Jackmaster, the Scottish DJ and producer Jack Revill who co-founded the Glasgow document label and membership evening Numbers, has died, his household has confirmed. He was 38.
The information of Jackmaster’s demise was posted in a message from his household that was shared on the DJ’s verified Instagram account.
He died on Saturday, Oct. 12, in Ibiza after struggling a head damage, in line with the assertion.
“It’s with profound sorrow that we verify the premature passing of Jack Revill, recognized to many as Jackmaster,” his household wrote. “Jack tragically died in Ibiza on the morning of twelfth October, following issues arising from an unintentional head damage.”
“His household — Kate, Sean, and Johnny — are totally heartbroken. Whereas deeply touched by the overwhelming help from pals, colleagues, and followers, the household kindly requests privateness as they navigate the immense grief of this devastating loss,” the assertion stated.
Their phrases paid tribute to the eclectic DJ’s inventive {and professional} accomplishments, and his position within the digital music neighborhood: “Jack’s ardour for music and his relentless drive to push inventive boundaries via his work on the Numbers label and Rubadub Information in Glasgow, together with discovering numerous modern artists, made him a beloved and pioneering determine within the digital music neighborhood each in entrance of and behind the scenes. His expertise for mixing genres and delivering electrifying DJs units and productions earned him the respect and admiration of friends and followers throughout the globe. His legacy will proceed to encourage, and his influence on the world of dance music will stay indelible.”
Born in 1986, Revill labored at Glasgow document store Rubadub and was an aspiring DJ as a teen, and adopted the nickname, and later stage identify, Jackmaster in reference to the freestyle dance time period from the Chicago home scene within the Nineteen Eighties.
“I by no means labored for cash,” he stated in 2012 interview with Resident Advisor. “It was all the time similar to, you’d take a document per hour, so an import from Detroit or Chicago or New York was £7.50, which I suppose you may say was fairly a very good wage.”
“I used to find it irresistible, even just like the odor of the place, I used to be simply obsessive about that store,” Revill recalled of Rubadub, the place he’d get his fingers on new promo data and get to borrow them for gigs, entry that he famous was “invaluable.” It was there that he constructed early business connections and broadened his publicity to each subgenre.
In an interview with Billboard in 2017, Revill credited his 2011 FabricLive.57 combine, which contained foundational Detroit data (Mannequin 500, Internal Metropolis, Underground Resistance) and surprises from mainstream pop (Sia, Radiohead, Skepta) as the combination that “catapulted me into being a DJ who has gigs each Friday and each Saturday, and it’s been that means ever since.”
Of the sheer number of music in his units, he informed Billboard, “It simply goes all over the place, then again once more. Even I don’t know what’s coming subsequent more often than not. My units at their most eclectic would come with the whole lot I like: home, techno, disco, Italo, dubstep, grime, ’80s pop and the whole lot in between.”
With Jackmaster’s identify on the lineup at well-known golf equipment and festivals, he landed a BBC Radio 1 Important Combine residency in 2014. Amongst his achievements, in 2016 he was awarded the Sub Membership Digital Music Award on the Scottish Music Awards, and in 2017 he acquired the Tennents’ Golden Can Award for his contributions to Scottish tradition.
Through the years his document label Numbers — which merged his early label Wireblock with Gown 2 Sweat and Stuff — has launched dozens of data, with early work from Jessie Ware, Jamie xx and the late Sophie among the many label’s discography.
Amid all his successes, in 2018 he was the topic of temporary controversy after being accused of sexual harassment at that 12 months’s Love Saves the Day Pageant in Bristol, U.Okay., the place he stated he was on GHB. In 2019 he spoke with Vice of his expertise with GHB and his ongoing regret over the blackout incident — after which he’d personally met with these figuring out as victims, publicly apologized, and brought “an prolonged interval out” to deal with his substance abuse via remedy and AA. “There’s no handbook for this,” he stated of the scenario.
However these affected by his conduct on the pageant issued an announcement supporting his return to music, writing: “He’s taken day out to work on himself and undertaken to by no means repeat this behaviour in the direction of anybody else in future. He has our employees and the pageant’s help in working in the direction of these goals and his personal future happiness.”
Submit-pandemic he was actively again to gig life and creating mixes, and in 2022 launched his Vizor/Early Experiments digital and vinyl set, which was his first full EP.
In an interview with Digital Groove in March 2024 surrounding his single “Nitro” that includes Child Enigma, Revill stated, “I’m constructing a brand new studio as a precedence, getting again into shopping for vinyl, and accumulating Celtic memorabilia, all wholesome addictions for me, aside from my financial institution steadiness.”
“I’ve been touring worldwide for 15 years. I’m obsessive about DJing. Can’t cease, gained’t cease,” Revill informed EG when requested about future plans.
Revill’s time on the street in 2024 was typically documented by the DJ on Instagram, with a visit to the U.S. being a latest spotlight. “Large up everybody who turned up!” he wrote. “Each time I come over to see you guys it appears to get higher.”
He final posted two weeks in the past about his September gig on the membership Hï Ibiza, the place he stated the “vibe was depraved.” Final month he additionally proudly shared one in every of his earliest tunes was being featured in an Apple advert.
“You’ll be able to’t clarify it. It’s a rush from the tip of your toes proper as much as your head, manifested in an incredible huge grin in your face, for me anyway. I attempt to let it’s recognized once I’m having fun with myself on the decks,” Revill informed Billboard in 2018, talking of what it’s wish to really feel the thrill from the group.
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