New York producer Chris Malinchak presents one of the freshest tunes of the summer, "Beiji-me" is a beautiful feel-good Latin house track with sunshine beats, latin piano, hot synths and an infectious sing along vocal hook. The original mix is a peak time summer monster, while the "Mallorca sunset mix" is a smoother version with warm percussions, latin guitars and an infectious Balearic vibe.  (Franco Martinelli)

Luxury house music mixed by Michael Canitrot in a luxury boxset released on Defecrted Records. 2 CDs of sophisticated beats and treats, 'exporting' the high glamour sounds of Paris’s most luxurious clubbing hot spot. Michael's style is an eclectic, rhythmic and melodic blend of House, Deep, Afros, Latinos, Classics, Disco. CD 1 is a brilliant downtempo, electronic influenced set including great tracks from Mujava, Julien Jabre, Aeroplane, Lifelike, Sebastian Tellier, Simian Mobile Disco, Ame and Knee Deep. Disc 2 is a reflection of peak time set with tracks from Pryda, Dennis Ferrer, Audiowhores, DJ Gregory, Barbara Tucker, Rasmus Faber and many others.  (Franco Martinelli)

d:vision presents "Club Sessions 18", another essential compilation for the summer. This hot 3xCD package includes 35 unmixed tracks in Extended DJ format. You can find some of the hottest summer's anthems like Quentin Harris & Inaya Day's "Do the right thing", Monè's "Love don't pay the rent", Soul Avangerz "Respect" just to name a few, as well as exclusive remixes of Dennis Ferrer's "Hery hey", Bob Sinclar ft. Shaggy's "I wanna", ATFC ft. Lisa Millett's "Bad habit 2010" and again, super house classics in original version like Ultra Natè's "Free", Wamdue Project "King of my castle", Byron Singily's "Get up", Aly-Us "Follow me", plus some fresh dance tracks from R.I.O., B-Fonic, Jeroenski, Romathony and may more.  (Franco Martinelli)

Groove Assasin (Aka Nick Moss) returns with a new awesome soulful track titled "Feel good muzik" on Seamless Twelve. The "Original mix" is a beautiful uplifting soulful track with solid beats, great keys and an intense vocal performance by Mina Jackson. The remixes comes courtesy of italian duo Souldynamic who provides a solid peak-time rework, adding kick-ass beats and bouncing chords. Dub, Instrumental and Accapella mixes are included in the package.  (Franco Martinelli)

Justin Imperiale is back with an awesome new single featuring beautiful vocals from Diviniti on Cabana Records. "Love can heal the world" is an amazing soulful track with great percussions, hot bass, warm chords and intense vocals. The "Pirahnahead remix" is a more pumpin' rework for the dancefloor, with solid beats, powerful funky bassline and nice synths, while Johnny Montana & Craig Stewart provides a smoother, soulful remix with warm Rhodes, atmospheric pads and super hot piano and organ solos.  (Franco Martinelli)

Dennis Ferrer's "Hey hey" has been one of the hottest track of last Spring, now, the Remixes package complete the work for the summer. This fat package includes, beside the Dennis Ferrer Attention Mix, hot remixes from Deepah One (DJ Spen & Karizma), Tom DeNeef, Crookers, Dim Chris, Vandalism and Kaytronik (aka Karizma). From the deepest undeground grooves to the dancefloor friendly remixes, everything is available in this super-hot package.   (Franco Martinelli)

Spanish producers Alvaso Villa and Alex Gombao aka Villa Gombao Inc presents a very solid deep EP on Seamless Black. "Welcome" is an irresistible deep groover with plenty of percussive elements combined with wicked synth riffs, "Oguaya" is a deeper and darker affair, enriched with spoken words Spanish vocals. "Oguaya" also comes with a Dub which removes the main vocal. Finally "Sunday rostrum" is a smoother affair with tight beats and hot floating synth pads.  (Franco Martinelli)

Orlando Johnson's "I say yeah" was a supr hit back in 1990 and now, 20 years later, d:vision releases a nice remixes package for summer 2010. Samuele Sartini and Rivaz provides some hot new versions of this classic, adding today's sound but keeping the feshness of the original version, Gui Seph delivers a powerful groovy remix, while Jean Delafoy adds wicked electro elements in his Dub and finally Max Riolo provides a "Classic remix" very similar to the Original one, for all the nostalgic freaks.  (Franco Martinelli)

Jamie Lewis celebrates 20 years "in the House" with a fantastic 3xCD album that collects his classic tracks as well as some hot unreleased remixes and new cuts. "Flashback" features 30 unmixed, full length tracks, all produced & remixed by Jamie Lewis and originally released on top house recording labels like his own Purple Music as well as Defected, MN2S, Milk and Sugar, Ministry of Sound, Universal and other. This stellar collection features some timeless house classics like "The light" feat. Michelle Weeks, Jamie's awesome remixes of Cerrone's "You are the one" and "Hooked on you" as well as his remixes of Bob Sinclar's "Champs Elysees Theme", and Kings Of Tomorrow's "So alive", plus other great tracks he made with top house artists like Michael Watford, Jocelyn Brown, Shawn Christopher, Hanna Hais, Lisa Millett, DJ Pippi, Chance, Kim Cooper and more. If you love House Music you'll love this album and I'm sure you love Jamie Lewis.  (Franco Martinelli)

Summer's here and as usual, "Defected In The House" celebrates Ibiza with the classic summer compilation dedicated to the hottest Defeceted night on the White Island, on Saturday night at Pacha. This 2xCD album is an upfront selection of guaranteed summer floorfillers mixed by Simon Dunmore. 30 quality house tracks, including cuts and remixes from Dennis Ferrer, ATFC, Rasmus faber & Alf Tumble, DJ Gregory & Gregor Salto, Copyright, Arthur Baker, Shapeshifters, Blaze, Quentin Harris, Chocolate Puma, MK, Fanatix, DJ Chus Riva Starr just to name a few. Summer's essential compilation !  (Franco Martinelli)

"Made in Jamaica" is one of the fresher releases of the summer, mainstream dance hits revisited in pure Jamaican reggae style. Sly & Robbie meets Bob Sinclar and the result is hotter than the July sun ! All the biggest Bob Sinclar's hits are completly reworked by Sly & Robbie who takes these famous tracks to another level. Just listen to the new version of "Love generation", "World hold on" and "Beat goes on", it seems the pure spirit of Jamaica and the ghost of Bob Marley is behind these tracks. Other gems from this album are the awesome reggae ballad created by Sly & Robbie of one of the biggest Sinclar's dance hits "I feel for you", as well as the sweet rework of "Give a little love". Super HOT release !!!!  (Franco Martinelli)

What a fresh and quality release is this, HawaBiza Project (aka Pio Marasco and Tuccillo) teams up with legendary singers Rudy Love & Gretchen Rhodes for their new release on Seamless titled "Animal". The "Original mix" is a beautiful soulful track with great chords, bouncin' beats and awesome uplifting vocals, while the "HawaBiza deep dub" is a stripped down, deeper rework. On remix duty we have Uner, who provides a powerful, tech-house rework and New York stalwarts Master Kev & Tony Loreto who delivers a solid deep and funky remix.  (Franco Martinelli)

London producer/singer Renn debuts on Reel People Music with a superb afro-house track titled "Nights in Africa". The "Original mix" is a beautiful afro tinged track with warm percussions, infectious melodies, powerful moody bassline and spoken words vocals by Renn. Reel People provides an awesome remix, adding percussive elements, warm piano chords and cool guitar licks, while the Layabouts delivers a lush house remix for the dancefloor.  (Franco Martinelli) 

"Sunny Treats & Sweet Beats", well, the title of this compilation says it all. This beautiful 3xCD package spreads pure summer vibe with an awesome selection of soulful, deep and chill-out influenced tracks, good enough to make you dance in the long summer's nights and mellow enough to be the perfect soundtrack for chilling on the beach. There are lot of beautiful, fresh, sophisticated, sun drenched, quality tracks and remixes on the 3 CD's, including classics like Fish Go Deep's "The cure and the cause", Soul Central's "Strings of life", Julien Jabre's "Swimming place", Johnny Corporate's "Sunday shoutin" in addition of great tracks from Blaze, Osunlade, Reel People, Copyright, Quentin Harris, Marc Evans, Afterlife, Dennis Ferrer, Sandi Rivera, Mike Dunn, Photon Inc, Dubtribe Sound System and many others.  (Franco Martinelli)

Taken from the forthcoming full lenght Groove Junkies album "In the zone", here's the new single titled "Unified (as one)". This awesome soulful track perfectly combines a warm soulful vibe with hot african percussions, horns, cool jazzy elements and funky bassline, enriched by an intense  vocal performance by Indeya and Titus Fotoso accompained by an infectious African chant. There are 7 mixes in the package, from the beautiful soulful vocal versions to the more pumpin' tribal-house dubs.  (Franco Martinelli)

Quentin Harris teams up with house diva Inaya Day and provides an awesome deep track titled "Do the right thing". The Original mix is a solid deep groover with an infectious underground vibe, great vocals, dark pads and warm synths that creates an intense late night atmosphere. The "Illfonics remix" is an excellent groovy rework with extra percussions and infectious bassline, while the "Oh just do right dub" is a pumpin' , electronic influenced remix for the tougher dancefloors.  (Franco Martinelli)

Barcoda returns with a powerful funky-house track titled "I'll be there", the "Original mix" is a pumpin' and uplifting affair with solid beats, infectious bassline, great vocals from Laura Estrada and hot sax drops. The remixes are also very hot, Central Avenue provides a beautiful deeper and groovy dub for the dancefloors, while Silvano Da Silva delivers a very interesting rework, creating a powerful new groove and adding some hot electronic elements.  (Franco Martinelli)

Italian DJ/Producer Gianluca Pighi launches his brand new Mint Condition label with a monstrous 2 tracks EP. "Pigtylus" is provided in 2 versions, the Original mix is a beautiful deep and jazzy influenced track with funky beats and infectious keys, while the "Session mix" is a lounge favourite, with hot bossa flavoured beats and infectious Hammond tones. Fianlly "Mango parliament" is a pure disco-house affair with solid beats, funky bassline, hot guitar licks and great synth hooks.  (Franco Martinelli)

Yes, I'm a fan of Richard Earnshaw and it is a real pleasure to me to review this fantastic and long awaited album titled "In time". Richard Earnshaw is a British multi-talented musician, producer and DJ, well known by all the soulful-funky house lovers. This album sees Richard reach far beyond the contemporary house productions he is well known for, delivering a fantastic selection of songs that covers the whole musical spectrum from jazz, soul, funk.house and beyond. The collaborators list is very long and qualified, including heavyweight musicians and vocalists like Jocelyn Brown, Carleen Anderson, Roy Ayers, Ursula Rucher and Kenny Thomas, as well as hot newcomers and previous collaborators like Erick Dillard, Imogen Ryall, Nina Jayne and Natasha Bridge. All the 10 tracks on the LP would deserve a mention, so my advice is to buy the album and enjoy the music of Richard Earnshaw. Album of the summer !!!  (Franco Martinelli)

Jellybean Benitez teams up with house diva Susu Bobien and keyboard wizard Mena Keys for this new release on Jellybean Soul Records. "When I fall in love" is the beautiful cover of the well known Blaze's soulful anthem. The Jellybean /Mena Keys mix is an uplifting, gospel influnced soulful gem, with infectious percussions and great keys, enriched with an intense vocal performance by Susu Bobien. Scott Wozniak offers an alternative and solid remix for the dancefloor, adding pumpin' beats and an irresitible driving bassline.   (Franco Martinelli)

ReelGroove Records returns with another awesome soulful track from Thomas Lorenzo ft. Natasha Watts. The Original mix of "Nite time" is a classic soulful affair with hot keyboards, great vocals and an infectious funky vibe. The "Silverlake remix" is a beautiful alternative rework, with its old-school house bouncin' bassline and great piano chords, the "Dutchican remix" is a jazzy influenced soulful gem, while Distant People provides a more pumpin' remix.  (Franco Martinelli)

D:vision presents the new chapter of its acclaimed series "d:vision Club Session" and this time it is a big 3xCD package including 37 essential summer tracks in DJ friendly extended and unmixed format. CD1 (Vocal) offers 13 fresh vocal house tracks, including the new Bob Sinclar single "I wanna", the awesome "Tear down the walls" by Arthur Baker feat. Nona Hendrix & Ladonna remixed by Riva Starr, as well as cool summer tracks by Grum, Mood Velvet, Rivaz ft. Laurent N, RIO ft. Liz Kay and many others. CD2 (Traxx) is a more pumpin' and dancefloor addicted affair, with cuts of John Dahlback, Dirty South & Bob Sinclar, Daltonic, Wez Clarke and Francesco Rossi, just to name a few. CD3 (Remixes) is the "extra deal", this disk includes beside some of the hottest remixes of today's hits line Dennis Ferrer's "Hey hey" or "Ou Est Le Swimming Pool "Dance the way I feel", some hot remixes of classic cuts like Benni Benassi's "Satisfection", Reel 2 Reel's "I like to move it", Guru Josh's "Eternety" and many others.  (Franco Martinelli)

Lately I received a few promos from DJN Project and these guys are really hot, they provides top quality soulful house enriched with great vocals. "Take you away", released on Vega Records is an awesome soulful gem with infectious Rhodes chords, solid beats, funky bassline and fantastic vocals. The package also includes some hot remixes, Brian Coxx provides a pumpèin' rework for the danfloor, while the "LV latin mix" is a super-cool jazzy influenced rework. "Feelings" on Fuzion Records is another soulful nugget, the great instrumentation perfectly fits with the funky groove and once again, the great vocals really makes the differnce.   (Franco Martinelli)

Steven Stone teams up with Simon Green for this new release on Soul Deluxe. "Live my life" is a calssic soulful track enriched with some hot synths that fits nice with the warm Rhodes keys. Gregory Del Piero provides a fresh and intense rework with differnt bassline and extra keys, while Shane D delivers a funky remix, and finally the "Techy dub" is an electronic/techy influenced track for the tougher dancfloors.  (Franco Martinelli)

"Catch me when I'm falling" is a fresh, pop influenced, sun drenched track with catchy vocals and an infectious summer vibe. The package also includes several remixes for the dancefloors, Full Intention provides a powerful rework, with pumpin' beats, driving percussions and hot synth stabs that perfectly fits with the warm vocals, Denzal Park delivers a more essential filtered house remix, while the "Criminal Vibe remix" is a techy influenced, tougher rework.  (Franco Martinelli)

Bob Sinclar's new compilation on d:vision / Strictly Rhythm "Strictly Bob Sinclar" is one of toady's freshest and powerful albums around. Sinclar mixes 2 awesome sets, selecting some of the hottest tracks of the season with his eclectic and unique taste. The 2 cds includes tracks and remixes from artists like Ultra Natè, Barbara Tucker, ATFC, Armand Van Helden, DJ Pierre, Riva Starr, Robbie Rivera, River Ocean, DJ Gregory, Mr V, South Street Player, Wink, Dennis Ferrer and Hardrive, just to name a few, in addition of several Sinclar's tracks and remixes. No doubt, this is a summer's essential compilation !  (Franco Martinelli)

Once again GoGo Music collaborates with a top South Africa's house scene artist (Black Coffee) and once again the result is an excellent deep and soulful release. The Ralf Gum mix of Gardens of Eden is an awesome deep and groovy track where the african inspired percussive elements perfectly fits with the beautiful soulful vocals by Zonke. Sai & Ribatone provides a very cool Broken Beats remix of the same track, adding warm pads and hot keys on infectious broken-beats groove. Finally "Trip to Lyon" is an intense deep and underground trip.  (Franco Martinelli)

L.A.producer/DJ Christos Kedras presents his debut album "Full spectrum" on Kapa Music. Kedras provides an awesome combination of soulful house, funky and jazzy elements, helped by some very talented musicians from around the world, including Marconi De Morias (Sax), Grecco Buratto (Strings), Just To Almario (Sax), Nelson Rios (Bass), Tiago D'Errico, Adam Zimmon (Guitar) and Fernando Ebano (Percussions). The album features unreleased original cuts from a selection of Christos' singles, including "Sweet Temptation" feat. D. Booker & Scott Rucker, "Fly me away" feat. Mela, "Little dark spot" feat. Aya Larkin, "Choice" feat. D. Booker & David Skulski and the spectacular funky bomb "Let's funky" feat. Krishna Booker.  (Franco Martinelli)

I love Tortured Soul's music and this new single is another awesome release. "Did you miss me" is an intense funky track with great vocals and solid beats, enriched with a super hot guitar solo. Mark de Clive remixes the track for the soulful dancefloors, adding warm Rhodes keys, hot pads, house beats and funky bassline, while Pistol Puma provides a pumpin' rework for the main floor, adding some wicked and electronic elements on a powerful and irresitible grooveline. Dub and instrumental mixes are also included in the package.  (Franco Martinelli)

Jazzloungerz returns with a new, fantastic soulful release titled "Hold on" on Seamless. The "Original mix" is a beautiful soulful affair with, smooth chords and pads, solid beats and funky bassline, enriched by Natasha Watts fantastic vocals. Central Avenue provides a pumpin' funky remix for the dancefloor, adding sexy funky guitar licks and a driving bassline. Finally the Rafael Yupudjian aka RyB remix is another hot soulful rework with beautiful chords and keys, hot bass and sweet sax solo. RyB instrumental and Reprise mixes are also included in this great package.  (Franco Martinelli)

Andy Ward teams up with Nica Brooke for his new beautiful single titled "Find my way" on Sounds Of The Booth, and what a great release is this ! The "Original mix" is a super-cool soulful affair with smooth chords and infectious bassline to support the awesome vocal performance by Nica Brooke. Ramdom Soul provides an electrified rework that perfectly combines electronic elements with the warm soulful vocals, while Shane D delivers a powerful funky influenced rework. Dub and Instrumental mixes of the track are also included in the package, as well as a useful Accapella.   (Franco Martinelli)

Fueled By Sound are Nico Di Iorio and Leonardo Masetti aka Ferrari and their new release on Deep Sound Records is a powerful dancefloor killer track titled "Don't disappoint me". The "Original mix" is a solid and pumpin' electro influenced house track with catchy uplifting vocals, the "Addex remix" is a deeper and darker rework, while Fred Groulx and Max Julien provides two energetic remixes for the main room dancefloor.  (Franco Martinelli)

For his new single, Jamie Lewis teams up with singer Cynthia Manley and provides an awesome funky-house track titled "Give". The "Jamie Lewis goes disco mix" is a very hot piece of modern funky with cool 70's disco influences and great vocals that perfectly fits the situation. The "Darkroom mix" is a solid and deeper affair, enriched with hypnotic synth lines and deep bass. The package also includes the "Original mix" that is a nice 80's electronic influenced track, as well as Radio and Video mixes.  (Franco Martinelli)

The new release of the "Mezzanine De L'Alcazar" series is another beautiful compilation that combines awesome downtempo tracks on one CD and infectious club friendly cuts on another. CD 1 "Dinner" compiled by Michael Besmond is an amazing and eclectic selection of cool downtempo tracks from the likes of Nightmares on Wax, Marc Evans, Osunlade, X-Press2, Alice Russell, The Ballistic Brothers, Reboot, 4 Hero and Amp Fiddler just to name a few. This CD is perfect for the Lounge/Bar and early eavening sets. Disc 2 "Dance" Mixed by Michael Canitrot is an infectious deep and soulful set for the dancefloors, including some of the hottest tracks of the moment, like Dennis Ferrer's "Hey hey", Reboot's "Enjoy music", Barbara Tucker's "I get lifted" as well as less known gems from Filsonik, Bucie and Christian Smith.  (Franco Martinelli)

L.A. Producer/DJ Christos Kedras debut album "Full spectrum" is going to be released very soon and "Let's funky" is the first killer single taken from the album. This super cool funky track is provided in various versions, including the fantastic "Jammin session mix", the solid "Broken mix", as well as some powerful funky-house remixes for the dancefloor, delivered by DJ Reeplee, Diesler and Simeon Belle.  (Franco Martinelli) 

Legendary producer Arthur Baker teams up with equally legendary singer Nona Hendrix and young talent Ladonna for this hot new single titled "Tear down the walls". Arthur Baker's "Return To Chi-Town mix" is an excellent old-school piano house track, but it's the awesome remix by Riva Starr that makes the difference, his remix is an irrestible piece of modern house, with pumpin' beats, wicked piano loop, killer bassline and a kick-ass vocal hook. The package also includes Deadbots and Zed Bias techy remixes.  (Franco Martinelli)

GoGo Music digital sublabel presents this new release by South Africa's talent Zano. "My story" is a deep and intense gospel inspired tune in its Original mix, but Ralf GUM's magic touch transformed it in one of the fresher and uplifting tunes of this spring, Ralf's Organic Mix is a perfect combination of warm and soulful atmospheres, funky elements and Africa tinged rhythms, while the "Deeper mix" is a deeper, bouncy and dubby rework.  (Franco Martinelli)

Cookie Monsterz teams up with house diva Michelle Weeks for this new single on King Street Sounds. "Spread love" is an awesome, uplifting house track with solid funky beats and driving piano chords, enriched by the superb, soulful vocal performance by Michelle Weeks. Audiowhores provides a solid techy influenced remix, with wicked synths and spacey pads. Dub mixes are also included in the package.  (Franco Martinelli)

Andy Compton teams up again with Diviniti and provides the follow up of the duo's imprssive first single "In love again". "Where I want to be" is another awesome soulful influenced deep track enriched with hot remixes from some Deep House music talents like Matt Bandy, Bittersuite and Bazil. The "Original mix" is a sophisticated, dreamy, smooth and sexy deep track featuring an intense vocal performance by Diviniti and awesome jazzy sax and guitar solos. Matt Bandy provides a solid rework adding warm Organ chords and funky bass, while Bittersuite and Bazil delivers 2 more minimal and groovy remixes.  (Franco Martinelli)

Deepswing returns with a new funky-house release titled "We make the grooves" featuring Lance Drisdale on vocals. The package includes 2 mixes each by Eric Wikman, Andrew D. and Tony Nuccio. Wickman's mixes are poweful funky-house tracks in classic Deepswing style, with solid beats, powerful basslines, infectious organ chords and sax parts. Andrew D. and Tony Nuccio provides some deeper and underground reworks of the track  (Franco Martinelli).

