Chicago’s house veteran Glenn Underground gives birth to Strictly Jaz Unit Muzic label with debut release “Adore You” featuring beautiful vox of South Africa’s Roxy (Roxanne Miles). Actually the Strictly Jaz Unit is a legendary Chicago House trio, consisting of its founder Glenn Underground, and also Boo Williams and Tim Harper.
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Japanese production trio Orienta-Rhythm returns to US King Street with another happy uplifting tune with the vocal of legendary Joi Cardwell. “Happy” was released on June 16th and features several Orienta-Rhythm mixes. Kingstreet Edit is the one for me, loving reprise beginning.
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London’s Sonny J Mason did an appearing at Miguel Mig’s Salted Music on June 16th with “Life Is The Music“, being originally midtempo soul cut with R&B flavour. In addition, four Mig’s mixes are available. Like expected, some techy stuff with a bouncing basslines, with even breakbeat groove in one of the mixes.
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NY based Manchildblack signs with NY’s Deep Haven Music to release “Live 4 Love” with deep and soulful sound and warm vocals of “Raw Soul” brother. Remixers on the release include label’s head DJ Man-X (recognize the rhythm of Soul Central’s “In-ten-city” here?), Chris Perez from Blvd East with great synth solos and William “ReelSoul” Rodriguez from SOLE Channel. True New York style.
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In this week’s Fondue we’ve got an interview (first ever in my radioshow) with an artist from Georgia named Darwin Marcus. His single “My Queen” is gonna be released by Russian label Soulful Mood Recordings with some remixes in July 2008. Just in between two parts of the show I’ll talk to Darwin and present you one of the remixes.
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It’s been a year since we heard from Micky More. He’s rather guy of ‘better less but better’. His debute “Straight To The Moon EP” was released in January 2006 on DigiPeng, and the second one, “Victory Dance”, in April 2007 on Thaisoul. The waiting is over now, Micky is back with… his new label Street of Soul!
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