Drum 'n Bass queen Reid Speed gets her name from the pace that she sets her life to. After talking to her for awhile, it begins to add up: Her music is fast, she talks excitedly, and even on the advent of her newly released CD, "Under the Influence," and subsequent tour, she is hard at work.
When she picks up the phone there is a maelstrom of noise that comes out of my receiver, for a second I think she must be standing in a wind tunnel, and then it abruptly stops. It turns out I have interrupted her in the middle of remixing a song when I called her at 2 p.m., our scheduled time. She tells me that it's 11 a.m., and this is true, in Los Angeles. After the little misunderstanding, she took the time to talk with the CT before her upcoming show at 9:30 p.m. Friday at the Lantern:
CT: What have you been up to recently? How has life been?
RS: Things are really good. I just did this CD that's on Moist Music that I'm on tour for. It came out like a month ago. I've been just touring a lot for the CD and just been in the studio just working on a lot of tracks. I have a bunch of new things coming out. I have a new label that's launching May 1st so that's in high gear getting all that ready to go.
CT: How is the label coming along? Heart Beats?
RS: It's not called Heart Beats anymore. Somebody jacked our name four days before our initial release date. There was some confusion at Beatport. We thought we were set, we had already filled out our applications and stuff but they actually let another person go ahead with the same name literally five days before. We were supposed to launch on Valentine's Day and March 9th I started getting all these congratulations from people like "I saw the label's up, oh that's fantastic." I was like "What are you talking about?" and it was somebody else.
CT: Oh no. That was my 21st birthday.
RS: Oh. Happy birthday.
CT: But yeah, that's too bad. What are you going to do now? Do you just have to rename it?
RS: Yeah, we have to change the name. The label is now called Play Me Records. We're set to go.
CT: What's cool about a record label is I feel like it gives you a chance to keep your ear close to everything and to look at things coming up. How was it finding those acts?
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