggio." - Jody Wisternoff (Way Out West)
"Great slice of balearic disco" - Luca (Cazals)
"SOLID! Afterhours delight!" - Still Rob G
"Good stuff from Billie!" - Nico De Ceglia (Codex, London)
"It's all about the original for me. A welcome return for BRM" - Matteo Esse
"Great bass and vocals" - Corbin Dooley, KXCI Arizona]]> 130580 no no Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100 2010-02-15T00:00:00+01:00 6:51 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/billie-ray-martin-the-crackdown-project-just-fascination-original-version-feat-lusty-zanzibar/ Second in line to be out-discoed was the song 'Just Fascination'. This time, the UK's finest Nu-Disco producer Lusty Zanzibar delivered the production. The result is a no holds barred epic groove fest with a Balearic touch.
Remixes were delivered not only by Billie's 'Your Loving Arms' co-writer David Harrow (under his Oicho moniker), but also by super-blog Audio Porn Central's top remix team:
Celebrity Murder Party, Copycat, Divide and Create, Dunproofin, Flying White Dots, Phil RetroSpector, Year Zero have all delivered something that goes beyond mere remixing but they have created stunning artistic reworks of these classic songs.
Released on Billie's Disco Activisto label, which she has re-launched for this and all future releases.

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."

"Really amazing, big tune for the dancefloor... all-time vocal by Billie Ray Martin - just superb" - Carlos Agueda (DJ Substance)
"just when you think it can't get better...absolutely rocking release, amazing production, great vocals from Billie - this should do some damage on the dancefloors" - DJ Nelson, Power FM
"Great vocals (of course)" - Graeme Park
"Now that's a re-make!" - Greg Churchill, George FM, New Zealand
"Rather cool" - Steve Parry, Juice FM
"like this very much - very cool" - Thomas Tuft, Juice FM
"Absolutely amazing. Like Old School meets New School. Love it" - Javier Drada, Resisted Resonance
"Love it" - Jon Pleased
"Dark and moody, with a solid groove. Love this." - Jean Jacques Smoothie
"Love this. Kinda reminds of 'Your Love' with that arpeggio." - Jody Wisternoff (Way Out West)
"Great slice of balearic disco" - Luca (Cazals)
"SOLID! Afterhours delight!" - Still Rob G
"Good stuff from Billie!" - Nico De Ceglia (Codex, London)
"It's all about the original for me. A welcome return for BRM" - Matteo Esse
"Great bass and vocals" - Corbin Dooley, KXCI Arizona]]> Second in line to be out-discoed was the song 'Just Fascination'. This time, the UK's finest Nu-Disco producer Lusty Zanzibar delivered the production. The result is a no holds barred epic groove fest with a Balearic touch.
Remixes were delivered not only by Billie's 'Your Loving Arms' co-writer David Harrow (under his Oicho moniker), but also by super-blog Audio Porn Central's top remix team:
Celebrity Murder Party, Copycat, Divide and Create, Dunproofin, Flying White Dots, Phil RetroSpector, Year Zero have all delivered something that goes beyond mere remixing but they have created stunning artistic reworks of these classic songs.
Released on Billie's Disco Activisto label, which she has re-launched for this and all future releases.

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."

"Really amazing, big tune for the dancefloor... all-time vocal by Billie Ray Martin - just superb" - Carlos Agueda (DJ Substance)
"just when you think it can't get better...absolutely rocking release, amazing production, great vocals from Billie - this should do some damage on the dancefloors" - DJ Nelson, Power FM
"Great vocals (of course)" - Graeme Park
"Now that's a re-make!" - Greg Churchill, George FM, New Zealand
"Rather cool" - Steve Parry, Juice FM
"like this very much - very cool" - Thomas Tuft, Juice FM
"Absolutely amazing. Like Old School meets New School. Love it" - Javier Drada, Resisted Resonance
"Love it" - Jon Pleased
"Dark and moody, with a solid groove. Love this." - Jean Jacques Smoothie
"Love this. Kinda reminds of 'Your Love' with that arpeggio." - Jody Wisternoff (Way Out West)
"Great slice of balearic disco" - Luca (Cazals)
"SOLID! Afterhours delight!" - Still Rob G
"Good stuff from Billie!" - Nico De Ceglia (Codex, London)
"It's all about the original for me. A welcome return for BRM" - Matteo Esse
"Great bass and vocals" - Corbin Dooley, KXCI Arizona]]> 130581 no no Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100 2010-02-15T00:00:00+01:00 8:18 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/billie-ray-martin-the-crackdown-project-the-crackdown-oicho-remix-by-david-harrow/ Second in line to be out-discoed was the song 'Just Fascination'. This time, the UK's finest Nu-Disco producer Lusty Zanzibar delivered the production. The result is a no holds barred epic groove fest with a Balearic touch.
Remixes were delivered not only by Billie's 'Your Loving Arms' co-writer David Harrow (under his Oicho moniker), but also by super-blog Audio Porn Central's top remix team:
Celebrity Murder Party, Copycat, Divide and Create, Dunproofin, Flying White Dots, Phil RetroSpector, Year Zero have all delivered something that goes beyond mere remixing but they have created stunning artistic reworks of these classic songs.
Released on Billie's Disco Activisto label, which she has re-launched for this and all future releases.

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."

"Really amazing, big tune for the dancefloor... all-time vocal by Billie Ray Martin - just superb" - Carlos Agueda (DJ Substance)
"just when you think it can't get better...absolutely rocking release, amazing production, great vocals from Billie - this should do some damage on the dancefloors" - DJ Nelson, Power FM
"Great vocals (of course)" - Graeme Park
"Now that's a re-make!" - Greg Churchill, George FM, New Zealand
"Rather cool" - Steve Parry, Juice FM
"like this very much - very cool" - Thomas Tuft, Juice FM
"Absolutely amazing. Like Old School meets New School. Love it" - Javier Drada, Resisted Resonance
"Love it" - Jon Pleased
"Dark and moody, with a solid groove. Love this." - Jean Jacques Smoothie
"Love this. Kinda reminds of 'Your Love' with that arpeggio." - Jody Wisternoff (Way Out West)
"Great slice of balearic disco" - Luca (Cazals)
"SOLID! Afterhours delight!" - Still Rob G
"Good stuff from Billie!" - Nico De Ceglia (Codex, London)
"It's all about the original for me. A welcome return for BRM" - Matteo Esse
"Great bass and vocals" - Corbin Dooley, KXCI Arizona]]> Second in line to be out-discoed was the song 'Just Fascination'. This time, the UK's finest Nu-Disco producer Lusty Zanzibar delivered the production. The result is a no holds barred epic groove fest with a Balearic touch.
Remixes were delivered not only by Billie's 'Your Loving Arms' co-writer David Harrow (under his Oicho moniker), but also by super-blog Audio Porn Central's top remix team:
Celebrity Murder Party, Copycat, Divide and Create, Dunproofin, Flying White Dots, Phil RetroSpector, Year Zero have all delivered something that goes beyond mere remixing but they have created stunning artistic reworks of these classic songs.
Released on Billie's Disco Activisto label, which she has re-launched for this and all future releases.

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."

"Really amazing, big tune for the dancefloor... all-time vocal by Billie Ray Martin - just superb" - Carlos Agueda (DJ Substance)
"just when you think it can't get better...absolutely rocking release, amazing production, great vocals from Billie - this should do some damage on the dancefloors" - DJ Nelson, Power FM
"Great vocals (of course)" - Graeme Park
"Now that's a re-make!" - Greg Churchill, George FM, New Zealand
"Rather cool" - Steve Parry, Juice FM
"like this very much - very cool" - Thomas Tuft, Juice FM
"Absolutely amazing. Like Old School meets New School. Love it" - Javier Drada, Resisted Resonance
"Love it" - Jon Pleased
"Dark and moody, with a solid groove. Love this." - Jean Jacques Smoothie
"Love this. Kinda reminds of 'Your Love' with that arpeggio." - Jody Wisternoff (Way Out West)
"Great slice of balearic disco" - Luca (Cazals)
"SOLID! Afterhours delight!" - Still Rob G
"Good stuff from Billie!" - Nico De Ceglia (Codex, London)
"It's all about the original for me. A welcome return for BRM" - Matteo Esse
"Great bass and vocals" - Corbin Dooley, KXCI Arizona]]> 130542 no no Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100 2010-02-15T00:00:00+01:00 4:31 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/billie-ray-martin-the-crackdown-oicho-remix/ Second in line to be out-discoed was the song 'Just Fascination'. This time, the UK's finest Nu-Disco producer Lusty Zanzibar delivered the production. The result is a no holds barred epic groove fest with a Balearic touch.
Remixes were delivered not only by Billie's 'Your Loving Arms' co-writer David Harrow (under his Oicho moniker), but also by super-blog Audio Porn Central's top remix team:
Celebrity Murder Party, Copycat, Divide and Create, Dunproofin, Flying White Dots, Phil RetroSpector, Year Zero have all delivered something that goes beyond mere remixing but they have created stunning artistic reworks of these classic songs.
Released on Billie's Disco Activisto label, which she has re-launched for this and all future releases.

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."

"Really amazing, big tune for the dancefloor... all-time vocal by Billie Ray Martin - just superb" - Carlos Agueda (DJ Substance)
"just when you think it can't get better...absolutely rocking release, amazing production, great vocals from Billie - this should do some damage on the dancefloors" - DJ Nelson, Power FM
"Great vocals (of course)" - Graeme Park
"Now that's a re-make!" - Greg Churchill, George FM, New Zealand
"Rather cool" - Steve Parry, Juice FM
"like this very much - very cool" - Thomas Tuft, Juice FM
"Absolutely amazing. Like Old School meets New School. Love it" - Javier Drada, Resisted Resonance
"Love it" - Jon Pleased
"Dark and moody, with a solid groove. Love this." - Jean Jacques Smoothie
"Love this. Kinda reminds of 'Your Love' with that arpeggio." - Jody Wisternoff (Way Out West)
"Great slice of balearic disco" - Luca (Cazals)
"SOLID! Afterhours delight!" - Still Rob G
"Good stuff from Billie!" - Nico De Ceglia (Codex, London)
"It's all about the original for me. A welcome return for BRM" - Matteo Esse
"Great bass and vocals" - Corbin Dooley, KXCI Arizona]]> Second in line to be out-discoed was the song 'Just Fascination'. This time, the UK's finest Nu-Disco producer Lusty Zanzibar delivered the production. The result is a no holds barred epic groove fest with a Balearic touch.
Remixes were delivered not only by Billie's 'Your Loving Arms' co-writer David Harrow (under his Oicho moniker), but also by super-blog Audio Porn Central's top remix team:
Celebrity Murder Party, Copycat, Divide and Create, Dunproofin, Flying White Dots, Phil RetroSpector, Year Zero have all delivered something that goes beyond mere remixing but they have created stunning artistic reworks of these classic songs.
Released on Billie's Disco Activisto label, which she has re-launched for this and all future releases.

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."

"Really amazing, big tune for the dancefloor... all-time vocal by Billie Ray Martin - just superb" - Carlos Agueda (DJ Substance)
"just when you think it can't get better...absolutely rocking release, amazing production, great vocals from Billie - this should do some damage on the dancefloors" - DJ Nelson, Power FM
"Great vocals (of course)" - Graeme Park
"Now that's a re-make!" - Greg Churchill, George FM, New Zealand
"Rather cool" - Steve Parry, Juice FM
"like this very much - very cool" - Thomas Tuft, Juice FM
"Absolutely amazing. Like Old School meets New School. Love it" - Javier Drada, Resisted Resonance
"Love it" - Jon Pleased
"Dark and moody, with a solid groove. Love this." - Jean Jacques Smoothie
"Love this. Kinda reminds of 'Your Love' with that arpeggio." - Jody Wisternoff (Way Out West)
"Great slice of balearic disco" - Luca (Cazals)
"SOLID! Afterhours delight!" - Still Rob G
"Good stuff from Billie!" - Nico De Ceglia (Codex, London)
"It's all about the original for me. A welcome return for BRM" - Matteo Esse
"Great bass and vocals" - Corbin Dooley, KXCI Arizona]]> 130503 no no Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100 2010-02-15T00:00:00+01:00 4:35 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/billie-ray-martin-the-crackdown-phil-restrospector-remix/ Second in line to be out-discoed was the song 'Just Fascination'. This time, the UK's finest Nu-Disco producer Lusty Zanzibar delivered the production. The result is a no holds barred epic groove fest with a Balearic touch.
Remixes were delivered not only by Billie's 'Your Loving Arms' co-writer David Harrow (under his Oicho moniker), but also by super-blog Audio Porn Central's top remix team:
Celebrity Murder Party, Copycat, Divide and Create, Dunproofin, Flying White Dots, Phil RetroSpector, Year Zero have all delivered something that goes beyond mere remixing but they have created stunning artistic reworks of these classic songs.
Released on Billie's Disco Activisto label, which she has re-launched for this and all future releases.

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."

"Really amazing, big tune for the dancefloor... all-time vocal by Billie Ray Martin - just superb" - Carlos Agueda (DJ Substance)
"just when you think it can't get better...absolutely rocking release, amazing production, great vocals from Billie - this should do some damage on the dancefloors" - DJ Nelson, Power FM
"Great vocals (of course)" - Graeme Park
"Now that's a re-make!" - Greg Churchill, George FM, New Zealand
"Rather cool" - Steve Parry, Juice FM
"like this very much - very cool" - Thomas Tuft, Juice FM
"Absolutely amazing. Like Old School meets New School. Love it" - Javier Drada, Resisted Resonance
"Love it" - Jon Pleased
"Dark and moody, with a solid groove. Love this." - Jean Jacques Smoothie
"Love this. Kinda reminds of 'Your Love' with that arpeggio." - Jody Wisternoff (Way Out West)
"Great slice of balearic disco" - Luca (Cazals)
"SOLID! Afterhours delight!" - Still Rob G
"Good stuff from Billie!" - Nico De Ceglia (Codex, London)
"It's all about the original for me. A welcome return for BRM" - Matteo Esse
"Great bass and vocals" - Corbin Dooley, KXCI Arizona]]> Second in line to be out-discoed was the song 'Just Fascination'. This time, the UK's finest Nu-Disco producer Lusty Zanzibar delivered the production. The result is a no holds barred epic groove fest with a Balearic touch.
Remixes were delivered not only by Billie's 'Your Loving Arms' co-writer David Harrow (under his Oicho moniker), but also by super-blog Audio Porn Central's top remix team:
Celebrity Murder Party, Copycat, Divide and Create, Dunproofin, Flying White Dots, Phil RetroSpector, Year Zero have all delivered something that goes beyond mere remixing but they have created stunning artistic reworks of these classic songs.
Released on Billie's Disco Activisto label, which she has re-launched for this and all future releases.

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."

"Really amazing, big tune for the dancefloor... all-time vocal by Billie Ray Martin - just superb" - Carlos Agueda (DJ Substance)
"just when you think it can't get better...absolutely rocking release, amazing production, great vocals from Billie - this should do some damage on the dancefloors" - DJ Nelson, Power FM
"Great vocals (of course)" - Graeme Park
"Now that's a re-make!" - Greg Churchill, George FM, New Zealand
"Rather cool" - Steve Parry, Juice FM
"like this very much - very cool" - Thomas Tuft, Juice FM
"Absolutely amazing. Like Old School meets New School. Love it" - Javier Drada, Resisted Resonance
"Love it" - Jon Pleased
"Dark and moody, with a solid groove. Love this." - Jean Jacques Smoothie
"Love this. Kinda reminds of 'Your Love' with that arpeggio." - Jody Wisternoff (Way Out West)
"Great slice of balearic disco" - Luca (Cazals)
"SOLID! Afterhours delight!" - Still Rob G
"Good stuff from Billie!" - Nico De Ceglia (Codex, London)
"It's all about the original for me. A welcome return for BRM" - Matteo Esse
"Great bass and vocals" - Corbin Dooley, KXCI Arizona]]> 130533 no no Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100 2010-02-15T00:00:00+01:00 4:33 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/billie-ray-martin-the-crackdown-project-the-crackdown-phil-retrospector-dub/ Second in line to be out-discoed was the song 'Just Fascination'. This time, the UK's finest Nu-Disco producer Lusty Zanzibar delivered the production. The result is a no holds barred epic groove fest with a Balearic touch.
Remixes were delivered not only by Billie's 'Your Loving Arms' co-writer David Harrow (under his Oicho moniker), but also by super-blog Audio Porn Central's top remix team:
Celebrity Murder Party, Copycat, Divide and Create, Dunproofin, Flying White Dots, Phil RetroSpector, Year Zero have all delivered something that goes beyond mere remixing but they have created stunning artistic reworks of these classic songs.
Released on Billie's Disco Activisto label, which she has re-launched for this and all future releases.

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."

"Really amazing, big tune for the dancefloor... all-time vocal by Billie Ray Martin - just superb" - Carlos Agueda (DJ Substance)
"just when you think it can't get better...absolutely rocking release, amazing production, great vocals from Billie - this should do some damage on the dancefloors" - DJ Nelson, Power FM
"Great vocals (of course)" - Graeme Park
"Now that's a re-make!" - Greg Churchill, George FM, New Zealand
"Rather cool" - Steve Parry, Juice FM
"like this very much - very cool" - Thomas Tuft, Juice FM
"Absolutely amazing. Like Old School meets New School. Love it" - Javier Drada, Resisted Resonance
"Love it" - Jon Pleased
"Dark and moody, with a solid groove. Love this." - Jean Jacques Smoothie
"Love this. Kinda reminds of 'Your Love' with that arpeggio." - Jody Wisternoff (Way Out West)
"Great slice of balearic disco" - Luca (Cazals)
"SOLID! Afterhours delight!" - Still Rob G
"Good stuff from Billie!" - Nico De Ceglia (Codex, London)
"It's all about the original for me. A welcome return for BRM" - Matteo Esse
"Great bass and vocals" - Corbin Dooley, KXCI Arizona]]> Second in line to be out-discoed was the song 'Just Fascination'. This time, the UK's finest Nu-Disco producer Lusty Zanzibar delivered the production. The result is a no holds barred epic groove fest with a Balearic touch.
Remixes were delivered not only by Billie's 'Your Loving Arms' co-writer David Harrow (under his Oicho moniker), but also by super-blog Audio Porn Central's top remix team:
Celebrity Murder Party, Copycat, Divide and Create, Dunproofin, Flying White Dots, Phil RetroSpector, Year Zero have all delivered something that goes beyond mere remixing but they have created stunning artistic reworks of these classic songs.
Released on Billie's Disco Activisto label, which she has re-launched for this and all future releases.

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."

"Really amazing, big tune for the dancefloor... all-time vocal by Billie Ray Martin - just superb" - Carlos Agueda (DJ Substance)
"just when you think it can't get better...absolutely rocking release, amazing production, great vocals from Billie - this should do some damage on the dancefloors" - DJ Nelson, Power FM
"Great vocals (of course)" - Graeme Park
"Now that's a re-make!" - Greg Churchill, George FM, New Zealand
"Rather cool" - Steve Parry, Juice FM
"like this very much - very cool" - Thomas Tuft, Juice FM
"Absolutely amazing. Like Old School meets New School. Love it" - Javier Drada, Resisted Resonance
"Love it" - Jon Pleased
"Dark and moody, with a solid groove. Love this." - Jean Jacques Smoothie
"Love this. Kinda reminds of 'Your Love' with that arpeggio." - Jody Wisternoff (Way Out West)
"Great slice of balearic disco" - Luca (Cazals)
"SOLID! Afterhours delight!" - Still Rob G
"Good stuff from Billie!" - Nico De Ceglia (Codex, London)
"It's all about the original for me. A welcome return for BRM" - Matteo Esse
"Great bass and vocals" - Corbin Dooley, KXCI Arizona]]> 130536 no no Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100 2010-02-15T00:00:00+01:00 4:33 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/billie-ray-martin-the-crackdown-project-just-fascination-a-copycat-remix/ Second in line to be out-discoed was the song 'Just Fascination'. This time, the UK's finest Nu-Disco producer Lusty Zanzibar delivered the production. The result is a no holds barred epic groove fest with a Balearic touch.
Remixes were delivered not only by Billie's 'Your Loving Arms' co-writer David Harrow (under his Oicho moniker), but also by super-blog Audio Porn Central's top remix team:
Celebrity Murder Party, Copycat, Divide and Create, Dunproofin, Flying White Dots, Phil RetroSpector, Year Zero have all delivered something that goes beyond mere remixing but they have created stunning artistic reworks of these classic songs.
Released on Billie's Disco Activisto label, which she has re-launched for this and all future releases.

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."

"Really amazing, big tune for the dancefloor... all-time vocal by Billie Ray Martin - just superb" - Carlos Agueda (DJ Substance)
"just when you think it can't get better...absolutely rocking release, amazing production, great vocals from Billie - this should do some damage on the dancefloors" - DJ Nelson, Power FM
"Great vocals (of course)" - Graeme Park
"Now that's a re-make!" - Greg Churchill, George FM, New Zealand
"Rather cool" - Steve Parry, Juice FM
"like this very much - very cool" - Thomas Tuft, Juice FM
"Absolutely amazing. Like Old School meets New School. Love it" - Javier Drada, Resisted Resonance
"Love it" - Jon Pleased
"Dark and moody, with a solid groove. Love this." - Jean Jacques Smoothie
"Love this. Kinda reminds of 'Your Love' with that arpeggio." - Jody Wisternoff (Way Out West)
"Great slice of balearic disco" - Luca (Cazals)
"SOLID! Afterhours delight!" - Still Rob G
"Good stuff from Billie!" - Nico De Ceglia (Codex, London)
"It's all about the original for me. A welcome return for BRM" - Matteo Esse
"Great bass and vocals" - Corbin Dooley, KXCI Arizona]]> Second in line to be out-discoed was the song 'Just Fascination'. This time, the UK's finest Nu-Disco producer Lusty Zanzibar delivered the production. The result is a no holds barred epic groove fest with a Balearic touch.
Remixes were delivered not only by Billie's 'Your Loving Arms' co-writer David Harrow (under his Oicho moniker), but also by super-blog Audio Porn Central's top remix team:
Celebrity Murder Party, Copycat, Divide and Create, Dunproofin, Flying White Dots, Phil RetroSpector, Year Zero have all delivered something that goes beyond mere remixing but they have created stunning artistic reworks of these classic songs.
Released on Billie's Disco Activisto label, which she has re-launched for this and all future releases.

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."

"Really amazing, big tune for the dancefloor... all-time vocal by Billie Ray Martin - just superb" - Carlos Agueda (DJ Substance)
"just when you think it can't get better...absolutely rocking release, amazing production, great vocals from Billie - this should do some damage on the dancefloors" - DJ Nelson, Power FM
"Great vocals (of course)" - Graeme Park
"Now that's a re-make!" - Greg Churchill, George FM, New Zealand
"Rather cool" - Steve Parry, Juice FM
"like this very much - very cool" - Thomas Tuft, Juice FM
"Absolutely amazing. Like Old School meets New School. Love it" - Javier Drada, Resisted Resonance
"Love it" - Jon Pleased
"Dark and moody, with a solid groove. Love this." - Jean Jacques Smoothie
"Love this. Kinda reminds of 'Your Love' with that arpeggio." - Jody Wisternoff (Way Out West)
"Great slice of balearic disco" - Luca (Cazals)
"SOLID! Afterhours delight!" - Still Rob G
"Good stuff from Billie!" - Nico De Ceglia (Codex, London)
"It's all about the original for me. A welcome return for BRM" - Matteo Esse
"Great bass and vocals" - Corbin Dooley, KXCI Arizona]]> 130547 no no Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100 2010-02-15T00:00:00+01:00 6:48 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/billie-ray-martin-the-crackdown-project-just-fascination-celebrity-murder-party-remix/ Second in line to be out-discoed was the song 'Just Fascination'. This time, the UK's finest Nu-Disco producer Lusty Zanzibar delivered the production. The result is a no holds barred epic groove fest with a Balearic touch.
Remixes were delivered not only by Billie's 'Your Loving Arms' co-writer David Harrow (under his Oicho moniker), but also by super-blog Audio Porn Central's top remix team:
Celebrity Murder Party, Copycat, Divide and Create, Dunproofin, Flying White Dots, Phil RetroSpector, Year Zero have all delivered something that goes beyond mere remixing but they have created stunning artistic reworks of these classic songs.
Released on Billie's Disco Activisto label, which she has re-launched for this and all future releases.

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."

"Really amazing, big tune for the dancefloor... all-time vocal by Billie Ray Martin - just superb" - Carlos Agueda (DJ Substance)
"just when you think it can't get better...absolutely rocking release, amazing production, great vocals from Billie - this should do some damage on the dancefloors" - DJ Nelson, Power FM
"Great vocals (of course)" - Graeme Park
"Now that's a re-make!" - Greg Churchill, George FM, New Zealand
"Rather cool" - Steve Parry, Juice FM
"like this very much - very cool" - Thomas Tuft, Juice FM
"Absolutely amazing. Like Old School meets New School. Love it" - Javier Drada, Resisted Resonance
"Love it" - Jon Pleased
"Dark and moody, with a solid groove. Love this." - Jean Jacques Smoothie
"Love this. Kinda reminds of 'Your Love' with that arpeggio." - Jody Wisternoff (Way Out West)
"Great slice of balearic disco" - Luca (Cazals)
"SOLID! Afterhours delight!" - Still Rob G
"Good stuff from Billie!" - Nico De Ceglia (Codex, London)
"It's all about the original for me. A welcome return for BRM" - Matteo Esse
"Great bass and vocals" - Corbin Dooley, KXCI Arizona]]> Second in line to be out-discoed was the song 'Just Fascination'. This time, the UK's finest Nu-Disco producer Lusty Zanzibar delivered the production. The result is a no holds barred epic groove fest with a Balearic touch.
Remixes were delivered not only by Billie's 'Your Loving Arms' co-writer David Harrow (under his Oicho moniker), but also by super-blog Audio Porn Central's top remix team:
Celebrity Murder Party, Copycat, Divide and Create, Dunproofin, Flying White Dots, Phil RetroSpector, Year Zero have all delivered something that goes beyond mere remixing but they have created stunning artistic reworks of these classic songs.
Released on Billie's Disco Activisto label, which she has re-launched for this and all future releases.

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."

"Really amazing, big tune for the dancefloor... all-time vocal by Billie Ray Martin - just superb" - Carlos Agueda (DJ Substance)
"just when you think it can't get better...absolutely rocking release, amazing production, great vocals from Billie - this should do some damage on the dancefloors" - DJ Nelson, Power FM
"Great vocals (of course)" - Graeme Park
"Now that's a re-make!" - Greg Churchill, George FM, New Zealand
"Rather cool" - Steve Parry, Juice FM
"like this very much - very cool" - Thomas Tuft, Juice FM
"Absolutely amazing. Like Old School meets New School. Love it" - Javier Drada, Resisted Resonance
"Love it" - Jon Pleased
"Dark and moody, with a solid groove. Love this." - Jean Jacques Smoothie
"Love this. Kinda reminds of 'Your Love' with that arpeggio." - Jody Wisternoff (Way Out West)
"Great slice of balearic disco" - Luca (Cazals)
"SOLID! Afterhours delight!" - Still Rob G
"Good stuff from Billie!" - Nico De Ceglia (Codex, London)
"It's all about the original for me. A welcome return for BRM" - Matteo Esse
"Great bass and vocals" - Corbin Dooley, KXCI Arizona]]> 130538 no no Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 2010-03-15T00:00:00+01:00 5:17 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/billie-ray-martin-the-crackdown-project-just-fascination-divide-kreate-remix/ Second in line to be out-discoed was the song 'Just Fascination'. This time, the UK's finest Nu-Disco producer Lusty Zanzibar delivered the production. The result is a no holds barred epic groove fest with a Balearic touch.
Remixes were delivered not only by Billie's 'Your Loving Arms' co-writer David Harrow (under his Oicho moniker), but also by super-blog Audio Porn Central's top remix team:
Celebrity Murder Party, Copycat, Divide and Create, Dunproofin, Flying White Dots, Phil RetroSpector, Year Zero have all delivered something that goes beyond mere remixing but they have created stunning artistic reworks of these classic songs.
Released on Billie's Disco Activisto label, which she has re-launched for this and all future releases.

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."

"Really amazing, big tune for the dancefloor... all-time vocal by Billie Ray Martin - just superb" - Carlos Agueda (DJ Substance)
"just when you think it can't get better...absolutely rocking release, amazing production, great vocals from Billie - this should do some damage on the dancefloors" - DJ Nelson, Power FM
"Great vocals (of course)" - Graeme Park
"Now that's a re-make!" - Greg Churchill, George FM, New Zealand
"Rather cool" - Steve Parry, Juice FM
"like this very much - very cool" - Thomas Tuft, Juice FM
"Absolutely amazing. Like Old School meets New School. Love it" - Javier Drada, Resisted Resonance
"Love it" - Jon Pleased
"Dark and moody, with a solid groove. Love this." - Jean Jacques Smoothie
"Love this. Kinda reminds of 'Your Love' with that arpeggio." - Jody Wisternoff (Way Out West)
"Great slice of balearic disco" - Luca (Cazals)
"SOLID! Afterhours delight!" - Still Rob G
"Good stuff from Billie!" - Nico De Ceglia (Codex, London)
"It's all about the original for me. A welcome return for BRM" - Matteo Esse
"Great bass and vocals" - Corbin Dooley, KXCI Arizona]]> Second in line to be out-discoed was the song 'Just Fascination'. This time, the UK's finest Nu-Disco producer Lusty Zanzibar delivered the production. The result is a no holds barred epic groove fest with a Balearic touch.
Remixes were delivered not only by Billie's 'Your Loving Arms' co-writer David Harrow (under his Oicho moniker), but also by super-blog Audio Porn Central's top remix team:
Celebrity Murder Party, Copycat, Divide and Create, Dunproofin, Flying White Dots, Phil RetroSpector, Year Zero have all delivered something that goes beyond mere remixing but they have created stunning artistic reworks of these classic songs.
Released on Billie's Disco Activisto label, which she has re-launched for this and all future releases.

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."

"Really amazing, big tune for the dancefloor... all-time vocal by Billie Ray Martin - just superb" - Carlos Agueda (DJ Substance)
"just when you think it can't get better...absolutely rocking release, amazing production, great vocals from Billie - this should do some damage on the dancefloors" - DJ Nelson, Power FM
"Great vocals (of course)" - Graeme Park
"Now that's a re-make!" - Greg Churchill, George FM, New Zealand
"Rather cool" - Steve Parry, Juice FM
"like this very much - very cool" - Thomas Tuft, Juice FM
"Absolutely amazing. Like Old School meets New School. Love it" - Javier Drada, Resisted Resonance
"Love it" - Jon Pleased
"Dark and moody, with a solid groove. Love this." - Jean Jacques Smoothie
"Love this. Kinda reminds of 'Your Love' with that arpeggio." - Jody Wisternoff (Way Out West)
"Great slice of balearic disco" - Luca (Cazals)
"SOLID! Afterhours delight!" - Still Rob G
"Good stuff from Billie!" - Nico De Ceglia (Codex, London)
"It's all about the original for me. A welcome return for BRM" - Matteo Esse
"Great bass and vocals" - Corbin Dooley, KXCI Arizona]]> 130550 no no Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100 2010-02-15T00:00:00+01:00 4:48 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/billie-ray-martin-the-crackdown-project-just-fascination-flying-white-dots-remix/ Second in line to be out-discoed was the song 'Just Fascination'. This time, the UK's finest Nu-Disco producer Lusty Zanzibar delivered the production. The result is a no holds barred epic groove fest with a Balearic touch.
Remixes were delivered not only by Billie's 'Your Loving Arms' co-writer David Harrow (under his Oicho moniker), but also by super-blog Audio Porn Central's top remix team:
Celebrity Murder Party, Copycat, Divide and Create, Dunproofin, Flying White Dots, Phil RetroSpector, Year Zero have all delivered something that goes beyond mere remixing but they have created stunning artistic reworks of these classic songs.
Released on Billie's Disco Activisto label, which she has re-launched for this and all future releases.

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."

