R&S

R&S Records is an independent record label founded in 1984 in Ghent, Belgium,

R&S represents the initials of Renaat Vandepapeliere and Sabine Maes, the couple that created the label. The label was first named as Milos Music Belgium but just one record was released on the label. Vandepapeliere went from DJing to developing the label in response to his personal irritation with the Belgian music scene while getting inspired by Belgian New Beat in the late 1980s: "I worked in a record shop, but as a DJ I was getting very frustrated with the Belgian scene. The clubs were so commercial and American music just wasn't accepted. The guys that were importing records here, they went straight into the studio and created a bad cover of it. I didn't like that. I said 'Respect the artist. License it in, and let's have the original track'. That's where the idea to start the label started, and it was New Beat that gave me the chance."

R&S Records has had several subsidiaries, most notably Apollo Records (Belgium), which was reactivated in 2009.

Releases on R&S and its subsidiaries include Paula Temple (Colonized), Jaydee (Plastic Dreams), Capricorn (20 Hz), Aphex Twin (Digeridoo, Selected Ambient Works 85-92), Biosphere (Microgravity, Patashnik), C.J. Bolland (Ravesignal III, The 4th Sign, Camargue), Sun Electric (O'Locco, Kitchen), The Source Experience/Robert Leiner (Visions Of The Past, Different Journeys), Model 500/Juan Atkins (Deep Space, The Flow), Silent Phase (The Theory Of Silent Phase), System 7 (Power Of Seven), Dave Angel (Classics) and Ken Ishii (Extra, Jelly Tones).

In 2000, Vandepapeliere shut down the label. Speaking to Stuart Aitken in 2009, Vandepapeliere explained his reasons for doing so. "I was bored. I'd had enough. So I went and did something else. I started my stud farm."

After a hiatus from 2001 to 2006, the label re-launched from its current London base with brand new releases from new talents like James Blake, Delphic, Pariah, Space Dimension Controller, Untold, Blawan, Vondelpark, Radioslave and the return of Model 500/Juan Atkins.

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