Vince Clarke & Jonty Skrufff Remix Kidnap Kid

Depeche Mode/ Erasure songwriter Vince Clarke is one of five producers who have remixed recent Kidnap Kid tracks for the first installment of Black Butter Spread Love Series, a new free download series launched by the uber-hip post dubstep London label.

The remixes are available as free downloads of 192kbp quality and will be followed by 320kbps and wav quality versions available to buy on the upcoming Spread Love compilations we have in store’, Black Butter boss Ollie Wood told Skrufff.

“Spread Love is our new free download series and in a nutshell, it enables us to stay nimble and keep pushing the music we love,” he explained.

“After the success we've had this year, we're finding more music is coming to us with crossover chart potential, those signings require a lot of resources, time and money-wise.” 

At the same time, we're still receiving a lot of amazing, cutting-edge underground music and rather than turn these great releases down due to time-restraints, we thought that giving them away as part of a series, using the Black Butter platform, would be an effective way of getting them out there.”

Black Butter’s greatest success so far has been landing a number one pop hit during Silver Jubilee week with Rudimental, though Vince Clarke’s involvement had nothing to do with that, said Ollie. 

“Vince Clarke's publisher got in touch completely out of the blue, saying Vince loves Kidnap Kid,” Ollie laughed, “He said Vince would like to do a remix and of course we said yes.”

Jonty Skrufff similarly got in touch after hearing the original of Vehl, after serendipitously selecting it randomly from a folder of unknown promos. 

“I absolutely loved the melody and the vibe of Kidnap Kid’s original, reviewed it with a ten out of ten then Ollie from Black Butter sent me a friendly thanks message and it turned out he’s been a Skrufff reader for years,” said Jonty.

“It also transpired that he loves coincidences as much as I do and after discovering yet more mutual interests in mediums, spiritualism, Occupy Wall Street and apocalypse I asked to have a crack at doing a remix and Ollie sent over the parts.” 

“I’ve tried to keep the essence of the original while making it playable for my tech-house flavoured sets and judging by support so far from the likes of Jamie Anderson, the Pet Shop Boys and Jeffrey Disastronaut it seems to be doing the trick. 

Bora Bora man DJ Gee also called it ‘quirky’ so I must be doing something right,” he added. (Click here for DJ endorsements including Stephen Mallinder (Cabaret Voltaire) Joe Muggs and Renato Cohen: http://bit.ly/SlwGiu )

Ollie from Black Butter had the last word, explaining that the Kidnap Kid free downloads are the first of many for the label.

“The artists like the idea because it's great advertising for them, free music is inherently bloggable and shareable, and it all helps to keep the fan-bases active and building,” he said.

“And to take a leaf out of Mad Decent and their sub-label Jeffries' book, the free downloads are at 192kbps quality. 320kbps and wav quality versions will be available to buy on the Spread Love compilations we have in store,” he added.

Click here to listen and download Jonty Skrufff’s remix of Vehl: http://bit.ly/X6ae23

Click here to listen and download Vince Clarke’s remix of Lazarus Taxon: http://bit.ly/Yn81xe

http://bit.ly/TixC7p And here for the whole bundle.

Seb Mortimer (Skrufff.com)