On April 27th, Canadian Home Recordings pleased out ears with another feelgood R&B tune reworked to soulful house affair. “Valentine 4 Life” by Toronto based Kim Davis, being the hit in 2008, is now touched by William ‘ReelSoul’ Rodriguez, Guy Robin and DJ Garphie to deliver smooth and sexy beats…
Pure sweetness for two hours awaits you in the fresh Summer Fondue numbered 67. Only sooooooulful house. Happy Maydays! Spoiler: I hope I’ll be able to edit and include DJ Meme’s interview (yes, we had an awesome gig here in Moscow on April 24th) in the nest issue.
Defected’s daughter label Code Red run by the one and only DJ Spen signed up French hot-on-demand Yass with his new single “When Doves Cry“. Released on April 20th, and being highly driving tune, it also gets treatments from MuthaFunkaz and Thommy & Spen that makes it instant hot release.…
Pablo DJ aka Logicalgroove returns to Gotta Keep Faith with another solid release “Pieces” with help of great vocalist Diana Waite and unbeatable Pako Baldassarre on sax. Remixes include classic Soulful Main Mix and uplifting Club Mix, as well as Groove Delivers‘ and Andy Roberts’ ones.
Producing in various house genres, UK duo Danism has put a “From The Vaults EP” on Bargrooves on April 13th. The EP contains their old “Try” in Original as well as US deep soul head David Harness remixes, and a couple of new tracks, latin flavored “Just Let It Happen”…
Oh yeah, some time we look into deeper shades of house… I mean those Yoruba Soul, Nomumbah, Abicah Soul etc. names. So, Osunlade’s and Carlos Mena‘s brainchild Ocha Records on April 7th presented a brand new EP from South African producer Mzilikazi wa Afrika aka Mzee.
No doubt vocals is what makes house music alive, rich and enchanting. For many years, contemporary house music female vocalists contributed in so many great hits and deserved the right to be called “Divas”. On April 13th King Street put a digital only release called “Divas on King Street“.
Spain based ‘retro-futuristic’ (as they called themselves) Xtrasolar Records delivered its second release on April 3rd: a groovy funk & disco flavored cover for George Duke’s classic, “Brazilian Love Affair“, made by Spain’s Soulfeenix together with now NYC’s american-japanese songstress Monday Michiru.
As promised, and with the huge support at Miami WMC 2009, the second part of DJ Meme Orchestra’s “Any Love” is out today on Soulfuric with more remixes. Dimitri From Paris delivered his trademark Classic Disco Mix, Purple’s Jamie Lewis twisted his Master Jam Mix, while Tom Moulton’s mix is…
This weeks’ Summer Fondue numbered 66th will feature U.S. (mostly) deep soulful productions with loads of soul vocals. In the meantime a new station is added to the list of radioshow broadcasters: UK’s Lifted Radio, where you can spot me every other Wednesday 10-12am GMT.