Is Soulful House Dying?

US based house DJ Ricardo Torres recently posted a wonderful insightful article entitled “Is Soulful House Dying?“. With an accurate observations on soulful house scene and industry, this post caused a long discussion in comments (and on Facebook as well) where people from all over the world share the situations.…

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 vocals of Brent St. Clair, “Straight Up” continues to glorify…

Summer Fondue on Facebook

Following the trends and in search of more publicity, Summer Fondue Sessions radioshow now has its own dedicated fan page on Facebook. It’s fully radioshow related, with the news, announcements and teasers, plus you can comment all those. So if you’re a social junkie and would love to get all…

Summer Fondue Sessions #84

This week’s show is the last one for 2009. Which means we’re gonna have kinda 2009 chart today, my personal Top-2009! Of course two hours is not enough to put all good 2009 tracks, but I did my best to fill these two hours with lots of them, almost 30.…

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 Yuanist Woods, Original is soulfully nice, even with strings. Remixers…

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 Time” came out featuring soul singer sensation Dani. Complete with…

Summer Fondue Sessions #83

Another issue of Summer Fondue radishow has arrived with full two hours mix from today’s birthday man, DJ Soulmate. The first hour features extremely peaceful mellow grooves and really sends shivers down my spine, ‘cos I love it soooo much! The second part goes via soulful into a couple of…

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. Supplemented with Lucius Lowe and Anthony Weeling mixes, it is…

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’s production with nice pads, licks and flowing rhythms. Hasty…

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, Barbara Tucker, SuSu Bobien. His next release is delivered on…