Example's "Won't go quietly" is essentialy a modern pop track, useful for radio playing and also useful on the dancfloor, thaks to a wicked arrangement and powerful remixes included in this rich pacakge. The "Original mix" is a brilliant and catcy track which combines a memorable pop hook with pumpin' beats, powerful bassline and wicked synths, while the remixes are made for the dancefloors, from the techy remixes to the deeper ones, this is for sure a big room, peaktime winner.  (Franco Martinelli)

Defected celebrates Miami's WMC 2010 with a very hot compilation titled "Most Rated Miami 2010". This 2xCD is a powerful collection of 20 of the biggest tracks from the conference, unmixed and DJ ready. The album includes some of today's hottest Defected tracks, as well as several guaranteed future floorfillers. All the 20 tracks would deserve a mention, but in particular I been impressed by Arthur Baker featuring Nona Hendrix & Ladonna 'Tear Down The Walls' (Riva Starr Remix), Quentin Harris & Inaya Day 'Do The Right Thing' (Extended Mix), Rasmus Faber & Alf Tumble featuring Candi Staton 'Wilder Side' (Original Mix), Osunlade 'Butterfly' (Phil Asher Remix), Copyright Feat. Tasita D'Mour 'Someday', Reboot 'Enjoy Music' (Riva Starr Remix) and Ridney 'At Night', just to name a few. These will be the records that you will cheer to over the summer for sure.  (Franco Martinelli)

GoGo Music is back with another awesome deep and soulful vocal track from Rocco & C Robert Walker. The Original mix of "Hard time for lovers" is an infectious deep track with great soulful vocals, Ralf GUM provides a more uplifting rework, adding his trademark afro tinged percussive elements and beautiful keys, while Soulistic Music delivers a smoother and deeper rework with an intense late night vibe and finally Kikko Navarro offers a pumpin' rework for the summer dancefloors.  (Franco Martinelli)

This is pure funky dope !! Bah Samba returns with this beautiful disco influenced gem titled "Don't let them get you down". This track, taken from their acclaimed Bah Samba 4 album features Alice Russell on vocals and it is completely remixed and re-vamped for Spring 2010. The Super-Phonic mix is a fantastic "disco meets house" bomb, Phil Asher provides 2 awesome remixes that oozes the authentic 1976 dancefloor vibes, while Bah Samba and label's boss Sarah join forces and provides an awesome bumpin' house groover to complete this superb package.  (Franco Martinelli)

For all lovers of the US House sound this is the mix to check, Strictly Rhythm once again delivers its tribute to the WMC with this powerful "Strictly Miami" compilation. This year it is the turn of house legend Karizma and new blood Eddie Thoneick to select the tracks and skillfully join the beats that will ultimately reflect the sound of the conference. CD 1 is mixed by Karizma who provides an awesome soulful influenced deep set with an infectious nightime flavour, including fantastic tracks from artists like Timmy Vegas, Erick "More" Morillo, Hardrive, DJ Chus & Rob Mirage, DJ Gregory & Sidney Samson, Gel Abril, SuSu Bobien, Dennis Ferrer and Karizma himself. On CD 2, Eddie Thoneick delivers a more pumpin' , funky and electronic influenced peak-time set, including tracks from Rasmus Faber & Alf Tumble ft. Candi Staton, John Dahlbäck, Ridney, Underground Solution, Saeed Younan, South St Player and many others, including Eddie Thoneick himself.  (Franco Martinelli)

Top soulful singer/songwriter Stephanie Cooke makes her debut on Italy's finest soulful house label Gotta Keep Faith with a beautiful new track titled "Old friends". Stephanie delivers an awesome soulful nuggett enriched with her silky smooth vocals and provided in several mixes, including versions reworked by Gregory Del Piero, Will Milton, Spiritual Blessings, Def Nunez, Island Groove, Tony Loreto, Mark Di Meo, Phil R and Steve Paradise. The package has been tailored to suit many different dancefloors, keeping the soulful vibe alive.  (Franco Martinelli)

One of Defected hottest releases for this Spring is "Wilder side" from Rasmus Faber & Alf Tumble Feat. Candi Staton. The "Original mix" is a powerful synth driven bomb for the dancefloors, with solid funky beats and awesome vocals. Alf Tumble completely reworks the track in his remix, combining electronic and disco elements, sure inspired by the classic "Funkytown", that takes us back to the glourious disco days. Dub mixes of both the versions are included in this great package.  (Franco Martinelli)

Soul-Fi Records returns with this beautiful house remake of the disco classic "Ring my bell" provided in various hot mixes. Richard Earnshaw delivers a fantastic soulful mix, with infectious keys that perfectly fits with the superb soulful vocal performance. Richie Jones offers a funkier rework, combining today's house elements with an infectious old school falvour, while John Morales serves a powerful groovy rework, adding percussive elements and hot synths parts. Deep City Soul provides another infectious and uplifting funky remix and finally, Ramsey & Ty Devin goes deeper and underground in their rework.  (Franco Martinelli)

Here's another funky house bomb from SuSu Bobien and DJ Spen, "You don't know" is a powerful funky-house affair featuring a stellar gospel-style vocal performance by SuSu Bobien and super production by DJ Spen & The MuthaFunkaz who provides 5 irresitible mixes full of positive energy. The Tribute Mix is an awesome uplifting affair, while the Mash Factor mixes are deeper reworks for the clubs and the Dub Mixes are powerful versions for the peak time moments.  (Franco Martinelli)

Lately I received these 2 hot soulful promos from Palymore and even if I don't have the coplete packages I would like to introduce them to all the soulful house lovers, because in both cases these are quality soulful releases. "Love is a miracle" by RedSoul & Rashan Houston is a classic soulful affair with solid beats, great Rhodes chords, infectious strings and intense vocals. "Music first" by Marco Sundee is a funkier track with an infectious soulful flavour, with nice keys, hot strings and that great vocals on a warm percussive groove, this will be for sure a summer winner.   (Franco Martinelli)

Greg Stainer is back with another hot EP on Seamless, titled "Sax is back". This 3 tracks EP starts with "Sax is back" an excellent percussive house tracks with slices of sax to warm up the atmosphere, "Peek a boo" is a tougher one, with solid beats, wicked synths and tribal chants, this one is a solid peak-time affair. Finally "End of drop" is an euphoric progressive track with infectious synth and tight beats.  (Franco Martinelli)

"America" has been the first world hit by Full Intention about 15 years ago, now the 2010 remixes package is going to be released on their own label. With the collaboration of Marco Demark and Dave Manna, Full Intention provides an impressively diverse remix package to please today's clubbers. The four mixes are guaranteed dancefloor bombs, solid and pumpin' tracks enriched with wicked synths and techy elements.  (Franco Martinelli)

The new Sandy Rivera release titled "Cosmo bar" is a lesson in delicate techno finesse. It is an hypnotic, dark and deep track with solid beats, powerful bassline, pizzicato strings and hot synths that creates an infectious underground vibe. "Cosmo bar" is the second single taken from Sandy Rivera's forthcoming album.  (Franco Martinelli)

The Miami 2010 cd of the stellar "Defected In The House" series is selected and mixed by Riva Starr, who provides 2 powerful mixed sets, choosing an excellent selection of tracks that gives to the compilation an eclectic and unique flavour, combining rolling basslines, twisted synths and pounding drums, all drenched with some classic accapellas. The result is awesome, CD 1 presents a pumpin' funky house set, while CD 2 is a more eclectic affair that flows from deeper tracks to infectious ethnic influenced cuts. Both sets includes several remixes from Riva Starr himself as well tracks from artists like The Crooker, Dennis Ferrer, DJ Gregory, Michael Cleis, River Ocean ft. India, Steve Angello and many others. This is one of the fresher compiltions around !  (Franco Martinelli)

Dennis Ferrer returns with one of the hottest tracks this spring, "Hey hey" is a perfect combination of underground grooves, deep elements and uplifting vocals. The package includes beside the Vocal Mix and the Radio Edit a deeper, darker and trippy "DF's attention dub". Can't wait for the remixes package of this awesome track.  (Franco Martinelli)

Ultra Natè's "Free" has been one of the classic house tracks of the 90's, now this hot package presents beside the beautiful original mixes by Mood II Swing the brand new 2010 remixes by Bob Sinclar and Teo Moss & Daniel Shems. The Bob Sinclar mix is awesome, fresh and uplifting, full of positive energy, built on a sun drenched guitar line, this will be big next summer, while Teo Moss & Daniel Shems provides a deeper and groovy remix for the club floors.  (Franco Martinelli)

Czech's top DJ and Producer Michael Burian teams up with Nipp and together releases this hot 3 tracks ep titled "New York City Sound ep". The first cut is "Time Square" a poweful groovy track for the club dancefloor, with pumpin beats, driving bassline and trance influenced synths. "Fifth Avenue" is a deeper affair with an intense late night flavour, while "Tribeca" is an infectious underground track that builds and drops, with a powerful funky bass, hot pads, and wicked synths.  (Franco Martinelli)

Dr, Rubberfunk returns with a new piece of classic soul music, featuring John Turrell on vocals, "Northen confort" is a beautiful downtempo soul track with a smooth funky flavour, featuring great soulful vocals. Beside the Original mix, Australian nu-funk producer Slynk provides an awesome remix for the soulful dancefloors, adding great Rhodes and nu-funky beats. The package also includes the psycedelic "Bombay bossa mix" with sitar and clarinet on funky beats.  (Franco Martinelli)

The new Toolroom Knights compilation is selected and mixed by Fedde LeGrand who provides 2 powerful mixed sets that reflects the music and the atmospheres of his DJ gigs. CD 1 starts with some deep and smooth tracks and evolves into tougher tech-house atmospheres, including tracks from Solomun, Joey Negro, Ramon Tapia, Noir, Saeed Younan, Mark Mendes, Fedde Le Grand himself and others. CD 2 is a more underground affair, with wicked deep sounds and hypnotic tribal/percussive grooves. The tracklist includes his remix of Fatboy Slim's "Praise you" as well as tracks from Steve Bug, Mark Knight & Kroen Groeneveld, Johnstar, D-Formation and Nicky Romero, just to name a few.  (Franco Martinelli)

Oscar P teams up with Davidson Ospina and vocalist Marcus Pearson for his new release, a cover of the Seal's classic track "Violet". The Original mix is an intense soulful affair with great vocals, soft pads and percussive groove, Abicah Soul adds their distinctive deeper toouch in their remix, while Gianluca Motta provides a powerful and more minimal rework, adding pumpin bass and heavy beats. The package also includes deep and underground remixes from Maurice Joshua and FreshSol.  (Franco Martinelli) 

The legendary Kenny Dope Gonzales is the man behind the new "House Masters" series release on Defected. This awesome 2XCD compilation provides 20 of his greatest works unmixed, including some house classics he made as one half of Masters At Work, Nuyorikan Soul and his recent endeavours with Mass Destruction, as well as some great remixes he made for top house artists. All of the 20 tracks would deserve a mention, expecially some unforgettable house gems like "I can't get no sleep", "The ha dance" and "When you touch me" by Masters At Work feat. India , "The nervous track" by Nuyorikan Soul, "No hook" by Mass Destruction, and the awesome remixes of Ruffneck's "Everybody's be somebody", DJ Gregory's "Tropical soundclsh", Sunkids feat. Chance's "Rescue me", Manzel's "It's over now", Kim English's "Nitelife" and many others. This album not only includes some of Kenny Dope's best works, this is a precious slice of house music history.  (Franco Martinelli)

This is the 1st of two album samplers from the forthcoming re-designed Groove Junkies artist album "In the zone". The first track "In the zone" is an infectious afro-tech groover with a deep flavour, "Far away" is an uplifting soulful gem, with great vocals by TC Moses and emotional arrangements, while "The white light" is another soulful influenced beautiful track with Alexander Sky providing an intense vocal performance that fits perfectly with the infectious afro drums and atmospheric pads. Finally "Inside my soul", the first MoHo release from 2002 has now received a fresh funky-house treatment, with solid beats, beautiful Chic inspired rhythm guitar and the amazing Solomon Henderson on vocals. Honestly I must say I love this music ... and I can't wait for the full album release !  (Franco Martinelli)

"Dance the way I feel" is a catchy synth pop track with an infectious 80's flavour, but the real deal is the amazing Armand Van Helden remix. Van Helden reworks completely the track and provides an irresitible dancefloor bomb, adding solid funky beats, wicked synths, driving bassline and filtered effects. Other mixes comes from The Drill who delivers another 80's influenced synth driven rework, while the "Blue Eyed Boy remix" is an effective euro-house affair. Dub and Edit mixes are also included in the package.  (Franco Martinelli)

Daltonic are NY producer Mark Alston and russian born singer Polina. Their new release on Launch Entertainment is a fresh and catchy Latin-house bomb titled "Kiss of rain". The "Original mix" is a sun drenched, uplifting track with feel good piano on a fresh latin groove, while Conan Liquid provides 3 hot and pumpin' remixes for the clubs, including a driving and groovy Vocal mix, as well as a deeper and bouncy dub. The package also includes various dub and edit versions.  (Franco Martinelli)

The new Duffnote release is Tony Vass "Fly me higher", a solid vocal-house track with an intense soulful flavour, enriched by a great vocal performance by Roxane Lebrasse. On remix duties, Richard Earnshaw & Danny Jones provides an infectious "80's remode mix" with uplifting synths and great Moog hooks, while Richard Earnshaw delivers a classic soulful remix as well as a solid mainroom Dub. Finally, the "T's boogie mix" is a killer funky rework  (Franco Martinelli).

This EP really rocks the dancefloors. Smashing Seabastian's "Come with it" is a powerful hip-house track that receives the remix treatment from ATFC who adds wicked club elements and provides a sure dancefloor bomb. Other mixes includes "ATFC motherlode instrumental", the "Original mix" and a solid club remix by Andy Daniel. The package also offers the ATFC remix of Armand Van Helden's classic "Spark da meth", another killer track for the dancefloors, as well as the "Bangin like a benzi mix" taken from the original 1996 Strictly Rhythm release.  (Franco Martinelli)

Clemens Rumps and David A Tobin returns on Reelgroove with "Fire", the first single taken from their forthcoming album "Ain't nothing but house music" due for release later this year. The "Original NY mix" is a solid deep and underground affair with groovy bassline and intense vocals, while the "Bar groove mix" is an awesome chilled and sophisticated rework. Groove Assasin provides a pumpin' clubroom smasher and Abicah Soul offers an infectious underground rework. The package is supported by various Instrumentals and alternative mixes.  (Franco Martinelli) 

Andy Compton explores deep & acid territories and provides this interesting 4 tracks EP titled "Acid Andy's soul". The EP starts with "The acid track" a powerful, simple and very effective acid groover for the dancefloor, "Samba" is a chilled-out and soulful influenced affair, "Loving you" is a smooth track with intense arrangements, while "Expand" offers a perfect combination of old school beats, acid bassline and infectious pads.  (Franco Martinelli)

Soul Heaven celebrates their 10th Anniversary with an essential 3 Disc CD release, selected and mixed by Louie Vega, who provides 2 awesome mixed sets that re-creates the magic vibe of the club. Disc One is essentially about the cutting edge, with fresh new sounds that are popular with Soul Heaven, while Disc Two reflects the classic vocal house sound that Soul Heaven is famous for. A total of 49 tracks, including cuts from top house artists and producers like Dennis Ferrer, Anane, Jovonn, Jay ‘Sinister’ Sealee & Louie Vega Feat. Julie McKnight, Mr. V, Elements Of Life, Ralf GUM & Monique Bingham, Johnnydangerous, Lil’ Louis, Louie Vega himself and many others. Finally, Disc 3 is a useful 10 tracks unmixed selection of classic Soul Heaven tracks from the last ten years, including unforgettable soulful and vocal-house gems from Elements Of Life, Kimara Lovelace, Barbara Tucker, Mood II Swing Feat. Carol Sylvan, Sara Devine, Luoie Vega Feat. Arnold Jarvis andSoul Central, just to name a few.  (Franco Martinelli)

This release is simply awesome ! "The tea" is a fantanstic soulful track featuring Choklate's stellar vocals and enriched with beautiful mixes from heavyweight producers including Reel People, The Layabouts and Manoo. The Reel People mix is an irresistible soulful / funky gem, drenched with infectious "disco" elements, sweeping strings and intense vocals on solid funky beats. The Layabouts goes deeper and provides a solid, groovy, dark and hypnotic rework, while Manoo delivers a classic soulful remix with warm piano chords and fresh funky beats.  (Franco Martinelli)

"Get wild" by Sharam (one half of Deep Dish) is an excellent album, and this d:vision release is extremely interesting because they adds a powerful unmixed bonus CD with 9 of the best tracks provided in extended or remixed version. DJs will love this package because they will find hot remixes of "She came along", "Get wild", "The one" and extended versions of "I love the way", "Texi", "Don't say a word" and "Crazi" just to name a few. The full album is an eclectic journey into club and house music, from the minimal techy cuts to the big room peaktime tracks, from the solid vocal house songs to the spagetti-western influenced cuts that really adds an unique flavour to this excellent release.  (Franco Martinelli)

The 3 Amigos (Jellybean Benitez, Marlon D and George Mena) returns with another monster house track featuring the gospel diva Susu Bobien on vocals. "You bring me joy" is a solid and uplifting track with pumpin' beats, essential arrangement and that fantastic vocal performance that makes the differnce. Guy Robin provides an awesome old-school rework adding classic 90's house elements and the result is a "nostalgic" dancefloor bomb, finally The Layabouts delivers a deeper, dark and hypnotic rework for the underground floors.  (Franco Martinelli)

Justin Michael and Phonic Funk teams up for their new release on Seamless. "My destination" is a solid synth driven house track enriched with hot vocals from Maiya. The "Word of mouth mix" is another synth influenced house monster, while M-Sol provides an uplifting soulful remix with live bass, great keys and a superb arrangement on a solid funky groove. Finally Dave Mayer delivers an intense deeper remix.  (Franco Martinelli) 

The second "Villa Delle Rose" compilation is once again selected and mixed by Gambafreaks aka Stefano Gambarelli. Villa Delle Rose is one of Italy's top and influential clubs and Gambafreaks provides a cool mixed-set that represents the music and the atmpsphere of the club. 18 tracks of solid funky and vocal house selected with stylish italian taste, including cuts of international house monsters like Dennis Ferrer, Martin Solveig, Photon Inc, Bob Sinclar, Bingo Player, Michael Cleis, Steve Angello, Sharam etc... along with italian top house artists and producers. The album also includes 3 unmixed bonus tracks, the unreleased versions of Freak Jam's "In the jungle, Mood Velvet's "Every 1's a winner" and Sharam's "She came along".  (Franco Martinelli)

Spanish top DJ/Producer Kiko Navarro reworks the classic Blaze production "We are one" single, taken from the Keep Hope Alive compilation. The "New life remix" is solid and deep, with an infectious driving groove and powerful bassline. The "Look inside dub" is a different affair, with less vocals, tribal percussions and wicked stabs, while the "Viva UR dub" is essentially an instrumental version of the "Nu life remix".  (Franco Martinelli)

Tone Control (Simon Finnegan & Marcus Harris) returns for the 7th release on Tone Control Music with a beautiful mid-tempo soul track titled "Take me away". Featuring Adeola Ranson on vocals, the Original mix is an intense soulful affair with warm pads, electronic bass and hot trumpets. Joe Carreta takes the track to rhe dancefloor, providing an awesome soulful remix, adding a driven house groove and warm, infectious keys. Fianally, the  6th Borough Project reworks elements from the Original to create a very cool and moody rework.  (Franco Martinelli)

Conan Liquid's new release is a solid 2 tracks EP on MN2S. "Disko suks" is a simple and effective work created to make damage on the dancefloor. "The real deal" is powerful filtered house cut with pumpin' beats, funky bassline, an irresitible filtered sample and a nice vintage "disco" flavour, while "Sondo sax" is a solid and hypnotic funky track with rolling bassline and sax hooks.  (Franco Martinelli) 

Francesco Rossi is back with a new hot release on d:vision, "Princesa" is an intense groovy track with an infectious summer vibe and a fresh Balearic flavour. The "Evissa main dub" has solid beats, warm percussive groove, driving bassline and nice vocal hook, while the "Sorrento terrace mix" is a more minimal and techy affair. Finally the "Music in your eyes mix" is a beautiful downtempo lounge/bar rework with warm pads and an intense atmosphere.  (Franco Martinelli) 

Rachel Claudio teams up with Babas D for this new release titled "Butterflies". The "Original mix" is a perfect combination of afro beats and soulful atmospheres, Ralf GUM provides a classy and uplifting soulful remix, while Soleteck goes deeper in his rework and Dom Navarra delivers a smooth and intense remix in his classic trademark style. Finally, the "Jaffers remix" is a solid peak time version.  (Franco Martinelli)

The new chapter of the stellar Defected compilation series "In the house" features top DJ ATFC, who provides an impressive mixed set that reflects the best of today's house music, complete with exclusive tracks and classic cuts. CD1 includes the brand new ATFC release "Computer Love", as well as the fantastic Dennis Ferrer's future house anthem "Hey hey", the exclusive new Copyright's track "Someday", the massive ATFC 2009 Ibiza smash "I called you" and other powerful tracks from Martijn Ten Velden & Afroboogie, Steve Angello and Eric Morillo, just to name a few. CD2 kicks off with an exclusive new remix of Reboot’s 2009 hit "Enjoy Music" remixed by Riva Starr and also includes the brand new cut from DJ Gregory, as well as Osunlade’s "Mirror dance", Mark Knight and Underworld's superhit "Downpipe", Barbara Tucker's "I get lifted" remixed by David Tort, ATFC remix of "Spark Da Meth" by Da Mongoloids and the classic Basement Jaxx 1997 bomb "Fly life". The compilation will also include a very interesting Defected Guide to London, a comprehensive guide to the best clubs, bars, hotels, galleries and more.  (Franco Martinelli)

Jellybean Benitez joins forces with Carla Prather and provides an awesome soulful house release titled "Secrets & lies". The Original Benitez mixes are beautiful solulful affairs, with warm percussions and infectious keys enriched by the superb vocal performance of Carla Prather. Scott Wozniak delivers a deeper rework, adding an hypnotic electrofied synth on a solid deep groove. Finally Guy Robin goes back to the soulful vibe and offers a smooth and sexy remix with great Rhodes chords and warm key washes. Various dub, instrumental and beats versions are also included in the package.  (Franco Martinelli)

