Format: mix CD
Labek: Fabric
Released: October 20
Operating under a number of well-respected guises, including Radio Slave, Rekid, Quiet Village, Mathew E and his collaborative Sea Devils project with Caged Baby, South Londoner Matt Edwards has been contributing to the British house music scene since his days spinning at Ministry’s Open All Hours night during the early 90s. Here he mixes ultra-current minimal tech-house with the traditional machine funk of classic house/techno.
The Michel Cleis remix of Spencer Parker’s ’The Beginning’, for instance, owes much to Chicago and Detroit in general and Lil Louis’, Steve ’Silk’ Hurley, Derrick May and Carl Craig in particular, with its chugging, automated pianos and exotic Latin percussion. But elsewhere, like exclusive unreleased Radio Slave track ‘DDB’, it’s more slanted towards the linear, stripped down Euro pulsations of Mauritzio.
Heads down, frug-inspiring grooves, with the odd sonic diversion like Nina Kraviz’s wonderfully personality-laden ’Pain In The Ass’ thrown in to stop it getting too relentless, showing that Edwards has a superb feel for structuring a DJ set, this is well worth getting enslaved to.
Ben Willmott
7&½/10
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