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― Ronan, Thursday, 10 May 2007 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link
i mean that deer in the headlights remix is just straight menace
― haitch, Friday, 11 May 2007 01:46 (seventeen years ago) link
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― haitch, Thursday, 17 May 2007 00:12 (seventeen years ago) link
so this essential mix is the dry run for "misch masch"?? i think i'll be grabbing that, and the rekids comp sooner or later ...
sorta amazed that deeetron and mr g turned out such bangers for this guys label ... (like five years ago i'd have placed them both at the bottom bottom end of the long rut carved out by tribal tech producers, somewhat better than the irredeemably wack shit like adam beyer / ben sims / primate / drumcode / intec, quite a bit below cari lekebusch and mark broom and far faaaar below surgeon and saunderson)
is it pertinent that this guys output is attached as much to that ghetto as to the briefly fashionable classic records / MFF ghetto?
― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 24 May 2007 07:07 (seventeen years ago) link
or is it just moving on from CHUG CHUG CHUG CHUG CHUG CHUG CHUG CHUG CHUG CHUG to CHUUUUUUUG ... KA CHUK ... CHUUUUUUG ... KA CHUK ... CHUUUUUUG ... KA CHUK ...
― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 24 May 2007 07:08 (seventeen years ago) link
P S
ralph lawson ft chez damier - "the chuggles project" (20:20)
LOL
― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 24 May 2007 07:09 (seventeen years ago) link
seems to be a fair amount of radio slave backlash so far in the reviews for misch masch ... people certainly seem to have twigged to the "formula" ... also the fact that he uses the *exact* same tracks over and over and over again (ok to be fair they're his remixes, but still) ... he needs to widen his range a bit, i think
anybody get "rekids: one" yet
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 22 June 2007 21:14 (sixteen years ago) link
i first heard the radioslave remix at some festival last year (i think). here were my thoughts.
bloody hell its deer in the headlight, is it, must be "i love this track"
ooh this is building nicely
ooh this is goooood
when this hits, this is going to MASSIVE
ooooohhhh, ooooohhhhh
oh. well. okay. next track.
can see how it would work with the right dj though, and his production is nice and tight.
― clocker, Friday, 22 June 2007 22:20 (sixteen years ago) link
i said to my friend, "i love this track" had a druggy dancefloor conversation about it i seem to remember. was hoping he was gonna leave the nice rhythmic echo "deer in the headlights" bit from the original. i love that bit, its kinda clunky, which is nice when a lot of stuff these days is so precise.
― clocker, Friday, 22 June 2007 22:22 (sixteen years ago) link
i was soooooooo rong about rekids
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 12 November 2007 20:10 (sixteen years ago) link
i dont particularly like anything the guy has done, really, nor anything on the label. none of his remixes do anything either. i havent been able to figure out what the appeal is, he seems to be like a really weak knock off of detroit house combined with the aesthetics of mnml and cosmic (which almost makes no sense), but in the most lame way.
― pipecock, Monday, 12 November 2007 20:44 (sixteen years ago) link
vahid, expand!
i will be the first to admit that he recycles the same tricks over and over again -- probably the most egregious example being his recent remix for armand van helden (!) -- but they do tend to WORK. i played his deetron remix, AvH remix and "bell clap dance" to a pretty sizeable room on saturday night and they all did exactly what they were supposed to do -- not exactly standout tracks but not filler either, nice tension-building bridges between bangers.
my only disappointment was discovering that "dedication" is just herbie hancock's "nobu" with a kick drum under it, basically. still a genius track, but it would've been nice to credit it as such.
― pshrbrn, Monday, 12 November 2007 20:59 (sixteen years ago) link
speaking of Mr. G, has anyone else heard "the subbie"? unsigned as of yet, which baffles me -- it's just MASSIVE, maybe bigger than "u askin." also maybe not as deep or funky as that track, but man it's a tune.
― pshrbrn, Monday, 12 November 2007 21:00 (sixteen years ago) link
he seems to be like a really weak knock off of detroit house combined with the aesthetics of mnml and cosmic (which almost makes no sense), but in the most lame way.
-- pipecock, Monday, November 12, 2007 8:44 PM
yes, it sounds like you get it!
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 12 November 2007 21:20 (sixteen years ago) link
except, it's good, not bad
except for the detroit house part, i'm not sure where that's coming from except when in doubt compare stuff you don't get to stuff you do?
but it is all about blending the endless decay and reverb tricks of basic channel with the druggy extended structures of cosmic disco with shuffly tribal house beats and tough electrohouse synths
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 12 November 2007 21:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Vahid you were classic in the first half of this thread even if you have changed your mind.
Also I'm so pleased that Pipecock has joined ILM.