Strictly Rhythm celebrates the first 20 years in the House with a powerful compilation of classic Strictly Rhythm tracks remixed by some of the best house music producers around. The remixers list includes artists like Michel Cleis, Mark Knight, ATFC, Bob Sinclar, Dirty South, Fred Everything, MuthaFunkaz, Jimpster, Harry Choo Choo Romero, Tiefschwarz and Claude Monnet, just to name a few. This compilation is a true house-music essential selection, with 20 Strictly Rhythm classic tracks remixed for today's dancefloors and provided in dj friendly, extended version. All the 20 tracks would deserve a mention, but I just want to higlight some of my favourites that includes the new remixes of River Ocean's "Love & happyness", Photon Inc's "Generate power, Hardrive's "Deep inside", Armand Van Helden's "Witch doctor", Ultra nate's "Free", "Who dares to believe in me?" by The Berlievers, Phuture's "Raise from the ground", Barbara Tucker's "I get lifted", Da Mongoloids "Spark da meth" and Aly Us "Follow me". If you love House music, you will love this compilation.  (Franco Martinelli) 

This is an awesome EP that collects 3 of the classic singles from Logic, released on Strictly Rhythm in the early '90s. The 1990 "The warning" receives the remix treatment by Claude Monnet & Torre, that provides a solid deep rework for today's underground dancefloors, in addition to the original mixes that are also included in this awesome package. The 1994 "Blues for you" and "The flavor of love" are offered here in their Original mixes, that take us back to the magic atmospheres of the early house years. If you love the classic old school house, this package is just for you.  (Franco Martinelli)

Sunlightsquare launch their brand new Latin Combo project with this super-hot single taken from their forthcomong "Havana central" album. The "Original Havana mix" is an impressive sun-drenched cover of the Jackson Sisters classic "I believe in miracles", reworkded with a fresh latin vibe. The package also includes some hot remixes, Claudio Passavanti provides a solid house groover featuring guest vocals from Tasita D'Mour and a laid back afrocentric "Tribalectro mix". Top Brazilian/French producer Mustafa delivers a broken-beats and jazzy influenced "Broken party animal mix" as well as a solid and deep "Club mix". Finally, Louisubsole serves an explosive Soca-house bomb.  (Franco Martinelli)

Top Brazilian/French producer Mustafa returns on Stalwart with another sun-drenched gem titled "Sao Salvador". This is a fresh latin-house track in Mustafa trademark style, with warm live elements and melodic vocals. The package also includes some very hot remixes from UPZ, that provides a solid funky rework with an infectious soulful vibe and Deep Josh that delivers a pumpin' , elecrtified remix for the clubs dancefloor.  (Franco Martinelli) 

Keith Thompson teams up with Davidson Ospina and Oscar P for this new single on Thompsonic. "At midnight" is the solid funky-house remake of the classic disco hit by T-Connection. The Original mix re-introduces the song to a new geration, it is deep and a bit dark, with solid beats and a great funky bassline. The Greg Stainer remix is a powerful dubbed-out rework for the peak time moments.  (Franco Martinelli)

"The button" by Thomas Gold is another dancefloor bomb coming from Toolroom Records. This powerful techy track has heavy kick, high pitched synth stabs, noise effects and simple but effective vocal loops. Slovenian Techno legend Umek provides an irrestible rolling techno rework, while A/D/S/R delivers a nice skippy and bouncy remix.  (Franco Martinelli)

The "Hits Remix EP 2010" by Gambafreaks ft. Nicole is a very interesting package that includes some of the hottest tracks from this team in remixed format. "Never say never" is the most represented track here, with remixes from Luca Cassani, Holly vs Mappa and Lori D, just to name few. The record also includes hot remixes of "Everybody love"and "Freedom" as well as a killer remix of "Natural woman" provided by Alle & Benny Benassi.  (Franco Martinelli) 

Tortured Soul returns with a new single taken from their highly acclaimed "Did you miss me" album. "In my fantasy" is a fresh and soulful funky track enriched with several brilliant remixes. DJ Spinna provides an infectious neo-soul rework, with buzzing beats and great key solo, Tom Moulton delivers a solid funky remix with an hot 70's flavour that takes us back to the "disco" days, Jask offers a powerful house version, while the Ethan White and JKriv remixes are full of 80's elements, including vocoder, spacey pads and sweeping synths.   (Franco Martinelli)

Back from the South Africa's tour, Ralf GUM returns on vinyl (and digital) with another soulful gem. "Complicated" by Ralf GUM Feat. Kafele is an intense track, where the soulful atmospheres are fused with warm afro influenced rhythms and enriched by the brilliant trumpet by Kafele, that also provides an infectious vocal performance. The Raw Artistic Soul remix is a minimal and hypnotic affair with hot blips and spacey pads, while the South Africa's DJ/Producer DJ Christos provides 2 excellent remixes, the first one in classic funky/soulful stile, while the second one is a deeper and trippy rework enriched with great afro percussions.  (Franco Martinelli)

Harry "Choo Choo" Romero is back in full effect with this powerful remixes package of his classic "Night @ the black". The Romero remix is pure dope, simple and effective, with pumpin' beats, filtered sounds and that infectious electric guitar solo. Jerry Ropero provides a techy remix, adding electronic elements and catchy blips, while Jose Nunez delivers two powerful groovy remixes. Finally Dean Coleman serves an irresitible filtered-house rework.  (Franco Martinelli)

Distant People (AKA John Silvero) returns with a new single on Seamless Recordings. This time he teams up with vocalist Chappell and provides an excellent soulful track titled "Always for you". The "Original mix" is a classic soulful affair with solid beats, great electric piano chords, warm synths and the intense soulful vocals by Chappell. Greg Stainer provides 2 solid remixes for the dancefloors (Vocal and Dub), adding pumpin' beats, extra percussions and wicked sounds, but not losing any of the tracks soul.  (Franco Martinelli)

If you love the soulful-funky music you will love this track. "My change" is a great cut with stellar vocals provided by house diva Michelle Week and enriched with a couple of brilliant remixes. The original "Ruben Mancias Devotion mix" is an uplifting gospel style influenced affair with funky bass, great piano and fantastic vocals. Groove Junkies provides an awesome funky-soul rework, while DJ Dealer delivers another excellent funky-house remix. Instrumental and Dub mixes are also included in this beautiful package.  (Franco Martinelli)

Roberto De Carlo teams up with Colin Coverz for his new single on Purple Music. "Electric soul power" is a solid funky track influenced by early 80's elements that gives the track an unique flavour that perfectly fits with the soulful vocal performance by Colin Coverz. Dario D'Attis provides a powerful remix, adding wicked and deeper sounds but keeping the funky vibe alive, while Simon Gray reworks the track completely, providing a jazzy, soulful remix in his personal trademark style.  (Franco Martinelli)

The classic "Generate power" by Photon Inc. has been a floorfiller back in 1991 and this excellent remixes package has the right numbers to fill the floors once again. The "Soul Avangerz Soda remix" is powerful and groovy, with its irresistible driving groove and that familiar vocals, while Jimpster provides a deeper rework with funky bass and driving keys. Dub versions of both the remixes are included in the package, as well as the glorious 1991 "Original mix", the infectious "Wild Pitch mix" and Acappella.  (Franco Martinelli)

Armbar is back with his secon release on Look At You Records, the "Soul submission EP". 4 slamming tracks that combines pumpin' beats, funky elements and soul vocals, plus an awesome remix of one of the EP's best track "You will never know me" remixed by DJ Homewrecker. If you're looking for something different, but extremely hot, take a listen.  (Franco Martinelli)

Hardrive's super classic "Deep inside" has been a #1 floorfiller back in 1993, and the new mixes seems to be destined to rock the dancefloors once again. The Herry "Choo Choo" Romero mixes are powerful, with pumpin' beats, driving groove, hot synths ant that infectious "deep, deep inside" vocal hook. Mr V provides a beautiful soulful influenced remix, with deeper beats and warm keys, while Jesse Rose delivers 2 darker, underground mixes, adding an irresistible rolling bassline, old school funky elements and an infectious percussive groove. The classic Original and Dub mixes are also included in the package.  (Franco Martinelli)

Nite Grooves returns with another awesome rework of one of the classic Johnny Dangerous tracks. Originally released in 1998, "War With The Devil" receives Mr V remix tratment for this 2010 release. Mr V adds warm synths, a deep percussive groove and infectious bassline to the original spoken words vocals in his "Main mix". The "Dirty dub" is a deeper and rougher affair, filled with raw electronic elements and an infectious underground vibe.  (Franco Martinelli)

Funky Soldiers teams up with Robert Owens for this new release on MN2S. "Silence" is a solid funky track with pumpin' beats, wicked synths, saxophone parts and the briòòiant vocal performance of Robert Owens. JoVonn provides a beautiful, deeper remix, adding his own trademark sound into the production, with lots of old school elements and that fantastic synth bass that really makes the difference. The package also includes JoVonn Instrumental mix as well as a groovy "MN2S Dub".  (Franco Martinelli)

Groove Junkies returns with the 2010 remixes package of their classic "Midnight". Their own 2010 remix is a solid funky affair enriched with the uplifting vocals by Diane Carter, while their "Media noche re-touch" is a fresher and intense rework, filled with warm percussions and jazzy elements. Stuttering Munx provides a deepr remix, as well as a powerful dub for the peak-time moments, and DJ Pascali delivers a powerful funky/disco rework.  (Franco Martinelli)

The Part 2 of the Greg Dorban & Andy Bunney single "All around" is a deeper affair. Pet Gust provides a solid, deep and dark rework, with pumpin' beats and filtered synths that fits so good with the intense vocals by Chappell. Jazzloungerz delivers a more uplifting funky/soulful rework, while Filin Brake offers another powerful deep mix. Finally, Greg Dorban keeps the deep vibe alive in his solid, dancefloor friendly remix.  (Franco Martinelli)

The new DJ Rico aka Deep Y'all release on Cabana Recordings is an awesome funky affair with an infectious jazzy flavour, the smooth groove and funky bass perfectly fits with the warm Rhodes chords and sexy vocals. The "Trumpet mix" is a more jazzy cut, with the trumpet replacing the vocals. Finally Justin Imperiale provides an alternative remix, adding Rhodes solos and extra percussions.  (Franco Martinelli)

R.I.O returns with a very large EP including 3 tracks provided in various mixes. The EP starts with the cover of an old classic from the Steve Miller Band titled "Serenade" reworked for taday's main rooms. It's a dancefloor friendly track with pumpin' beats and wicked elecrto synths combined with fresh acoustic guitars and the original catchy vocals. The second track is "When the sun comes down", provided in 5 different mixes, including the powerful DiskoMachine & MarcoJ Remix. Finally, the EP closes with 2 unreleased mixes of last year's "After the love", including the funky "Mowgli & Baghera remix" and the energetic "Dan Winter remix".  (Franco Martinelli)

Holidays time ... Holidays tunes ..... Chevonne is a new name, she has a beautiful voice and she's about to explode on the scene very soon. Her music is a fresh combination of pop, funk and soul. She is a great singer and also plays keys and sax. "Unwrap me" is her debut Holiday EP, a beautiful release including the sweet "My menorah" as well as the future dancefloor staple "Single bells" the funky "I hung a mistletoe" and the racy new Year's ballad "Ball drop". And when the Holiday time will be over, be prepared for the Chevonne's full debut album that will be released in early 2010.  (Franco Martinelli) 

The new album from Italian producer Dan-E-MC is an awesome release, "Rara eleganza" on Sound Division offers an excellent selection of fresh funky tracks influenced with cool "disco" and jazzy elements, great soulful vocals and modern house grooves. All the tracks would deserve a mention, but some of my favourite are the fresh, soulful and uplifting "disco" influenced "Freak your body" and "Believe", the funky groover "Sex fantasy", the solid and deeper "House music" and the laid-back and jazzy cuts "Never give up" and "The jazz". The album closes with the beautiful soul version of the classic "Outstanding", another little gem from this high quality italian-made funky/soul album.  (Franco Martinelli)

3 Amigos are Jellybean Benitez, Marlon D and George Mena, this stellar NYC combo teams up with soulful diva Dawn Tallman and releases one of the hottest soulful tracks of the year. "We are one" is a fantastic track enriched with great remixes from Temple Movement and The Layabouts. The Original versions are pure soulful affairs, with infectious keys, great brass and solid soulful groove. NY producion duo Temple Movement delivers a smoother and deeper rework, adding cool Hammond parts, while, the UK trio The Layabouts provides 3 solid, hypnotic and deep mixes for the dancefloor.  (Franco Martinelli) 

"House anthems" is another powerful and useful compilation from top Italian label d:vision, this double cd package includes some of the hottest releases of d.vision in dj-friendly/extended version. The 32 tracks compilation includes all the label's hottest hits of the momnet, from Sharam's "She comes along", to Bob Sinclar's "Peace song", from Barbara Tucker's "I get lifted" to Mark Knight & Funkagenda's "Good times", as well as the latest releases from artists like David Guetta, Fredde LeGrand, The Face, Armand Van Helden, River Ocean ft. India, ATFC, Martin Solveig, R.I.O., Benny Benassi and many others. Big room essential !  (Franco Martinelli)

Swiss born producer DJ Le Roy returns with a brilliant new release titled "Get ready" on MN2S. The Original mix is an awesome soulful influenced track with hot strings, deep beats and uplifting vocals. San Francisco legend Halo reworks the track and provides 2 excellent deep house remixes, adding a new irresitible percussive groove, infectious keys and a darker vibe. The package also includes new pumpin' remixes from DJ Le Roy himself.  (Franco Martinelli)

The man behind Soulafricans is top NYC Producer/DJ Jovonn. For his new release on Launch Entertainment titled "Sex in Africa" Jovonn provides an hypnotic afrocentric masterpiece. The formula is simple and very effective, a long and infectious key solo that rides over a delicious percussive groove, enriched with hypnotic harp hook. Both Original and Dub mixes are excellent underground tracks. Enjoy the trip.  (Franco Martinelli) 

The new release by Heather Johnson features brand new remixes of "Home" and "Love alive". Both tracks are taken from Heather's current full-length debut album "Happiness". Tomo Inoue's remix of "Home" is a brilliant track with solid beats and great paino chords, set up to move the soulful dancefloors, while the "Love Alive" remixes by NYC producer Ezel are hot, jammin reworks.  (Franco Martinelli)

Ledge is a French band formed by Polerik Rouvière and Olivier Martyn. "This is Ledge" is a 5 tracks EP taken from their forthcoming second album and includes some very hot tracks. The music of Ledge is a brilliant combination of electro-pop and funky elements in a typical Freench-touch flavour. Tracks like "California" and "Make me older" are powerful examples of their "electronica meets funky" style, while "Precious time" and "Till the morning" are solid electro-pop tracks, while "Friday night movies" is a more rock oriented affair. Waiting for the full album, this EP really rocks.  (Franco Martinelli)

Italy's Soulfood (Franco Martinelli and Massimo Sottini) come correct with the powerful yet smooth production titled "How will I" which is built around a fiercely stompin', funk soaked backdrop and features soulful vocals by Deborah 'Deby' Quattrini alongside jazzy keys and classy chords. The 'Pacific Princess Mix' is a marvelous alternate version that somewhat relaxes the vibe, while the beatless 'Lounge Mix' is a dreamy affair. The remix is courtesy of Mr. Fuzz (Fred Faupin) who turns the track into a dark moody affair. (Mike Fossati from SpiritOfHouse)

Franco Martinelli & Massimo Sottini are back with another slice of smooth vocal house that should do the trick for the soulful heads out there. The strong melodies and harmonious vocals make this the sort of track that’s much more than merely fodder for your average dance floor. For those looking for a slightly edgier interpretation then there’s always the “Mr Fuzz Dubby Style Remix” and for everyone else any of the other mixes will do nicely. (Dean Serafini from JJazpoJect Magazine)

South African artist Bucie returns on GoGo Music with another smooth and intense soulful-house track titled "Your kiss". Ralf GUM mixes (Vocal and Instrumental) are awesome, deep and intense, with a groovy bassline and beautiful keys. DJ Christos provides a solid rework, adding hot synths to a driving, percussive groove, while Andy Compton delivers a pure soulful version with great melodic keys and funky bassline. Finally, the "Original mix" with its smooth, afro influenced percussive groove, warm keys and the beautiful Bucie's vocals, closes the package.  (Franco Martinelli)

Solitaire (Lewis Dane & Albert Castillo) teams up with top UK singer Katherine Ellis for this new single on Muzik-K Records. "You're mine" is a solid funky house affair enriched with uplifting disco elements that perfectly fits with the contemporary punchy beats and soulful vocals. The "K Klass remix" is a peaktime piano house affair for the dancefloor, with pumpin' beats, moody bassline and infectious synths.  (Franco Martinelli)

Here's the second part of the beautiful "Bittersweet love affair" by Jay ‘Sinister’ Sealee & Louie Vega featuring Julie McKnight, and it's really awesome. Personally I love the long and intense "Dance ritual mix" in perfect Vega's style, with an infectious latin tinged groove, warm pads and delicate keys. Agev Munsen provides a more pumpin' rework, adding funky bassline an some warm electronic elements, while the "Santos mix" is an intense version that combines funky elements with dreamy pads, creating a very cool, smooth and sun drenched atmosphere.  (Franco Martinelli)

Miamik's "Insatiable" is a powerful deep and techy influenced track for the dancefloors, with pumpin' beats and infectious vocals performed by Tanya Michelle. Klement Bonelli provides a very energetic mix with a killer bassline, wicked synths and powerful beats, the "Bo Bun Heaters remix" is a more electro influenced rework enriched with fierce blips, while Cyril Cab provides a full electronic and very aggressive remix.  (Franco Martinelli)

"Stealth Live" is a brilliant idea of Roger Sanchez and his label Stealth. "Live" because this series really takes the listeners into the party, the cd's are recorded live in the clubs and they reproduce the total club's atmospheres and not only the music. This new "Stealth Live" CD was recorded by Dirty Vegas on Saturday 3rd October at club Sankeys in Manchester UK, using 4 decks, 2 mixers, 2 laptops and various percussions. The result is impressive, Dirty Vegas provides an awesome performance playing great music for an enthusiastic crowd and I really enjoyed the CD from the beginning to the end, having the sensation to be there at the party.   (Franco Martinelli)

Subliminal is back with the new chapter of the "Subliminal Sessions" series. For this Winter 2009 release the compilation is selected and mixed by top Swedish dj/producer Steve Angello. Steve provides two powerful electro-house and tech-house sets including some of the hottest tracks and artists in the genere. The result is brilliant, both the sets are very solid and perfectly mixed, including tracks of Matteo DiMarr, Sole Fusion, Lake & Lys, Mark Mendez, De Bos, as well as Steve Angello himself and many others.  (Franco Martinelli)

Cabana's new release is Marim's "Rio pinturas house". The "Original mix" is a simple, groovy and minimal deep affair, but the "Afro melodic remix" is another deep & jazzy gem in classic Cabana style. Smooth percussive groove enriched with warm carribean and latin elements, intense jazzy flute and infectious keys really takes the track to an higher level. The package also includes "So tropical" another solid latin influenced deep track.  (Franco Martinelli)

The new "House Masters" series release on Defected, features music from ATFC and David Penn. ATFC is a name well known by every house fan, for more than a decade his music has pleased us and the dancefloors around the world, from the early "Bad Habit" and "In And Out of My Life" to the more recent "Bon Bon" and "I Called You (The Conversation)" ATFC's music means quality house. Many of his "bombs" are included in this release, some in remixed version, some others in original version, as well as a couple of great ATFC remixes. The Disc 2 of the package is dedicated to the music of underground-house DJ/Producer David Penn. The tracklist includes some very hot Penn's tracks as well as some beautiful remixes he made for River Ocean ft. India "Love & happiness", Sandy Rivera's "I can't stop", Marc Evans "The way you love me", Jon Cutler's "It's yours" and many others. No doubt, this is another "House Masters" series essential album.   (Franco Martinelli)

"Better" is the new single from Nu-soul diva Angela Johnson, it is taken from her forthcoming album "It's personal" and it is a beautiful jazzy tinged track with amazing vocals and an infectious funky vibe. The remixes comes courtesy of italian producer Micky More, who provides two solid soulful-house reworks. The "Classic mix" is a beutiful soulful and jazzy house version with warm Rhodes chords and trumpet parts on a powerful funky groove, while the "Rhodes mix" is a stripped down remix with infectious keys and pumpin' beats.  (Franco Martinelli) 

South African band Kentphonik presents their new single titled "Uthando" on French Stalwart Records. "Uthando" that means "love" in Swayly is a lovely soulful track with great Rhodes keys, warm pads, infectious percussions and a beautiful vocals performed by Mimi. Australian DJ Jorj adds pumpin' beats and wicked synths in his remixes (Vocal and Dub) and provides 2 powerful "big room" reworks, while DJ Rork delivers a very intense soulful remix. Finally, the package also includes a very effective and groovy remix of last year's "Sunday shoutin" retouched by Casamena.  (Franco Martinelli)

The Layabouts teams up with Kathy Brown for their new single on MN2S. "Choices" is a solid deep track with pumpin' beats and infectious synths that perfectly fits with the intense and soulful vocals by Kathy Brown and the warm sax solos. Remixes are also powerful affairs, Phil Asher provides a very effective rework adding infectious pads and some old school elements, including a killer bassline, while JoVonn delivers a stripped down and pumpin' rework that makes damage on the deeper dancefloors.  (Franco Martinelli) 

Produced by London's Bobby & Steve and New York's Victor Simonelli, "Do you want me baby" is a real house gem released on Groove Odyssey. The "Afro mix" is a beautiful soulful affair with great keys, infectious percussive groove and that irresitible vocal hook performed by Natasha Watts. The "Outfit house mix" is a pumpin' affair for the dancefloor, while the "Dolly Rokkerz mix" is another solid rework with pumpin' beats and catchy hands-in-the-air piano riffs.  (Franco Martinelli)

Circle OF Funk provides another solid funky-house EP enriched with warm jazzy elements. "London groove" is an irresistible groovy track with hypnotic piano chords and hot funky bass, while "Organic house" is an old-school influenced affair, with loads of percussions, a powerful funky sub bass, clean synths, uplifting organ line and catchy vocal sample.  (Franco Martinelli)

Pete Griffiths debuts on Toolroom with a powerful and melodic single entitled "Speak the secret", featuring singer Neve on vocals. The "Original mix" is a solid progressive vocal affair, but the package also offers some killer remixes, including reworks from Tocadisco who provides a real "dancefloor bomb", Mark Knight, Funkagenda, Thomas Gold and Drum & Bass legends Tension.   (Franco Martinelli)

