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Radio Slave teams up with Nez for all-new versions of the club smash, ‘Wait a Minute’.

The first single from Radio Slave’s forthcoming 2023 LP, ‘Wait a Minute’ sees the UK legend pair with grammy nominated multi-hyphenate Nez for a hard-hitting, rap-infused house track that has become a staple of the handful of DJs that’s already causing track ID request mayhem across social media.

Initially meeting via Radio Slave’s incendiary remix of the FELIX DA HOUSECAT co-produced ‘Lift Off’ released via Three Six Zero/Sony in 2021, LA’s Nez and Berlin-based Radio Slave made plans to work together as soon as possible, and a new version of 2020’s ‘Wait A Minute’ is the result. Featuring remixes from Rekids’ own Mark Broom and coming complete with an instrumental version, Radio Slave feat. Nez ‘Wait A Minute’ is released through Rekids on 26th August 2022.

Radio Slave, aka Matt Edwards, is responsible for some of the most recognisable underground dance tracks of the past 20 years, including ‘Grindhouse’, ‘Don’t Stop No Sleep’, ‘Another Club’, and many other timeless cuts. His collaboration work with Joel Martin as Quiet Village and solo work as Rekid has received critical acclaim, and he remains one of the most in-demand and consistent remixers around. Since beginning the Radio Slave project back in 2001, Matt has always championed his love of Hip hop, officially remixing N.E.R.D in 2004, releasing music from Chicago’s Jack Hogan on Rekids, and curating the disco rap compilation ‘Harlem World (The Sound Of The Big Apple Rappin’)’ with Joel Martin and the late Mark B on their Heroes and Villains imprint.

Nez has worked with the likes of Chance The Rapper, A$AP Rocky, Tinashe, ScHoolboy Q, and many more before dropping the dancefloor focussed ‘Midnight Music’ EP in 2021. Growing up in Chicago, Nez absorbed the rich musical lineage of the Windy City, and now distils these into his own unique creations and collaborations.

Radio Slave feat. Nez ‘Wait A Minute’ is released on Rekids 26th August 2022.

Radio Slave feat. Nez, Mark Broom

Wait A Minute

Radio Slave Ft. Nez - Wait A Minute (Vocal Mix)

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Dixon’s anthemic edit of Radio Slave ft. Nez ‘Wait A Minute’ lands on Rekids!

Innervisions boss Dixon was the only artist to receive a super upfront copy of the track in early Summer 2022 and went on to hammer the release across countless festivals and club shows over the season. Dixon being Dixon, he didn’t stop there and went on to edit the track into a six and half minute groover that draws out Radio Slave’s production and NEZ’s raucous vocals perfectly.

Radio Slave feat. Nez - Wait A Minute (Dixon Extension)

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Radio Slave drops new single ‘You Don’t Know’ this December on Rekids as part of ‘The House of Rekids’ Comp.

On his latest single, ‘You Don’t Know’, Radio Slave enters House mode, employing hooky vocal snippets, chunky drum hits, and filtered synths to hypnotic effect across the deep 9-minute track. Accompanying the single is the streaming-only compilation ‘The House Of Rekids 2022’, which comprises 13 House tracks released on the label this year from the likes of Mark Broom, Ian Pooley, Alinka, and many more.

Radio Slave, aka Matt Edwards, is responsible for some of the biggest underground dance tracks of the past 20 years, including ‘Grindhouse’, ‘Don’t Stop No Sleep’, ‘Another Club’, and many other timeless cuts. As an A&R, his work curating Rekids has seen the label release music from some of dance music’s most acclaimed artists, consistently pushing the envelope of House, Techno, and beyond.

Various Artists

Don’t You Know

Radio Slave - Don’t You Know

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Radio Slave announces Part 2 of Rekids Special Projects ‘Actualize’ compilation.

Rekids Special Projects, the no-nonsense techno-focussed sub-label of Radio Slave, aka Matt Edwards’ Rekids, launched in 2017 and has since released music from the likes of Mark Broom, Luke Hess, Jon Hester, and more. For the 50th release, Edwards readies ‘Actualize’, bringing acts from the wider Rekids universe into one slick collection, with the second part arriving this February alongside a DJ mix of the tracks. 