"Really amazing, big tune for the dancefloor... all-time vocal by Billie Ray Martin - just superb" - Carlos Agueda (DJ Substance)
"just when you think it can't get better...absolutely rocking release, amazing production, great vocals from Billie - this should do some damage on the dancefloors" - DJ Nelson, Power FM
"Great vocals (of course)" - Graeme Park
"Now that's a re-make!" - Greg Churchill, George FM, New Zealand
"Rather cool" - Steve Parry, Juice FM
"like this very much - very cool" - Thomas Tuft, Juice FM
"Absolutely amazing. Like Old School meets New School. Love it" - Javier Drada, Resisted Resonance
"Love it" - Jon Pleased
"Dark and moody, with a solid groove. Love this." - Jean Jacques Smoothie
"Love this. Kinda reminds of 'Your Love' with that arpeggio." - Jody Wisternoff (Way Out West)
"Great slice of balearic disco" - Luca (Cazals)
"SOLID! Afterhours delight!" - Still Rob G
"Good stuff from Billie!" - Nico De Ceglia (Codex, London)
"It's all about the original for me. A welcome return for BRM" - Matteo Esse
"Great bass and vocals" - Corbin Dooley, KXCI Arizona]]> Second in line to be out-discoed was the song 'Just Fascination'. This time, the UK's finest Nu-Disco producer Lusty Zanzibar delivered the production. The result is a no holds barred epic groove fest with a Balearic touch.
Remixes were delivered not only by Billie's 'Your Loving Arms' co-writer David Harrow (under his Oicho moniker), but also by super-blog Audio Porn Central's top remix team:
Celebrity Murder Party, Copycat, Divide and Create, Dunproofin, Flying White Dots, Phil RetroSpector, Year Zero have all delivered something that goes beyond mere remixing but they have created stunning artistic reworks of these classic songs.
Released on Billie's Disco Activisto label, which she has re-launched for this and all future releases.

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."

"Really amazing, big tune for the dancefloor... all-time vocal by Billie Ray Martin - just superb" - Carlos Agueda (DJ Substance)
"just when you think it can't get better...absolutely rocking release, amazing production, great vocals from Billie - this should do some damage on the dancefloors" - DJ Nelson, Power FM
"Great vocals (of course)" - Graeme Park
"Now that's a re-make!" - Greg Churchill, George FM, New Zealand
"Rather cool" - Steve Parry, Juice FM
"like this very much - very cool" - Thomas Tuft, Juice FM
"Absolutely amazing. Like Old School meets New School. Love it" - Javier Drada, Resisted Resonance
"Love it" - Jon Pleased
"Dark and moody, with a solid groove. Love this." - Jean Jacques Smoothie
"Love this. Kinda reminds of 'Your Love' with that arpeggio." - Jody Wisternoff (Way Out West)
"Great slice of balearic disco" - Luca (Cazals)
"SOLID! Afterhours delight!" - Still Rob G
"Good stuff from Billie!" - Nico De Ceglia (Codex, London)
"It's all about the original for me. A welcome return for BRM" - Matteo Esse
"Great bass and vocals" - Corbin Dooley, KXCI Arizona]]> 130548 no no Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 2010-03-15T00:00:00+01:00 6:34 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/the-crackdown-project-minimix/
tracklist:
- The Crackdown: Phil RetroSpector Dub
- Just Fascination: Original Version (feat. Lusty Zanzibar)
- Just Fascination: A Copycat Remix
- Just Fascination: Divide & Kreate Remix
- Just Fascination: Celebrity Murder Party Remix
- Just Fascination: Dunproofin Remix
- The Crackdown: Original Version (feat. Stephen Mallinder and Maertini Broes)
- The Crackdown: Oicho Remix (by David Harrow)
- The Crackdown: Phil RetroSpector Dub]]>
tracklist:
- The Crackdown: Phil RetroSpector Dub
- Just Fascination: Original Version (feat. Lusty Zanzibar)
- Just Fascination: A Copycat Remix
- Just Fascination: Divide & Kreate Remix
- Just Fascination: Celebrity Murder Party Remix
- Just Fascination: Dunproofin Remix
- The Crackdown: Original Version (feat. Stephen Mallinder and Maertini Broes)
- The Crackdown: Oicho Remix (by David Harrow)
- The Crackdown: Phil RetroSpector Dub]]> 130636 no no Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100 2010-01-18T00:00:00+01:00 17:05 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/the-opiates-candy-coated-crime-dan-beaumonts-92-mix/
“Hollywood Cuts” (The Remixes)

https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/hollywood-cuts-the-remixes/id495162249

Digital release date: 26 February 2012

CD release date: TBC

Label: Disco Activisto Records

Catalogue no: DAREC1201

Web: www.billieraymartin.com


The Opiates is the latest project from the "queen of electronic soul" Billie Ray Martin, best known for her work in Electribe 101 and the worldwide solo number one hit "Your Loving Arms", together with Norwegian musician Robert Solheim, The Opiates, who have been dubbed as ‘The Carpenters of Electro’ released their album ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’ in October 2011 with massive support from DJs, press and blogs alike. Each song on the album talks about another tortured diva, Hollywood actress, failed star... in search of identity, gender and a life beyond isolation.

Eight amazing music videos and a UK tour, including a gig at HMV Oxford Street played their part in gaining The Opiates a growing fan community.

After the remarkable success of the album, including many ‘album of the year’ entries in major publications, The Opiates are now releasing this impressive selection of remixes, by some of the coolest producers around.
From Aerea Negrot and Kim Ann Foxman of Hercules and Love Affair, to Doorly, Dan Beaumont and Disco Bloodbath plus Throbbing Gristle legends Chris & Cosey, this twenty track album was put together with one goal: to give the Opiates songs a new power and Billie a new voice. Each track was produced in close communication with The Opiates.

The result is an album that doesn’t shy away from displaying what genres like dubstep or drum and bass mixes can do with a classic vocal song. Another focus is the inclusion of an array of house mixes inspired by classic Chicago and New York vibes. The icing on the cake is the Drop Out Orchestra Disco Banger with its massive 80s style epic arrangement, which is already attracting the attention of many blogs and DJs. Another highlight is Young Richard and Hanatemari’s mixes, recorded in Tokyo, using beats combined with traditional Japanese string instruments.

Tracklist:

Anatomy of a Plastic Girl: Spinello Remix
Dinah and the Beautiful Blue: Aerea Negrot Remix
I’m not Simone Choule: Glyph Remix
Jalousies and Jealousies: Kim Ann Foxman Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Doorly Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Doorly Dub
Silent comes the Nighttime: XHK Stepford Step-Off Mix
Candy Coated Crime: Dan Beaumont's '92 Mix
Candy Coated Crime: Dan Beaumont's '92 Dub
Reality TV: Drop Out Orchestra Remix
Reality TV: Drop Out Orchestra Dub
Anatomy of a Plastic Girl: Chris and Cosey Remix
I’m not Simone Choule: Young Richard and Hanatemari ‘New Moon Can Dance’ Remix
I’m not Simone Choule: Young Richard and Hanatemari ‘New Moon Rising’ Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Disco Bloodbath Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Disco Bloodbath Moanstrumental
Jalousies and Jealousies: Flying White Dots Remix
Rainy Days and Saturdays: LovElution & The Unknown Stuntman ‘White Space Conflict’ Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Terranova Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Terranova Long Remix




Quote:
“The Carpenters of electro… dark, electronic pop: scalpel-sharp lyrical observations juxtaposed with shimmering production to magnetic effect.”
Ben Murphy, DJ Magazine (U.K. / worldwide)
]]>
“Hollywood Cuts” (The Remixes)

https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/hollywood-cuts-the-remixes/id495162249

Digital release date: 26 February 2012

CD release date: TBC

Label: Disco Activisto Records

Catalogue no: DAREC1201

Web: www.billieraymartin.com


The Opiates is the latest project from the "queen of electronic soul" Billie Ray Martin, best known for her work in Electribe 101 and the worldwide solo number one hit "Your Loving Arms", together with Norwegian musician Robert Solheim, The Opiates, who have been dubbed as ‘The Carpenters of Electro’ released their album ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’ in October 2011 with massive support from DJs, press and blogs alike. Each song on the album talks about another tortured diva, Hollywood actress, failed star... in search of identity, gender and a life beyond isolation.

Eight amazing music videos and a UK tour, including a gig at HMV Oxford Street played their part in gaining The Opiates a growing fan community.

After the remarkable success of the album, including many ‘album of the year’ entries in major publications, The Opiates are now releasing this impressive selection of remixes, by some of the coolest producers around.
From Aerea Negrot and Kim Ann Foxman of Hercules and Love Affair, to Doorly, Dan Beaumont and Disco Bloodbath plus Throbbing Gristle legends Chris & Cosey, this twenty track album was put together with one goal: to give the Opiates songs a new power and Billie a new voice. Each track was produced in close communication with The Opiates.

The result is an album that doesn’t shy away from displaying what genres like dubstep or drum and bass mixes can do with a classic vocal song. Another focus is the inclusion of an array of house mixes inspired by classic Chicago and New York vibes. The icing on the cake is the Drop Out Orchestra Disco Banger with its massive 80s style epic arrangement, which is already attracting the attention of many blogs and DJs. Another highlight is Young Richard and Hanatemari’s mixes, recorded in Tokyo, using beats combined with traditional Japanese string instruments.

Tracklist:

Anatomy of a Plastic Girl: Spinello Remix
Dinah and the Beautiful Blue: Aerea Negrot Remix
I’m not Simone Choule: Glyph Remix
Jalousies and Jealousies: Kim Ann Foxman Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Doorly Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Doorly Dub
Silent comes the Nighttime: XHK Stepford Step-Off Mix
Candy Coated Crime: Dan Beaumont's '92 Mix
Candy Coated Crime: Dan Beaumont's '92 Dub
Reality TV: Drop Out Orchestra Remix
Reality TV: Drop Out Orchestra Dub
Anatomy of a Plastic Girl: Chris and Cosey Remix
I’m not Simone Choule: Young Richard and Hanatemari ‘New Moon Can Dance’ Remix
I’m not Simone Choule: Young Richard and Hanatemari ‘New Moon Rising’ Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Disco Bloodbath Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Disco Bloodbath Moanstrumental
Jalousies and Jealousies: Flying White Dots Remix
Rainy Days and Saturdays: LovElution & The Unknown Stuntman ‘White Space Conflict’ Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Terranova Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Terranova Long Remix




Quote:
“The Carpenters of electro… dark, electronic pop: scalpel-sharp lyrical observations juxtaposed with shimmering production to magnetic effect.”
Ben Murphy, DJ Magazine (U.K. / worldwide)
]]> 130594 no no Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0200 2012-03-26T00:00:00+02:00 7:57 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/the-opiates-candy-coated-crime-disco-bloodbath-remix/
“Hollywood Cuts” (The Remixes)

https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/hollywood-cuts-the-remixes/id495162249



Digital release date: 26 February 2012

CD release date: TBC

Label: Disco Activisto Records

Catalogue no: DAREC1201

Web: www.billieraymartin.com


The Opiates is the latest project from the "queen of electronic soul" Billie Ray Martin, best known for her work in Electribe 101 and the worldwide solo number one hit "Your Loving Arms", together with Norwegian musician Robert Solheim, The Opiates, who have been dubbed as ‘The Carpenters of Electro’ released their album ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’ in October 2011 with massive support from DJs, press and blogs alike. Each song on the album talks about another tortured diva, Hollywood actress, failed star... in search of identity, gender and a life beyond isolation.

Eight amazing music videos and a UK tour, including a gig at HMV Oxford Street played their part in gaining The Opiates a growing fan community.

After the remarkable success of the album, including many ‘album of the year’ entries in major publications, The Opiates are now releasing this impressive selection of remixes, by some of the coolest producers around.
From Aerea Negrot and Kim Ann Foxman of Hercules and Love Affair, to Doorly, Dan Beaumont and Disco Bloodbath plus Throbbing Gristle legends Chris & Cosey, this twenty track album was put together with one goal: to give the Opiates songs a new power and Billie a new voice. Each track was produced in close communication with The Opiates.

The result is an album that doesn’t shy away from displaying what genres like dubstep or drum and bass mixes can do with a classic vocal song. Another focus is the inclusion of an array of house mixes inspired by classic Chicago and New York vibes. The icing on the cake is the Drop Out Orchestra Disco Banger with its massive 80s style epic arrangement, which is already attracting the attention of many blogs and DJs. Another highlight is Young Richard and Hanatemari’s mixes, recorded in Tokyo, using beats combined with traditional Japanese string instruments.

Tracklist:

Anatomy of a Plastic Girl: Spinello Remix
Dinah and the Beautiful Blue: Aerea Negrot Remix
I’m not Simone Choule: Glyph Remix
Jalousies and Jealousies: Kim Ann Foxman Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Doorly Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Doorly Dub
Silent comes the Nighttime: XHK Stepford Step-Off Mix
Candy Coated Crime: Dan Beaumont's '92 Mix
Candy Coated Crime: Dan Beaumont's '92 Dub
Reality TV: Drop Out Orchestra Remix
Reality TV: Drop Out Orchestra Dub
Anatomy of a Plastic Girl: Chris and Cosey Remix
I’m not Simone Choule: Young Richard and Hanatemari ‘New Moon Can Dance’ Remix
I’m not Simone Choule: Young Richard and Hanatemari ‘New Moon Rising’ Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Disco Bloodbath Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Disco Bloodbath Moanstrumental
Jalousies and Jealousies: Flying White Dots Remix
Rainy Days and Saturdays: LovElution & The Unknown Stuntman ‘White Space Conflict’ Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Terranova Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Terranova Long Remix




Quote:
“The Carpenters of electro… dark, electronic pop: scalpel-sharp lyrical observations juxtaposed with shimmering production to magnetic effect.”
Ben Murphy, DJ Magazine (U.K. / worldwide)
]]>
“Hollywood Cuts” (The Remixes)

https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/hollywood-cuts-the-remixes/id495162249



Digital release date: 26 February 2012

CD release date: TBC

Label: Disco Activisto Records

Catalogue no: DAREC1201

Web: www.billieraymartin.com


The Opiates is the latest project from the "queen of electronic soul" Billie Ray Martin, best known for her work in Electribe 101 and the worldwide solo number one hit "Your Loving Arms", together with Norwegian musician Robert Solheim, The Opiates, who have been dubbed as ‘The Carpenters of Electro’ released their album ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’ in October 2011 with massive support from DJs, press and blogs alike. Each song on the album talks about another tortured diva, Hollywood actress, failed star... in search of identity, gender and a life beyond isolation.

Eight amazing music videos and a UK tour, including a gig at HMV Oxford Street played their part in gaining The Opiates a growing fan community.

After the remarkable success of the album, including many ‘album of the year’ entries in major publications, The Opiates are now releasing this impressive selection of remixes, by some of the coolest producers around.
From Aerea Negrot and Kim Ann Foxman of Hercules and Love Affair, to Doorly, Dan Beaumont and Disco Bloodbath plus Throbbing Gristle legends Chris & Cosey, this twenty track album was put together with one goal: to give the Opiates songs a new power and Billie a new voice. Each track was produced in close communication with The Opiates.

The result is an album that doesn’t shy away from displaying what genres like dubstep or drum and bass mixes can do with a classic vocal song. Another focus is the inclusion of an array of house mixes inspired by classic Chicago and New York vibes. The icing on the cake is the Drop Out Orchestra Disco Banger with its massive 80s style epic arrangement, which is already attracting the attention of many blogs and DJs. Another highlight is Young Richard and Hanatemari’s mixes, recorded in Tokyo, using beats combined with traditional Japanese string instruments.

Tracklist:

Anatomy of a Plastic Girl: Spinello Remix
Dinah and the Beautiful Blue: Aerea Negrot Remix
I’m not Simone Choule: Glyph Remix
Jalousies and Jealousies: Kim Ann Foxman Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Doorly Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Doorly Dub
Silent comes the Nighttime: XHK Stepford Step-Off Mix
Candy Coated Crime: Dan Beaumont's '92 Mix
Candy Coated Crime: Dan Beaumont's '92 Dub
Reality TV: Drop Out Orchestra Remix
Reality TV: Drop Out Orchestra Dub
Anatomy of a Plastic Girl: Chris and Cosey Remix
I’m not Simone Choule: Young Richard and Hanatemari ‘New Moon Can Dance’ Remix
I’m not Simone Choule: Young Richard and Hanatemari ‘New Moon Rising’ Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Disco Bloodbath Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Disco Bloodbath Moanstrumental
Jalousies and Jealousies: Flying White Dots Remix
Rainy Days and Saturdays: LovElution & The Unknown Stuntman ‘White Space Conflict’ Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Terranova Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Terranova Long Remix




Quote:
“The Carpenters of electro… dark, electronic pop: scalpel-sharp lyrical observations juxtaposed with shimmering production to magnetic effect.”
Ben Murphy, DJ Magazine (U.K. / worldwide)
]]> 130593 no no Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0200 2012-03-26T00:00:00+02:00 6:42 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/the-opiates-dinah-and-the-beautiful-blue-aerea-negrot-remix/
“Hollywood Cuts” (The Remixes)

https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/hollywood-cuts-the-remixes/id495162249

Digital release date: 26 February 2012

CD release date: now . get it at www.billieraymartin.com/mart

Label: Disco Activisto Records

Catalogue no: DAREC1201

Web: www.billieraymartin.com


The Opiates is the latest project from the "queen of electronic soul" Billie Ray Martin, best known for her work in Electribe 101 and the worldwide solo number one hit "Your Loving Arms", together with Norwegian musician Robert Solheim, The Opiates, who have been dubbed as ‘The Carpenters of Electro’ released their album ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’ in October 2011 with massive support from DJs, press and blogs alike. Each song on the album talks about another tortured diva, Hollywood actress, failed star... in search of identity, gender and a life beyond isolation.

Eight amazing music videos and a UK tour, including a gig at HMV Oxford Street played their part in gaining The Opiates a growing fan community.

After the remarkable success of the album, including many ‘album of the year’ entries in major publications, The Opiates are now releasing this impressive selection of remixes, by some of the coolest producers around.
From Aerea Negrot and Kim Ann Foxman of Hercules and Love Affair, to Doorly, Dan Beaumont and Disco Bloodbath plus Throbbing Gristle legends Chris & Cosey, this twenty track album was put together with one goal: to give the Opiates songs a new power and Billie a new voice. Each track was produced in close communication with The Opiates.

The result is an album that doesn’t shy away from displaying what genres like dubstep or drum and bass mixes can do with a classic vocal song. Another focus is the inclusion of an array of house mixes inspired by classic Chicago and New York vibes. The icing on the cake is the Drop Out Orchestra Disco Banger with its massive 80s style epic arrangement, which is already attracting the attention of many blogs and DJs. Another highlight is Young Richard and Hanatemari’s mixes, recorded in Tokyo, using beats combined with traditional Japanese string instruments.

Tracklist:

Anatomy of a Plastic Girl: Spinello Remix
Dinah and the Beautiful Blue: Aerea Negrot Remix
I’m not Simone Choule: Glyph Remix
Jalousies and Jealousies: Kim Ann Foxman Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Doorly Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Doorly Dub
Silent comes the Nighttime: XHK Stepford Step-Off Mix
Candy Coated Crime: Dan Beaumont's '92 Mix
Candy Coated Crime: Dan Beaumont's '92 Dub
Reality TV: Drop Out Orchestra Remix
Reality TV: Drop Out Orchestra Dub
Anatomy of a Plastic Girl: Chris and Cosey Remix
I’m not Simone Choule: Young Richard and Hanatemari ‘New Moon Can Dance’ Remix
I’m not Simone Choule: Young Richard and Hanatemari ‘New Moon Rising’ Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Disco Bloodbath Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Disco Bloodbath Moanstrumental
Jalousies and Jealousies: Flying White Dots Remix
Rainy Days and Saturdays: LovElution & The Unknown Stuntman ‘White Space Conflict’ Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Terranova Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Terranova Long Remix




Quote:
“The Carpenters of electro… dark, electronic pop: scalpel-sharp lyrical observations juxtaposed with shimmering production to magnetic effect.”
Ben Murphy, DJ Magazine (U.K. / worldwide)
]]>
“Hollywood Cuts” (The Remixes)

https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/hollywood-cuts-the-remixes/id495162249

Digital release date: 26 February 2012

CD release date: now . get it at www.billieraymartin.com/mart

Label: Disco Activisto Records

Catalogue no: DAREC1201

Web: www.billieraymartin.com


The Opiates is the latest project from the "queen of electronic soul" Billie Ray Martin, best known for her work in Electribe 101 and the worldwide solo number one hit "Your Loving Arms", together with Norwegian musician Robert Solheim, The Opiates, who have been dubbed as ‘The Carpenters of Electro’ released their album ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’ in October 2011 with massive support from DJs, press and blogs alike. Each song on the album talks about another tortured diva, Hollywood actress, failed star... in search of identity, gender and a life beyond isolation.

Eight amazing music videos and a UK tour, including a gig at HMV Oxford Street played their part in gaining The Opiates a growing fan community.

After the remarkable success of the album, including many ‘album of the year’ entries in major publications, The Opiates are now releasing this impressive selection of remixes, by some of the coolest producers around.
From Aerea Negrot and Kim Ann Foxman of Hercules and Love Affair, to Doorly, Dan Beaumont and Disco Bloodbath plus Throbbing Gristle legends Chris & Cosey, this twenty track album was put together with one goal: to give the Opiates songs a new power and Billie a new voice. Each track was produced in close communication with The Opiates.

The result is an album that doesn’t shy away from displaying what genres like dubstep or drum and bass mixes can do with a classic vocal song. Another focus is the inclusion of an array of house mixes inspired by classic Chicago and New York vibes. The icing on the cake is the Drop Out Orchestra Disco Banger with its massive 80s style epic arrangement, which is already attracting the attention of many blogs and DJs. Another highlight is Young Richard and Hanatemari’s mixes, recorded in Tokyo, using beats combined with traditional Japanese string instruments.

Tracklist:

Anatomy of a Plastic Girl: Spinello Remix
Dinah and the Beautiful Blue: Aerea Negrot Remix
I’m not Simone Choule: Glyph Remix
Jalousies and Jealousies: Kim Ann Foxman Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Doorly Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Doorly Dub
Silent comes the Nighttime: XHK Stepford Step-Off Mix
Candy Coated Crime: Dan Beaumont's '92 Mix
Candy Coated Crime: Dan Beaumont's '92 Dub
Reality TV: Drop Out Orchestra Remix
Reality TV: Drop Out Orchestra Dub
Anatomy of a Plastic Girl: Chris and Cosey Remix
I’m not Simone Choule: Young Richard and Hanatemari ‘New Moon Can Dance’ Remix
I’m not Simone Choule: Young Richard and Hanatemari ‘New Moon Rising’ Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Disco Bloodbath Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Disco Bloodbath Moanstrumental
Jalousies and Jealousies: Flying White Dots Remix
Rainy Days and Saturdays: LovElution & The Unknown Stuntman ‘White Space Conflict’ Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Terranova Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Terranova Long Remix




Quote:
“The Carpenters of electro… dark, electronic pop: scalpel-sharp lyrical observations juxtaposed with shimmering production to magnetic effect.”
Ben Murphy, DJ Magazine (U.K. / worldwide)
]]> 130591 no no Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0200 2012-03-26T00:00:00+02:00 7:38 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/the-opiates-jalousies-and-jealousies-flying-white-dots-remix-edit/
“Hollywood Cuts” (The Remixes)

https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/hollywood-cuts-the-remixes/id495162249

Digital release date: 26 February 2012

CD release date: TBC

Label: Disco Activisto Records

Catalogue no: DAREC1201

Web: www.billieraymartin.com


The Opiates is the latest project from the "queen of electronic soul" Billie Ray Martin, best known for her work in Electribe 101 and the worldwide solo number one hit "Your Loving Arms", together with Norwegian musician Robert Solheim, The Opiates, who have been dubbed as ‘The Carpenters of Electro’ released their album ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’ in October 2011 with massive support from DJs, press and blogs alike. Each song on the album talks about another tortured diva, Hollywood actress, failed star... in search of identity, gender and a life beyond isolation.

Eight amazing music videos and a UK tour, including a gig at HMV Oxford Street played their part in gaining The Opiates a growing fan community.

After the remarkable success of the album, including many ‘album of the year’ entries in major publications, The Opiates are now releasing this impressive selection of remixes, by some of the coolest producers around.
From Aerea Negrot and Kim Ann Foxman of Hercules and Love Affair, to Doorly, Dan Beaumont and Disco Bloodbath plus Throbbing Gristle legends Chris & Cosey, this twenty track album was put together with one goal: to give the Opiates songs a new power and Billie a new voice. Each track was produced in close communication with The Opiates.

The result is an album that doesn’t shy away from displaying what genres like dubstep or drum and bass mixes can do with a classic vocal song. Another focus is the inclusion of an array of house mixes inspired by classic Chicago and New York vibes. The icing on the cake is the Drop Out Orchestra Disco Banger with its massive 80s style epic arrangement, which is already attracting the attention of many blogs and DJs. Another highlight is Young Richard and Hanatemari’s mixes, recorded in Tokyo, using beats combined with traditional Japanese string instruments.

Tracklist:

Anatomy of a Plastic Girl: Spinello Remix
Dinah and the Beautiful Blue: Aerea Negrot Remix
I’m not Simone Choule: Glyph Remix
Jalousies and Jealousies: Kim Ann Foxman Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Doorly Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Doorly Dub
Silent comes the Nighttime: XHK Stepford Step-Off Mix
Candy Coated Crime: Dan Beaumont's '92 Mix
Candy Coated Crime: Dan Beaumont's '92 Dub
Reality TV: Drop Out Orchestra Remix
Reality TV: Drop Out Orchestra Dub
Anatomy of a Plastic Girl: Chris and Cosey Remix
I’m not Simone Choule: Young Richard and Hanatemari ‘New Moon Can Dance’ Remix
I’m not Simone Choule: Young Richard and Hanatemari ‘New Moon Rising’ Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Disco Bloodbath Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Disco Bloodbath Moanstrumental
Jalousies and Jealousies: Flying White Dots Remix
Rainy Days and Saturdays: LovElution & The Unknown Stuntman ‘White Space Conflict’ Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Terranova Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Terranova Long Remix




Quote:
“The Carpenters of electro… dark, electronic pop: scalpel-sharp lyrical observations juxtaposed with shimmering production to magnetic effect.”
Ben Murphy, DJ Magazine (U.K. / worldwide)
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“Hollywood Cuts” (The Remixes)

https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/hollywood-cuts-the-remixes/id495162249

Digital release date: 26 February 2012

CD release date: TBC

Label: Disco Activisto Records

Catalogue no: DAREC1201

Web: www.billieraymartin.com


The Opiates is the latest project from the "queen of electronic soul" Billie Ray Martin, best known for her work in Electribe 101 and the worldwide solo number one hit "Your Loving Arms", together with Norwegian musician Robert Solheim, The Opiates, who have been dubbed as ‘The Carpenters of Electro’ released their album ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’ in October 2011 with massive support from DJs, press and blogs alike. Each song on the album talks about another tortured diva, Hollywood actress, failed star... in search of identity, gender and a life beyond isolation.

Eight amazing music videos and a UK tour, including a gig at HMV Oxford Street played their part in gaining The Opiates a growing fan community.

After the remarkable success of the album, including many ‘album of the year’ entries in major publications, The Opiates are now releasing this impressive selection of remixes, by some of the coolest producers around.
From Aerea Negrot and Kim Ann Foxman of Hercules and Love Affair, to Doorly, Dan Beaumont and Disco Bloodbath plus Throbbing Gristle legends Chris & Cosey, this twenty track album was put together with one goal: to give the Opiates songs a new power and Billie a new voice. Each track was produced in close communication with The Opiates.

The result is an album that doesn’t shy away from displaying what genres like dubstep or drum and bass mixes can do with a classic vocal song. Another focus is the inclusion of an array of house mixes inspired by classic Chicago and New York vibes. The icing on the cake is the Drop Out Orchestra Disco Banger with its massive 80s style epic arrangement, which is already attracting the attention of many blogs and DJs. Another highlight is Young Richard and Hanatemari’s mixes, recorded in Tokyo, using beats combined with traditional Japanese string instruments.

Tracklist:

Anatomy of a Plastic Girl: Spinello Remix
Dinah and the Beautiful Blue: Aerea Negrot Remix
I’m not Simone Choule: Glyph Remix
Jalousies and Jealousies: Kim Ann Foxman Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Doorly Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Doorly Dub
Silent comes the Nighttime: XHK Stepford Step-Off Mix
Candy Coated Crime: Dan Beaumont's '92 Mix
Candy Coated Crime: Dan Beaumont's '92 Dub
Reality TV: Drop Out Orchestra Remix
Reality TV: Drop Out Orchestra Dub
Anatomy of a Plastic Girl: Chris and Cosey Remix
I’m not Simone Choule: Young Richard and Hanatemari ‘New Moon Can Dance’ Remix
I’m not Simone Choule: Young Richard and Hanatemari ‘New Moon Rising’ Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Disco Bloodbath Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Disco Bloodbath Moanstrumental
Jalousies and Jealousies: Flying White Dots Remix
Rainy Days and Saturdays: LovElution & The Unknown Stuntman ‘White Space Conflict’ Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Terranova Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Terranova Long Remix




Quote:
“The Carpenters of electro… dark, electronic pop: scalpel-sharp lyrical observations juxtaposed with shimmering production to magnetic effect.”
Ben Murphy, DJ Magazine (U.K. / worldwide)
]]> 130598 no no Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0200 2012-03-26T00:00:00+02:00 5:04 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/the-opiates-reality-tv-drop-out-orchestra-remix-radio-edit/
“Hollywood Cuts” (The Remixes)

https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/hollywood-cuts-the-remixes/id495162249

Digital release date: 26 February 2012

CD release date: TBC

Label: Disco Activisto Records

Catalogue no: DAREC1201

Web: www.billieraymartin.com


The Opiates is the latest project from the "queen of electronic soul" Billie Ray Martin, best known for her work in Electribe 101 and the worldwide solo number one hit "Your Loving Arms", together with Norwegian musician Robert Solheim, The Opiates, who have been dubbed as ‘The Carpenters of Electro’ released their album ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’ in October 2011 with massive support from DJs, press and blogs alike. Each song on the album talks about another tortured diva, Hollywood actress, failed star... in search of identity, gender and a life beyond isolation.

Eight amazing music videos and a UK tour, including a gig at HMV Oxford Street played their part in gaining The Opiates a growing fan community.

After the remarkable success of the album, including many ‘album of the year’ entries in major publications, The Opiates are now releasing this impressive selection of remixes, by some of the coolest producers around.
From Aerea Negrot and Kim Ann Foxman of Hercules and Love Affair, to Doorly, Dan Beaumont and Disco Bloodbath plus Throbbing Gristle legends Chris & Cosey, this twenty track album was put together with one goal: to give the Opiates songs a new power and Billie a new voice. Each track was produced in close communication with The Opiates.

The result is an album that doesn’t shy away from displaying what genres like dubstep or drum and bass mixes can do with a classic vocal song. Another focus is the inclusion of an array of house mixes inspired by classic Chicago and New York vibes. The icing on the cake is the Drop Out Orchestra Disco Banger with its massive 80s style epic arrangement, which is already attracting the attention of many blogs and DJs. Another highlight is Young Richard and Hanatemari’s mixes, recorded in Tokyo, using beats combined with traditional Japanese string instruments.

Tracklist:

Anatomy of a Plastic Girl: Spinello Remix
Dinah and the Beautiful Blue: Aerea Negrot Remix
I’m not Simone Choule: Glyph Remix
Jalousies and Jealousies: Kim Ann Foxman Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Doorly Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Doorly Dub
Silent comes the Nighttime: XHK Stepford Step-Off Mix
Candy Coated Crime: Dan Beaumont's '92 Mix
Candy Coated Crime: Dan Beaumont's '92 Dub
Reality TV: Drop Out Orchestra Remix
Reality TV: Drop Out Orchestra Dub
Anatomy of a Plastic Girl: Chris and Cosey Remix
I’m not Simone Choule: Young Richard and Hanatemari ‘New Moon Can Dance’ Remix
I’m not Simone Choule: Young Richard and Hanatemari ‘New Moon Rising’ Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Disco Bloodbath Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Disco Bloodbath Moanstrumental
Jalousies and Jealousies: Flying White Dots Remix
Rainy Days and Saturdays: LovElution & The Unknown Stuntman ‘White Space Conflict’ Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Terranova Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Terranova Long Remix




Quote:
“The Carpenters of electro… dark, electronic pop: scalpel-sharp lyrical observations juxtaposed with shimmering production to magnetic effect.”
Ben Murphy, DJ Magazine (U.K. / worldwide)
]]>
“Hollywood Cuts” (The Remixes)

https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/hollywood-cuts-the-remixes/id495162249

Digital release date: 26 February 2012

CD release date: TBC

Label: Disco Activisto Records

Catalogue no: DAREC1201

Web: www.billieraymartin.com


The Opiates is the latest project from the "queen of electronic soul" Billie Ray Martin, best known for her work in Electribe 101 and the worldwide solo number one hit "Your Loving Arms", together with Norwegian musician Robert Solheim, The Opiates, who have been dubbed as ‘The Carpenters of Electro’ released their album ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’ in October 2011 with massive support from DJs, press and blogs alike. Each song on the album talks about another tortured diva, Hollywood actress, failed star... in search of identity, gender and a life beyond isolation.

Eight amazing music videos and a UK tour, including a gig at HMV Oxford Street played their part in gaining The Opiates a growing fan community.

After the remarkable success of the album, including many ‘album of the year’ entries in major publications, The Opiates are now releasing this impressive selection of remixes, by some of the coolest producers around.
From Aerea Negrot and Kim Ann Foxman of Hercules and Love Affair, to Doorly, Dan Beaumont and Disco Bloodbath plus Throbbing Gristle legends Chris & Cosey, this twenty track album was put together with one goal: to give the Opiates songs a new power and Billie a new voice. Each track was produced in close communication with The Opiates.

