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Excited to reveal our newest gem in the Life and Death Apple mixtape series from the phenomenal @ashee_music ! After two great releases on Life And Death, Ashee has compiled for us an hour of tunes from artists such as Unity Wax, Wallace, Tim Deluxe, alongside many of his own serious bangers. 

Tracklist: 

UNTIDY WAX - TRIDY A
ASHEE - KILLA
WALLACE - BB
ASHEE - GET OVER ERE
TIM DELUXE - SAWUBONA (PRESIDENT BONGO MIX)
X-PRESS 2 - LONDON XPRESS (CAGEDBABY CHATEAU REMIX)
COLE KNIGHT - A LITTLE FUN
UNDERWORLD - TRIM (DJ TENNIS & ASHEE REMIX)
PLETNEV - WHEN THE JOB IS DONE
ASHEE - FALSETTO
ASHEE - RETROFIT
TOMIKE - BY THE RIVER
KOUSTAS GOUSTAS - OBSESSION
CAPUTI - NIGHT VISION
FELIX FLEER, JONAS LANDWEHR - BLINDED

Ashee X Life and Death Mixtape

No matter what sounds you profess to be your music of choice, chances are, that at some point over the last five years, you will have got your rocks off to Matt Edwards.
As Matthew E he fashions club-based, dancefloor slayers. Under that aegis he’s updated the classic Chi-town, jackin’ sound beloved of house aficionados and layered it with fractured funk, belligerent, oddball beats and mechanical soul.

If Matthew E is all about the Saturday Night Fever, then, by contrast, Rekid is the slower, more deliberate, rhythmical funk of the mid-week mayhem. Its well-intentioned muscular intensity making it perfect soulful sustenance.

Quiet Village is something else all together. A collaboration with long-time musical sparring partner Joel Martin (a vinyl freak, like Mr Edwards, who works in esteemed auction house Christie’s pop department), it’s sample-based music which veers from drawn out disco-not-disco delirium to evocative, under-stated soundscapes.

Sea Devils - you keeping up at the back? – is undeniable electronic pop brilliance. Working with Tom from Cagedbaby, it’s the least niche of Matt’s projects and thanks to Sea Devils alluring pop dance grooves they’ll no doubt be shagging the upper reaches of the hit parade sometime soon.

Last, but by no means least etc, etc, etc, is Radio Slave. Perhaps Matt’s most instantly recognisable nom de guerre, thanks in part to his inspirational melding of Kylie’s Can’t Get You Out Of My Head to New Order’s Blue Monday, this is Matt’s DJ moniker and the guise under which he completes his incendiary remixes and re-edits.

However, before such sonic schizophrenia gets you calling for the men in white coats, just feel the quality and consider Matt’s legacy. Fired by the first wave of acid house, Matt gained his musical spurs by partying to dance music that was just that: music you danced to, irrespective of tribal factions.

This was the raison d’être he acknowledged when he took to the decks, first at London’s legendary Milk Bar in 1992, then onto the, then, recently opened Ministry Of Sound and then to parties across the country, most notably in Wales – where he was a regular at free parties – and in Brighton, his home since 1998.

His love of re-edits, dance music’s oft-forgotten backbone, led Matt into the studio himself. His own re-edits and remixes, such as the aforementioned epoch-defining re-imagining for Ms Minogue, soon gave way to his own productions and since the floodgates opened there’s been no stopping the man known as, erm, Matthew E, Quiet Village, Sea Devils, Rekid and Radio Slave.

He’s released records for Skint, Soul Jazz, Classic, Whatever We Want, and he’s worked with fellow travellers, Belgium’s The Glimmers. If Matt comes up with another two projects he’ll have enough alter egos for every day of the week.

Psychologists would probably have a field day with him; mercifully, we don’t have to worry about any crisis of identity, we just get to keep on dancing.

Lumberjacks Tapes 059: Radio Slave

Ahead of their fabric headline show this Friday 17th May, the Stockholm based studio, trio & label Studio Barnhus share a mix of their notoriously party-starter, eclectic selections.

Tickets: https://ra.co/events/1889721

036 - Studio Barnhus - fabric podcast

Always with the Detroit sound in mind, Deetron presents his new SOULMATE project which he will bring to fabric this Friday.

Tickets: https://ra.co/events/1889721

037 - Deetron presents SOULMATE - fabric podcast

Hey all, here's the recording of the set I played at Folklor Club in Lausanne. It's been great to return to the club and join the fabulous Lea Lisa for her "Bliss" night.

Hope you like it! ❤️

DJ Set - Folklor, Lausanne - 2024.04

Young partygoers might know Man Power, AKA Geoff Kirkwood, as the earnest geezer going back-to-back with DJs like Ewan McVicar, Paul Woolford, La La and Skream—peak-time specialists with a fine line in boofy bangers and ravey techno. Kirkwood is also a dab hand at the kind of elliptical house and deep cut detours favored by '00s labels like DFA and Optimo.

