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Renowned The Jersey Maestros (the duo of Eddie Boom and Donald Pup Bolding) are back on Spirit of House with their marvelous new single "Never will forget" which features Donald C. Locklear on vocals. "Never will forget" has timeless written all over, with Donald C. Locklear's phenomenal deeply felt vocals harmonizing perfectly with the glamorous jazzy keys, lovely guitar and the enthralling organic backdrop. The remixes are courtesy of Sol Brown who contributes a vibrant truly soulful and melodious interpretation, and D3 whose soul/funk infused rendition oozes with a glorious classic feel.
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South African trio The Bros (Ray Horace, Leonard Canticle & Tyrone Rebel) make their debut on T's Box Records with the paramount "All I need is you", undeniably this masterly crafted soulful production oozing with the fabulous vocal stylings of Ray Horace, illustrious keys, heavenly chords and a spell binding organic backdrop will send shivers down your spine. The 'Canticl Authentic Soul Mix' gives the song a somewhat more laidback and refined feel, following are spectacular truly mind-boggling and eclectic remixes by Joe Smooth, Emmaculate, Rick Lenoir and David Vibes Tobon & Mike 'M-Dubb' Wright.
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Only the very best of the plethora of submissions made it into this weeks update... enjoy !!
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South Africa's DJ Qness returns to Ocha Mzansi with the mind-blowing truly ingenious and eclectic "Chants of the panther" EP loaded with three equally brilliant afro house productions."Mama we" featuring the fantastic vocal stylings of Nomalungelo Dladla and "Bambalela" featuring the fabulous vocals of Zizipho Ngwenya are both laced with inebriant melodies and vibrant rhythms, while the utterly hypnotizing title track "Chants of the panther" features cleverly used vocal sprinkles and tempting melodies over verily enthralling rhythms. In other words, an outstanding afro house release...
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Beyond the shadow of a doubt, "Move of the spirit" produced by Terry Hunter and performed in grand style by legendary songstresses Jocelyn Brown and Inaya Days is a timeless soulful production by no means to be missed. This uber soulful jewel with a verily infectious rich organic backdrop leading the way for illustrious keys, heavenly chords and the paramount vocals of Jocelyn Brown and Inaya Day is guaranteed to make you yearn fore more. Not to forget to mention the 'Original Disco Mix' which lowers the tempo and gives the song a glorious laidback feel. Essential.
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Only the very best and latest in soulful and afro house made it into this weeks update... enjoy !!
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In fall of 2016, South African ensemble Deepconsoul blessed us with their towering "Soul factory" album, then beginning of the year the equally impressive album "Healing time" followed. Now they are back with "Intuition"which features collaborations with an illustrious list of artists including QBatone, Tpee Soul, Decency, Denny Dugg, Dindy, Lady LeSoul, Mthandazo Gatya, Ras Vadah, Carvalho, ISO 900, SoulVista, St.Jovis, Vuyo Dunge, Xdizzle and Tatenda, as well as stunning remixes of "Just friends" by Kwesi Bless, "Fly away" by Mc-Fenda & QBatone featuring Felix and "Listen" by Tipsta featuring Misoul. Like its predecessors, "Intuition" is a truly ingenious and includes not less than seventeen masterly crafted and orchestrated verily soulful productions having timeless written all over. Without question, Deepconsoul have delivered another masterpiece with "Intuition" that will stand the test of time. In other words, the marvelous "Intuition" album is by no means to be missed...
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Back in May we were celebrating "Be yourself" by Japan based purveyors of soulful house guri guri boys and legendary Blaze vocalist Josh Milan, now this verily uplifting expertly crafted production returns in phenomenal remixes. First up we have multi-instrumentalist maestro Michele Chiavarini with his dazzling latin infused interpretations guaranteed to make you yearn for more, next are Namy & Fuminori Kagajo with their timeless truly glamorous organic rendition, and last but not least Monolog & Fuminori Kagajo drop a fervid dub rework. Undeniably, these remixes are by no means to be missed.
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In March, Paris Cesvette released her highly acclaimed debut artist album "Celestial", now she returns with the inaugural release on her brand new label OPOM (Our People | Our Music), a truly paramount remake of the George Duke classic "No rhyme no reason" co-produced by Luis 'Loowee R' Rivera and performed in grand style by Walter Christopher whose unmistakable sultry vocals harmonize perfectly with the illustrious keys and enthralling rhythms. Not to forget to mention the fabulous alternate 'Sax Mix' featuring fresh young talent Jack 'The Sax' Davies.
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Another jam-packed update with the latest in vocal soulful/afro house music awaits you... enjoy !!
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Back in 1990, Allen 'Jovonn' Armstrong exploded into the house music scene with "Turn and run away" released on Warner Bros. Records, ever since he has been one of the real heroes and driving forces for unadulterated underground house music. Over the years, he has produced over 500 records (many of them are all-time NYC/New Jersey house music classics), and he has been running his own well-respected record labels Godltone Records and Next Moov Records. Earlier this year he launched Body N’Deep Records, after a couple of highly acclaimed single releases he is about to drop his mind-blowing full length album "Timeless" which includes not less than twelve brand new superb productions oozing with his incomparable truly ingenious house music sound; unquestionably this album loaded with nothing but pure authentic underground house music goodness is by no means to be missed.
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It all started in summer of 2013 when the dynamic duo of Neil Pierce and Ziggy Funk, collectively known as Rhemi, launched their Rhemi Music label with the marvelous "Call on me" by Fanatix which features Sara Devine and Sterling Ensemble. Now, a good five years later, the label celebrates its fiftieth release with a dazzling compilation of some of the best and most memorable tracks from its immaculate back catalogue, with the mighty DJ Spen contributing a scintillating continuous mix. The cherry on top is the brand new and exclusive truly stunning DJ Spen & Michele Chiavarini remix of "Diamond" by Rhemi featuring HanLei.