The result is an album that doesn’t shy away from displaying what genres like dubstep or drum and bass mixes can do with a classic vocal song. Another focus is the inclusion of an array of house mixes inspired by classic Chicago and New York vibes. The icing on the cake is the Drop Out Orchestra Disco Banger with its massive 80s style epic arrangement, which is already attracting the attention of many blogs and DJs. Another highlight is Young Richard and Hanatemari’s mixes, recorded in Tokyo, using beats combined with traditional Japanese string instruments.

Tracklist:

Anatomy of a Plastic Girl: Spinello Remix
Dinah and the Beautiful Blue: Aerea Negrot Remix
I’m not Simone Choule: Glyph Remix
Jalousies and Jealousies: Kim Ann Foxman Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Doorly Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Doorly Dub
Silent comes the Nighttime: XHK Stepford Step-Off Mix
Candy Coated Crime: Dan Beaumont's '92 Mix
Candy Coated Crime: Dan Beaumont's '92 Dub
Reality TV: Drop Out Orchestra Remix
Reality TV: Drop Out Orchestra Dub
Anatomy of a Plastic Girl: Chris and Cosey Remix
I’m not Simone Choule: Young Richard and Hanatemari ‘New Moon Can Dance’ Remix
I’m not Simone Choule: Young Richard and Hanatemari ‘New Moon Rising’ Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Disco Bloodbath Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Disco Bloodbath Moanstrumental
Jalousies and Jealousies: Flying White Dots Remix
Rainy Days and Saturdays: LovElution & The Unknown Stuntman ‘White Space Conflict’ Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Terranova Remix
Candy Coated Crime: Terranova Long Remix




Quote:
“The Carpenters of electro… dark, electronic pop: scalpel-sharp lyrical observations juxtaposed with shimmering production to magnetic effect.”
Ben Murphy, DJ Magazine (U.K. / worldwide)
]]> 130599 no no Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0200 2012-03-26T00:00:00+02:00 3:52 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/the-opiates-reality-tv-drop-out-orchestra-dub-free-download/ enjoy and please let us know what you think.
the album 'HOLLYWOOD UNDER THE KNIFE' is here http://itunes.apple.com/album/hollywood-under-knife-deluxe/id467371143
cd can be bought in all record stores and at www.billieraymartin.com
please find lots of videos and more tunage on www.billieraymartin.com
]]> enjoy and please let us know what you think.
the album 'HOLLYWOOD UNDER THE KNIFE' is here http://itunes.apple.com/album/hollywood-under-knife-deluxe/id467371143
cd can be bought in all record stores and at www.billieraymartin.com
please find lots of videos and more tunage on www.billieraymartin.com
]]> 130609 no no Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0200 2012-03-26T00:00:00+02:00 5:43 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/the-opiates-anatomy-of-a-plastic-girl/
‘Hollywood Under The Knife’

https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/hollywood-under-knife-special/id466723106

Release date: 21 October 2011

Label: Disco Activisto Records

Distribution : Cargo UK

Images: Wolfgang Tillmans

Web: www.billieraymartin.com

Style : dark electronic pop



The Opiates is the latest project from the "queen of electronic soul" Billie Ray Martin, together with Norwegian musician Robert Solheim. Already dubbed by the press as ‘The Carpenters of Electro’, their album ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’ explores paths pioneered by the Chicago house and Detroit techno heroes, (not least Electribe 101), with the aim of taking things forward a step or two. Although Kraftwerk and Yazoo have been mentioned as influences, The Opiates’ unique brand of electronic music is not readily categorised. Theirs is a pursuit without compromise; a rare match of songwriting and cutting-edge beats and bleeps.


RAINY DAYS AND REMIXES : EP
Prior to the release of the album comes the digital release of the "Rainy Days and Remixes“ EP on 19 September. The EP includes exclusive remixes of three of the album’s songs by Kim Ann Foxman (Hercules and Love Affair), the legendary Chris and Cosey (Throbbing Gristle) and XHK, plus the single "Rainy Days and Saturdays“.


HOLLYWOOD UNDER THE KNIFE : CD & DIGITAL ALBUM
"Hollywood Under The Knife" is an album of real substance, both musically and visually. Artist Wolfgang Tillmans supplies nine previously unseen and unpublished images for the album cover and booklet. Each song on the album portrays another social 'misfit'. Characters who, trying to change their outer appearance or tweak their behaviour, believe they might just fit and ultimately face the consequences:

• The woman who employs strange sexual fantasies involving the TV series CSI, to keep the boredom of life at bay. (Candy Coated Crime)

• The transvestite (Candy Darling) who, although leading the wild life and preparing for a sex change, dreams of married life and a house in the suburbs. (Rainy Days and Saturdays)

• The young wannabe actress in L.A. who reflects on her facial surgery that has left her scarred and punctured with holes inside and out. (Anatomy of a Plastic Girl)

• The fifteen year old girl who wanted to be herself, but gets voted off the reality TV show 'Make Me A Supermodel' and who is so destroyed that she believes her life is over at the age of fifteen, because they told her it was. (Reality TV)

• The aging formerly rich daughter of a formerly famous actress who reminisces about her mother feeding her tranquilizers as a kid to keep her out of the way and who later goes through a path of plastic surgery, health foods, porn movie making...all to find out who she is. (Oprah's Book of the Month Club)

• The same woman who suffers from insomnia and tells the story how the demons of her soul and the demons of the night keep her awake. (Silent Comes the Nighttime)

• The man who dresses up in women's clothes (Roman Polanski in 'The Tenant') trying to fight the people he believes want to kill him by convincing him that he is Simone Choule, a woman who committed suicide in the apartment that he now rents. (I'm not Simone Choule)

An EP entitled ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’ was released in March 2008, accompanied by a much celebrated gig at London’s Rough Trade store, resulting in rave press reviews for both the gig and the EP. In Germany, the song ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’ made it into the Top 20 listeners choice charts when added to the playlist at Radio One.
Plans are afoot to stage a performance/play entitled ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’, a multimedia piece using Wolfgang’s images as well as multimedia elements, in the near future.


COVER AND BOOKLET :
Turner Prize winner Wolfgang Tillmans (famed for his sleeve design & videos for Pet Shop Boys, REM, Goldfrapp ...) is a long-time fan of Billie’s work. He has photographed her twice and chose her as ‘most influential woman’ as part of i-D Magazine’s 25th birthday issue and celebrations. For ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’, Wolfgang opened his entire archive and gave The Opiates unprecedented access to choose their favourite images.
]]>
‘Hollywood Under The Knife’

https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/hollywood-under-knife-special/id466723106

Release date: 21 October 2011

Label: Disco Activisto Records

Distribution : Cargo UK

Images: Wolfgang Tillmans

Web: www.billieraymartin.com

Style : dark electronic pop



The Opiates is the latest project from the "queen of electronic soul" Billie Ray Martin, together with Norwegian musician Robert Solheim. Already dubbed by the press as ‘The Carpenters of Electro’, their album ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’ explores paths pioneered by the Chicago house and Detroit techno heroes, (not least Electribe 101), with the aim of taking things forward a step or two. Although Kraftwerk and Yazoo have been mentioned as influences, The Opiates’ unique brand of electronic music is not readily categorised. Theirs is a pursuit without compromise; a rare match of songwriting and cutting-edge beats and bleeps.


RAINY DAYS AND REMIXES : EP
Prior to the release of the album comes the digital release of the "Rainy Days and Remixes“ EP on 19 September. The EP includes exclusive remixes of three of the album’s songs by Kim Ann Foxman (Hercules and Love Affair), the legendary Chris and Cosey (Throbbing Gristle) and XHK, plus the single "Rainy Days and Saturdays“.


HOLLYWOOD UNDER THE KNIFE : CD & DIGITAL ALBUM
"Hollywood Under The Knife" is an album of real substance, both musically and visually. Artist Wolfgang Tillmans supplies nine previously unseen and unpublished images for the album cover and booklet. Each song on the album portrays another social 'misfit'. Characters who, trying to change their outer appearance or tweak their behaviour, believe they might just fit and ultimately face the consequences:

• The woman who employs strange sexual fantasies involving the TV series CSI, to keep the boredom of life at bay. (Candy Coated Crime)

• The transvestite (Candy Darling) who, although leading the wild life and preparing for a sex change, dreams of married life and a house in the suburbs. (Rainy Days and Saturdays)

• The young wannabe actress in L.A. who reflects on her facial surgery that has left her scarred and punctured with holes inside and out. (Anatomy of a Plastic Girl)

• The fifteen year old girl who wanted to be herself, but gets voted off the reality TV show 'Make Me A Supermodel' and who is so destroyed that she believes her life is over at the age of fifteen, because they told her it was. (Reality TV)

• The aging formerly rich daughter of a formerly famous actress who reminisces about her mother feeding her tranquilizers as a kid to keep her out of the way and who later goes through a path of plastic surgery, health foods, porn movie making...all to find out who she is. (Oprah's Book of the Month Club)

• The same woman who suffers from insomnia and tells the story how the demons of her soul and the demons of the night keep her awake. (Silent Comes the Nighttime)

• The man who dresses up in women's clothes (Roman Polanski in 'The Tenant') trying to fight the people he believes want to kill him by convincing him that he is Simone Choule, a woman who committed suicide in the apartment that he now rents. (I'm not Simone Choule)

An EP entitled ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’ was released in March 2008, accompanied by a much celebrated gig at London’s Rough Trade store, resulting in rave press reviews for both the gig and the EP. In Germany, the song ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’ made it into the Top 20 listeners choice charts when added to the playlist at Radio One.
Plans are afoot to stage a performance/play entitled ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’, a multimedia piece using Wolfgang’s images as well as multimedia elements, in the near future.


COVER AND BOOKLET :
Turner Prize winner Wolfgang Tillmans (famed for his sleeve design & videos for Pet Shop Boys, REM, Goldfrapp ...) is a long-time fan of Billie’s work. He has photographed her twice and chose her as ‘most influential woman’ as part of i-D Magazine’s 25th birthday issue and celebrations. For ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’, Wolfgang opened his entire archive and gave The Opiates unprecedented access to choose their favourite images.
]]> 130613 no no Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0200 2011-10-17T00:00:00+02:00 5:09 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/the-opiates-candy-coated-crime/
‘Hollywood Under The Knife’

https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/hollywood-under-knife-special/id466723106

Release date: 21 October 2011

Label: Disco Activisto Records

Distribution : Cargo UK

Images: Wolfgang Tillmans

Web: www.billieraymartin.com

Style : dark electronic pop

The Opiates is the latest project from the "queen of electronic soul" Billie Ray Martin, together with Norwegian musician Robert Solheim. Already dubbed by the press as ‘The Carpenters of Electro’, their album ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’ explores paths pioneered by the Chicago house and Detroit techno heroes, (not least Electribe 101), with the aim of taking things forward a step or two. Although Kraftwerk and Yazoo have been mentioned as influences, The Opiates’ unique brand of electronic music is not readily categorised. Theirs is a pursuit without compromise; a rare match of songwriting and cutting-edge beats and bleeps.

RAINY DAYS AND REMIXES : EP
Prior to the release of the album comes the digital release of the "Rainy Days and Remixes“ EP on 19 September. The EP includes exclusive remixes of three of the album’s songs by Kim Ann Foxman (Hercules and Love Affair), the legendary Chris and Cosey (Throbbing Gristle) and XHK, plus the single "Rainy Days and Saturdays“.

HOLLYWOOD UNDER THE KNIFE : CD & DIGITAL ALBUM
"Hollywood Under The Knife" is an album of real substance, both musically and visually. Artist Wolfgang Tillmans supplies nine previously unseen and unpublished images for the album cover and booklet. Each song on the album portrays another social 'misfit'. Characters who, trying to change their outer appearance or tweak their behaviour, believe they might just fit and ultimately face the consequences:

• The woman who employs strange sexual fantasies involving the TV series CSI, to keep the boredom of life at bay. (Candy Coated Crime)

• The transvestite (Candy Darling) who, although leading the wild life and preparing for a sex change, dreams of married life and a house in the suburbs. (Rainy Days and Saturdays)

• The young wannabe actress in L.A. who reflects on her facial surgery that has left her scarred and punctured with holes inside and out. (Anatomy of a Plastic Girl)

• The fifteen year old girl who wanted to be herself, but gets voted off the reality TV show 'Make Me A Supermodel' and who is so destroyed that she believes her life is over at the age of fifteen, because they told her it was. (Reality TV)

• The aging formerly rich daughter of a formerly famous actress who reminisces about her mother feeding her tranquilizers as a kid to keep her out of the way and who later goes through a path of plastic surgery, health foods, porn movie making...all to find out who she is. (Oprah's Book of the Month Club)

• The same woman who suffers from insomnia and tells the story how the demons of her soul and the demons of the night keep her awake. (Silent Comes the Nighttime)

• The man who dresses up in women's clothes (Roman Polanski in 'The Tenant') trying to fight the people he believes want to kill him by convincing him that he is Simone Choule, a woman who committed suicide in the apartment that he now rents. (I'm not Simone Choule)

An EP entitled ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’ was released in March 2008, accompanied by a much celebrated gig at London’s Rough Trade store, resulting in rave press reviews for both the gig and the EP. In Germany, the song ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’ made it into the Top 20 listeners choice charts when added to the playlist at Radio One.
Plans are afoot to stage a performance/play entitled ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’, a multimedia piece using Wolfgang’s images as well as multimedia elements, in the near future.

COVER AND BOOKLET :
Turner Prize winner Wolfgang Tillmans (famed for his sleeve design & videos for Pet Shop Boys, REM, Goldfrapp ...) is a long-time fan of Billie’s work. He has photographed her twice and chose her as ‘most influential woman’ as part of i-D Magazine’s 25th birthday issue and celebrations. For ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’, Wolfgang opened his entire archive and gave The Opiates unprecedented access to choose their favourite images.
Released by: Disco Activisto
Release date: Oct 21, 2011 ]]>
‘Hollywood Under The Knife’

https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/hollywood-under-knife-special/id466723106

Release date: 21 October 2011

Label: Disco Activisto Records

Distribution : Cargo UK

Images: Wolfgang Tillmans

Web: www.billieraymartin.com

Style : dark electronic pop

The Opiates is the latest project from the "queen of electronic soul" Billie Ray Martin, together with Norwegian musician Robert Solheim. Already dubbed by the press as ‘The Carpenters of Electro’, their album ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’ explores paths pioneered by the Chicago house and Detroit techno heroes, (not least Electribe 101), with the aim of taking things forward a step or two. Although Kraftwerk and Yazoo have been mentioned as influences, The Opiates’ unique brand of electronic music is not readily categorised. Theirs is a pursuit without compromise; a rare match of songwriting and cutting-edge beats and bleeps.

RAINY DAYS AND REMIXES : EP
Prior to the release of the album comes the digital release of the "Rainy Days and Remixes“ EP on 19 September. The EP includes exclusive remixes of three of the album’s songs by Kim Ann Foxman (Hercules and Love Affair), the legendary Chris and Cosey (Throbbing Gristle) and XHK, plus the single "Rainy Days and Saturdays“.

HOLLYWOOD UNDER THE KNIFE : CD & DIGITAL ALBUM
"Hollywood Under The Knife" is an album of real substance, both musically and visually. Artist Wolfgang Tillmans supplies nine previously unseen and unpublished images for the album cover and booklet. Each song on the album portrays another social 'misfit'. Characters who, trying to change their outer appearance or tweak their behaviour, believe they might just fit and ultimately face the consequences:

• The woman who employs strange sexual fantasies involving the TV series CSI, to keep the boredom of life at bay. (Candy Coated Crime)

• The transvestite (Candy Darling) who, although leading the wild life and preparing for a sex change, dreams of married life and a house in the suburbs. (Rainy Days and Saturdays)

• The young wannabe actress in L.A. who reflects on her facial surgery that has left her scarred and punctured with holes inside and out. (Anatomy of a Plastic Girl)

• The fifteen year old girl who wanted to be herself, but gets voted off the reality TV show 'Make Me A Supermodel' and who is so destroyed that she believes her life is over at the age of fifteen, because they told her it was. (Reality TV)

• The aging formerly rich daughter of a formerly famous actress who reminisces about her mother feeding her tranquilizers as a kid to keep her out of the way and who later goes through a path of plastic surgery, health foods, porn movie making...all to find out who she is. (Oprah's Book of the Month Club)

• The same woman who suffers from insomnia and tells the story how the demons of her soul and the demons of the night keep her awake. (Silent Comes the Nighttime)

• The man who dresses up in women's clothes (Roman Polanski in 'The Tenant') trying to fight the people he believes want to kill him by convincing him that he is Simone Choule, a woman who committed suicide in the apartment that he now rents. (I'm not Simone Choule)

An EP entitled ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’ was released in March 2008, accompanied by a much celebrated gig at London’s Rough Trade store, resulting in rave press reviews for both the gig and the EP. In Germany, the song ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’ made it into the Top 20 listeners choice charts when added to the playlist at Radio One.
Plans are afoot to stage a performance/play entitled ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’, a multimedia piece using Wolfgang’s images as well as multimedia elements, in the near future.

COVER AND BOOKLET :
Turner Prize winner Wolfgang Tillmans (famed for his sleeve design & videos for Pet Shop Boys, REM, Goldfrapp ...) is a long-time fan of Billie’s work. He has photographed her twice and chose her as ‘most influential woman’ as part of i-D Magazine’s 25th birthday issue and celebrations. For ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’, Wolfgang opened his entire archive and gave The Opiates unprecedented access to choose their favourite images.
Released by: Disco Activisto
Release date: Oct 21, 2011 ]]> 130606 no no Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0200 2011-10-17T00:00:00+02:00 4:57 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/the-opiates-dinah-and-the-beautiful-blue/
‘Hollywood Under The Knife’

https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/hollywood-under-knife-special/id466723106

Release date: 21 October 2011

Label: Disco Activisto Records

Distribution : Cargo UK

Images: Wolfgang Tillmans

Web: www.billieraymartin.com

Style : dark electronic pop

The Opiates is the latest project from the "queen of electronic soul" Billie Ray Martin, together with Norwegian musician Robert Solheim. Already dubbed by the press as ‘The Carpenters of Electro’, their album ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’ explores paths pioneered by the Chicago house and Detroit techno heroes, (not least Electribe 101), with the aim of taking things forward a step or two. Although Kraftwerk and Yazoo have been mentioned as influences, The Opiates’ unique brand of electronic music is not readily categorised. Theirs is a pursuit without compromise; a rare match of songwriting and cutting-edge beats and bleeps.

RAINY DAYS AND REMIXES : EP
Prior to the release of the album comes the digital release of the "Rainy Days and Remixes“ EP on 19 September. The EP includes exclusive remixes of three of the album’s songs by Kim Ann Foxman (Hercules and Love Affair), the legendary Chris and Cosey (Throbbing Gristle) and XHK, plus the single "Rainy Days and Saturdays“.

HOLLYWOOD UNDER THE KNIFE : CD & DIGITAL ALBUM
"Hollywood Under The Knife" is an album of real substance, both musically and visually. Artist Wolfgang Tillmans supplies nine previously unseen and unpublished images for the album cover and booklet. Each song on the album portrays another social 'misfit'. Characters who, trying to change their outer appearance or tweak their behaviour, believe they might just fit and ultimately face the consequences:

• The woman who employs strange sexual fantasies involving the TV series CSI, to keep the boredom of life at bay. (Candy Coated Crime)

• The transvestite (Candy Darling) who, although leading the wild life and preparing for a sex change, dreams of married life and a house in the suburbs. (Rainy Days and Saturdays)

• The young wannabe actress in L.A. who reflects on her facial surgery that has left her scarred and punctured with holes inside and out. (Anatomy of a Plastic Girl)

• The fifteen year old girl who wanted to be herself, but gets voted off the reality TV show 'Make Me A Supermodel' and who is so destroyed that she believes her life is over at the age of fifteen, because they told her it was. (Reality TV)

• The aging formerly rich daughter of a formerly famous actress who reminisces about her mother feeding her tranquilizers as a kid to keep her out of the way and who later goes through a path of plastic surgery, health foods, porn movie making...all to find out who she is. (Oprah's Book of the Month Club)

• The same woman who suffers from insomnia and tells the story how the demons of her soul and the demons of the night keep her awake. (Silent Comes the Nighttime)

• The man who dresses up in women's clothes (Roman Polanski in 'The Tenant') trying to fight the people he believes want to kill him by convincing him that he is Simone Choule, a woman who committed suicide in the apartment that he now rents. (I'm not Simone Choule)

An EP entitled ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’ was released in March 2008, accompanied by a much celebrated gig at London’s Rough Trade store, resulting in rave press reviews for both the gig and the EP. In Germany, the song ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’ made it into the Top 20 listeners choice charts when added to the playlist at Radio One.
Plans are afoot to stage a performance/play entitled ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’, a multimedia piece using Wolfgang’s images as well as multimedia elements, in the near future.

COVER AND BOOKLET :
Turner Prize winner Wolfgang Tillmans (famed for his sleeve design & videos for Pet Shop Boys, REM, Goldfrapp ...) is a long-time fan of Billie’s work. He has photographed her twice and chose her as ‘most influential woman’ as part of i-D Magazine’s 25th birthday issue and celebrations. For ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’, Wolfgang opened his entire archive and gave The Opiates unprecedented access to choose their favourite images.
Released by: Disco Activisto
Release date: Oct 21, 2011 ]]>
‘Hollywood Under The Knife’

https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/hollywood-under-knife-special/id466723106

Release date: 21 October 2011

Label: Disco Activisto Records

Distribution : Cargo UK

Images: Wolfgang Tillmans

Web: www.billieraymartin.com

Style : dark electronic pop

The Opiates is the latest project from the "queen of electronic soul" Billie Ray Martin, together with Norwegian musician Robert Solheim. Already dubbed by the press as ‘The Carpenters of Electro’, their album ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’ explores paths pioneered by the Chicago house and Detroit techno heroes, (not least Electribe 101), with the aim of taking things forward a step or two. Although Kraftwerk and Yazoo have been mentioned as influences, The Opiates’ unique brand of electronic music is not readily categorised. Theirs is a pursuit without compromise; a rare match of songwriting and cutting-edge beats and bleeps.

RAINY DAYS AND REMIXES : EP
Prior to the release of the album comes the digital release of the "Rainy Days and Remixes“ EP on 19 September. The EP includes exclusive remixes of three of the album’s songs by Kim Ann Foxman (Hercules and Love Affair), the legendary Chris and Cosey (Throbbing Gristle) and XHK, plus the single "Rainy Days and Saturdays“.

HOLLYWOOD UNDER THE KNIFE : CD & DIGITAL ALBUM
"Hollywood Under The Knife" is an album of real substance, both musically and visually. Artist Wolfgang Tillmans supplies nine previously unseen and unpublished images for the album cover and booklet. Each song on the album portrays another social 'misfit'. Characters who, trying to change their outer appearance or tweak their behaviour, believe they might just fit and ultimately face the consequences:

• The woman who employs strange sexual fantasies involving the TV series CSI, to keep the boredom of life at bay. (Candy Coated Crime)

• The transvestite (Candy Darling) who, although leading the wild life and preparing for a sex change, dreams of married life and a house in the suburbs. (Rainy Days and Saturdays)

• The young wannabe actress in L.A. who reflects on her facial surgery that has left her scarred and punctured with holes inside and out. (Anatomy of a Plastic Girl)

• The fifteen year old girl who wanted to be herself, but gets voted off the reality TV show 'Make Me A Supermodel' and who is so destroyed that she believes her life is over at the age of fifteen, because they told her it was. (Reality TV)

• The aging formerly rich daughter of a formerly famous actress who reminisces about her mother feeding her tranquilizers as a kid to keep her out of the way and who later goes through a path of plastic surgery, health foods, porn movie making...all to find out who she is. (Oprah's Book of the Month Club)

• The same woman who suffers from insomnia and tells the story how the demons of her soul and the demons of the night keep her awake. (Silent Comes the Nighttime)

• The man who dresses up in women's clothes (Roman Polanski in 'The Tenant') trying to fight the people he believes want to kill him by convincing him that he is Simone Choule, a woman who committed suicide in the apartment that he now rents. (I'm not Simone Choule)

An EP entitled ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’ was released in March 2008, accompanied by a much celebrated gig at London’s Rough Trade store, resulting in rave press reviews for both the gig and the EP. In Germany, the song ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’ made it into the Top 20 listeners choice charts when added to the playlist at Radio One.
Plans are afoot to stage a performance/play entitled ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’, a multimedia piece using Wolfgang’s images as well as multimedia elements, in the near future.

COVER AND BOOKLET :
Turner Prize winner Wolfgang Tillmans (famed for his sleeve design & videos for Pet Shop Boys, REM, Goldfrapp ...) is a long-time fan of Billie’s work. He has photographed her twice and chose her as ‘most influential woman’ as part of i-D Magazine’s 25th birthday issue and celebrations. For ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’, Wolfgang opened his entire archive and gave The Opiates unprecedented access to choose their favourite images.
Released by: Disco Activisto
Release date: Oct 21, 2011 ]]> 130592 no no Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0200 2011-10-17T00:00:00+02:00 5:46 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/the-opiates-im-not-simone-choule/
‘Hollywood Under The Knife’

https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/hollywood-under-knife-special/id466723106

Release date: 21 October 2011

Label: Disco Activisto Records

Distribution : Cargo UK

Images: Wolfgang Tillmans

Web: www.billieraymartin.com

Style : dark electronic pop



The Opiates is the latest project from the "queen of electronic soul" Billie Ray Martin, together with Norwegian musician Robert Solheim. Already dubbed by the press as ‘The Carpenters of Electro’, their album ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’ explores paths pioneered by the Chicago house and Detroit techno heroes, (not least Electribe 101), with the aim of taking things forward a step or two. Although Kraftwerk and Yazoo have been mentioned as influences, The Opiates’ unique brand of electronic music is not readily categorised. Theirs is a pursuit without compromise; a rare match of songwriting and cutting-edge beats and bleeps.


RAINY DAYS AND REMIXES : EP
Prior to the release of the album comes the digital release of the "Rainy Days and Remixes“ EP on 19 September. The EP includes exclusive remixes of three of the album’s songs by Kim Ann Foxman (Hercules and Love Affair), the legendary Chris and Cosey (Throbbing Gristle) and XHK, plus the single "Rainy Days and Saturdays“.


HOLLYWOOD UNDER THE KNIFE : CD & DIGITAL ALBUM
"Hollywood Under The Knife" is an album of real substance, both musically and visually. Artist Wolfgang Tillmans supplies nine previously unseen and unpublished images for the album cover and booklet. Each song on the album portrays another social 'misfit'. Characters who, trying to change their outer appearance or tweak their behaviour, believe they might just fit and ultimately face the consequences:

• The woman who employs strange sexual fantasies involving the TV series CSI, to keep the boredom of life at bay. (Candy Coated Crime)

• The transvestite (Candy Darling) who, although leading the wild life and preparing for a sex change, dreams of married life and a house in the suburbs. (Rainy Days and Saturdays)

• The young wannabe actress in L.A. who reflects on her facial surgery that has left her scarred and punctured with holes inside and out. (Anatomy of a Plastic Girl)

• The fifteen year old girl who wanted to be herself, but gets voted off the reality TV show 'Make Me A Supermodel' and who is so destroyed that she believes her life is over at the age of fifteen, because they told her it was. (Reality TV)

• The aging formerly rich daughter of a formerly famous actress who reminisces about her mother feeding her tranquilizers as a kid to keep her out of the way and who later goes through a path of plastic surgery, health foods, porn movie making...all to find out who she is. (Oprah's Book of the Month Club)

• The same woman who suffers from insomnia and tells the story how the demons of her soul and the demons of the night keep her awake. (Silent Comes the Nighttime)

• The man who dresses up in women's clothes (Roman Polanski in 'The Tenant') trying to fight the people he believes want to kill him by convincing him that he is Simone Choule, a woman who committed suicide in the apartment that he now rents. (I'm not Simone Choule)

An EP entitled ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’ was released in March 2008, accompanied by a much celebrated gig at London’s Rough Trade store, resulting in rave press reviews for both the gig and the EP. In Germany, the song ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’ made it into the Top 20 listeners choice charts when added to the playlist at Radio One.
Plans are afoot to stage a performance/play entitled ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’, a multimedia piece using Wolfgang’s images as well as multimedia elements, in the near future.


COVER AND BOOKLET :
Turner Prize winner Wolfgang Tillmans (famed for his sleeve design & videos for Pet Shop Boys, REM, Goldfrapp ...) is a long-time fan of Billie’s work. He has photographed her twice and chose her as ‘most influential woman’ as part of i-D Magazine’s 25th birthday issue and celebrations. For ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’, Wolfgang opened his entire archive and gave The Opiates unprecedented access to choose their favourite images.
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‘Hollywood Under The Knife’

https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/hollywood-under-knife-special/id466723106

Release date: 21 October 2011

Label: Disco Activisto Records

Distribution : Cargo UK

Images: Wolfgang Tillmans

Web: www.billieraymartin.com

Style : dark electronic pop



The Opiates is the latest project from the "queen of electronic soul" Billie Ray Martin, together with Norwegian musician Robert Solheim. Already dubbed by the press as ‘The Carpenters of Electro’, their album ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’ explores paths pioneered by the Chicago house and Detroit techno heroes, (not least Electribe 101), with the aim of taking things forward a step or two. Although Kraftwerk and Yazoo have been mentioned as influences, The Opiates’ unique brand of electronic music is not readily categorised. Theirs is a pursuit without compromise; a rare match of songwriting and cutting-edge beats and bleeps.


RAINY DAYS AND REMIXES : EP
Prior to the release of the album comes the digital release of the "Rainy Days and Remixes“ EP on 19 September. The EP includes exclusive remixes of three of the album’s songs by Kim Ann Foxman (Hercules and Love Affair), the legendary Chris and Cosey (Throbbing Gristle) and XHK, plus the single "Rainy Days and Saturdays“.


HOLLYWOOD UNDER THE KNIFE : CD & DIGITAL ALBUM
"Hollywood Under The Knife" is an album of real substance, both musically and visually. Artist Wolfgang Tillmans supplies nine previously unseen and unpublished images for the album cover and booklet. Each song on the album portrays another social 'misfit'. Characters who, trying to change their outer appearance or tweak their behaviour, believe they might just fit and ultimately face the consequences:

• The woman who employs strange sexual fantasies involving the TV series CSI, to keep the boredom of life at bay. (Candy Coated Crime)

• The transvestite (Candy Darling) who, although leading the wild life and preparing for a sex change, dreams of married life and a house in the suburbs. (Rainy Days and Saturdays)

• The young wannabe actress in L.A. who reflects on her facial surgery that has left her scarred and punctured with holes inside and out. (Anatomy of a Plastic Girl)

• The fifteen year old girl who wanted to be herself, but gets voted off the reality TV show 'Make Me A Supermodel' and who is so destroyed that she believes her life is over at the age of fifteen, because they told her it was. (Reality TV)

• The aging formerly rich daughter of a formerly famous actress who reminisces about her mother feeding her tranquilizers as a kid to keep her out of the way and who later goes through a path of plastic surgery, health foods, porn movie making...all to find out who she is. (Oprah's Book of the Month Club)

• The same woman who suffers from insomnia and tells the story how the demons of her soul and the demons of the night keep her awake. (Silent Comes the Nighttime)

• The man who dresses up in women's clothes (Roman Polanski in 'The Tenant') trying to fight the people he believes want to kill him by convincing him that he is Simone Choule, a woman who committed suicide in the apartment that he now rents. (I'm not Simone Choule)

An EP entitled ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’ was released in March 2008, accompanied by a much celebrated gig at London’s Rough Trade store, resulting in rave press reviews for both the gig and the EP. In Germany, the song ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’ made it into the Top 20 listeners choice charts when added to the playlist at Radio One.
Plans are afoot to stage a performance/play entitled ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’, a multimedia piece using Wolfgang’s images as well as multimedia elements, in the near future.


COVER AND BOOKLET :
Turner Prize winner Wolfgang Tillmans (famed for his sleeve design & videos for Pet Shop Boys, REM, Goldfrapp ...) is a long-time fan of Billie’s work. He has photographed her twice and chose her as ‘most influential woman’ as part of i-D Magazine’s 25th birthday issue and celebrations. For ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’, Wolfgang opened his entire archive and gave The Opiates unprecedented access to choose their favourite images.
]]> 130532 no no Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0200 2011-10-17T00:00:00+02:00 5:36 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/the-opiates-oprahs-book-of-the-month-club-part-two/
‘Hollywood Under The Knife’

https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/hollywood-under-knife-special/id466723106

Release date: 21 October 2011

Label: Disco Activisto Records

Distribution : Cargo UK

Images: Wolfgang Tillmans

Web: www.billieraymartin.com

Style : dark electronic pop

The Opiates is the latest project from the "queen of electronic soul" Billie Ray Martin, together with Norwegian musician Robert Solheim. Already dubbed by the press as ‘The Carpenters of Electro’, their album ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’ explores paths pioneered by the Chicago house and Detroit techno heroes, (not least Electribe 101), with the aim of taking things forward a step or two. Although Kraftwerk and Yazoo have been mentioned as influences, The Opiates’ unique brand of electronic music is not readily categorised. Theirs is a pursuit without compromise; a rare match of songwriting and cutting-edge beats and bleeps.

