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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Soul Harmonics is the soulful house and nujazz project of Australian Dave McKinney (aka Flow Dynamics on Freestyle Records). On November 23th, he released an album entitled “These Times“. The single of the same name featuring Rachel Claudio was out on Jaffa Music in 2008, but now we have an album with 10 really “ultra funky, jazz fueled soulful house grooves” including some remixes and original productions. Slightly different in moods, all tracks are worth checking out.

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One of the greatest house voices, Heather Johnson, well known for her work as the lead singer of Ananda Project and for numerous collaborations with such artists as Louie Vega, Joe Claussell, Blaze, Miguel Migs, Francois K., Kyoto Jazz Massive, Gilles Peterson, King Britt etc, has finally put out her album. Out on October 12 on King Street and entitled “Happiness“, these 12 tracks are full of emotional vocals and expressive lyrics. As a part of the album, remixes from Frankie Feliciano, DJ Kawasaki, Rasmus Faber and The Muthafunkaz are included.

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US Grammy nominee, “Godfather of the SF sound” and having over 150 releases, Jay-J has finally presented his debut artist album “Love Alive” that was keeping him busy last 2 year. Ranging from soulful house to downtempo chill to R&B, album has 14 new tracks and out on August 25 on his own label Shifted Music.

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Joey Negro’s band The Sunburst Band released its third album “Moving With The Shakers” in May 2008. Since then, tracks from the album have been reedited and remixed numerous times, and some were even released. Nothing can stop Joey, and here comes 24 tracks compilation Joey Negro & The Sunburst Band – The Remixes with remixes by Grant Nelson, Ian Friday, Dennis Ferrer, Joey Negro, Audiowhores, Fanatix, Brian Tappert… – massive! read more »

With six months since How Beautiful EP a very talented japanese Joi drops a new album called “Allure“. Not purely house, but such beautiful tripping melodies with unique vocals – time to add a new “chill” tag to my site. read more »