Chicago house veteran Vick Lavender running his own label Sophisticado drops his deep, jazz infused instrumentals from time to time and calls it “Chicago Fusion EP“. There are three volumes already. It’s a house of specific taste, but I like it. If you like Glenn Underground or Jihad Muhammad, be sure to grab it from Traxsource: part 1 (February 2009), part 2 (June 2009) and part 3 (July 2009). read more »

Legendary Roy Davis Jr. was one of the responsible for acid house rise in late 80s but still does it the right way in deep and soulful arena. His vocalist Terry Dexter is also no stranger to the music having the solo album and having worked with such big names as Joe Cocker. Their new release “Horizon” will be out on June 16th at Smooth Agent. read more »

Chicago based Kenny Carvajal is back with another instrumental release. Out on May 22th, “Collide” contains a couple of new tracks: full of cool synths and pads along with trademark beats “Collide” and slightly deeper “Motor City“. The release is signed to US deep house label Revival Recordings. read more »

Not that frequent guest to review here, but still one of the greatest underground house soulful machines, US label Restricted Access did it once again – dated April 27th (if we’re to believe Juno.co.uk) the new EP is out. This time Timmy Regisford & Adam Rios remixed another couple of soul classics. “No More Tears” by Anita Baker and “Couldn’t Love You More” by Sade got soulful treatment and have been bootleg’ed. read more »

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 »

Vick Lavender is the man of long history in Chicago deep house scene DJing from 1980s, being a part of Strictly Jaz Unit together with Glenn Underground and Boo Williams and one half of Mr. A.L.I. team. Sophisticado is a label run by Vick Lavender and Steve Stewart and release loads of Vick’s productions. “First Kiss” is a new one came on February 23th featuring keys by Mike Logan, trombone by Craig Sunkin and Mr. A.L.I.’s vocalist Carla Prather. read more »