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Mixed by Radio Slave - Strictly Rhythms vol. 5.
“I have loved Strictly material for years, their tracks are pivotal, some of them make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up! So the records I chose for this mix are the ones I’d still play when I’m out. It wasn’t a case of just doing a Strictly compilation”.
- Radio Slave
Radio Slave is the articulate producer Matt Edwards, a former Londoner relocated to the epicentre of European cool, Berlin. You may have experienced his gracefully hypnotic set and seen him work his magic behind the decks at the world’s most renowned dance floors including Space (Ibiza), Berghain (Berlin) or Fabric (London).
He is well known for his deep house productions with a distinct ‘90s flavour, full of delicate and unobvious references to the beginnings of dance music. It was this love of early house that attracted him to mix the next in the Strictly Rhythms series. The legendary New York label gave him full access to their deepest vaults and he dived right in. In fact he went further and even paid homage to New York with a ‘Downtown’ and ‘Uptown’ mix, reflecting the diverse sounds of the city. The result is Radio Slave’s own interpretation of the imprint’s finest and undiscovered moments.
The Downtown version is a stripped down, slower after-party style mix with a much mellower vibe. ‘With this mix I wanted to bring some of the lesser known Strictly releases to the mixing desk’ enthuses Radioslave ‘tracks like Felix Da Housecat’s ‘Lippstikk’ and also the beautiful Marshall Jefferson produced ‘Needs(Not Wants)’. I also had to include an Ultra Nate track and chose ‘Situation Critical’ which has always had a special place in my heart as does the timeless and stunning ‘All Night Long’ by Mood II Swing. Armand Van Helden also appears as The Mole People with ‘Ocean’ and what a record. I've not stopped playing this 12" since I bought it back in 1995 and it's probably even more popular now than ever - that's why you gotta love Strictly Rhythm”.
The Uptown mix is a much more upbeat pumping sound typical of the mid 90s dance floor club vibe and much more inspired by the Strictly 12”s that Radio Slave still drops at clubs he plays at around the world. These are timeless, hypnotic club tracks.
“Tracks like The Hard Heads’ ’Demon Dreams’, this is a massive record in Panorama Bar, anyone can play that. The Mole People’s ‘Ocean’ is a huge record in Berlin. A lot of the records on this mix you can still being heard being played out in underground clubs where vinyl culture is still the way to play. They’re not into laptops”.
Forgive me if I didn’t already tell you that he took the time to personally re-edit 29 of the tracks to make them more DJ friendly? (Of which all 29 are available on the digital download).
“A lot of these tracks were short in comparison to the ones I produce. I was extending the intro and outro to make the tracks a little more DJ friendly. I just wanted to put my touch on some of the songs and I went through each track to see how they worked. It’s better to think about, listen to the tracks, work out the length, and see how they work in the mix”.
Ultimately Radio Slave sums the catalogue up as being ‘so rich and diverse and full of such emotional and deep music and I'm still having as much pleasure listening to the tracks now as when they were first released!’
Strictly Rhythm.
Soon after opening its doors Strictly Rhythm quickly gained a following among club DJs thanks to a series of high quality underground tracks by the likes of Roger Sanchez, Todd Terry and Kenny Dope. In 1994 Strictly notched up its first crossover hit with Real 2 Real’s ‘I Like To Move It’, a feat it was to repeat throughout the rest of the decade with Wink’s ‘Higher State of Consciousness’, Ultra Naté’s ‘Free’ and Wamdue Project’s ‘King of My Castle’. In between the hits the label provided a steady output of club tracks by a huge array of respected artists from Barbara Tucker and Masters At Work to Erick Morillo, Josh Wink, Armand Van Helden, Danny Tenaglia, David Morales and DJ Pierre. Almost every house producer of repute who was active in the 1990s is represented in the catalogue.
Herausgebedatum: 20. September 2010
Label: Strictly Rhythms
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Label: Strickly Rhythm
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Diesen Eintrag wurde am 09.10.2010 durch sven
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