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Singles - March 2008
 
 

Ross Couch
Everythings' Connected EP
Body Rhythm Records
The 'Everythings Connected' EP sees Ross Couch delve into his tech house roots to produce 3 stunning new tracks. The title track bristles with energy, working itself into a rhythmical frenzy with every layer adding to the groove as it builds and builds into a memorable breakdown. 'Tonight' is the most emotive of the three tracks, going deeper with some beautiful synth chords and vocal stabs whilst retaining the tech influence. 'On A Wing And A Prayer' rounds off the release with african vocal chants and percussion perfectly blending with the deep and tech elements to provide a highly atmospheric track with a real sense of momentum.

Mlle Caro and Franck Garcia
Dead Souls
Buzzin' Fly
Buzzin' Fly bring you the second single from Mademoiselle Caroline Laher and her Perpignan-based collaborator, Franck Garcia, set for Mar 17. The last single, 'Always You', was remixed to end-of-night perfection by Ewan Pearson. This time enjoy work from Radio Slave, Ben Watt and Mark Moore and Kinky Roland. Buzz buzz buzz.

Candy Apple ft. Anjou
Step 2 Me
Shake & Pop Records
London’s Shake & Pop Records first surfaced in June 2007 with a release from house legend Eric Kupper, then followed it up with another excellent deep and soulful offering from Birmingham based Danny Campbell, the man responsible for the mixthegroove.co.uk empire. Onto release number three and it’s more of the same high quality... Candy Apple (aka Martin Lodge and Justin Canton) have been producing quality soulful beats for over 10 years now. Featuring on vocals is rising soulful star Anjou, who has featured on several releases with Candy Apple and has a fantastic future ahead of her. A remix package that will instantly start any deep house fan’s mouth watering is headed by Nottingham’s finest, Inland Knights.

Chymera
Wish
NRK
Chymera returns to NRK Music, this time with a two track EP of slick and deep techno house. Last year's "Wish" on NRK won him best dance track at the Irish Dance Music Awards last year and helped establish him as a producer to watch.
"2 Below" is a gorgeous techno track; starts off very delicate and just keeps building and building with some warming chords, swirling melody and driving drums, reaching a chaotically soulful peak, let this track wash all over you!
The second cut, "Saphiron", ploughs a more housier route for Chymera, with a very functional production of deep keys, groovy bass and tight percussion.

Matthew Bandy & Jevne featuring Fourfeet
Living In My Future
Conya Records
Matthew Bandy got in touch with house music in the early 90’s living in Kentucky,
pulling the best from Chicago, Detroit and New York flavoured grooves into his sets
and soon throwing his own events bringing dj’s such as Halo, Kevin Yost, Johnny Fiasco, Terrance Parker into town.
Jevne is from Minneapolis and is bringing a new energy and live element to house music! Laying down deep, smooth and funky grooves live with a 6-string bass guitar while he mixes an infectious blend of original beats.
Matthew Bandy and Jevne managed to get no other than the mighty Fourfeet for the vocals of their collaboration. Fourfeet a.k.a. Justin Thompson put himself on the house music map back in 2005 with his vocals on “Back In My Life” by Chuck Love,
which was released on Miguel Migs Salted Label.

Souldynamic Feat. Nicole Tyler
Gonna' Fly
Duff Note
Starting things off for Duffnote in 2008 are the Italian dynamic duo Luca Ciotoli & Stefano De Magistris or Souldynamic to you and us. Demonstrating some superb keyboard playing and arrangements, coupled with Nicole’s sumptuous vocal, the boys have delivered a top draw original mix. Their alternative mix doesn’t mess about with it only employing some subtle tweaks here and there.
On remix duty we have the ever impressive MoD taking things on the deep main room tip. Tough beats, minimal synth hooks and sparing but effective use of the vocal making up for an ideal peak hour mix. Next in line, Earnshaw lays down his “Blueroom” vibe. With the Hammond, Wurlitzer and harmonica dealing with the groove, Nicole dishing out the adlibs and if you listen carefully, a Zippo lighter nestling in the beats, this is a no nonsense gritty, sexy dub with attitude. There’s a Dubstrumental included for the
a-capella happy DJ. Dark glasses and cigars are optional!