“I had no idea how big this project would become when I started planning the ‘Actualize’ compilation back in October. With 28 tracks, I decided to split the comp into 2 parts, and it also gave me and some of the other artists featured here a chance to finish their tracks. I’m super happy with ‘Actualize’, and it’s a great honour to have guest artists such as Slam and Ian Pooley’s Silvershower project on RSPX.” - Radio Slave 

Tracklist: 
01 Radio Slave - F__K Em 
02 Slam - Beat Control 
03 Confidential Recipe ft. Lady Tazz - This Is Our Groove 
04 Greg Gow - Vengeance 
05 V111 - Eat Sex Rave 
06 Marco Faraone - Why 
07 Jon Hester - Expanse 
08 Arjun Vagale - Ready To Go 
09 Silvershower - Poly6 
10 Jeremy P Caulfield - Razor 
11 Procombo - Assault 
12 Flug - The Cube 
13 Anika Kunst - Just Me 
14 Markus Suckut - Flux 
15 Tripeo - Balrog 
16 Subradeon - The Love That We Have For Mother Earth

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F__K Em

Radio Slave - F__K Em

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Radio Slave drops ‘Wild Life’ on Rekids this April. 

Following the recently dropped ‘Strobe Queen’, which picked up support from Honey Dijon, Sean Johnston, Laurent Garnier, BBC Radio 1’s Pete Tong and Danny Howard amongst many more, Radio Slave returns with another standout House cut ‘Wild Life’, turning in two exceptional Disco and Dub mixes. 

“I’ve always adored the “Wildpitch” era of DJ Pierre, Roy Davis Jnr, DJ Duke and labels like Power Music It’s definitely influenced my work as Radio Slave and “Wild Life” started out as a nod to that early nighties sound. Conceived during the pandemic, I had the track mapped out and then with help of a good friend I decided to add live bass, loads of analogue keyboards and record the whole thing live and it became this super funky disco jam.” - Radio Slave 

Radio Slave aka Matt Edwards is one of dance music’s undisputed heavyweights. Having made his name as a DJ in the 90s, he went on to become the king of edits, twisting pop, R&B and indie cuts into essential versions that consistently set clubs alight. Since the mid-2000s, Edwards’ originals have helped define modern dance music, tackling techno, house, breakbeat, minimal and disco whilst exploring dub, balearic sounds and ambient across the myriad of other aliases and projects. 

Tracklist: 
01 Wild Life (Disco Mix) 
02 Wild Life (Dub Mix)

Radio Slave - Wild Life (Dub Mix)

Radio Slave - Wild Life (Disco Mix)

Following a string of massive singles over the course of 2022, in tandem with the continued success of his acclaimed Rekids and RSPX imprints, Radio Slave prepares his latest single ‘Strobe Queen’, a 12-minute, slow-burning house epic landing this March. “I wanted to start 2023 with something completely fresh and ’Strobe Queen’ is 12 minutes of deep hypnotic house music.” - Radio Slave

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Radio Slave demand we ‘Wake Up’ on Rekids this May. 

Following the recent ‘Strobe Queen’ and ‘Wild Life’ releases, Radio Slave continues to push against the grain. Revisiting his love of lower tempos and long but engaging arrangements, the Rekids boss further explores his love of House and Disco sounds that proliferated his early work on ‘Wake Up’, a grooving and hypnotic NY-inspired cut. 

“The latest in a series, my new single is a kaleidoscopic, back to the future, dub disco song about signing music in the music industry and I guess sometimes we all need to “wake up”. I’ve tried to illustrate this with the photo of a plastic dolphin trash can.” - Radio Slave 

Radio Slave aka Matt Edwards is one of dance music’s undisputed heavyweights. Having made his name as a DJ in the 90s, he went on to become the king of edits, twisting pop, R&B and indie cuts into essential versions that consistently set clubs alight. Since the mid-2000s, Edwards’ originals have helped define modern dance music, tackling techno, house, breakbeat, minimal and disco whilst exploring dub, balearic sounds and ambient across the myriad of other aliases and projects.

