R & S represents the initials of Renaat & Sabine, the couple that created this quintessential label of the history of the electronic music. Based in Ghent, Belgium, it held the privilege to be located on one of the oldest and most traditional cities of Europe. This city which once used to have a medieval shape changed very suddenly, at the right moment when the machines started to dominate the scenario. Across the streets, you could see a different generation emerging.

but for the three massive cathedrals (St. Peter, St. Baaf and the newer one of Gothic design, St. Nicholas, built in the 13th century), the city passed through a serious transformation since the beginning of the nineties. At that time, a new revolution has attained this Belgian community: the one of the rise of the machines, made mainly through innovation and experimentation, principles that will always remain as the main landmarks of R & S Records.

Created by the visionary Renaat Vandepapeliere and his wife Sabine Maes, R recruited almost every single artist of avant-garde essence from late eighties to the first half of the nineties. Renaat’s passion for Ferraris has been notorious, which explained why he initially decided to use the Ferrari logo for the label, probably paying substantial royalties for it, from 1988 to 1989.

R&S Records releases have been charted by Danny Daze, Dario Zenker, Deepchild, Bicep, Shifted, Perc, The Black Dog, Glimpse, The Advent, Clockwork, Seuil, Samuli Kemppi, Mark Henning, Marcin Czubala, Deetron, System Of Survival, Nick Höppner, Mark Henning, Marcin Czubala, Falko Brocksieper, Deetron, Anthony Collins, Falko Brocksieper and 1136 others.

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