Minneapolis based Celebrity Records takes up nu jazz/progressive soul singer Alison Crockett and have her “Love Will Return” remixed by label’s own Bryan Gerrard and our fave multi-instrumentalist/producer/DJ from Minneapolis Chuck Love. On the package, released on August 12th, we have a couple of mixes from read more »

Created by soulful house lover/DJ/producer from France Nicolas Vautier and australian born and now based in Paris singer/pianist/songwriter Rachel Claudio, Jaffa Music release primarily soulful house. They met in 2004, and to date produced a set of quality tracks: “Miscommunicate”, “Freedom” and “Do You Even Know” (not including some other stand along releases) to name a few. read more »

Have been presented at WMC this year, “Come Out” is finally… out on Muted Trax. :) Muted Trax is New York based label run by Mike Dominico and Shawn Christopher. Mike is natural born New Yorker, played in many venues, and been involved in producing for Jennifer Lopez’s “Let’s Get Loud”, Michael Jackson’s “Butterflies” etc. Shawn is djing around the world covering all aspects of music industry in NY for many years. Together they’re teamed up under Watu Wote guise, grabbed Wendy Starland (also appears on Moby’s latest album) for a soulful latin flavored vocal and read more »

Austrian producer and DJ Lorenzo Al Dino is known for his ‘7th District Inc’ project (along with Sergio Flores), set of awards, Kylie Minogue’s “Spinning Around” hit and residency in Jockey Club on Ibiza. He’s also into lounge music, and was the author of “On The Beach 4″ compilation released recently by Warner Music Austria. In the house scene, we were pleased by brand new “Let Life Shine” featuring Beverley T. released in two parts by one of the Germany’s underground soulful house label TriCircle. read more »

Young NY/UK/South Africa label Asante Records run by Roots O’Batala (also the man behind wonderful Global Soul Radio) specializes in deep, soulful, jazz, experimental and spiritually enlightened house music and already delivered some great releases including Jihad Muhammad, Joi Cardwell and Yoshihisa H. Unfortunately releases are available on vinyl only. Anyhow the journey continues and we have two new goodies! read more »