RAINY DAYS AND REMIXES : EP
Prior to the release of the album comes the digital release of the "Rainy Days and Remixes“ EP on 19 September. The EP includes exclusive remixes of three of the album’s songs by Kim Ann Foxman (Hercules and Love Affair), the legendary Chris and Cosey (Throbbing Gristle) and XHK, plus the single "Rainy Days and Saturdays“.

HOLLYWOOD UNDER THE KNIFE : CD & DIGITAL ALBUM
"Hollywood Under The Knife" is an album of real substance, both musically and visually. Artist Wolfgang Tillmans supplies nine previously unseen and unpublished images for the album cover and booklet. Each song on the album portrays another social 'misfit'. Characters who, trying to change their outer appearance or tweak their behaviour, believe they might just fit and ultimately face the consequences:

• The woman who employs strange sexual fantasies involving the TV series CSI, to keep the boredom of life at bay. (Candy Coated Crime)

• The transvestite (Candy Darling) who, although leading the wild life and preparing for a sex change, dreams of married life and a house in the suburbs. (Rainy Days and Saturdays)

• The young wannabe actress in L.A. who reflects on her facial surgery that has left her scarred and punctured with holes inside and out. (Anatomy of a Plastic Girl)

• The fifteen year old girl who wanted to be herself, but gets voted off the reality TV show 'Make Me A Supermodel' and who is so destroyed that she believes her life is over at the age of fifteen, because they told her it was. (Reality TV)

• The aging formerly rich daughter of a formerly famous actress who reminisces about her mother feeding her tranquilizers as a kid to keep her out of the way and who later goes through a path of plastic surgery, health foods, porn movie making...all to find out who she is. (Oprah's Book of the Month Club)

• The same woman who suffers from insomnia and tells the story how the demons of her soul and the demons of the night keep her awake. (Silent Comes the Nighttime)

• The man who dresses up in women's clothes (Roman Polanski in 'The Tenant') trying to fight the people he believes want to kill him by convincing him that he is Simone Choule, a woman who committed suicide in the apartment that he now rents. (I'm not Simone Choule)

An EP entitled ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’ was released in March 2008, accompanied by a much celebrated gig at London’s Rough Trade store, resulting in rave press reviews for both the gig and the EP. In Germany, the song ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’ made it into the Top 20 listeners choice charts when added to the playlist at Radio One.
Plans are afoot to stage a performance/play entitled ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’, a multimedia piece using Wolfgang’s images as well as multimedia elements, in the near future.

COVER AND BOOKLET :
Turner Prize winner Wolfgang Tillmans (famed for his sleeve design & videos for Pet Shop Boys, REM, Goldfrapp ...) is a long-time fan of Billie’s work. He has photographed her twice and chose her as ‘most influential woman’ as part of i-D Magazine’s 25th birthday issue and celebrations. For ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’, Wolfgang opened his entire archive and gave The Opiates unprecedented access to choose their favourite images. ]]>
‘Hollywood Under The Knife’

https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/hollywood-under-knife-special/id466723106

Release date: 21 October 2011

Label: Disco Activisto Records

Distribution : Cargo UK

Images: Wolfgang Tillmans

Web: www.billieraymartin.com

Style : dark electronic pop

The Opiates is the latest project from the "queen of electronic soul" Billie Ray Martin, together with Norwegian musician Robert Solheim. Already dubbed by the press as ‘The Carpenters of Electro’, their album ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’ explores paths pioneered by the Chicago house and Detroit techno heroes, (not least Electribe 101), with the aim of taking things forward a step or two. Although Kraftwerk and Yazoo have been mentioned as influences, The Opiates’ unique brand of electronic music is not readily categorised. Theirs is a pursuit without compromise; a rare match of songwriting and cutting-edge beats and bleeps.

RAINY DAYS AND REMIXES : EP
Prior to the release of the album comes the digital release of the "Rainy Days and Remixes“ EP on 19 September. The EP includes exclusive remixes of three of the album’s songs by Kim Ann Foxman (Hercules and Love Affair), the legendary Chris and Cosey (Throbbing Gristle) and XHK, plus the single "Rainy Days and Saturdays“.

HOLLYWOOD UNDER THE KNIFE : CD & DIGITAL ALBUM
"Hollywood Under The Knife" is an album of real substance, both musically and visually. Artist Wolfgang Tillmans supplies nine previously unseen and unpublished images for the album cover and booklet. Each song on the album portrays another social 'misfit'. Characters who, trying to change their outer appearance or tweak their behaviour, believe they might just fit and ultimately face the consequences:

• The woman who employs strange sexual fantasies involving the TV series CSI, to keep the boredom of life at bay. (Candy Coated Crime)

• The transvestite (Candy Darling) who, although leading the wild life and preparing for a sex change, dreams of married life and a house in the suburbs. (Rainy Days and Saturdays)

• The young wannabe actress in L.A. who reflects on her facial surgery that has left her scarred and punctured with holes inside and out. (Anatomy of a Plastic Girl)

• The fifteen year old girl who wanted to be herself, but gets voted off the reality TV show 'Make Me A Supermodel' and who is so destroyed that she believes her life is over at the age of fifteen, because they told her it was. (Reality TV)

• The aging formerly rich daughter of a formerly famous actress who reminisces about her mother feeding her tranquilizers as a kid to keep her out of the way and who later goes through a path of plastic surgery, health foods, porn movie making...all to find out who she is. (Oprah's Book of the Month Club)

• The same woman who suffers from insomnia and tells the story how the demons of her soul and the demons of the night keep her awake. (Silent Comes the Nighttime)

• The man who dresses up in women's clothes (Roman Polanski in 'The Tenant') trying to fight the people he believes want to kill him by convincing him that he is Simone Choule, a woman who committed suicide in the apartment that he now rents. (I'm not Simone Choule)

An EP entitled ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’ was released in March 2008, accompanied by a much celebrated gig at London’s Rough Trade store, resulting in rave press reviews for both the gig and the EP. In Germany, the song ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’ made it into the Top 20 listeners choice charts when added to the playlist at Radio One.
Plans are afoot to stage a performance/play entitled ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’, a multimedia piece using Wolfgang’s images as well as multimedia elements, in the near future.

COVER AND BOOKLET :
Turner Prize winner Wolfgang Tillmans (famed for his sleeve design & videos for Pet Shop Boys, REM, Goldfrapp ...) is a long-time fan of Billie’s work. He has photographed her twice and chose her as ‘most influential woman’ as part of i-D Magazine’s 25th birthday issue and celebrations. For ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’, Wolfgang opened his entire archive and gave The Opiates unprecedented access to choose their favourite images. ]]> 130608 no no Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0200 2011-10-17T00:00:00+02:00 6:19 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/the-opiates-album-hollywood-under-the-knife-minimix/
‘Hollywood Under The Knife’

Release date: 17 October 2011

Label: Disco Activisto Records

Distribution : Cargo UK

Images: Wolfgang Tillmans

Web: www.billieraymartin.com

Style : dark electronic pop



The Opiates is the latest project from the "queen of electronic soul" Billie Ray Martin, together with Norwegian musician Robert Solheim. Already dubbed by the press as ‘The Carpenters of Electro’, their album ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’ explores paths pioneered by the Chicago house and Detroit techno heroes, (not least Electribe 101), with the aim of taking things forward a step or two. Although Kraftwerk and Yazoo have been mentioned as influences, The Opiates’ unique brand of electronic music is not readily categorised. Theirs is a pursuit without compromise; a rare match of songwriting and cutting-edge beats and bleeps.


RAINY DAYS AND REMIXES : EP
Prior to the release of the album comes the digital release of the "Rainy Days and Remixes“ EP on 19 September. The EP includes exclusive remixes of three of the album’s songs by Kim Ann Foxman (Hercules and Love Affair), the legendary Chris and Cosey (Throbbing Gristle) and XHK, plus the single "Rainy Days and Saturdays“.


HOLLYWOOD UNDER THE KNIFE : CD & DIGITAL ALBUM
"Hollywood Under The Knife" is an album of real substance, both musically and visually. Artist Wolfgang Tillmans supplies nine previously unseen and unpublished images for the album cover and booklet. Each song on the album portrays another social 'misfit'. Characters who, trying to change their outer appearance or tweak their behaviour, believe they might just fit and ultimately face the consequences:

• The woman who employs strange sexual fantasies involving the TV series CSI, to keep the boredom of life at bay. (Candy Coated Crime)

• The transvestite (Candy Darling) who, although leading the wild life and preparing for a sex change, dreams of married life and a house in the suburbs. (Rainy Days and Saturdays)

• The young wannabe actress in L.A. who reflects on her facial surgery that has left her scarred and punctured with holes inside and out. (Anatomy of a Plastic Girl)

• The fifteen year old girl who wanted to be herself, but gets voted off the reality TV show 'Make Me A Supermodel' and who is so destroyed that she believes her life is over at the age of fifteen, because they told her it was. (Reality TV)

• The aging formerly rich daughter of a formerly famous actress who reminisces about her mother feeding her tranquilizers as a kid to keep her out of the way and who later goes through a path of plastic surgery, health foods, porn movie making...all to find out who she is. (Oprah's Book of the Month Club)

• The same woman who suffers from insomnia and tells the story how the demons of her soul and the demons of the night keep her awake. (Silent Comes the Nighttime)

• The man who dresses up in women's clothes (Roman Polanski in 'The Tenant') trying to fight the people he believes want to kill him by convincing him that he is Simone Choule, a woman who committed suicide in the apartment that he now rents. (I'm not Simone Choule)

An EP entitled ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’ was released in March 2008, accompanied by a much celebrated gig at London’s Rough Trade store, resulting in rave press reviews for both the gig and the EP. In Germany, the song ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’ made it into the Top 20 listeners choice charts when added to the playlist at Radio One.
Plans are afoot to stage a performance/play entitled ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’, a multimedia piece using Wolfgang’s images as well as multimedia elements, in the near future.


COVER AND BOOKLET :
Turner Prize winner Wolfgang Tillmans (famed for his sleeve design & videos for Pet Shop Boys, REM, Goldfrapp ...) is a long-time fan of Billie’s work. He has photographed her twice and chose her as ‘most influential woman’ as part of i-D Magazine’s 25th birthday issue and celebrations. For ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’, Wolfgang opened his entire archive and gave The Opiates unprecedented access to choose their favourite images.
]]>
‘Hollywood Under The Knife’

Release date: 17 October 2011

Label: Disco Activisto Records

Distribution : Cargo UK

Images: Wolfgang Tillmans

Web: www.billieraymartin.com

Style : dark electronic pop



The Opiates is the latest project from the "queen of electronic soul" Billie Ray Martin, together with Norwegian musician Robert Solheim. Already dubbed by the press as ‘The Carpenters of Electro’, their album ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’ explores paths pioneered by the Chicago house and Detroit techno heroes, (not least Electribe 101), with the aim of taking things forward a step or two. Although Kraftwerk and Yazoo have been mentioned as influences, The Opiates’ unique brand of electronic music is not readily categorised. Theirs is a pursuit without compromise; a rare match of songwriting and cutting-edge beats and bleeps.


RAINY DAYS AND REMIXES : EP
Prior to the release of the album comes the digital release of the "Rainy Days and Remixes“ EP on 19 September. The EP includes exclusive remixes of three of the album’s songs by Kim Ann Foxman (Hercules and Love Affair), the legendary Chris and Cosey (Throbbing Gristle) and XHK, plus the single "Rainy Days and Saturdays“.


HOLLYWOOD UNDER THE KNIFE : CD & DIGITAL ALBUM
"Hollywood Under The Knife" is an album of real substance, both musically and visually. Artist Wolfgang Tillmans supplies nine previously unseen and unpublished images for the album cover and booklet. Each song on the album portrays another social 'misfit'. Characters who, trying to change their outer appearance or tweak their behaviour, believe they might just fit and ultimately face the consequences:

• The woman who employs strange sexual fantasies involving the TV series CSI, to keep the boredom of life at bay. (Candy Coated Crime)

• The transvestite (Candy Darling) who, although leading the wild life and preparing for a sex change, dreams of married life and a house in the suburbs. (Rainy Days and Saturdays)

• The young wannabe actress in L.A. who reflects on her facial surgery that has left her scarred and punctured with holes inside and out. (Anatomy of a Plastic Girl)

• The fifteen year old girl who wanted to be herself, but gets voted off the reality TV show 'Make Me A Supermodel' and who is so destroyed that she believes her life is over at the age of fifteen, because they told her it was. (Reality TV)

• The aging formerly rich daughter of a formerly famous actress who reminisces about her mother feeding her tranquilizers as a kid to keep her out of the way and who later goes through a path of plastic surgery, health foods, porn movie making...all to find out who she is. (Oprah's Book of the Month Club)

• The same woman who suffers from insomnia and tells the story how the demons of her soul and the demons of the night keep her awake. (Silent Comes the Nighttime)

• The man who dresses up in women's clothes (Roman Polanski in 'The Tenant') trying to fight the people he believes want to kill him by convincing him that he is Simone Choule, a woman who committed suicide in the apartment that he now rents. (I'm not Simone Choule)

An EP entitled ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’ was released in March 2008, accompanied by a much celebrated gig at London’s Rough Trade store, resulting in rave press reviews for both the gig and the EP. In Germany, the song ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’ made it into the Top 20 listeners choice charts when added to the playlist at Radio One.
Plans are afoot to stage a performance/play entitled ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’, a multimedia piece using Wolfgang’s images as well as multimedia elements, in the near future.


COVER AND BOOKLET :
Turner Prize winner Wolfgang Tillmans (famed for his sleeve design & videos for Pet Shop Boys, REM, Goldfrapp ...) is a long-time fan of Billie’s work. He has photographed her twice and chose her as ‘most influential woman’ as part of i-D Magazine’s 25th birthday issue and celebrations. For ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’, Wolfgang opened his entire archive and gave The Opiates unprecedented access to choose their favourite images.
]]> 130611 no no Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0200 2011-10-17T00:00:00+02:00 13:14 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/the-opiates-rainy-days-and-saturdays-radio-edit/
“Rainy Days and Remixes EP”

http://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/album/rainy-days-and-remixes-ep

Digital Release Date: 19 September 2011

Label: Disco Activisto Records

VINCE WATSON ‘Rainy Days and Saturdays’ is the best track for sure.

Omid 16B– Great music!

PAUL MOGG Love it…

Rob Mello:Love the name of this project. It put a smile on my face.
On this ep "Candy coated crime" works best for me.
Love the song and the vibe of the backing track works well with the vocal.

TJ / Igloo Mag:’’The mellow and melancholy here are rich and thick and desolate. A great big welcome ! back to Billie Ray Martin who is in superb voice, and the Opiates have certainly bathed the room in pales whades of white to gray, whispers of tonal shifts. There's far more to be adored and explored.’’

Robert Owens: ‘’Thank you Billie Ray Martin, I've loved her voice and work for many years, love the tracks and mixes on this new EP, all the best.....’’


Images: Wolfgang Tillmans

Web: www.billieraymartin.com

Style: dark electronic pop

The Opiates is the latest project from the "queen of electronic soul" Billie Ray Martin, together with Norwegian musician Robert Solheim.

The long awaited taster of remixes and first single from the forthcoming album ‘Hollywood Under the Knife’. For The Opiates, these remixes by such greats as Hercules and Love Affair’s Kim Ann Foxman, as well as all-time heroes Chris and Cosey of Throbbing Gristle, are a dream come true. The results are magnetic. The XHK Mix with its hard Dubstep flavour completes the picture and gives the song a completely new voice and vibe.

With the single ‘Rainy Days and Saturdays’, The Opiates live up to their ‘Carpenters of Electro’ title and hope to conquer airwaves and underground alike. It’s a song about the transvestite Candy Darling who, although leading the wild life and preparing for a sex change, dreams of married life and a house in the suburbs.

The album ‘Hollywood Under the Knife’ will be released on Disco Activisto Records both digitally and as a CD on 17 October, featuring nine unreleased images by Turner Prize winning artist Wolfgang Tillmans, who opened his entire archive, granting The Opiates free choice of images.

Tracklist:
Rainy Days and Saturdays (Radio Edit)
Jalousies and Jealousies (Kim Ann Foxman Remix)
Anatomy of a Plastic Girl (Chris & Cosey Remix)
Silent Comes the Nighttime (XHK Stepford Step Off Mix)

Quote:
“The Carpenters of electro… dark, electronic pop: scalpel-sharp lyrical observations juxtaposed with shimmering production to magnetic effect.”
Ben Murphy, DJ Magazine (U.K. / worldwide)]]>
“Rainy Days and Remixes EP”

http://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/album/rainy-days-and-remixes-ep

Digital Release Date: 19 September 2011

Label: Disco Activisto Records

VINCE WATSON ‘Rainy Days and Saturdays’ is the best track for sure.

Omid 16B– Great music!

PAUL MOGG Love it…

Rob Mello:Love the name of this project. It put a smile on my face.
On this ep "Candy coated crime" works best for me.
Love the song and the vibe of the backing track works well with the vocal.

TJ / Igloo Mag:’’The mellow and melancholy here are rich and thick and desolate. A great big welcome ! back to Billie Ray Martin who is in superb voice, and the Opiates have certainly bathed the room in pales whades of white to gray, whispers of tonal shifts. There's far more to be adored and explored.’’

Robert Owens: ‘’Thank you Billie Ray Martin, I've loved her voice and work for many years, love the tracks and mixes on this new EP, all the best.....’’


Images: Wolfgang Tillmans

Web: www.billieraymartin.com

Style: dark electronic pop

The Opiates is the latest project from the "queen of electronic soul" Billie Ray Martin, together with Norwegian musician Robert Solheim.

The long awaited taster of remixes and first single from the forthcoming album ‘Hollywood Under the Knife’. For The Opiates, these remixes by such greats as Hercules and Love Affair’s Kim Ann Foxman, as well as all-time heroes Chris and Cosey of Throbbing Gristle, are a dream come true. The results are magnetic. The XHK Mix with its hard Dubstep flavour completes the picture and gives the song a completely new voice and vibe.

With the single ‘Rainy Days and Saturdays’, The Opiates live up to their ‘Carpenters of Electro’ title and hope to conquer airwaves and underground alike. It’s a song about the transvestite Candy Darling who, although leading the wild life and preparing for a sex change, dreams of married life and a house in the suburbs.

The album ‘Hollywood Under the Knife’ will be released on Disco Activisto Records both digitally and as a CD on 17 October, featuring nine unreleased images by Turner Prize winning artist Wolfgang Tillmans, who opened his entire archive, granting The Opiates free choice of images.

Tracklist:
Rainy Days and Saturdays (Radio Edit)
Jalousies and Jealousies (Kim Ann Foxman Remix)
Anatomy of a Plastic Girl (Chris & Cosey Remix)
Silent Comes the Nighttime (XHK Stepford Step Off Mix)

Quote:
“The Carpenters of electro… dark, electronic pop: scalpel-sharp lyrical observations juxtaposed with shimmering production to magnetic effect.”
Ben Murphy, DJ Magazine (U.K. / worldwide)]]> 130622 no no Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0200 2011-09-18T00:00:00+02:00 4:20 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/the-opiates-anatomy-of-a-plastic-girl-chris-cosey-remix/
“Rainy Days and Remixes EP”

https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/rainy-days-and-remixes-ep/id455967935

Digital Release Date: 19 September 2011

Label: Disco Activisto Records

SETH TROXLER I f*cking love Chris and Cosey - great mix.

Nico De Ceglia (BBC Radio 1) “Billie does it again (and Robert). An elegant package of mixes for the new EP. Chris and Cosey and Kim Ann Foxman works some magic on her vocals."

Larry T: ‘’AMAZING! Hollywood sad-core at its finest! and all the right names...Chris and Cosey!!! she outdid herself!!! Best work in a while!!!

KONE-R
GINGLIK / SPANNERED.ORG / UNCHARTED AUDIO / FUTURE MUSIC RADIO (INTERNET)
The Yazoo comparison is very much a valid one! It's nice stuff, not entirely sure it's my bag though. The Chris & Cosey remix is my favourite of the bunch, might give this a spin on my radio show on Wednesday if I get time to squeeze it in.

Global Dance Session Radio:’’Not for Global Dance Session, but brilliant music all the same !’’

Images: Wolfgang Tillmans

Web: www.billieraymartin.com

Style: dark electronic pop

The Opiates is the latest project from the "queen of electronic soul" Billie Ray Martin, together with Norwegian musician Robert Solheim.

The long awaited taster of remixes and first single from the forthcoming album ‘Hollywood Under the Knife’. For The Opiates, these remixes by such greats as Hercules and Love Affair’s Kim Ann Foxman, as well as all-time heroes Chris and Cosey of Throbbing Gristle, are a dream come true. The results are magnetic. The XHK Mix with its hard Dubstep flavour completes the picture and gives the song a completely new voice and vibe.

With the single ‘Rainy Days and Saturdays’, The Opiates live up to their ‘Carpenters of Electro’ title and hope to conquer airwaves and underground alike. It’s a song about the transvestite Candy Darling who, although leading the wild life and preparing for a sex change, dreams of married life and a house in the suburbs.

The album ‘Hollywood Under the Knife’ will be released on Disco Activisto Records both digitally and as a CD on 17 October, featuring nine unreleased images by Turner Prize winning artist Wolfgang Tillmans, who opened his entire archive, granting The Opiates free choice of images.

Tracklist:
Rainy Days and Saturdays (Radio Edit)
Jalousies and Jealousies (Kim Ann Foxman Remix)
Anatomy of a Plastic Girl (Chris & Cosey Remix)
Silent Comes the Nighttime (XHK Stepford Step Off Mix)

Quote:
“The Carpenters of electro… dark, electronic pop: scalpel-sharp lyrical observations juxtaposed with shimmering production to magnetic effect.”
Ben Murphy, DJ Magazine (U.K. / worldwide)]]>
“Rainy Days and Remixes EP”

https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/rainy-days-and-remixes-ep/id455967935

Digital Release Date: 19 September 2011

Label: Disco Activisto Records

SETH TROXLER I f*cking love Chris and Cosey - great mix.

Nico De Ceglia (BBC Radio 1) “Billie does it again (and Robert). An elegant package of mixes for the new EP. Chris and Cosey and Kim Ann Foxman works some magic on her vocals."

Larry T: ‘’AMAZING! Hollywood sad-core at its finest! and all the right names...Chris and Cosey!!! she outdid herself!!! Best work in a while!!!

KONE-R
GINGLIK / SPANNERED.ORG / UNCHARTED AUDIO / FUTURE MUSIC RADIO (INTERNET)
The Yazoo comparison is very much a valid one! It's nice stuff, not entirely sure it's my bag though. The Chris & Cosey remix is my favourite of the bunch, might give this a spin on my radio show on Wednesday if I get time to squeeze it in.

Global Dance Session Radio:’’Not for Global Dance Session, but brilliant music all the same !’’

Images: Wolfgang Tillmans

Web: www.billieraymartin.com

Style: dark electronic pop

The Opiates is the latest project from the "queen of electronic soul" Billie Ray Martin, together with Norwegian musician Robert Solheim.

The long awaited taster of remixes and first single from the forthcoming album ‘Hollywood Under the Knife’. For The Opiates, these remixes by such greats as Hercules and Love Affair’s Kim Ann Foxman, as well as all-time heroes Chris and Cosey of Throbbing Gristle, are a dream come true. The results are magnetic. The XHK Mix with its hard Dubstep flavour completes the picture and gives the song a completely new voice and vibe.

With the single ‘Rainy Days and Saturdays’, The Opiates live up to their ‘Carpenters of Electro’ title and hope to conquer airwaves and underground alike. It’s a song about the transvestite Candy Darling who, although leading the wild life and preparing for a sex change, dreams of married life and a house in the suburbs.

The album ‘Hollywood Under the Knife’ will be released on Disco Activisto Records both digitally and as a CD on 17 October, featuring nine unreleased images by Turner Prize winning artist Wolfgang Tillmans, who opened his entire archive, granting The Opiates free choice of images.

Tracklist:
Rainy Days and Saturdays (Radio Edit)
Jalousies and Jealousies (Kim Ann Foxman Remix)
Anatomy of a Plastic Girl (Chris & Cosey Remix)
Silent Comes the Nighttime (XHK Stepford Step Off Mix)

Quote:
“The Carpenters of electro… dark, electronic pop: scalpel-sharp lyrical observations juxtaposed with shimmering production to magnetic effect.”
Ben Murphy, DJ Magazine (U.K. / worldwide)]]> 130617 no no Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0200 2011-09-18T00:00:00+02:00 4:57 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/the-opiates-jalousies-and-jealousies-kim-ann-foxman-remix/
Billie

Snuff Crew: ‘’We loooove this! Full support from Snuff Crew! :-)"
http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/snuffcrew/top10?chart=77165

Aeroplane: (Vito De Luca ): I love the general atmosphere and the Kim Ann Fix is really cool !
Vito from aeroplane is using the Kim Ann Foxman remix in his new dj set

TIM SWEENEY (Beats in space radio WNYU 89.1 FM)/N.Y.,USA: ''Kim Ann's mix is the one for me!''

Acid Jacks: ‘’Nice tracks... I like that Candy Coated track and the Jalousies and Jealousies is pretty cool.’’

Philipp Wolgast (Igloo Records, from Resonance): ‘’Interesting mixture of styles, pretty much enjoy the Kim Ann Foxman remix.. thanx, will play.’’

Mandy Jordan: ‘’The Remix of Kim Ann Foxmann is super nice.. thx.’’


The Opiates

“Rainy Days and Remixes EP”

Digital Release Date: 19 September 2011

Label: Disco Activisto Records

Images: Wolfgang Tillmans

Web: www.billieraymartin.com

Style: dark electronic pop

The Opiates is the latest project from the "queen of electronic soul" Billie Ray Martin, together with Norwegian musician Robert Solheim.

The long awaited taster of remixes and first single from the forthcoming album ‘Hollywood Under the Knife’. For The Opiates, these remixes by such greats as Hercules and Love Affair’s Kim Ann Foxman, as well as all-time heroes Chris and Cosey of Throbbing Gristle, are a dream come true. The results are magnetic. The XHK Mix with its hard Dubstep flavour completes the picture and gives the song a completely new voice and vibe.

With the single ‘Rainy Days and Saturdays’, The Opiates live up to their ‘Carpenters of Electro’ title and hope to conquer airwaves and underground alike. It’s a song about the transvestite Candy Darling who, although leading the wild life and preparing for a sex change, dreams of married life and a house in the suburbs.

The album ‘Hollywood Under the Knife’ will be released on Disco Activisto Records both digitally and as a CD on 17 October, featuring nine unreleased images by Turner Prize winning artist Wolfgang Tillmans, who opened his entire archive, granting The Opiates free choice of images.

Tracklist:
Rainy Days and Saturdays (Radio Edit)
Jalousies and Jealousies (Kim Ann Foxman Remix)
Anatomy of a Plastic Girl (Chris & Cosey Remix)
Silent Comes the Nighttime (XHK Stepford Step Off Mix)

Quote:
“The Carpenters of electro… dark, electronic pop: scalpel-sharp lyrical observations juxtaposed with shimmering production to magnetic effect.”
Ben Murphy, DJ Magazine (U.K. / worldwide)]]>
Billie

Snuff Crew: ‘’We loooove this! Full support from Snuff Crew! :-)"
http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/snuffcrew/top10?chart=77165

Aeroplane: (Vito De Luca ): I love the general atmosphere and the Kim Ann Fix is really cool !
Vito from aeroplane is using the Kim Ann Foxman remix in his new dj set

TIM SWEENEY (Beats in space radio WNYU 89.1 FM)/N.Y.,USA: ''Kim Ann's mix is the one for me!''

Acid Jacks: ‘’Nice tracks... I like that Candy Coated track and the Jalousies and Jealousies is pretty cool.’’

Philipp Wolgast (Igloo Records, from Resonance): ‘’Interesting mixture of styles, pretty much enjoy the Kim Ann Foxman remix.. thanx, will play.’’

Mandy Jordan: ‘’The Remix of Kim Ann Foxmann is super nice.. thx.’’


The Opiates

“Rainy Days and Remixes EP”

Digital Release Date: 19 September 2011

Label: Disco Activisto Records

Images: Wolfgang Tillmans

Web: www.billieraymartin.com

Style: dark electronic pop

The Opiates is the latest project from the "queen of electronic soul" Billie Ray Martin, together with Norwegian musician Robert Solheim.

The long awaited taster of remixes and first single from the forthcoming album ‘Hollywood Under the Knife’. For The Opiates, these remixes by such greats as Hercules and Love Affair’s Kim Ann Foxman, as well as all-time heroes Chris and Cosey of Throbbing Gristle, are a dream come true. The results are magnetic. The XHK Mix with its hard Dubstep flavour completes the picture and gives the song a completely new voice and vibe.

With the single ‘Rainy Days and Saturdays’, The Opiates live up to their ‘Carpenters of Electro’ title and hope to conquer airwaves and underground alike. It’s a song about the transvestite Candy Darling who, although leading the wild life and preparing for a sex change, dreams of married life and a house in the suburbs.

The album ‘Hollywood Under the Knife’ will be released on Disco Activisto Records both digitally and as a CD on 17 October, featuring nine unreleased images by Turner Prize winning artist Wolfgang Tillmans, who opened his entire archive, granting The Opiates free choice of images.

Tracklist:
Rainy Days and Saturdays (Radio Edit)
Jalousies and Jealousies (Kim Ann Foxman Remix)
Anatomy of a Plastic Girl (Chris & Cosey Remix)
Silent Comes the Nighttime (XHK Stepford Step Off Mix)

Quote:
“The Carpenters of electro… dark, electronic pop: scalpel-sharp lyrical observations juxtaposed with shimmering production to magnetic effect.”
Ben Murphy, DJ Magazine (U.K. / worldwide)]]> 130618 no no Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0200 2011-09-18T00:00:00+02:00 7:23 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/the-opiates-silent-comes-the-nighttime-again-xhk-stepford-step-off-mix/
“Rainy Days and Remixes EP”

https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/rainy-days-and-remixes-ep/id455967935

Digital Release Date: 19 September 2011

Label: Disco Activisto Records

Dualism (Numbolic - Maschine - Revolver Canada - Archipel):’’Silent comes the nighttime is the one for us.. nice vocal - thanks for sending.’’

ANN D. -HEADCHARGE / BCR RADIO 103.1FM (SHEFFIELD, UK)
So many influences here. It’s like a journey through music from the 70's. I’ll definitely be using the XHK remix.

HIGUCHI (Miniload Records, GD Seventy Eight Music): ‘’Amazing EP...Congrats’’


NORMAN NODGE -BERGHAIN / OSTGUT TON
Will not be easy to embed in my sets, but I really like especially the XHK Stepford Step Off mix and will try it in the late hours.

Also played by ; Claude Von Stroke, Fred Paris, Francesco Farfa,Markus Schulz,Anderson Noise and many more ….

Images: Wolfgang Tillmans

Web: www.billieraymartin.com

Style: dark electronic pop

The Opiates is the latest project from the "queen of electronic soul" Billie Ray Martin, together with Norwegian musician Robert Solheim.

The long awaited taster of remixes and first single from the forthcoming album ‘Hollywood Under the Knife’. For The Opiates, these remixes by such greats as Hercules and Love Affair’s Kim Ann Foxman, as well as all-time heroes Chris and Cosey of Throbbing Gristle, are a dream come true. The results are magnetic. The XHK Mix with its hard Dubstep flavour completes the picture and gives the song a completely new voice and vibe.

With the single ‘Rainy Days and Saturdays’, The Opiates live up to their ‘Carpenters of Electro’ title and hope to conquer airwaves and underground alike. It’s a song about the transvestite Candy Darling who, although leading the wild life and preparing for a sex change, dreams of married life and a house in the suburbs.

The album ‘Hollywood Under the Knife’ will be released on Disco Activisto Records both digitally and as a CD on 17 October, featuring nine unreleased images by Turner Prize winning artist Wolfgang Tillmans, who opened his entire archive, granting The Opiates free choice of images.

Tracklist:
Rainy Days and Saturdays (Radio Edit)
Jalousies and Jealousies (Kim Ann Foxman Remix)
Anatomy of a Plastic Girl (Chris & Cosey Remix)
Silent Comes the Nighttime (XHK Stepford Step Off Mix)

Quote:
“The Carpenters of electro… dark, electronic pop: scalpel-sharp lyrical observations juxtaposed with shimmering production to magnetic effect.”
Ben Murphy, DJ Magazine (U.K. / worldwide)]]>
“Rainy Days and Remixes EP”

https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/rainy-days-and-remixes-ep/id455967935

Digital Release Date: 19 September 2011

Label: Disco Activisto Records

Dualism (Numbolic - Maschine - Revolver Canada - Archipel):’’Silent comes the nighttime is the one for us.. nice vocal - thanks for sending.’’

