New Japanese label M2Vibe was launched in Autumn 2009. Their debut release is at the same time the first track of the new duo from Tokyo, Miss Envy and Yoshinobu Mizutani aka Soul Addict, who started in 2009 and claim to dedicate the full-time career to Soulful House. On the debut “Love The Hurt Away” released on December 21st, they have no other than Barbara Tucker on the massive vocals! What a nice start with a refreshing uplifting track.

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Sean McCabe is UK based DJ and producer; on his 23 (sic!) he worked for labels such as King Street, Soundmen On Wax, Soulfuric Deep, Fluential, Device, and remixed artists such as Dennis Ferrer, Stephanie Cooke, KT Brooks, Todd Terry, Barbara Tucker, SuSu Bobien. His next release is delivered on November 25th from no other than Soul Heaven Rec.. Co-written by UK songwriter and singer Adeola Ranson, “A Little More Love” comes with 4 Sean’s tracks, full of funky bass lines, guitar licks and puffy vocals.

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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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Sometimes producers don’t wanna release under their usual names for one reason or another, or use vocalist name as a co-writer of a track. This happened to one of the recent Barcoda releases: numbered 26, “Capture” is authored by Emanuelle. In fact, this wonderful, very light, shiny track with French vocal was produced by Italian producer Donato Losito aka Double Dee (worked with Mario Biondi, released for IRMA Records, and is a part of B.A.D Connection project – they’re releasing “Be Thankful” from Purple Music now) and French vocalist and DJ (I guess) Manuela Driusso aka Emanuelle. read more »

Dutchican Soul is a duo from Amsterdam, consisting of Jasper ‘Drexmeister’ Drexhage and Niels Schroder. Miguel Migs was playing their hot tune for almost a year, and on October 20th “Get On Down” is finally released on his label Salted Music. With huge support from all the industry names, with some 90’s Throwback, Unreleased and Vocal Rub mixes, this chune is on fire and already rocking our local floors.

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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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