Chris Cowie resurrects Bellboy and Hook

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    Thu, Apr 16, 2009, 07:00
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  • The producer will release new material on his successful imprints this month for the first time in five years.
  • Chris Cowie resurrects Bellboy and Hook image
  • Dance music lifer Chris Cowie has relaunched the Bellboy and Hook imprints. The multi-aliased producer spent much of the '90s pumping out single after single for the two labels under a host of different names. In doing so, both Bellboy and Hook gained a reputation for quality, leading to support from legendary BBC DJ John Peel as well as Muzik for his Best Behaviour full-length. Carl Cox even called him "the master of funk techno." Things have been relatively quiet for Cowie, however, since 2003 when he left the two imprints. That all changed in late 2008 when Cowie returned with the release of four compilations celebrating the history of Bellboy and Hook, and, next week, when Cowie begins to release new material on both labels. Nicholas Bennison will do the honors for Hook, coming with a trance-y three-tracker that has already seen plays from Paul Van Dyk and John Fleming. Meanwhile, Cowie himself will revive Bellboy for a new album in collaboration with Detroit vocalist Rai, a work that the producer calls "a sort of electro cheesy pop thing" with the clarification that "Rai's voice and her way with words takes it to another level."
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