Soft Cell Remix Album Heat : The Remixes RELEASED 15TH SEPTEMBER 2008 (OUT NOW!)
"I'm genuinely pretty damned chuffed about this release - It's a bit of a coup to be asked to remix such dance legends.
There's two real reasons why I deliberately bucked the trend and produced a drumless symphonic version of Soft Cells 1981 B-side 'Barriers' for the Heat: Remixes album.
For a start I pretty much guessed that the rest of the remixes put forward would be dance/club mixes, and I knew on top of that that they'd all be excellent (which having just listened to the double album - I'm right about) - I'm glad I had the foresight to think 'why compete?' - but mainly, It didn't feel right to try and beef-up the track 'Barriers' a try to turn it into any kind of dance track. It's not a body track...it's more of an emotional plea - a gentle sob in the dark. Both Almond and Ball had produced a sensitive moment of delicate, frozen, bedroom beauty...it just didn't seem right that I should ruthlessly strip the song of that original emotion. (That's the thing about Soft Cell - Their music translates as well to a club environment as it does to those inbetween bedroom hours.) I hope, if anything that Marcs original stunning vocal and Daves emotive sci fi minimalism are both still clear through this remix. I'd like to think I did the song some kind of justice. Anyway - I hope you enjoy...It's an excellent double CD - no doubt many of the mixes on this album album are going to run and run...
Play loud, often, on the dancefloor...and...in the bedroom."
James R Hunter
The Dark Poets
16.9.2008
About Soft Cell Remix Album Heat : The Remixes
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The first and original duo of electro pop Soft Cell release a remix album entitled 'Heat : The Remixes' through Universal/Some Bizzare on September 15th 2008.
The 25 track double album includes brand new interpretations of many classic Soft Cell tracks including the Top 5 singles 'Bedsitter', 'Torch', 'Say Hello Wave Goodbye' and the worldwide hit single 'Tainted Love', which reached Number One in seventeen countries in 1981.
The album also includes updated versions of key Soft Cell album tracks, B-sides and rarities. All the remixes featured on the album have been reworked by genuine fans of the band, resulting in the respectful updating of a seminal electronic era.
Both members of Soft Cell - Marc Almond and Dave Ball – have also both contributed new remixes to the album, picking out some of their personal Soft Cell favourites from the band's illustrious 1981-1984 career.
The album has been A&R'd and compiled by leading production and remix team Manhattan Clique (acclaimed for their work with Moby, Goldfrapp, The Human League, Erasure & The B-52's), and who also contribute 3 remixes to the album.
Additional remixes on the album come from Richard X, Cicada, The Grid, Trevor Jackson/Playgroup, Paul Dakeyne, Punx Soundcheck, Mark Moore & Kinky Roland, The Memory Band and many more.
The full tracklisting is as follows:
DISC ONE
01 Memorabilia – Cicada remix
02 Bedsitter – Manhattan Clique remix
03 Tainted Love – Dakeyne remix
04 Youth – The Memory Band remix
05 Torch – Manhattan Clique remix ( edit )
06 Where The Heart Is – Marcas Lancaster remix
07 Seedy Films – Richard X remix
08 Say Hello, Wave Goodbye - Marcas Lancaster remix
09 What – Plastiq remix
10 Numbers – Spectrum remix
11 Insecure Me - Trevor Jackson Playgroup remix ( edit )
12 Soul Inside – Readers Wifes remix
13 A Man Can Get Lost – Marcello remix
DISC TWO
01 Heat – Yer Man remix
02 Meet Murder My Angel – Marc Almond & Kinky Roland remix
03 Sex Dwarf – The Grid remix
04 Baby Doll – Nitewreckers remix
05 Secret Life – George Demure remix
06 Chips On My Shoulder – Mark Moore & Kinky Roland remix
07 Barriers – Dark Poet remix
08 Surrender To A Stranger – MHC remix ( edit )
09 Little Rough Rhinestone – Solvent remix
10 Frustration – Punx Soundcheck remix
11 The Art of Falling Apart – Atomizer remix
12 Her Imagination – Monkey Farm Frankenstein remix
13 Martin – Nitewreckers remix
An expanded 40 track digital edition of the album, featuring additional bonus tracks and remixes not on the CD will also be available