R&S Records!

Scubadevils

I was wondering what the story was with R&S in the fact that they have being bringing out a couple of old releases again... a while ago on vinyl and now there have been a few remastered CD's too (Aphex Twin, Ken Ishii, Dave Angel & Model 500).

I checked the R&S website and it looks as though more classics are planned for rerelease and also new music... good stuff R&S!!! Made my Sunday (I have a fairly boring existence these days ) Not much info on the site but worth keeping an eye on :pac:

http://www.rsrecords.com/

Good selection of tunes to stream too :pac::pac::pac:

As was said in the 'House of God' - I am excited.

Beatport has recently added them...

Great to hear and see Starlight in it..

311

Is joey beltram the main man behind R&S ?

R&S represents the initials of Renaat Vandepapeliere & Sabine Maes, the couple that created this label.




You got to love Wiki...

311

It's funny ,joey beltram was on nearly all the R&S records I had. Cj bolland on a few aswell.

Yeah and just looking at the catalouge there on discogs http://www.discogs.com/label/R+%26+S+Records well worth a look, you probably have some more lying around there also...

DEVOTION

It was relaunched last year.

Scubadevils

Some great new reissues lately from R&S...

Model 500 - Classics

Dave Angel - Classics

Model 500 - Deep Space

Derrick May - Innovator :eek: Finally I can get this!

Joey Beltram - Classics

Aphex Twin - Classics

Ken Ishii - Jelly Tones

Can't wait to see what else they reissue.

francois

311 wrote: »

Is joey beltram the main man behind R&S ?

no but the couple who ran it recognised what a talent he was. They were a belgian couple-to be fair the ferrarri logo and black/blue covers were iconic
R&S produced some of the best music in the early '90's (and a lot of ****e as well!!)
but their best are
energy flash
mentasm
beats time
kinetic (you should have...can anyone fill in the rest?)
fever called love
dominator (i wanna kiss myself)
ravesignal
jaydee-plastic dreams

Scubadevils

They had so many other amazing releases though too that have fallen under the radar imo since....

John Beltran
Sun Electric
Tournesol
The Source Experience
System 7
David Morley

Not to mention the amazing sub-label 'Apollo'

http://www.discogs.com/label/Apollo

Scubadevils

Wonder what ever happened to the return of R & S and the promised reissues of the lengthly back-catalogue? They did reissue a few gems alright and then the pretty lame compilation with predominantly crappy remixes on the 2nd disc.

I just noticed today that there was also a new Apollo release late last year which does look pretty tasty - must grab that. Other than that though all quiet, mustn't have worked out in they way they thought it might. Reading back over an interview with Renaat Vandepapeliere on the Clash magazine website from 2008 and it all seemed very optimistic at the time... especially the last paragraph where he stated they would reissue the back-catalogue.

I can only assume there wasn't sufficient interest to buy old classics and the label most likely struggled to resurface from the past into the world of digital and downloads etc.

Just when you thought good old-fashioned dance music had given up the ghost under an onslaught of indie, one of the great labels comes charging back into the fray, like a veteran actor brought back to revive a flagging soap. Mention R&S Records to techno/experimental enthusiasts of a certain vintage and you’re likely to be met with a wistful stare and possibly a hummed riff from one of the many seminal cuts the label issued over its 20 year history. And quite right too, as the R&S roster is rather arousing: Aphex Twin, System 7, Model 500, Derrick May and Carl Craig all passed through its corridors back in the day. Label founder Renaat Vandepapeliere has a radical new plan for his reawaken beast, however.

Clash: Why start the label again?

“Public demand. Questions, questions, questions: ‘Why did you stop, why don’t you come back?’ I don’t know if I had the intention to do so because I thought it was finished, I couldn’t add anything more to it. But I always had the dream of signing a big pop act.”

A big pop act?

“That’s be something completely new for me, as a challenge. I’m going to leave Dan [Foat] in the UK to do the dance department. He has a free hand, he can do what he wants, he can be me, but thirty years younger. He has to prove himself. If he ****s up, he ****s up, or he does well. But he’s got the platform.”

So what sort of acts are you looking for?

“I’d like to work on an Underworld, a Prodigy, maybe even a Coldplay. That’s where the interest is, this is where my head is now, to be very honest. People say ‘no, you can’t do this, you should only do dance music.’ This was my biggest problem, I felt so trapped in being a dance label, even though I was trying to be as diverse as possible. But it wasn’t really accepted. I love dance music, but I love music in general. I want to be free and open minded.”

Why did you stop R&S, originally?

“So many reasons. The main reason, and why I’m going to leave Dan to do what he does, is that I felt dance-wise I’ve been listening to the same records over the last 24 years. Maybe its me getting old, maybe I’ve got Alzheimer’s, but I can’t hear the difference. I tried, I went to all those minimal clubs but I couldn’t understand it anymore. And the vibe around the music was gone. I’m not getting excited by clubs to be honest. But then I’m totally spoiled. I travelled the world, and we were at the beginning of something totally new. So it was exciting.”

But you’ll be re-releasing your back catalogue too?

“The whole back catalogue, the highlights, will be remastered, again because of public demand. The albums were very hard to find so why not? Even within my family, there are kids 18. 19, 20, they’re going out, DJing, so they’re grabbing my collection and found it interesting. You have a lot of youngsters who are going back to what the past was.”
http://www.clashmusic.com/news/belgium’s-greatest-export-back

b45

as far as i know they are still re-issuing as well as releasing new material . I saw 20hz was given a re issue with some remixes recently and shlomi aber just released a new 12" on the label , a surprisingly good one aswell .

Scubadevils

b45 wrote: »

as far as i know they are still re-issuing as well as releasing new material . I saw 20hz was given a re issue with some remixes recently and shlomi aber just released a new 12" on the label , a surprisingly good one aswell .

Yeah I saw on discogs that there have been some 12"s during 2009 and a couple of tracks this year too - just listening to that Shlomi Aber track now, pretty good stuff alright! Must add that to the list for when the credit card is a bit more flexible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTw-AOG5c3E

Aside from some of the 12"s last year, I would have thought they would reissue more of the classic albums - seeing as they started with some in 2008 but then it just seemed to stop.

jonnny68

R & S was an iconic label, pity they didn't have a label come in and "save them" like Defected did with Strictly Rhythm.

DominoDub

b45 wrote: »

as far as i know they are still re-issuing as well as releasing new material . I saw 20hz was given a re issue with some remixes recently and shlomi aber just released a new 12" on the label , a surprisingly good one aswell .

Capricorn - 20 Hz wow thats a blast from the past. I first got it on a free R&S cover mount tape from muzik mag ,great tribal trance tune !

http://www.discogs.com/Various-RS-Records-Refresh-Your-Ears/release/226686