FOUNDED in 1983 in Ghent, Belgium, R&S Information has been a cornerstone of digital music for over 40 years. Helmed by Renaat Vandepapeliere and Sabine Maes, the label has constantly championed groundbreaking innovation and authenticity.
From techno pioneers to modern, cutting-edge expertise, R&S has constructed a powerful catalog of hits and numerous sounds which have formed the music business.
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Formative artists embody Joey Beltram to Aphex Twin This pioneering spirit continues on R&S Information because it enters its fifth decade shaping digital music with current successes from skills together with James Blake, Gabriels, Michael Anthony, Quiche, Chizawa Q, DJ Rum, Synkro, White and a lot extra.Â
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As we put together to sit down down with Renaat after we meet up with him in Belgium subsequent month for an in-depth interview, which we’ll publish on these pages in the end, we requested him to speak us via ten large modern tracks from R&S Information to whet our appetites in the intervening time!
Take heed to the music Renaat chosen for us and browse what he needed to say in regards to the tracks beneath.
Mikahl Anthony – Poetic R&B From St. Louis
So round 2013/2014, I used to be despatched an album “ Them Individuals “ curated by Mikhal from a good friend of mine and inside two weeks you would obtain it however any info on him was gone, there was no info.
It took me 5 years of trying continuous day-after-day to search out him. Everybody was calling out within the internet saying who the f**okay is that this man? After which lastly I discovered him and the subsequent day I signed him whereas he was engaged on his album.
Throughout Corona, it was a beautiful time for me, and I used to be rethinking myself and all of the issues I’ve carried out up to now, all of the lots of of labels I’ve labored for, however you’ll be able to’t relive the previous and I can’t all the time do the identical issues as a result of my curiosity in music is simply too large, so I had to consider why I began and the place am I going?
And you understand, I am an outdated man. So, I grew up with Marvin Gaye, I grew up with James Brown, I grew up with Jimi Hendrix, I grew up with all the things, with new wave, with punk.
There’s a lot music that children do not even know. Not that I do know all the things that is out, after all, there’s sensible music on the market, however engaged on this album is one thing I wished to do as a result of it has this form of Marvin Gaye vibe and it’s one thing I recognise from my previous.
On prime of that, it is a very related album. It is a very poetic album, and he is touching lyric-wise some points right here, it’s a improbable album.
I do miss Music with a message and this can be a related album and I am so proud I’ve launched this, he’s a filmmaker and it is one in every of my crown jewels.
I’ve all the time tried to make R&S a label the place the music and I’ve to be very actual, to myself and let my coronary heart converse, and if you happen to don’t prefer it or it is not your factor I respect that.
Recent new Hip Hop from our teenager from Texas… Tainted Tazz – Hit Checklist
So once more, this music is an announcement. It exhibits we’re about all the things, don’t put me in a field as a result of I’ll tear the field aside and battle so long as I can. It exhibits we’re not a part of the flock and that this isn’t about being smug, it’s about ardour.
So, one morning, about two years in the past, I acquired a hyperlink from this younger girl. She was 21 when she made it, and now she’s 23, and after I heard it I believed f**king hell, that is uncooked, that is Public Enemy uncooked and we signed her.
She’s form of Little Sims in a method however from America and far youthful. Additionally, as a lyricist, she’s speaking wild, and one factor she mentioned to me was I am not competing with feminine rappers; I need to compete with the boys, and I believed, let’s rock it, let’s go.
And that is all that I wanted to tug me over, and I’ll say okay, advantageous, If you would like a problem and a battle, I am in. It is that angle of folks that problem themselves in a really aggressive world and the rawness, which I do miss in quite a lot of music and all people is so f**king scared to play it however the place will rock.
Loxy & Ink ( D&B )
I’ve all the time been a fan of Loxy and I’ve put the observe as a result of I feel it is such an attractive, impactful drum and bass observe. It is simply great. Every little thing is correct. it has this lovely voice and opening and it goes and it is beautiful after which it goes into, to, to, to this darkish jazzy rhythm on the finish, it is, it is fucking insane.
And it is also a pleasant story. You realize, that they had despatched me some hip hop tracks the place we launched with nice success. And I mentioned, guys, I do know, you understand, for drum and bass, however let’s begin with fucking hip hop, you understand, your, your fan base and group will, will, might be nuts. They are going to be saying, properly, what is going on on with him? And so they mentioned, no, no, no. I mentioned, belief me. Let’s do it. Um, however that is part of the EP So I wished to make, I wished so as to add one thing accessible as a result of I really like that observe a lot is wow. What a observe. Oh, what a f**king observe!
Chizawa Q & Masaki Sakamoto – Beluga
I feel the observe is a few feeling and never worrying an excessive amount of about what everybody has to say. Once more, to convey him up, it jogs my memory of Quincy Jones, and I grew up with this man. The preparations, its feeling, its sound, It’s so difficult, it is not pushing your Ableton with preset sounds and doing the identical as all the things else. I need to really feel a coronary heart in music, I need to really feel the honesty. It is a terrific observe, however there’s some natural musicality coming in, one thing jazzy.
