Jay-J is back with another stomping groove with his partner songstress beautiful Latrice Barnett. Having worked with Kaskade, Andy Caldwell, Halo, and of course our main men Grammy-nominated Jay-J she’s done so many remarkable hits from “Keep On Rising” in 2002 to “Give A Little”, “Love Is”, “Make My Heart” and “Starting Over”. Now it’s time for the next one. 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 »

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 »

Louie Vega’s Vega Records took a pace of frequent digital releases welcoming new artists to the label (such as Boddhi Satva, Louie Lou Gorbea, Duce Martinez, Fabion Genito etc.). Having loads of material from past times it’s definitely worth to put it up sometimes as compilations of unreleased. On February 2nd label delivered another Vega Records Digital Bundle with 10 tunes of Louie’s style including some nice ones. read more »

Cuban born and New Jersey based multi instrumentalist George Mena has finally put together a collection of his tracks and have it released as promised at Jellybean Soul on January 27th under Mena Keys guise. The album called “A New Day Rising” includes 12 tracks with virtuosic arrangements and loads of live instruments. Must check that out. read more »