Groove Junkies
Work It Out
MoreHouse Records
Everyone here in the land of MoHo hopes that your New Year has gotten off to a fantastic start! As for us, we’ve been busy putting the finishing touches on some very dope projects, and are excited to present our first release of 2008. Already getting massive response from it’s recent debut on our syndicated MoHo Stereo Radio Show, “Work It Out” features the incredibly gifted Wendy Brune’ on vocals, and has 10 slammin’ mixes for all discerning tastes to choose from. Although a newcomer to club land, Ms. Brune’ has had an impeccable pedigree within the music industry. She has performed around the world, and shared the stage with icons such as Chaka Khan, Barry White, & Ray Charles to name a few. She has also performed for several years at the Governor’s Ball at both The Academy Awards and the Emmy’s, as well as the Golden Globe’s & the American Music Awards.

Spiritchaser
Vaults Series Vol 1
Guess Records
Following the success of “Vaults Series 1” in 2006, the Spiritchaser boys turn out another selection of unreleased material from the murky depths of the hard drives!
This 5 track EP further demonstrates how over the last 10 years, the Spiritchaser sound has varied and developed, from the deep chilled out vibes of the Weiser Mix of “Heaven” to the relentless main room instrumental vibe of “Pulse”. So as the boys put the finishing touches to the eagerly awaited “Spiritlevel 2” ep, we have a splendid little selection of Spiritchaser history for you all to indulge in...

Kinky Movement & PK
The Nottslot EP
PK Recordings
New Nottingham based label PK Recordings kick off with a release straight from Nottingham itself. Kinky Movement and Paul Keith team up for "The Nottslot EP" - a pure slice of UK Midlands deep house. Paul "PK" Keith hails from South Africa originally, before moving to London and then Nottingham where he has teamed up with some of the areas hottest producers. Home to Inland Knights, Da Sunlounge, Kinky Movement, The Littlemen, DiY and a whole host of other deep house pioneers, the UK's Midlands really is the country's hotbet of talent when it comes to deep house music. PK Recordings aims to add to this reputation.

Various Artists
The Mongrel EP
Lost My Dog Records
Chris Harris and Dominic Martin kick start proceedings with a jazzy and swinging track. Chris and Dom have recently released Jazzmag EP for Lost My Dog, as well as some superbly well received EPs for Nordic Trax and Guesthouse.
Frank Solano is part of the hugely influential Music 101 in Chicago, who organise the city's finest and most notorious bash 'Boom Boom Room' amongst other activities. Frank has so far released music for US label Kolour Recordings and caught the ear of Lost My Dog with his deep and groovy offerings. 'Move Ur Feet' is exactly in this mould.
London based Lee Jarvis is getting pretty much the best education in quality underground house music, given that he works part time at Freerange Records and is head honcho at London clubnight Moochin, which has welcomed anyone who’s anyone in deep/Chicago house circles.
Last but by no means least is Dave Miller, hailing from Perth, Australia. Dave's tracks for labels such as Booth Trax, Dust Pan and Clean House have been given the stamp of approval from Joey Youngman, one of the hottest 'Chicago' house producers of the last few years.

Ralf GUM feat. Diamondancer
All This Love For You
GOGO Music
The heat continues! Taken from Ralf GUM’s forthcoming album “Uniting Music”‚ with remixes by Rocco this release is sure to be another big one. Germany’s prime Deephouse-DJ/Producer, soulful activist and GOGO Music head honcho, Ralf GUM follows up his hit-single “Kissing Strangers”‚ with another dope tune taken from his forthcoming debut masterpiece album titled “Uniting Music”. “All this Love For You”‚ features Detroit’s Diamondancer. Ralf’s swinging beats and fierce Rhodes progression build the perfect sound bed for Diamond‚s very personal view on her first decade in house-music.

NEO
Smile/ A night in Marseille
TriCircle Soul
French keyboarder and producer NEO, well known in France and in Japan for his fresh, jazzy and soulful albums on his own imprint Blackjazz, delivers a hot 4-track –EP featuring the tracks ´Smile´ with its outstanding vocal performance by Rudy Wilburn and a broken beat remix by Yukihiro Fukutomi (Kingstreet, LOVE EACH OTHER), while ´A night in Marseille´is delivered in a classic nujazz original version and a very clubby deep house remix by Soul Monky. Altogether another big TriCircle Release for all soulful heads, not to be missed!

