Heather Johnson – Happiness

One of the greatest house voices, Heather Johnson, well known for her work as the lead singer of Ananda Project and for numerous collaborations with such artists as Louie Vega, Joe Claussell, Blaze, Miguel Migs, Francois K., Kyoto Jazz Massive, Gilles Peterson, King Britt etc, has finally put out her…

Louis Benedetti & Andricka Hall – Life Is Good

US based Soulshine Recordings celebrates its 50th release with labels’ owner Louis Benedetti and Andricka Hall, once already made her appearance on SoulShine nearly 10 years ago with “Stay Inside My Life”. Now “Life Is Good” is a strong anthem with powerful vocals and pumping melody, plus variety of Louis’…

Dutchican Soul – Get On Down

Dutchican Soul is a duo from Amsterdam, consisting of Jasper ‘Drexmeister’ Drexhage and Niels Schroder. Miguel Migs was playing their hot tune for almost a year, and on October 20th “Get On Down” is finally released on his label Salted Music. With huge support from all the industry names, with…

Rocco & Danny Marquez – Billie Jean

On October 1st, Purple Music surprised us with a momentous tribute to MJ, “Billie Jean” produced by Spain-France crew of Rocco & Danny Marquez, with vocals by Ricky Galliano. Among numerous bootlegs coming out these days it’s nice to have something officially released. Mixes include Original Bootleg Mix, deeper Rocco…

Mustafa – Energize

Mustafa is back to his own Staff Productions with new title “Energize” featuring vocals of Carlene Graham, out today, October 14th. With vocal blooming, sax infused original, remixes come from Aphrodisiax, Rafael Yapudjian Meets RyB and Robert Rivera, with every instrumental included. On the keys here, by the way, is…

Summer Fondue Sessions #79

This week’s Summer Fondue will take you backwards from classic soulful to the chilly jazzy vibes. Some freshies are also there: check out beautiful Emanuelle coming soon from Barcoda, a new joint venture from Random Soul and Vincent Kwok (with funny Vincent’s Fiesta remix), and another joint affair from DJN…

Shane D – The ReFunked EP

South Africa is believed to be the best place on Earth for soulful house heads. One of the local heroes, Durban based DJ, producer and remixer Shane D is on scene since 1993. Debuted with “La Musica” on 2Delicious in 2008, he also has won Soul Candi Remix Competition with…

Amsterdam Dance Event 09

It’s less than a month left till a big dates for all electronic music lovers. America has Miami WMC in March, and Europe has Amsterdam Dance Event that will take place on October 21-24! Besides conferences and workshops, our attention is riveted on Festival program full of big house parties.

Summer Fondue Sessions #78

In this week’s Summer Fondue we go back and forth through chilled jazzy vibes to uplifting tunes and back. Lots of new stuff including a couple from South Africa up and rising Shane D, a new Roberto De Carlo‘s instrumental remix for Dario D’Attis and a title from one of…

MuSol & Central Avenue – I Believe

Andy Lee’s Barcoda celebrates 25th release with stunning EP “I Believe” made by MuSol together with Central Avenue and vocal talents of Pete Simpson + Natasha Watts! Top class artists did a great job as well as remixes that include versions from Dutchican Soul, Roed Svensk (my pick), DJ Rork,…