From The Underground Network Family...
A Special Announcement about the condition of DJ Camacho. One of the most talented Disc Jockeys Ever!!!

I (Leslie) write this letter to inform you of a dear friend and family member of ours that has fallen on troubled times in regards to personal health and wellness.   

As some of you may already know DJ CAMACHO has been enduring a lengthy illness. He has been battling diabetes and hypertension for several years. Coincidentally, exactly around this time last year the HOUSE FAMILY assisted DJ CAMACHO with a successful fund raiser that enabled Dave Camacho to pay many outstanding debts. Read More >

Utah Saints - Something Good 2008
This is one of the best music video's I've seen in ages.
Who remembers dancing like this then!!!

The Traxsource guide to all things Miami..

If you're planning a trip to the forthcoming WMC then make sure you check out Traxsource's guide to their 'Powered Events'.
The 'Traxsource Powered Event' has become a seal of approval in that every event displaying this stamp is guaranteed to be of the highest standard providing you with the very best House music around.!
As well as the event guide, those lovely people at Traxsource are also Miami locals and have put together a guide to shops, bars, restaurants and much more, which is useful for a visit any time of the year.

New MixShow is now uploaded..
Click on the MixPlayer link to the left of this page to launch the player

Steve Parr - FaizeMusic 'Full Flavour MixShow'
3rd March2008

01. Tone Control - Illusion - Tone Control Music
02. Matthew Brandy & Javne feat. Fourfeet - Living In My Future - Conya Records
03. Dwele - Hold On (Soulmekanix Remix) - CDR
04. Darryl D'Bonneau - Revenge (Scott Woznaik Remix) - Jellybean Soul
05. Lisa Millett - One Day You'll Want Me (Booker T's Bad To The Bone Mix) - Hi Life
06. Bobby D'Ambrosio feat. Michelle Weeks - Moment Of My Life - Sound Of Ministry  // Classic Track \\
07. Reel People feat. Tony Momrelle & Imaani - Amazing (Trantulaz Dub) - Papa Records
08. Kraak & Smaak feat. Ben Westbeech - Squeeze Me (Trevor Loveys Skeezer Pleezer Mix) - Jalapeno Records)
09. Kinky Movement & PK - Down With It (Nottslot EP) - PK Recordings
10. Groove Junkiesfeat. Diane Carter  pres. Dr. Feelgood 2008 (DJ Meme's Philly Suite Mix) - MoreHouse WMC promo Sampler
11. Toni Granello feat. Linda Lee Hopkings - Lift Him Up (MuthaFunkaz Praise Party Mix) - Map Dance
12. Groovylizer pres. Gospel Truth feat. Latasha Spencer - Stand Up - White Label
13. Ralf Gum feat. Monique Bingham - Kissing Strangers (Feliciano Instrumental Mix) - GoGo Music
      + Bob Sinclar - Love Generation (Acapella) - Defected

Steve Parr // FaizeMusic Chart  -  18th February 2008

01. Studio Apartment feat. Ron Carroll - I'm In Love - King Street
02. Jamie Lewis feat. Keith Thompson - Body Music - Purple Music
03. Eddie Meets Yannah - U & I (Karizma Dub) - Compost
04. Soopa Soul - Brand Nu (Direkt Remix) - Jalapeno Records
05. Ralf Gum feat. Monique Bingham - Kissing Strangers (Original Mix) - GoGo Music
06. Mary Mary Feelin' Good (Jojo Flores Remix) - CDR
07. Mlle Care & Franck Garcia - Dead Souls (Mark Moore & Kinky Roland Dub) - Buzzin' Fly
08. Souldynamic feat. Nicole Tyler - Gonna' Fly - Duff Note
09. Hick Holder - 2012/A Strange Delight - NRK
10. Reel People feat. Tony Momrelle & Imaani - Amazing (Trantulaz Main Mix) - Papa Records