― Tim F, Monday, 12 November 2007 21:42 (sixteen years ago) link
"except for the detroit house part, i'm not sure where that's coming from except when in doubt compare stuff you don't get to stuff you do?
-- moonship journey to baja"
well the detroit house part that i hear comes from the downbeat kinda feeling to alot of what he does as well as the endless repetition. he also seems to mine some of the same influences though those are also present in some of the cosmic stuff. but listening through the clips of his album again, "Spiders", "Tranzit", "Retro Active" all sound like Omar-S, Theo Parrish, and Carl Craig respectively.
but regardless, i guess i dont find it all that interesting to mash up all the current dance trends into one bad blend. they dont do anything for me separately and it doesnt help them to all be together, either.
― pipecock, Monday, 12 November 2007 22:03 (sixteen years ago) link
"Also I'm so pleased that Pipecock has joined ILM.
-- Tim F"
ha, thanks. i've actually been registered on here for a little while, but ive only taken to posting a bunch more recently.
Are promos (or leaks) out for the Luke Solomon album yet? I'm curious if he's going to try and "diversify" or if this style can hold its own over the course of an LP...
― Telephone thing, Monday, 12 November 2007 22:15 (sixteen years ago) link
glad to see you changed your mind vahid!!
― tricky, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 00:27 (sixteen years ago) link
rekid's "retroactive" on soul jazz = astounding epic uk-meets-detroit techno in ferox style. the updates are the busy shuffly drums and the gigantic bassline that sounds like a giant plucking power lines, between the two of the them there's as much energy in the first 2 minutes as an entire city block. the rest of the track though is pure jazzy bliss, something like the most sublime russ gabriel moments ("galapagos", "origin of species") or plaid at their least saccharine
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 17:40 (sixteen years ago) link
love all those loooooooong blends between trax in that essential mix. think i listened to it more than any other house/techno this year.
― haitch, Monday, 10 December 2007 02:40 (sixteen years ago) link
so, where's two then ?anyone know anything so those of us who like cds can catch up with the rekids output.
― mark e, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 11:11 (fifteen years ago) link
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― t_g, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 11:34 (fifteen years ago) link
I was being sarcastic even then. We'd had fights in Ronan's blog comments section.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 12:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Actually "sarcastic" is too strong. It was more that I was looking forward to the fireworks.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 12:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Please, can anyone explain the strength of "Dead Souls (Radio Slave Long Distance Kiss Remix)"?? I relistened to it last night because it appears on RA's top 15 remixes and my reaction was still the same: what the fck?
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Friday, 12 December 2008 23:08 (fifteen years ago) link
yeahbut you like sasha.
― or something, Saturday, 13 December 2008 03:30 (fifteen years ago) link
why? he's the man like. hahaha.
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Saturday, 13 December 2008 06:21 (fifteen years ago) link
heh, you know i never understood that term. what does "the man like sasha" mean, like? he IS sasha, not just like sasha. what am i missing?
― or something, Saturday, 13 December 2008 10:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't get it either :/
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Saturday, 13 December 2008 11:19 (fifteen years ago) link
― Tim F, Monday, November 12, 2007 4:42 PM (1 year ago)
― eman, Thursday, 25 December 2008 19:03 (fifteen years ago) link
t'is a thing called sarcasm, I presume.
― Girlfriend, you've been scooped like ice cream (mehlt), Thursday, 25 December 2008 19:08 (fifteen years ago) link
another year, another pseudo for the man : cabin fever.seems to be more house flavoured as opposed to the epic techno thing.anyone else picked this up ?
― mark e, Friday, 17 April 2009 16:56 (fifteen years ago) link
there's a few of those cabin fever edits now but they're not all matt edwards' work.
heartening to hear that a 'real' quiet village record (not just edits, stuff that's akin to the remixes) is planned for later this year sometime. i thought it might've been all over after the k7 farrago.
― juniper jazz (haitch), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 03:02 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^ such good news!
― psychgawsple, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 09:39 (fifteen years ago) link
is there a tracklisting for 'Works!' yet?
― braveclub, Thursday, 11 June 2009 14:16 (fifteen years ago) link
excellent news re quiet village, but will there ever be a radio slave artist album (as opposed to yet another mix cd, or is that expecting too much.in fact, what happened to Works ?did it get a release and i missed it ?
― mark e, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 20:42 (fourteen years ago) link
don't think it has yet. i did read somewhere, RA perhaps, that he might be retiring the radio slave name - maybe he's waiting for whatever remixes are still unreleased to come out, then the comp will come out as a kind of full-stop.
the upcoming innervisions 12" by 'the machine' is his latest alias, 4 those who don't know. (appears to only be appearing with ame and dixon mixes, so perhaps rekids are doing a release too.)
