Radio Slave/Rekids/Rekid

i mean that deer in the headlights remix is just straight menace

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?

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 ...

P S

ralph lawson ft chez damier - "the chuggles project" (20:20)

LOL

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

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 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.

i don't think you're alone... about half the thread would appear to hold the same opinion! (xp)

Yes, I entirely feel you Durrr, and have felt like this for awhile, culminating with Bell Clap Dance, which was just sounds outright bad to me, it just irritates me.
However, he's certainly done some good stuff, such as his remix of Deer in the Headlights, but much more importantly, his remix of Eleny by Le Noir, which is perhaps the best application of his aesthetic to a song/remix/anything of his I've ever heard, and blows away all his other material I've heard with this poignant epic.

Hmm... I can't agree. For me, Bell Clap Dance was very welcome fresh air in a period of austere up its own ass 'minimalism'.

i'm still a fan - i like the slow tense builds, they also work well in mixes as the stepping stone between your floatier cosmic disco-type stuff and more straight-up house or techno. (the 'minimal + cosmic' equation upthread really makes sense to me.) i never really got 'bell clap dance', though simon baker's remix is good.

yes the eleny remix is a good one too. (xp)

Bell Clap Dance to me is the sonic equivalent of chewing tinfoil with metal fillings (and I have synaesthesia too, so I'm not entirely making this up!)

When I saw him DJ, he was amazing (granted this was at Mutek where his record bag was lost (he probably flew Air Canada there, ha). But filling a big room, late, and really banging (he started at like 128-9 BPM or so) stuff I couldn't sit still listening to at home sounded fantastic (again, this was stuff borrowed from other DJ's, though).

'bell clap dance' is a monster.

i always think radio slave's music is what the crap discussed in this thread "Indie electro": the worst genre ever? would sound like, were it any good.

radio slave might be monotonous, but it's a very singular kind of monotony.

i like his crunchy stuff about as equally as i like his super smooth streamlined stuff.

Shit I hate being this far off the money. In the context that I first hear it, Bell Clap Dance sounded like the business.

That context was a Damian Lazurus mix from last year - and maybe that's the problem haha.

you don't have to change your opinion on the track just because mehlt eats tinfoil.

Yes, I will continue to enjoy this track whatever mehlt's diet du jour.

i always think radio slave's music is what the crap discussed in this thread "Indie electro": the worst genre ever? would sound like, were it any good.

...i don't get this at all, what's indie/electro about it?

re: the monotonous thing, i can see how people got this from his 2006-2007 remixes (the 'cosmic meets minimal via carl craig stuff') but there's more to him than that... there's the poppier remixes for one thing, and the slo-mo rekid stuff, and 'no sleep' parts 4 and 5 broadened his sound a bit more.

it's not indie/electro, but it has that overwhelming, piledriving, grinding feel to it which i assume is what justice et al aim for (except radio slave does it, you know, really well, and doesn't give me a headache)

I thought the tin foil with fillings/braces thing was common knowledge, it produces this very strange metallic sensation that's not like a synthesis of taste feeling at the same time, if that makes sense, and it's not entirely pleasant. Try it sometime!

It also seems that the vast majority (all but me) seems to approve of Bell Clap Dance.

radio slave is a fucking genius. what happened with the humate remix? i want to hear that soooo bad.

not understanding radioslave is probably more to do with listening at home on your own in your bedroom rather than going mad in front of a big rig. Comparing this to justice/electrohouse is one of the lamest opinions i've heard on here in a while

saying radioslave is a monotonous roar is like saying the waves in the ocean are a monotonous roar

for about 2 years his remixes were incredibly monotonous...

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?

yeahbut you like sasha.

why? he's the man like. hahaha.

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?

I don't get it either :/

Also I'm so pleased that Pipecock has joined ILM.

― Tim F, Monday, November 12, 2007 4:42 PM (1 year ago)

t'is a thing called sarcasm, I presume.

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 ?

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.

^^^ such good news!

is there a tracklisting for 'Works!' yet?

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 ?

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.)

anyone know about new developments with the quiet village record? they said sometime this year, right???

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.

"cabin fever trax" s&d/c or d?

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.

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

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?

you're missing the point?

The point being bosh some pills? Want a bit more from someone who gets so much written attention though.

just had the track listing for the long awaited Works set drop into my mail.

too much ?

http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/richmedia/images/cover.gif

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.

damn. image aint showing. sorry.

its on amazon should you want to see it.

... 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.