11. Darren Campbell - Garage Fame - Sounds Of The Subway
12. Lee Jarvis - All I Need (The Mongrel EP) - Lost My Dog Records
13. Anfunk - Spirtal Love (Drink Remix) - Deeperfect Records
14. Spiritchaser - Vaults Series 2 - Guess Records
15. Fabio Tosti - Free Spirit (Remixes) - Look At You
16. Kumasi - SB In Da Deep Mix - Gotta' Keep Faith
17. Phil Asher pres. Phlash & Friends - Political 06 - Archive
18. Tommi White - Every Sunday (Stevie Sole Remix) - Sole Music
19. Jinkzilla feat. Zodiak - Man Up (Original Mix) - Jinks Inc
20. Ross Couch - Rhythm Is Our Business (Show Stoppa' EP) - Body Rhythm Records

New MixShow is now uploaded..
Click on the MixPlayer link to the left of this page to launch the player

Steve Parr - FaizeMusic 'Full Flavour MixShow'
12th February 2008

01. Off-Shore - I Can't Take The Power - White (1990 Classic)
02. Copyright feat. Tasita D'Mour - Release Yourself - Copyright Recordings
03. DJ Tony V - Bad Girl - Soul Groove
04. Underground Ministries feat. Kenny Bobien - I Shall Not Be Moved (B's Promised Land Dub) - SoulFuric
05. Reelsoul - Hold On - Sole Channel
+ Pulse feat. Antoinette Robertson - The Lover That You Are (Acapella) - Jellybean Recordings
06. Martino feat. Syreeta Neal - Cultured Girl - Iwanai Music
+ Jon Cutler feat. E-Man - It's Yours (Acapella) - Chez
07. Live Element feat. John Ray - Over & Over - Gossip
08. Campsoul feat. Tanya Stephenson - Fallen (Trackeadz Kaje Vocal Mix) - Home Recordings
09. Studio Apartment feat. Ro n Carroll - I'm In Love - King Street
10. Jamie Lewis feat. Keith Thompson - Body Music - Purple Music
11. Darren Campbell - Garage Fame - Mix The Groove Records
+ Lood feat. Donell Rush - Sout-N-Out - MAW Records

SOUTHPORT WEEKENDER 42
MAY 9/10/11 2008
PONTINS HOLIDAY CENTRE :: SOUTHPORT
SOLD OUT!!! (Again!)

Celebrating soulful music in all it’s fantastic forms, Europe’s unique and best loved indoor music festival, Southport Weekender, gets set to blow the pants off the North West again with a massive 3 day long party this coming May. With 21 glorious years of festival madness, an amazing 41 events under their belts, Southport Weekender are in a league of their own when it comes to delivering spectacular world class line-ups to a devoted crowd of music connoisseurs and party goers. A testament to it’s ongoing success and popularity, Southport Weekender 42 sold out 5 months in advance - just 6 weeks after November’s phenomenal Weekender before a single DJ or Live act had been booked! So without further ado, here’s the DJ talent we’ve got lined up for May...

THE DJ LINE-UP:

JOE CLAUSSELL, KERRI CHANDLER, JOEY NEGRO, QUENTIN HARRIS, GILLES PETERSON, DJ SPEN, CARL CRAIG, MR SCRUFF, SOUL II SOUL SOUNDSYSTEM, FRANKIE FELICIANO, THEO PARRISH, RECLOOSE, PATRICK WILSON, PHIL ASHER, DJ MEME, ZED BIAS, JIHAD MUHAMMAD, NORMAN JAY, SNOWBOY, DR BOB JONES, RAMPAGE, RONNIE HEREL, SHORTEE BLITZ, STEVE SUTHERLAND, KEV BEADLE, FIRIN SQUAD, SACHA BROOKS, TERRY JONES, RICHARD SEARLING, ANDY DAVIES, MIKE STEPHENS, STEVE WREN, GARY DENNIS, DJ DIGGZ, BIGGER, BOB JEFFRIES, STEVE BUTLER, SIMON MANSEL, DJ DA COSTA, JONATHAN, COLLIN PATTERSON, MAX REES, SIMON ‘SCHOOLBOY’ PHILLIPS, JP, DJ SWERVE & BILLY DAVIDSON (FINAL SOUTHPORT APPEARANCE)

A fantastic line up of live acts will be announced in the coming weeks.

