Single of the Week: Radio Slave ‘Screaming Hands’

Single of the Week: Radio Slave ‘Screaming Hands’

19 July, 2007 | 1.23AM

• Written by: Terry Church
• Filed under: Music News: josh wink, radio slave, rekids

One of the biggest club tracks of the year has finally landed, an acid house dancefloor destroyer courtesy of Radio Slave aka Matt Edwards. Beatportal caught up with the Berlin-based Brit to find out all about his ‘Screaming Hands’.

Have you always been into electronic music?

“I was really into sci-fi films and art from an early age and this lead to me buying lots of weird electronic soundtracks! From there I got hooked on electro around 1982 - 1985, and then came rave.

Why did you decide to start making electronic music?

“I guess it was really out of being frustrated with the music I was hearing, especially remixes. I did also make a lot of stuff in the mid 1990s but I was never happy with the results!”

‘Screaming Hands’ is blowing up big style. Why do you think it stands out?

“Thanks! I’m not sure. I just do my thing and hope that people will play my music.”

So who is playing your music?

“I have a lot of support from all kinds of DJs with the Radio Slave name as I guess I can cover quite a few genres within what I do as a producer.

“So everyone from Francois K, Ricardo Villalobos, Ivan Smagghe, Busy B, Mark Ronson, Tommie Sunshine and of course Josh Wink [who did the remix of ‘Screaming Hands’].”

What are your studio sessions like?

“It depends. Sometimes I think I really want to make a certain kind of track and then with ‘Screaming Hands’ I was actually working on another song when I came across this sound.

“It just jumped out and within the next five hours I had made the track.

“With the whole ‘No Sleep’ project the idea is to make pure club tracks that are designed for dirty, sweaty nightclubs.”

Your label Rekids always seems to have its finger on the pulse. Where do you think dance music is going next?

“I really believe there will be a return of more song-based tracks in underground electronic music.

“It’s been missing for quite a few years and the human voice is such a powerful instrument, so why not use it.

“Also I’m sure a lot of people have noticed that deep, tracky house is back and I guess that’s a reaction against the clikkidy clak minimal world we’ve been living in.

“I love minimal techno but I think the USA house sound is definitely back.”

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