Hooj Choons

Founded in 1990 by Red Jerry and Phil Howells (who left after HOOJ 004 to go and work with Pete Tong at FFRR). It was Howells’ girlfriend, Emma, who came up with the Hoojman logo. It released numerous #1 records to the world. Its changing styles throughout the years did much to guide the tastes of DJs and dance floors around the world. Probably best known for re-releasing the mid-90’s dance floor hit “Café Del Mar” by Energy 52, which remains a dance floor classic. It specialized in progressive house and progressive trance, although later releases dabbled in breaks, deep house, electro and ambient flavours. It shut down in mid-2003 due to ongoing financial difficulties, but returned in 2006 under the same management as Lost Language. Only a few new releases appeared on the label, and the company Hooj Choons Ltd. that operated since 1993 was dissolved in 2010. After a few years in a dormant state, the Hooj name has again been restarted in January 2014, with an expected “sparse but high quality release schedule”.