ANN D. -HEADCHARGE / BCR RADIO 103.1FM (SHEFFIELD, UK)
So many influences here. It’s like a journey through music from the 70's. I’ll definitely be using the XHK remix.

HIGUCHI (Miniload Records, GD Seventy Eight Music): ‘’Amazing EP...Congrats’’


NORMAN NODGE -BERGHAIN / OSTGUT TON
Will not be easy to embed in my sets, but I really like especially the XHK Stepford Step Off mix and will try it in the late hours.

Also played by ; Claude Von Stroke, Fred Paris, Francesco Farfa,Markus Schulz,Anderson Noise and many more ….

Images: Wolfgang Tillmans

Web: www.billieraymartin.com

Style: dark electronic pop

The Opiates is the latest project from the "queen of electronic soul" Billie Ray Martin, together with Norwegian musician Robert Solheim.

The long awaited taster of remixes and first single from the forthcoming album ‘Hollywood Under the Knife’. For The Opiates, these remixes by such greats as Hercules and Love Affair’s Kim Ann Foxman, as well as all-time heroes Chris and Cosey of Throbbing Gristle, are a dream come true. The results are magnetic. The XHK Mix with its hard Dubstep flavour completes the picture and gives the song a completely new voice and vibe.

With the single ‘Rainy Days and Saturdays’, The Opiates live up to their ‘Carpenters of Electro’ title and hope to conquer airwaves and underground alike. It’s a song about the transvestite Candy Darling who, although leading the wild life and preparing for a sex change, dreams of married life and a house in the suburbs.

The album ‘Hollywood Under the Knife’ will be released on Disco Activisto Records both digitally and as a CD on 17 October, featuring nine unreleased images by Turner Prize winning artist Wolfgang Tillmans, who opened his entire archive, granting The Opiates free choice of images.

Tracklist:
Rainy Days and Saturdays (Radio Edit)
Jalousies and Jealousies (Kim Ann Foxman Remix)
Anatomy of a Plastic Girl (Chris & Cosey Remix)
Silent Comes the Nighttime (XHK Stepford Step Off Mix)

Quote:
“The Carpenters of electro… dark, electronic pop: scalpel-sharp lyrical observations juxtaposed with shimmering production to magnetic effect.”
Ben Murphy, DJ Magazine (U.K. / worldwide)]]> 130616 no no Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0200 2011-09-18T00:00:00+02:00 7:23 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/the-opiates-rainy-days-and-remixes-ep-minimix/ OH MY GOD OH MY GOD AND ALL THAT. it's all official. we are sharing a minimix of our new ep. release is 18th sept.
tracklist: rainy days and saturdays, jalousies and jealousies (kim ann foxman remix), anatomy of a plastic girl (chris & cosey remix), silent comes the nighttime (again) (xhc stepford step off mix)

and here is all the info:
The Opiates

“Rainy Days and Remixes EP”


Digital Release Date: 19 September 2011

Label: Disco Activisto Records

Images: Wolfgang Tillmans

Web: www.billieraymartin.com

Style: dark electronic pop



The Opiates is the latest project from the "queen of electronic soul" Billie Ray Martin, together with Norwegian musician Robert Solheim.

The long awaited taster of remixes and first single from the forthcoming album ‘Hollywood Under the Knife’. For The Opiates, these remixes by such greats as Hercules and Love Affair’s Kim Ann Foxman, as well as all-time heroes Chris and Cosey of Throbbing Gristle, are a dream come true. The results are magnetic. The XHK Mix with its hard Dubstep flavour completes the picture and gives the song a completely new voice and vibe.

With the single ‘Rainy Days and Saturdays’, The Opiates live up to their ‘Carpenters of Electro’ title and hope to conquer airwaves and underground alike. It’s a song about the transvestite Candy Darling who, although leading the wild life and preparing for a sex change, dreams of married life and a house in the suburbs.

The album ‘Hollywood Under the Knife’ will be released on Disco Activisto Records both digitally and as a CD on 17 October, featuring nine unreleased images by Turner Prize winning artist Wolfgang Tillmans, who opened his entire archive, granting The Opiates free choice of images.


Tracklist:
Rainy Days and Saturdays (Radio Edit)
Jalousies and Jealousies (Kim Ann Foxman Remix)
Anatomy of a Plastic Girl (Chris & Cosey Remix)
Silent Comes the Nighttime (XHK Stepford Step Off Mix)


Quote:
“The Carpenters of electro… dark, electronic pop: scalpel-sharp lyrical observations juxtaposed with shimmering production to magnetic effect.”
Ben Murphy, DJ Magazine (U.K. / worldwide)


Note to Editors:
The Opiates started with the intention of being an ambient project. Soon bored, they abandoned any genre restrictions in favour of music that inspired them in cerebral as well as booty shaking ways.
Dubbed by the press as ‘The Carpenters of Electro’, their album ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’ explores paths pioneered by the Chicago house and Detroit techno heroes, (not least Electribe 101), with the aim of taking things forward a step or two.
Although Kraftwerk and Yazoo have been mentioned as influences, The Opiates’ unique brand of electronic music is not readily categorised. Theirs is a pursuit without compromise; a rare match of songwriting and cutting-edge beats and bleeps.
The Opiates will boldly go where the best electronic duo crossover albums have gone before, and will appeal to charts and underground alike.
An EP entitled ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’ was released in March 2008, accompanied by a much celebrated gig at London’s Rough Trade store, resulting in rave press reviews for both the gig and the EP. In Germany, the song ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’ made it into the Top 20 listeners choice charts when added to the playlist at Radio One.
Plans are afoot to stage a performance/play entitled ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’, a multimedia piece using Wolfgang’s images as well as multimedia elements, in the near future.


Billie Ray Martin

Dubbed the "queen of electronic soul", Billie Ray Martin first came to prominence leading the acclaimed deep house act Electribe 101, her unique voice hitting both the house scene and the charts with a strong infusion of soul. Electribe 101 scored a brace of hits including the classic "Talking With Myself" before Billie departed to continue exploring fusions of electronic music, pop and soul. After releasing the thoroughly scary "Persuasion" with Spooky and the monumentally beautiful "Four Ambient Tales" with The Grid, Billie found herself with a worldwide number 1 in "Your Loving Arms"; now considered one of the all-time classics of dance music. Three more hits and the album "Deadline for My Memories" followed.
Since then Billie has worked with Ann Peebles, Carla Thomas and members of Aretha Franklin's band on her album "18 Carat Garbage", and has continued to release cutting edge electronic productions, including hit collaborations with DJ Hell and Slam and solo releases such as 2008's "Undisco Me" which hit the top spots in the UK and US dance charts.
Billie's epic "Crackdown Project" released in 2010, featuring her takes on the Cabaret Voltaire’s classic album "The Crackdown", reinforced her unique position as an artist who appeals to the both ueber-cool mags like Flux Magazine, Wound and The Wire as well as the pop mainstream achieving 'Song of the Day' status at Popjustice. 20,000 downloads in a matter of days, plus overwhelming press and DJ feedback confirmed her vision.
Already in 2011, Billie has released the solo single 'Sweet Suburban Disco' with mixes by Vince Clarke of Yazoo fame amongst other dancefloor greats, with the world’s key DJs from Black Strobe to John Digweed giving it full support. Released on Billie’s Disco Activisto Records.
Also currently out and in the Music Week Cool Cuts Charts at Number 14, is the ‘Sold Life’ E.P. by Billie Ray Martin and Hard Ton. Back to Billie’s old school house roots, it’s creating a serious buzz, charted by everyone from Laurent Garnier to Kim Ann Foxman from Hercules and Love Affair. Billie is currently working on her next solo album and DJs around the world with growing success.


Robert Solheim

Born on Averøy, a small island on the west coast of Norway, Robert Solheim grew up between the sea, the mountains and music. At a young age, he started to play the organ, progressing through drums, keyboards and singing in various bands, until he discovered a synthesizer named Jupiter-8 and started to compose his own work. Under the name CURRENT he has released several downtempo and ambient-techno albums on Origo Sound, the famous Norwegian label home to artists Biosphere and Erik Wøllo. In 2005 he started releasing material on his own label CURRENTMUSIK. All his releases have been described as extraordinary creative works by the critics. In 2006, his album ‘underCURRENTs’ was nominated as best album and in 2003, the track ‘Ghost Trip’ from the album ‘Communion’ was voted by the public number 7 of the 100 best electronic tracks of all-time placing Robert alongside such names as Kraftwerk, David Sylvian and Underworld to name a few.
Lately his creativity has turned more towards electronic music for clubs and dance-floors which has lead to several EPs with deep tech house and techno, supported by the likes of Lukas Greenberg, Rob Maynard, Danny Graham, Paco Osuna, Richie Hawtin, Luca Doobie, the list goes on..
Robert is also part of a duo called AQUAVIT, a musical project that works on finding the harmonies between electronic and acoustic sounds. Their first and much anticipated work together ‘Telapatia’ was released in 2008 applauded by both press and public alike. Critics described it as “electronic music for the well-travelled”. AQUAVIT served as the foundation for the Norwegian label AQUAVIT RECORDS, established to release quality electronic music without restrictions.










]]> OH MY GOD OH MY GOD AND ALL THAT. it's all official. we are sharing a minimix of our new ep. release is 18th sept.
tracklist: rainy days and saturdays, jalousies and jealousies (kim ann foxman remix), anatomy of a plastic girl (chris & cosey remix), silent comes the nighttime (again) (xhc stepford step off mix)

and here is all the info:
The Opiates

“Rainy Days and Remixes EP”


Digital Release Date: 19 September 2011

Label: Disco Activisto Records

Images: Wolfgang Tillmans

Web: www.billieraymartin.com

Style: dark electronic pop



The Opiates is the latest project from the "queen of electronic soul" Billie Ray Martin, together with Norwegian musician Robert Solheim.

The long awaited taster of remixes and first single from the forthcoming album ‘Hollywood Under the Knife’. For The Opiates, these remixes by such greats as Hercules and Love Affair’s Kim Ann Foxman, as well as all-time heroes Chris and Cosey of Throbbing Gristle, are a dream come true. The results are magnetic. The XHK Mix with its hard Dubstep flavour completes the picture and gives the song a completely new voice and vibe.

With the single ‘Rainy Days and Saturdays’, The Opiates live up to their ‘Carpenters of Electro’ title and hope to conquer airwaves and underground alike. It’s a song about the transvestite Candy Darling who, although leading the wild life and preparing for a sex change, dreams of married life and a house in the suburbs.

The album ‘Hollywood Under the Knife’ will be released on Disco Activisto Records both digitally and as a CD on 17 October, featuring nine unreleased images by Turner Prize winning artist Wolfgang Tillmans, who opened his entire archive, granting The Opiates free choice of images.


Tracklist:
Rainy Days and Saturdays (Radio Edit)
Jalousies and Jealousies (Kim Ann Foxman Remix)
Anatomy of a Plastic Girl (Chris & Cosey Remix)
Silent Comes the Nighttime (XHK Stepford Step Off Mix)


Quote:
“The Carpenters of electro… dark, electronic pop: scalpel-sharp lyrical observations juxtaposed with shimmering production to magnetic effect.”
Ben Murphy, DJ Magazine (U.K. / worldwide)


Note to Editors:
The Opiates started with the intention of being an ambient project. Soon bored, they abandoned any genre restrictions in favour of music that inspired them in cerebral as well as booty shaking ways.
Dubbed by the press as ‘The Carpenters of Electro’, their album ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’ explores paths pioneered by the Chicago house and Detroit techno heroes, (not least Electribe 101), with the aim of taking things forward a step or two.
Although Kraftwerk and Yazoo have been mentioned as influences, The Opiates’ unique brand of electronic music is not readily categorised. Theirs is a pursuit without compromise; a rare match of songwriting and cutting-edge beats and bleeps.
The Opiates will boldly go where the best electronic duo crossover albums have gone before, and will appeal to charts and underground alike.
An EP entitled ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’ was released in March 2008, accompanied by a much celebrated gig at London’s Rough Trade store, resulting in rave press reviews for both the gig and the EP. In Germany, the song ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’ made it into the Top 20 listeners choice charts when added to the playlist at Radio One.
Plans are afoot to stage a performance/play entitled ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’, a multimedia piece using Wolfgang’s images as well as multimedia elements, in the near future.


Billie Ray Martin

Dubbed the "queen of electronic soul", Billie Ray Martin first came to prominence leading the acclaimed deep house act Electribe 101, her unique voice hitting both the house scene and the charts with a strong infusion of soul. Electribe 101 scored a brace of hits including the classic "Talking With Myself" before Billie departed to continue exploring fusions of electronic music, pop and soul. After releasing the thoroughly scary "Persuasion" with Spooky and the monumentally beautiful "Four Ambient Tales" with The Grid, Billie found herself with a worldwide number 1 in "Your Loving Arms"; now considered one of the all-time classics of dance music. Three more hits and the album "Deadline for My Memories" followed.
Since then Billie has worked with Ann Peebles, Carla Thomas and members of Aretha Franklin's band on her album "18 Carat Garbage", and has continued to release cutting edge electronic productions, including hit collaborations with DJ Hell and Slam and solo releases such as 2008's "Undisco Me" which hit the top spots in the UK and US dance charts.
Billie's epic "Crackdown Project" released in 2010, featuring her takes on the Cabaret Voltaire’s classic album "The Crackdown", reinforced her unique position as an artist who appeals to the both ueber-cool mags like Flux Magazine, Wound and The Wire as well as the pop mainstream achieving 'Song of the Day' status at Popjustice. 20,000 downloads in a matter of days, plus overwhelming press and DJ feedback confirmed her vision.
Already in 2011, Billie has released the solo single 'Sweet Suburban Disco' with mixes by Vince Clarke of Yazoo fame amongst other dancefloor greats, with the world’s key DJs from Black Strobe to John Digweed giving it full support. Released on Billie’s Disco Activisto Records.
Also currently out and in the Music Week Cool Cuts Charts at Number 14, is the ‘Sold Life’ E.P. by Billie Ray Martin and Hard Ton. Back to Billie’s old school house roots, it’s creating a serious buzz, charted by everyone from Laurent Garnier to Kim Ann Foxman from Hercules and Love Affair. Billie is currently working on her next solo album and DJs around the world with growing success.


Robert Solheim

Born on Averøy, a small island on the west coast of Norway, Robert Solheim grew up between the sea, the mountains and music. At a young age, he started to play the organ, progressing through drums, keyboards and singing in various bands, until he discovered a synthesizer named Jupiter-8 and started to compose his own work. Under the name CURRENT he has released several downtempo and ambient-techno albums on Origo Sound, the famous Norwegian label home to artists Biosphere and Erik Wøllo. In 2005 he started releasing material on his own label CURRENTMUSIK. All his releases have been described as extraordinary creative works by the critics. In 2006, his album ‘underCURRENTs’ was nominated as best album and in 2003, the track ‘Ghost Trip’ from the album ‘Communion’ was voted by the public number 7 of the 100 best electronic tracks of all-time placing Robert alongside such names as Kraftwerk, David Sylvian and Underworld to name a few.
Lately his creativity has turned more towards electronic music for clubs and dance-floors which has lead to several EPs with deep tech house and techno, supported by the likes of Lukas Greenberg, Rob Maynard, Danny Graham, Paco Osuna, Richie Hawtin, Luca Doobie, the list goes on..
Robert is also part of a duo called AQUAVIT, a musical project that works on finding the harmonies between electronic and acoustic sounds. Their first and much anticipated work together ‘Telapatia’ was released in 2008 applauded by both press and public alike. Critics described it as “electronic music for the well-travelled”. AQUAVIT served as the foundation for the Norwegian label AQUAVIT RECORDS, established to release quality electronic music without restrictions.










]]> 130624 no no Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0200 2011-08-17T00:00:00+02:00 10:23 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/billie-ray-martin-hard-ton-sold-life-original-version/
https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/sold-life-ep/id427796996

dj reactions:

DJ Hell (Gigolo Records) billie ray martin -the most beautifull voice in pop music history shows again shes on top of the game

mijk van dijk:
"Just when I rediscovered all the beauty of Electribe 101, here's Billie Ray Martin once again delivering more of the good stuff.
The originals are classic by nature, best fit for my set however is the Snuff Crew Remix. Maybe their best work to date.
Full support!"

Laurent Garnier:
OHHHH FUCKKKK YESSSSSSS
Brilllllllliant

Rob Mello - Loving all the mixes, can't chose which one to play
Chris Duckenfield - Luke's BRM Dubs have gone straight to my pick of the pops.

Kim Ann Foxman (Hercules and Love Affair) "fantasy girl remix is sooooo goooooood!  i love it!

robert owens: great track. always loved this one"

Manny Cuevas aka DJ M-Traxxx :
"tha (Snuff Crew)remix iz sick!!!”

Severino Pancetta (Horse Meat Disco): This is great ...I love it!

Acid Jacks
AMAZING
love the mixes. luke solomon doing 2 versions & the snuff crew piano action wow!!

Nico De Ceglia - BBC Radio 1 UK
"Billie wears a vintage dress for the new generations. Both original mixes and the remixes are spot on."

Nico De Ceglia - BBC Radio 1 UK
"Billie wears a vintage dress for the new generations. Both original mixes and the remixes are spot on."

also played and charted by: Aeroplane, Axwell, Crookers, Etienne De Crecy, Feadz, Filthy Dukes, John Digweed, Justus Koehncke, Larry Tee, Mixhell, Nick Catchdubs, Sister Bliss, Cagedbaby, Tom Novy

Tastemakers

Tom Findlay / Groove Armada (WONDERLAND/ Various - Worldwide)
Snuff Crew Instrumental remixes are ace, love the snuff crew instr and Luke's sold dub
Tony Humphries (VARIOUS)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Great mixes for these new BRM songs!

Chris Fortier (VARIOUS - US)
Luke Solomon's Work My Nerve Dub. is ace


Steve Mac (WORLDWIDE)
really liking lukes dub mix allot

Hernan Cattaneo (WORLDWIDE)
solomon is the one for me

Stephen Fasano - The Magician (Various - Worldwide)
Snuff Crew Instrumental snuff crew mix has a cool old school housey vibe!

Dave Seaman (VARIOUS UK)
Snuff crew and solomon dub!

Sef - Sef / Deep Teknologi (Lean Left)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original Nice old skool vibes.


Ben Pistor - Ben Pistor / Disco Bloodbath (Disco Bloodbath/ )
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerve Dub Wow! Great release! Having trouble picking my favourite mix, there all great.

Petar Dundov (Sirup)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub Solid release, both remixes work the floor

His Majesty Andre (Various - Worldwide)
Snuff Crew is the one for me.

Brett Johnson
Luke Solomon mixes alllll the way! Good stuff.


Colin McBean - Mr G (various / states)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub yeah feelin' this nice flava ..............

Tony Mitolo - Mitolo / The Swiss
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew

Bill - Bad Boy Bill (Various - Worldwide)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub

Angus Gruzman - The Finger Prince / Bang Gang DJs
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew. Take me back to your house and give me more music like this please

Will Eastman - Will Eastman (Plant Music) (U Street Music Hall)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew

Mickey Fortune - Oh Snap (ALL OVER US/ MONEYCAT)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Really cool stuff here.

Zizzed - Zizzed / Reset! (VARIOUS)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original

Will / Urchins
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub very cool ep!

Raymundo Rodriguez
It's all about Luke's Dub.

Marcin Hubert - Harper / BIS Radio, PL (EUROPE)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Instrumental good release, all about Snuff crew remix love these old school sounds and rhythms. will spin. thanks, HARPER Polskie Radio 4 K mag / Laif mag

Nicolas Nekmouche & David Saà ̄d / Donovans - Donovans
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix . Billie Ray's voice is so incredible !

Mace - Mace / Reset! (RESET!)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub

Carlos / Southmen - Southmen / 925-Digital / Yoshitoshi (Hedkandi)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original good package

Eskimo Twins (Reclaim the Dance Floor/ WAX: ON)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Wicked house! Love it, full support

Kim Mathijs - Ed&Kim (Studio Brussels)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original cool proper oldskool house!

Matt Walsh (Turbo Recordings/ Bugged Out!)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix wow, amazing ep, full support!

Mike Gnacadja - Mikix The Cat / Momma's Boy (Petit Social)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix
oldschool vibe and a very nice voice ! I love it

Adrian Thomas - Ajax (AUSTRALIA)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original

Angel Molina - Angel Molina / Wax Sessions
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Instrumental fantastic record. Original tracks / jackin ́sound from Snuff Crew and Luke ́s remixes. Very complete.

Andy Gardner / Plump DJs (WORLDWIDE)
Original fantasy girl is great-classic acid attack.

Sami Nenola - Sharkslayer
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Great 80's NYC throwback styles! Reminds us of SPF-500.

Laurent ASH - Lifelike
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Snuff crew remix works best on a dancefloor, great early 90's vibes, cool !

Jacob Thiele - Jacob Thiele / Depressed Buttons (GOO (IN OMAHA))
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew

Colin Peters - Colin Peters (Ibiza Rocks) (IBIZA ROCKS/ ROCK NIGHTS)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Like the Snuff girl mix has a wee bit more charge to it


Other responders
Dmitry Malyshev - dMIT.RY (W.A.R.P./ Neo Violence)
fantastic house!!! snuff crew did a great job on a remix. full support

Quinn Whalley - Different Gear
effing awesome package! right up my street. similar to my Paranoid London label - raw acid house with vocals. love it. love all the versions.

Daniel Gleeson - Dan Neon (Propaganda London/ Digital Disco Birmingham)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub

Paul Budd - Pablo Contraband (Disco Deviant Special/ Release)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerver Dub Killer release - suits me

Paul Carr - Baunder / Soundexile
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Wicked remix, nice vocals by Billie

Albert Masferrer - Kosmos (BOOMBOX/ NASTY MONDAYS)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerve Dub i love it! everything's great in here but specially the dubs and the Salomon work my nerver dub!

INFADELS DJS (ALL OVER UK/ LOW CLUB)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original

Roger Cervantes - RADIOCONTROL (Killtheparty/ Noise Club / Becool)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original I was half into the song and thinking "please...give me some acid!" and I got it!


Sam Young - SAM YOUNG (Boujis Thursday & Sundays/ Nod Factor Sessions at the Hoxton Pony)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Nice Snuff remix.

Chris Summers - CHRIS SUMMERS
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original that voice still does it for me.

Alex Dellarge - Dellarge
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerver Dub

Mark Baker - Mark Baker / We Take Polaroids / Burn The Negative / Lil' Devious
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original Was lucky enough to get these from Billie direct. LOVE SOLD LIFE Original most. Hypnotic deep and driving. Billie's vocals are amazing on this trk, All the best with this one Mx

Annemarie Ubbels - RobotRock Atomica (Dog Day Disco)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerve Dub

Hugo Moutinho / Discotexas - Mr Mitsuhirato
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub

RASMUS JUUL (Double Up)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix thx alot .. will play

ANDY STONE - BGPZ (Festinho/ Moog (Nottingham))
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub Wicked! Great to hear BRM back again, and after hearing so much about Hard Ton via the Low Life parties, this is just as good as I hoped it would be.

IAN WOODWARD (VARIOUS UK)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original she has such a distintive vocal. two decent tracks - with fantasy girl having the slight edge on first few spins. potentially a big club hit.

Tronik Youth (VARIOUS UK)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix great mix


GEOFF TICEHURST (SHUFFLE)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerver Dub Great dirty acid house vibe on Luke's Nerve dub

GORDON HOLLENGA - Disco Boys (EUROPE)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix

JOHN FISCHER - Ginger John (Intergalactic/ DARK PARTY)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original great sound, and great vibe on this track. really into the chicago house thats flying around at the mo

Ilan, Reuven & Shmuel Flaishler - Flash Brothers (ALL OVER/ SUMMER OF LOVE BEACH PARTIES)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Snuff Crew Remix is very cool!

CEDRIC HERMANO (VARIOUS)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original

Marc Lucas - MARC LUCAS (NU)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerve Dub Luke doing a good job

Alex Ferrer - Sidechains / The Requesters
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub

Louis Buck - Louis Louis (Club Pony)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original i love my house, i love this, nice one!

Jimmy Herrtage - Shark Bait (Beat Redemption/ We Are Your Friends)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix

DARREN CROSS (Quid Pro Quo/ Asylum)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub deep love it

William Joy - Willy Joy (House Party Saturdays/ Fly By Night)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original Really digging the og mix of Sold Life! Some warehouse vibes for sure!

JAMES CRONE (53 DEGREES/ THE RAINBOW WAREHOUSE)
Luke Solomon's Work My Nerve Dub massive

Jay Rossi - Jac The Disco
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Instrumental

Jamie Scott - JaySownds (/ )
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original Wicked detroit feel.. lovely vocal.

Ben Kane / Urban Knights - Kane / Urban Knights (Snowbombing European Tour )
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original

Mark Allain - We're Not Cool! / MOS Radio, UK (Do It!/ Bugged Out)
Liking the Snuff Crew Mix

Dave Bickerton - Dave Bicko (liverpool gay pride/ england vs algeria)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix
again love this piano, i have a thing for piano's lol. this will be gettin played deffo.

Dave Hornby (Shake)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub Nice track will play it out

Charles Moore - Charlie Moore (We.Are.Eclectricity./ We.Are.Eclectricity..)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original Big! More like this please :)

PEOPLE GET REAL DJ (MAGICBAG (LEEDS)/ PEOPLE GET REAL (SHEFFIELD))
Not much to pick between the remixes Snuff Crew and Luke Solomon ones are great... Snuff crew mix is realy cool.

Craig Charsley - X-ECUTE (Spanked/ 4th bass vs Djem)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original like the acid

Jeremy healy - JEREMY HEALY (VARIOUS UK)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original

Max Schmidt - Super Super (Mr. Weekend/ Kaputtraven Traktor Edition)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix

Crispin Dior
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub I'd like to have heard some mixes that avoided the straight up house approach - that vocal could be worked in so many ways..

Takeru Otoguro - Takeru John Otoguro (TCY Radio Tokyo/ THE BIG PARTY)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original Nice Song! Also love this acid disco groove!

JONNY TOWNSEND (DeepJam @ brb Leeds/ URBAN GORILLA)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerve Dub All tracks sound about 10 years old. Biut thats a good thing, some old schjool warehouse sounding vibes. Support.

Edward Eldridge - Duble E (Monkey Knife fight/ Dank Morass )
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew

Philip Boyle - Philth (Mother/ Soundcheck)
Liking Luke's Dub a lot.

Mark Maxwell (King Street hotel/ Poolhaus)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix

Mark Maxwell (King Street hotel/ Poolhaus)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix

Julian Peake - VERN (TYPE)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub Superb dub.

Rogier Delfos - DELFOS (M.U.L.T.I.S.E.X.I./ U.L.T.R.A.S.E.X.I.)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original

Martin Gowans - Polymath (Our appreciation society/ This is sick)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original

Mark Baker:Burn The Negative / Gung Ho! Recordings
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the Sold Life ORIGINAL, Her vocals are stunning, I actually think she'sgetting better as time goes on!!!
I like the other tracks, but for me, this is heads and shoulders above the rest!!

Graeme Park:
Wonderful! I like them all!  I'll definitely use them in my show too.

Larry T: a killer! billie at her best!

Mark Moore: I love this! Billie Ray Martin Queen of Acid Soul!

Bee (Futon,Goo, Bedsheets Magazine):
OOOOH !! am lovin that !! Vocal sound is fantastic !It's divine !!
Synths are so intoxicating too - the drop down takes me back to
London in 87' !! I can almost smell the smoke machines !!

Phil Mariott (Gaydar Radio): This is definitely up our street! A very credible and cool remix package. Will definitely support the Snuff Crew mix.
Also Sold Life is Great. GORGEOUS track.

Jerome Farley
CONTINUOUS COOL
This is the best music I have heard in 2011. Kudos to Billie for continuing to create unique, sonically spectacular music that is relevant and the highlight of all my sets. Her voice shines and the tracks are phenomenal.]]>
https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/sold-life-ep/id427796996

dj reactions:

DJ Hell (Gigolo Records) billie ray martin -the most beautifull voice in pop music history shows again shes on top of the game

mijk van dijk:
"Just when I rediscovered all the beauty of Electribe 101, here's Billie Ray Martin once again delivering more of the good stuff.
The originals are classic by nature, best fit for my set however is the Snuff Crew Remix. Maybe their best work to date.
Full support!"

Laurent Garnier:
OHHHH FUCKKKK YESSSSSSS
Brilllllllliant

Rob Mello - Loving all the mixes, can't chose which one to play
Chris Duckenfield - Luke's BRM Dubs have gone straight to my pick of the pops.

Kim Ann Foxman (Hercules and Love Affair) "fantasy girl remix is sooooo goooooood!  i love it!

robert owens: great track. always loved this one"

Manny Cuevas aka DJ M-Traxxx :
"tha (Snuff Crew)remix iz sick!!!”

Severino Pancetta (Horse Meat Disco): This is great ...I love it!

Acid Jacks
AMAZING
love the mixes. luke solomon doing 2 versions & the snuff crew piano action wow!!

Nico De Ceglia - BBC Radio 1 UK
"Billie wears a vintage dress for the new generations. Both original mixes and the remixes are spot on."

Nico De Ceglia - BBC Radio 1 UK
"Billie wears a vintage dress for the new generations. Both original mixes and the remixes are spot on."

also played and charted by: Aeroplane, Axwell, Crookers, Etienne De Crecy, Feadz, Filthy Dukes, John Digweed, Justus Koehncke, Larry Tee, Mixhell, Nick Catchdubs, Sister Bliss, Cagedbaby, Tom Novy

Tastemakers

Tom Findlay / Groove Armada (WONDERLAND/ Various - Worldwide)
Snuff Crew Instrumental remixes are ace, love the snuff crew instr and Luke's sold dub
Tony Humphries (VARIOUS)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Great mixes for these new BRM songs!

Chris Fortier (VARIOUS - US)
Luke Solomon's Work My Nerve Dub. is ace


Steve Mac (WORLDWIDE)
really liking lukes dub mix allot

Hernan Cattaneo (WORLDWIDE)
solomon is the one for me

Stephen Fasano - The Magician (Various - Worldwide)
Snuff Crew Instrumental snuff crew mix has a cool old school housey vibe!

Dave Seaman (VARIOUS UK)
Snuff crew and solomon dub!

Sef - Sef / Deep Teknologi (Lean Left)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original Nice old skool vibes.


Ben Pistor - Ben Pistor / Disco Bloodbath (Disco Bloodbath/ )
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerve Dub Wow! Great release! Having trouble picking my favourite mix, there all great.

Petar Dundov (Sirup)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub Solid release, both remixes work the floor

His Majesty Andre (Various - Worldwide)
Snuff Crew is the one for me.

Brett Johnson
Luke Solomon mixes alllll the way! Good stuff.


Colin McBean - Mr G (various / states)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub yeah feelin' this nice flava ..............

Tony Mitolo - Mitolo / The Swiss
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew

Bill - Bad Boy Bill (Various - Worldwide)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub

Angus Gruzman - The Finger Prince / Bang Gang DJs
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew. Take me back to your house and give me more music like this please

Will Eastman - Will Eastman (Plant Music) (U Street Music Hall)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew

Mickey Fortune - Oh Snap (ALL OVER US/ MONEYCAT)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Really cool stuff here.

Zizzed - Zizzed / Reset! (VARIOUS)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original

Will / Urchins
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub very cool ep!

Raymundo Rodriguez
It's all about Luke's Dub.

Marcin Hubert - Harper / BIS Radio, PL (EUROPE)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Instrumental good release, all about Snuff crew remix love these old school sounds and rhythms. will spin. thanks, HARPER Polskie Radio 4 K mag / Laif mag

Nicolas Nekmouche & David Saà ̄d / Donovans - Donovans
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix . Billie Ray's voice is so incredible !

Mace - Mace / Reset! (RESET!)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub

Carlos / Southmen - Southmen / 925-Digital / Yoshitoshi (Hedkandi)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original good package

Eskimo Twins (Reclaim the Dance Floor/ WAX: ON)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Wicked house! Love it, full support

Kim Mathijs - Ed&Kim (Studio Brussels)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original cool proper oldskool house!

Matt Walsh (Turbo Recordings/ Bugged Out!)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix wow, amazing ep, full support!

Mike Gnacadja - Mikix The Cat / Momma's Boy (Petit Social)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix
oldschool vibe and a very nice voice ! I love it

Adrian Thomas - Ajax (AUSTRALIA)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original

Angel Molina - Angel Molina / Wax Sessions
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Instrumental fantastic record. Original tracks / jackin ́sound from Snuff Crew and Luke ́s remixes. Very complete.

Andy Gardner / Plump DJs (WORLDWIDE)
Original fantasy girl is great-classic acid attack.

