Renegade Soundwave Rewired LP 2x12"

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Renegade Soundwave are one of the most influential and innovative acts to emerge from the UK’s late-1980s electronic underground. They refused to recognise genre boundaries, blending sound system culture with heavyweight bass, breakbeats, house, industrial textures, punk attitude and dub production to create a sound that was years ahead of its time. Now the RSW brand is back to inspire and delight a new generation. Legendary Brit DJ Carl Cox has long cited ‘The Phantom’ by Renegade Soundwave as one of his all-time favourite tracks. He’s played the original — first released in 1989 — in Ibiza numerous times over the years, and when he heard about the ‘Renegade Soundwave Rewired’ project he was the first to jump onboard. Keeping his mix exclusively to himself until this month, Carl has been rinsing his rework at festivals and during his residency at (UNVRS) in Ibiza across the summer to huge uproar. A veritable who’s who of beats and bass culture have also reworked choice RSW cuts. ‘RSW Rewired’ is not a remix album in the traditional sense. Every invited artist worked from newly recorded stems created specifically for the project, giving them the freedom to deconstruct, reshape and rebuild each track into something entirely their own while preserving the spirit of the original compositions. Every artist involved — all originators in their own unique ways — has professed love and admiration for Renegade Soundwave, and jumped at the opportunity to rework such an influential act. Carl Cox, Mr.C, Freestylers, Altern 8, Gaudi & Don Letts, Nookie, Leeroy Thornhill, and Dreadzone have rewired RSW tracks by putting their own fresh spins on them.