Bargrooves returns with another awesome 2xCD compilation. "Bargrooves Disco Heat II" is the second release of its disco tinged series and contains 25 of the best disco inspired tracks around, including "Sitting on top of the world’ by Joey Negro pres. The Sunburst Band, "Sleep talk" by ATFC, "Over you" by Warren Clarke ft. Kathy Brown, Deepswing's "In the music", Barbara Tucker's "Beautiful people" alongside some dicso tinged moment from the likes of Full Intension, Bobby Blanco, Live Elements, Faze Action, Lifelike & Kris Menace, Kidstuff, Julien Jabre, Una Mas, Luxor, plus Sandy Rivera & Jose Burgos under their Soul Vision guise and many others. Following the Bargrooves series tradition, "Disco Heat 2" is another quality and essential compilation for the disco and soulful house lovers. Personally, I love it !!!  (Franco Martinelli)

"Happiness" is the debut solo album of Heater Johnson, the former singer of the Ananda Project. Heater's emotional and jazz-inspired vocals perfectly fits with the warm, soulful arrangements and the result is a brilliant album. Many of the tracks are produced by Chris Brann who also produced Heather's stunning rendition of Sade cover "Love is stronger than pride". Also included are mixes by producers like Frankie Feliciano, Tomo Inoue, DJ Kawasaki as well as 2 awesome bonus tracks, the Rasmus Faber remix of "Washes over you" and the DJ Spen's remix of "Under my skin". This is a must-have album for fans of the soulful vocal house music genre.  (Franco Martinelli)

I really loved last year's Marc Evans debut album, now Defected releases this beautiful 2xCD Deluxe Edition, including the original album as well as a second CD with exclusive tracks and remixes. Some of the best album tracks are reworked by the likes of Mark Grant, DJ Meme, The MuthaFunkaz, Miguel Migs, ATFC, Lovebirds and others. The CD also includes some unreleased tracks as well as 2 wonderful remixes of Evans biggest hit "The way you love me", a soulful and delicate "MuthaFunkin' Soul mix" and the well known TSOP remix by Dimitri from Paris. This is an high quality package for one of the best soulful house artists of the moment and this Deluxe Edition album is simply awesome !  (Franco Martinelli)

The classic Strictly Rhythm track "Who dares to believe in me?" by The Believers aka Roy Davis Jr. receives the remix treatment from Martijn ten Velden and Karizma for its 2009 release. The new mixes takes the track to present days without losing the original vibe, with the hot sax and piano elements still in evidence. Martijn ten Velden provides a powerful groovy rework while Karizma goes deeper and underground with his remix. The beautiful 1993 Original mix is also included, a true Chicago piano house classic with a killer saxophone part and spoken word vocal. The d:vision CD edition is enriched with two excellent bonus mixes taken from the 1993 original release.  (Franco Martinelli)

Cabana Records returns with another beautiful soulful-jazzy release from Justin Imperiale who teams up with Max Paparella for this brilliant track  titled "Caribbean ride". The "Original mix" is an infectious soulful affair with a cool jazzy vibe, great piano and Moog solo, the "Drop the jazz remix" is a more smooth and jazz influenced version, with warm Rhodes and trumpert. The "Mauritzio war remix" is a more deeper, pumpin' and groovy rework with hypnotic bassline and hot jazzy elements, while the "Aphreme remix" is a classic funky-house influenced version.  (Franco Martinelli)

Reelgroove's new release comes from Clement Rumpf and David A Tobin and is titled "Jazz in the house". This solid 3 tracks jazzy influenced house EP is a very powerful package. It starts with "This old house" a solid groovy track with minimal instrumentation and great spoken words vocals. "Jazz in the house" is a funky affair with less vocals and infectious sax solos, while "Favourite underground" mixes solid underground beats with jazzy bass and piano elements, enriched with infectious spoken words vocals.  (Franco Martinelli)

The new release of the acclaimed "Toolroom knights" series is selected and mixed by Funkagenda. The 27 tracks long mixed set moves from smooth house grooves to big hitters from Sebo K, Jimpster, D Ramirez, Mark Knight, Matteo DiMarr, Adam Shaw, Lutzenkirchen, Funkagenda himsef and many others. Working the edits and utilizing accapellas from DJ Gregory's "Tropical soundclash", Mutiny's "Ya self", Nadia Ali's legendary "Rapture", just to name a few, Funkagenda provides a very personal, eclectic and complete compilation, mixing house, techno, tech house and deep house tracks without prejudice. This is probably one of the best compilation of the Toolroom Knights series.  (Franco Martinelli)

Stephanie Cooke is one of today's greatest house singers and I must say I'm a fan of her, so this new single on King Street Sounds is much appreciated. "Thinking I'm beautiful" is an infectious soulful house track enriched with hot remixes by Sean McCabe who delivers an uplifting funky-house version with solid beats, great piano chords and hot bassline to support the awesome vocal performance of Stephanie. The dub mix is a deeper affair with different bassline, darker underground chords and less vocals.   (Franco Martinelli)

Defected continue to celebrate 10 years in house music with the release of "Defected Clubland Adventures Vol.2", this 3xCD package is a retrospective album that also looks at the future, a compilation where the Defected classic tracks are enriched with a few exclusive new cuts. The luxury box includes beside the 3 Cds selected by Simon Dunmore and mixed by Simon Dunmore and Andy Daniell, a commemorative booklet of Defected’s 10 years in the House with greteat photos and infos about the artists and the music. The tracklist is absolutely awesome, it highlights many of the label’s musical high points over its history, including memorable Defected and sublabels classic tracks. Probably all the 46 cuts would deserve a mention, so my suggestion is: listen to the compilation and dive into 10 years of high quality house music.   (Franco Martinelli)

I have always been a great fan of Groove Junkies and MoreHouse Records, I really love their sound, solid house music with infectious sexy, soulful and funky influences, so this new MoHo compilation, it really turns me on. "MoHo Vaults vol.1" is the first release of a new compilation series that offers a retrospective package of some of the biggest label's releases to date, in both, mixed and un-mixed format. The CD mixed by Groove Junkies is an infectious music journey into quality soulful house territory, a pure pleasure for every soulful-house lover, including music and mixes from artists like Groove Junkies, Morten Trust, Pepe Link, Solara, Jay-J, Richard Earnshaw and Timmy Vegas, just to name a few and tracks like Love Has Come Around, Believe In Dreams, Kalakuta, Midnight, So Damn Crazy, Catch Your Shine and Oh Lord. Finally, the unmixed CD gives the opportunity to the djs to finally play this beautiful tracks in CD format.   (Franco Martinelli) 

"Running back" is the new single of Conan Liquid & Willy Washington on MN2S, it is a very hot house track with infectious vocals. The Conan Liquid Vocal and Dub mixes are solid versions with pumpin'  beats and warm synth elements, while John Ciafone's Vocal and Late Night mixes are more soulful influenced affairs, with intense soft pads, infectious Rhodes chords, warm percussions and funky bassline.   (Franco Martinelli)

Benny Benassi meets Iggy Pop and provides an irresistible electro-punk release using original samples from Iggy Pop's "Sixteen". Beside the original mix, also available on Benassi's full album, the single release includes some very hot remixes. Sinichi Osawa provides a full electronic remix adding filtered elements and wicked synths, the Japanese Popstar remix is a more pumpin' affair with an irresistible driving groove and extra synths, while the "Mobbing remix" is a deeper version enriched with dark sounds and blips. A tech-house remix by Alex Gaudino & Jason Rooney is also included in the package.   (Franco Martinelli)

Look At You Records provides another hot piece of funky-house music with "Inside out" by Shane D ft. Donna Hidalgo. The "Original mix" is a solid example of funky-house classic track with solid beats, powerful bassline, great strings, infectious old school elements and an intense soulful vocals. The "Refunked dub" is a powerful funky rework without vocals, while Lucious Lowe provides a deeper remix influenced with hot 80's inspired elements and finally Anthony Weeling offers a darker, electro-minimal version.   (Franco Martinelli)

What a great package of remixes is this ! The classic "Follow me" by Aly-Us retouched by Full Intention, Fred Everything & Olivier Desmet, Harry "Choo Choo" Romero & Jose Nunez and Mauritzio. Full Intention provides their classic, powerful remix for the dancefloor, with solid beats and a lot of energy, Fred Everything & Olivier Desmet delivers an infectious rework, using some of the original piano parts and adding infectious dreamy pads. Harry "Choo Choo" Romero & Jose Nunez offers a tougher remix, while Mauritzio goes deeper. The package also includes some powerful Dub and instrumental versions as well as the Original Mix.   (Franco Martinelli)

The new release of the "Later" series compilation on Seamless Recordings is compiled and mixed by Crazy P, who provides a very interesting and eclectic selection. You can breath the late night in the city atmpsphere in all the tracks, a perfect combination of soft and delicate soulful ballads, jazzy and funky influenced cuts and irresistible space-disco tracks. Don't miss this compilation if you love the nightlife in the city.   (Franco Martinelli)

We all loved last year's "Kissing strangers" by Ralf GUM and Monique Bingham, well, the couple teams up again and provides another soulful gem on GoGo Music. "Little W. 12th St." is a solid soulful track with fresh piano, infectious bassline, hot horns and soft synths that perfectly fits with the warm and intense vocal performance by Monique Bingham. DJ Spinna offers a deeper remix, adding smooth underground elements that creates an infectious late night vibe, while Benny Pecoraio delivers a more minimal, deep affair. The package also includes dub and instrumental mixes.   (Franco Martinelli)

I've been a big fan of Junior Boy's Own from the early '90s, I have a lot of their early records, and now it's time to replace some of the vinyl with brand new CDs. “Acid House Scrapes & Capers" is the third CD of the stellar “A Boy's Own Odyssey” series and this time the 2XCD package includes 24 unforgotten tracks in extended version. JBO classics like Underworld's "Born slippy", Chemical Brothers "Leave home", X-Press2's "Say What!", Black Science Orchestra's "New Jersey deep" are included in this beautiful compilation, beside tracks of artists like Fire Island, Sunscreem, Heller & Farley, River Ocean, DSK, Outrage and The Ballistic Briothers, just to name a few. If you have loved the sound of Junior Boy's Own, this compilation is pure pleasure for your ears !   (Franco Martinelli)

Barbara Tucker's "I get lifted" receives remixes treatment from superstar DJ/Producer Bob Sinclar and David Tort. Bob Sinclar completely reworks the track adding wicked electro synths and a killer bassline, until the breakdown takes us back to the classic uplifting-piano house sound. David Tort provides a deeper, tech house rework with minimal groove and infectious synths. The package is completed with the original mixes, including the classic "Underground Network mix", the powerful Armand Van Helden mix, the "XTC Mix", "Go to church", "Boyd Slams mix" and various dubs.   (Franco Martinelli) 

Here's another ReelGroove soulful gem from Greg Dorban Feat. Sandra Lima. "Get to me" is a sophisticated and smooth track with great Rhodes chords, infectious jazzy guitar, funky bassline, hot srings and sweet vocals. Christian Hornbostel and Stereo Mutants takes the track to the dancefloor, providing two solid and pumpin' remixes, while Rafael Yapudjian & RyB keeps it soulful and delivers a smooth remix enriched with warm percussions, piano and soft synths.  (Franco Martinelli)

The Hacienda in Manchester has been one of the most influential clubs in British club culture history. The Hacienda opened its doors in 1982 and became legend in the late 80's when house music crosses the Atlantic and made The Hacienda the birthplace of UK Acid House. To celebrate those golden years, New State Music releases "Hacienda - Acid House classics" a stellar compilation selected and mixed by New Order, Joy Division and Hacienda co-owner Peter Hook. The 2XCD compilation presents a selection of superclassic acid-house tracks including A Man Called Gerald's "Voodoo ray", Frankie Knuckles & Jamie Principle's "Baby wants to ride", Maurice's "This is acid", Reese & Santonio's "Rock to the beat" as well as tracks from Adonis, Mr. Fingers, Phuture, Esctasy Club and may others, for a total of 26 on 2 cds. Enjoy the trip !   (Franco Martinelli)

DeepCitySoul returns with a beautiful new single titled "Earthly angel", an impressive house track that perfectly combines uplifting soulful vocals and funky beats. The double package includes some very hot mixes, the "Zep mix" synthesizes the perfect soulful/funky combination, Sir Piers provides a smooth and soulful rework with great piano chords and hot horns, Guy Robin delivers an infectious instrumental mix, while the "Ciappy, Murri & Scarafile mix" is a deeper and minimal rework. Finally the "Dropfunkdialect remix" is a broken-beat affair.   (Franco Martinelli) 

Booty Love is a pop-dance female duo and their new release "Say it" is a fresh, radio friendly, catchy track. Beside the original pop influenced original versions, the package also includes a couple of hot mixes situable on serious dancefloors. Warren Clarke adds his funky-house touch and provides a solid club remix, available also in "Dub instrumental" version, while the legendary Hott 22 reworks the track with their own trademark filtered-house style. Other mixes comes from Britzi & Delexy and Wez Clarke.   (Franco Martinelli)

Here is the 2009 remixes package for this superclassic track from River Ocean ft. India titled "Love & happiness". The new package provides, beside the brand new 2009 remixes some of the hottest mixes from the past, including the powerful "Junior Boys Own super dub", the classic "Master At Work extended remix", KenLou and MAW dubs, as well as the Original mix, Tools track and Keyapella. The new mixes are reworked by David Penn who adds new keys and contemporary beats, while Michael Cleis provides a full latin tinged remix adding warm latin percussions and flamenco guitar.   (Franco Martinelli)

Mark Knight and D Ramirez join forces with the Underworld for this fantastic new single on Toolroom. "Downpipe" is an infectious deep and groovy track built on an hot combination of tech grooves and intense progressive-built nods, enriched with the hypnotic vocal performance by Karl Hyde. The package includes the "Original mix", the instrumental "Dub mix" as well as the "Radio edit". Remixes package coming soon ? .... I guess so ... stay tuned !   (Franco Martinelli)

Europe's top deep house producer Yass remixes Johnny Dangerous ft. Kenny Bobien track "Callin you Lord". The new Yass rework is cool and deep, with a warm percussive groove, infectious strings and hot piano riff to support the awesome vocal performance of House singer and Pastor Kenny Bobien. The package also includes the smooth instrumental dub.   (Franco Martinelli) 

We really loved the Justin Imperiale ft. Davina's "Movin' on" last summer, now is time for the remixes package. The new versions are deeper affairs, Todd Djed Gardner provides a darker remix with solid deep beats and infectious synths, Harley & Muscle delivers a classic deep and smooth rework that keeps the soulful vibe alive, adding warm Rhodes Keys and sweet strings. Finally Jihad Muhammad offers an infectious remix that combines an intense percussive groove with warm arrangements.   (Franco Martinelli) 

The new Haitigroove "World club tour" series first stops in Ibiza. The compilation is selected and mixed by Chris Montana and Matt Myer who provides a solid mixed set that reflects today's club music in the island, with pumpin' beats, electro riffs, hot synths, infectious vocals and some fresh latin tinged elements. The 14 tracks mixed set includes tracks and mixes by Freddie Le Grand, Agent Greg, Thomas Gold, Dr Kucho! , Micha Moor, Chris Montana himself and many more.  (Franco Martinelli)

Copyright teams up again with Showell and provides this fresh afro-tinged single titled "Warrior dance (Yema Ya)". The "Club mix" is an uplifting sun-kissed afro-house gem, with infectious guitar, beautiful percussions and that catchy sing along vocal hook. The ""Shake zulu mix" is a deeper affair with no vocals, extra ethnic percussions and a new synth bassline. The package also includes the Original "Album mix" as well as an electronic influenced remix courtesy of Danny Marquez & DJ Fudge.   (Franco Martinelli)

Vincent Kwok and DJN Project joint forces for this new single on San Francisco's Eight Fifteen Recordings. "Nowhere to go" is a beautiful deep house track with solid funky beats and infectious instrumentation, enriched by the intense vocals of DJN Project's Rick G. Julius Papp provides a deeper remix, adding a killer bassline and great chords, Italy's Island Groove delivers a cool old-school influenced rework, while Left offers a tech-house influnced remix. The package also includes the solid and funky "Alternative mix" as well as the "Julius Papp dub".   (Franco Martinelli)

Italy's top house music label d:vision presents another stellar compilation. "Louie Vega's Dance Ritual Vol.1" recreates the magic atmospheres of his "Dance Ritual Party", a warm combination of Afro, Jazz, Latin, Soul, Deep and House music. On CD 1 Vega provides a beautiful mixed set that brings the listeners into an awesome musical journey drenched with infectious soulful atmospheres, enriched with warm Afro-Latin percussions and intense vocals. On CD 2, Vega goes deeper and offers a more house influenced set, while CD 3 is a precious support with some of the best tracks of the project provided in unmixed, extended versions. This brilliant 3XCD compilation includes tracks and remixes from artists like Anane, Louis Quintero, Sergio Mendez, Sara Devine, Thievery Corporation, Charo & Salsoul Orchestra, Elements Of Life, Yass, Dennis Ferrer, Jovonn, Jellybean, DJ Spen, Kenlou and Louie Vega himself, just to name a few.   (Franco Martinelli)

Reelgroove returns with the second compilation of "The sound of Reelgroove" series, selected and mixed by Greg Dorban. This 2xCD album captures and showcases the sound of the label, including all the late tracks from Reelgroove and more. CD 1 begins with a sensual, smooth, sophisticated mood before delivering the very best in soulful and vocal house music, while CD 2 explores the clubroom, providing a deeper and pumpin' selection for the dancefloor. 31 tracks in total for this awesome compilation, including cuts from artista like Roed Svensk, Morten Trust, Soul Cola, Clemens Rumpf, Andy Ward, DJ Tekim, Greg Dorban, Dolls Combers, Filin Brake, Layabout, Ralf Gum, Marquito, DJ Dealer, Harrison Crump and many others.   (Franco Martinelli)

Barcoda is back with a massive collaboration between MuSol and Central Avenue, featuring the amazing vocals of Pete Simpson and Natasha Watts. "I believe" is an awesome soulful track enriched with several hot remixes. The "Original mix" is a beautiful classic soulful affair with great piano chords, jazzy guitar, funky bassline and intense vocals. The "Club mix" is a more pumpin' dancefloor friendly rework, as well as the powerful "White Caviare remix", while Dutchican Soul, Roed Svensk, DJ Rork and Central Avenue remixes are all solid soulful influenced rework.   (Franco Martinelli)

Jay "Sinister" Sàelee (the man behind the anthems "Finally", "Home" and "Diamond life") join forces once again with the leganday Louie Vega and Julie McKnight for this new project on Atal Music. This is the Part. 1 of "Bittersweet", including Original Jay Sinister mixes and versions and it will be followed by Part 2: Louie Vega Verions and Part 3: Jay/Louie dubs. "Bittersweet" is a brilliant track with intense vocals, irresistible percussive groove and infectious arrangements. This package includes beside the "Original mix" the "Jay's bittersweet matinèe mix", as well as the Vocal Reprise mix, the Barrio Groove and Acapella.   (Franco Martinelli)

"Shame" by The Jinks featuring Michelle Weeks a very fresh new release on MN2S. The Original mix is an ulifting sun-kissed funky house track with solid beats, powerful bassline, driving piano line and great vocals. Soul Avengers provides a pumpin' and deeper remix, while Groove Assasin delivers a more soulful rework, adding infectious Organ chords. Finally DJ Le Roy presents a solid electronic influenced remix.   (Franco Martinelli)

Jazzloungerz presents another awesome soulful release on Seamless. The "Seasons EP" includes 3 great soulful tracks. For the first cut Jazzloungerz teams up with soul singer Natasha Watts, "Hold on" is a beautiful soulful affair with smooth chords and warm pads, enriched with intense vocals. The second track "Amor" is a fresh sun drenched house cut with solid beats and sexy vocals from Johanna Olarte. Finally, "So let go" is a very cool deep groovin' track with infectious atmospheres and rolling bassline.   (Franco Martinelli)

Andy Ward's debut on Sound Of The Booth Recordings is a solid soulful influenced track titled "Unspoken" and featuring Rainy Payne on vocals. The "Park street mix" is an awesome version with solid beats, powerful bassline, fresh soulful elemnts and sexy spoken words vocals, while the "Andy Ward foot high mix" is a stripped down and deeper affair with wicked bassline and darker sounds. Tha package also includes instrumental mixes of both the versions as well as a useful Acapella.   (Franco Martinelli)

"All about love" was an instrumental track on last year's Knee Deep EP "Big love", now is time for the vocal mixes. Featuring Cathy Battistessa on vocals, this track has been taken to an higher level and the result is an awesome soulful release including remixes from Ralf Gum and Mister Lovebirds. The new vocal mix is a beautiful soulful affair, while the "Lovebirds suite mix" is an intense instrumetal journey. Finally Ralf Gum provides 3 deeper and solid mixes for the dancefloor.   (Franco Martinelli)

This is the first Chill and Lounge collection by Big In Ibiza, a 2XCD album mixed by the new and exciting duo Chill DeVision. The 26 tracks covers a period of 3 years in order to create a unique 100% exclusive collection of jazzy, dubby, chilled out groovers. CD 1 is an intense selection of chill-out and downtempo tracks, while CD 2 is a more uplifting mixed set with an intense Balearic vibe and infectious soulful elements, including tracks from Tito Puente Jnr ft. India, Chris MiMo, South Beach Playaz, Ibiza Knights, Pedro De La Fiesta and many others.   (Franco Martinelli)

After several great single releases, it is finally time for an album and what a stellar release is this ! "Back to Fundamentals Act 1: The French Touchè" is a fantastic 3XCd compilation in luxury box with info booklet and poster, featuring one mixed CD, one unmixed CD and the DVD. All the singles of this excellent series are included in the album, as well as hot new tracks from some of the best French's house producers. The tracklist is amazing and includes DJ Fudge's "My definition of house", Miamik's "Insatiable", Claude Monnet's "Voodoo bounce", Torre's "Higher", Rumi & Solveig's "So far away", Dimitri From Paris "Rock this town", Yass & AbicahSoul "Yassoul", DJ Gregory's "You are my friend" and other tracks from Franck Roger, Klement Bonelli, Rocco, Julien Jabre and David Duriez. Finally the DVD includes interviews with all the artists involved in the project as well as clips taken at the "Back To Fundamentals" parties in Miami, Holland and France.   (Franco Martinelli)

Tortured Soul are back with another beautiful single taken from their highly acclaimed album "Did you miss me". "Another lover" is an awesome soulful gem enriched with hot funky elements and infectious vocals. The package includes some very powerful remixes from Dimitri From Paris, Tom Moulton and Master Kev & Tony Loreto. Dimitri From Paris provides a dynamic mix with an intense funky-house flavour, the legendary Tom Moulton delivers a fantastic discofied rework, while Master Kev & Tony Loreto offers 3 solid, deeper mixes. The package also includes the Original mix as well as a brilliant broken-beats/funky rework by JKriv.  (Franco Martinelli)

