The New Jersey-based label Phuture Sole, owned by house masters DJ Carl Dupree, Mark Mendoza and Dave Lalla, releases “uptempo soul” and has such artists as Kenny Carvajal, Stacy Mallory, 280 West, Moses McClean in the roster. The label gets its 14th release on February 19th with Chris Forman & Damon Bennett together aka Steal Vybe and their new one, read more »

Florida based DJ Roland Clark is the real voice of house music. His quote “If House is a nation, I wanna be president!” is supported by collaborations with many major artists from Fatboy Slim to Todd Terry, Kenny Dope, Mark Knight, Sandy Rivera, Rodger Sanchez, Erick Morillo and many many others. Covered by a number of aliases (Digital Pimps, South Street Player, Urban Soul, Jesus Jackson) he sings, DJs and produces. read more »

A pioneer and living legend of electronic scene in Korea and now worldly recognized artist Oriental Funk Stew started in early 1990s while studying in New York. Being known as DJ Decode at that times, his passion for house music led him to the first EP released by Odds And Ends in 2004, when he changed the name. Soon another two EPs were signed to San Francisco based Amenti Music owned by Olivier Desmet who recognized OFS’s producing talents. 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 »

Continuing its international collaborations, Siberian Kolonki Recordings just delivered (on January 16th) another piece of quality deep soulful house music with brand new release from Dihann Moore. Based in Washington, Dihann Moore sings from the age of three. Among the artists she performed with were Mariah Carey, Diana Ross and Sting. She worked for many R&B and jazz bands, did some dance tracks and now is a lead singer of The Shegroovee Band performing jazz, r&b, funk, top 40, pop and neosoul music. Teamed up with Kolonki camp, they produced “Let’s Keep Our Love Alive“. read more »

The man of smooth quality soulful cuts and melodic piano passages and Camio‘s head Jonny Montana teamed up with great US vocalist that needs no introduction Stephanie Cooke to bring another strong soulful vibe, “One 4 Me“. Having a number of good releases and his own label, Jonny is now working on the debut album “The Love Planet” for his project Collective Spirits. read more »