Recently I got contacted over AIM by a person who was sure to have seen me on a P2P (peer-2-peer / file sharing) network the previous day as the username was spiritofhouse.

Well what can I say beside that I am not using any P2P network. So if you come across the name spiritofhouse, it is someone masquerading (or should I say ‘hiding’?) behind that name, probably in hope of getting free music.

Please keep in mind that most activity on these P2P networks must be considered illegal. We kindly ask you to respect the rights of labels, artists and producers and not to share their work.

Mike Fossati

I couldn’t resist to share with you two gems courtesy of DeepHaven Music that will be available soon:

• Man-X featuring Mario Inchausti "Take me from you"
• ReelSoul featuring Stephanie Cooke "1000 ways"

Those who had a chance to listen to them on Man-X’s radio show in the past weeks on CyberJamz know what I’m talking about: serious heat not to be missed by any chance !!

Mike Fossati

It’s not to often these days that you get new music for review or club play sent on CD as most producers or labels prefer sending out MP3 (or sometimes lossless formats such as WAV or AIFF) files.

When you then get a CD which is broken, this definitely won’t make your day…

(this example is "Join the Disco ride" (Unreleased Mixes) by Direct Disco on Purple Tracks Records)

Mike Fossati

In recent weeks, I got a lot of mails from various social networks such as Facebook, Tagged or Xing to name just a few where I’ve been asked to join.

As you know, beside this website, Spirit of House is also present on MySpace. And of course I’m personally also on AIM. Just keeping up to date with these existing communities takes a lot of time. For this reason I decided not to participate on any additional social network for the time being and will therefore not respond to any requests received.

Mike Fossati

Beside my passion and love for music, I am also a big movies fan and recently upgraded my home cinema with high definition equipment. From the TV over the BluRay/HD-DVD/DVD player to the satellite receiver, its now all capable of handling HD signals and media.

Now if just consumer electronics wouldn’t be acting up as computers do… my satellite receiver records anything without problem onto the internal disk and plays HD material with ease, but when it should play SD material it just freezes…  and my BluRay/HD-DVD/DVD player acts oddly with some discs - in some cases you cannot play the extras, in other cases not even the main content can be played, or with another discs menus are missing…

It appears to me what Microsoft started with consumers becoming beta testers is now common with all kind of electronics…

Mike Fossati

Finally I’ve done another classics mixshow. I know it took ages to complete, but it will be yours soon…

And I’ve got already plans for #18 where I will turn back the clock for some serious early Chicago classics…

Mike Fossati