Sami Nenola - Sharkslayer
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Great 80's NYC throwback styles! Reminds us of SPF-500.

Laurent ASH - Lifelike
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Snuff crew remix works best on a dancefloor, great early 90's vibes, cool !

Jacob Thiele - Jacob Thiele / Depressed Buttons (GOO (IN OMAHA))
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew

Colin Peters - Colin Peters (Ibiza Rocks) (IBIZA ROCKS/ ROCK NIGHTS)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Like the Snuff girl mix has a wee bit more charge to it


Other responders
Dmitry Malyshev - dMIT.RY (W.A.R.P./ Neo Violence)
fantastic house!!! snuff crew did a great job on a remix. full support

Quinn Whalley - Different Gear
effing awesome package! right up my street. similar to my Paranoid London label - raw acid house with vocals. love it. love all the versions.

Daniel Gleeson - Dan Neon (Propaganda London/ Digital Disco Birmingham)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub

Paul Budd - Pablo Contraband (Disco Deviant Special/ Release)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerver Dub Killer release - suits me

Paul Carr - Baunder / Soundexile
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Wicked remix, nice vocals by Billie

Albert Masferrer - Kosmos (BOOMBOX/ NASTY MONDAYS)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerve Dub i love it! everything's great in here but specially the dubs and the Salomon work my nerver dub!

INFADELS DJS (ALL OVER UK/ LOW CLUB)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original

Roger Cervantes - RADIOCONTROL (Killtheparty/ Noise Club / Becool)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original I was half into the song and thinking "please...give me some acid!" and I got it!


Sam Young - SAM YOUNG (Boujis Thursday & Sundays/ Nod Factor Sessions at the Hoxton Pony)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Nice Snuff remix.

Chris Summers - CHRIS SUMMERS
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original that voice still does it for me.

Alex Dellarge - Dellarge
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerver Dub

Mark Baker - Mark Baker / We Take Polaroids / Burn The Negative / Lil' Devious
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original Was lucky enough to get these from Billie direct. LOVE SOLD LIFE Original most. Hypnotic deep and driving. Billie's vocals are amazing on this trk, All the best with this one Mx

Annemarie Ubbels - RobotRock Atomica (Dog Day Disco)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerve Dub

Hugo Moutinho / Discotexas - Mr Mitsuhirato
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub

RASMUS JUUL (Double Up)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix thx alot .. will play

ANDY STONE - BGPZ (Festinho/ Moog (Nottingham))
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub Wicked! Great to hear BRM back again, and after hearing so much about Hard Ton via the Low Life parties, this is just as good as I hoped it would be.

IAN WOODWARD (VARIOUS UK)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original she has such a distintive vocal. two decent tracks - with fantasy girl having the slight edge on first few spins. potentially a big club hit.

Tronik Youth (VARIOUS UK)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix great mix


GEOFF TICEHURST (SHUFFLE)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerver Dub Great dirty acid house vibe on Luke's Nerve dub

GORDON HOLLENGA - Disco Boys (EUROPE)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix

JOHN FISCHER - Ginger John (Intergalactic/ DARK PARTY)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original great sound, and great vibe on this track. really into the chicago house thats flying around at the mo

Ilan, Reuven & Shmuel Flaishler - Flash Brothers (ALL OVER/ SUMMER OF LOVE BEACH PARTIES)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Snuff Crew Remix is very cool!

CEDRIC HERMANO (VARIOUS)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original

Marc Lucas - MARC LUCAS (NU)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerve Dub Luke doing a good job

Alex Ferrer - Sidechains / The Requesters
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub

Louis Buck - Louis Louis (Club Pony)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original i love my house, i love this, nice one!

Jimmy Herrtage - Shark Bait (Beat Redemption/ We Are Your Friends)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix

DARREN CROSS (Quid Pro Quo/ Asylum)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub deep love it

William Joy - Willy Joy (House Party Saturdays/ Fly By Night)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original Really digging the og mix of Sold Life! Some warehouse vibes for sure!

JAMES CRONE (53 DEGREES/ THE RAINBOW WAREHOUSE)
Luke Solomon's Work My Nerve Dub massive

Jay Rossi - Jac The Disco
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Instrumental

Jamie Scott - JaySownds (/ )
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original Wicked detroit feel.. lovely vocal.

Ben Kane / Urban Knights - Kane / Urban Knights (Snowbombing European Tour )
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original

Mark Allain - We're Not Cool! / MOS Radio, UK (Do It!/ Bugged Out)
Liking the Snuff Crew Mix

Dave Bickerton - Dave Bicko (liverpool gay pride/ england vs algeria)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix
again love this piano, i have a thing for piano's lol. this will be gettin played deffo.

Dave Hornby (Shake)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub Nice track will play it out

Charles Moore - Charlie Moore (We.Are.Eclectricity./ We.Are.Eclectricity..)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original Big! More like this please :)

PEOPLE GET REAL DJ (MAGICBAG (LEEDS)/ PEOPLE GET REAL (SHEFFIELD))
Not much to pick between the remixes Snuff Crew and Luke Solomon ones are great... Snuff crew mix is realy cool.

Craig Charsley - X-ECUTE (Spanked/ 4th bass vs Djem)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original like the acid

Jeremy healy - JEREMY HEALY (VARIOUS UK)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original

Max Schmidt - Super Super (Mr. Weekend/ Kaputtraven Traktor Edition)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix

Crispin Dior
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub I'd like to have heard some mixes that avoided the straight up house approach - that vocal could be worked in so many ways..

Takeru Otoguro - Takeru John Otoguro (TCY Radio Tokyo/ THE BIG PARTY)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original Nice Song! Also love this acid disco groove!

JONNY TOWNSEND (DeepJam @ brb Leeds/ URBAN GORILLA)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerve Dub All tracks sound about 10 years old. Biut thats a good thing, some old schjool warehouse sounding vibes. Support.

Edward Eldridge - Duble E (Monkey Knife fight/ Dank Morass )
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew

Philip Boyle - Philth (Mother/ Soundcheck)
Liking Luke's Dub a lot.

Mark Maxwell (King Street hotel/ Poolhaus)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix

Mark Maxwell (King Street hotel/ Poolhaus)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix

Julian Peake - VERN (TYPE)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub Superb dub.

Rogier Delfos - DELFOS (M.U.L.T.I.S.E.X.I./ U.L.T.R.A.S.E.X.I.)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original

Martin Gowans - Polymath (Our appreciation society/ This is sick)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original

Mark Baker:Burn The Negative / Gung Ho! Recordings
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the Sold Life ORIGINAL, Her vocals are stunning, I actually think she'sgetting better as time goes on!!!
I like the other tracks, but for me, this is heads and shoulders above the rest!!

Graeme Park:
Wonderful! I like them all!  I'll definitely use them in my show too.

Larry T: a killer! billie at her best!

Mark Moore: I love this! Billie Ray Martin Queen of Acid Soul!

Bee (Futon,Goo, Bedsheets Magazine):
OOOOH !! am lovin that !! Vocal sound is fantastic !It's divine !!
Synths are so intoxicating too - the drop down takes me back to
London in 87' !! I can almost smell the smoke machines !!

Phil Mariott (Gaydar Radio): This is definitely up our street! A very credible and cool remix package. Will definitely support the Snuff Crew mix.
Also Sold Life is Great. GORGEOUS track.

Jerome Farley
CONTINUOUS COOL
This is the best music I have heard in 2011. Kudos to Billie for continuing to create unique, sonically spectacular music that is relevant and the highlight of all my sets. Her voice shines and the tracks are phenomenal.]]> 130574 no no Sun, 14 Dec 2014 10:58:17 +0100 2014-12-14T10:58:17+01:00 7:13 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/billie-ray-martin-and-hard-ton-fantasy-girl-original-version/
dj reactions:

DJ Hell (Gigolo Records) billie ray martin -the most beautifull voice in pop music history shows again shes on top of the game

mijk van dijk:
"Just when I rediscovered all the beauty of Electribe 101, here's Billie Ray Martin once again delivering more of the good stuff.
The originals are classic by nature, best fit for my set however is the Snuff Crew Remix. Maybe their best work to date.
Full support!"

Laurent Garnier:
OHHHH FUCKKKK YESSSSSSS
Brilllllllliant

Rob Mello - Loving all the mixes, can't chose which one to play
Chris Duckenfield - Luke's BRM Dubs have gone straight to my pick of the pops.

Kim Ann Foxman (Hercules and Love Affair) "fantasy girl remix is sooooo goooooood!  i love it!

robert owens: great track. always loved this one"

Manny Cuevas aka DJ M-Traxxx :
"tha (Snuff Crew)remix iz sick!!!”

Severino Pancetta (Horse Meat Disco): This is great ...I love it!

Acid Jacks
AMAZING
love the mixes. luke solomon doing 2 versions & the snuff crew piano action wow!!

Nico De Ceglia - BBC Radio 1 UK
"Billie wears a vintage dress for the new generations. Both original mixes and the remixes are spot on."

Nico De Ceglia - BBC Radio 1 UK
"Billie wears a vintage dress for the new generations. Both original mixes and the remixes are spot on."

also played and charted by: Aeroplane, Axwell, Crookers, Etienne De Crecy, Feadz, Filthy Dukes, John Digweed, Justus Koehncke, Larry Tee, Mixhell, Nick Catchdubs, Sister Bliss, Cagedbaby, Tom Novy

Tastemakers

Tom Findlay / Groove Armada (WONDERLAND/ Various - Worldwide)
Snuff Crew Instrumental remixes are ace, love the snuff crew instr and Luke's sold dub
Tony Humphries (VARIOUS)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Great mixes for these new BRM songs!

Chris Fortier (VARIOUS - US)
Luke Solomon's Work My Nerve Dub. is ace


Steve Mac (WORLDWIDE)
really liking lukes dub mix allot

Hernan Cattaneo (WORLDWIDE)
solomon is the one for me

Stephen Fasano - The Magician (Various - Worldwide)
Snuff Crew Instrumental snuff crew mix has a cool old school housey vibe!

Dave Seaman (VARIOUS UK)
Snuff crew and solomon dub!

Sef - Sef / Deep Teknologi (Lean Left)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original Nice old skool vibes.


Ben Pistor - Ben Pistor / Disco Bloodbath (Disco Bloodbath/ )
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerve Dub Wow! Great release! Having trouble picking my favourite mix, there all great.

Petar Dundov (Sirup)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub Solid release, both remixes work the floor

His Majesty Andre (Various - Worldwide)
Snuff Crew is the one for me.

Brett Johnson
Luke Solomon mixes alllll the way! Good stuff.


Colin McBean - Mr G (various / states)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub yeah feelin' this nice flava ..............

Tony Mitolo - Mitolo / The Swiss
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew

Bill - Bad Boy Bill (Various - Worldwide)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub

Angus Gruzman - The Finger Prince / Bang Gang DJs
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew. Take me back to your house and give me more music like this please

Will Eastman - Will Eastman (Plant Music) (U Street Music Hall)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew

Mickey Fortune - Oh Snap (ALL OVER US/ MONEYCAT)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Really cool stuff here.

Zizzed - Zizzed / Reset! (VARIOUS)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original

Will / Urchins
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub very cool ep!

Raymundo Rodriguez
It's all about Luke's Dub.

Marcin Hubert - Harper / BIS Radio, PL (EUROPE)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Instrumental good release, all about Snuff crew remix love these old school sounds and rhythms. will spin. thanks, HARPER Polskie Radio 4 K mag / Laif mag

Nicolas Nekmouche & David Saà ̄d / Donovans - Donovans
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix . Billie Ray's voice is so incredible !

Mace - Mace / Reset! (RESET!)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub

Carlos / Southmen - Southmen / 925-Digital / Yoshitoshi (Hedkandi)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original good package

Eskimo Twins (Reclaim the Dance Floor/ WAX: ON)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Wicked house! Love it, full support

Kim Mathijs - Ed&Kim (Studio Brussels)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original cool proper oldskool house!

Matt Walsh (Turbo Recordings/ Bugged Out!)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix wow, amazing ep, full support!

Mike Gnacadja - Mikix The Cat / Momma's Boy (Petit Social)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix
oldschool vibe and a very nice voice ! I love it

Adrian Thomas - Ajax (AUSTRALIA)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original

Angel Molina - Angel Molina / Wax Sessions
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Instrumental fantastic record. Original tracks / jackin ́sound from Snuff Crew and Luke ́s remixes. Very complete.

Andy Gardner / Plump DJs (WORLDWIDE)
Original fantasy girl is great-classic acid attack.

Sami Nenola - Sharkslayer
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Great 80's NYC throwback styles! Reminds us of SPF-500.

Laurent ASH - Lifelike
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Snuff crew remix works best on a dancefloor, great early 90's vibes, cool !

Jacob Thiele - Jacob Thiele / Depressed Buttons (GOO (IN OMAHA))
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew

Colin Peters - Colin Peters (Ibiza Rocks) (IBIZA ROCKS/ ROCK NIGHTS)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Like the Snuff girl mix has a wee bit more charge to it


Other responders
Dmitry Malyshev - dMIT.RY (W.A.R.P./ Neo Violence)
fantastic house!!! snuff crew did a great job on a remix. full support

Quinn Whalley - Different Gear
effing awesome package! right up my street. similar to my Paranoid London label - raw acid house with vocals. love it. love all the versions.

Daniel Gleeson - Dan Neon (Propaganda London/ Digital Disco Birmingham)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub

Paul Budd - Pablo Contraband (Disco Deviant Special/ Release)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerver Dub Killer release - suits me

Paul Carr - Baunder / Soundexile
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Wicked remix, nice vocals by Billie

Albert Masferrer - Kosmos (BOOMBOX/ NASTY MONDAYS)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerve Dub i love it! everything's great in here but specially the dubs and the Salomon work my nerver dub!

INFADELS DJS (ALL OVER UK/ LOW CLUB)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original

Roger Cervantes - RADIOCONTROL (Killtheparty/ Noise Club / Becool)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original I was half into the song and thinking "please...give me some acid!" and I got it!


Sam Young - SAM YOUNG (Boujis Thursday & Sundays/ Nod Factor Sessions at the Hoxton Pony)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Nice Snuff remix.

Chris Summers - CHRIS SUMMERS
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original that voice still does it for me.

Alex Dellarge - Dellarge
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerver Dub

Mark Baker - Mark Baker / We Take Polaroids / Burn The Negative / Lil' Devious
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original Was lucky enough to get these from Billie direct. LOVE SOLD LIFE Original most. Hypnotic deep and driving. Billie's vocals are amazing on this trk, All the best with this one Mx

Annemarie Ubbels - RobotRock Atomica (Dog Day Disco)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerve Dub

Hugo Moutinho / Discotexas - Mr Mitsuhirato
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub

RASMUS JUUL (Double Up)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix thx alot .. will play

ANDY STONE - BGPZ (Festinho/ Moog (Nottingham))
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub Wicked! Great to hear BRM back again, and after hearing so much about Hard Ton via the Low Life parties, this is just as good as I hoped it would be.

IAN WOODWARD (VARIOUS UK)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original she has such a distintive vocal. two decent tracks - with fantasy girl having the slight edge on first few spins. potentially a big club hit.

Tronik Youth (VARIOUS UK)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix great mix


GEOFF TICEHURST (SHUFFLE)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerver Dub Great dirty acid house vibe on Luke's Nerve dub

GORDON HOLLENGA - Disco Boys (EUROPE)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix

JOHN FISCHER - Ginger John (Intergalactic/ DARK PARTY)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original great sound, and great vibe on this track. really into the chicago house thats flying around at the mo

Ilan, Reuven & Shmuel Flaishler - Flash Brothers (ALL OVER/ SUMMER OF LOVE BEACH PARTIES)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Snuff Crew Remix is very cool!

CEDRIC HERMANO (VARIOUS)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original

Marc Lucas - MARC LUCAS (NU)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerve Dub Luke doing a good job

Alex Ferrer - Sidechains / The Requesters
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub

Louis Buck - Louis Louis (Club Pony)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original i love my house, i love this, nice one!

Jimmy Herrtage - Shark Bait (Beat Redemption/ We Are Your Friends)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix

DARREN CROSS (Quid Pro Quo/ Asylum)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub deep love it

William Joy - Willy Joy (House Party Saturdays/ Fly By Night)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original Really digging the og mix of Sold Life! Some warehouse vibes for sure!

JAMES CRONE (53 DEGREES/ THE RAINBOW WAREHOUSE)
Luke Solomon's Work My Nerve Dub massive

Jay Rossi - Jac The Disco
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Instrumental

Jamie Scott - JaySownds (/ )
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original Wicked detroit feel.. lovely vocal.

Ben Kane / Urban Knights - Kane / Urban Knights (Snowbombing European Tour )
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original

Mark Allain - We're Not Cool! / MOS Radio, UK (Do It!/ Bugged Out)
Liking the Snuff Crew Mix

Dave Bickerton - Dave Bicko (liverpool gay pride/ england vs algeria)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix
again love this piano, i have a thing for piano's lol. this will be gettin played deffo.

Dave Hornby (Shake)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub Nice track will play it out

Charles Moore - Charlie Moore (We.Are.Eclectricity./ We.Are.Eclectricity..)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original Big! More like this please :)

PEOPLE GET REAL DJ (MAGICBAG (LEEDS)/ PEOPLE GET REAL (SHEFFIELD))
Not much to pick between the remixes Snuff Crew and Luke Solomon ones are great... Snuff crew mix is realy cool.

Craig Charsley - X-ECUTE (Spanked/ 4th bass vs Djem)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original like the acid

Jeremy healy - JEREMY HEALY (VARIOUS UK)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original

Max Schmidt - Super Super (Mr. Weekend/ Kaputtraven Traktor Edition)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix

Crispin Dior
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub I'd like to have heard some mixes that avoided the straight up house approach - that vocal could be worked in so many ways..

Takeru Otoguro - Takeru John Otoguro (TCY Radio Tokyo/ THE BIG PARTY)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original Nice Song! Also love this acid disco groove!

JONNY TOWNSEND (DeepJam @ brb Leeds/ URBAN GORILLA)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerve Dub All tracks sound about 10 years old. Biut thats a good thing, some old schjool warehouse sounding vibes. Support.

Edward Eldridge - Duble E (Monkey Knife fight/ Dank Morass )
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew

Philip Boyle - Philth (Mother/ Soundcheck)
Liking Luke's Dub a lot.

Mark Maxwell (King Street hotel/ Poolhaus)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix

Mark Maxwell (King Street hotel/ Poolhaus)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix

Julian Peake - VERN (TYPE)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub Superb dub.

Rogier Delfos - DELFOS (M.U.L.T.I.S.E.X.I./ U.L.T.R.A.S.E.X.I.)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original

Martin Gowans - Polymath (Our appreciation society/ This is sick)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original

Mark Baker:Burn The Negative / Gung Ho! Recordings
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the Sold Life ORIGINAL, Her vocals are stunning, I actually think she'sgetting better as time goes on!!!
I like the other tracks, but for me, this is heads and shoulders above the rest!!

Graeme Park:
Wonderful! I like them all!  I'll definitely use them in my show too.

Larry T: a killer! billie at her best!

Mark Moore: I love this! Billie Ray Martin Queen of Acid Soul!

Bee (Futon,Goo, Bedsheets Magazine):
OOOOH !! am lovin that !! Vocal sound is fantastic !It's divine !!
Synths are so intoxicating too - the drop down takes me back to
London in 87' !! I can almost smell the smoke machines !!

Phil Mariott (Gaydar Radio): This is definitely up our street! A very credible and cool remix package. Will definitely support the Snuff Crew mix.
Also Sold Life is Great. GORGEOUS track.

Jerome Farley
CONTINUOUS COOL
This is the best music I have heard in 2011. Kudos to Billie for continuing to create unique, sonically spectacular music that is relevant and the highlight of all my sets. Her voice shines and the tracks are phenomenal.
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dj reactions:

DJ Hell (Gigolo Records) billie ray martin -the most beautifull voice in pop music history shows again shes on top of the game

mijk van dijk:
"Just when I rediscovered all the beauty of Electribe 101, here's Billie Ray Martin once again delivering more of the good stuff.
The originals are classic by nature, best fit for my set however is the Snuff Crew Remix. Maybe their best work to date.
Full support!"

Laurent Garnier:
OHHHH FUCKKKK YESSSSSSS
Brilllllllliant

Rob Mello - Loving all the mixes, can't chose which one to play
Chris Duckenfield - Luke's BRM Dubs have gone straight to my pick of the pops.

Kim Ann Foxman (Hercules and Love Affair) "fantasy girl remix is sooooo goooooood!  i love it!

robert owens: great track. always loved this one"

Manny Cuevas aka DJ M-Traxxx :
"tha (Snuff Crew)remix iz sick!!!”

Severino Pancetta (Horse Meat Disco): This is great ...I love it!

Acid Jacks
AMAZING
love the mixes. luke solomon doing 2 versions & the snuff crew piano action wow!!

Nico De Ceglia - BBC Radio 1 UK
"Billie wears a vintage dress for the new generations. Both original mixes and the remixes are spot on."

Nico De Ceglia - BBC Radio 1 UK
"Billie wears a vintage dress for the new generations. Both original mixes and the remixes are spot on."

also played and charted by: Aeroplane, Axwell, Crookers, Etienne De Crecy, Feadz, Filthy Dukes, John Digweed, Justus Koehncke, Larry Tee, Mixhell, Nick Catchdubs, Sister Bliss, Cagedbaby, Tom Novy

Tastemakers

Tom Findlay / Groove Armada (WONDERLAND/ Various - Worldwide)
Snuff Crew Instrumental remixes are ace, love the snuff crew instr and Luke's sold dub
Tony Humphries (VARIOUS)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Great mixes for these new BRM songs!

Chris Fortier (VARIOUS - US)
Luke Solomon's Work My Nerve Dub. is ace


Steve Mac (WORLDWIDE)
really liking lukes dub mix allot

Hernan Cattaneo (WORLDWIDE)
solomon is the one for me

Stephen Fasano - The Magician (Various - Worldwide)
Snuff Crew Instrumental snuff crew mix has a cool old school housey vibe!

Dave Seaman (VARIOUS UK)
Snuff crew and solomon dub!

Sef - Sef / Deep Teknologi (Lean Left)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original Nice old skool vibes.


Ben Pistor - Ben Pistor / Disco Bloodbath (Disco Bloodbath/ )
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerve Dub Wow! Great release! Having trouble picking my favourite mix, there all great.

Petar Dundov (Sirup)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub Solid release, both remixes work the floor

His Majesty Andre (Various - Worldwide)
Snuff Crew is the one for me.

Brett Johnson
Luke Solomon mixes alllll the way! Good stuff.


Colin McBean - Mr G (various / states)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub yeah feelin' this nice flava ..............

Tony Mitolo - Mitolo / The Swiss
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew

Bill - Bad Boy Bill (Various - Worldwide)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub

Angus Gruzman - The Finger Prince / Bang Gang DJs
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew. Take me back to your house and give me more music like this please

Will Eastman - Will Eastman (Plant Music) (U Street Music Hall)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew

Mickey Fortune - Oh Snap (ALL OVER US/ MONEYCAT)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Really cool stuff here.

Zizzed - Zizzed / Reset! (VARIOUS)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original

Will / Urchins
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub very cool ep!

Raymundo Rodriguez
It's all about Luke's Dub.

Marcin Hubert - Harper / BIS Radio, PL (EUROPE)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Instrumental good release, all about Snuff crew remix love these old school sounds and rhythms. will spin. thanks, HARPER Polskie Radio 4 K mag / Laif mag

Nicolas Nekmouche & David Saà ̄d / Donovans - Donovans
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix . Billie Ray's voice is so incredible !

Mace - Mace / Reset! (RESET!)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub

Carlos / Southmen - Southmen / 925-Digital / Yoshitoshi (Hedkandi)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original good package

Eskimo Twins (Reclaim the Dance Floor/ WAX: ON)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Wicked house! Love it, full support

Kim Mathijs - Ed&Kim (Studio Brussels)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original cool proper oldskool house!

Matt Walsh (Turbo Recordings/ Bugged Out!)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix wow, amazing ep, full support!

Mike Gnacadja - Mikix The Cat / Momma's Boy (Petit Social)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix
oldschool vibe and a very nice voice ! I love it

Adrian Thomas - Ajax (AUSTRALIA)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original

Angel Molina - Angel Molina / Wax Sessions
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Instrumental fantastic record. Original tracks / jackin ́sound from Snuff Crew and Luke ́s remixes. Very complete.

Andy Gardner / Plump DJs (WORLDWIDE)
Original fantasy girl is great-classic acid attack.

Sami Nenola - Sharkslayer
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Great 80's NYC throwback styles! Reminds us of SPF-500.

Laurent ASH - Lifelike
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Snuff crew remix works best on a dancefloor, great early 90's vibes, cool !

Jacob Thiele - Jacob Thiele / Depressed Buttons (GOO (IN OMAHA))
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew

Colin Peters - Colin Peters (Ibiza Rocks) (IBIZA ROCKS/ ROCK NIGHTS)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Like the Snuff girl mix has a wee bit more charge to it


Other responders
Dmitry Malyshev - dMIT.RY (W.A.R.P./ Neo Violence)
fantastic house!!! snuff crew did a great job on a remix. full support

Quinn Whalley - Different Gear
effing awesome package! right up my street. similar to my Paranoid London label - raw acid house with vocals. love it. love all the versions.

Daniel Gleeson - Dan Neon (Propaganda London/ Digital Disco Birmingham)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub

Paul Budd - Pablo Contraband (Disco Deviant Special/ Release)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerver Dub Killer release - suits me

Paul Carr - Baunder / Soundexile
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Wicked remix, nice vocals by Billie

Albert Masferrer - Kosmos (BOOMBOX/ NASTY MONDAYS)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerve Dub i love it! everything's great in here but specially the dubs and the Salomon work my nerver dub!

INFADELS DJS (ALL OVER UK/ LOW CLUB)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original

Roger Cervantes - RADIOCONTROL (Killtheparty/ Noise Club / Becool)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original I was half into the song and thinking "please...give me some acid!" and I got it!


Sam Young - SAM YOUNG (Boujis Thursday & Sundays/ Nod Factor Sessions at the Hoxton Pony)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Nice Snuff remix.

Chris Summers - CHRIS SUMMERS
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original that voice still does it for me.

Alex Dellarge - Dellarge
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerver Dub

Mark Baker - Mark Baker / We Take Polaroids / Burn The Negative / Lil' Devious
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original Was lucky enough to get these from Billie direct. LOVE SOLD LIFE Original most. Hypnotic deep and driving. Billie's vocals are amazing on this trk, All the best with this one Mx

Annemarie Ubbels - RobotRock Atomica (Dog Day Disco)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerve Dub

Hugo Moutinho / Discotexas - Mr Mitsuhirato
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub

RASMUS JUUL (Double Up)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix thx alot .. will play

ANDY STONE - BGPZ (Festinho/ Moog (Nottingham))
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub Wicked! Great to hear BRM back again, and after hearing so much about Hard Ton via the Low Life parties, this is just as good as I hoped it would be.

IAN WOODWARD (VARIOUS UK)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original she has such a distintive vocal. two decent tracks - with fantasy girl having the slight edge on first few spins. potentially a big club hit.

Tronik Youth (VARIOUS UK)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix great mix


GEOFF TICEHURST (SHUFFLE)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerver Dub Great dirty acid house vibe on Luke's Nerve dub

GORDON HOLLENGA - Disco Boys (EUROPE)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix

JOHN FISCHER - Ginger John (Intergalactic/ DARK PARTY)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original great sound, and great vibe on this track. really into the chicago house thats flying around at the mo

Ilan, Reuven & Shmuel Flaishler - Flash Brothers (ALL OVER/ SUMMER OF LOVE BEACH PARTIES)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Snuff Crew Remix is very cool!

CEDRIC HERMANO (VARIOUS)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original

Marc Lucas - MARC LUCAS (NU)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerve Dub Luke doing a good job

Alex Ferrer - Sidechains / The Requesters
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub

Louis Buck - Louis Louis (Club Pony)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original i love my house, i love this, nice one!

Jimmy Herrtage - Shark Bait (Beat Redemption/ We Are Your Friends)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix

DARREN CROSS (Quid Pro Quo/ Asylum)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub deep love it

William Joy - Willy Joy (House Party Saturdays/ Fly By Night)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original Really digging the og mix of Sold Life! Some warehouse vibes for sure!

JAMES CRONE (53 DEGREES/ THE RAINBOW WAREHOUSE)
Luke Solomon's Work My Nerve Dub massive

Jay Rossi - Jac The Disco
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Instrumental

Jamie Scott - JaySownds (/ )
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original Wicked detroit feel.. lovely vocal.

Ben Kane / Urban Knights - Kane / Urban Knights (Snowbombing European Tour )
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original

Mark Allain - We're Not Cool! / MOS Radio, UK (Do It!/ Bugged Out)
Liking the Snuff Crew Mix

Dave Bickerton - Dave Bicko (liverpool gay pride/ england vs algeria)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix
again love this piano, i have a thing for piano's lol. this will be gettin played deffo.

Dave Hornby (Shake)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub Nice track will play it out

Charles Moore - Charlie Moore (We.Are.Eclectricity./ We.Are.Eclectricity..)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original Big! More like this please :)

PEOPLE GET REAL DJ (MAGICBAG (LEEDS)/ PEOPLE GET REAL (SHEFFIELD))
Not much to pick between the remixes Snuff Crew and Luke Solomon ones are great... Snuff crew mix is realy cool.

Craig Charsley - X-ECUTE (Spanked/ 4th bass vs Djem)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original like the acid

Jeremy healy - JEREMY HEALY (VARIOUS UK)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original

Max Schmidt - Super Super (Mr. Weekend/ Kaputtraven Traktor Edition)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix

Crispin Dior
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub I'd like to have heard some mixes that avoided the straight up house approach - that vocal could be worked in so many ways..

Takeru Otoguro - Takeru John Otoguro (TCY Radio Tokyo/ THE BIG PARTY)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original Nice Song! Also love this acid disco groove!

JONNY TOWNSEND (DeepJam @ brb Leeds/ URBAN GORILLA)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerve Dub All tracks sound about 10 years old. Biut thats a good thing, some old schjool warehouse sounding vibes. Support.

Edward Eldridge - Duble E (Monkey Knife fight/ Dank Morass )
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew

Philip Boyle - Philth (Mother/ Soundcheck)
Liking Luke's Dub a lot.

Mark Maxwell (King Street hotel/ Poolhaus)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix

Mark Maxwell (King Street hotel/ Poolhaus)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix

Julian Peake - VERN (TYPE)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub Superb dub.

Rogier Delfos - DELFOS (M.U.L.T.I.S.E.X.I./ U.L.T.R.A.S.E.X.I.)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original

Martin Gowans - Polymath (Our appreciation society/ This is sick)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original

Mark Baker:Burn The Negative / Gung Ho! Recordings
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the Sold Life ORIGINAL, Her vocals are stunning, I actually think she'sgetting better as time goes on!!!
I like the other tracks, but for me, this is heads and shoulders above the rest!!

Graeme Park:
Wonderful! I like them all!  I'll definitely use them in my show too.

Larry T: a killer! billie at her best!

Mark Moore: I love this! Billie Ray Martin Queen of Acid Soul!

Bee (Futon,Goo, Bedsheets Magazine):
OOOOH !! am lovin that !! Vocal sound is fantastic !It's divine !!
Synths are so intoxicating too - the drop down takes me back to
London in 87' !! I can almost smell the smoke machines !!

Phil Mariott (Gaydar Radio): This is definitely up our street! A very credible and cool remix package. Will definitely support the Snuff Crew mix.
Also Sold Life is Great. GORGEOUS track.

Jerome Farley
CONTINUOUS COOL
This is the best music I have heard in 2011. Kudos to Billie for continuing to create unique, sonically spectacular music that is relevant and the highlight of all my sets. Her voice shines and the tracks are phenomenal.
]]> 130576 no no Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0200 2011-04-26T00:00:00+02:00 6:44 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/billie-ray-martin-and-hard-ton-sold-life-luke-solomon-remix/ Sold Life EP

https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/sold-life-ep/id427796996

digital release date: 26. April 2011
Disco Activisto Records, Berlin
Catalogue Number: DAREC1102
Distributor: Believe Digital
www.billieraymartin.com


Mijk van Dijk - Just when I rediscovered all the beauty of Electribe 101, here's Billie Ray Martin once again delivering more of the good stuff.
The originals are classic by nature, best fit for my set however is the Snuff Crew Remix. Maybe their best work to date.
Full support!
Rob Mello - Loving all the mixes, can't chose which one to play
Chris Duckenfield - Luke's BRM Dubs have gone straight to my pick of the pops.
Laurent Garnier:OHHHH FUCKKKK YESSSSSSS.Brilllllllliant

The teaming-up of Billie Ray Martin and Hard Ton is a match made in a parallel universe. Their common love for old-school Chicago and Detroit House and Techno brought them together in an attempt to pay tribute whilst creating something of the future.

