Renaat Vandepapeliere
Renaat Vandepapeliere is as hungry for new sounds now as he was when he first founded the legendary R&S Records.
Although he has run one of electronic music’s foremost labels for over 37 years, he is still on the voyage of personal discovery and quest for authenticity that has fired the R&S imprint. Now with decades of, in his own words, “living the dream”, he turns his attention back to the roots of American dance music that inspired the enduring label.
Renaat was one of the first to welcome techno when it came from America to Europe in the 1980s, giving a young Derrick May and Joey Beltram a chance at producing and releasing records in Europe. R&S aimed to preserve the true soul in those recording and not water it down to meet the expectations of European audiences. Soon the label was pushing the innovative new sounds of Aphex Twin, Paula Temple and many other important artists.
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Renaat Vandepapeliere is as hungry for new sounds now as he was when he first founded the legendary R&S Records.
Although he has run one of electronic music’s foremost labels for over 37 years, he is still on the voyage of personal discovery and quest for authenticity that has fired the R&S imprint. Now with decades of, in his own words, “living the dream”, he turns his attention back to the roots of American dance music that inspired the enduring label.
Renaat was one of the first to welcome techno when it came from America to Europe in the 1980s, giving a young Derrick May and Joey Beltram a chance at producing and releasing records in Europe. R&S aimed to preserve the true soul in those recording and not water it down to meet the expectations of European audiences. Soon the label was pushing the innovative new sounds of Aphex Twin, Paula Temple and many other important artists.