Radio Slave - Wake Up

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Eric Kupper and Kirk Degiorgio remix Radio Slave’s ‘Strobe Queen’ this June. 

Heard in clubs courtesy of Honey Dijon, Laurent Garnier, and Sean Johnston, amongst others, and on the airwaves via the likes of BBC Radio 1, Radio Slave now recruits two legendary remixers for the recently released ‘Strobe Queen’. Requiring little introduction, Eric Kupper and Kirk Degiorgio both turn in exceptional versions of the original, while Radio Slave contributes a stunning reprise of his own, continuing to explore his love of slower tempos and long arrangements of golden era NYC, as seen in subsequent singles ‘Wild Life’ and ‘Wake Up’. 

“I hadn’t planned on putting out any “Strobe Queen” remixes, and I never thought I’d have Eric and Kirk on the same release, but sometimes the stars align, and magic happens, and this is such a fanboy release for me. Kirk is a legendary figure within the UK techno community, and Eric has produced, mixed and engineered for pretty much all the most prominent DJs from New York. Like Kirk, he’s still putting out some killer records, so it seemed like the right time to get them involved with this project.” - Radio Slave 

Radio Slave aka Matt Edwards is one of dance music’s undisputed heavyweights. Having made his name as a DJ in the 90s, he went on to become the king of edits, twisting pop, R&B and indie cuts into essential versions that consistently set clubs alight. Since the mid-2000s, Edwards’ originals have helped define modern dance music, tackling techno, house, breakbeat, minimal and disco whilst exploring dub, balearic sounds and ambient across the myriad of other aliases and projects. 

Tracklist: 
01 Strobe Queen (Eric Kupper Remix) 
02 Strobe Queen (Kirk Degiorgio Remix) 
03 Strobe Queen (Long Reprise)

Radio Slave - Strobe Queen (Long Reprise)

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Radio Slave teams up with Michael Love Michael and returns to his roots with ‘Can’t Get You’ this July.

“Would there be Radio Slave without this song?”

Radio Slave revisits Kylie Minogue’s ‘Can’t Get You Out Of My Head’, the track that originally launched his production career in 2001, with US-based writer, editor, and musician Michael Love Michael on vocals. “When I got the call that Pete Tong was going to play my re-edit of ‘Can’t Get You Of My Head’, I had to quickly invent a name for the project, literally on the spot just a few hours before Pete went live on BBC Radio One. On that night, the Radio Slave name was born. It was never officially released, but I did get a copy of the stems and was invited to sit in the studio with the writer Rob Davis for the making of the infamous ‘Blue Monday’ mashup, which Kylie would go onto perform at the Brit Awards in 2002. It was an exciting time in my career, and this song would be the beginning of a project that’s now over 20 years old” - Radio Slave

The refreshed packaged comes with a variety of club-ready mixes, paying homage to the origins of Matt Edwards’ longest running project while looking firmly into the future. Michael Love Michael’s enthralling vocal performance takes centre stage across the mixes, while variations in Radio Slave’s impeccable production inject undeniable groove and propulsive energy throughout. “I wanted to create a version of Kylie's euphoric original that was sinister and creepy, hinting at the song's obsessive refrain and lyrics. That directly inspired my vocal arrangement. I shared it with Larry Tee, a mentor and friend of mine, who sent it to Radio Slave, who was already working on his own remake.

