As seen on GKF 2009 Sampler and in Fresh Stuff of 90th Summer Fondue, “This Light (We’ve Seen)” by Portuguese band Deep & Soul Project will actually see the light on April 4th on Italian Gotta Keep Faith. :) D&S Project is the brainchild of DJ Carlos Vargas involved with house scene since 2001 and guitarist Jair Deodato, with the idea to allow DJs to perform live with musicians. After numerous jams and collaborations with around 40 musicians and having more works in the studio, they’re debuting with this release of their own on GKF. As the name implies, “This Light” is deep and soulful and comes in 10 versions: with help of Patrick Green, Steve Paradise, House Device, DJ Jogador, QuestionmarQ, Dee C’rell and MoWz & Mikula, they are varied, but keep the integrity of the Original with Danny’s excellent vocals.

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There are many soulful house artists in Switzerland, with even more up and coming. A new name on Swiss scene, Jonas Belardinelli & Vincenzo Busceti aka Jack & the Jerk met up long time ago and now ready to present their debut single on Swiss label M.o.D Recordings on March 26th. “Miss Me” features vocals by Sanja Shane and is a driving funky thing with live touch. On remix duties, label’s head MoD with his former partner Staffan Thorsell (are they together again?). Good luck Jack & the Jerk, we’re looking forward for more hotties!

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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 »