In spite of a long track record as a producer and promoter, if you had to boil Kirkwood's work in recent years down to a single quality, it might be altruism. He hails from North Shields, a small town fringing the boundary of Newcastle in England's oft-neglected North East, and wears his heritage proudly. The Me Me Me label boss's involvement in a flurry of civic restoration, and no-filter paeans to the importance of working class involvement in culture, have become as central to his life as music-making itself. For an accomplished DJ who has played at nearly every good club you could name, that’s no small feat.

So which side of Man Power were we in for? The answer on RA.940 is: both. '60s free verse poetry, Zebra Katz, Gesaffelstein and John Carpenter in the opening stretch? Makes sense. Octave One punching through Rozalla? You got it. An extended Joe Claussell workout atop Radiohead's "Everything In Its Right Place"? Why not. In Kirkwood's hands, it all goes down as smooth as a pint of Newcastle Brown.

@manpower-1

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/940

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RA.940 Man Power

Rinse FM Podcast

Roman Flugel - 08 June 2024

CC Temple - Home Seq - I.O.T
Life on Planets, Makez - Running from the Noise - Heist
Matthias Vogt - Umami - Nervous                
2fox - Elevation - Soul Clap                                 
Gratts - Sun Circles (Alexander Flood) - Be Strong Be Free
Larionov & St Theodore - Savage - Snuff Trax       
Panash - Jack 2 Jack (Jesper Dahlback Remix) - Turbo Recordings
William Kiss - Jacker - RSPX
The House Jacker - Dookie Booty (Dirtbox Ghetto Rmx) – Dizzy Tunes
Yann Lean - To Get Close - Cod3 QR     
Zar & Fox - Deep Dive - Five Alley                          
Joaquim Plossu Salem Focus Phoebe Train - Theory of the tides - Cod3 QR
Steo - Nine 22 - The North Quarter
Technimatic - Looking For Diversion ft. Lucy Kitchen (Lenzman Duskee Remix) - Shogun Audio
David Versace - Same Signals - La Sape          
Jake Long - Celestial Soup - New Soil
Delroy Morgan – Better must Come – VP Music Group
Mascarpone - Antiscience - Nocturbulous
AMX - Your Body - Tresor
Elektrotechnik - Days & Weeks - A Traction Records
Unklevon - UN1C - Boysnoize Rec.
Deepchild - To The Sea - DCR
Dense & Pika - Pivot (Truncates Classic Mix) - We are the Brave             
Novopol - 92 - Flemme Rec                                                                           
M.I.T.A. - The Queen - Suara Master
Len Faki - Gamma (Glaskin Remix) – Figure
Rah & The Ruffcats - Rodeo - Sonar Kollektic
Oscar Sulley & The Uhuru Dance Band - Bukom Mashie (JKriv 7 Mash) - Razor-N-Tape 
Nicola Conte - Umoja (Joaquim Joe Claussel Sacred Rhythm Dub) - Far Out
Adaolili, Alvilianx - Shedding - Sunclock
Bohemian - Sanctuary - RH2
Re Tide, Tommy Mambretti - Losing Control Now (Tommy Mambretti Afro Balearic Dub) - Metropolitan Promos
Oscar P - I Was There - Open Bar Music
Mark De Clive-Lowe, Vanessa Freeman, Bembe Segue- Little Did I Know (Domu's Dancefloor Mix) - MashiBeats
Wheel UP - BlackJoy Freestyle (Wipe the Needle Remix) - Tru Thoughts
Dfra - Sal Marina - Deepa Rec.                        
Stefan Ringer - Plgly (SR Big Room Mix) - Dolfin Records
Arkajo - Surge - Aniara Recordings
Dino Lenny - Lose Control (Vince Watson Reshape) - R&S Records
Tal Fussman - Even Rome Wasn't Built In a Day – Rekids
King Hannah - The Mattress - City Slang
Beak - The Seal - Invada
Capo Lee & bullet tooth - Keep it Rolling - Pressure                           
Coido - Pink Dragon - Yuku
Effy & VV Pete - Jordan 1s (Effy Rework)   
Duckett - Read Between the Lines - Accidental

[DEEP]Search 16 (Juin 2024)

The Dutch duo, renowned for their extensive record collections that seamlessly fuse old and new tracks, present their distinctive sound encompassing classic house, UK garage, soulful techno and acid.

They return to fabric this Friday, June 28th.

RA tickets: https://ra.co/events/1910775

041 - Dam Swindle - fabric podcast

E-Missions co-founder P.Leone returns to Radio Slave’s Rekids this March with four techno cuts entitled ‘Moments Of Peace Within’.

Tapped as one of Mixmag’s ‘25 Artists You Need To Watch In 2019’, P.Leone is a musician, DJ and producer from New York, who often spins at clubs like Panorama Bar and ://about blank having moved to Berlin. Following his two debut releases on Spencer Parker’s Work Them Records, P.Leone launched his respected E-Missions alongside Caiazzo in 2017– putting out quality music from emerging talent such as False Witness, CYD, Tred and Rush Plus.

