tracktitles
1. Movement for Airports (Single Version)
2. Movement for Frankfurt Airport (Ultra-red Original Long Version)
3. Movement for LAX Airport (Ultra-red Remix)
4. Movement for Berlin/Tegel Airport (Elliot Perkins Remix I)
5. Movement for Ljubljana Airport (Octex Remix)
6. Movement for Zagreb Airport (Jeanne Frémaux Remix)
7. Movement for Sarajevo Airport (Vuneny Remix)
8. Movement for Belgrade Airport (PoS Remix)
9. Movement for Return (Elliot Perkins Remix II)

releaseavailability
Click here for free download. Released March 2005 as a joint internet-only release between Public Record (Los Angeles, US) and EGOBOO.bits (Zagreb, Croatia).

projectdescription
From the album ULTRA-RED PLAY KANAK ATTAK, "Movement for Airports" takes sounds from a 2001 anti-deportation protest at Frankfurt Airport to craft an electro-house anthem. With its snarling bassline and crisp house riff, the track amplifies the rage of protestors demanding the release of migrants held by the German government and awaiting deportation to the countries from which they fled.

In the summer of 2004, Ultra-red joined with members of the German anti-racist network Kanak Attak (www.kanak-attak.de) and musician Elliot Perkins for the Transistors Tour 2004. Beginning in Berlin, the Tour made its way through the Balkan region, stopping in Ljubljana, Zagreb and Sarajevo. These events were hosted by members organizations of the a.network (www.anetwork.org) The last stop, Belgrade, brought Ultra-red to the very place the German government deports up to 20,000 migrants a year as part of its repatriation agreement with Serbia.

For the single release of "Movement for Airports," Ultra-red solicited remixes from artists representing each of the countries visited during the Transistors Tour. Stylistically varied, the remixes show the sensibility of artists who have witnessed war, the criminalization of difference, and the constitution of social movements within the short span of a decade. In the context of migrant struggle, one remixer, Goran Simonoski of PoS, contemplates the incomplete project of trans-formation begun with Serbia's pro-democracy movement: "Revolution was the only way for us to stop dictatorship. God bless the revolution."

The freedom of movement must be recognized as a fact of everyday life. Such freedom must be recognized for all people, from sex workers, to farm workers, families and lovers seeking reunion, Roma people, political refugees, and not just the sole right of privileged workers of the neoliberal order, like NGO workers, technical elites and cosmopolitan electronic musicians.

The "Movement for Airports" remix EP is available for free download under fair-use guidelines at Ultra-red's PUBLIC RECORD web archive. Also included on the album is the original full-length version of the song, an exclusive Ultra-red remix and a radio-friendly single version.

Selected with the help of Zagreb-based free digital publishing label EGOBOO.bits (www.egoboobits.net), the artists remixing "Movement for Airports" include Octex (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Jeanne Frémaux (Zagreb, Croatia), Vuneny (Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina), PoS (Belgrade, Serbia-Montenegro), as well as Elliot Perkins and Ultra-red.

remixartistbiographystatements
Working under the alias Octex (http://www.soundoflj.com/octex/disco/elektrotehnika.html), Jernej Marusic is a star player in the Ljubljana techno-scene. When he appeared on the first Tehnika compilation of Slovenian techno, Octex attracted the notice of the late great UK DJ John Peel. Octex's distinct take on minimal electronica has earned him awards and spawned numerous major concert appearances. His stunning remixes for fellow-Slovenians Laibach have brought the retro-garde rockers into the modern age.

Hailing from Zagreb, Croatia, the sound artist team Jeanne Frémaux work in areas between electroacoustic music and glitch-pop. Founded in mid-2000, Jeanne Frémaux create a complex mélange of electronic genres, principally abandoning traditional pop structures in favor of disturbing and highly processed sound-styling and articulate production design.

In the short span of two years, the electro-acoustic trio Vuneny (http://www.vuneny.com/) have gone from Mostar, Herzegovina unknowns to Balkan musical heroes. The trio of Andrian Zovko (samplers & keyboards), Nedim Cisic (guitars) and percussionist Asmir Sabic create a crossover of electronics with rock, dub, and experimental concrete sound. Adding to their unique sound, Vuneny draw on a wide-range of folk instruments utilizing percussion such as darbuka, udu, djembe, rattles as well as flutes, didjeridoo, and kazoo.

PoS (http://www.belgradeyard.com) is the alias of Belgrade-based sound engineer and music producer Goran Simonoski. Most of his acitivities are related to the small but hyper-active collective Belgradeyard Sound System, a trio formed in 1999 with DJ Relja Bobi¾ and bassist Ivan Anti¾. The group is also responsible for their weekly radio of the same name on Belgrade's famous Radio B92 as well as the yearly Dispatch electronic music festival now in its third year.

A featured performer on the Transistor Tour 2004, Elliot Perkins splits his time between rural Devon UK and Berlin. Perkins made his mark on the electronic music scene releasing a number of highly acclaimed albums on the Morr Music label under the name Phonem. He also appeared on Miami's Beta Bodega label as Spike. Following a three year hiatus, Perkins reappeared early this year with the PUBLIC RECORD album EURODAC EXPRESS. Perkins is currently collaborating on Ultra-red's upcoming BLOK70 project.