Stephanie Cook – Sing

Pennsylvania based veteran producer Joseph ‘Joeflame’ Davis runs his own label D#Sharp from 2007 and releases primarily his own deep stuff. But this time he collaborates with one of the angelic voices out there, Ms Stephanie Cooke. Entitled “Sing” and out on December 8th 2009, this smooth laid back tune…

Summer Fondue Sessions #85

Happy New 2010, soulful people! The first Summer Fondue episode this year feature special guest from Switzerland Steven Stone with the small interview recorded at ADE in October 2009 and his full album “Entering My World” in full DJ mix (you can buy Steven’s tracks at Traxsource.). And of course…

Rasmus Faber – Any Way

Sweden based I guess already Japan based 🙂 producer Rasmus Faber continues to seed the singles from his album “Where We Belong“. On January 6th his own Farplane will release “Any Way” featuring vocals of Swedish Emily McEwan whom we know from Farplane’s 2003’s “Ever After“. Richly instrumented with all…

Danny Foster – To Be Real

UK label Groove Odyssey dropped a bunch of releases in December. Some of them are good to mention in this soulful space. First off, we have veteran Danny Foster who was brave enough to cover “To Be Real“, originally by Cheryl Lynn in 1978. With Rachael John on the vocals,…

Soul Addict & Barbara Tucker – Love The Hurt Away

New Japanese label M2Vibe was launched in Autumn 2009. Their debut release is at the same time the first track of the new duo from Tokyo, Miss Envy and Yoshinobu Mizutani aka Soul Addict, who started in 2009 and claim to dedicate the full-time career to Soulful House. On the…

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…