Australian DJ and producer Sonny Fodera boasts the discography that includes label like Nervous, Drop Music, Guesthouse and Salted. Though usually more on a jackin side of house, he dropped a really nice funky Forever EP on australian Beatdown on February 16th. With funky bass lines, xylophonic sounds and mellow pads, titles include “Near To Me” featuring Alyson Joyce, “Bringing It Back“, “Take Her Home” and namely “Forever“.

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For the lovers of San Francisco house sounds, OM Records and good old days, Chuck Love is one of the main men. Long time no news from him, but finally something: his brand new label Love Network was launched. Debuting with “U R Everything” on February 8th, Chuck collaborates with another OM diva, DJ, producer and singer Colette. Main Mix resembles Chuck’s signature sounds, Love Network Rework goes to a guitar driven ‘rocky’ stylah, and also there Santiago & Bushido version of a harder techy side. Good luck with the new label, Chuck, and we’re eager to hear your classic smoothies.

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Update: this release is now on Traxsource.com (since March 10th).

Well, not on the soulful side, but definitely in the house, Dennis Ferrer’s “Hey Hey” did a great damage on the floors and entitled “essential new tune” by Pete Tong. Initially on Dennis’ Objektivity, it later was signed to Defected and released on February 12th (oh yeah how could Simon miss this bomd?). Simple but powerful, intriguing and strictly underground, this is a biggest since the times of DF’s Fish Go Deep’s The Cure & The Cause remix.

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Cape Verdean born and now NY inhabitant, part of Elements of Life, singer, songwriter, producer and DJ Anane releases her 15 tracks album “Ananesworld“. The selection includes already known tracks such as “Walking On Thin Ice“, “Bem Ma Mi“, “Let Me Love You” and “One Dream”, but they will surprise you sounding all the way in reggae, rock, R&B soul and world genres. Yes, it’s not house compilation, it’s full length artist album. It’s out on Nervous Rec. on February 9th.

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Another classic masterpiece covered! Barry White’s one and only “Love’s Theme” is re-worked by Italian mafia, Vincent Valler and Alfred Azzetto, with shiny disco feel, with “strings and horns by Vincent Valler Orchestra”. Sounds familiar? No, DJ Meme has nothing to do about this track except suggesting doing a vocal version. So we have Savio on the vox of some versions. What label is the right one for this? Purple Music of course! Purple guys on the remixes as well: Walterino & David Rizzo, Alfred Azzetto, DJ Fopp, Luis Radio & Raffa – all mixes are great keeping the original vibe! Will be out on International Women’s Day, March 8th.

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Rachel Claudio is a talented producer and vocalist with a recognizable vocals. She collaborated with a number of great tracks incl. “Miscommunicate“, “Freedom“, “Gotcha” and “Any Love” with DJ Meme. A new single from her Jaffa Music comes on February 26th. “Butterflies” is a collaboration with Guadaloupian upcoming producer Babas D. It’s a deep, African-inspired theme, supercharged with good remixes: Ralf Gum with his recent special soulful approach, Dom Navarra with traditionally dreamy latin chill house, and also The Jaffers and Soletek.

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