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Label of the month: R&S Records

yay belgium!

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oh, and let's not forget a little tune called plastic dreams

I LOVE R&S!

Eyes Wide Open/Incognito!!
Single o' the year.

Good article, good read.

I'm not old enough to have experienced R&S during the '80's and '90's...after this read I am more then willing to explore the backcatalog of R&S.

where is the radio slave mix of energy falsh, cant wait to hear that? tohught of it scares me

good to see these guys back in action. long live aphex twin.

Great article. I have some old R&S drum & bass from Teebee & K (Polar) which I'm really proud of owning. A fine label.

The question that still haunts me after all these years: why did he refuse to release the Rhythm Is Rhythm album?

Selected Ambient Works 85-92 is in my tiny record bag at all times. Such a perfect album.

As an old skool bleepmeister raised on the electronic sounds of the steel city the stuff released by R & S was for me a natural progression of that particular sound and it is in my humble opinion the greatest label of all time.

Between R&S and Rising High we had two of the finest labels of the times. CJ Bolland's "Rave Signal III" was the most awesomely pounding Rave tracks ever, but R&S tempered that with tracks like "Dominator", "Stella" and Rising High's Maestro Caspar Pound's own "Fever called Love" - so many great tracks. Musically, a fundamental label to listen to, if you want to understand what came next...

I'm glad someone mentioned CJ Bolland - sure Aphex and co are pioneers in their own right but tracks like Horsepower, Camargue and There Can Be Only one were defining moments in dance, espec in Melb for any Global Village crew out there...

many a time i stomped in a field to dominator. And always remember Joey beltram dropping energy flash as his last tune (or was it first ) at obssesion new years eve down in cornwall 94 - place went chicken oriental. The tape is out there somewhere !!

Great Great legendary label.

thx for all your nice comments, feels good and gives us a lot of possitive energy to become the best ever again and give new talent a change ! CJ, damm right he was a big part of the R&S family and music history ! We are so proud of having so many classics on the label, Mundo, Patrick Pulsinger, Ken Ishii, Locust and so on and on ..... !

Anyway, glad to be back in music land, greetings from the black horse and myself ! Let's have a party again

respect to all of you !

renaat R&S Records

I'm a HUGE, HUGE, HUGE R&S fan since I'm a kid. From the moment I heard Digital Vamp 'You Can Take My Body' and then seeing that logo for the first time, I was completely sold! Genuis! It's so good to see what Renaat has been doing with the label this year. The new releases and the remixes of the classics are all amazing...as expected!

I would like to point out though, Second Phase is Joey Beltram AND Mundo Muzique, NOT Joey Beltram. I was really disappointed when I read the piece and every time Second Phase was mentioned it said (AKA Joey Beltram). Not true. It has always bothered me that only Beltram gets the credit for such a massive, influential record and sound. It was the birth of the hoover sound and I think credit should be given to both people...not just the one who's more popular. Mundo was always a grossly underrated producer who created nothing short of true, cerebral magic in the early 90s and also heavily influenced Beltram's production from that era. Which is clear in tracks like Revelation 'The Realm', 'Synth-It' and 'First Power'. He also did 'Vortex' on +8 with Hawtin and Beltram in 1990, which I just recently had the honor of remixing ...Anyway, just my two cents

God I miss those days!
Keep up the absolutely brilliant work Renaat!!!!

outstanding label with lots of amazing releases over the years

R&S Records is the type of label that changed my life. I will always owe them that, as well as (very) few other..........