Published
Mon, Aug 14, 2006, 22:35
- Banging together Villalobos and Corey Hart might infuriate the purists, but for Matt Edwards “the best gigs are where you play everything and anything.�
Banging together Ricardo Villalobos and Corey Hart might infuriate the purists, but for Radio Slave “the best gigs are where you play everything and anything.” On his debut mix CD ‘Creature of the Night’, Brighton’s Matt Edwards puts the theory to the test.
Radio Slave used to be the duo of Serge Santiago and Matt Edwards, remixing the likes of No Doubt, Kylie, Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake. But the pair split in August 2005, and now Radio Slave is just Matt, and in 2006 the clientele is different: under the scalpel this year have been the likes of Roman Flugel, Booka Shade, Chelonis R. Jones, Justice vs. Simian and The Knife. No prizes for guessing who was the dark horse of that pair.
For his first mix CD, Edwards is similarly unpredictable. ‘Creature of the Night’ kicks off with tracks by Hell, Sly Mongoose, Lazy Fat People and Green Velvet. But that’s before it gets really unusual – the second half lines up Ricardo Villalobos against ‘Sunglasses at Night’ by Corey Hart, and even makes space for the legendary lost disco 12” from The Osmonds ‘III’.
Why the eclecticism? As Matt himself explains, ”I created this mix as a snapshot of the last hour of one of my sets where you can dig deeper and pull out some real party tracks, obscure rock dance and some proper tripped-out disco. It's great when you've got cool kids in Berlin jumping up and down to Corey Hart or festival goers singing along to Dennis Parker’s ‘Like an Eagle’”.
The mix is released on Eskimo Recordings, who have previously issued mixes from like minds such as The Glimmers, Headman, Ivan Smagghe, Optimo and Rub N Tug. The common thread? Eclecticism, a devil may care attitude, as well as a dash of rock and disco to break up the four-to-the-floor house template.
Matt Edwards has his fingers in other pies too, releasing slow, deliberate funk as Rekid and sample-based disco-not-disco as Quiet Village with long-time musical sparring partner Joel Martin. Stay tuned for a Quiet Village long player in 2007.
Tracklist
1. Hell - Let No Man Jack (Radio Slave Acapella & FX)
2. Sly Mongoose - Snakes and Ladder (Rub n Tug Remix)
3. Shit Robot - Wrong Galaxy
4. Lazy Fat People - Dark Water
5. The Kills - No Wow (Radio Slave Remix)
6. X-Press 2 - Kill 100 (Radio Slave Remix)
7. Radio Slave - My Bleep (Roman Flugel Remix)
8. Green Velvet featuring Walter Phillips - Shake and Pop
9. Senor Coconut - Behind the Mask (Ricardo Villalobos Remix)
10. Corey Hart - Sunglasses at Night
11. Joe Smooth - Perfect World
12. The Osmonds - iii (Quiet Village No-edit)
13. Dennis Parker - Like an Eagle
‘Radio Slave presents Creature of the Night’ will be released on Eskimo Recordings October 2, 2006.