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..and a new Hooj Album!

16:59 - August 30, 2002

by trisco

© www.hooj.com Out on Monday [2 September '02] is Bill Brewster - Praxis.
Praxis - 'The unification of theory and practise'. Walking it like you talk it.
Bill Brewster has been walking it since his days in New York in the early nineties where he ran the DMC/ Mixmag office during the day and played loft parties at night. On returning to England he set up the UK arm of the legendary Twisted label and built up his DJing reputation before being made resident at one of the world's better discotheques, Fabric, in 1999, where he remains to this day. Combined with the usual array of guest spots and his role at the helm of the good ship Faith (along with Messrs Farley/ Elstrob and Patterson), his weekends are very much accounted for.

Weekdays aren't exactly blank spaces in the diary either as Bill pursues a writing career that stretches back through a couple of decades. Some of us remember his name from the legendary footy fanzine When Saturday Comes in the late eighties, but he's probably better known for his music journalism - from the aforementioned Mixmag to The Face, Time Out, Muzik and Jockey Slut - the man Brewster is a chronicler of our times.

Nowhere was this better shown than with his first book (co-written with Frank Broughton) the superb Last Night A DJ Saved My Life, which elegantly traced the evolution of the noble art back almost to the late 1940's and sold over 40,000 copies along the way. It'll be a standard text on 'The Sociology of Rave Culture' courses one day but in the meantime, Brewster and Broughton have taken the didactic bull firmly by the horns for their next book, How to DJ Properly, which comes out this September.

If we'd got our grubby mitts on a copy we'd no doubt be telling you how good this one is n'all, because there's no-one else around who's better placed to write a book on the subject, a subject he's involved in up to his neck every weekend. Instead we're just going to gently nudge you in the direction of this, a double CD that captures a bit of what Brewster the man, and the DJ, is all about from the classy, exuberant latinisms and sexy, percussive deep house of CD1, to the languorous, eclectic funk and occasional bursts of blissed out leftfield Balearica on CD2 - Praxis is the sound of Bill Brewster the journalist, the author, the promoter, the DJ doing what he does best - enveloping his audience in moods and textures as he indulges himself with quality music from across the decades. Theory and practise, smeery and smractise - it's just an effortless blend of classy, timeless music from a man who knows how.

Available as 2xCD / 3x12".

check out www.hooj.com for more details.