Jackmaster, the Scottish DJ and producer Jack Revill who co-founded the Glasgow file label and membership evening Numbers, has died, his household has confirmed. He was 38.
The information of Jackmaster’s loss of life 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 harm, in response to the assertion.
“It’s with profound sorrow that we affirm the premature passing of Jack Revill, identified 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 harm.”
“His household — Kate, Sean, and Johnny — are completely heartbroken. Whereas deeply touched by the overwhelming help from mates, 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 artistic {and professional} accomplishments, and his position within the digital music group: “Jack’s ardour for music and his relentless drive to push artistic boundaries by way of his work on the Numbers label and Rubadub Data in Glasgow, together with discovering numerous progressive artists, made him a beloved and pioneering determine within the digital music group 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 file 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 Eighties.
“I by no means labored for cash,” he stated in 2012 interview with Resident Advisor. “It was at all times identical to, you’d take a file per hour, so an import from Detroit or Chicago or New York was £7.50, which I assume you can say was fairly a very good wage.”
“I used to like it, even just like the scent 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, Interior Metropolis, Underground Resistance) and surprises from mainstream pop (Sia, Radiohead, Skepta) as the combo 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 advised Billboard, “It simply goes in all places, 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 every little thing I like: home, techno, disco, Italo, dubstep, grime, ’80s pop and every little thing 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 file 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 yr’s Love Saves the Day Competition 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 by way of 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 trip to work on himself and undertaken to by no means repeat this behaviour in direction of anybody else in future. He has our employees and the pageant’s help in working in direction of these goals and his personal future happiness.”
Publish-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, apart from my financial institution stability.”
“I’ve been touring worldwide for 15 years. I’m obsessive about DJing. Can’t cease, received’t cease,” Revill advised EG when requested about future plans.
Revill’s time on the highway in 2024 was usually documented by the DJ on Instagram, with a visit to the U.S. being a latest spotlight. “Massive 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 all his earliest tunes was being featured in an Apple advert.
“You possibly can’t clarify it. It’s a rush from the tip of your toes proper as much as your head, manifested in an important huge grin in your face, for me anyway. I attempt to let or not it’s identified once I’m having fun with myself on the decks,” Revill advised Billboard in 2018, talking of what it’s wish to really feel the excitement from the gang.