Here's another fresh, summer drenched compilation from Seamless. "Best nights ever : Beach party" is the perfect summer day's soundtrack. CD 1 mixed by Ben Sawton is a classic bar grooves selection with an infectious soulful vibe, essentail for the coolest beach/pool parties and smooth summer afternoons. The tracklist includes mixes and tracks from artists like Miguel Migs, Physics, Jazzloungerz, New Mondo, DJ Meme, Vincent Kwok, Justin Michael, Spiritchaser and many others. CD 2 is a more up-tempo affair mixed by Ibiza resident DJ Graham Sahara. He provides a very hot Club friendly mixed set featuring tracks from Alex Kenji, Martin Brodin, Beaten Soul Ft. Keith Thompson, Christian Dehugo and Dirty Gents Ft. LDM, just to name a few.  (Franco Martinelli)

The music of the Peter Pan Club in Riccione is featured in the second release of the new d:vision compilation series in collaboration with some of the top italian clubs. Peter Pan is one of the most legendary clubs in the Adriatic riviera and this CD represents the music played at the club. A powerful selection of upfront house tracks that includes some of today's biggest club hits like Dennis Ferrer's "Sinfonia della notte", Martin Solveig's "One 2 3 four", Copyright's "Roots", Julien Jabre's "Vicious circle" as well as tracks and mixes from artists like ATFC, Pussy Dub Foundation, Eric Morillo, Chris Lake, Scumfrog, Gambafreaks, Tania Monies, Bob Sinclar, John Dahlback and others.  (Franco Martinelli) 

DJ Leon El Ray teams up with Nick Faraday for his new release on Gotta Keep Faith. "Baby blue" is an infectious deep track with an intense soulful vibe. The "Original mix" is a smooth deep gem, DJ Greg provides an awesome soulful remix, adding great rhodes chords, funky elements and warm jazzy guitar, DJ Floy delivers a solid tribal influenced rework, while Nikos Diamadopoulos offers a deeper and darker version. Other deep influenced mixes comes courtesy of CJ Giovanni and Charly H Fox, while Zen Men provides a chilled downtempo remix and Georg Neufelds keeps the tempo slow adding some hypnotic afro percussions.  (Franco Martinelli)

"Hit the morning beat" by Soul Cola is another soulful gem on Reelgroove. The "Original mix" is an infectious, uplifting soulful track with great Rhodes keys, funky guitar, sax and superb vocals. Richard Earnshaw adds pumpin' beats and a new bassline for his fresh remix, while Central Avenue provides a powerful retro-funk influenced remix. Finally, the "Funked up dub" with its driving organ and beautiful sax solo, closes this excellent package.  (Franco Martinelli)

The new Oscar P single "Conquistadores chocolates" is an awesome deep and groovy track with latin influences and infectious spoken words vocals. The "Main mix" has an irresistible hypnotic groove, driving bassline, latin piano hook and warm syth parts. The package also includes the stripped down "Ospina/Oscar P Brazil dub", just percussions and vocals, that makes the dancefloor go crazy !  (Franco Martinelli)

The new Bah Samba release titled "Live in the summer" on Favouritizm is an awesome sun-dreched, soulful track, featuring Tasita D'Mour on voclas and it is enriched with hot remixes from Andy Ward, DJ Memè, Filsonik and The Super-Phonics. Bah Samba's original "Calor mix" is an intense jazzy and soulful influenced version, Andy Ward provides 2 epic soulful remixes, adding pumpin' beats, funky bassline and hot guitar licks, while Brazilian hottest soulful producer DJ Memè delivers an infectious latin tinged house groover. NYC Filsonik goes deeper with an electronic influenced, hypnotic, darker and underground remix, and finally London's Super-Phonics offers a fantastic funky rework.  (Franco Martinelli)

D:vision presents a brand new compilation series in collaboration with some of the top Italian clubs. The first release is "Villa Delle Rose - Riccione", a solid 2 discs compilation selected and mixed by Stefano Gamabarelli, Mauro Ferrucci, Holly DJ and Ciuffo DJ. CD 1 is a powerful happy-house selection that reflects the nights of the club, featuring some of the hottest tracks of the season, including cuts of artists like Yass, Copyright, Bob Sinclar, Yves LaRock, Kurd Maverick, Martin Solveig, Richard Grey, Planet Funk, Gambafreaks and Tommy Vee & Mauro Ferrucci. CD 2 is a sophisticated lounge / chill-out / deep selection for the smoother situations and includes beautiful soul/jazzy influenced tracks from Sergio Del Rio, Chanel, Mood II Swing, Kevin Bryant, Formentera 13.15, R.I.O. and many others.  (Franco Martinelli)

The fresh and uplifting Urban Soul's "Jump Into The Water" track, receives remixes treatment from Nicola Fasano & Steve Forest aka Fish & Chips. The guys reworks the track adding to the beautiful sultry vocals of Shawnee Taylor, hot piano chords and warm percussions, creating a definitive summer anthem. The package also includes hot remixes from Maurice Joshua, Bill Lee and Japanese producers Isao Masui and Hideki Kosaki.  (Franco Martinelli)

Kenny Dope and Terry Hunter join forces once again and presents another powerful 2 tracks EP under their Mass Destruction guise. "Get 'em high" is a pumpin' groovy track with minimal elements and wicked electro synths, enriched by the superb vocal performance of Mr. V. "Somehow someway" is a solid, classic house track with powerful beats, driving bassline, catchy piano hook and an intense vocal performance by the legendary Lidell Townsell. Dub and instrumental mixes of both the tracks are included in the package, as well as a useful "Get em high" beats tool.  (Franco Martinelli)

Italian based White Soul Project teams up with singer Wendy Lewis and releases this infectious soulful track titled "Give in". Beside the Original mix, the package includes various hot remixes, Jordan Dee provides an impressive soulful-house monster, DK Jones a catchy, funky remix. Charlie Edwards & LeisureGroove delivers a powerful main room affair, while Richard Earnshaw offers an infectious groovy rework.  (Franco Martinelli)

Seamless Black label returns with this powerful Tech-house bomb from Ken Fan. "Chinese whisperss" is a pumpin' tech-house monster with minimal beats and quirky synth running through it. The "Stripped mix" is a stripped down, groovy affair while the "Deeper mix" has infectious deep sounds and an irresistible driving bassline. Finally the "Houswerks remix" is another powerful thechy groover.  (Franco Martinelli)

The new 3345 Music release is another solid funky and soulful influenced track by Jennifer Perrymen. "Wake up" is a classic soulful-house track with intense vocals, enriched with a couple of awesome remixes. The Ralf Gum remix is simply amazing, Ralf creates an infectious and warm funky groover the fits perfectly with the Jenny Perryman soulful vocals, while the "Moodswinger's summer revival mix" is a smoother, broken beats rework with cool lounge elements and an intense jazzy flavour. The package also includes instrumental versions of both the remixes.  (Franco Martinelli)

New Mondo is an exciting team born from the collaboration of two hot San Francisco deep-house producers, DJ MFR (Marco From Rome) and Vincent Kwok. Their debut album "Total control" is an excellent release, enriched by stunning vocal performances from top singers like Lisa Shaw, Morrison, Leedia Urteaga and Indra Jones. The music is a nice combination of uplifting soulful influenced tracks and solid deeper cuts that perfectly mixes the fresh California's house vibe with wicked 80's new wave funk elements. All the tracks would deserve a mention, but some of my favourites are the latin influenced "Enamorada", the soulful and uplifting "Alright" and "Beautiful", as well as the solid "I want cha", "Total control" and "Bring it back".  (Franco Martinelli) 

Grei Matter returns with an awesome new release titled "All I'm asking for" by Yass presents Jay & Tahira. The "Main mix" is a solid deep and soulful track featuring a sublime vocal performance, while the "Dub mix" is a more laidback affair, enriched with jazzy Rhodes solo, Organ chords and warm latin percussions. Tony Loreto & Jacko provides 3 pumpin' and dancefloor friendly remixes, 2 vocal reworks and a very impressive "Dub mix".  (Franco Martinelli)

The new Random Soul release on Barcoda is a beautiful funky-soulful track enriched with several hot remixes from top producers like Vincent Kwok, Central Avenue and Yogi & Husky. The "Original mix" is a classic funky track with solid beats, infectious strings and uplifting soulful vocals, Yogi & Husky provides a stripped down funky rework, while both Vincent Kwok and Central Avenue delivers solid deeper reworks. The package also includes the intense "Random Soul deep wash mix" as well as the Dub mix.  (Franco Martinelli)

DJ Tekim and Greg Dorban teams up for this new release on ReelGroove titled "3 words". This is a solid deep track with pumpin' beats and funky bass, enriched by infectious saxophone solos and an intense vocal performance by Chappell. Park Street provides a beautiful remix, adding wicked keys and a new bassline on an irresistible percussive groove, while Pete Gust goes deeper, adding hot spacey pads and soft, infectious chords that gives the track an intense late night vibe. The "Original sax mix" is also included in the package.  (Franco Martinelli)

"Free" by Mr Nuggett featuring Brooke Bailey is a fresh house track with uplifting vocals and an infectious summer flavour. The "Original mix" is a beautiful soulful influenced track with great soft pads, delicate piano, funky guitar and intense vocals. Remixes are both deeper affairs, the "Deep City soul mix" has solid beats, powerful bassline and hot synths chords, while the "Dropfunkdialect mix" is a more classic and smoother track with warm Rhodes keys, Organ chords and string stabs.  (Franco Martinelli)

Sandy Rivera returns with a new powerful deep track on his own label Blackwiz. "Persuasion" is a solid, hypnotic, pumpin' track with warm bassline and hot synths, enriched by the intense and fresh vocal performance of singer Rae. Sandy Rivers's own remix is a pumpin' old-school influenced affair, with wicked organ stabs and bouncin' bassline, while C. Castels provides a stripped down electronic rework. Dub and Instrumental versions of all the mixes are also included in this hot package.  (Franco Martinelli)

Jay Tripware's new album "4th density" is a fantstic ride into deep, dubby house music enriched with minimal, techno elements. The atmosphere here, is very underground and dark. Tracks like "Visual spectrum" and "Forward matter" are solid bass driven techy cuts, in "Metropolis of light" an irresistible percussive groove perfectly combines itself with deep bassline, dark pads and synths. The beautiful "Time is eternal" is filled with infectious old-school elements enriched with great sax solos, "Do me this way" features Alexander East on vocals and is a deep, acid tinged track, "Green ray vibration" is a groovy and synths affair, while "Ascend" is another impressive pumpin' cut. If you love deep electronic house music, you will love this album.  (Franco Martinelli)

UK producer King Roc (one half of techno/deep house duo Two Armadillos) presents his solo album titled "Chapters". In this LP, King Roc experiments trip-hop, ambient and chillout music, providing a bunch of intense, electronic teacks full of strings, melody and creative arrangements. It is reductive to mention just some tracks, this album must be listened from the beginning to the end to really enjoy the journey. Quality electronic music !  (Franco Martinelli)

Dutch top DJ and Producer Sender Kleinenberg is back with an impressive new mixed compilation titled "This is Sander Kleinenberg 2" on Little Mountain Recordings. This hot 2 disc CD reflects Sander's live sets and expecially the music and the atmospheres of his legendary Club night of the same name. Sander serves a powerful selection of progressive, tech house and electro cuts, including 10 unreleased tracks. Disc 1 shows the deeper side of Sander Kleinenberg who provides an infectious underground set featuring tracks from Sascha Funke, David Keno, Rockets HiFi, DBN, DaFunk and Phonique. just to name a few. Disc 2 is a tougher affair, a powerful and pumpin set, including tracks by Rene Amezs, Luetzenkirshen, DJ Otzy, Joachim Garraud, Hennon and many others. Sander Kleinenberg is resident this summer at Pacha in Ibiza on friday nights.  (Franco Martinelli)

The new chapter of the excellent House Masters series on Defected is finally released. The 2 disc unmixed CD includes classic tracks and remixes of French top producers DJ Gregory and Julian Jabre. CD 1 presents the music of DJ Gregory, 10 great track from this unique producer, including classics like "Elle", "Tropical soundclash", "Solaris", "Attend 1", as wellas recent releases like "Con alegria" with Gregor Salto and the poweful "Push in the bush". CD 2 offers the music of Julian Jabre, including his classic super-hit "Swimming places", as well as real hot tracks like "Voodance", Vicious circle", "Talking walls" and others.  (Franco Martinelli)

Produced by Frankie Feliciano, this new Heater Johnson's release on King Street Sounds is another soulful-house gem. "Love alive" is a perfect combination of infectious chilled synth-chords, solid percussive groove and bouncy bass, enriched by the awesome and intense vocal performance by Ananda Project's leading vocalist Heather Johnson. Both Feliciano's mixes are beautiful, the "Vocal mix" is a top soulful track with an infectious funky vibe, while the Dub mix has less vocals and extra synth waves.  (Franco Martinelli)

051 Records is back with an awesome deep and jazzy release by Lefthander featuring Pouyah on vocals. "Breaking new ground" was already released on Guess back in 2007 as part of the "Give love EP", now the new package is enriched with some awesome, brand new remixes. Miles Borrero provides an intense jazz influenced remix with gritty drums, sweet soft pads and beautiful trumpet, Undertone delivers a powerful rework for the dancefloor, adding pumpin' beats, great Rhodes chords and hot bassline, while Richard Earnshaw offers another solid remix, adding some extra drums and organ bass. The beautiful "Original mix" is also included in the package.  (Franco Martinelli)

Guy Robin remixes one of the hottest 2008's Groovland tracks and provides one of the freshest soulful tracks of the season. The new mixes of "Desabafo" are pure summer freshness, Guy Robin adds solid driving beats, warm percussions, sweet Rhodes chords, delicate pads and infectious moog to the original trumpet riff and extended guitar solo. The result is awesome ! Summer essential.  (Franco Martinelli) 

If you love funky house don't miss this one. DJ Dealer's "Brothers and sisters" is a solid funky affair with an infectious old-school vibe. Pumpin' beats, driving bassline, classic house keys and wicked spoken words vocals are the main elements for this superb release. The "Northside mix" is a pure funky-house affair, while the "Southside mix" is a deeper and underground rework. Instrumental mixes of both the versions are also included in the package.  (Franco Martinelli)

The new "Toolroom Knights" compilation is selected and mixed by French DJ/Producer Joachim Garraud. Joachim provides 2 irresistible cutting-edge mixed sets of future classics and forward-thinking electronic house music. Both sets reflects today's club music, powerful techno and electro tracks with pulsanting rhythms, driving beats, blips and pumpin' basslines. The tracklist includes new and unreleased tracks from  Dirty Vegas, Mark Knight & Funkagenda, ATFC, Sebastian Gnewkow, Lazy Jay, Mark Trophy, Da Fresh, Groovewatchers, Olav Basoski, Joachim Garraud himself and many others, plus exclusive remixes by Joachim of Paganini Traxx's "Zoe" and the legendary BBE track "Seven days and one week".  (Franco Martinelli)

Bargrooves returns with another awesome compilation for the 2009 summer season, "Bargrooves - Summer Sessions II" is the perfect choice for soulful and disco lovers, the 24 full length unmixed tracks are essential cuts for beach, lounge and pre-club sets. From the sweet soulful tunes to the more pumpin' funky influenced tracks, this is a stellar selection. It features some of the most upfront cuts of the season, including tracks and mixes from some of world's hottest DJs, Producers and Artists like Dennis Ferrer, Lisa Shaw, Jay-J, Danism, Julien Jabre, The MuthaFunkaz, Fred Everything, Sandy Rivera, DJ Gregory, Joey Negro, Jovonn, ATFC and others. Summer is served !  (Franco Martinelli)

Taken from the highly acclaimed Soopasoul's "Twin stix" album, "Do me wrong" is a fantastic funky nugget. Soopasoul (aka Danny Hybird) and his fabulous live band provides an awesome funky gem with an irresitible classic flavour, featuring infectius brass, hot guitar and intense vocals from soul sista Sitzka. "Do me wrong" will be released as a 7" single in early August.  (Franco Martinelli)

Soulbasic returns with another quality soulful house track on Seamless, the guys have again teamed up with Australian singer Kyla Sexton and created another excellent release. The "Original mix" is a classic soulful track with luscious chords, hot percussions, cool guitar licks, piano and intense vocals. The package also includes some hot remixes, Conan Liquid provides a groovy-house remix as well as a driven peak time Dub, while Nicc Johnson delivers an infectious deep rework. The package also includes Radio, Instrumental and Soulbasics' "Deep mix".  (Franco Martinelli)

The "d:vision Club Session" compilation series is an essential release for working DJs and music lovers. This new 2xCD unmixed compilation provides all the hottest d:vision releases and licensed tracks in full lenght version. From the Big Room smash hits to the hottest club tacks, everything is very useful on a dancefloor. CD1 presents 13 catchy Big Room tracks for the summer, including "LaLa song" by Bob Sinclar & Sugarhill Gang and Warren Clarke's "Love crazy" and R.I.O,'s "After the love", just to name a few. CD 2 shows the Club side of d:vision and includes tracks like "Sinfonia della notte" by Dennis Ferrer, "One more time" by Richard Grey, "Vicious circle" by Julien Jabre, "Ready or not" by Yasmeen and other hot cuts from Lucien Foort, ATFC, Martin Solveig, Bingo Players, Chocolate Puma and many others.  (Franco Martinelli)

The new release of the Leaders Of The New School series is an awesome summer dreched track from Wilson, Smallwood & Ingram. "Perfect sunrise" is a feel-good, uplifting Ibiza summer anthem, with solid beats, hot Balearic pads and infectious synths. D-Unity provides a more minimal and techno influenced remix, while Alex Kenji delivers a deeper and underground rework.  (Franco Martinelli)

Taken from the forthcoming double CD album "Reelgroove Presents: The Sound of Reelgroove - The House Collection", this sampler is a brilliant preview. The 4 tracks reflects the classic sound of Reelgroove, where deep, soulful and funky elements perfectly combines. Filin Brake & David Maranello's "Black magic pearl" is a beautiful deep affair, as well as the Clemens Rumpf and David A. Tobin track. DJ Tekin & Greg Dorban provides a pumpin' house track while Soul Cola's "Hit the morning beat" is an uplifting funky gem. Can't wait to listen to the full album !  (Franco Martinelli)

Coffee & Creme presents another beautiful soulful releases titled "Deep love" by Delorean Suite. The 10 tracks package includes beside the Original Mix some very hot remixes. Mistery & Matt Early provides 3 fabulous reworks, the first one is a classic soulful remix with great Rhodes chords, warm strings and hot bassline, the Sunset Mix is a mellow, beatless and atmospheric rework, while the Lounge Mix has infectious funky beats. Doll Combers delivers a beautiful soul and jazzy influenced version, while DJ Circle delivers a powerful funky-house remix for the clubs and Dom Navarra goes deeper with his warm, percussive "Latin Magic Remix".  (Franco Martinelli)

Definition Of Soul are UK duo Susannah McMillan and Anthony Gibson. Their new release on Gotta Keep Faith is an awesome, smooth deep track with an infectious late night vibe, enriched with sultry spoken words vocals and saxophone drops. Many of the 7 remixes keeps the deep/soulful vibe alive, DJ PsM, Questionmar Q, Krispaglia and Bali remixes they could all become lounge favourites, while Arnoud D adds pumpin' house beats in his rework and Mr Mama provides a Jackin House influenced remix.  (Franco Martinelli) 

Defcted celebrates another Ibiza season with the classic summer compilation "Defected in the house - Ibiza 09". The double CD is selected and mixed by Copyright, featuring live percussions by Showell and includes 27 tracks that will be shaking the White Isle this year, featuring over 17 exclusive cuts from the likes of Dennis Ferrer, ATFC, DJ Gregory, Harry Choo Choo Romero, Sandy Rivera, Armand Van Helden and Copyright themselves. CD 1 "El dia" is a funky and uplifting set with an infectious sun drenched vibe enriched by warm atmospheres and fresh latin rhythms, while CD2 "El noche" is a deeper and pumpin' affair for the clubs, filled with tribal rhythms and techy elements. 2009 Ibiza summer season is started !  (Franco Martinelli)

Sunlightsquare are back with a guaranteed dancefloor "Bomb". It's not easy to make a good cover of a super classic like Earth Wind & Fire's hit "Let's groove", but Sulightsquare did it. Featuring the great vocals of Tasita D'Mour and Sol, Sunlightsquare provides the fresh and jazzy house flavoured "Original mix" as well as a more 80's ifluenced "Funk & soul reprise" mixes. The 13 tracks package also includes some very hot remixes, Mustafa goes deeper and provides some very smooth and infectious remixes, while Hedi Benromdan (from Afromento) delivers some pumpin' reworks for the dancefloor, including the peak time "Dub headz mix". Finally Frisco propel the tune into a catchy electro-pop affair.  (Franco Martinelli)

DJ Man X  teams up with Albert Serling Mendez and Blaze and releases this awesome soulful single "Consquences" on Deep Haven. The "Man X sunset nights vocal mix" is a solid slice of classic soulful-house, with crispy beats, hot funky bassline and great Rhodes chords that perfectly fits with the passionate soul vocals. while the "Blaze vocal mix" is a smoother affair with an infectious jazzy vibe. The package also includes the Instrumental versions of both mixes. (Franco Martinelli) 

Here's another d:vision nugget for the summer, Formentera residents, DJ/Producers Enric Costa and Joele Brizio are the men behind "Herbasana on the rocks" an intense funky and groovy track with a cool balearic soulful vibe and beautiful sax solos. The new d:vison package includes beside the original mixes a rich set of quality remixes, Sirkahn provides a solid rework, Gregory Del Piero goes deeper with a smooth and relaxing remix, Harlem Hustler delivers a powerful techy mix, Blue Deep an infectious groovy Dub, Cyan K a delicate and smoother Sunset Mix, adding flute parts and acoustic guitar. Other hot mixes comes from Javi Lopez, Time Passing and Moba Sound.  (Franco Martinelli)

Peng returns with another beautiful soulful release by Andy Compton featuring Diviniti. "In love again" is an infectious soulful track with great Rhodes chords, warm synth, sweet strings and intense soul vocals. DJ Graphie provides an awesome groovy rework, adding percussive elements and a deeper bassline, the "Bazils remix" is a funkier affair, while Rurals delivers a deeper mix with an infectious jazzy vibe. The package also includes Dubs and Andy Compton's own mixes.  (Franco Martinelli)

