Preview: R and S and Radio Slave join forces

Preview: R and S and Radio Slave join forces

20 July, 2008 | 4.21PM

• Section: Music News Topics: Beatport Blog
• Written by: svnvt

Two years ago Renaat Vandepapeliere anounced the re-birth of one the most influential techno labels of all time, his (and Sabine Maes’) own R & S Records, which has been defunct since the late nineties.

For nearly two years the sole activity of the reborn label-legend was to re-release a big chunk of the countless classics from their back catalogue.

New, exclusive material on R & S was promised but it never saw the light of day.

Well, in August the wait is over.

Honestly, I was quite sure, that the 50-something Renaat had lost interest in his old techno label again and was happily enjoying his breeding farm for sport horses (”El Cid Studfarm“). But how wrong I seem to have been.

In mid-August the first new EP on R & S will be released. It’s the first EP in eight years, and it’s going to be by no one else but the notorious Radio Slave.

The two tracks are classic Radio Slave: Long, pounding, trippy and hypnotic, with an undeniable Wildpitch-feel to them.

Maybe Wildpitch will finally have a big comeback (the new EP by Ame, Henrik Schwarz and Dixon on Innervisions is also a full-on Wildpitch monster), these two tracks will definitely tear every dancefloor - in small and big clubs - apart.

So now that the first release of R & S Records’ ‘Misson 2’ is announced, I can’t wait to see what else is coming up.

Remixes of old classics, that for sure, and maybe the rumoured new material from Derrick May ...well I doubt it, but it’s not forbidden to dream, is it?

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