The DJ and producer behind Quiet Village, Sea Devils and Rekids, Matt Edwards drops the latest exclusive Fabric mix on the run-up to the release of his Radio Slave: Fabric 48 mix.

“After an upbringing which included playing the piano from a very young age, I was lucky enough to be around when the whole electro scene broke, I think around 1982, so that really influenced me when I was growing up.  Growing up in south London is so multicultural; I was exposed at school along with my friends to electro and hip hop and that kind of thing.

As a teenager I was always really into collecting music – this started when I was about 12 or 13,buying a lot of records and listening to lots of music. I was already into electro music when I was 11 or 12, but it wasn’t until I was 19 that I really fell in love with it, One night I went clubbing and that was it, I was completely hooked. I think it was Danny Rampling, one of my friends was already a good friend of his and we went to ‘Pure Sexy’ which was on a Wednesday, I was already into dance music but not the nightclub culture, I just got completely hooked.

I got involved in music production in the early nineties with friends in South London but  I found it really frustrating; they were the hands-on engineers and I was more in the directors seats, I stopped doing that and it wasn’t until 2000 that I got back into it.  I’ve got a background in design and the use of computers from a very young age so I took to it pretty quickly.

I love doing the Radio Slave stuff, it’s a real passion for me; the night clubbing culture and the perfecting of making music for clubs, but its good as a producer to be able to switch between different aliases, because you cant write the same tracks all the time, it’d drive you mad.  You learn a lot of things from working at different tempos, it’s a good learning process, and one thing can influence the other.

In terms of remix work, I take each job as it comes really, I wouldn’t like to repeat myself with the music I make.  Remix work is really fascinating as it gives you the chance to dissect how other people have made a track, from getting the parts and midi, and listening to each section., some of the major label stuff I’ve done is incredible as you get 80 or 90 parts for one band, all this multi-layering of vocals, but it depends, if I could I would like to experiment more and make some of the remixes more experimental.

In the near future I’ll be working on more singles, and there will be a new album project which we will be announcing around the same time that the fabric CD will get released. It’s going to be a concept album of around six tracks, and we’re having a film made to accompany the album, I’ve got some friends doing some artwork,its going to be a bit more art-based; my friend is making a sculpture, its going to be quite different for me which is a good thing.”

-Matt Edwards (Radio Slave)

Tracklist

1. Radio Slave – Koma Koma [Steve Lawler Remix] – Rekids
2. Radio Slave – The Morning Song – Cabin Fever
3. Radio Slave – DDB – Cabin Fever
4. Spencer Parker – The Beginning [Michel Cleis Remix] – Buzzin Fly
5. Loco Dice – X – Desolat
6. Dance Disorder – My Time [Radio Slave's Rekid Tribe Remix] – Eskimo
7. DJ Sneak – Bongosonic – Magnetic
8. Sebo K & Metro – Saxtrack [Reboot’s Twisted Fist Remix] – Cecille
9. Dop – Vsop – Eklo
10. Spencer Parker – My Heart [Daniel Sanchez Remix] – Rekids
11. Radio Slave – I Don’t Need a Cure for This – Rekids