Meanwhile, P.Leone has dropped two releases on Matt Edwards’ influential Rekids imprint, as well as collaborated alongside Radio Slave for a remix of Deep Dimension ‘So 1992’. He now returns for his third release, following releases from SRVD (Matt Edwards & Patrick Mason), Mark Broom and Nic Fanciulli.
‘Walked Into My Life’ offers slow psychedelic guitar notes with fluttering vocals over driving drums, before ‘What Could I Have Done’ delivers a sporadic kick pattern dispersing delayed stabs and metallic sounds. ‘Wrong Muse’ presents a damaging beat amidst rattling atmospherics and low groans, before ‘The First Vision’ plays shining chords on soulful vocal chops and unearthly FX.

P.Leone - Wrong Muse

Out now on vinyl and digital - https://lnk.to/REKIDS136

Long-term house and techno heavyweight, Kevin M. Kennedy aka FBK has a career spanning three decades. Debuting with a seminal release on Frictional in ’97, Kennedy went on to appear on labels like diametric. and Urban Kickz, whilst more recent releases have landed on Barba Records, Suspected (alongside Paul Mac) and Rekids - kick-starting the label’s Special Projects series. With a close bond to Detroit greats like Anthony ‘Shake’ Shakir, Daniel Bell, Claude Young, Keith Tucker and Sherard Ingram (DJ Stingray), FBK is considered a true contemporary. Returning to Rekids for his inaugural longplayer, ‘More Stories From The Future’ demonstrates his versatility within the studio and mirrors his genre-bending approach to performing, both as a DJ and live act.

‘Modular Life’ brings deep resonating lows, liquid pads and clinical percussion, before the psychedelic vocals of ‘I’ll Sit Back, You’ll Jack’ join smashing snares and intensifying synths. Exhibiting erratic sound design, ‘Layers of Fear’ comes complete with pumping drums and intense hi-hats, until ‘Hassling’ offers a stepping groove, thick pad stabs and deep sub movement.

‘Headless’ gets modular heavy with bubbling effects and shuffling rhythm, preceding the driving kicks of ‘Gate Closing’ where ghostly vocals meet enveloping acid growls. ‘The Boxing Lesson’ delivers punchy kicks and steppy snares under lofty atmospherics, ending on ‘The Finisher’s Heart’ where evolving detuned synths flow over powerful percussion.

FBK - Hassling

Out now on vinyl and digital - https://lnk.to/RSPX13

Irish live act and producer Hybrasil builds on a big 2018 with a fantastic debut on the mighty Rekids entitled ‘Afra’.

Hybrasil has put out plenty of techno tracks that have topped Beatport charts. He’s released on Octopus Records, his own self-titled label and Break New Soil, as well as playing Amnesia Terrace and Privilege Ibiza. He is a new school techno talent of the highest order. "

Slick opener ‘Afra’ is the sort of lively techno cut that gets the floor marching to its beat before erupting with big synth stabs that look to the heavens. The Millsian ‘Source Vibration’ pairs things back to flat footed, forward driving kicks and molten synths that ripple over the drums. As intensity builds, the synths grow ever more
wild to ensure plenty of big moments in the club.

‘Pallas Athena & Aeoleusc’ continues to pair monstrous drum programming with uplifting chord work that is simple yet hugely effective. Rising up through the shadows, the glistening pads bring colour and future soul to the track, before last of all, ‘Bishop’ flips the script with some funkier drum programming that gets you on your toes as dubbier chords flesh out the grooves.

Hybrasil - Bishop

Out now on vinyl and digital - https://lnk.to/RSPX13

Irish live act and producer Hybrasil builds on a big 2018 with a fantastic debut on the mighty Rekids entitled ‘Afra’.

Hybrasil has put out plenty of techno tracks that have topped Beatport charts. He’s released on Octopus Records, his own self-titled label and Break New Soil, as well as playing Amnesia Terrace and Privilege Ibiza. He is a new school techno talent of the highest order. "

Slick opener ‘Afra’ is the sort of lively techno cut that gets the floor marching to its beat before erupting with big synth stabs that look to the heavens. The Millsian ‘Source Vibration’ pairs things back to flat footed, forward driving kicks and molten synths that ripple over the drums. As intensity builds, the synths grow ever more wild to ensure plenty of big moments in the club.

‘Pallas Athena & Aeoleusc’ continues to pair monstrous drum programming with uplifting chord work that is simple yet hugely effective. Rising up through the shadows, the glistening pads bring colour and future soul to the track, before last of all, ‘Bishop’ flips the script with some funkier drum programming that gets you on your toes as dubbier chords flesh out the grooves.

Hybrasil - Pallas Athena & Aeoleus

Hybrasil - Source Vibration

Hybrasil - Afra

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