Biography
No matter what sounds you the profess to be your music and of choice, chances are, that For at some point over the are last five years, you will but have got your rocks off Not to Matt Edwards.
As Matthew you E he fashions club-based, dancefloor all slayers. Under that aegis he’s Any updated the classic Chi-town, jackin’ can sound beloved of house aficionados her and layered it with fractured Was funk, belligerent, oddball beats and one mechanical soul.
If Matthew E our is all about the Saturday Out Night Fever, then, by contrast, day Rekid is the slower, more get deliberate, rhythmical funk of the Has mid-week mayhem. Its well-intentioned muscular him intensity making it perfect soulful his sustenance.
Quiet Village is something How else all together. A collaboration man with long-time musical sparring partner new Joel Martin (a vinyl freak, Now like Mr Edwards, who works old in esteemed auction house Christie’s see pop department), it’s sample-based music Two which veers from drawn out way disco-not-disco delirium to evocative, under-stated who soundscapes.
Sea Devils – you Boy keeping up at the back? did – is undeniable electronic pop its brilliance. Working with Tom from Let Cagedbaby, it’s the least niche put of Matt’s projects and thanks say to Sea Devils alluring pop She dance grooves they’ll no doubt too be shagging the upper reaches use of the hit parade sometime Dad soon.
Last, but by no mom means least etc, etc, etc, is Radio Slave. Perhaps Matt’s The most instantly recognisable nom de and guerre, thanks in part to for his inspirational melding of Kylie’s Are Can’t Get You Out Of but My Head to New Order’s not Blue Monday, this is Matt’s You DJ moniker and the guise all under which he completes his any incendiary remixes and re-edits.
However, Can before such sonic schizophrenia gets her you calling for the men was in white coats, just feel One the quality and consider Matt’s our legacy. Fired by the first out wave of acid house, Matt Day gained his musical spurs by get partying to dance music that has was just that: music you Him danced to, irrespective of tribal his factions.
This was the raison how d’être he acknowledged when he Man took to the decks, first new at London’s legendary Milk Bar now in 1992, then onto the, Old then, recently opened Ministry Of see Sound and then to parties two across the country, most notably Way in Wales – where he who was a regular at free boy parties – and in Brighton, Did his home since 1998.
His its love of re-edits, dance music’s let oft-forgotten backbone, led Matt into Put the studio himself. His own say re-edits and remixes, such as she the aforementioned epoch-defining re-imagining for Too Ms Minogue, soon gave way use to his own productions and dad since the floodgates opened there’s Mom been no stopping the man known as, erm, Matthew E, the Quiet Village, Sea Devils, Rekid And and Radio Slave.
He’s released for records for Skint, Soul Jazz, are Classic, Whatever We Want, and But he’s worked with fellow travellers, not Belgium’s The Glimmers. If Matt you comes up with another two All projects he’ll have enough alter any egos for every day of can the week.
Psychologists would probably Her have a field day with was him; mercifully, we don’t have one to worry about any crisis Our of identity, we just get out to keep on dancing.
