TRIBAL RITES

TRACKLISTING

1 . Agape - Rejoice
2 . Brent Do we & The Gaytones - Reggae Makossa
3 . Apatchi Band - Issmak
4 . Gen eral Strike - Parts Of My Body
5 . Gaffa - Attitude Dancing (Land Of A 100 0 Dunces)
6 . Urang Otan - Walking In The Jungle
7 . Surprize - Stav olta
8 . Deborah & The Puerto Ricans - Side A Side B Side
9 . P!off? - Mein Walkman Ist Kaputt
10 . The Raincoats - Animal Rhapsody (Version)
11 . Ruts DC - Push Yourself (Make It Work)
12 . Motion - Crazy Beat
13 . Peter Accident - Turning Black
14 . Reggae Clinic 65 - Caravan (Dub Version)
15 . Jeff Duff - Walk On The Wild Side

1 . Bobb ie Gentry - Thunder In The Afternoon
2 . Latin Breed - Maranatha
3 . Banzai - Rhythm Kung Fu
4 . Freddi & Henchi - Cartoon People
5 . Aa x Donnell & Eric Malone - Golden Cage
6 . The General - Life In The Big Ci ty
7 . Final Edition - No Limit
8 . Sweet Potato Pie - Hot Disco Nig ht (Are You Ready?)
9 . Little Reuben - (I Am) Drum
10 . General Cro ok - What Time It Is (Part II + Part I) (Bill Brewster Edit)
11 . Curtis G reen - I Just Gotta Get Down (Part I)
12 . Nashville Rhythm Section - I Ca n't Go For That
13 . Dooley Silverspoon - Mr Deluxe (Part I + Part II) (Bi ll Brewster Edit)
14 . Floyd Beck - Party Is The Solution
15 . Ströe r - Don't Stay For Breakfast

1 . Mother Tongue - Message Of Love
2 . B. McCarthy & Rasoul - Excursion 2
3 . Love From San Francisco - Ke ep Rockin' (Thumping House Mix)
4 . Larry Heard - Night Images (Swayzak Ea rly Mid Afternoon Mix)
5 . Clifton King - Family Prayer
6 . Aural - Desire (Fabrice Africa Pain)
7 . Chicken Lips - Is That You Or Me (Ivan's Flute Dub)
8 . Swag - Primitive Urges 4 - Side C
9 . Maurizio - M-4 (A)
10 . Silverlining - Precision Spanner
11 . Kate-Olivia Martinez - Fire Walk With Me



INFO
Spanning 41 tracks, 'T ribal 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 jo urney through Bill's 36 year long involvement in the music industry.
Whethe r running DMC's New York offices or labels including Twisted UK and Forensic, be ing 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 Lif e' and the equally essential 'How To DJ (Properly)', running the DJhistory websi te or promoting their much loved Low Life parties, Bill's fingerprints can be fo und 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 & Di sco Greatest Hits', instead we have the soundtrack to a life spent at the coalfa ce of record collecting, of early mornings at car boot sales and late nights log ged 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 ba nds 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 'Ba learic' where the likes of Bobby Gentry and Final Edition can happily co-exist a nd 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 ex clusively on house music, though again showcasing just what a broad church House is, able to accommodate both the spiritual yearnings of Mother Tongue's 'Messag e 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 t reated like pop stars, 'Tribal Rites' is a vital reminder that there's a lot mor e to DJing than just downloading the latest Beatport chart and waving your hands in the air.