The Billie/Hard Ton penned song “Sold Life” and the cover version of Pierre's Pfantasy Club's classic track “Fantasy Girl” find Hard Ton doing what they do best - making classic house music. For Billie Ray Martin too it is a return to her classic house beginnings and a nod to her famed Electribe 101 roots.

Hard Ton's Max adds his 'Sylvester'-style vocals to the mix with restraint and style.

The remix of “Fantasy Girl” by Snuff Crew with its anthemic piano vibe takes this release to yet another level. Luke Solomon's mixes of “Sold life” add a more experimental approach, whilst being floor slammers.

Billie Ray Martin and Hard Ton: more Diva than Crawford and Davis in one package.

Tracklist:
Sold Life (original version)
Fantasy Girl (original version)
Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix
Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Instrumental
Sold live - Luke Solomon Remix
Sold Life - Luke Solomon Work My Nerve Dub
Sold Life - Luke Solomon Sold Dub
]]> Sold Life EP

https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/sold-life-ep/id427796996

digital release date: 26. April 2011
Disco Activisto Records, Berlin
Catalogue Number: DAREC1102
Distributor: Believe Digital
www.billieraymartin.com


Mijk van Dijk - Just when I rediscovered all the beauty of Electribe 101, here's Billie Ray Martin once again delivering more of the good stuff.
The originals are classic by nature, best fit for my set however is the Snuff Crew Remix. Maybe their best work to date.
Full support!
Rob Mello - Loving all the mixes, can't chose which one to play
Chris Duckenfield - Luke's BRM Dubs have gone straight to my pick of the pops.
Laurent Garnier:OHHHH FUCKKKK YESSSSSSS.Brilllllllliant

The teaming-up of Billie Ray Martin and Hard Ton is a match made in a parallel universe. Their common love for old-school Chicago and Detroit House and Techno brought them together in an attempt to pay tribute whilst creating something of the future.

The Billie/Hard Ton penned song “Sold Life” and the cover version of Pierre's Pfantasy Club's classic track “Fantasy Girl” find Hard Ton doing what they do best - making classic house music. For Billie Ray Martin too it is a return to her classic house beginnings and a nod to her famed Electribe 101 roots.

Hard Ton's Max adds his 'Sylvester'-style vocals to the mix with restraint and style.

The remix of “Fantasy Girl” by Snuff Crew with its anthemic piano vibe takes this release to yet another level. Luke Solomon's mixes of “Sold life” add a more experimental approach, whilst being floor slammers.

Billie Ray Martin and Hard Ton: more Diva than Crawford and Davis in one package.

Tracklist:
Sold Life (original version)
Fantasy Girl (original version)
Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix
Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Instrumental
Sold live - Luke Solomon Remix
Sold Life - Luke Solomon Work My Nerve Dub
Sold Life - Luke Solomon Sold Dub
]]> 130573 no no Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0200 2011-04-26T00:00:00+02:00 9:25 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/billie-ray-martin-and-hard-ton-sold-life-luke-solomons-work-my-nerve-dub/ Sold Life EP

https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/sold-life-ep/id427796996

digital release date: 26. April 2011
Disco Activisto Records, Berlin
Catalogue Number: DAREC1102
Distributor: Believe Digital
www.billieraymartin.com

Mijk van Dijk - Just when I rediscovered all the beauty of Electribe 101, here's Billie Ray Martin once again delivering more of the good stuff.
The originals are classic by nature, best fit for my set however is the Snuff Crew Remix. Maybe their best work to date.
Full support!
Rob Mello - Loving all the mixes, can't chose which one to play
Chris Duckenfield - Luke's BRM Dubs have gone straight to my pick of the pops.
Laurent Garnier:OHHHH FUCKKKK YESSSSSSS.Brilllllllliant

The teaming-up of Billie Ray Martin and Hard Ton is a match made in a parallel universe. Their common love for old-school Chicago and Detroit House and Techno brought them together in an attempt to pay tribute whilst creating something of the future.

The Billie/Hard Ton penned song “Sold Life” and the cover version of Pierre's Pfantasy Club's classic track “Fantasy Girl” find Hard Ton doing what they do best - making classic house music. For Billie Ray Martin too it is a return to her classic house beginnings and a nod to her famed Electribe 101 roots.

Hard Ton's Max adds his 'Sylvester'-style vocals to the mix with restraint and style.

The remix of “Fantasy Girl” by Snuff Crew with its anthemic piano vibe takes this release to yet another level. Luke Solomon's mixes of “Sold life” add a more experimental approach, whilst being floor slammers.

Billie Ray Martin and Hard Ton: more Diva than Crawford and Davis in one package.

Tracklist:
Sold Life (original version)
Fantasy Girl (original version)
Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix
Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Instrumental
Sold live - Luke Solomon Remix
Sold Life - Luke Solomon Work My Nerve Dub
Sold Life - Luke Solomon Sold Dub]]> Sold Life EP

https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/sold-life-ep/id427796996

digital release date: 26. April 2011
Disco Activisto Records, Berlin
Catalogue Number: DAREC1102
Distributor: Believe Digital
www.billieraymartin.com

Mijk van Dijk - Just when I rediscovered all the beauty of Electribe 101, here's Billie Ray Martin once again delivering more of the good stuff.
The originals are classic by nature, best fit for my set however is the Snuff Crew Remix. Maybe their best work to date.
Full support!
Rob Mello - Loving all the mixes, can't chose which one to play
Chris Duckenfield - Luke's BRM Dubs have gone straight to my pick of the pops.
Laurent Garnier:OHHHH FUCKKKK YESSSSSSS.Brilllllllliant

The teaming-up of Billie Ray Martin and Hard Ton is a match made in a parallel universe. Their common love for old-school Chicago and Detroit House and Techno brought them together in an attempt to pay tribute whilst creating something of the future.

The Billie/Hard Ton penned song “Sold Life” and the cover version of Pierre's Pfantasy Club's classic track “Fantasy Girl” find Hard Ton doing what they do best - making classic house music. For Billie Ray Martin too it is a return to her classic house beginnings and a nod to her famed Electribe 101 roots.

Hard Ton's Max adds his 'Sylvester'-style vocals to the mix with restraint and style.

The remix of “Fantasy Girl” by Snuff Crew with its anthemic piano vibe takes this release to yet another level. Luke Solomon's mixes of “Sold life” add a more experimental approach, whilst being floor slammers.

Billie Ray Martin and Hard Ton: more Diva than Crawford and Davis in one package.

Tracklist:
Sold Life (original version)
Fantasy Girl (original version)
Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix
Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Instrumental
Sold live - Luke Solomon Remix
Sold Life - Luke Solomon Work My Nerve Dub
Sold Life - Luke Solomon Sold Dub]]> 130572 no no Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0200 2011-04-26T00:00:00+02:00 6:20 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/billie-ray-martin-and-hard-ton-sold-life-luke-solomons-sold-dub/
https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/sold-life-ep/id427796996

DJ reactions:

DJ Hell (Gigolo Records) billie ray martin -the most beautifull voice in pop music history shows again shes on top of the game

mijk van dijk:
"Just when I rediscovered all the beauty of Electribe 101, here's Billie Ray Martin once again delivering more of the good stuff.
The originals are classic by nature, best fit for my set however is the Snuff Crew Remix. Maybe their best work to date.
Full support!"

Laurent Garnier:
OHHHH FUCKKKK YESSSSSSS
Brilllllllliant

Rob Mello - Loving all the mixes, can't chose which one to play
Chris Duckenfield - Luke's BRM Dubs have gone straight to my pick of the pops.

Kim Ann Foxman (Hercules and Love Affair) "fantasy girl remix is sooooo goooooood! i love it!

robert owens: great track. always loved this one"

Manny Cuevas aka DJ M-Traxxx :
"tha (Snuff Crew)remix iz sick!!!”

Severino Pancetta (Horse Meat Disco): This is great ...I love it!

Acid Jacks
AMAZING
love the mixes. luke solomon doing 2 versions & the snuff crew piano action wow!!

Nico De Ceglia - BBC Radio 1 UK
"Billie wears a vintage dress for the new generations. Both original mixes and the remixes are spot on."

Nico De Ceglia - BBC Radio 1 UK
"Billie wears a vintage dress for the new generations. Both original mixes and the remixes are spot on."

also played and charted by: Aeroplane, Axwell, Crookers, Etienne De Crecy, Feadz, Filthy Dukes, John Digweed, Justus Koehncke, Larry Tee, Mixhell, Nick Catchdubs, Sister Bliss, Cagedbaby, Tom Novy

Tastemakers

Tom Findlay / Groove Armada (WONDERLAND/ Various - Worldwide)
Snuff Crew Instrumental remixes are ace, love the snuff crew instr and Luke's sold dub
Tony Humphries (VARIOUS)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Great mixes for these new BRM songs!

Chris Fortier (VARIOUS - US)
Luke Solomon's Work My Nerve Dub. is ace

Steve Mac (WORLDWIDE)
really liking lukes dub mix allot

Hernan Cattaneo (WORLDWIDE)
solomon is the one for me

Stephen Fasano - The Magician (Various - Worldwide)
Snuff Crew Instrumental snuff crew mix has a cool old school housey vibe!

Dave Seaman (VARIOUS UK)
Snuff crew and solomon dub!

Sef - Sef / Deep Teknologi (Lean Left)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original Nice old skool vibes.

Ben Pistor - Ben Pistor / Disco Bloodbath (Disco Bloodbath/ )
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerve Dub Wow! Great release! Having trouble picking my favourite mix, there all great.

Petar Dundov (Sirup)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub Solid release, both remixes work the floor

His Majesty Andre (Various - Worldwide)
Snuff Crew is the one for me.

Brett Johnson
Luke Solomon mixes alllll the way! Good stuff.

Colin McBean - Mr G (various / states)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub yeah feelin' this nice flava ..............

Tony Mitolo - Mitolo / The Swiss
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew

Bill - Bad Boy Bill (Various - Worldwide)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub

Angus Gruzman - The Finger Prince / Bang Gang DJs
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew. Take me back to your house and give me more music like this please

Will Eastman - Will Eastman (Plant Music) (U Street Music Hall)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew

Mickey Fortune - Oh Snap (ALL OVER US/ MONEYCAT)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Really cool stuff here.

Zizzed - Zizzed / Reset! (VARIOUS)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original

Will / Urchins
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub very cool ep!

Raymundo Rodriguez
It's all about Luke's Dub.

Marcin Hubert - Harper / BIS Radio, PL (EUROPE)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Instrumental good release, all about Snuff crew remix love these old school sounds and rhythms. will spin. thanks, HARPER Polskie Radio 4 K mag / Laif mag

Nicolas Nekmouche & David Saà ̄d / Donovans - Donovans
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix . Billie Ray's voice is so incredible !

Mace - Mace / Reset! (RESET!)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub

Carlos / Southmen - Southmen / 925-Digital / Yoshitoshi (Hedkandi)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original good package

Eskimo Twins (Reclaim the Dance Floor/ WAX: ON)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Wicked house! Love it, full support

Kim Mathijs - Ed&Kim (Studio Brussels)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original cool proper oldskool house!

Matt Walsh (Turbo Recordings/ Bugged Out!)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix wow, amazing ep, full support!

Mike Gnacadja - Mikix The Cat / Momma's Boy (Petit Social)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix
oldschool vibe and a very nice voice ! I love it

Adrian Thomas - Ajax (AUSTRALIA)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original

Angel Molina - Angel Molina / Wax Sessions
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Instrumental fantastic record. Original tracks / jackin ́sound from Snuff Crew and Luke ́s remixes. Very complete.

Andy Gardner / Plump DJs (WORLDWIDE)
Original fantasy girl is great-classic acid attack.

Sami Nenola - Sharkslayer
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Great 80's NYC throwback styles! Reminds us of SPF-500.

Laurent ASH - Lifelike
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Snuff crew remix works best on a dancefloor, great early 90's vibes, cool !

Jacob Thiele - Jacob Thiele / Depressed Buttons (GOO (IN OMAHA))
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew

Colin Peters - Colin Peters (Ibiza Rocks) (IBIZA ROCKS/ ROCK NIGHTS)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Like the Snuff girl mix has a wee bit more charge to it

Other responders
Dmitry Malyshev - dMIT.RY (W.A.R.P./ Neo Violence)
fantastic house!!! snuff crew did a great job on a remix. full support

Quinn Whalley - Different Gear
effing awesome package! right up my street. similar to my Paranoid London label - raw acid house with vocals. love it. love all the versions.

Daniel Gleeson - Dan Neon (Propaganda London/ Digital Disco Birmingham)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub

Paul Budd - Pablo Contraband (Disco Deviant Special/ Release)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerver Dub Killer release - suits me

Paul Carr - Baunder / Soundexile
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Wicked remix, nice vocals by Billie

Albert Masferrer - Kosmos (BOOMBOX/ NASTY MONDAYS)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerve Dub i love it! everything's great in here but specially the dubs and the Salomon work my nerver dub!

INFADELS DJS (ALL OVER UK/ LOW CLUB)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original

Roger Cervantes - RADIOCONTROL (Killtheparty/ Noise Club / Becool)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original I was half into the song and thinking "please...give me some acid!" and I got it!

Sam Young - SAM YOUNG (Boujis Thursday & Sundays/ Nod Factor Sessions at the Hoxton Pony)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Nice Snuff remix.

Chris Summers - CHRIS SUMMERS
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original that voice still does it for me.

Alex Dellarge - Dellarge
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerver Dub

Mark Baker - Mark Baker / We Take Polaroids / Burn The Negative / Lil' Devious
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original Was lucky enough to get these from Billie direct. LOVE SOLD LIFE Original most. Hypnotic deep and driving. Billie's vocals are amazing on this trk, All the best with this one Mx

Annemarie Ubbels - RobotRock Atomica (Dog Day Disco)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerve Dub

Hugo Moutinho / Discotexas - Mr Mitsuhirato
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub

RASMUS JUUL (Double Up)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix thx alot .. will play

ANDY STONE - BGPZ (Festinho/ Moog (Nottingham))
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub Wicked! Great to hear BRM back again, and after hearing so much about Hard Ton via the Low Life parties, this is just as good as I hoped it would be.

IAN WOODWARD (VARIOUS UK)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original she has such a distintive vocal. two decent tracks - with fantasy girl having the slight edge on first few spins. potentially a big club hit.

Tronik Youth (VARIOUS UK)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix great mix

GEOFF TICEHURST (SHUFFLE)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerver Dub Great dirty acid house vibe on Luke's Nerve dub

GORDON HOLLENGA - Disco Boys (EUROPE)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix

JOHN FISCHER - Ginger John (Intergalactic/ DARK PARTY)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original great sound, and great vibe on this track. really into the chicago house thats flying around at the mo

Ilan, Reuven & Shmuel Flaishler - Flash Brothers (ALL OVER/ SUMMER OF LOVE BEACH PARTIES)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Snuff Crew Remix is very cool!

CEDRIC HERMANO (VARIOUS)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original

Marc Lucas - MARC LUCAS (NU)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerve Dub Luke doing a good job

Alex Ferrer - Sidechains / The Requesters
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub

Louis Buck - Louis Louis (Club Pony)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original i love my house, i love this, nice one!

Jimmy Herrtage - Shark Bait (Beat Redemption/ We Are Your Friends)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix

DARREN CROSS (Quid Pro Quo/ Asylum)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub deep love it

William Joy - Willy Joy (House Party Saturdays/ Fly By Night)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original Really digging the og mix of Sold Life! Some warehouse vibes for sure!

JAMES CRONE (53 DEGREES/ THE RAINBOW WAREHOUSE)
Luke Solomon's Work My Nerve Dub massive

Jay Rossi - Jac The Disco
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Instrumental

Jamie Scott - JaySownds (/ )
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original Wicked detroit feel.. lovely vocal.

Ben Kane / Urban Knights - Kane / Urban Knights (Snowbombing European Tour )
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original

Mark Allain - We're Not Cool! / MOS Radio, UK (Do It!/ Bugged Out)
Liking the Snuff Crew Mix

Dave Bickerton - Dave Bicko (liverpool gay pride/ england vs algeria)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix
again love this piano, i have a thing for piano's lol. this will be gettin played deffo.

Dave Hornby (Shake)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub Nice track will play it out

Charles Moore - Charlie Moore (We.Are.Eclectricity./ We.Are.Eclectricity..)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original Big! More like this please :)

PEOPLE GET REAL DJ (MAGICBAG (LEEDS)/ PEOPLE GET REAL (SHEFFIELD))
Not much to pick between the remixes Snuff Crew and Luke Solomon ones are great... Snuff crew mix is realy cool.

Craig Charsley - X-ECUTE (Spanked/ 4th bass vs Djem)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original like the acid

Jeremy healy - JEREMY HEALY (VARIOUS UK)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original

Max Schmidt - Super Super (Mr. Weekend/ Kaputtraven Traktor Edition)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix

Crispin Dior
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub I'd like to have heard some mixes that avoided the straight up house approach - that vocal could be worked in so many ways..

Takeru Otoguro - Takeru John Otoguro (TCY Radio Tokyo/ THE BIG PARTY)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original Nice Song! Also love this acid disco groove!

JONNY TOWNSEND (DeepJam @ brb Leeds/ URBAN GORILLA)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerve Dub All tracks sound about 10 years old. Biut thats a good thing, some old schjool warehouse sounding vibes. Support.

Edward Eldridge - Duble E (Monkey Knife fight/ Dank Morass )
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew

Philip Boyle - Philth (Mother/ Soundcheck)
Liking Luke's Dub a lot.

Mark Maxwell (King Street hotel/ Poolhaus)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix

Mark Maxwell (King Street hotel/ Poolhaus)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix

Julian Peake - VERN (TYPE)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub Superb dub.

Rogier Delfos - DELFOS (M.U.L.T.I.S.E.X.I./ U.L.T.R.A.S.E.X.I.)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original

Martin Gowans - Polymath (Our appreciation society/ This is sick)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original

Mark Baker:Burn The Negative / Gung Ho! Recordings
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the Sold Life ORIGINAL, Her vocals are stunning, I actually think she'sgetting better as time goes on!!!
I like the other tracks, but for me, this is heads and shoulders above the rest!!

Graeme Park:
Wonderful! I like them all! I'll definitely use them in my show too.

Larry T: a killer! billie at her best!

Mark Moore: I love this! Billie Ray Martin Queen of Acid Soul!

Bee (Futon,Goo, Bedsheets Magazine):
OOOOH !! am lovin that !! Vocal sound is fantastic !It's divine !!
Synths are so intoxicating too - the drop down takes me back to
London in 87' !! I can almost smell the smoke machines !!

Phil Mariott (Gaydar Radio): This is definitely up our street! A very credible and cool remix package. Will definitely support the Snuff Crew mix.
Also Sold Life is Great. GORGEOUS track.

Jerome Farley
CONTINUOUS COOL
This is the best music I have heard in 2011. Kudos to Billie for continuing to create unique, sonically spectacular music that is relevant and the highlight of all my sets. Her voice shines and the tracks are phenomenal.]]>
https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/sold-life-ep/id427796996

DJ reactions:

DJ Hell (Gigolo Records) billie ray martin -the most beautifull voice in pop music history shows again shes on top of the game

mijk van dijk:
"Just when I rediscovered all the beauty of Electribe 101, here's Billie Ray Martin once again delivering more of the good stuff.
The originals are classic by nature, best fit for my set however is the Snuff Crew Remix. Maybe their best work to date.
Full support!"

Laurent Garnier:
OHHHH FUCKKKK YESSSSSSS
Brilllllllliant

Rob Mello - Loving all the mixes, can't chose which one to play
Chris Duckenfield - Luke's BRM Dubs have gone straight to my pick of the pops.

Kim Ann Foxman (Hercules and Love Affair) "fantasy girl remix is sooooo goooooood! i love it!

robert owens: great track. always loved this one"

Manny Cuevas aka DJ M-Traxxx :
"tha (Snuff Crew)remix iz sick!!!”

Severino Pancetta (Horse Meat Disco): This is great ...I love it!

Acid Jacks
AMAZING
love the mixes. luke solomon doing 2 versions & the snuff crew piano action wow!!

Nico De Ceglia - BBC Radio 1 UK
"Billie wears a vintage dress for the new generations. Both original mixes and the remixes are spot on."

Nico De Ceglia - BBC Radio 1 UK
"Billie wears a vintage dress for the new generations. Both original mixes and the remixes are spot on."

also played and charted by: Aeroplane, Axwell, Crookers, Etienne De Crecy, Feadz, Filthy Dukes, John Digweed, Justus Koehncke, Larry Tee, Mixhell, Nick Catchdubs, Sister Bliss, Cagedbaby, Tom Novy

Tastemakers

Tom Findlay / Groove Armada (WONDERLAND/ Various - Worldwide)
Snuff Crew Instrumental remixes are ace, love the snuff crew instr and Luke's sold dub
Tony Humphries (VARIOUS)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Great mixes for these new BRM songs!

Chris Fortier (VARIOUS - US)
Luke Solomon's Work My Nerve Dub. is ace

Steve Mac (WORLDWIDE)
really liking lukes dub mix allot

Hernan Cattaneo (WORLDWIDE)
solomon is the one for me

Stephen Fasano - The Magician (Various - Worldwide)
Snuff Crew Instrumental snuff crew mix has a cool old school housey vibe!

Dave Seaman (VARIOUS UK)
Snuff crew and solomon dub!

Sef - Sef / Deep Teknologi (Lean Left)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original Nice old skool vibes.

Ben Pistor - Ben Pistor / Disco Bloodbath (Disco Bloodbath/ )
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerve Dub Wow! Great release! Having trouble picking my favourite mix, there all great.

Petar Dundov (Sirup)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub Solid release, both remixes work the floor

His Majesty Andre (Various - Worldwide)
Snuff Crew is the one for me.

Brett Johnson
Luke Solomon mixes alllll the way! Good stuff.

Colin McBean - Mr G (various / states)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub yeah feelin' this nice flava ..............

Tony Mitolo - Mitolo / The Swiss
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew

Bill - Bad Boy Bill (Various - Worldwide)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub

Angus Gruzman - The Finger Prince / Bang Gang DJs
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew. Take me back to your house and give me more music like this please

Will Eastman - Will Eastman (Plant Music) (U Street Music Hall)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew

Mickey Fortune - Oh Snap (ALL OVER US/ MONEYCAT)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Really cool stuff here.

Zizzed - Zizzed / Reset! (VARIOUS)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original

Will / Urchins
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub very cool ep!

Raymundo Rodriguez
It's all about Luke's Dub.

Marcin Hubert - Harper / BIS Radio, PL (EUROPE)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Instrumental good release, all about Snuff crew remix love these old school sounds and rhythms. will spin. thanks, HARPER Polskie Radio 4 K mag / Laif mag

Nicolas Nekmouche & David Saà ̄d / Donovans - Donovans
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix . Billie Ray's voice is so incredible !

Mace - Mace / Reset! (RESET!)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub

Carlos / Southmen - Southmen / 925-Digital / Yoshitoshi (Hedkandi)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original good package

Eskimo Twins (Reclaim the Dance Floor/ WAX: ON)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Wicked house! Love it, full support

Kim Mathijs - Ed&Kim (Studio Brussels)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original cool proper oldskool house!

Matt Walsh (Turbo Recordings/ Bugged Out!)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix wow, amazing ep, full support!

Mike Gnacadja - Mikix The Cat / Momma's Boy (Petit Social)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix
oldschool vibe and a very nice voice ! I love it

Adrian Thomas - Ajax (AUSTRALIA)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original

Angel Molina - Angel Molina / Wax Sessions
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Instrumental fantastic record. Original tracks / jackin ́sound from Snuff Crew and Luke ́s remixes. Very complete.

Andy Gardner / Plump DJs (WORLDWIDE)
Original fantasy girl is great-classic acid attack.

Sami Nenola - Sharkslayer
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Great 80's NYC throwback styles! Reminds us of SPF-500.

Laurent ASH - Lifelike
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Snuff crew remix works best on a dancefloor, great early 90's vibes, cool !

Jacob Thiele - Jacob Thiele / Depressed Buttons (GOO (IN OMAHA))
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew

Colin Peters - Colin Peters (Ibiza Rocks) (IBIZA ROCKS/ ROCK NIGHTS)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Like the Snuff girl mix has a wee bit more charge to it

Other responders
Dmitry Malyshev - dMIT.RY (W.A.R.P./ Neo Violence)
fantastic house!!! snuff crew did a great job on a remix. full support

Quinn Whalley - Different Gear
effing awesome package! right up my street. similar to my Paranoid London label - raw acid house with vocals. love it. love all the versions.

Daniel Gleeson - Dan Neon (Propaganda London/ Digital Disco Birmingham)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub

Paul Budd - Pablo Contraband (Disco Deviant Special/ Release)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerver Dub Killer release - suits me

Paul Carr - Baunder / Soundexile
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Wicked remix, nice vocals by Billie

Albert Masferrer - Kosmos (BOOMBOX/ NASTY MONDAYS)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerve Dub i love it! everything's great in here but specially the dubs and the Salomon work my nerver dub!

INFADELS DJS (ALL OVER UK/ LOW CLUB)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original

Roger Cervantes - RADIOCONTROL (Killtheparty/ Noise Club / Becool)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original I was half into the song and thinking "please...give me some acid!" and I got it!

Sam Young - SAM YOUNG (Boujis Thursday & Sundays/ Nod Factor Sessions at the Hoxton Pony)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Nice Snuff remix.

Chris Summers - CHRIS SUMMERS
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original that voice still does it for me.

Alex Dellarge - Dellarge
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerver Dub

Mark Baker - Mark Baker / We Take Polaroids / Burn The Negative / Lil' Devious
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original Was lucky enough to get these from Billie direct. LOVE SOLD LIFE Original most. Hypnotic deep and driving. Billie's vocals are amazing on this trk, All the best with this one Mx

Annemarie Ubbels - RobotRock Atomica (Dog Day Disco)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerve Dub

Hugo Moutinho / Discotexas - Mr Mitsuhirato
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub

RASMUS JUUL (Double Up)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix thx alot .. will play

ANDY STONE - BGPZ (Festinho/ Moog (Nottingham))
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub Wicked! Great to hear BRM back again, and after hearing so much about Hard Ton via the Low Life parties, this is just as good as I hoped it would be.

IAN WOODWARD (VARIOUS UK)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original she has such a distintive vocal. two decent tracks - with fantasy girl having the slight edge on first few spins. potentially a big club hit.

Tronik Youth (VARIOUS UK)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix great mix

GEOFF TICEHURST (SHUFFLE)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerver Dub Great dirty acid house vibe on Luke's Nerve dub

GORDON HOLLENGA - Disco Boys (EUROPE)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix

JOHN FISCHER - Ginger John (Intergalactic/ DARK PARTY)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original great sound, and great vibe on this track. really into the chicago house thats flying around at the mo

Ilan, Reuven & Shmuel Flaishler - Flash Brothers (ALL OVER/ SUMMER OF LOVE BEACH PARTIES)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix Snuff Crew Remix is very cool!

CEDRIC HERMANO (VARIOUS)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original

Marc Lucas - MARC LUCAS (NU)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerve Dub Luke doing a good job

Alex Ferrer - Sidechains / The Requesters
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub

Louis Buck - Louis Louis (Club Pony)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original i love my house, i love this, nice one!

Jimmy Herrtage - Shark Bait (Beat Redemption/ We Are Your Friends)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix

DARREN CROSS (Quid Pro Quo/ Asylum)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub deep love it

William Joy - Willy Joy (House Party Saturdays/ Fly By Night)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original Really digging the og mix of Sold Life! Some warehouse vibes for sure!

JAMES CRONE (53 DEGREES/ THE RAINBOW WAREHOUSE)
Luke Solomon's Work My Nerve Dub massive

Jay Rossi - Jac The Disco
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Instrumental

Jamie Scott - JaySownds (/ )
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original Wicked detroit feel.. lovely vocal.

Ben Kane / Urban Knights - Kane / Urban Knights (Snowbombing European Tour )
Favourite track: Sold Life - Original

Mark Allain - We're Not Cool! / MOS Radio, UK (Do It!/ Bugged Out)
Liking the Snuff Crew Mix

Dave Bickerton - Dave Bicko (liverpool gay pride/ england vs algeria)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix
again love this piano, i have a thing for piano's lol. this will be gettin played deffo.

Dave Hornby (Shake)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub Nice track will play it out

Charles Moore - Charlie Moore (We.Are.Eclectricity./ We.Are.Eclectricity..)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original Big! More like this please :)

PEOPLE GET REAL DJ (MAGICBAG (LEEDS)/ PEOPLE GET REAL (SHEFFIELD))
Not much to pick between the remixes Snuff Crew and Luke Solomon ones are great... Snuff crew mix is realy cool.

Craig Charsley - X-ECUTE (Spanked/ 4th bass vs Djem)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original like the acid

Jeremy healy - JEREMY HEALY (VARIOUS UK)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original

Max Schmidt - Super Super (Mr. Weekend/ Kaputtraven Traktor Edition)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix

Crispin Dior
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub I'd like to have heard some mixes that avoided the straight up house approach - that vocal could be worked in so many ways..

Takeru Otoguro - Takeru John Otoguro (TCY Radio Tokyo/ THE BIG PARTY)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original Nice Song! Also love this acid disco groove!

JONNY TOWNSEND (DeepJam @ brb Leeds/ URBAN GORILLA)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Work My Nerve Dub All tracks sound about 10 years old. Biut thats a good thing, some old schjool warehouse sounding vibes. Support.

Edward Eldridge - Duble E (Monkey Knife fight/ Dank Morass )
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew

Philip Boyle - Philth (Mother/ Soundcheck)
Liking Luke's Dub a lot.

Mark Maxwell (King Street hotel/ Poolhaus)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix

Mark Maxwell (King Street hotel/ Poolhaus)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix

Julian Peake - VERN (TYPE)
Favourite track: Sold Life - Luke Solomon's Sold Dub Superb dub.

Rogier Delfos - DELFOS (M.U.L.T.I.S.E.X.I./ U.L.T.R.A.S.E.X.I.)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original

Martin Gowans - Polymath (Our appreciation society/ This is sick)
Favourite track: Fantasy Girl - Original

Mark Baker:Burn The Negative / Gung Ho! Recordings
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the Sold Life ORIGINAL, Her vocals are stunning, I actually think she'sgetting better as time goes on!!!
I like the other tracks, but for me, this is heads and shoulders above the rest!!

Graeme Park:
Wonderful! I like them all! I'll definitely use them in my show too.

Larry T: a killer! billie at her best!

Mark Moore: I love this! Billie Ray Martin Queen of Acid Soul!

Bee (Futon,Goo, Bedsheets Magazine):
OOOOH !! am lovin that !! Vocal sound is fantastic !It's divine !!
Synths are so intoxicating too - the drop down takes me back to
London in 87' !! I can almost smell the smoke machines !!

Phil Mariott (Gaydar Radio): This is definitely up our street! A very credible and cool remix package. Will definitely support the Snuff Crew mix.
Also Sold Life is Great. GORGEOUS track.

Jerome Farley
CONTINUOUS COOL
This is the best music I have heard in 2011. Kudos to Billie for continuing to create unique, sonically spectacular music that is relevant and the highlight of all my sets. Her voice shines and the tracks are phenomenal.]]> 130571 no no Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0200 2011-04-26T00:00:00+02:00 6:22 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/billie-ray-martin-and-hard-ton-fantasy-girl-snuff-crew-remix/ Sold Life EP

https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/sold-life-ep/id427796996

digital release date: 26. April 2011
Disco Activisto Records, Berlin
Catalogue Number: DAREC1102
Distributor: Believe Digital
www.billieraymartin.com


Mijk van Dijk - Just when I rediscovered all the beauty of Electribe 101, here's Billie Ray Martin once again delivering more of the good stuff.
The originals are classic by nature, best fit for my set however is the Snuff Crew Remix. Maybe their best work to date.
Full support!
Rob Mello - Loving all the mixes, can't chose which one to play
Chris Duckenfield - Luke's BRM Dubs have gone straight to my pick of the pops.
Laurent Garnier:OHHHH FUCKKKK YESSSSSSS.Brilllllllliant

The teaming-up of Billie Ray Martin and Hard Ton is a match made in a parallel universe. Their common love for old-school Chicago and Detroit House and Techno brought them together in an attempt to pay tribute whilst creating something of the future.

The Billie/Hard Ton penned song “Sold Life” and the cover version of Pierre's Pfantasy Club's classic track “Fantasy Girl” find Hard Ton doing what they do best - making classic house music. For Billie Ray Martin too it is a return to her classic house beginnings and a nod to her famed Electribe 101 roots.

Hard Ton's Max adds his 'Sylvester'-style vocals to the mix with restraint and style.

