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Renegade Soundwave Rewired

The RSW back catalogue, re-recorded from scratch and rebuilt by a new generation of originators. Not a remix album — a rewire.

Digital singles from 3 Sept · Album 1 mid Nov · Vinyl EPs from 8 Oct
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Carl Cox Leeroy Thornhill Nookie Gaudi Don Letts

The project

Rewired, not remixed.

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. Landmark releases including The Phantom, Ozone Breakdown, Women Respond To Bass, Probably A Robbery and the seminal album RSW In Dub helped shape the DNA of UK electronic music.

Now the RSW brand is back to inspire and delight a new generation. Founding member Danny Briottet approached the Jack Said What team with new music, and the idea of reworking the RSW back catalogue. Legendary Brit DJ Carl Cox has long cited The Phantom as one of his favourite tracks of all time, and was one of the first to join the Rewired project — rinsing his rework at his [UNVRS] gigs in Ibiza every week throughout the summer.

A who's who of beats and bass culture have reworked choice RSW cuts. Leeroy Thornhill (ex-Prodigy), 808 State, Thievery Corporation, Mr C, Freestylers, Dub Pistols, Altern8, Don Letts & Gaudi, Youth, Justin Robertson, Ray Keith, Nookie, Jon Carter, Utah Saints and Pattern Perception are just some of the names putting their own fresh spin on RSW — with plenty more coming.

Why "Rewired"?

This isn't a remix album in the traditional sense. Every invited artist worked from newly recorded stems, created specifically for this project because the original '80s production simply couldn't carry a modern system.

That gave each producer the freedom to deconstruct, reshape and rebuild every track into something entirely their own — while preserving the spirit of the originals.

15+ Artists rewiring
2 Digital albums
1989 Origin

Digital series — weekly from 3 Sept 2026

The singles

Leeroy Thornhill
3 Sept 2026 Cat. JSW054

Ozone Breakdown

Renegade Soundwave × Leeroy Thornhill — Leeroy Thornhill Rewire

First up in the series is Leeroy Thornhill. After spending a mad decade with The Prodigy during the 1990s, Leeroy left the all-conquering band to pursue a solo career. Since then he's played all over the world and become an expert breakbeat rave producer himself. Drawing on rave dynamics from the get-go of his revamp of Ozone Breakdown, Leeroy immediately sets off down a breakbeat pathway. Judicious use of the vocal, snippets of scything rave stab and deep burrowing b-line power this home.

Nookie & Binary State
10 Sept 2026 Cat. JSW055

Thunder

Renegade Soundwave × Nookie & Binary State — Nookie & Binary State Rewire

Nookie and Binary State reshape Renegade Soundwave's "Thunder" into a beautifully unpredictable rewire, driving it forward with muscular breakbeats, rolling low end and bright, spiralling electronics. For much of the track, it feels firmly rooted in the club: taut, propulsive and steadily building, with melodic details flickering across the rhythm and soulful vocal flashes adding lift and atmosphere.

Then, just when its direction seems established, the track takes a remarkable turn. The drums fall away and a full, expressive vocal emerges from the haze, opening the music into something warmer, deeper and unexpectedly emotional. A blues-soaked guitar then answers the voice, carrying the track into a cinematic final passage that seems to arrive from another world.

Gaudi
17 Sept 2026 Cat. JSW056

Wax Wane

Renegade Soundwave × Gaudi & Don Letts — Gaudi & Don Letts Rewire

Respecting the spirit of the original while injecting fresh energy for today's dubwise succulency, Gaudi & Don Letts transform RSW into a heavyweight remix that celebrates the meeting of underground '90s sound and modern dub science. The result is a vibrant, bass-rich reinterpretation that honours the London trio while introducing Wax Wane to a new generation of listeners.

Carl Cox
17 Sept 2026 Cat. JSW057

The Phantom

Renegade Soundwave × Carl Cox — Carl Cox Rewire

Carl Cox drags Renegade Soundwave's "The Phantom" back onto the dancefloor with a fierce, high-pressure rewire built for peak-time systems. Running at 130BPM, the mix combines pounding techno kicks, snapping breakbeats and metallic percussion with dark, rolling bass and flashes of rave-era synth energy. Chopped vocal chants and distorted samples cut through the rhythm, steadily increasing the tension before the track erupts into a relentless, warehouse-sized groove.

Raw, physical and deliberately uncompromising, it preserves the original's rebellious industrial spirit while giving it the weight, momentum and modern production power of a full-blooded Carl Cox club weapon.

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Plenty more rewires are coming through the autumn, leading to the first RSW Rewired album in mid-November.

Vinyl series — fortnightly from 8 Oct 2026

On wax

Carl Cox
8 Oct 2026 Cat. JSWEP001

RSW Rewired EP 001

Double-sided 12″ — first vinyl EP in the series
Side A

The Phantom

Renegade Soundwave × Carl Cox — Carl Cox Rewire

Side B

Probably A Robbery

Renegade Soundwave × Mr.C — Mr.C's Definitely Robbed Acid Rewire

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More double-sided EPs land fortnightly, building to a double-coloured vinyl album in mid-November.

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