Soweto born producer DJ Fale is about to release his brilliant new studio album "Soweto Deluxe Vol. 1" through Hood Natives Productions in the coming weeks. From beginning to the end, the album lets you explore DJ Fale's unique and fresh deep house/afro-tribal inspired sound - in a nutshell, "Soweto Deluxe Vol. 1" is a truly delightful and eclectic journey through soulful South African house music. With an illustrious list of guest artists such as Thantaswa, Vucky J, Ameshai, Bellicose Sgubhu, Khwela, Free and Bophelo featured, there are plenty of vocal gems to be discovered. In other words, "Soweto Deluxe Vol. 1" is sheer musical bliss. By no means to be missed.

Tony Records continue to amaze us with their latest offering by Italian producer Peppe Citarella and up and rising Italian singer Walter Ricci, a cover version of Stevie Wonder's 1973 wonderful song "Golden lady" (taken from the album "Innervisions"). To cut a long story short, this contemporary take of this timeless classic is a phenomenal slice of soulful house guaranteed to make you yearn for more thanks to the inimitable soaring vocals and scats of Walter Ricci, luxurious keys and a gentle yet infectious funk soaked backdrop. The package comes complete with a marvelous soulful latin-jazz infused remix by Duce Martinez and a deeper truly mesmerizing dub by Emanuele Esposito.

Around two years ago (in June 2011 to be precise), Cabana Recordings blessed us with the unmixed "From the Hut (Volume 1)" compilation, now the time has come for the second volume to see the light of the day. Similar to the inaugural release in the series, an impressive line-up of artists is featured: label head Justin Imperiale, Punchuashen featuring Laila Davids, Soulprovider & RootedSoul, Griffith Malo, Leoesco, Native Khalif & Donald Sheffey and Deuce Concept to name only a few. The compilation is loaded with deep and soulful music from around the globe and features previously unreleased mixes of former releases as well as brand new productions. As we said back in June 2011 for the first volume: Don't miss out on this exquisite musical experience...

Those looking for nothing but unadulterated underground house music have found what they are looking for with the latest offering from Night Scope Deep Recordings. The old school inspired "Le con" is produced and arranged by label head Deep Elementz and combines the sensual spoken word poetry courtesy of up-and-rising French artist Ixi Isis with delectable synth melodies and deeper than deep utterly thrilling rhythms paying homage to the Reese and Antonio 1987 all-time house classic "The sound" (which in 1988 was taken to stardom when Todd Terry sampled it on "Back to the beat").

We proudly introduce you to brand new South African label Under Pressure Records by Soul Varti. The press text release reads: "Under Pressure Records caters for the young raw talents from South Africa, with its aim to provide the world with quality house music straight from the scattered areas of the motherland" - beyond the shadow of a doubt, the label excelled their ambitions with the first four releases (the "Generalised peace" EP by Xerophytic Soul, "Tahiri Afrika" by Mthi Wa Afrika, "Orphans in my hood" by Riddick Alu and "African motives" by Nova), with each of these truly fresh breathtaking productions oozing with the beloved enticing afro-deep/afro-tribal sounds the South African house music is renowned and beloved for...Not to forget to mention the release come complete with stellar remixes by the likes of Punk, Soul Varti, Problem Child, Demented Soul, King Wave and EleRoots.

Pole Position Recordings celebrate their 50th release with this truly eclectic and phantasmagorical collection of inspiring seminal productions and remixes aptly titled "50". The focus of the fifteen tracks is on the Nu Disco side of the label, with a touch of deeper vibes thrown in for good measure, giving a definitive flavor of classic past, present and future releases (there are four tracks exclusive to this album). This towering compilation features artists such as Honom, Satin Jackets, Odahl, Sixth Avenue Express, Dato, Deep  Sound Express, Clark & Pudell, Black Magic Disco, MiDiMAN to name just a few. Highly recommended.

Following in the footsteps of the recently released original production of M&S Productions' (Ricky Morrison & Fran Sidoli) phantasmagorical re-imagination of Afterhock's 1993 club anthem "Slave to the vibe" (the David Anthony & Darryl James remix is still highly sought-after) comes this awe-inspiring collection of remixes. An illustrious list of producers/remixers which features the likes of Davide Fiorese & Souldynamic, Luis Radio & Tony Loreto, Pino Arduini & Monodeluxe, Pablo Martinez, Ricky Pelligrino and Nicolas Bassi add their distinctive touch to this timeless song performed in grand style by Brian Lucas, giving you plenty of choices to work the floor at any given time of the night. The package includes so many phenomenal remixes its next to impossible to pick a favorite...

Strictly Beatdown Recordings introduce us to South Africa's Mr Bougx whose paramount utterly soulful "Wash away" is guaranteed to send shivers down your spine with its gentle yet captivating organic backing, sweet guitar, grand horns and illustrious keys, not to forget to mention Marie Tweek's unrivaled heartfelt vocals. Mike Clark's 'Drum Circle Remix' is an incredibly infectious deepened and stripped back alteration of the original, while Circle of Funk give us something truly special with their leftfield broken beat inspired 'Bruk Remix'. The final release will also include a remix by Charles Spencer.

As the King Street family continues to get ready to celebrate  its double decade-long love of house music in 2014, they grace us with "Tokyo Calling (20 Years Essentials)", the latest installment in a series started back in 2001. "Tokyo calling" is an eclectic continental crossover compilation series where artists, producers and remixers from the east and west come together to blend sounds and styles, with the result being an awe-inspiring collection of seminal house music gems guaranteed to send shivers down your spine. Twenty choice cuts are included here from the creme de la creme: Chieko Kinbara, DJ Hiro, Masabumi Kikuchi, Hideo Kobayashi, Studiu Apartment, Joi Cardwell, Boyd Jarvis, Ananda Project, Kyoto Jazz Massive, Jephte Guillaume, AK, Sakura & Co., Orienta-Rhythm, Stephanie Cooke, Sean McCabe, Tomo Inoue, Satoshi Fumi, Mondo Grosso to name just a few...