Sun over Sonar: LWE reflects
Anja Schneider slays the crowd. Photos by Nate DeYoung. After a few days’ rest, LWE’s Nate DeYoung files his report: In the Sonar coverage I’ve seen over the years, I never read too much between the...
View ArticleLWE 2Q Reports: Top 5 Overrated Singles
For our fourth report, LWE’s editor in chief Steve Mizek picks his top five overrated singles from the first half of 2008. The number of dance music singles released each year is absolutely...
View ArticleVeinte Tres, Serpiente Cosmica
[REKIDS] In his recent slew of releases, Matt Edwards (aka Radio Slave) has focused rather exclusively on lengthy peak time killers. Over the years, he’s had so many pseudonyms and side projects that,...
View ArticleLittle White Earbuds November Charts
Chart courtesy of The Economist. 01. Radio Slave, “Incognito” [R&S Records] (buy) Another big year for Matt Edwards and a return to prominence for Belgium’s R&S, 2008 saw the former help...
View ArticleTony Lionni|Radio Slave, Berghain 03|Part 1
[Ostgut Ton] The first extracts from Len Faki’s curate’s egg of a mix CD showcases an established figure, and a relative newcomer. Radio Slave falls into the former category (if you haven’t heard one...
View ArticleDJ Hell feat. P. Diddy, The DJ (Radio Slave Remix)
[International Deejay Gigolo] When I read in July that Radio Slave would be joining hands with DJ Hell and P. Diddy on a 28-minute remix of the latter pair’s recent collabo, “The DJ,” I felt as though...
View ArticleTalking Shop with Running Back
Running Back is one of the most consistent labels about. Only in terms of quality, mind. Consistency doesn’t equal homogeneity, and frankly Running Back can be all over the shop stylistically. Ravey,...
View ArticleRadio Slave, I Don’t Need A Cure For This
Painting by Christopher Mir [REKIDS] REKIDS broke nearly five months of silence with a new single from label proprietor Matt Edwards, who appeared under his supposedly soon-to-retire Radio Slave...
View ArticleMidland, Bring Joy EP
[More Music] Midland’s solo debut last year, “Play The Game,” was an out-of-nowhere anthem, a big, obvious breakbeat track with gorgeous strings, blissful vocals and a perfectly rendered MDMA-fueled...
View ArticleLittle White Earbuds Interviews Radio Slave
Matt Edwards makes more music than you probably realize. To hear him tell it, there’s nothing out of the ordinary about his dizzying production clip, rattling off his surplus of side projects and...
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