Justin Imperiale is back with an awesome soulful release on his own Cabana Records label. "Movin' on" featuring Davina on vocals, is a classic soulful track with solid beats, infectious funky bassline, warm percussions, sweet jazzy Rhodes and hot Moog solo. Remixes comes courtesy of Dom Navarra, who provides an intense rework with loads of percussive elements and jazzy piano, while Johnny Montana delivers a more classic and smoother rework, adding warm Organ chords. Finally, the "Organic Blu Sol remix" is an intense chill-out version.  (Franco Martinelli)

Glenn S is a young producer from Holland and "The mayan EP" is his new release on Otra Vez. This 4 track EP is very interesting, it combines percussion driven beats with infectious synth lines and melodies. "Sungod" is awesome, simple and extremely effective, with infectious vocals by Jo'Leon and an irresistible groovy beat. "Warrior temple" is a tribal influenced, groovy affair with some extra electronic elements, "Rainforest" is another powerful tribal cut, while "Chichen Itza" is an hypnotic, underground track, provided in 2 different versions.  (Franco Martinelli) 

What a nice surprise, Grant Nelson is back with a real summer anthem. "Brave new world" is a fresh and infectious track with an irresitible driving groove, awesome piano chords, uplifting synths and catchy vocal drops. The "Low Jack remix" is a dirtier, techy affair with a powerful acid line and a beautiful breakdown. Welcome back Swing City !  (Franco Martinelli)

Jocasta's "Girls are evil" is the new MoreHouse Records release and it's another funky-house winner. The "Groove Junkies classic mix" is a powerful funky track with pumpin' beats, solid bassline, great Rhodes and piano keys, enriched with hot flute and sax parts. The "Dislectrotech mix" is a more groovy affair, while the "GJ's regga mix" is a fresh and catchy remix with great horns ad extra reggae elements. Fianally the "Suttering Munx mix" is a deeper and darker rework.  (Franco Martinelli)

Peven Everett returns with a fantastic, new album. "Party of the year" is a very eclectic and infectious record that perfectly combines House, Funky, Hip-hop, R&B, 70's Soul, Deep and Jazz elemnts, enriched by the intense and soulful vocal performances of Mr. Everett. Listening to this album is pure pleasure, it is an awesome ride into today's hottest and quality Soul influenced music. There are so many great tracks in this LP that it is so very hard to choose some favourites. Personally I really love "Don't go", the 70's disco influenced teracks "All the time" and "Music", the fresh, latin tinged "Bangin" and the funky "New day" among the others. "Party of the year" is one of the hottest album of the summer !  (Franco Martinelli)

Multi talented DJ/Producer Sir Piers join forces with Toni Econimides under their Tarantulaz guise and provides an awesome soulful influenced vocal house track featuring Courtney Dennie on vocals. The "Original mix" is a solid funky-house track with soulful vocals and 80's style synths. The "Club mix" is a more pumpin' affair for the dancefloor, while Scott Wozniak delivers a fresh remix laced with uplifting synths and infectious chords. Fianlly Jojo Flores and Joe Di Padova goes deeper and a bit darker in their percussive and underground remixes.  (Franco Martinelli)

"The lover that you are" is a 1996 classic house track by Pulse, now d:vision in association with Ministry Of Sound provides the new 2009 remixes package that includes the brand new remixes by Marlon D & George Mena. This new D:Vison CD single is a real nugget, 11 versions including some of the best mixess from the original release, "Original mix", "DJ's Rule remix", "Spin that wheel dub", "Slipping lions remix" as well as the fantastic new mixes. Marlon D & George Mena takes the track to a deeper level, their new remix is a smoother, sophisticated rework with an infectious soulful vibe, hot jazzy piano, great strings and a warm percussive groove. Essential.  (Franco Martinelli)

She Recordings debut release is a slamming soulful vocal track from Australian DJ Jorj, featuring Abby Joyce on vocals. "What am I to do" is a classic soulful cut with solid beats, hot piano chords, warm strings and infectious vocals. Richard Earnshaw provides a killer soulful remix, adding more pumpin' beats, funky guitar and delicious Rhodes chords. The "Tikyo remix" is another beautiful soulful rework of the track, while the "Cordery's Disco edit" is a powerful 70's disco influenced track with an irresistible funky bassline, hot piano chords and great 70's style horns and strings.  (Franco Martinelli)

Joey Negro remixes of Cerrone's super classic "Cerrone's paradise" is pure delight. Joey Negro reworks the track keeping the original 70's vibe alive and adding his trademark modern funky/disco touch. The result is simply amazing, this fantstic "Disco" track is brilliant and fresher than ever, the new pumpin' beats fits perfectly with the original parts which made "Paradise" one of the greatest classic of the Disco era. Nostalgic disco fans and young funky-house lovers are served, this is high quality music.  (Franco Martinelli) 

Seamless returns with another quality house track from Soulbasics. "Out of time" is a beautiful soulful influenced track featuring Australian singer Kyla Sexton on vocals. The "Original mix" is a sophisticated slice of soulful house with beautiful keys, delicate chords and warm percussions. The "Sunset mix" is a Lounge essential, smoother rework, enriched with acoustic instrumentation, while Vincent Kwok provides a solid deeper remix and Santi Touch delivers a trippy, electronic infected, underground rework. Dub and Instrumental mixes are included in the package.  (Franco Martinelli)

Steven Stone teams up with singer Elisangela and provides this beautiful, uplifting, fresh release titled "Alucinada de prazer", featuring Portugese vocals, sweet Rhodes chords, funky guitar licks and trumpet solo over a latin ionfluenced groove. The package also includes several hot remixes, Stereo Mutants provides a solid deep rework, Jihad Muhammad delivers the smooth and jazzy "Movement soul remix", while Jarrier Modrow offers another awesome soulful rework and Hernan Cronner serves a laidback, Bossa influenced remix.  (Franco Martinelli)

D:vision presents Ministry Of Sound's "Fresh Antherms vol 1". This 25 tracks compilation offers a fresh and eclectic selection of uplifting cuts for the summer. From the catchy pop influenced party songs to the deeper cuts and the funky tinged tracks here's a big variety of house styles to choose from. Starring some of the most gorgeous dance voices like Robin S, Chanel, Tara McDonald, Shena etc.. and including tracks and remixes from heavyweight house music producers like Warren Clarke, Wawa, Jason Herd, Soul Avangerz, Utah Saints, Wez Clarke, Ali Payami, Thomas Gold, Mobin Master, Alex Gaudino and many others, this album is a nice and fresh soundtrack for the summer.  (Franco Martinelli)

Stalwart Records returns with a new awesome soulful release for the summer. Top DJ/Producer DJ Jorj teams up with House music superstar singers Michelle Weeks and Byron Stingly and the result is a beautiful track titled "Back 2 me". The "Original mix" is a fresh and uplifting soulful gem, with hot bouncing beats, warm bassline, infectious funky Organ and of course, stellar vocals. The "Club mix" is a more minimal affair with pumpin' beats, extra percussions and wicked synth bass, while the "Souled Out Edit" is a sublime funky flavoured rework, enriched by an awesome Hammond line. The package also includes remixes by Juan Kid who provides a peak time remix for the dancfloor, adding pumpin' beats and electronic elements, while DJ Rork delivers a deepr and twisted remix.  (Franco Martinelli)  

Here's another soulful gem from GoGo Music, "Never forget" is the new release by Roberto De Carlo featuring Joshua. The "Original mix" is a a classic Soulful house affair with solid funky beats, infectious bass, great Rhodes keys and catchy funky guitar. The package also includes some very hot remixes: Ralf Gum goes very deep in his rework, adding wicked keys, spaced out pads and underground elements, Jay-J provides a more uplifting remix with a slight electronic touch, while Dalminjo delivers a brilliant soulful rework with warm pads and cool strings that gives the track an infectious "late night" Balearic flavour.  (Franco Martinelli) 

For the new chapter of the acclaimd "Mix the vibe" series, King Street joins forces with Yoruba's main man Osunlade, and the result is an awesome deep compilation. The mixed set reflects the taste of top DJ/Producer Osunlade, it is deep and soulful, enriched with warm afro/tribal percussive elements and infectious vocals. The entire mixed set spreads an intense underground vibe. The excellent selection includes tracks by artists like Blaze & Palmer Brown, Mateo & Matos, Ananda Project, Studio Apartment, Kerri Chandler, Tiger Stripes e Urban Soul and many more.  (Franco Martinelli) 

The new "Papeete Beach Lounge Vol. 4" is an eclectic and essential compilation for the Lounge/Bar and Poolside parties, it is an excellent mixture of latin, soul, mediterranean, ethnic and eastern influenced sounds, r&b, bossa, afro, jazzy and latin rhythms, in a brilliant combination of acoustic instrumentation and intense, soulful vocals. The 15 tracks compilation includes both Original and Cover cuts, some of the highlights are the beautiful acoustic and latin tinged cover of "I'm every woman" by Julian Aquino, the lovely and sweet bossa "A felicitade" by Acoustic Undo, the fresh and "Old Fashion" track "C'est l'amour" by Sambamor, the acoustic cover of the Blondie's hit "Call me" and the awesome acoustic cover of "I will survive" with its intense jazzy and smokey, late night vibe.  (Franco Martinelli) 

"Turn around" was one of the early releases of Coffee & Cream last year, now is time for a remixes package and what a great package is this ! It includes the beautiful "Album edit" that is a lounge essential track with its intense vocal performance, warm soulful strings and broken beats rhythms, as well as some high quality remixes. The House mixes are classic soulful house affairs with solid beats, funky bassline and warm Rhodes, while the "Afro latin" mixes have extra percussions and hot latin bassline. The package also includes Original's Extended, Radio edit and the beatless "Sunset mix".  (Franco Martinelli)  

The new Peppermint Jam release is "For all you do" by Soulstar Syndicate featuring SuSu Bobien. This giant package includes mixes for every taste and every situations, the Soulful Vocal fans will love the Original mix, the awesome Claudio Di Carlo "Classic mix" with its killer piano hook, as well as the fresh and uplifting "Izzy stardust remix" and the deeper "Akri Jr Funky mix". If you like more pumpin' beats and electronic influenced sounds you will not be disappinted, choosing from the remixes by Samir Maslo, Leggs & Robinson, Soul Buddha vs. Bionik Phank and Palymaker. This is a very complete and eclectic package, enriched by the awesome vocals of SuSu Bobien.  (Franco Martinelli) 

"Unbelievable" is a solid Vocal house track with an infectious summer vibe. The "Original mix" is a fresh cut with an infectious vocal line, solid beats and sunny piano line, the Richard Earnshaw "Club mix" is a more pumpin' and groovy affair for the dancefloor, while Justin Michael & Adam Auburn provides a deeper, bass driven rework. Finally Jay Vegas delivers a simple, catchy and effective pumpin' remix.  (Franco Martinelli) 

For her second album "Love paradise", Hanna Hais teams up with some heavyweight producers of the international house scene, including Jamie Lewis, Ralf Gum, Ian Carey, DJ Meme and the result is an awesome 10 tracks LP that perfectly combines French house, latin tinged rhythms, funky elements, deep atmospheres and 70's Disco influenced sounds, all enriched by the intense vocal performance of Hanna Hais. "Love paradise" includes the recent singles "Jungo", "Jazz Samba", "Une journèe avec toi", "I love America", as well as a fresh bunch of new, impressive tracks, that makes it, one of the hottest artist albums of the summer.  (Franco Martinelli) 

Seamless Twelve's returns with a new powerful vocal-house relase from acclaimed NYC producer Matthias Heilbronn featuring Inaya Day on vocals. "Heaven" is a sophisticated and uplifting house track with great vocals and solid beats. Remixes are provided by Switzerland DJ/Producer DJ Le Roy who delivers a pumpin' and deeper rework for the dancefloor, while Jazzloungerz creates a beautiful soulful remix, adding warm Rhodes chords and sweet strings. Finally Xplore provides a lounge influenced, deep and dreamy remix.  (Franco Martinelli)  

Julien Jabre rocks the summer once again with his new powerful single "Vicious circle". Not as strong as "Swimming places" from my point of view, this new Jabre's release is going to be another summer anthem. The "John Dahlback club mix" is the perfect floorfiller, with solid beats and catchy synth keys. The package also includes beside the "Original mix" the techy influenced tracks "Radio angels" and "The stock", as well as the Original mix of Jarbe's classic "Swimming places", but if you are lucky enough to catch the d:vison Single CD you will also find as bonus tracks, 3 great remixes of the Jarbe's classic.  (Franco Martinelli) 

This is probably one of the best compialtion of the "Toolroom Knights" series and it is selected and mixed by Toolroom main man Mark Knight. The 2XCD mixed set developes from fresh summer influenced traks to more pumpin', techy, dark and underground cuts. CD 1 starts with a couple of fresh groovy tracks and goes tougher with some pumpin' tech-house cuts like Adam 5's "What's occuring", Mark Knights "Manhaim" and "Club politics", Matteo DiMarr's "Addicted", and many others. CD 2 is a deeper, underground affair, featuring tracks by Soul Minority, Funkagenda, Workidz & Randall, Tiger Stripes, D-Formation and Faithless just to name but a few.  (Franco Martinelli)  

Iwanai Music provides another beautiful soulful release, Guy Robin's "I'll be there" is an awesome soul influenced track featuring Michael David Dyson on vocals. The "Suges classic mix" is a delicate and infectius soulful affair, while the "Suges steampunk mix" has more pumpin' beats, driven bassline and an infectious old-school vibe. Finally, the Guy Robins own remix is the real gem, with solid beats, soft pads and infectious keys, this is a fantastic soulful nugget.  (Franco Martinelli) 

The Cookie Monsterz are back with their second release on Floor Jams with a track entitled "Spirtits". Teaming up with DJ Roland Clark, this track shows the deeper side of their sound. On the remix duties we find Conan Liquid who provides an infectious techy influenced, deep rework for the dancefloor, while Japan producer Hideo Kobayashi delivers a smoother and dreamy remix.  (Franco Martinelli) 

"Move on up" is the 3rd single from Oscar P's "Time machine" album and comes with a fully loaded remix package. The Cortes remix is a real soulful influenced gem, with warm percussions, great keys and infectious flute, Javi lopez goes deeper, darker and minimal in his remix, while Stevie B provides a cool 70's Disco influenced rework. Other mixes comes courtesy of Kike Bronchal who adds some catchy electro elements, Zonum who delivers a powerful groovy and underground rework and Silvano DaSilva.  (Franco Martinelli) 

New Mondo returns with another beautiful soulful release on Eight 15 Recordings, "U got the love" is an awesome track featuring Morrison on vocals and enriched with very hot remixes from Richard Earnshaw and Left. The "Original mix" is an uplifting soulful influenced house track with solid beats and wicked keys stabs, Richard Earnshaw provides a beautiful soulful remix, adding infectious funky bassline and an intense jazzy vibe, finally Left delivers a deeper, dubby and groovy rework, with vocal snippets and electronic elements.  (Franco Martinelli) 

Here's another powerful house release on Look At You, Fabio Tosti and Mashall Jefferson teams up to release this solid house cut titled "Mind & Soul". The "Original mix" is a simple and effective track with solid beats and the intense spoken Words vocals by Mashall Jefferson. DJ Dealer provides a powerful funky rework, adding an irresitible driving bassline and great percussive elements. The package also includes the solid "Under club mix".  (Franco Martinelli) 

For his new release, Yass covers one of Prince's biggest classics "When doves cry". "Yass Main mix" is a solid, deep affair, with hypnotic piano chords and infectious vocals, DJ Spen adds a more classic house flavour in his Muthafunkaz remix, adding a driving house groove and old school piano. DJ Spen also teams up with Thommy Davis and the couple provides another 2 solid house mixes, including the groovy and tribal influenced  "Blackfrocan mix". Dub mixes of all the versions are also included in the package.  (Franco Martinelli) 

The third release of the City Light compilation series is compiled and mixed by Kaiser Souzai (aka Markus Binapft and Patrick Buck). Kaiser Souzai have released numerous tracks which have become serious hits in the underground Techno and Minimal circuit. This set reflects their love for electronic/minimal sounds, and includes very strong tracks from MANDY & Booka Shade, Paul Rich, Dubfire & Oliver Huntemann, Kaiserdisco, TG Aka Tim Green and Kaiser Souzai themself. Essential for the Tech-Minimal lovers.  (Franco Martinelli) 

This double A-side release from Workidz & Randall on Toolroom Tracks is a guaranteed main room dancefloor destroyer. "Delta 51" is an irresistible groovy track with hard hittin' beats, searing bass and infectious spacey synths, while "Fierceness" is a rolling techno groover with minimal percussions and lot of energy.  (Franco Martinelli) 

For his debut on Tempogroove, Beaten Soul (Colum Hustler) teams up with singer Nicole Tyler and provides a powerful vocal house track titled "Take my time". The "Original mix" is a classic house affair with uplifting piano chords and intense soulful vocals, the "YCS mix" is a more pumpin' version, while the remixes goes deeper and includes reworks from SoulDynamic, Alfres Azzetto and Bright Coffee.  (Franco Martinelli) 

San Francisco duo Rickert & Vesley presents their new album on Sobra Recordings, "Greenscapes" is an intense collection of downtempo lounge freindly tracks, a brilliant misture of funky, jazz, bossa and breaks sounds. From the fresh and uplifting latin tinged tracks to the nocturne and underground jazzy cuts, this album provides some hot and quality music.  (Franco Martinelli) 

Another brilliant release from the "Back to fundamentals" series comes from French superstar DJ/Producer Dimitri From Paris. "Rock this town" is a powerful funky track with infectious 70s and 80s influences. The package includes some very hot remixes from heavyweight house talents like Claude Monnett, DJ Meme, Those Usual Suspects and Lifelike. The "Original mix" is a solid synth driven track with hot guitar stabs, old school vocals, irresitible percussive groove and an intense early 80s flavour. Claude Monnett in his remix adds a solid house groove but keeps the fresh 80's vibe alive, DJ Meme completely reworks the track, adding warm percussions, infectious soulful chords and a beautiful piano, while Those Usual Suspects provides a pumpin' , funky, filtered remix. The package also includes the powerful Lifelike remix as well as Dub and Edit versions.  (Franco Martinelli) 

NYC-based Japanese production team FCKS debuts on King Street with this beautiful soulful gem titled "Magic", featuring Manchild Black on vocals. The Main mix is an infectious soulful affair with a warm percussive groove, soft keys, hot synth solo and inspired vocals. The "Key dub mix" is an instrumental rework with a fresh jazzy flavour.  (Franco Martinelli) 

Didier Delesalle aka Shazz returns with a new awesome LP titled "Heritage". For his new work, Shazz teams up with singer/composer Michael Robinson, whose powerful soul influenced voice, leaves its mark on the tracks of the album. The music in "Heritage" is a perfect combination of various kind, Dance, Soul, R&B, Jazz, Blues, Ballads, everything is fresh and quality here. The album is very eclectic and complete, every track would deserve a mention. Some of my favourite songs are the mid-tempo funky gem "Gonna make you happy", the uplifting "American", the fresh and jazzy influenced "After the rain", the dance friendly "Ring" and the downtempo ballad "Mirage".  (Franco Martinelli) 

Seamless Recordings is back with another solid house music release, Izzy Stardust's "After the love" is a powerful track featuring singer Dave McPharrell on vocals. The "Original mix" is a solid house track with pumpin' beats, electric bassline and some excellent deep chords. The "Dom Kane remix" is a slammin' rework, with an irresistible bassline and acid house elements, Greg Stainer provides a more classic "Piano remix", while Monodeluxe delivers an intense and smoother bar/lounge friendly rework.  (Franco Martinelli) 

"If you love me" by Chanel is a fresh and uplifting summer winner. Simple and very enjable, with a catchy pop/soul influenced vocal line, this track smells of sun, beaches and realaxing moments by the pool. Disco Lips provides a more pumpin' rework for the summer dancefloors, while Danny Dove & Steve Smart delivers an electronic influenced rework.  (Franco Martinelli) 

Steven Stone teams up with vocalist Kaysee for his new release on Soul Deluxe. "Identity" is a soulful influenced deep track with solid bassline, wicked synth keys and infectious soulful vocals. The "Born To Funk remix" is a more pumpin' and electro/funky infected affair, while Andrea Carissimi provides an awesome soulful rework, adding a killer funky bass, great keys and jazzy influenced solos. Finally, Mustafa delivers an intense "Soul do Brazil remix", it is a latin-tinged, smoother rework with broken beats rhythms, infectious bassline and warm strings.  (Franco Martinelli) 

The new "Fashion District" series CD compilation on Cool d:vision is titled "Rio De Janeiro" and  it is an awesome selection of fresh Brazilian influenced tracks. On Disc 1 there are 14 beautiful lounge essential tracks, warm Bossa and Samba rhythms, intense vocals, fresh latin and jazzy elements that creates an infectious tropical sunset mood. There are tracks from Gabin, Bebel Gilberto, Eliane Elias, Thievery Corporation, Rosalia De Souza and many more. This is pure quality listening pleasure. CD 2 starts with some uplifting latin tracks and it develops into a fresh latin drenched house set, including some hot latin-house classics like Espirito's "Canto de Orfeo" and "Brazilian love affair" as well as more pumpin' club friendly tracks like Freemasons "If" and Soulsearcher's "Can't get enoug", just to name a few. This is a summer essential compilation.  (Franco Martinelli) 

Sandy Rivera goes very deep with his new single on MN2S titled "Deeper". The "Original mix" is a deep an dark underground track with solid  pumpin' beats, enriched with the intense vocal performance of Haze. King Of Tomorrow adds some wicked sounds and effects as well as an irresistible bassline in their rework, while the "Paris remix" is a more electronic influenced cut with an infectious funky flavour. The package also includes the techy "Freak remix" as well as the full elctro / minmal "Claudia remix".  (Franco Martinelli) 

Orienta Rhythm teams up with House diva Michelle Weeks for their new release on King Street. They covered the Sabrina Johnston's 1991 house classic "Peace" and the result is another awesome uplifting house gem 7 years later. Orienta Rhythm's production is very solid and the powerful vocals of Michelle Weeks makes the difference. This strong hands-in-the-air, peak time bomb is provided in 2 mixes, the proggy "Solid mix" and the deeper and driving "Resound mix".  (Franco Martinelli) 

