San Francisco-based indie Fatsouls Records was launched in 2007 with the aim to release dance music with emphasis on Afrobeat, Dub, Deep House, minimal tech and other Afro rhythms. Now they grew to the 6th release, not so afro though. Filled with 3 organic jazzy and soulful tunes (Klondike, Explorations and Jazzabo), “Jazz Spectrum EP” comes from Sapporo based japanese producer and DJ Fuminori Kagajo. Teamed up with world-class musicians and bringing in live saxophone, trumpet, bass and keyboard, these tracks are really another light in this dark electrified times…

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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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Following the release from label’s owner, on October 28th UK based Reelgroove delivers its 33th title. German producer Clemens Rumpf teams up with gospel vocalist David A. Tobin to bring “Jazz In The House EP“. As the name suggests, it’s no soulful but strictly underground jazzy deep, including viscous “This Old House” (previously on Reelgroove summer sampler) with spoken story bout house music, groovy “Jazz In The House” with furry sax part and “Favourite Underground“.

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Chicago veteran Vick Lavender is da real non-stoppable guy throwing releases like crazy. Luckily, that doesn’t mean low quality. New one from his Sophisticado is called “Ella” and is dedicated to Ella Fitzgerald. A pair of tracks released on August 29th, are midtempo US deep jazzy house with pleasant keys, remarkable vocal by Michele Thomas and cool trombone riffs on one of the edits.

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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 »

Turkish producer DJ Tekin is here with long awaited new release “Look of Love EP“. Featuring three beautiful jazzy patterned tracks with Taclan on the vocals, with instrumental included for each track, it’s signed to Dubai based Raisani Records run by Middle East house hero Haneef Raisani. I remember spotting Tekin after his remix for Hi On Life’ “Goodbye“. Since then he’s got releases and remixes on Raisani, Tommy Boy, Reelgroove, and a debut on none other than Defected. read more »