Inland Knights present Chewy Mango EP
Raise Recordings
Raise Recordings is the new offshoot of the mighty Drop Music, the label that has been home to the Inland Knights for the past 10 years. After taking a short break throughout the rest of 2007 while Drop Music continued to impress and the Knights worked on projects for other labels, including several remixes and compiling ‘San Francisco Sessions 6’ for Om Records, Raise and the Knights are back in full effect as they present the ‘Chewy Mango EP’.
Of particular note on this EP is the appearance of Larry Fives. Having kept a fairly low profile so far the mysterious one here returns a remix favour to the Inland Knights, who reworked the track ‘Dance Me, Dance You’ on his debut EP for Drop a couple of months back.

Groove Federation
Slave Drive EP
Yakuza Recordings
Groove Federation provide Yakuza’s fifth release and the label’s first of 2008. The duo of Darren Payton and Nathan Walwyn make up the act. Both members of Groove Federation have been DJing from their early teenage years covering a range of musical tastes including disco, funk, jazz, breakbeat, chillout, trance, techno, soulful, latin & funky house. It doesn’t come much more eclectic than that!

Soularis & Kenny Thomas
If You Believe
SunSoaked
Music fashions may ebb and flow, but great voices never go out of fashion. This is why it’s time for a new celebration of one of the best vocalists ever heard in British soul music, Kenny Thomas.
Kenny made a huge mark during the golden years with Chrysalis’ Cooltempo label, which included two top ten albums, 1991’s voices and 1993’s sequel Wait for Me, the top ten smash Thinking About Your Love, three more top 20 hits in Outstanding, Best of You and Trippin On Your Love, and four further top 40 singles.
Now, following on from his recent success with “Keep The Fires Burning” (Soul-Fi Records), Kenny teams up with Soularis to bring you another future soulful classic “If You Believe”. Already being championed by the likes of Terry Jones, this shows Kenny’s return to what he loves and does best, “dance music with soul”

Son of Sound
Trial By Fire EP
Speak Recordings
Son of Sound returns on his own imprint with the Trial By Fire EP – three tracks guaranteed to satisfy the nu-disco, electro and houseketeers .
Ever After Hours infects with an opening blast of Levan(ish) drum textures, synth-stabs and a post-disco groove that channels peak hour at the Paradise Garage. The drums continue to a build that segues a huge baseline and a dubbed-out frenzy carries you out into the morning.
The Yes & No is the answer when asked if it’s possible to cross belearic elements with New York post-disco grit. The track delivers the percussive mid-tempo feel of a classic mid-80’s garage tune and all the melody of expressive italo-disco. Percussive drum tracks, live bass-line and New-Wave style chant lay on a bed of expressive melody lines to complete this mid-tempo groove.
Did I Hear Movement? turns the tempo up with an electro-disco feel. The track delivers for the big and small rooms with its percussive drums, electro synth-base, mesmerizing chords and pulsating arpeggiator lines.

Terrence T
Stars (Milton Jackson/Hiro Remixes)
TronicSole
Terrence T's finest moment to date gets the remix treatment courtesy of Milton Jackson and an edit from the up and coming Hiro. The original as supported by Jimpster, Funk Da Void and Shur I kan was ripe for a remix and Milton's take is one that will rock more than just the deep house dancefloor, while Hiro injects a lil of his unique brand of energy into the classic original.

DJ Sai vs. Keith Thompson
Thoughts Of Life
Waking Monster Media
Keith Thompson presents the debut of the South African Young Guns Series.  First up is up and coming producer DJ Sai with "Thoughts Of Life".  A project long time in the finalization.  But good things come to those who wait and here we move you with Sai's original production.  While mixing the project, Thompson was inspired to write a song to the music bringing to it social commentary which finally blossomed into an additional remix by Keith.  South Africa has been one of the centers of house music for a few years now and when DJ Sai tested the remix out at a recent jam, the party was elevated.

