One of our favourite deep house producers, UK’s Martin Iveson aka Atjazz has a new one under his belt called Full Circle. As the Co-founder and head of Mantis Recordings (Rhythm Plate, Brooks) has been on the forefront of jazzy UK deep house for ages. Operating from Derby he’s been producing a steady supply of [...]

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The second compilation from Barcelona’s Lasal label formed after the beach & open-air bar of the same name (since 1993!) showcases a selection from high quality contemporary urban dance music that none of us with a sane mind can resist. A range of styles like urban soul, reggae, deep house, leftfield [...]

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Barcelona
Amidst the surge of electro house and nu-rave, club music has become increasingly anti-musical and it won’t be wrong to say that mainstream house music has lost it’s soulful, deep vibes. It’s a shame all the DJs I’ve recently listened to (including oldschool djs) start to play electro house when the dancefloor gets full. [...]

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I’ve been on a soulful jazzy house tip for some time because of this stormer called “You got rhyhtm too“. It seems Mr. Phil Kullmann better known as Raw Artistic Soul has gotten all the better parts of Latin, Afro Beat, Funk & Dub and put it into a warm soulful house album. Released by [...]

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The Matthew Herbert Big Band play Turning Pages
Woohoo a new Matthew Herbert album! “Score” is a compilation of his film scores (Vida Y Color, Manolete, La Confiance Regne, The Intended, the short films Indiscretion and Nicotine), a musical (Le Defi), and one ballet (Set Boundaries). Sadly I haven’t watched any of these films, hell [...]

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After the Larry Heard post, it’s about time I get a few selected house tracks off my “feature it” directory. The Haaksman & Haaksman remix of Stereotyp’s Keepin’ Me is as massive as it gets, with a muted guitar at the back, female vocals and a funky steppa rhythms, I’m [...]

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We’ll begin the second part of this 3 part mix with the overlooked Re:Jazz remix compilation from 2004. The first track by one of my favourite artists Nicola Conte, is a classic Conte song with uptempo bass and bossanova, and as if it wasn’t enough there’s another delicious remix by RAS, which has a chunky [...]

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It’s been a long time since we’ve done a deep/vocal house selection, and meanwhile there’s been some incredible output which usually only makes their ways to DJs’ cases. Here’s a carefully picked selection.

The first compilation that reminded me it was time to make a house selection, was inspired by a reader. He pointed me [...]

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NYC’s Yoruba Records is 5 years old! and here is a double cd compilation by label boss Osunlade to celebrate this great occasion. Artists such as Ebbo, Franck, Nadirah Shakoor, Kb and Osunlade himself have some great tracks on this one. Afro inspired Deep & Soulful US House music with vocals and tribal beats, make [...]

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Hello friends,
a few changes and updates afoot :
you have seen the meebome gadget on the sidebar, you can use it to chat with me whenever you see i’m online, although i sometimes leave it online and go away, i’ll be around most of the times and you can gimme your critics and general requests from [...]

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