Gabriel Rene is the most known for his early productions as Aquanote and being a part of wonderful Soulstice crew along with Mei-Lwun Yee, Andy Caldwell and Gabriel’s sister Gina Rene. Yeah, all that sexy Naked Music era! He’s back on February 24th to no other than Soulfuric with new wicked soulfulness named “Spirit“. It’s all about stringy saxy Guy Robin’s Classic Vocal mix and his beatless Epic Reprise. 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 »

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 »

Another soul classic from 1980s gets treatment by house masters. Glenn Jones’ “Show Me” was re-worked by Degrees Of Motion and vocalized by Billy Porter. The man behind Degrees Of Motion is Richie Jones who is responsible for loads dance music productions including Jennifer Lopez’ “Waiting For Tonight”. read more »

Switzerland based DJ and producer Stefano Rizzuto aka Steven Stone is in the soulful industry for quite some time. With productions and remixes for such labels as Reelgroove, MoD, Staff Productions, Barcoda, SoulFunk Digital, Hermosa and PINO Music, he has recently put out a debut album “Entering My World”. Taken from it and scheduled to March 31th, “Makes You High” marks the first release on Steven’s own and newly born Soul Deluxe label. read more »

Celebrating upcoming 10 Years, Defected is gonna hold a huge party in Ministry of Sound on January 24th with massive line-up of artist including Copyright, Shapeshifters, Bob Sinclair, Junior Jack & Kid Creme, ATFC, Marc Evans, Imaani etc. Defected’s website hosts a feedback form with complicated but affordable questionnaire that being completed gives you the exclusive DJ Spen mix for download and a chance to win the VIP tour read more »