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RB 013-3EP
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Remixes of Radio Slave's 2014 track "Children of the E" from his Running Back EP (RB 013EP). Ultimately, we're all children of the E(arth)! Features: KiNK, Rachel, Gerd Janson, and Justin Va Der Volgen.
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RB 013EP
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The one and only Radio Slave is back on RB. This time with retro futuristic breakbeat house and techno. "Children of the E" comes in two mixes for different moods and some locked grooves for double copy wizardry. Inspired by the London warehouses of yesterday, fueled by Evian bottles, and made in a foghorn frenzy. Or, as the man himself puts it: "Matt Edwards goes back to his roots with Children of the E: Just another white kid from Catford." Ultimately, we're all children of the E(arth)!
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BAL 008CD
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Matt "Radio Slave" Edwards is one of electronic music's true experimentalists; a man rooted in house and techno whose oeuvre reaches much farther beyond. From the downtempo gloss of his Quiet Village project to a half-hour-long remix of Diddy to the audio-visual soundscape immersions of The Machine, he continually strives to push his music forward and keep himself on his toes. His concoction for Balance comes in two distinct parts. CD1 begins with a dash of found-sound, taken from Edwards' daily routine, segueing into the emotive strains of DJ Bone's "Change" a cappella. Stephan G & The Persuader's 1997 roller "Kaos" begins the groove, with dainty melody shimmering subtly atop a throbbing, deep bass line. Dystopian grooves characterize CD1's first half, fragments of otherworldliness permeating his rolling, hypnotic grooves. It's in the backwards pianos of his remix of Ian Pooley & Spencer Parker's "Lurchen und Eulen" and the warped, dubby stabs of Svek's Brommage Dub (another '97 gem). Timeline's "Ghosts of Greystone" jets into space from a Detroit launch pad, joining the dots between techno and jazz, and we're gradually drawn into more organic sounds via the hazy keys of Fred P's remix of Nina Kraviz's "Voices" and to long-forgotten late-'80s Afro-house from No Smoke. Rasta vocals on Brotherhood's "Memorial Smith" give way to a handful of classic and classically-styled house tracks. This uplifting crescendo concludes with Prins Thomas whipping up Edwards' "Tantakatan" into a rousing Balearic anthem, and Larry Heard's sumptuous "First Call of the Morning," giving a Muzak-inflected nod to the selector's laidback work of years gone by. CD2 travels through the deeper recesses of his record collection, soaking up ambient, downtempo and experimental flavors that are bound by a sense of melody and atmosphere. Beatless soundscapes eschew in the mix's beginnings before we emerge at the hazy beats of Theo Parrish remixing Skooby Laposky's "Lighthouse" and the abrupt piano twinkles and stomping beats of the Slum Village track. Low-slung funk carries us through the next phase, into the illustrious Balearic disco glamour of Linda Law's "All the Night" from 1978 and the sumptuous strings of his Quiet Village beauty "Can't Be Beat." It's into bleeps and bass next with a vintage F-Communications workout from D.S., then somber contemporary jazz from Portico Quartet before Edwards cleverly segues into Herbie Hancock's seminal, minimalist 1974 workout "NoBu" -- one of the earlier meetings of synths and jazz. The classic, ethereal twinkling of Software's lush "Present Voice" rounds off this engrossing collection, with a final snippet of a week in the life of Radio Slave serving as an auditory bookend to the proceedings. With this masterful collection of tracks from five decades of record collecting, he has undoubtedly succeeded in presenting a vision that's a million miles away from the generic sounds filling up so many floors in this day and age. Other artists include: Julien Perez, Delano Smith, Makam, Frost (Of), Rhadoo, Jeremy, Vadim Svobada, Sandy Rivera, Joe Claussell, Melchior Productions, Larry Heard, Ryuchi Sakamoto, Vince Watson, The Machine, and Jay Dee.
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CTZM 004.1EP
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Ultra-limited special edition with youANDme's secret vocal remix of the Radio Slave track "KMaze." One-sided clear/white swirl vinyl-only release.
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CTZM 004EP
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youANDme and Rhauder present their interpretations of the Radio Slave track "K-Maze." On clear vinyl.
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RKDS 001EP
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Long-awaited third part of Radio Slave's vinyl-only and limited No Sleep project arrives, on a one-sided 12", with the 13+ minute track "Dedication". Ricardo Villalobos: "I think it's amazing, I like it so much!"; Carl Craig: "Now I can play 'Dedication' in the mix!"; Laurent Garnier: "This is an absolute stunner, maybe my favorite Radio Slave track ever." Limited stock.
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REKIDS 016EP
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Matt Edwards aka Radio Slave certainly excelled himself when he created his gnarly acid-drenched minimal-tech shoulder popper that first surfaced in late '06 on the No Sleep EP (Part 2). But now it's time for the remixes. First up is Josh Wink, a man whose reputation goes before him. His interpretation is nothing short of colossal. Cosmo Vitelli delivers a corker on the B-side, along with the gnarly "screamapella" tool!
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REKIDS 001EP
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Repress of the first release on this label, from April, 2006. "Radio Slave launches his new label Rekids with something rather huge. Despite a plethora of remixes (both official and unofficial) over the past few years, 'My Bleep' is (unbelievably) the debut single release from Matt Edwards' Radio Slave moniker. 'My Bleep' is a slice of heavyweight dancefloor electronics frying synapses and overheating dancefloors everywhere. Just to fan the flames, the remix is from the mighty Roman Flügel of Alter Ego fame."
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ESK 501573
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This is Brighton's Matt Edwards' debut mix CD. Following such DJ luminaries as The Glimmers, Headman, Ivan Smagghe, Chromeo, DJ Naughty, Optimo and Rub N Tug, Radio Slave really gets into the groove with Creature of the Night. Switching from house to techno, disco to funk and electro to jack, Radio Slave stitches together the likes of Hell, The Kills' unreleased "No Wow," X-press-2, Green Velvet, Joe Smooth, Señor Coconut and even The Osmonds "III" -- a lost disco 12" version -- into one long party, knees-up. As Matt himself explains, "I created this mix as a snapshot of the last hour of one of my sets, where you can dig deeper and pull out some real party tracks, obscure rock dance and some proper tripped-out disco. It's great when you've got cool kids in Berlin jumping up and down to Corey Hart or festival goers singing along to Dennis Parker's 'Like An Eagle'." Radio Slave is currently one of the most in-demand producers around. No matter what sounds you profess to be your music of choice, chances are, at some point over the last five years, you will have got your rocks off to Matt Edwards. As Radio Slave he fashions club-based, dancefloor slayers. Under that alias he's updated classic Chi-town and jackin' sounds beloved of house aficionados and layered them with fractured funk, belligerent, oddball beats and mechanical soul. From old school party gems to new style club destroyers and of course, a few of his own twists on the original, Matt Edwards takes us on a twisted and wigged-out journey well into the early hours.
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