As seen on King Street Miami 2009 Sampler, “Magic” is now (on May 11th) out on King Street. Written by NYC-based Japanese production team Naotake Gunji and Go Kiryu aka FCKS, this beautiful and gentle track features the vocals of Manchild Black. read more »

Mena Keys and DJ Manny Donoso teamed up with super diva SuSu Bobien on this powerful rework of classic “I Want To Thank You” released on May 12th on Jellybean Soul. Massive vocals, tons of soulful house vibes and midtempo feel. read more »

Not that frequent guest to review here, but still one of the greatest underground house soulful machines, US label Restricted Access did it once again – dated April 27th (if we’re to believe Juno.co.uk) the new EP is out. This time Timmy Regisford & Adam Rios remixed another couple of soul classics. “No More Tears” by Anita Baker and “Couldn’t Love You More” by Sade got soulful treatment and have been bootleg’ed. read more »

Sometimes labels love to review their releases and put out a compilations united by some topic. Out on May 7th, “Disco Dust” from Soulfuric Rec. is no exception. 10 tracks collection of disco flavored tracks, freshies and oldies, for your summer pleasure. read more »

Defected’s daughter label Code Red run by the one and only DJ Spen signed up French hot-on-demand Yass with his new single “When Doves Cry“. Released on April 20th, and being highly driving tune, it also gets treatments from MuthaFunkaz and Thommy & Spen that makes it instant hot release. As seen on Defected WMC sampler. read more »

No doubt vocals is what makes house music alive, rich and enchanting. For many years, contemporary house music female vocalists contributed in so many great hits and deserved the right to be called “Divas”. On April 13th King Street put a digital only release called “Divas on King Street“. read more »