Through Me (Original Mix) – Tom Rowlands (Phantasy Sound)
Acid On (Original Mix) – Phreak (Logistic Records)
Your Footprints (Tevo Howard Remix) – Ben Sun (Delusions Of Grandeur)
Gwad Bwash (Original Mix) – Future Four (Phantasy Sound)
Jacques In The Box (Chicago Bordelo Remix) – Laurent Garnier (Ed Banger Records / Because Music)
Nothing but Pleasure (Original Mix) – Tom Rowlands (Phantasy Sound)
The Xpander (Original Mix) – GB (Gifted & Blessed)
Bye Bye Macadam (Juan Atkins Remix) – Rone (InFine)
Elementz of Houz Music (Actress Mix 1) – Legowelt (Clone Jack For Daze Serie)
Casio Dub (Original Mix) – MMM (Errorsmith & Fiedel) (MMM)

You can download the tracks from Beatport here & from Juno here

at Salzlager Hall

You played at the 1st Rauw ever at a club called Amuse. Do you remember the 1st track you played? If not, do you remember any tracks you have played that night?
EROL: Yeah, I think I must have played Felix’s ‘Silver Screen Shower Scene’, also recall the Murder mix of Dead Or Alive’s ‘You Spin Me Round’…

Ahead of this weekend’s RAUW parties in Amsterdam & Utrecht, Joost van Bellen asks Erol 10 questions about the past 10 years of RAUW – click here to read the interview

at Villa Medicis / French Academy

Part Ninety. One minute he’s rocking the roof off at Fabric with his tough and funky big-room underground house; the next he’s charming the pants off a more intimate crowd with everything from dubby disco, funk and hip-hop to trip hop and Latin batucadas. Armed with a sensitivity and sense of occasion that few DJs possess Bill Brewster knows how to work a crowd in the best possible sense.

Originally a chef, a football pundit (co-editor of fanzine When Saturday Comes) and record collector, Bill began DJing in in the late 80s, but he cut his teeth playing ‘Low Life’ warehouse parties in Harlem and the East Village – he moved to NYC to run DMC’s US operation – and anyone hearing Bill today can see how these New York ‘roots’ shine through. For eclecticism, surprises, amazing unique music and sheer long-haul dedication to the dancefloor, Bill’s your man. His other life is as a writer. Together with long-term pal Frank Broughton, Bill is author of the definitive history of DJing, Last Night A DJ Saved My Life, and has contributed his acid Grimsby wit and encyclopaedic knowledge of music to just about every dance rag there is, not to mention The Guardian, Independent and Mail On Sunday. The Brewster-Broughton double act unveiled their latest hit in 2002 with the uniquely sardonic DJ manual How To DJ (Properly). They have recently completed an updated version of Last Night A DJ Saved My Life that will be published in June, along with a double CD from Universal.

He’s an industry insider, having brought Twisted records to the UK and launched his own highly successful deep house label Forensic. In his spare time he is often found in the studio, either with Fat Camp partner, Theo Noble, re-editing old disco, funk and rock records; or producing original music. They run a small edit label Disco Sucks.

Bill Brewster has also put together the new ‘Late Night Tales Presents: After Dark’ mix compilation (out on 5th May 2013). You can pre-order it from the Late Night Tales website here, iTunes here and Spotify here

FIVE SONGS YOU MUST HEAR THIS WEEK #90: BILL BREWSTER

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART-OBSERVATORY CREST

I’ve had three or four of his albums for quite a long time, but I only discovered this fairly recently when it was on a Snow Patrol Late Night Tales compilation. It’s nothing like most of his other stuff which is quite confrontational and a bit shouty (in a good way), where this is contemplative and his singing is as laidback as I’ve ever heard him Fantastic tune.
 
 
RAY MUNNINGS-IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU

Released on a fairly small UK indie, this has been quite collectible for the last ten years or so. It’s sung by the lead singer of Beginning Of The End (of ‘Funky Nassau’ fame) and produced by Dwight Brewster (no relation) and Stan Lucs, who worked a lot with Patrick Adams. One of my favourite disco tunes.
 
 
DOE MAAR-KAA (DUB)

Doe Maar were a really popular ska-type band from Holland, who were around during the same era as the Specials and The Beat. This is taken from an album of dub versions of their Doris Day LP. It’s very twisted and simple and reminds me of Rhythm Collision, the Ruts collaboration with Mad Professor.
 
 
MARTI CAINE-LOVE THE WAY YOU LOVE ME

This a proper charity shop jewel. It’s actually incredibly hard to find, but if you do dig one up, it will probably be £1 from Cancer Research in Bolton. Marti Caine was a Sheffield-born singer and comedienne, who won a talent contest called New Faces, which was the 1970s equivalent of X Factor. Arguably the best Yorkshire disco record ever. This is on my new compilation After Dark.
 
 
PALADIN-THIRD WORLD

This is from an early 70s prog rock record but it’s the sort of thing you could easily imagine Gilles Peterson playing now. Very funky drums, with a vocal that’s almost a rap, and then rounded it off with some ace piano figures.

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Erol Alkan’s rework of Night Works – Long Forgotten Boy is out today on digital. You can download it from iTunes here