The result is electric, I love these fresh new mixes so much. For me, it modernizes the disco feel of the original for an exciting new era of dancefloor bliss. I'm excited to hear this in clubs everywhere, and to unite with Matt to perform the song whenever possible.” - Michael Love Michael

Tracklist:
01 Can’t Get You (Club Mix)
02 Can’t Get You (Maxxi Version)
03 Can’t Get You (Chant Mix)
04 Can’t Get You (Maxxi Instrumental Version)

Radio Slave Ft. Michael Love Michael - Can’t Get You (Maxxi Instrumental Version)

Radio Slave Ft. Michael Love Michael - Can’t Get You (Chant Mix)

Radio Slave Ft. Michael Love Michael - Can’t Get You (Maxxi Version)

Radio Slave Ft. Michael Love Michael - Can’t Get You (Club Mix)

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Radio Slave brings Cagedbaby to Rekids for collaboration ‘Amnesia’

Radio Slave continues a tight run of singles on Rekids with the blissed-out and Balearic ‘Amnesia’ featuring long-time collaborator Cagedbaby. “I’ve always romanticized about Ibiza in the mid to late 80s. Partying outside. Listening to that perfect mix of European dance tracks and 80’s extended pop mixes and ‘Amensia’ is a love letter to that era.” - Radio Slave

Tying together a blissful mix of freefalling drum breaks and sultry vocals, ‘Amnesia’ pairs uplifting atmospherics, elevating layers of synthesis and stirring pads which add to its emotive lyricism. With an instrumental on the reverse, ‘Amnesia’ delivers another stellar offering from Radio Slave that follows ‘Strobe Queen’, ‘Wake Up’, ‘Wild Life’ and ‘Can’t Get You’.

Radio Slave ft. Cagedbaby - Amnesia (Instrumental Mix)

Radio Slave ft. Cagedbaby - Amnesia

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Superpitcher and Idjut Boys remix Radio Slave’s ‘Wake Up’.

Radio Slave’s spoken word slow-burner ‘Wake Up’ dropped on Rekids March ‘23, winning support from the likes of Roman Fluegel, Louise Chen and Red Axes and continuing a run of singles that explores the house and disco roots of the iconic British UK/Producer. Now, he invites Kompakt affiliate and Hippie Dance co-founder Superpitcher alongside UK duo Idjut Boys to reimagine ‘Wake Up’ on a fresh 12”. 

The original ‘Wake Up’ saw Matt Edwards, aka Radio Slave, utilise low-slung grooves and an iconic speech-like vocal. Superpitcher remixes the track first, turning it into an acid-infused trip with its vocal samples echoing through cavernous, dubbed-out soundscapes. On the flip, we see Idjut Boys turn up the flange in their hypnotic version while maintaining the original’s bassline and stripping back the vocal to eerie whispers.

Radio Slave - Wake Up (Idjut Boys 'Shed’ Mix)

Radio Slave - Wake Up (Superpitcher Remix)

'A disco-inspired replay, Radio Slave version of Audion's track 'Mouth To Mouth' lands on the former’s Rekids imprint late-October...'

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Radio Slave pays homage to Funboy Three with ‘The Lunatics (A Tribute to Terry Hall)’. 

Fun Boy Three’s groundbreaking 1981 anthem ‘The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum’ reflected a socio-political uncertainty and fear of the time, mirroring today’s calamitous society.

Radio Slave’s tribute to the late vocalist of The Specials and Fun Boy Three, Terry Hall, ‘The Lunatics (A Tribute To Terry Hall)’ centres itself on the unmistakable haunting vocal chant of its source material. Welded to the sort of unbreakable groove that Radio Slave has spent two decades refining, the vocal swells, repeating chorus, and jolting alarm sounds make for yet another anthem from one of dance music’s most bankable names.

“I’m sure I’m not alone in thinking that “the lunatics have taken over the asylum”, and it definitely seems like the right time to do a cover. I’m a huge fan of the late great Terry Hall. ‘Ghost Town’ was one of the first 12”s I ever bought, and growing up in South London, Fun Boy Three and The Specials was the soundtrack of my youth.” - Radio Slave, Feb 2024

Rounding out the release, Radio Slave strips the single of its iconic vocal for the ‘A Clinic Full Of Cynics’ dub. In this version, he lets its infectious guitar strum bass roar and added jazz-inflected musical elements shine in a pure and true tribute to ska music told by the Rekids founder.

Radio Slave - The Lunatics (The Lunatics Club Mix)

Radio Slave - The Lunatics (A Clinic Full Of Cynics Dub)

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