Ralf Gum join forces with Inaya Day for his first single on the legndary Strictly Rhythm. "Reap" is an awesome funky influenced soulful track with great uplifting vocals and a fresh summer vibe. Beside the original Ralf Gum mixes, the Redsoul remixes (Club and Dub) are more pumpin' and club friendly affairs. Redsoul adds some wicked and darker electronic elements that perfectly fits with the infectious Inaya Day vocals and gives the track an irresistible peak time flavour.  (Franco Martinelli) 

"I want cha" is the first single taken from the forthcoming New Mondo artist album "Total control". It is a solid track with an infectious 90's style funk flavour, enriched by the soulful vocal performance by Lisa Shaw. Beside the original mix, the package also includes some hot remixes, Haldo provides an awesome deeper rework, the "TDL Jazzafella cut" is a beautiful soulful and jazzy remix with great piano chords and warm string. Ray P provides a funky rework, while dario D'Attis delivers an intense afro remix with loads of percussions and ethnic sounds. Fianlly the Bulletz Bump mixes are pumpin' electro influenced stuff.  (Franco Martinelli) 

The Jaffers is a new project from Jaffa Music's head honcho Nicolas Vautier and keyboard player Nicolas Gueguen. Their first release "Be good" features Rachel Claudio on vocals and is a fresh French feel funky old school track. The package also includes some powerful remixes, Rocco provides a deeper and more minimal rework, while the "Scope remix" is a cool combination of funky and electronic elements. Other remixes comes from Kirby and David Mateo & Rafix.  (Franco Martinelli) 

Rio De Janeiro producer/musician Tarek teams up with Luis Ramirez and vocalist Cristina Soto for this new release on the finest Brazilan house-music label Grooveland Music. The Original mix of "Say Goodbye" is a deep and mellow house affair, featuring live congas, warm keys and Cristina's smooth and sexy vocals. The package also includes some very hot remixes. Steve SoulBasic's rework is an awesome soulful mix with warm Rhodes chords, latin percussions and infectious synth bass, Marc Cotterell provides a deeper remix with great spacey pads and filtered synths, while BSC adds funky beats for a more pumpin' rework. The jazzy "Luif piano dub" and the intense "Wagner D" mixes are also included, as well as Instrumental and Dub mixes.  (Franco Martinelli) 

Martin East joins forces with soulful vocalist Jared Douglas and provides a fantastic soulful, jazzy tinged, deep house monster. "Release" is served in various gorgeous mixes, including a killer remix of Mr. V. The package starts with Martin's Broken Beats Mix, an infectious jazzy influenced track laced with lush trumpet and warm keys, "Martin's Deepah dub" and "Vocal mix" are deeper, groovy affairs, with moody bassline, warm percussions and spacey pads. Mr. V delivers a brilliant soulful re-work, adding warm Rhodes and Organ keys, hot strings, solid beats and funky bassline, while the "Mike Sarkus & Ralph Session Dub" is a deeper and darker, underground version.  (Franco Martinelli) 

Disco Diva Sybil is back with a new excellent single titled "Stronger (Don't look back)". Written with top deep-house talent Quentin Harris, this track is a deep house monster. It has pumpin' beats, wicked bassline, infectious underground arrangements and passionate soulful vocals. Beside the awesome Vocal mix, Harris provides a synth influenced Dub as well as the powerful "Instrumental mix". Other mixes comes from Stonebridge, who delivers a solid pop influenced synth driven rework for the Big Room dancefloor.  (Franco Martinelli)  

For this new "Leaders Of The New School" series release on Toolroom, Mark Trophy & Oliver Lang presents "Northen hustles", a brilliant, pumpin' track that combines solid funky beats, warm electronic elements and fresh Sax solo. The "Nic Bridges remix" is a tougher affair, with less sax and an irresistible Teach/house flavour, while Mark Trophy provides a pulsant groovy remix with loads of percussions, driven bassline and that infectious Sax that really makes the difference.  (Franco Martinelli) 

Warren Clarke returns with a new powerful funky track featuring Tara McDonald on vocals. "Love crazy" is a solid and uplifting funky-house affair, it has pumpin' beats, driven funky bassline, wicked horns drops and a catchy vocal line. The package also includes the fresher "Triple D remix" with its irresistible driven piano, as well as Instrumental and Edit mixes of both the versions.  (Franco Martinelli) 

Abe Duque's 3rd album "Don’t be so mean" is a very interesting and eclectic release, alongside the dancefloor orientated cuts on which he has built his reputation, there are excellent ambient, electronica, and techno influenced cuts. This album shows Abe's more meditative side with tracks like "Why they needs us", "Ofma" and "Forever untitled", alongside more pumpin' and deep cuts like "Life is so good to me", "Tonight is your answer", "Following my heart" featuring Virginia Nascimento on vocals and the acid monster "Trash acid down", just to name a few. "Don’t be so mean" will be released on May 25th.  (Franco Martinelli) 

The second release by Australian label Brain Kat Records is "Passers by", a nice and catchy synth-pop influenced track with an infectious 80's vibe and sexy vocals. Beside the original mixes, the package also includes a more driven and electro remix by James De Pinho, as well as an awesome Funky Dub by Ben Jam who completely reworks the track, adding warm Rhodes keys, funky bass, piano, guitar and sax parts. The second Part of the release will come soon and it will include some hot remixes by Jeremy Sylvester, Moojaa, La Gooch and Musashi.  (Franco Martinelli)

Another soulful gem is going to be released on GoGo, Andy Compton feat. Kafele's "Above the sky" is a warm and smooth soul influenced track provided in various mixes. The "Original mix" is a classic soulful affair with great Rhodes keys, warm percussive groove, fresh horn parts and intense vocals, Ralf GUM provides an infectious groovy remix, adding hot percussive elements and atmospheric pads, finally Bazil delivers a more pumpin' remix for the dancefloors, keeping the soulful flavour alive, but adding soild funky beats and poweful bassline that gives the track a more uplifting vibe.  (Franco Martinelli) 

What a stellar sampler is this, Duffnote confirms to be one of the Soulful/Funky top labels and presents 5 awesome tracks on its "DuffNote WMC" EP. B-Ace feat. Stephanie "Hold on" is a beautiful soulful track enriched with hot jazzy influnced elements and intense soul vocals, Tony Vass "Fly me higher" is another soulful house gem with beautiful vocals, wicked bass and an uplifting vibe. Mr Moon & Angel D presents the wonderful "Soulmate", a smooth, jazzy influenced soulful track featuring Michael Flaming on vocals, Stereo Mutants "Turning around" is a deeper track with a soulful edge, built on a warm percussive groove enriched with soft pads, warm synths and hot vocals, and finally "Give in" by White Soul Project is a classic uplifting, soulful track with funky beats and great vocals.  (Franco Martinelli)  

This is gonna be a summer hit for sure ! Put together the fresh Bob Sinclar music plus the classic old-school rap vocals by Master G and Wonder Mike from the legendary Sugarhill Gang ... and the "bomb" is dropped. "Lala song" is one of the freshes, catchy party tracks I heard lately, and it is alredy a big Radio hit. The package includes beside the Original mix a couple of powerful dancefloor oriented, electro influenced remixes from Tocadisco, Donovan Dominator and Guy Schreiner. Easy, funny and effective, this is going to be the soundrack of next summer.  (Franco Martinelli) 

The AphroDisiax "Unfinished businnes" EP is poweful 4 tracks single with an infectious underground flavour. The A side tracks "Unfinished businnes" and "Keep it moving" are both iinfluenced by broken/house rhythms, while the B side presents "My getaway", an intense tribal techno soul track with an irresistible percussive groove and grest spoken words vocals by Tim M West, followed by "Right beside you", a brilliant old-school Chicago-house influenced track with solid beats, warm key chords and infectious tech-house melodies  (Franco Martinelli) .

"Vibrate!" is the new Haitigroove compilation selected and mixed by Denis The Menace and Big World. The 13 tracks mixed set consist in an hot selection of pumpin' electronic tracks with a fresh uplifting vibe, including the poweful "Fired up" by Denis The Menace and Big World themselves, "Good times" by Wheels & Disco, Paul Gardner's "You can't hide from yourself" remixed by Ruben Alvarez, Giorgio Giordano's "Amazzonia", as well as other hot tracks from Audiofly, Armand Pena, Moguai, Arno Cost and others. In addiction of the mixed set, the Cd includes also "Orbital" by Denis The Menace & Big World as single Bonus Track.  (Franco Martinelli) 

Made By Monkeys returns with a new single on Kult Records, "I think of you" is a powerful techy track with melodic vocals, provided in various versions, including remixes by Rui Da Silva, Timothy Allen, Mano, Gabriel Rodella, Salvatore and Szeifert vs. Krash. The track is already causing a big buzz around and is receiving support from heavyweight DJs like Oscar G who has included it in his next LiveAtSpace compilation. The package also includes an Alternative mix by Made By Monkeys themselves as well as a more minimal Dub mix.  (Franco Martinelli) 

I really loved this track when it was first released about 10 years ago on Soulfuric, now the new remixes gives this cut a second life. The big d:vision's Single CD package provides 12 mixes of the song, including the Original mix, as well as new remixes from Jazz N Groove, Henrik B, Robbie Rivera, and Hi2rogen & Nikola. The "Jazz N Groove Nu Disco mix" is awesome, it has poweful funky beats, funky bass and an infectious disco flavour, Henrik B provides a deeper and electronic remix with an irresistible hypnotic synth driven groove, while Hi2rogen & Nikola delivers a fresh, techy rework. The package also includes various Dub, Instrumental and Edit mixes as well as the "Bonus beat" and "Acappella" versions.  (Franco Martinelli) 

Put together one of the most respected and influential DJs of the house scene and the most legendary and glorious recording label in house music history, it is easy to see, the result will be awesome. Eric Morillo is back on Strictly Rhythm with a new, great compilation. "Strictly Eric Morillo" is part of a new Strictly compilations series headed up by the labels most prolific artists, old and new. This 3XCD album reflects Erick’s peak time dance floor moments, and includes Strictly's exclusively reworked classic tracks mixed with new and upfront releases. Morillo's DJ mix is an epic and sexy musical journey that reflects a true Morillo set, moreover the 3rd CD presents a strong selection of Strictly and Morillo's classic tracks in extended versions, including Reel 2 Real "I like to move it", Barbara Tucker "Beautiful people", Aly Us "Follow me", as well as tracks from South St Player, River Ocean, Joint Venture, Lil Mo Yin Yang and Morillo's "Dancin" and "Jazz it up".  (Franco Martinelli) 

It's WMC season, and many labels presents their WMC samplers with lot of new music. MN2S provides a very solid sampler with 6 hot tracks that will be released as singles later this year. The tracks on this sampler combines uplifting, soulful influenced vocals, funky beats and deep, darker atmospheres. Sandy Rivera's "Deeper" is a dark, underground, deep track with infectious vocals by Haze, "Change" by Danism is another deep affair with an electronic edge, enriched with soulful vocals performed by Michael Watford. "Shame" by The Jinks is a powerful deep track with fresh vocals by Michelle Weeks, "Did you ever" is a techy deep cut, while "Stop" by Phonic Funk & Max C is a more uplifting funky affair. Finally DJ LeRoy's "Get ready" is another hot funky cut with great soulful vocals.  (Franco Martinelli) 

If you like the fresh atmospheres and the warm rhythms of Brazilain music, this album is just what you need. UK's Mr. Bongo Recordings presents "Tudo Ben", a wonderful collection of Jorge Ben covers. Here you can listen to the classic songs of this legendary Brazilian artist as well as some less known tracks, covered by some of the finest bands in Brazil. This selection represents a dance-floor orientated outing including mega-rarities and superhits reworked with an infectious soulful and jazzy flavour that perfectly combines with the classic Brazilian vibe. Some of the most important tracks includes "Zazueira", "Mas que nada", "Pais Tropical", "Fio maravilha", "Tenha fe, pois amanha um lindo dia vai", "Que mara vilha" and may others.  (Franco Martinelli)  

Another awesome smpler from 2009 WMC comes from Gotta Keep Faith. The Italian label provides 9 hot tracks that perfectly represents the trademark sound of the label, deep, soulful and funky. There are smooth deep tracks with an infectious jazzy flavour like Spiritual Blessings' "Deep not deep", some hot funky tracks like Uncle James "The godfather" or Bloompockets "I'll show you", the groovy and jazzy "Don't hold back" by Neil Hodgson. Alex Garcia's "Keep it together" is an uplifting soulful track with great vocals performed by Diana Waite, Deep & Soul Project provides another intense soulful affair titled "This light", Keith Thompson goes deeper with his "Still feeling you" and finally United Soul feat. Petra "Too late" is an irresistible underground and groovy track with infectious spoken words vocals and warm Rhodes chords.  (Franco Martinelli) 

Code 781's "Equinox" is another great deep house release out on Strictly Rhythm and licensed by italian d:vision, who provides an awesome CD single including all the mixes. Tho Original mix of this Denny Tenaglia track is an intense deep track with techy influences and infectious soulful keys. Remixes comes from Henrik Shwarz who delivers a powerful rework, keeping the deep and underground vibe alive and adding extra synths and fresh jazzy piano solos. The "Heavenly club mix" is a more uplifting and soulful affair with warm Rhodes chords and that fresh piano solo, finally the "Total eclipse dub" is a deepr and underground rework.  (Franco Martinelli) 

The new single by Deepswing is another powerful funky house track titled "Throw ya hand" provided in 3 awesome mixes on Generate Music. The "Original mix" is a classic Deepswing affair, with pumpun' beats, rolling bassline, filtered keys, hot sax parts and an infectious vocal line in spoken words. The "Rhodes mix" is a soulful and smoother rework, it has fresh beats and warm, jazzy piano keys. Finally Andrew D delivers a groovy and solid funky remix.  (Franco Martinelli) 

Taken from their new full album "Did you miss me" that we have reviwed last week, "Home to you" is the awesome first single. The package includes beside the beautiful soulful "Original mix" some very brilliant remixes. Ethan White provides a dreamy chilled out rework with great keys and infectious percussive beats, Quentin Harris delivers a solid mix, with punchy beats, bouncing bassline and funky guitar, Tom Moulton serves a fantastic soulful rework, while JKriv provides a powerful and pumpin' deeper floor filler. The package also includes an explosive broken-beats remix by DOME.  (Franco Martinelli) 

Chicago's DJ/Producer Uncle Milty debuts on Look At You Records with an awesome release. "Unity" is a solid deep track with an infectious funky flavour. The "Original mix" is a groovy track, with its irresistible percussive beats, funky bass, 70's inspired strings and soulful vocals performed ny Typhanie Monique, the "Uncle Milty remix" is a deeper and smoother affair with warm Rhodes keys and jazzy flute solo. The package also includes powerful remixes by DJ Dealer, Silk & Vandermeer and Andre Harris.  (Franco Martinelli) 

Summer's near and these latin drenched, sunny tracks are more than welcome. "Boa sorte" is the cover of a track from Bazilian singer Vanessa Da Mata. Britzi and vocalist Laura Gaeta reworks it into a catchy pop-house summer track, adding solid beats, fresh uplifting piano chords, wicked synths and latin influenced grooves. The package also includes a large number of remixes, the powerful "Relight Orchestra remix", a pumpin' version for the big room dancefloors, as well as the deeper and dreamy "Teatro Club mix", the electronic infected "Lanzetta Dub" and "Vignaroli & Moko mix" and the fresh, uplifting, Balearic influenced Latin remixes.  (Franco Martinelli) 

"Track 1" is a classic Kerri Chandler track he rivisited for the 2009 with new, hot remixes. The "Bigga mix" is an amazing deep version with an infectious underground flavour, the "Jazzy mix" is a cool jazz influenced rework with grat keys and the beautiful sax by Nadir Simon. The "Old school mix" takes us back at the glourious days of early house music, while the "Maximum mix" and "Reel to reel mix" are pumpin' versions for the dancefloors, both enriched by the Nadir Simon's hot sax.  (Franco Martinelli) 

The 14th release of Stalwart Records comes from French DJ and Producer Leo Cuneca, who teamed up with Australian house diva Rachel Claudio. The "Original mix" is a fresh, uplifting soulful track with solid beats, great piano chords, warm synth sounds and the beautiful vocal performance by Rachel Claudio. Remixes comes courtesy of DJ Meme, who provides an awesome soulful rework, and DJ Rork who delivers a pumpin' remix for the peak time moments, adding an irresistible driving groove and an hypnotic bassline. The package also includes Dub versions of all the mixes, as well as the funky and powerful "Mucho gusto dub".  (Franco Martinelli) 

Harry "Choo Choo" Romero wants to be the next summer hero and provides this fresh summer anthem, inspired by Latin America's traditional music and served in house groove souce. "Cumbia" is a typical accordion driven latin melody supported by pumpin' beats, funky bass and latin influenced house grooves. Jose Nunes provides a more pumpin' remix, adding a powerful tribal groove, and extra percussive tones, Jerry Ropero & DJ Mind delivers an irresistible electro-house remix, while Jorge Jamarillo adds some firce rave sounds to the original melody, creating a very unique and eclectic rework.  (Franco Martinelli)  

Tokyo-based Trans of Life presents this beautiful double-sided single on Nite Grooves. Their productions combine some deep electronic overtones, chill-jazz elements and warm latin melodies. Tthe result is a fresh release with and infectious summer flavour. "Foi Voce" is a smooth track with lovely Portuguese melodies sung by Yukiko Koga, warm synths, fresh  percussive groove and beautiful paino keys, "Delight Earth" is a more uplifting sun drenched instrumental gem, with latin conga rhythms, fresh jazzy guitar and trumpet solos.  (Franco Martinelli) 

"Lift me up" is the new release by Kris Reen & Majuri on d:vision. This track is strictly for the dancefloors, in perfect euro-trance style with catchy vocals, this is gonna be big next summer. The "Original mix" is a wicked techy track with fat raw synths, Pain & Rossini adds some catchy trance sounds and infectious spacey pads to create a sure floorfiller for the big room dancefloors, while Woody Bianchi provides a powerful dub for the late night play.  (Franco Martinelli) 

Ralf GUM is back with another awesome release on his own label GoGo Music. This time he teams up with singer Daniel Thomas and "Higher high" is a fantastic funky-house gem with an infectious soulful vibe. The "Original disco attack mix" is one of the freshest funky tunes I heard lately, it has solid funky beats, 70's disco inspired arrangements and great falsetto vocals. Ralf also provides a deeper and more minimal version in his "Deeper deep mix", while The Realm delivers a smoother and soulful remix, with great rhodes keys and a fresh jazzy touch. The package also includes instrumentals and dub mixes.  (Franco Martinelli) 

Tortured Soul are probably the best live band in the soulful-house scene and "Did you miss me" is their new beautiful second album. Tortured Soul are very talented musicians, able to transfer on the record the freshness of their live performances and this makes their sound unique. The 12 songs of the album are fresh and uplifting tracks that combines perfectly soul, funky, jazzy and pop elements into an high quality and enjoyable selection of soulful gems. All the cuts would deserve a mention, but, for the moment my advice is to keep an eye on the first single "Home to you" that is going to be release soon, with killer remixes from Quentin Harris, Tom Moulton and others.  (Franco Martinelli) 

The new single by Kimara Lovelace on King Street is taken from her forthcoming album "Time for love". "How much I love you" is a classic vocal-house track with solid funky beats and infectious soulful vocals. The "New journey dub" is a deeper and underground rework, it has hypnotic bassline, electronic elements, warm percussions, dark synths and less vocals. The remix is provided by Nicola Fasano who delivers a powerful rework for the dancefloor, adding an irresistible and pumpin' bassline, catchy blips and fresh guitar chords.   (Franco Martinelli) 

Reel Grooves returns with another beautiful soulful house release, "Love is on its way" is an awesome uplifting house track with solid beats, great Rhodes keys, funky bassline and warm, soulful vocals performed by Mavis Acquah. Morten Trust presents a powerful remix, hi keeps the soulful vibe alive, but adds a wicked, electronic synth bass as well as soft jazzy keys and an impressive funky guitar. Another solid remix comes from Dutchican, who provides a pumpin' and groovy rework. Dub and Instrumental versions are included in the package.  (Franco Martinelli) 

Swiss DJ/Producer Steve Stone teams up with house diva Andrea Love to deliver this strong funky-house release. The Original mix is a solid funky track with pumpin' bass, hot guitars and delicious strings, enriched by the great vocal performance of Andrea Love. On remix duties, ElektroOrganik provides an infectious remix with great synths chords, guitars and strings, while Richard Earnshaw delivers a stellar rework for the main room, adding pumpin' beats, driven piano chords, and an irresistible percussive groove.  (Franco Martinelli)  

The new Christian Hornbostel release is a nice tribal/afro-house track titled "Guanakos" and is provided in 4 strong versions. The "Tribe Drive mix" is a tribal affair, with loads of percussive elements and driven teribal grooves, the "Dirty dub" is a cleaner and deeper rework, enriched with hypnotic, electronic elements. The "Stright house mix" is based on old school piano chords and an infectious percussive groove, while the "Kinski's Daktari Child rework" is an impressive afro journey, with great percussions, soft horns drops and beautiful guitar.  (Franco Martinelli) 

The new release of the "Southport Weekender" series on suSU is another fantastic and eclectic album selected an mixed by King Britt and Ashley Beedle. Putting together delightful soulful classics and contemporary dancefloor nuggets the 2 sets are really awesome and special. CD 1 comes from Ashley Beedle who provides an intense selection of soulful tracks, including cuts from Faze Action, Peven Everett, Joey Negro, X-Press 2, Isaak Hayes, D Note and many others, as well as some exclusive new tracks and remixes made by Ashley himself. On CD 2, King Britt offers a more dancefloor friendly set with a very high quality and eclectic selection, influenced by different styles, from soulful to latin, jazz, afro and deep. The tracklist includes cuts by Edwin Starr, Martin Solveig, Teddy Douglas, Joey Negro, Jellybean Benitez and Ursula Rucker, just to name a few.  (Franco Martinelli)   

Todd Terry returns with a powerful funky house stomper for the dancefloor. "Play on" feratures Tara McDonald on vocals and is provided in various solid versions. The "Tee's mix" is a dancefloor bomb with pumpin' beats, wicked synth bassline and great uplifting vocals, Eddie Thoneick provides a deeper, electro and minimal rework, while Conan Liquid delivers a strong, acid influenced and trippy remix. The package also includes Tee's and Eddie Thoneick strong dubs.  (Franco Martinelli)  

