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…

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 on Jaffa Music in 2008, but now we have an…

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 stands for “I never”. Two nicest versions are Spen’s Vocal…

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. In fact, this wonderful, very light, shiny track with French…

Summer Fondue Sessions #82

82th issue of Summer Fondue Sessions is online. This week in the first hour we have another guestmix, this time from Brazilian Thomas Lamachia with nice selection of soulful grooves; and me back into mix in the second part with some fresh ones. BTW the next issue on December 6th…

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 latin Riomix is full of summer positivity. The release is…