South Africa is believed to be the best place on Earth for soulful house heads. One of the local heroes, Durban based DJ, producer and remixer Shane D is on scene since 1993. Debuted with “La Musica” on 2Delicious in 2008, he also has won Soul Candi Remix Competition with his remix of Ananda Project’s “Let Love Fly“, had releases on labels like Soulfuric, remixed John Julius Knight, Roland Clark, Luis Radio & Raffa, and already has coming tracks signed with Look At You Records as well as Soulmagic (both to be reviewed very soon). Catch his mixes on podOmatic.

Today we’re talking about The ReFunked EP, out on SoulHeat on September 25th. With 3 original tracks full of funky bassline and hooky synths, Shane D is our new hero!

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Canadian crew of Adam “Suges” Sugar and Martino Lozej, after releasing their last year’s Sugestramentals EP now reap remixes from all over the world. Originally nicely instrumented and easy “Someone Else” with vox of Limore gets deeper touches from South African crew from Bass Breaks & Beats Records: C.9ine, Liquideep, Bossruu, Nomarema and Mr FM all go deepy techy preserving original soulful vocals. Out on August 21st on Canadian Soulstream Rec.

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Oh yeah, some time we look into deeper shades of house… I mean those Yoruba Soul, Nomumbah, Abicah Soul etc. names. So, Osunlade’s and Carlos Mena‘s brainchild Ocha Records on April 7th presented a brand new EP from South African producer Mzilikazi wa Afrika aka Mzee. read more »

Germany based Ralf Gum’s label GoGo Music continues a series of African collaborations. After December’s “Uyangichomela” from South African SHANA collective, one of this trio, and one of the SA’s most respected house music artists Blackcoffee delivered his new “Turn Me On” on February 2nd. Blackcoffee djs all over his country, has a couple of awards and had a good release on Frank Roger’s Real Tone Records in 2007. read more »