“Makin’ the most of what I got”, one of my favorite sayings, is exactly what they did. Check out Mr Tape with two crappy reel-to-reels fashioned into turntables and a mixer (some finger-triggered contraption that works like a transform switch) and music recorded off the radio. That’s it!

Impressed to say the least. Are you?

As Matthew E he fashions club-based, dancefloor slayers. Under that aegis he’s updated the classic Chi-town, jackin’ sound beloved of house aficionados and layered it with fractured funk, belligerent, oddball beats and mechanical soul.

If Matthew E is all about the Saturday Night Fever, then, by contrast, Rekid is the slower, more deliberate, rhythmical funk of the mid-week mayhem. Its well-intentioned muscular intensity making it perfect soulful sustenance.

Quiet Village is something else all together. A collaboration with long-time musical sparring partner Joel Martin (a vinyl freak, like Mr Edwards, who works in esteemed auction house Christie’s pop department), it’s sample-based music which veers from drawn out disco-not-disco delirium to evocative, under-stated soundscapes.

Sea Devils – you keeping up at the back? – is undeniable electronic pop brilliance. Working with Tom from Cagedbaby, it’s the least niche of Matt’s projects and thanks to Sea Devils alluring pop dance grooves they’ll no doubt be shagging the upper reaches of the hit parade sometime soon.

Last, but by no means least etc, etc, etc, is Radio Slave. Perhaps Matt’s most instantly recognisable nom de guerre, thanks in part to his inspirational melding of Kylie’s Can’t Get You Out Of My Head to New Order’s Blue Monday, this is Matt’s DJ moniker and the guise under which he completes his incendiary remixes and re-edits.

However, before such sonic schizophrenia gets you calling for the men in white coats, just feel the quality and consider Matt’s legacy. Fired by the first wave of acid house, Matt gained his musical spurs by partying to dance music that was just that: music you danced to, irrespective of tribal factions.

This was the raison d’être he acknowledged when he took to the decks, first at London’s legendary Milk Bar in 1992, then onto the, then, recently opened Ministry Of Sound and then to parties across the country, most notably in Wales – where he was a regular at free parties – and in Brighton, his home since 1998.

His love of re-edits, dance music’s oft-forgotten backbone, led Matt into the studio himself. His own re-edits and remixes, such as the aforementioned epoch-defining re-imagining for Ms Minogue, soon gave way to his own productions and since the floodgates opened there’s been no stopping the man known as, erm, Matthew E, Quiet Village, Sea Devils, Rekid and Radio Slave.

He’s released records for Skint, Soul Jazz, Classic, Whatever We Want, and he’s worked with fellow travellers, Belgium’s The Glimmers. If Matt comes up with another two projects he’ll have enough alter egos for every day of the week.

Psychologists would probably have a field day with him; mercifully, we don’t have to worry about any crisis of identity, we just get to keep on dancing.

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Revival Classics! Classic dance music; Brought to you by a West Coast dance music legend, with 20+ years experience behind the decks, Barry Weaver takes control of the sound system in the main room at Faces (best sound system in Sac). Expect original classics from the 80′s and 90′s, modern classics from the last decade, and the future classics of tomorrow… Also featuring Gavin Varitech as the opening act and VJ Mr Jon on the video screens all night long. And for the early birds a special playing of Manuel Göttsching’s E2-E4 in it’s entirety from 9PM – 10PM before the deejays start playing the first records.

Featuring…

Barry Weaver
-san diego (closing set)

Gavin Varitech
-sacramento (opening set)

Mr Jon
-sacramento (video)

Faces does NOT do guestlist but Revival Nitelife has one for this night only. Of course the entire club will be open as well and the Revival list is good for all of the rooms at the club…

LIST@REVIVALNITELIFE.COM

Revival Nitelife contributors and resident deejays take over their night “The Backroom”, once a month, at Escape and will be holding it down this Saturday for the opening night festivities. Join Gavin Varitech and Vince Lombardi at the grand opening of the Escape at the Fugu Lounge totally FREE when you get on the Revival guestlist! Of course the party is not just for you underground beat freaks, Escape will include more commercially friendly music in the main room every week. So it’s safe for you to bring your friends that don’t quite “get it” just yet. The list gets you into the entire club, not only for Vince and Gavin in The Backroom but for the Heavygrinder party and the main room as well. All 100% free, just get on the list!!

Limited FREE Guestlist:

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Jan 22nd, 2010 @ Mighty – 119 Utah St – San Francisco, CA 94103

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Sukh Banwait Presents:

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We hope to see all of your smiling faces there and to make things even sweeter Revival Nitelife has a 100% FREE guestlist for this night as well.

LIMITED GUEST LIST ENTRY BEFORE 11:00PM EMAIL:

jphliplist@revivalnitelife.com

Please include the full names of each person attending
(you will receive a confirmation email)
Guest List entries must be in by 3PM Saturday
Limited guestlist available or $10 at the door