To view and listen to live performances and interviews from Southport Weekender 41 visit:
http://www.southportweekender.co.uk

Downtown 161 launch brand new web shop
Downtown 161 is THE leading distributor of US house music to with a huge catalogue of tracks to die for! have now opened their online store “Downtown 304”. This is exciting news as it now gives you the chance to purchase all those elusive 12’s that you have been searching many stores for and can now find in one place! exclusively opening up for the first time ever their supreme catalog to the public, and in addition, providing weekly new releases of the soulful variety from all corners of the globe.

www.downtown304.com

Mix The Groove launches Digital Music Store
After two years planning Mix The Groove finally launch their download store “Mix The Groove Records” Now live at www.mixthegroove.com stocking all the latest deep house, soulful house, jackin' house, US garage and underground house cuts as digital mp3 downloads!

This is exciting times for the ever expanding brand of Mix The Groove who’s online radio station is proving to be very popular with a host of great DJ’s delivering quality shows every day to an ever expanding audience.

The download store is nice and easy to use, and provides the high quality of music you have come to expect from Mix The Groove.
All music stocked in is completely legal, meaning the labels and artists that have worked hard to publish the music in the first place get paid their dues.  In addition we are licensed to sell MP3s and pay 8% of net retail price to the MCPS and PRS collection society. The store already boasts a catalogue including releases from Seed Recordings, Feelin' Music, Yoruba, Restless Soul, Grooveland Music, Enzyme Black and Papa Records to name a few with more being added daily.

As with all new ventures Mix The Groove welcome any feedback and suggestions to make any necessary changes to provide you with a better service.

If you are have a label that would like to stock with Mix The Groove Records please contact digital@mixthegroove.co.uk to get set up. 

David Morales returns to the Ministry Of Sound on the 2nd February after a 5 year absence to celebrate a fantastic 20 long years at DEF MIX and to promote his latest album Defected presents Def Mix – a 20 year anniversary compilation.

David Morales is a behemoth of the house scene who began performing before many of today clubbers were even born. Know as a record producer, remixer and one of the original superstar DJ’s, he has an enviable position as one of the world’s best known House pioneers (with fellow Def Mix partner Frankie Knuckles). He is credited as the inventor of the modern dance remix after making Mariah Carey's ‘Dreamlover’ one of the biggest crossover House records ever as well as remixing Ce Ce Penniston’s ‘Finally’ (1991). He was also the guy that brought us ‘Needin U’; arguably the biggest House track of the mid to late 90’s and has remixed what can only be called a who’s who of contemporary
His sound is a mix of classic House mixed with energetic, contemporary and tribal beats and he is certainly one of the DJ performers that everyone should see spin.

Morales is joined in the main room by Copyright; the UK’s new House music prodigies and a DJ duo that are seriously on the up and are already international stars and Defected label head and house music pioneer Simon Dunmore

In the Bar you’ll be treated to the sounds of Fish Go Deep – famed for their phenomenal urban House monster ‘The Cure and The Cause’ which touched every House DJ in the UK – followed by Baltimore’s DJ Spen (formerly one half of the renowned Basement Boys) and a true international House music expert on delivering melodic beats and soulful flavours.
Finally in the lounge you will discover The Funkin Soul Collective who are not to be missed. Experience a fresh taste of 70's & 80's Soul, Funk, Disco, Rare Groove & Boogie.

Saturday 2nd February
Defected In the House @ Ministry of Sound, London
11pm – 6am. £20
for more info go to www.defected.com

After an exhausting six and a half hour journey we finally made it to the B&B we were staying at, and after calling the wife to say we had arrived safely and say goodnight to my kids it was time to start the festivities :)

This was part two of the Weekender’s 40th anniversary celebrations, seeing twenty years of soulful music enjoyed by an ever increasing number dedicated followers as each year new people experience the wonder of the Southport Weekender and return time after time to get another fix of the world’s best soulful music event.

