Bill Brewster presents Tribal Rites, by Bill Brewster

Bill Brewster presents Tribal Rites

by Bill Brewster

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mizsub Extremely easy to get very lost in this exceptional selection.

frogy Priceless.... Thank you Bill Brewster and Eskimo Recordings!! Favorite track: P!off? - Mein Walkman Ist Kaputt.

Jamie The Scorpio This compilation changed my life.
Each track is perfect in it's own way. Favorite track: Deborah & The Puerto Ricans - Side A Side B Side.

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1.	Agape - Rejoice 05:27	buy track
2.	Brent Dowe & The Gaytones - Reggae Makossa 04:27	buy track
3.	Apatchi Band - Issmak 03:08	buy track
4.	General Strike - Parts Of My Body 03:08	buy track
5.	Gaffa - Attitude Dancing (Land Of A 1000 Dunces) 03:01	buy track
6.	Urang Otan - Walking In The Jungle 03:53	buy track
7.	Surprize - Stavolta 07:04	buy track
8.	Deborah & The Puerto Ricans - Side A Side B Side 03:19	buy track
9.	P!off? - Mein Walkman Ist Kaputt 04:14	buy track
10.	The Raincoats - Animal Rhapsody (Version) 05:06	buy track
11.	Ruts DC - Push Yourself (Make It Work) 03:01	buy track
12.	Motion - Crazy Beat 04:50	buy track
13.	Peter Accident - Turning Black 04:59	buy track
14.	Reggae Clinic 65 - Caravan (Dub Version) 07:30	buy track
15.	Jeff Duff - Walk On The Wild Side 07:21	buy track
16.	Bobbie Gentry - Thunder In The Afternoon 04:42	buy track
17.	Latin Breed - Maranatha 03:15	buy track
18.	Banzai - Rhythm Kung Fu 02:57	buy track
19.	Freddi & Henchi - Cartoon People 02:50	buy track
20.	Aax Donnell & Eric Malone - Golden Cage 06:17	buy track
21.	The General - Life In The Big City 07:23	buy track
22.	Final Edition - No Limit 07:55	buy track
23.	Sweet Potato Pie - Hot Disco Night (Are You Ready?) 06:01	buy track
24.	Little Reuben - (I Am) Drum 02:37	buy track
25.	General Crook - What Time It Is (Part II + Part I) (Bill Brewster Edit) 05:53	buy track
26.	Curtis Green - I Just Gotta Get Down (Part I) 03:10	buy track
27.	Nashville Rhythm Section - I Can't Go For That 03:31	buy track
28.	Dooley Silverspoon - Mr Deluxe (Part I + Part II) (Bill Brewster Edit) 05:20	buy track
29.	Floyd Beck - Party Is The Solution 05:21	buy track
30.	Ströer - Don't Stay For Breakfast 05:14	buy track
31.	Mother Tongue - Message Of Love 07:47	buy track
32.	B. McCarthy & Rasoul - Excursion 2 08:24	buy track
33.	Love From San Francisco - Keep Rockin' (Thumping House Mix) 07:50	buy track
34.	Larry Heard - Night Images (Swayzak Early Mid Afternoon Mix) 06:52	buy track
35.	Clifton King - Family Prayer 06:29	buy track
36.	Aural - Desire (Fabrice Africa Pain) 06:31	buy track
37.	Chicken Lips - Is That You Or Me (Ivan’s Flute Dub) 06:52	buy track
38.	Swag - Primitive Urges 4 - Side C 06:14	buy track
39.	Maurizio - M-4 (A) 06:37	buy track
40.	Silverlining - Precision Spanner 08:07	buy track
41.	Kate-Olivia Martinez - Fire Walk With Me 07:40	buy track

about

“Everything I do now started with record collecting. It’s the foundation of my career; from writing about music, DJing in clubs, putting compilations together or spending many late-night hours, glass of red wine in hand, bidding on stupid records on eBay.” – Bill Brewster

Spanning 41 tracks, ‘Tribal Rites’ is a musical autobiography of sorts from one of dance music’s most dedicated historians, Bill Brewster. Released this November on 3 CDs and double vinyl via Belgium’s Eskimo Recordings, the compilation takes us on a personal journey through Bill’s 36 year long involvement in the music industry.

Whether running DMC’s New York offices or labels including Twisted UK and Forensic, being one of Fabric’s original residents, writing (with Frank Broughton) probably the definitive overview of DJ culture, the seminal ‘Last Night A DJ Saved My Life’ and the equally essential ‘How To DJ (Properly)’, running the DJhistory website or promoting their much loved Low Life parties, Bill’s fingerprints can be found all over dance music’s past few decades.

So whilst there are few people more qualified to compile such a thing, ‘Tribal Rites’ isn’t just a ‘House & Disco Greatest Hits’, instead we have the soundtrack to a life spent at the coalface of record collecting, of early mornings at car boot sales and late nights logged onto Discogs.

Split into three sections, the compilation begins in the post-punk period, and through tracks such as explores the influence of dub on bands of the time such as Orang Utan, General Strike and The Raincoats. The second section takes us into that mish-mash of sounds and styles best described as ‘Balearic’ where the likes of Bobby Gentry and Final Edition can happily co-exist and a country and western cover of Hall & Oates ‘I Can’t Go For That’ seems like the most obvious thing in the world.

The final section then concentrates exclusively on house music, though again showcasing just what a broad church House is, able to accommodate both the spiritual yearnings of Mother Tongue’s ‘Message of Love’ and the precision tooled productions of Basic Channel’s Maurizio.

At a moment in time when dance music is more prominent than ever and DJs are treated like pop stars, ‘Tribal Rites’ is a vital reminder that there’s a lot more to DJing than just downloading the latest Beatport chart and waving your hands in the air.

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released November 3, 2017

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