All in all in then this is a double-header of unusual quality; powerful cutting-edge techno with a psychedelic edge that like all the best R&S records is capable of conquering the big-room and the inner-space alike. Better yet as it’s heralded as the start of an ongoing collaboration between artist and label it means we’ll have more of the same to look forward to in 2010. Happy New Year!

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Techno and old skool lovers will know just how amazing an opportunity remixing this 1991 rave classic is. As one of the most important milestones in dance music evolution, these seminal hardcore pianos have been reverberating around raves for nearly 20 years and now it’s your chance to turn in a remix that will propel ‘Vamp’ into the future for generations to come.

Trackitdownand its sister old skool and classics download store Oldskoolmp3 have joined forces with R&S Records to present producers from across the spectrum of dance music a golden chance to reach across dancefloor history and bring Outlander ‘Vamp’ up to date with a bang and a bleep! Last year cosmic techno production superstar Prins Thomas took the track deep on the R&S remix compilation so the benchmark has been set…

For the first time in the history of many top flight Trackitdown remix competitions, a shortlist of entries across all styles will be published for members to vote for their overall winner in a remiX-Factor style public celebration of the best new talent and their skills.
Download the original and parts from Trackitdown and Oldskoolmp3 and deliver your remix entry to vamp@trackitdown.net no later than Monday 7th December to play a part in this historical contest.

The shortlist of best entries will then be published and members of Trackitdown will use the unique ratings and comments feature to tell us exactly who they think deserves to win not only a release on the legendary R&S label but well over £100 worth of sample packs and collectors edition products from both hosts.

So, what are you waiting for? ‘Three – two – one – zero!’

We have a brand new remix of Sun Electric's new release 'A Loco'
from Sei A that you can get hold of for free via the R&S website. 

Sun Electric signed to R&S in 92 they've released several well
received albums including 1996s ‘Present’ - another classic, existing
somewhere in-between the dark pulse of the drugfloor and more elegant,
sonic and harmonically rich electronic forms. An album with little
options of comparison - it sounds peculiarly fragrant, almost
pastoral, still electronic but somehow free-floating and light as air.

Andy Graham aka Sei A is a young man from Glasgow who is rapidly
transforming from one of the most promising talents in house music
into the highly accomplished producer/performer that many had
predicted and seeing his Sei A guise spiraling to new heights over the
last year. What was once just another house artist with potential, is
now someone whose biggest fans include Ben Watt, DJ Hell, John
Digweed, James Zabiela, Laurent Garnier, Tiga and Hernan Cattaneo.

Just click here to visit the website and get your free download - http://www.randsrecords.com/subscribe/

Mugwump exclusively available on Beatport now:

Apollo "Past, Present, Future" is now available on C.D from the R&S Records store! Digital formats available too.


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Greetings -

The release date for the Apollo "Past, Present, Future" Compilation has changed. The digital version of the album will be available exclusively on I-tunes from the 14th September and the CD will be available from the R&S store and all good retailers from the 28th.

Here's a reminder of the tracklisting:

1.    Pinback “Penelope”
2.    Locust “One Way or Another”
3.    Mundo Muzique “Andromeda”
4.    Biosphere “Patashnik”
5.    Aphex Twin “Heliospan”
6.    Dave Angel “Dreams”
7.    Manna feat Finley Quaye “Who Changed The order?”
8.    Golden Girls “Kinetic” (David Morley Remix)
9.    Locust “I am The Murderer”
10.    Subsurfing “The Number Readers”
11.    Locust “Just Like You”
12.    Underworld “Sola Sistim”
13.    Paul White “Alien Nature”
14.    Bullion “Rude Effort”

Also on the 14th, R&S welcome Cortney Tidwell to their schedule for a very special remix EP of ‘Don’t Let Stars Keep Us Tangled’.

Ewan Pearson’s epic reworking was originally available as a low key download-only release, but – despite this – has become increasingly in demand, perhaps partially on the back of its having been named by Pitchfork as one of its tracks of the year following its original release, but more likely because it is an effortlessly timeless classic.

Having picked up on the original release R&S now release this remix EP with Ewan Pearson’s original remix (plus a beautiful new beat less version) and newly commissioned dancefloor mix from Sei A.

Tracklisting
1. Don’t Let The Stars Keep Us Tangled Up (Ewan Pearson’s Objects In Space mix)
2. Don’t Let The Stars Keep Us Tangled Up (Ewan Pearson’s All This Has Happened Before mix)
3. Don’t Let The Stars Keep Us Tangled Up (Sei A remix)

Keep checking the site for more news on some exciting releases coming through this autumn.

R&S

Released 14th September 2009

Following 12’s from Radio Slave, Steve Lawler, The Chain and Delphic, R&S now welcome Cortney Tidwell their schedule for a very special remix EP of ‘Don’t Let Stars Keep Us Tangled’. The critically acclaimed Nashville chanteuse has released two albums over the last three years: the latest, Boys, was released by City Slang this summer, but this single features remixes of the title track of her first full length. Ewan Pearson’s epic reworking was originally available as a low key download-only release, but – despite this – has become increasingly in demand, perhaps partially on the back of its having been named by Pitchfork as one of its tracks of the year following its original release, but more likely because it is an effortlessly timeless classic.

Having picked up on the original release R&S now release this remix EP with Ewan Pearson’s original remix (plus a beautiful new beat less version) and newly commissioned dancefloor mix from Sei A. The release is a stroke of genius on both parts as both artists take Cortney’s original song in a new direction for a whole new audience.

Tracklisting

1.    Don’t Let The Stars Keep Us Tangled Up (Ewan Pearson’s Objects In Space mix)
2.    Don’t Let The Stars Keep Us Tangled Up (Ewan Pearson’s All This Has Happened Before mix)
3.    Don’t Let The Stars Keep Us Tangled Up (Sei A remix)

Seminal Source album, "Organised Noize", is now available from the store as a download.

One of the great tracks to be heard on R&S Records 1992 In Order To Dance 4 compilation was the deeply mysterious “Neuromancer”. The name SOURCE had not yet appeared on any R&S release list, yet the man behind the Source, immensely gifted Swede ROBERT LEINER, had been studio manager and engineer of the labels own recording facility for some time.

It was the 1993 album Organized Noise that really turned Roberts moniker SOURCE into a household name: throughout eight elaborated avant-dance tracks he delivered a unique blend of thunderous beats, sparkling acid and trance ingredients that was greeted with rave reviews and set alight dance floors all over the global techno village. This was dance music at its very best: uncompromising, organic and brimming with pure undiluted energy. Organized Noise also launched Robert on the live front. Before he had been spinning in either techno or ambient mod now he was playing live in front of ecstatic audiences across Europe and the States.

Another piece of electronic history from R&S, now released digitally for the first time.