I’m not going to harp on about who I saw cos’ to be honest unless you were there it’s not going to mean much, but at the same time some acts need to be mentioned.. Firstly is Kerri Chandler who turned up the heat with the ultimate finale set using three Reel 2 Reel units!! Todd Terry was good and played a lot of his own productions, Tony Humphries was excellent playing a truly show stopping set.. Phil Asher,  Fanatix & David Harness were all good too in the main room. And my other pics of the weekend would be Glenn Underground, Gilles Peterson, Al Kent who’s show with Lady Alma was wicked! Mad Matts hyped it up to the max! and Kev Beedle never fails to disappoint.

On the Saturday night it was my turn to grace the decks in the VIP room where I played a very enjoyable and well received set before handing over to Chicago legend Boo Williams who laid down some very tasty tracks that gripped all in the room. Leroy Burges and Glenn Underground made an appearance for a while to catch Boo’s set. After him came the Manchester master producers the Audiowhores, Graham and Adam who in turn rocked the VIP room in fine style.. Next we charged to the Funk Base to catch Hip Hop legend Marly Marl, and boy he delivered a full-on set of old school flavours that got everybody jumpin’!

Without doubt my main highlight of the weekend was catching the one and only Karizma on Friday night who ROCKED the Powerhouse to it’s foundations yet again!! Check YouTube for the vid’s! I was too bombed out to catch him on Saturday in the B-Bar but by all accounts he rocked it once more!

For my friend Paul who came up with me he was one of the many Southport ‘virgins’ there, was unsure what to expect but was simply blown away by the whole event, from the music, the atmosphere, the rooms and above all the people!! All together to enjoy the music they love… Needless to say he is now looking forward to a return trip!

In all it was another amazing weekend and that feeling will be echoed in all the reviews you’ll read about Southport. It IS the finest gathering of like-minded music lovers anywhere and you really do need to experience it sometime.

On site tickets or Southport 42 in May08 are selling very fast so if you want to be there you had better act quick!

Click >here< for my little photo diary of the weekend.

November 2007 saw Traxsource once again takes a giant step forward and unleashes Level 3g, which undoubtedly represents the most significant upgrade the site has undergone since its launch in October 2004.
Featuring brand new, state-of-the-art genre functionality, better navigation & improved search options! more info >

Marc Pomeroy & Brian Tappert 'Level 3g' interview
Deli talks to the founders & owners of Traxsource.com, Marc Pomeroy and Brian Tappert, about the development of Level 3g, the digital download phenomenon and what’s in store in the coming months. read interview >

Favoritizm launch brand new label
After many years of publicising great music from world renowned dance & urban artists and DJ’s, Favouritizm publicity are excited to announce the launch of their own brand new digital label this summer. Continuing to focus on all things musically soulful, Favouritizm Music will be reeling in the cream of underground soulful artistes, kicking off the party with a heavyweight UK Disco-funk band called The Super-Phonics and employing the remix skills of talented production duo BahSonik (Julian Bendall from Bah Samba & NYC’s Filsonik) for a beautiful single called ‘Dial L For Love’. ‘Dial L For Love’s delicate keys and hypnotic beats topped with heartfelt vocals from Miss Lucy Jules has already received support from soulful house heavyweights such as Louie Vega, Danny Krivit, Joe Claussell, Osunlade, DJ Spen, Alix Alvarez among many others, and looks set to be somewhat of an underground summer classic in the making!

For the first felease Favouritizm Music bring us the Super-Phonics – ‘Dial L for Love’. A beautifully deep and powerful slice of summery soulful music, has proved very popular with the Top jocks receiving very strong support. more info >

The Bitches are Brewing again!
It's been a long hiatus for London Label Bitches Brew and they are indeed back with something rather different on the form of “Musical Blaze-Up” by Wild Rumpus (features former members of Captain Beefheart, KLF and Trojan Sound System). This track is described as Country and Dub meets Electronica! Nothing like you have ever heard before!!

Imagine Lee Scratch Perry on LSD, hosting a Romany barn dance on the set of The Wicker Man and you’re nearly there….  “Bluegrass Reggae” is here. Read More >