The remix of “Fantasy Girl” by Snuff Crew with its anthemic piano vibe takes this release to yet another level. Luke Solomon's mixes of “Sold life” add a more experimental approach, whilst being floor slammers.

Billie Ray Martin and Hard Ton: more Diva than Crawford and Davis in one package.

Tracklist:
Sold Life (original version)
Fantasy Girl (original version)
Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix
Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Instrumental
Sold live - Luke Solomon Remix
Sold Life - Luke Solomon Work My Nerve Dub
Sold Life - Luke Solomon Sold Dub



]]> Sold Life EP

https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/sold-life-ep/id427796996

digital release date: 26. April 2011
Disco Activisto Records, Berlin
Catalogue Number: DAREC1102
Distributor: Believe Digital
www.billieraymartin.com


Mijk van Dijk - Just when I rediscovered all the beauty of Electribe 101, here's Billie Ray Martin once again delivering more of the good stuff.
The originals are classic by nature, best fit for my set however is the Snuff Crew Remix. Maybe their best work to date.
Full support!
Rob Mello - Loving all the mixes, can't chose which one to play
Chris Duckenfield - Luke's BRM Dubs have gone straight to my pick of the pops.
Laurent Garnier:OHHHH FUCKKKK YESSSSSSS.Brilllllllliant

The teaming-up of Billie Ray Martin and Hard Ton is a match made in a parallel universe. Their common love for old-school Chicago and Detroit House and Techno brought them together in an attempt to pay tribute whilst creating something of the future.

The Billie/Hard Ton penned song “Sold Life” and the cover version of Pierre's Pfantasy Club's classic track “Fantasy Girl” find Hard Ton doing what they do best - making classic house music. For Billie Ray Martin too it is a return to her classic house beginnings and a nod to her famed Electribe 101 roots.

Hard Ton's Max adds his 'Sylvester'-style vocals to the mix with restraint and style.

The remix of “Fantasy Girl” by Snuff Crew with its anthemic piano vibe takes this release to yet another level. Luke Solomon's mixes of “Sold life” add a more experimental approach, whilst being floor slammers.

Billie Ray Martin and Hard Ton: more Diva than Crawford and Davis in one package.

Tracklist:
Sold Life (original version)
Fantasy Girl (original version)
Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Remix
Fantasy Girl - Snuff Crew Instrumental
Sold live - Luke Solomon Remix
Sold Life - Luke Solomon Work My Nerve Dub
Sold Life - Luke Solomon Sold Dub



]]> 130578 no no Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0200 2011-04-26T00:00:00+02:00 7:38 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/sweet-suburban-disco-original-version-extended/ Single: "Sweet Suburban Disco"
Digital Release date: 28 February 2011
Catalogue number: darec1101
Disco Activisto Records
Distributor: Believe Digital
www.billieraymartin.com


Billie Ray Martin’s long awaited follow-up to her 2008 international club hit “Undisco Me' is finally released. Reinventing Italo Disco was the goal, but with a unique sound. Billie and co-producer Mike Vamp of Maertini Broes deliver an almost laid back yet dancefloor-bound pop fest.

Angst on the Suburban Dancefloor is the theme, as only Billie Ray Martin, 'the Nico of the rave generation', as one magazine called her, can deliver it.

Enhanced by mixes from Yazoo maestro Vince Clarke and Horse Meat Disco giant Severino, as well as mixes by Luke Solomon and Ray Grant, this package delivers the BRM goodies once again.

This is the first in a string of releases for Billie Ray Martin in 2011, which will include a collaboration with darlings of the underground Hard Ton and the long awaited album by The Opiates.

Written by: Billie Ray Martin
Produced by: Billie Ray Martin and Mike Vamp
Programming: by Mike Vamp
Mixed by: Mike Vamp and Billie Ray Martin at Audio Park Studios, Berlin
Artwork by: subtitleny (http://subtitleny.com/)

Tracklist:
sweet suburban disco radio edit
sweet suburban disco original version
sweet suburban disco Vince Clarke remix
sweet suburban disco Severino remix
sweet suburban disco Severino less vocal mix
sweet suburban disco Ray Grant lights glow disco
sweet suburban disco Ray Grant neon disco dub
sweet suburban disco Luke Solomon dub
sweet suburban disco original version instrumental ]]> Single: "Sweet Suburban Disco"
Digital Release date: 28 February 2011
Catalogue number: darec1101
Disco Activisto Records
Distributor: Believe Digital
www.billieraymartin.com


Billie Ray Martin’s long awaited follow-up to her 2008 international club hit “Undisco Me' is finally released. Reinventing Italo Disco was the goal, but with a unique sound. Billie and co-producer Mike Vamp of Maertini Broes deliver an almost laid back yet dancefloor-bound pop fest.

Angst on the Suburban Dancefloor is the theme, as only Billie Ray Martin, 'the Nico of the rave generation', as one magazine called her, can deliver it.

Enhanced by mixes from Yazoo maestro Vince Clarke and Horse Meat Disco giant Severino, as well as mixes by Luke Solomon and Ray Grant, this package delivers the BRM goodies once again.

This is the first in a string of releases for Billie Ray Martin in 2011, which will include a collaboration with darlings of the underground Hard Ton and the long awaited album by The Opiates.

Written by: Billie Ray Martin
Produced by: Billie Ray Martin and Mike Vamp
Programming: by Mike Vamp
Mixed by: Mike Vamp and Billie Ray Martin at Audio Park Studios, Berlin
Artwork by: subtitleny (http://subtitleny.com/)

Tracklist:
sweet suburban disco radio edit
sweet suburban disco original version
sweet suburban disco Vince Clarke remix
sweet suburban disco Severino remix
sweet suburban disco Severino less vocal mix
sweet suburban disco Ray Grant lights glow disco
sweet suburban disco Ray Grant neon disco dub
sweet suburban disco Luke Solomon dub
sweet suburban disco original version instrumental ]]> 130561 no no Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 2011-02-28T00:00:00+01:00 7:43 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/sweet-suburban-disco-radio-edit/
https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/sweet-suburban-disco/id417920465

Single: "Sweet Suburban Disco"
Digital Release date: 28 February 2011
Catalogue number: darec1101
Disco Activisto Records
Distributor: Believe Digital
www.billieraymartin.com


Billie Ray Martin’s long awaited follow-up to her 2008 international club hit “Undisco Me' is finally released. Reinventing Italo Disco was the goal, but with a unique sound. Billie and co-producer Mike Vamp of Maertini Broes deliver an almost laid back yet dancefloor-bound pop fest.

Angst on the Suburban Dancefloor is the theme, as only Billie Ray Martin, 'the Nico of the rave generation', as one magazine called her, can deliver it.

Enhanced by mixes from Yazoo maestro Vince Clarke and Horse Meat Disco giant Severino, as well as mixes by Luke Solomon and Ray Grant, this package delivers the BRM goodies once again.

This is the first in a string of releases for Billie Ray Martin in 2011, which will include a collaboration with darlings of the underground Hard Ton and the long awaited album by The Opiates.

Written by: Billie Ray Martin
Produced by: Billie Ray Martin and Mike Vamp
Programming: by Mike Vamp
Mixed by: Mike Vamp and Billie Ray Martin at Audio Park Studios, Berlin
Artwork by: subtitleny (http://subtitleny.com/)

Tracklist:
sweet suburban disco radio edit
sweet suburban disco original version
sweet suburban disco Vince Clarke remix
sweet suburban disco Severino remix
sweet suburban disco Severino less vocal mix
sweet suburban disco Ray Grant lights glow disco
sweet suburban disco Ray Grant neon disco dub
sweet suburban disco Luke Solomon dub
sweet suburban disco original version instrumental ]]>
https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/sweet-suburban-disco/id417920465

Single: "Sweet Suburban Disco"
Digital Release date: 28 February 2011
Catalogue number: darec1101
Disco Activisto Records
Distributor: Believe Digital
www.billieraymartin.com


Billie Ray Martin’s long awaited follow-up to her 2008 international club hit “Undisco Me' is finally released. Reinventing Italo Disco was the goal, but with a unique sound. Billie and co-producer Mike Vamp of Maertini Broes deliver an almost laid back yet dancefloor-bound pop fest.

Angst on the Suburban Dancefloor is the theme, as only Billie Ray Martin, 'the Nico of the rave generation', as one magazine called her, can deliver it.

Enhanced by mixes from Yazoo maestro Vince Clarke and Horse Meat Disco giant Severino, as well as mixes by Luke Solomon and Ray Grant, this package delivers the BRM goodies once again.

This is the first in a string of releases for Billie Ray Martin in 2011, which will include a collaboration with darlings of the underground Hard Ton and the long awaited album by The Opiates.

Written by: Billie Ray Martin
Produced by: Billie Ray Martin and Mike Vamp
Programming: by Mike Vamp
Mixed by: Mike Vamp and Billie Ray Martin at Audio Park Studios, Berlin
Artwork by: subtitleny (http://subtitleny.com/)

Tracklist:
sweet suburban disco radio edit
sweet suburban disco original version
sweet suburban disco Vince Clarke remix
sweet suburban disco Severino remix
sweet suburban disco Severino less vocal mix
sweet suburban disco Ray Grant lights glow disco
sweet suburban disco Ray Grant neon disco dub
sweet suburban disco Luke Solomon dub
sweet suburban disco original version instrumental ]]> 130560 no no Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 2011-02-28T00:00:00+01:00 4:01 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/sweet-suburban-disco-ray-grant-lights-glow-disco-mix/
https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/sweet-suburban-disco/id417920465

Single: "Sweet Suburban Disco"
Digital Release date: 28 February 2011
Catalogue number: darec1101
Disco Activisto Records
Distributor: Believe Digital
www.billieraymartin.com


Billie Ray Martin’s long awaited follow-up to her 2008 international club hit “Undisco Me' is finally released. Reinventing Italo Disco was the goal, but with a unique sound. Billie and co-producer Mike Vamp of Maertini Broes deliver an almost laid back yet dancefloor-bound pop fest.

Angst on the Suburban Dancefloor is the theme, as only Billie Ray Martin, 'the Nico of the rave generation', as one magazine called her, can deliver it.

Enhanced by mixes from Yazoo maestro Vince Clarke and Horse Meat Disco giant Severino, as well as mixes by Luke Solomon and Ray Grant, this package delivers the BRM goodies once again.

This is the first in a string of releases for Billie Ray Martin in 2011, which will include a collaboration with darlings of the underground Hard Ton and the long awaited album by The Opiates.

Written by: Billie Ray Martin
Produced by: Billie Ray Martin and Mike Vamp
Programming: by Mike Vamp
Mixed by: Mike Vamp and Billie Ray Martin at Audio Park Studios, Berlin
Artwork by: subtitleny (http://subtitleny.com/)

Tracklist:
sweet suburban disco radio edit
sweet suburban disco original version
sweet suburban disco Vince Clarke remix
sweet suburban disco Severino remix
sweet suburban disco Severino less vocal mix
sweet suburban disco Ray Grant lights glow disco
sweet suburban disco Ray Grant neon disco dub
sweet suburban disco Luke Solomon dub
sweet suburban disco original version instrumental ]]>
https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/sweet-suburban-disco/id417920465

Single: "Sweet Suburban Disco"
Digital Release date: 28 February 2011
Catalogue number: darec1101
Disco Activisto Records
Distributor: Believe Digital
www.billieraymartin.com


Billie Ray Martin’s long awaited follow-up to her 2008 international club hit “Undisco Me' is finally released. Reinventing Italo Disco was the goal, but with a unique sound. Billie and co-producer Mike Vamp of Maertini Broes deliver an almost laid back yet dancefloor-bound pop fest.

Angst on the Suburban Dancefloor is the theme, as only Billie Ray Martin, 'the Nico of the rave generation', as one magazine called her, can deliver it.

Enhanced by mixes from Yazoo maestro Vince Clarke and Horse Meat Disco giant Severino, as well as mixes by Luke Solomon and Ray Grant, this package delivers the BRM goodies once again.

This is the first in a string of releases for Billie Ray Martin in 2011, which will include a collaboration with darlings of the underground Hard Ton and the long awaited album by The Opiates.

Written by: Billie Ray Martin
Produced by: Billie Ray Martin and Mike Vamp
Programming: by Mike Vamp
Mixed by: Mike Vamp and Billie Ray Martin at Audio Park Studios, Berlin
Artwork by: subtitleny (http://subtitleny.com/)

Tracklist:
sweet suburban disco radio edit
sweet suburban disco original version
sweet suburban disco Vince Clarke remix
sweet suburban disco Severino remix
sweet suburban disco Severino less vocal mix
sweet suburban disco Ray Grant lights glow disco
sweet suburban disco Ray Grant neon disco dub
sweet suburban disco Luke Solomon dub
sweet suburban disco original version instrumental ]]> 130558 no no Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 2011-02-28T00:00:00+01:00 7:42 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/sweet-suburban-disco-severino-remix/
https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/sweet-suburban-disco/id417920465

Single: "Sweet Suburban Disco"
Digital Release date: 28 February 2011
Catalogue number: darec1101
Disco Activisto Records
Distributor: Believe Digital
www.billieraymartin.com


Billie Ray Martin’s long awaited follow-up to her 2008 international club hit “Undisco Me' is finally released. Reinventing Italo Disco was the goal, but with a unique sound. Billie and co-producer Mike Vamp of Maertini Broes deliver an almost laid back yet dancefloor-bound pop fest.

Angst on the Suburban Dancefloor is the theme, as only Billie Ray Martin, 'the Nico of the rave generation', as one magazine called her, can deliver it.

Enhanced by mixes from Yazoo maestro Vince Clarke and Horse Meat Disco giant Severino, as well as mixes by Luke Solomon and Ray Grant, this package delivers the BRM goodies once again.

This is the first in a string of releases for Billie Ray Martin in 2011, which will include a collaboration with darlings of the underground Hard Ton and the long awaited album by The Opiates.

Written by: Billie Ray Martin
Produced by: Billie Ray Martin and Mike Vamp
Programming: by Mike Vamp
Mixed by: Mike Vamp and Billie Ray Martin at Audio Park Studios, Berlin
Artwork by: subtitleny (http://subtitleny.com/)

Tracklist:
sweet suburban disco radio edit
sweet suburban disco original version
sweet suburban disco Vince Clarke remix
sweet suburban disco Severino remix
sweet suburban disco Severino less vocal mix
sweet suburban disco Ray Grant lights glow disco
sweet suburban disco Ray Grant neon disco dub
sweet suburban disco Luke Solomon dub
sweet suburban disco original version instrumental ]]>
https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/sweet-suburban-disco/id417920465

Single: "Sweet Suburban Disco"
Digital Release date: 28 February 2011
Catalogue number: darec1101
Disco Activisto Records
Distributor: Believe Digital
www.billieraymartin.com


Billie Ray Martin’s long awaited follow-up to her 2008 international club hit “Undisco Me' is finally released. Reinventing Italo Disco was the goal, but with a unique sound. Billie and co-producer Mike Vamp of Maertini Broes deliver an almost laid back yet dancefloor-bound pop fest.

Angst on the Suburban Dancefloor is the theme, as only Billie Ray Martin, 'the Nico of the rave generation', as one magazine called her, can deliver it.

Enhanced by mixes from Yazoo maestro Vince Clarke and Horse Meat Disco giant Severino, as well as mixes by Luke Solomon and Ray Grant, this package delivers the BRM goodies once again.

This is the first in a string of releases for Billie Ray Martin in 2011, which will include a collaboration with darlings of the underground Hard Ton and the long awaited album by The Opiates.

Written by: Billie Ray Martin
Produced by: Billie Ray Martin and Mike Vamp
Programming: by Mike Vamp
Mixed by: Mike Vamp and Billie Ray Martin at Audio Park Studios, Berlin
Artwork by: subtitleny (http://subtitleny.com/)

Tracklist:
sweet suburban disco radio edit
sweet suburban disco original version
sweet suburban disco Vince Clarke remix
sweet suburban disco Severino remix
sweet suburban disco Severino less vocal mix
sweet suburban disco Ray Grant lights glow disco
sweet suburban disco Ray Grant neon disco dub
sweet suburban disco Luke Solomon dub
sweet suburban disco original version instrumental ]]> 130562 no no Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 2011-02-28T00:00:00+01:00 6:19 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/sweet-suburban-disco-vince-clarke-remix/
itunes.apple.com/de/album/sweet-s…isco/id417920465

Single: "Sweet Suburban Disco"
Digital Release date: 28 February 2011
Catalogue number: darec1101
Disco Activisto Records
Distributor: Believe Digital
www.billieraymartin.com

Billie Ray Martin’s long awaited follow-up to her 2008 international club hit “Undisco Me' is finally released. Reinventing Italo Disco was the goal, but with a unique sound. Billie and co-producer Mike Vamp of Maertini Broes deliver an almost laid back yet dancefloor-bound pop fest.

Angst on the Suburban Dancefloor is the theme, as only Billie Ray Martin, 'the Nico of the rave generation', as one magazine called her, can deliver it.

Enhanced by mixes from Yazoo maestro Vince Clarke and Horse Meat Disco giant Severino, as well as mixes by Luke Solomon and Ray Grant, this package delivers the BRM goodies once again.

This is the first in a string of releases for Billie Ray Martin in 2011, which will include a collaboration with darlings of the underground Hard Ton and the long awaited album by The Opiates.

Written by: Billie Ray Martin
Produced by: Billie Ray Martin and Mike Vamp
Programming: by Mike Vamp
Mixed by: Mike Vamp and Billie Ray Martin at Audio Park Studios, Berlin
Artwork by: subtitleny (subtitleny.com/)

Tracklist:
sweet suburban disco radio edit
sweet suburban disco original version
sweet suburban disco Vince Clarke remix
sweet suburban disco Severino remix
sweet suburban disco Severino less vocal mix
sweet suburban disco Ray Grant lights glow disco
sweet suburban disco Ray Grant neon disco dub
sweet suburban disco Luke Solomon dub
sweet suburban disco original version instrumental]]>
itunes.apple.com/de/album/sweet-s…isco/id417920465

Single: "Sweet Suburban Disco"
Digital Release date: 28 February 2011
Catalogue number: darec1101
Disco Activisto Records
Distributor: Believe Digital
www.billieraymartin.com

Billie Ray Martin’s long awaited follow-up to her 2008 international club hit “Undisco Me' is finally released. Reinventing Italo Disco was the goal, but with a unique sound. Billie and co-producer Mike Vamp of Maertini Broes deliver an almost laid back yet dancefloor-bound pop fest.

Angst on the Suburban Dancefloor is the theme, as only Billie Ray Martin, 'the Nico of the rave generation', as one magazine called her, can deliver it.

Enhanced by mixes from Yazoo maestro Vince Clarke and Horse Meat Disco giant Severino, as well as mixes by Luke Solomon and Ray Grant, this package delivers the BRM goodies once again.

This is the first in a string of releases for Billie Ray Martin in 2011, which will include a collaboration with darlings of the underground Hard Ton and the long awaited album by The Opiates.

Written by: Billie Ray Martin
Produced by: Billie Ray Martin and Mike Vamp
Programming: by Mike Vamp
Mixed by: Mike Vamp and Billie Ray Martin at Audio Park Studios, Berlin
Artwork by: subtitleny (subtitleny.com/)

Tracklist:
sweet suburban disco radio edit
sweet suburban disco original version
sweet suburban disco Vince Clarke remix
sweet suburban disco Severino remix
sweet suburban disco Severino less vocal mix
sweet suburban disco Ray Grant lights glow disco
sweet suburban disco Ray Grant neon disco dub
sweet suburban disco Luke Solomon dub
sweet suburban disco original version instrumental]]> 130559 no no Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 2011-02-28T00:00:00+01:00 6:36 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/undisco-me-original-radio-edit/
'OOOOOH baby undisco me' was actually something i said during the writing process of the song. It just came out with no intent. Undisco Me was an attempt at a somewhat Donna Summer/Moroder style tune but with modern Production. I feel that Vegard (his other monikers are Lil Wolf and 'Of Norway') did the most fantastic job programming and producing this track. He has a musicality which i find rare in electronic music, as far as production and programming goes. When i presented the track to a german dance label i though would fit what came back was: 'This will never work'. Soon after it topped the american dance charts and made it to number 5 in the UK charts as well. I liked the fact that my estimation of the results we had created was not wrong. The song is of course about Aliens who take me up into space, where music is less formulaic and thus i am prevented from comatose boredom. Released originally on Rebirth Records as a 2-vinyl release, they did a very good job promoting the song to DJ's and i enjoyed the positive responses and exposure it received.
Year of release: 2007]]>
'OOOOOH baby undisco me' was actually something i said during the writing process of the song. It just came out with no intent. Undisco Me was an attempt at a somewhat Donna Summer/Moroder style tune but with modern Production. I feel that Vegard (his other monikers are Lil Wolf and 'Of Norway') did the most fantastic job programming and producing this track. He has a musicality which i find rare in electronic music, as far as production and programming goes. When i presented the track to a german dance label i though would fit what came back was: 'This will never work'. Soon after it topped the american dance charts and made it to number 5 in the UK charts as well. I liked the fact that my estimation of the results we had created was not wrong. The song is of course about Aliens who take me up into space, where music is less formulaic and thus i am prevented from comatose boredom. Released originally on Rebirth Records as a 2-vinyl release, they did a very good job promoting the song to DJ's and i enjoyed the positive responses and exposure it received.
Year of release: 2007]]> 130553 no no Thu, 10 May 2007 00:00:00 +0200 2007-05-10T00:00:00+02:00 3:52 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/dead-again-acid-king-mix/
http://itunes.apple.com/de/album/disco-activisto-first-two/id14088220

Ever wondered what Elvis Presley's final words would sound like over warbling acid sounds..? Your wondering days are over with the release of Billie Ray Martin's new single "Dead Again"
"Dead Again" concerns itself with the imaginary last words uttered by the King as he contemplates his fate and comes in three delicious mixes of the old school of aciiiiiiid !!

The dazzling Acid King Mix is pure intergalactic acid warfare with Ms. Martin's luxuriously rich vocals on top of some serious bleep-out artillery plus two tough and thumping acid loaded dubs to infiltrate the dance floor-boards with liquid delirium available as a limited edition clear vinyl promo on Disco Activisto records. Billie Ray Martin has done it again on this effort, getting closer and closer to her famed Electribe 101 roots. It's truly back to business: one of those unmistakeable Billie Ray Martin songs - 'that' unmistakeable voice.....it only takes one listen to know who's talking ......(with himselvis)! put your loving arms around someone else - Ms. Martin has left the building!
]]>
http://itunes.apple.com/de/album/disco-activisto-first-two/id14088220

Ever wondered what Elvis Presley's final words would sound like over warbling acid sounds..? Your wondering days are over with the release of Billie Ray Martin's new single "Dead Again"
"Dead Again" concerns itself with the imaginary last words uttered by the King as he contemplates his fate and comes in three delicious mixes of the old school of aciiiiiiid !!

The dazzling Acid King Mix is pure intergalactic acid warfare with Ms. Martin's luxuriously rich vocals on top of some serious bleep-out artillery plus two tough and thumping acid loaded dubs to infiltrate the dance floor-boards with liquid delirium available as a limited edition clear vinyl promo on Disco Activisto records. Billie Ray Martin has done it again on this effort, getting closer and closer to her famed Electribe 101 roots. It's truly back to business: one of those unmistakeable Billie Ray Martin songs - 'that' unmistakeable voice.....it only takes one listen to know who's talking ......(with himselvis)! put your loving arms around someone else - Ms. Martin has left the building!
]]> 130588 no no Sun, 14 Dec 2014 11:06:30 +0100 2014-12-14T11:06:30+01:00 6:25 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/dead-again-dub-deconstruction-mix/ 130583 no no Sun, 14 Dec 2014 11:06:30 +0100 2014-12-14T11:06:30+01:00 5:56 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/dead-again-schirner-dub/ 130582 no no Sun, 14 Dec 2014 11:05:41 +0100 2014-12-14T11:05:41+01:00 5:54 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/talking-with-myself-live-on-manchester-radio/ piano by Volker Jansen
programme: Got 2 Be Funky
host: Simon Forestiero
recording date: 24 May 2002.
original air date: 25 May 2002]]> piano by Volker Jansen
programme: Got 2 Be Funky
host: Simon Forestiero
recording date: 24 May 2002.
original air date: 25 May 2002]]> 130633 no no Sat, 25 May 2002 00:00:00 +0200 2002-05-25T00:00:00+02:00 3:38 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/imitation-of-life-live-on-manchester-radio/ piano by Volker Jansen
programme: Got 2 Be Funky
host: Simon Forestiero
recording date: 24 May 2002.
original air date: 25 May 2002]]> piano by Volker Jansen
programme: Got 2 Be Funky
host: Simon Forestiero
recording date: 24 May 2002.
original air date: 25 May 2002]]> 130630 no no Sat, 25 May 2002 00:00:00 +0200 2002-05-25T00:00:00+02:00 3:20 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/18-carat-garbage-live-on-manchester-radio/ piano by Volker Jansen
programme: Got 2 Be Funky
host: Simon Forestiero
recording date: 24 May 2002.
original air date: 25 May 2002]]> piano by Volker Jansen
programme: Got 2 Be Funky
host: Simon Forestiero
recording date: 24 May 2002.
original air date: 25 May 2002]]> 130627 no no Sat, 25 May 2002 00:00:00 +0200 2002-05-25T00:00:00+02:00 4:29 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/hell-featbillie-ray-martin-silver-machine/ 130637 no no Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0200 2009-04-28T00:00:00+02:00 5:34 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/billie-ray-martin-je-regrette-everything-matthias-schaffhaeuser-remix/
i really hope you enjoy it and please feel free to drop me a line or give me some feedback.



and if you're interested in a bit of spinning action, here's my latest dj set :) from the recent south american tour.
http://www.billieraymartin.com/djset/brm_djset_live_at_club69_buenos_aires_apr_2009.mp3



best wishes and thanks for doing what you do. keeps people like me on our toes.

billie ray martin

http://www.myspace.com/billieraymartin
http://www.myspace.com/opiatesmusic
soundcloud,facebook,twitter,twatter,twotter...
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i really hope you enjoy it and please feel free to drop me a line or give me some feedback.



and if you're interested in a bit of spinning action, here's my latest dj set :) from the recent south american tour.
http://www.billieraymartin.com/djset/brm_djset_live_at_club69_buenos_aires_apr_2009.mp3



best wishes and thanks for doing what you do. keeps people like me on our toes.

billie ray martin

http://www.myspace.com/billieraymartin
http://www.myspace.com/opiatesmusic
soundcloud,facebook,twitter,twatter,twotter...
]]> 130556 no no Sun, 14 Dec 2014 10:41:56 +0100 2014-12-14T10:41:56+01:00 8:35 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/hell-feat-billie-ray-martin-je-regrette-everything/

Billie Ray Martin (of Electribe 101 and “Your Loving Arms” fame) provided the star attraction on DJ Hell's long awaited new album "NY Muscle" (International DJ Gigolo Records), released 2003. Ms. Martin's million dollar voice leads one of the album's key songs, the Billie Ray penned "Je Regrette Everything".

One leading UK magazine described the song in an advance preview: “The teutonic high priestess of ice cool soul channels Edith Piaf by way of Diamanda Galas on this hand-wringing dramafest. Epic.”

This electro-noir meets Shirley Bassey extravaganza-sound saw Billie thrill the audience at two huge mega DJ HELL release events last week in Paris and Berlin. Press and TV attention was immense and Ms. Martin’s performance was singled out as “the one real live element to the shows”, receiving amazing responses from the large crowd. London, New York and Tokyo saw this audio-visual spectacular in early 2004.
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Billie Ray Martin (of Electribe 101 and “Your Loving Arms” fame) provided the star attraction on DJ Hell's long awaited new album "NY Muscle" (International DJ Gigolo Records), released 2003. Ms. Martin's million dollar voice leads one of the album's key songs, the Billie Ray penned "Je Regrette Everything".

One leading UK magazine described the song in an advance preview: “The teutonic high priestess of ice cool soul channels Edith Piaf by way of Diamanda Galas on this hand-wringing dramafest. Epic.”

This electro-noir meets Shirley Bassey extravaganza-sound saw Billie thrill the audience at two huge mega DJ HELL release events last week in Paris and Berlin. Press and TV attention was immense and Ms. Martin’s performance was singled out as “the one real live element to the shows”, receiving amazing responses from the large crowd. London, New York and Tokyo saw this audio-visual spectacular in early 2004.
]]> 130554 no no Sun, 14 Dec 2014 10:39:19 +0100 2014-12-14T10:39:19+01:00 5:36 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/slam-feat-billie-ray-martin-bright-lights-fading/
Billie Ray Martin's collaboration with Soma Quality Recordings' constantly brilliant and inventive artists Slam and released on their 2004 album "Year Zero"

"Slam, aka Orde Meikle and Stuart McMillan, have taken inspiration from the records that brought them together in the first place; Tom Tom Club, Prince, Mantronix and urban labels like Celluloid and Sugarhill. The music that was literally their ‘Year Zero’. The result is an album that is their most accomplished to date. They have taken a step back to go forward.

After the success of the last album Alien Radio and its collaborations with Dot Allison and Tyrone Palmer, Slam were confident that Year Zero should be song based. Dot Allison and Tyrone Palmer return alongside New York house producer/vocalist Elbee Bad, Hope Grant (aka Soma artist Envoy) and the legendary voices of Anne Saunderson (wife of Detroit techno originator Kevin Saunderson) and Billie Ray Martin. On Year Zero, Slam have made the album they always threatened to make; an album of fully realized songs and future classics."]]>
Billie Ray Martin's collaboration with Soma Quality Recordings' constantly brilliant and inventive artists Slam and released on their 2004 album "Year Zero"

"Slam, aka Orde Meikle and Stuart McMillan, have taken inspiration from the records that brought them together in the first place; Tom Tom Club, Prince, Mantronix and urban labels like Celluloid and Sugarhill. The music that was literally their ‘Year Zero’. The result is an album that is their most accomplished to date. They have taken a step back to go forward.

After the success of the last album Alien Radio and its collaborations with Dot Allison and Tyrone Palmer, Slam were confident that Year Zero should be song based. Dot Allison and Tyrone Palmer return alongside New York house producer/vocalist Elbee Bad, Hope Grant (aka Soma artist Envoy) and the legendary voices of Anne Saunderson (wife of Detroit techno originator Kevin Saunderson) and Billie Ray Martin. On Year Zero, Slam have made the album they always threatened to make; an album of fully realized songs and future classics."]]> 130551 no no Mon, 30 Aug 2004 00:00:00 +0200 2004-08-30T00:00:00+02:00 5:32 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/electribe-101-talking-with-myself-the-john-peel-session/
recorded live on the john peel session at bbc london 13.11.1989
the cd is available at https://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/merch/electribe-101-the-john-peel-session-cd-stahl2cd1101
3 songs]]>
recorded live on the john peel session at bbc london 13.11.1989
the cd is available at https://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/merch/electribe-101-the-john-peel-session-cd-stahl2cd1101
3 songs]]> 130626 no no Mon, 13 Nov 1989 00:00:00 +0100 1989-11-13T00:00:00+01:00 7:50 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/electribe-101-lipstick-on-my-lover-the-john-peel-session/
purchase this song as part of a cd here https://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/merch/electribe-101-the-john-peel-session-cd-stahl2cd1101
recorded live at the bbc for the john peel session 1989]]>
purchase this song as part of a cd here https://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/merch/electribe-101-the-john-peel-session-cd-stahl2cd1101
recorded live at the bbc for the john peel session 1989]]> 130625 no no Mon, 13 Nov 1989 00:00:00 +0100 1989-11-13T00:00:00+01:00 7:35 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/electribe-101-heading-for-the-night-frankie-knuckles-mix-3/ 130508 no no Sun, 14 Dec 2014 10:13:10 +0100 2014-12-14T10:13:10+01:00 4:30 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/electribe-101-heading-for-the-night-frankie-knuckles-dub/ 130507 no no Sun, 14 Dec 2014 10:14:33 +0100 2014-12-14T10:14:33+01:00 4:29 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/electribe-101-heading-for-the-night-frankie-knuckles-mix-2/ 130506 no no Sun, 14 Dec 2014 10:14:20 +0100 2014-12-14T10:14:20+01:00 6:40 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/electribe-101-heading-for-the-night-frankie-knuckles-reprise-mix/ 130505 no no Sun, 14 Dec 2014 10:13:58 +0100 2014-12-14T10:13:58+01:00 4:33 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/electribe-101-heading-for-the-night-frankie-knuckles-remix/ 130504 no no Sun, 14 Dec 2014 10:13:41 +0100 2014-12-14T10:13:41+01:00 8:21 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/dj-set-nocontroles-rome-italy/ 81779 no no Thu, 09 Oct 2014 22:34:36 +0200 2014-10-09T22:34:36+02:00 1:08:16 https://hearthis.at/billieraymartin/dj-set-dalston-superstore/ 81769 no no Thu, 09 Oct 2014 22:20:21 +0200 2014-10-09T22:20:21+02:00 57:11