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 »

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 »