When making the observe, we known as in a jazz pianist I do know. One thing I actually like is looking and mixing my musician mates from everywhere in the world, whether or not or not it’s bass gamers or drummers, to attempt to convey that natural factor again, In case your coronary heart is open, it really works!
Lenny DIno
Dino Lenni is a really lovely man, that is why I signed him, he is such an attractive coronary heart. He was sending me the demo, and I’m very concerned in pushing the fellows to locations the place they would not even suppose to go which for them is insane nevertheless it works. He is a great DJ and it is a enjoyable and high quality observe once more. It is that relentless groove that simply offers and offers, would not it? That is Lenny.
Andert Tysma – Holland – for followers of Tangerine Dream & Fashionable Neo Traditional
Ander and Tisma Holland are very lovely.
He is a physician, an actual physician who nonetheless practices and as a pastime he toured with quite a lot of Dutch bands as a bass participant, even on large levels at festivals.
He wished to do his personal factor, and when he despatched it to me, it was so pure, neoclassic, Tangerine Dream-ish high quality, interval. Once more, I grew up with Tangerine Desires, Klaus Schulze and all these guys, so for me, it is a reflection, nevertheless it’s nonetheless recent, and I do not hear a lot music like this usually.
Ada Kaleh – Unravelling that includes Eric Leeds – Sampling Fela Kutti
Man, man, man. What a narrative. So He sends me the observe and he samples Fela Kuti and I imply, I performed Fela Kuti a lot after I was younger.
It is unreal. You realize, he and Bob Marley are a few of my large large heroes. So I instructed him, pay attention, dude, that is going to be completely inconceivable to get the inexperienced card on the pattern however let me attempt.
We cleared the entire thing in someday, and I couldn’t imagine it, I had a Fela f**cking Kuti full music on R&S, my hero. I could not imagine it. After which I went to Eric Leeds, sax participant for Prince and despatched him the observe to ask if he favored it and if he might put play within the Observe and he mentioned sure.
After which two days we had it, I used to be like, Holy s**t! That is unreal, That is taking place. It’s only a magical factor that occurred,
I instructed Ada it could by no means be doable after which we had it . Twenty-four hours later, we had the observe, and I checked out Sabine and thought this was not taking place, this might not be actual. I am so happy with it
Vromm – Horizon – Future electronics
He’s subsequent degree, man. It’s daring new digital music, it is him and no person else goes to do the identical factor that he does.
It begins bizarre, however you understand, it’s totally playable if in case you have balls, and it goes into this very lovely melody, which actually opens the observe into a totally totally different dimension. And that is what I need to hear, a variety. A few of the stuff I hear I feel I might do – it could sound smug, however this I can’t do, it’s a must to be on one thing or no matter!!
This music is what I imply after I say that is what I need to do; that is what I need to have folks make for R&S.
Quicche – White Tooth… for followers of Bon Iver – from Germany
David is a younger man, a really lovely man. He additionally comes from form of a rock folks album in Germany, touring a bit bit and he requested me if I used to be (in working with him) and I mentioned after all I am .
He is in the identical market as Bon Iver, James Blake and all that. However what an album, what a debut album, and he appears good! He appears like Jim Morrison, he had this large hair and is a really lovely man. And within the video, he shaves it off.
I feel there’s a nice future for this man.
Viclan – pure rhythm energy – Future dance electronics – the way in which I prefer to BE -not iPhone Dance music 🙂
Once more, pure left-field electronics in its purest type. That groove and the entire thing, for me, is simply f**king depraved.
Typically you obtain music, it’s a must to decide one observe, and it’s a must to return to the drafting board – it’s a must to suppose, is that this it, is there a profession in it? I do not know if there might be, however typically, it’s a must to put it out as a result of the music is so good it simply has to come back out… And this observe has to come back out, interval. It has pure rhythm energy, it is headed in direction of the way forward for dance electronics – the way in which I prefer to be, it is not iPhone dance music.
Paul White – Glory’s in story’s – romantic
I’ve all the time been a giant, large fan of Paul White; he performs guitar, drums, bass, and all the things, he’s multi-instrumental.
So he despatched me the album and it is form of pop, lovely, romantic, deep.
As an individual, he’s a really comfortable, emotional, deep man and you may hear that in his music. Once more, that album is so f**king lovely.
I’d additionally seen him dwell along with his earlier album many, a few years in the past and it is depraved, it is all there and it is all right in trendy modern music.
Feiertag – UK Bass from Holland
Feiertag was a drummer who despatched me some tracks. One of many issues we’ve all the time tried to champion is that we work with novices, we have not signed names to signal names, it has all the time been new youngsters to provide a platform.
It is a depraved observe. It is a related observe in at the moment’s music and I feel it is good.
