Category Releases

Andrea Carissimi – Straight Up

Italian label Just4Funk running by Andrea Carissimi is back with the third release (check previous two: 2008’s “Lose My Mind” and July’s and already in my Top-2009 “Power In You“). Once again with Andrea’s powerful funk driven outburst and boisterous…

Steven Stone – Change

Producer from Switzerland Steven Stone did a great groundwork this year releasing his album “Entering My World“. Now he’s dropping the singles quite frequently. One of them, “Change” is out on December 18th on UK label Barcoda. Featuring vocals of…

Jose Carretas – Take Your Time

UK producer Jose Carretas is another one who attract my attention as remixer. But now he also produce original tracks that are flourished by his great soulful approach. On December 16th, on UK label Tribe Records, Jose’s new “Take Your…

Shane D – Inside Out

I would really consider South African Shane D as one of The 2009 House Discovery. Another great production from him came on December 1st on Look At You: so funky cover for 1982 Odyssey’s “Inside Out” featuring lovely Donna Hidalgo.…

Stephanie Cooke – Thinkin’ I’m Beautiful

Speaking of Sean McCabe, he is also responsible for another catchy soulful chune released on November 09th on King Street (omg, this guy is so lucky!) – he remixed Stephanie Cooke‘s single “Thinkin’ I’m Beautiful“. Legendary vocals accompanied by stomping…

Sean McCabe – A Little More Love

Sean McCabe is UK based DJ and producer; on his 23 (sic!) he worked for labels such as King Street, Soundmen On Wax, Soulfuric Deep, Fluential, Device, and remixed artists such as Dennis Ferrer, Stephanie Cooke, KT Brooks, Todd Terry,…

Soul Harmonics – These Times

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…

Nu Phonic – I Neva

A very nice-sounding release came on November 24th as a debut on B-Room Records: Kelton Cooper, Gerard Barnes and Gordon Nelson aka Nu-Phonic project with Vickie Ryan on the vocals with a track weirdly named “I Neva“, that I believe…

Emanuelle – Capture

Sometimes producers don’t wanna release under their usual names for one reason or another, or use vocalist name as a co-writer of a track. This happened to one of the recent Barcoda releases: numbered 26, “Capture” is authored by Emanuelle.…

Ayce DJ & Karlito – Havana

As seen on One51 WMC Sampler in March 2009, “Havana” is finally out on November 20th as full release. Written by Ayo Oyerinde (B-Ayce), one of Duffnote musician, with Karlito and featuring Paul Lee on the vox, this trumpet driven…

Rosa Morena Russa – Ventania

Almost a year ago, Russian siberian label Kolonki Recordings released beautiful No Fim Do Dia EP by Rosa Morena Russa. On November 20th one of the tracks from that EP, featuring male vocals of Roberto Crescenti, is out as a…

Jamie Lewis – It’s On Your Face

Unmistakable duo of Jamie Lewis and Michael Watford continue to drop wicked collaborations. It was “over” in 2006, and it was “not over” in 2008, and this year “It’s On Your Face“. With a pack of Jamie cuts on this…