MoreHouse Records
Miami 2008 Sampler EP
MoreHouse is about to rock Miami with a vengeance! MoHo’s WMC 08 Album Sampler is a take no prisoners assault on the senses that spotlights four wickedly delicious cuts from Groove Junkies long awaited debut artist album “In The Zone” – slated for release later this Spring. The four uniquely diverse titles, all written and produced by Evan & Parrish, offer a glimpse of some the finest work the fellas have embarked on. The Sampler features an amazing collective of today’s most gifted vocalists, musicians, and one of the hottest Producer / DJ’s on the scene, Brazil’s finest import – DJ Meme. Here’s a brief summary of what’s on the package.
1) “Work It Out” featuring Wendy Brune’ (GJs Funk Fusion Dub)
This is one of 10 bumpin’ mixes, and part of a package that was earmarked as the first official single release from the forthcoming album
2) “Dr. Feelgood 2008” featuring Diane Carter (DJ Meme’s Philly Suite Mix)
DJ Meme’s remixing skills are on full display here as he leaves no stones unturned, and delivers a knockout punch that would make Gamble & Huff, and Vince Montana proud.
3) “In The Zone” (GJs Rough & Raw Mix) the title cut from their forthcoming album, is a dark, brooding, space tech beast that is pure unadulterated filth! Complete with hypnotic chants, broken beats, melodramatic orchestral strings, punctuating synth stabs, and one very nasty bass line – “Zone” bolsters Parrish & Evan’s reputation as one of the elite production teams on the planet! Serious, serious heat ya’ll!!
4) “Pulled Me Through” featuring Solara (GJs Elevation Mix)
The Album preview Sampler would not be complete without giving praise to the man upstairs for all His glory. “Pulled me
Through” features the incomparable Solara who offers the most stirring performance of her ultra impressive career. Inspired from a near fatal experience, her passion and soul resonates throughout as she gives testimony to The Almighty with some of the most emotive spoken word, and vocals ever recorded on a dance project.

Spiritual Blessings pres. Kumasi
Gotta' Keep Faith
Hard to avoid these two guys when it comes to GKF! They are everywhere. Producers, remixers, deejays... Ezio and Jean have been involved with Gotta Keep Faith Records since the very beginning of the story. Rumor says that they are now producing Susu Bobien for a major GKF release which will be presented during the WMC.
Deep... in the jungle! Before reaching Miami, the Italian boys must have spent some time in Africa to prepare this single. The “Original Mix” is the perfect balance between deep and afro-house, drums seems to be played by an entire army of bongos, and the mama’s vocals are going to put the crowd into a trance. The “SB in Da Deep Mix” really sounds like some true Italo-deep-house from the early 90’s and includes a crazy synth solo. But the guys must have been too deep in the jungle! That’s where they got their inspiration for this “Lost in Ghana Mix”, an Afro hypnotic version which could definitely be used as a war chant. Glad they came back in one piece!

Everyday is Saturday
(Original & Niel´C Mixes)
Tricircle Recordings
After their latin smash hit ´La Musica´, Replay are back on TriCircle with ´Everyday is Saturday´, a vocal anthem for all house lovers goin out on saturdays! Niel`C (Chega Records) drops a big electrified Dub version, while Dj Ditch provides a version that should work  easily in every bigroom with its classic piano & synth chords. Robert Rivera delivers two soulful mixes to chose from, one more afro influenced, the other remix fitting perfectly in every warm-up!
Finally, the Original Demo Mix is a nice vocal deep houser and should be your choice when youre doing radio shows! If all this is not enough, check out the Ruben Alvarez Remix, released in January 2008 as an appetizer! Enjoy this release and don’t forget: Push the replay!

Subsonic Family
TriCircle Soul
TriCircle Recordings is proud to launch the second sub label after TriCircle Deep, called TriCircle Soul, with which the Tri-Circle is closed. According to the wide range of the term soul, you will find funk, downbeat, nujazz, and rap music on this new imprint of Dj Circle. As long as its soulful, its alright! The first release will come from the suisse Live Funk Band Subsonic Family who already played at festivals like montreux jazz and cully jazz. Enjoy their mix of Funk & Acid Jazz!
 
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