― surge gainsbourg protector (haitch), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 00:29 (fourteen years ago) link
anyone know about new developments with the quiet village record? they said sometime this year, right???
― psychgawsple, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 06:55 (fourteen years ago) link
re Works ! : reason for delay = Fabric mix.the deal was that Rekids didn't release any Radio Slave material 3 months before/after the Fabric mix.so, Works! will be released in 2010.
― mark e, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 08:42 (fourteen years ago) link
"cabin fever trax" s&d/c or d?
― anita bonghit (rionat), Saturday, 6 February 2010 17:56 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah so i had been on the fence w/r/t lost star since it came out. the stellar sound design always seemed to undermine the deep dark vibes underneath. and in terms of structure, everything seemed to be just running around in circles without any kind of deep groove. but listening again, there's a different sort of depth here that i didn't notice before. it's hitting the exact spot i always wanted it to. i'll have to re-buy made in menorica now. this would sound great in a car.
― hobbes, Friday, 23 July 2010 04:50 (thirteen years ago) link
yet another pseudo.
anyone heard this : http://themachine-redhead.com/
from what i've heard via streams it seems to be dipping into the richard h. kirk world of vocal samples
― mark e, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 10:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Never really liked this guy. One of the best engineers out there – all his productions sound so beefy – but I just can't see beyond how one-dimensional everything seems musically. What am I missing?
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 10:54 (thirteen years ago) link
you're missing the point?
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 15:29 (thirteen years ago) link
The point being bosh some pills? Want a bit more from someone who gets so much written attention though.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 15:40 (thirteen years ago) link
just had the track listing for the long awaited Works set drop into my mail.
too much ?
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CD1 1. UNKLE feat. Ian Astbury– Burn My Shadow (Radio Slave Remix) 2. Partial Arts – Telescope (Radio Slave’s Prenzlauer Blur Remix) 3. Mlle Caro & Franck Garcia – Dead Souls (Radio Save’s Long Distance Kiss Mix) 4. Tokyo Black Star - Caballero (Radio Slave's Innervision Remix) 5. K3 feat. Alice Lascelles – Play To Win (Radio Slave Dub) 6. Slam – Azure (Radio Slave Remix) 7. Trentemøller – Moan (Radio Slave Remix For K)
CD2 1. Peace Division feat. Pleasant Gehman – Blacklight Sleaze (Radio Slave Vocal Mix) 2. Len Faki – My Black Sheep (Radio Slave Remix) 3. Soylent Green - La Forza Del Destino (Radio Slave Remix) 4. Yam Who? feat. Robin Lee, Peter Gordon & Mary Moore – Go Bang (Radio Slave Remix) 5. Beat Galore Friction – Bubble Dancing (Radio Slave Remix) 6. Mr. G – E.C.G.’ed (Rekid Remix) 7. Hell – The DJ feat. P. Diddy (Radio Slave Remix Edit)
CD3 1. Le Noir – Eleny (Radio Slave Panorama Garage Remix) 2. Matt O’Brien – Serotone (Radio Slave’s Panorama Garage Remix) 3. Ramirez – Hablando (Radio Slave’s Panorama Garage Remix) 4. Mr. G – Sometimes I Cry (Radio Slave’s Panorama Garage Remix) 5. Minilogue – Space (Radio Slave’s Panorama Garage Remix) 6. Jamie Anderson – Time Is Now (Radio Slave Panorama Garage Remix) 7. Nelski – Body Pop (Radio Slave Remix feat. Tom Gandey) 8. Chicken Lips – Motion Sickness (Rekid Remix)
for once, i think the label have messed up with the artwork for this release.
i love the whole aesthetics of using the same style/font across all previous releases, but the cover for this just looks a bloody mess.
― mark e, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:52 (twelve years ago) link
damn. image aint showing. sorry.
its on amazon should you want to see it.
― mark e, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
... years later
following a re-org of my digital archive i have come to the conclusion that the best way to experience the REKIDS sound is via the label-centric mixes.i.e. disc 3 of Revolutions, or the japanese release, 'rekids mixed by radio slave'of course there is the misch masch/radio disco/tokyo official mixes, but these dilute the purity of the REKIDS sound.
another question that this revival has instigated : REKIDS vs buzzin' fly
both labels were interconnected with artists appearing on each label, both labels were heavily into design,both labels were lead by an artist with an agenda/sound,both labels were dance/electronica/house/techno/maxi/minimal
i loved both labels, but which is best ?
i would set up a poll, but suspect no-one gives a shit about either these days.
― mark e, Thursday, 28 December 2017 21:22 (six years ago) link