Soft Cell ‘Martin’ The Hacker 2025 Remix Visualiser

Soft Cell release their classic track ‘Martin’ as a single for the very first time this Hallowe’en…strictly limited to a single run of 500 copies, which come accompanied with a special 12″ double-sided art print featuring brand new Martin artwork from designer James McWilliam. Order now at softcell.co.uk/store

Originally featured as one side of a bonus 12” released as part of the original The Art of Falling Apart album in 1983, Martin has since become one of the most popular and enduring Soft Cell deep cuts. A mainstay of Soft Cell live shows since original release, it remains today a cult classic, revered by alternative music fans, and one of the all-time biggest dancefloor fillers of the gothic movement.

Martin will be released on a limited-edition deluxe black and red 12” vinyl single, as well as a download EP across all digital platforms on Friday 31st October.  Please note, vinyl release on 31st is not 100% guaranteed, but stock will be shipped as close to this date as possible.

Leading with Dave Ball’s eerie Hallowe’en remix, the package is accompanied by a brand-new 2025 remix by French electroclash legend The Hacker, plus two further versions by Dave.

Martin features in several versions as part of the upcoming super deluxe 6CD boxset reissue of classic 1983 album ‘The Art Of Falling Apart’, released 31st October via Universal Music.

‘The Art Of Falling Apart’ will be available as 6CD boxset, double LP and double CD packages, including the remastered original, an extended album, remixes, live rarities and features a whopping 36 unreleased tracks!

12″ Tracklisting runs as follows:

A1 Martin (Dave Ball Hallowe’en Mix)

A2 Martin (Dave Ball Hallowe’en Dub)

B1 Martin (The Hacker Remix)

B2 Martin (Dave Ball Nightwreckers Remix)

‘Martin originated in the arts studio at Leeds Polytechnic, as it was then known. We wrote and recorded it at the same time as the track “The Art of Falling Apart”. After we left art school all the pop madness of Soft Cell began and those two tracks were shelved.

Suddenly, Phonogram Records were asking for a second album . We were unsure of a direction or concept, then I reminded Marc of those two art school tracks. I suggested to him that “The Art of Falling Apart” would be a great album title and he agreed….

Dave Ball Aug 2025