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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…

Melchyor A & MJ White – Real Thing

Melchyor A continues his collaboration with Louis Benedetti’s SoulShine label and in the mid-September has dropped a double release “Real Thing” with the silky vocals of MJ White. Classy jazzy percussion filled Main mixes are followed by pack of Mr…

Stephanie Cooke & Groove Assassin – This Time

Consortium Muzik is about to please our ears once again on September 17th with a great small release from beautiful duo, DJ and producer Groove Assassin and incredible vocalist Stephanie Cooke. With vocal and instrumental versions, “This Time” is very…

Blaze – We Are One

I have a special wishlist for the older stuff I’d love to play now if I have it in good digital shape. One of the entries of this list is 2003’s King Street item “We Are One” by legendary Blaze.…

Vick Lavender – Ella

Chicago veteran Vick Lavender is da real non-stoppable guy throwing releases like crazy. Luckily, that doesn’t mean low quality. New one from his Sophisticado is called “Ella” and is dedicated to Ella Fitzgerald. A pair of tracks released on August…

Tortured Soul – Another Lover

Tortured Soul continues to deliver singles from their recent album Did You Miss Me. “Another Lover” comes on August 18th from TSTC Records with 12 tracks package of mixes from Dimitri From Paris, Tom Moulton, Master Kev & Tony Loreto…

Justin Imperiale – Movin On

New Jersey’s Justin Imperiale (see March 2008’s post about him) and his label Cabana were always a stronghold of “soulful deep minimal” 🙂 for me. Looks like it is really hard to keep up with the same all the time.…

Vick Lavender – Chicago Fusion EPs

Chicago house veteran Vick Lavender running his own label Sophisticado drops his deep, jazz infused instrumentals from time to time and calls it “Chicago Fusion EP“. There are three volumes already. It’s a house of specific taste, but I like…

DJ Man-X & Albert Sterling Menendez – Consequences

Now one of my favorite labels, Deep Haven continues to deliver high quality works. Released on July 28th, “Consequences” is a great follow-up for November 2008‘s “Love Can Change Your Heart” from the same gang: labels’s honcho DJ Man-X, Albert…

Aid To The Soulless – So Special

Aid to the SouLLess are Chicago based Julius the Mad Thinker and Emmaculate. Out on July 20th, their new “So Special” featuring Desla is a classic Chicago deep soulful house track with nice bass lines and classy black vocals. Remix…

Random Soul & Vincent Kwok – Music Is My Life

Australian crew of Yogi and Husky aka Random Soul meets US based (but formerly started in Australia as well) Vincent Kwok to deliver another bumping funky choon “Music Is My Life“. With mixes from Random Soul, Vincent Kwok and another…

Soul Dhamma – If We Could Fly

For those who are new into DJing or switched to digital recently, it’s quite hard to find older releases in good quality. Following up with this trend labels now do a great job re-releasing greatest oldies. King Street is one…