The Witness Protection Programme is an American retro disco indie band featuring Martin Clancy.
The band has enjoyed considerable chart success reaching the
Top 40
In the music industry, the Top 40 is a list of the 40 currently most popular songs in a particular genre. It is the best-selling or most frequently broadcast popular music. Record charts have traditionally consisted of a total of 40 songs. "To ...
in the
Billboard Dance Chart
The Dance Club Songs (also known as National Disco Action, Hot Dance/Disco Club Play, and Hot Dance Club Play) was a chart published weekly between 1976 and 2020 by ''Billboard'' magazine. It used club disc jockeys set lists to determine the mos ...
s with its hit "Flatfoot" and the Top 20 hit "You Can't Stop the Rain".
The band has attracted significant music industry interest with high-profile
DJs offering to
remix
A remix, also sometimes called reorchestration or rework, is a piece of media which has been altered or contorted from its original state by adding, removing, or changing pieces of the item. A song, piece of artwork, book, poem, or photograph ca ...
the Witness Protection Programme's songs. Remixes to date have been provided by DJ Meme, Stonebridge,
Richard Morel
Richard Morel is an American singer-songwriter, DJ, remixer and record producer from the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts. He has worked extensively with Washington D.C.–based duo Deep Dish, co-writing, co-producing, performing and singing on ...
,
Chris Cox, Yvannis, Timmy Loop, Jc, EmJae and Louie Balo.
The Witness Protection Programme was one of the headline acts featured at
''Filter'' magazine's Culture Collide Festival as well as the
Seaport Music Festival.
References
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American disco groups
American indie pop groups