San Francisco-based indie Fatsouls Records was launched in 2007 with the aim to release dance music with emphasis on Afrobeat, Dub, Deep House, minimal tech and other Afro rhythms. Now they grew to the 6th release, not so afro though. Filled with 3 organic jazzy and soulful tunes (Klondike, Explorations and Jazzabo), “Jazz Spectrum EP” comes from Sapporo based japanese producer and DJ Fuminori Kagajo. Teamed up with world-class musicians and bringing in live saxophone, trumpet, bass and keyboard, these tracks are really another light in this dark electrified times…

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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 debut “Love The Hurt Away” released on December 21st, they have no other than Barbara Tucker on the massive vocals! What a nice start with a refreshing uplifting track.

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With six months since How Beautiful EP a very talented japanese Joi drops a new album called “Allure“. Not purely house, but such beautiful tripping melodies with unique vocals – time to add a new “chill” tag to my site. read more »