Greg Stainer teams up with UK singer/songwriter Leon King for his debut release on Seamless and provides an excellent uplifting vocal track titled "Call me". The Original mix comes in 2 different versions, a classic "Piano mix" and a deeper "Electro mix". Gabriel & Castellon provides a powerful remix with pumpin' beats and infectious electronic elements, Central Avenue delivers an irresistible funky influenced rework, while the "Rohann Nunez & Arnold remix" is a deeper affair and Jolyon Petch provides a fresh and uplifting funky influenced rework.  (Franco Martinelli)   

Danizm teams up once again with vocalist Haze for their new release on MN2S. "Strip for me" is a powerful track for the dancefloor, with heavy bassline, wicked synths and an infectious deep/dark flavour, that perfectly combines with the intense spoken words vocal performance of Haze. The "After Dark mix" is a more groovy and tech/progressive house rework. This new Danizm release has already received huge support from heavyweights DJs such as Freddy Le Grand, Shapeshifters, Kerri Chandler, Sandy Rivera, Laurent Garnier, Pete Tong and many others.  (Franco Martinelli)  

Gotta Keep Faith is back with another pure quality soulful release. Asha Edmunds "Carry me over" is a soulful gem enriched by jazzy elements, warm latin percussions, infectious Rhodes keys and a sublime vocal performance. The "Nassau remix" is a perfect soulful rework with more pumpin' beats, driven groove, funky bassline and atmospheric strings. House Device provides another beautiful remix, they goes a bit deeper, adding guitar licks, jazzy Rhoeds keys and soft pads that creates an infectious night vibe and finally Georg Neufield delivers a very deep and underground dub with hypnotic vocal hooks and soft electronic elements.  (Franco Martinelli)  

For its 100th release Toolroom Records presents the new single of the legendary Faithless, which features the vocal talents of Cass Fox. This strong package includes very powerful reworks from heavyweight remixers, including Toolroom Head Honcho Mark Knight who provides an irresistible tech-house monster. Axwell delivers a peak time, big room rework, with full vocals and catchy piano chords, Pere Heller's remix is a deeper, electronic affair with an infectious old school flavour, while Rollo & Siater Bliss serves an intense groovy remix.  (Franco Martinelli)  

The new Chris Lake release "If you knew" is a solid house track with an electronic edge and catchy vocals performed by Nastala. The package also includes some strong remixes, ATFC provides an awesome rework, adding solid deep beats, groovy vocals and infectious synth parts, while Hardwell & DJ Rehab delivers a groovy, minimal and driven remix. Dub versions of both the remixes are included, as well as Instrumental and Radio Edit of the Original version.  (Franco Martinelli)  

"Urban latin soul" is the second album by UK Nu-Jazz pioneers Sunlightsquare. It is a fresh, uplifting and sun-drenched LP, fusing Latin, nu-jazz, soul, reggaeton, funk and salsa inspired music. From the sweet soul ballads to the uplifting tracks, this is pure quality music, served with great live instrumentation and an infectious summer/latin flavour. The album also includes the band's current singles "Pastime paradise" a cover version of Stevie Wonder 1976 classic, featuring the hip voice of Z-Star, as well as "Amuyada" featuring Joy Malcon on vocals. Other great tracks are the full latin "Gengere", the deep and jazzy "As the beat goes on", the funky and urban "Relax", the sweet soul ballad "Giving me love", but honestly all the tracks deserves a mention. This is an essential album for the coolest lounge situations.  (Franco Martinelli)  

ATFC returns with another top house release featuring Yasmeen on vocals. "Tell U Y" is a simple and effective house track with pumpin' beats, fat bouncin' bassline, wicked synth keys and infectious vocals. Beside the Original mixes, the package includes a pumpin' dub and an infectious disco inspired "Disco 09 re-flip mix" with an irresistible Moroder style bassline. The d:vision CD-single package also includes 4 mixes and the video of the classic ATFC track "Bad habit".  (Franco Martinelli) 

For their third release, Nu Deep Music offers another soulful gem. "Twin street" is a classic, uplifting soulful track with great piano chords, sweet strings, hot bassline and a superb vocal performance by Marina Claire. Some great remixes are included in the package and takes this soulful track to different directions. Spiritual Blessings provides a deeper remix with load of percussions and infectious spacey pads, Mr. Fuzz delivers an alternative, urban inspired soulful remix with great synth solos, while N'Dinga offers a deeper, darker, underground rework. The package also includes "Feel my deep" a percussive, latin-jazz influenced bonus track.  (Franco Martinelli) 

GoGo starts the 2009 with a strong remixes package of two of the label's hottest tracks of last year. "Kissing strangers" needs no presentation, it is a beautiful soulful gem with great vocals performed by Monique Bingham and both the remixes here re-fresh the original atmosphere. "If no harm" feat. Rachel Claudio is another GoGo gem and is provided in several remixes in the package. The Roed Svenks remix is a solid soulful affair with hot funky beats and infectious electric piano chords, Ralf GUM & RyB delivers a smoother rework with warm percussive grooves and infectious atmospheric pads, Rafael Yapudjian presents a sweet soulful remix, while DevoShun offers a tougher broken beats rework.  (Franco Martinelli) 

Enrico Mantini teams up with Lucy Clark for his new single on SweetLeaf Records, and provides an extremely interesting release. The Original Mix of "Love is real" is damn hot, Enrico perfectly combines deep beats, synth bassline, electro blips, spacey pads, old-school percussions and warm soulful vocals. The "Dub 4 real mix" is a tougher and pumpin' electronic influenced affair for the peak-time moments, it has a darker/underground flavour, minimal structure and powerful pulsing beats.  (Franco Martinelli)  

"Rass out EP" is the new release of North London producer Altered Natives aka Danny Yorke. The title track is a simple and effective exaple of broken-house track, while the other cut "Bullet blade slap" is provided in 2 versions, the "Original mix" is another broken beats affair, while the "Souled remix" is a more classic 4/4 house track with solid beats, funky bassline, infectious pads, sax drops and catchy vocal hooks.  (Franco Martinelli) 

After the beautiful soulful release "Time" by The Realm, Papa Records is back with a solid house EP by Tarantulaz. The "3 sided EP" includes 3 different and equally good tracks for the house lovers. It starts with "Step by step", a solid cut with a poweful bassline, infectious pads, hot keys and catchy vocals by Robert Owens. "Land your ear" is a driven electronic/pop influenced track, while "Listen" is a pumpin' groovy and funky affair.  (Franco Martinelli) 

Joey Silvero AKA Distant People teams up once agin with singer Chappel and provides a beutiful soulful release titled "Sounds of love". The Original mix is a classic and smooth soulful affair with warm piano chords, soft synths, great bass and solid beats. The first remix comes from Soularis who provides a groovy rework, adding some infectious percussive elements, a great Lead and some smooth Rhodes. Jazzloungerz delivers a deeper rework, while the "Edmund Remix" is a more funky affair.  (Franco Martinelli)  

Behind Soopasoul there's rave pioneer and now worldclass funksta Danny Hybrid. His new album "Twin stix" on Jalapeno Records is one of the fresher funky music stuff I heard lately. All recorded with a proper full live band, this LP combines perfectly the classic funky vibe with hip-hop and breaks grooves, r&b vocals, jazzy and swing elements, resulting simply awesome and extremely enjoyable. Some of the hottest tracks from the album are the powerful singles "Brand new" and "Swing down" featuring Nikeya Broker and the current smash "Hot & cold" featuring Dionne Charles, but all the tracks of the LP would deserve a mention. If you need some fresh, funky, irresistible party music, this is the choice.  (Franco Martinelli) 

The new Stephanie Cooke's release on King Street is a remix of her classic track "I thank you" re-touched by top italian soulful producers Doll Combers. Their "Vocal Mix" is a brilliant soulful affair with an intense jazzy vibe, warm percussions, soft keys, rolling bassline and infectious Hammond organ solos. The "Element mix" is a darker and deeper stuff, with solid beats, filtered synths and just a few vocals.  (Franco Martinelli) 

Filin Brake, Greg Dorban and E-Man are back on Reel Groove with the "Change the world" remixes package. The Original release was a strong one and this new package is also very hot. The track receives remix treatment from some very talented producers/remixers and the result is simply awesome. Guy Robin provides a strong rework with solid beats, funky bass and warm piano chords that perfectly supports the great E Man vocal performance. The Phonic Funk remix is a groovy, underground affair, with pumpin' beats and wicked dark synths, while Doll Combers provides a deeper rework with an infectious old school flavour. Instrumental versions of all the remixes are included in the package.  (Franco Martinelli) 

"Fireflies" is the debut release of Australian recording label Brain Kat. Featuring the superb vocals of Nica Brooks this beautiful soulful track is provided in various and very interesting versions. San Francisco's top producer Vincent Kwok delivers a solid remix with pumpin beats, infectious bassline and wicked keys, Ben Jam provides an intense remix featuring warm sax parts and hot funky beats, while Mistery & Matt Early offers two brillant reworks, the first is a classic soulful affair with great piano, warm strings and funky bassline, while the second is an infectious Broken Beats version. Part 2 of the project will follow soon, with another set of hot funky, deep and soulful remixes from DJ Freestyle and Mike Jules, as well as an electro rework by Filth Boy and the Original Mix.  (Franco Martinelli) 

"Deeper Dimentions Vol.1" is the first release of a brand new CD Compilation series on BeatModul. The first volume is compiled and mixed by DJ Jeff Bennett who provides a strong selection of 11 tech-house tracks with an infectious deep and dark favour. Bennett's mixed-set is a musical journey in the underground, with deep and minimal techy cuts and mixes from artists like Terry Lee Brown Junior, Rui Da Silva, Steve Nash, Kaiser Souzai, Jeff Bennett himself and many others.  (Franco Martinelli)  

Michael Procter teams up with Clemet Rumpf for this new single on MyChin. "Let it go" is a classic soulful track with solid funky beats, great Rhodes keys, and warm sax parts, enriched by the intense vocal performance of Michael Procter. The package includes, beside the "Radio mix" a more pumpin' "Club mix" as well as a powerful "Jackin' mix".  (Franco Martinelli) 

One of Dance Music's most talented A&R's, Gladys Pizarro (formerly of Strictly Rhythm) returns with a new house gem on her Launch Entertainment label. "Who you wanna be" is a brilliant house track by Kevin Bryant, produced by Chris Brann (Ananda Project / Wamdue). The package includes some great mixes, the "Main vocal mix" is a beautiful soulful affair with gentle percussive drums, warm keys, sexy sax parts and Kevin's amazing soulful vocals. "DJ Dove's future dub" is an electro influenced rework with pumpin' bassline and wicked synths, while Bob Sinclar provides a monster remix for the dacefloors, adding pumpin' beats and energetic synths. The package also includes the solid "Ananda Project dub" as well as an instrumental version.  (Franco Martinelli) 

Hanna Hais returns with a brand new single titled "Une journèe avec toi" on Atal, an amazing soulful house track sung in French and produced by Alfred Azzetto & Vincent Valler. The "Original mix" is a classic, uplifting soulful affair with solid beats and great srings, but the package also includes some very hot remixes for every situation. The "Alfred Azzetto sub sub mix" is a deeper and hypnotic underground rework, while DJ Fopp & Walterino provides an irresistible funky remix with an infectious 70's Philly flavour. II Moods delivers a smoother soulful rework enriched with old school elements whilst Christian Hornbostel presents a solid and groovy deep remix. The package also includes another couple of deep remixes courtesy of Blacksoul and Souldynamic & Fiorese.  (Franco Martinelli) 

Havana Funk's new single "Chunga" is an irresistible afro influenced tribal track, enriched with fresh latin percussions and catchy vocals. Beside the Original version, the package also includes some solid remixes, Phunk Investigation provides a pumpin' and groovy remix for the dancefloors, adding solid beats, a few electronic elements and a nasty synth bass, Donny Hotwheel & Kemist delivers a deeper rework with an infectious late night vibe, cutting most of the original elements and adding some infectious, underground keys. Finally, John Kano returns to the sunshine, providing a totally groovy and percussive rework.  (Franco Martinelli) 

Sir Ivan is a rock singer and peace activist, and "For what it's worth" is his new single, just released on Peaceman Music. This classic Buffalo Springfiled's late 60's track, taken from Sir Ivan forthcoming album "I am Peaceman" receives the remix treatment from some hot names in the house and dance music scene. DJ Chus provides a solid tribal remix adding pumpin' beats, poweful deep bassline, dark underground pads and wicked synth in his classic style. Beside the Radio and Ibiza Club mixes, DJ Chus also provides an irresistible groovy dub. For the electro-house lovers, Dave Aude delivers a killer remix with a powerful synth bass, solid beats and wicked techy synths. Mike Cruz offers his tough guitar driven, rock influenced rework, while Andrew Mendez provides a smooth Chillout remix.  (Franco Martinelli)

"Don't play" is the first single taken from the Galaxy Group's forthcoming album "This is who we are" and for the single release, the track has been reworked by legendary DJ Spinna and San Francisco space-disco favourites Ruffy & Tuffy. Spinna provides a brilliant and intense remix, combining the beautiful Lady Alama soulful vocals with fresh percussive house grooves, warm Rhodes chords and jazzy elements. Ruffy & Tuffy provides an unique, so called "future-disco" rework, mixing solid funky beats to electronic elements played with a classic disco flavour.  (Franco Martinelli) 

Justin Imperiale's fortcoming single on Cabana Records is "The ritual" a deep and tribal influenced track that perfectly combines various music elements, the warm percussive groove gives the track an infectious afro tinged flavour, while the intense pads, the hot bassline and the sexy spoken words parts adds a deep and underground vibe. This cut is a brilliant musical ride. (Franco Martinelli) .

DJ Roland Clark returns on King Street with "Goodbye love", a beautiful soulful track enriched by stellar remixes by Sole Channel’s top producer Alix Alvarez. The "SC Vox mix" is simply a soulful nugget, with great keys, soft pads, solid beats, hot bassline and that intense vocal line. The "SC Fly Dub" is a less vocals, pumpier and deeper affair, with wicked synths, pumpin' bass and solid beats.  (Franco Martinelli) 

If you love deep house, this track will drive you crazy ! "Isatiable" is a solid deep and infectious cut with great vocals and an irresistible underground flavour. The structure of the track is simple but very effective, with a pumpin' synth bass, catchy percussive elements, wicked synth parts and that beautiful vocal performance by Tanya Michelle. There are 7 mixes included in the package and all the versions keeps that infectious deep and underground vibe alive.  (Franco Martinelli)

Msadler & Arnaud D join forces with top soulful singer M J White to produce their new release on Gotta Keep Faith. "Sweet innocence" is an intense and sweet piece of soulful house, enriched with a smooth jazzy flavour, soft percussions, hot chords and that inspired vocal performance by Mr. White. Arnaud D reworks the track ad takes it deeper in his 2 remixes, as well as Greg Stainer who provides another hot deep version. Spiritual Blessings offers a smooth and jazzy influenced remix, adding great keys and warm percussions, Mr Mama delivers a deep, dark and minimal rework, while Jesus Gonsev provides an intense rermix with an infectious balearic flavour, and finally, Steve Paradise closes the package with a catchy, old scool influenced, pumpin' rework.  (Franco Martinelli)

Crystal Waters returns with a catchy house track titled "Never enough". The "Bimbo Jones mix" is a solid piece of classic funky house that perfectly fits with the unique vocals of Crystal Waters. Harlem Hustler provides a rocking filtered-house rework in their classic style, Whelan & Di Scala delivers a tougher and electronic remix, while John Kano adds fresh grooves and exra percussions for his groovy "Havana Funk" rework. The package also includes a solid remix by Goldtrixx and various Dub mixes.  (Franco Martinelli)

Funkagenda returns on Toolroom with a solid release titled "Breakwater". The "Original mix" is an intense track with an infectious Balearic vibe, the "EDX Ibiza sunrise remix" is a more uptempo rework that keeps that Balearic flavour still alive. The "Dataworks remix" is a deeper and darker rework, while "Seaman & Stel's waveforce mix" is an irresistible deep and progressive, underground version.  (Franco Martinelli)

Steal Vybe returns with an awesome soulful release titled "Selene (The Goddess of the Moon)" on Phuture Sole. The Original mixes (Vocal and Dub) are pure quality music, with deep percussive groove and great synth chords enriched with an intense vocal performance by Alexis Simmons. Jonny Montana takes the track into classic soulful-house territories, providing a smooth rework with a fresh jazzy flavour, infectious piano, driven percussive groove, spacey pads and warm Organ solo. Finally, the "Damon's Abstract mix" is a very cool broken-beats influenced track with hot Rhodes keys and beautiful flute parts.  (Franco Martinelli)

Behind Phlash there is the legendary UK's DJ and Producer Phil Asher. With the Phlash And Friends project, Phil combines his classic soul inspired house style with the new technology and the result is an awesome combination of deep, electronic sounds with an infectious soulful flavour. "Deep electronic sound" is also the title of this new beautiful album by Phlash And Friends, a 10 tracks collection of dance gems featuring some stellar collaborations, including Karizma, Dego (4 hero), Alma Horton, Shea Soul, Zansika and other. All the cuts would need a mention, and they're equally strong, from the more groovy, deep, and electronic infected "Deep electronic sound", "Exaltation" and "Minotaur", to the soulful and funky influenced "Look at what we done" and "Running" or the soul and jazzy flavoured "Time" and "Think about it". This is pure quality music.  (Franco Martinelli)

Copyright teams up again with vocalist Imaani and they provides another fantastic release. "Deeper" is an awesome deep track with solid beats, intense keys, hot stabs and beautiful soulful vocals by the talented UK house diva Imaani. Beside the original Extended and Album mixes, the package offers the powerful Baggi Begovic & Soul Conspiracy mixes. Two hot reworks (Club and Dub) for the peak time moments, with pumpin' beats, funky bassline and wicked electronic elements.  (Franco Martinelli)

Jamie Lewis reworks this classic Cerrone's track titled "Tattoo woman" and provides a great remixes package. The "Sex on the beach mix" is an irresistible funky remix with infectious 70's elements, wicked funky guitar licks, super hot bassline, great horns, 70's influenced synths and the memorable original vocals. The "Star war mix" is a more electronic affair with an infectious late 70's flavour, while the "Science Fiction Robot dub" is a powerful electronic infected and hypnotic underground affair, enriched by computer filtered vocals. The package also includes the solid "Transformer's dub" as well as Edit mixes and instrumentals.  (Franco Martinelli)

"Keep me sweet" was the Diamondhouse first release from about 3 years ago and now the time has come for a strong Remixes package of this label's classic. Remixes comes courtesy of some of the hottest upcoming deep house talents, including Ruben Alavarez who provides a powerful rework for the dancefloor, Christian Hornbostel who delivers a deeper, underground and hypnotic version, while Stereo Mutants serves an irresistible groovy rework enriched with intense chords and pads. The Coverage adds a touch of jazzy flavour in their hot remix, while Alex B provides a semi acoustic lounge/chill-out rework. The package also includes the pumpin' and more electronic influenced Cosmic Funk and Funkarmonics remixes.  (Franco Martinelli)

Mobin Master teams up with Robin S and provides a new remixes package of the classic Robin S track "Show me love". The "Safari mix" is an up to date mix of the Original version, with extra pumpin' beats, wicked guitars, the classic organ line and the famous vocals. The "Ali Payami remix" is a pumpin' electro influenced affair for the main dancefloors, while Hot Rats provides a fantastic soulful remix, adding solid funky beats, hot Rhodes chords, as well as 70's inspired guitar, bass and string, that perfectly fits with the Robin S classic vocals. The package also includes the upbeats and techy DJ Puddy and Wideboys Bassline remixes.  (Franco Martinelli)

Barcoda returns with another top soulful release ! "The soulution" by MuSoul Feat. Diana Waite is an awesome smooth and soulful track with an infectious jazzy piano, great Rhodes chords, warm strings, solo trumpet and beautiful vocals. The package also includes some very hot remixes, Central Avenure provides a soulful rework as well as a pumpin' Dub mix for the funky dancefloors, while Paul Keely and Phonic Funks delivers two powerful electro influenced remixes.  (Franco Martinelli)

GoGo Music meets South Africa once again and the result is another awesome deep-house release with an unique and esotic flavour. Blackcoffee is one of South Africa's most respected house music artists, while Bucie is a talented South Africa's singer and songwriter. The "Original mix" is an infectious deep track with a warm percussive groove, great keys, soft guitar and beautiful, relaxing vocals. The remix is provided by the genius of Raw Artistic Soul, he completely rebuilds the track adding fierce percussions, spacey chords and intense flute parts.  (Franco Martinelli) 

What a nice surprise, the new single of Sunlightsquare. Like a warm sun ray in a cold winter day, this track is a delicious latin flavoured gem. The "Original mix" is an irrestible percussive cut with all the latin elements and beautiful vocal harmonies sung by the legandary Joy Malcom (Incognito / Moby fame). French/Brazilian man of the moment Mustafa provides a beautiful deep remix with an infectious soulful flavour and warm jazzy keys, while South London upcoming talent Louisubsole delivers a powerful afro-house remix. "Amuyada" is the second single from Sunlightsquare fortcoming new album "Urban Latin Soul".  (Franco Martinelli)

Benny Pecoraio and Roed Svensk have teamed up to create East West Affair and their first release is a superb soulful track titled "The world in my eyes". The "Original mix" is a solid soulful affair, with hot keys, funky guitar, pumpin' beats and the superb vocal performance by Australian singer / songwriter Jono McNeil. The remixes are also very strong cuts,Tuccillo provides a fresh, percussive rework with a warm balearic flavour, Blaksoul delivers a pumpin' "old school" dub and finally, Kid Massive offers his electro influenced "Big room" mix.  (Franco Martinelli)

Eric Kupper returns with the first full lenght release in 10 years. "Electrikiss" is an instrumental work, 10 delicious electronic tracks with an high quality standard, great production and intense atmosphere provided by warm synths that perfectly fits with rolling basslines, dreamy pads and percussive grooves. Everything looks so perfect and enjoyable, all the tracks would deserve a mention, but my favourite are the fresh "Star light", the deeper and intense "Electrikiss", the groovy and latin influenced "Deepest desire" and the awesome "Star playa" with its irresistible percussive groove and the infectious synth solo.  (Franco Martinelli) 

The "Toolroom Knights" series is back with a new powerful compialtion mixed by top Italian dj/producer Benny Benassi. Benny who's a real crowd favourite, provides 2 killer sets for the dancefloor. CD 1 is a pure Peak-time affair, a simple and effective set of pumpin' electro tunes, including some timeless hits as well as brand new cuts. The list includes tracks like Deadmaus5's "Hi friend", Tiga & Zyntherius's "Sunglasses at night", Streetlife DJ's "We love the disco sound", Tong & Spoon "Gas face", Rune RK "Kosimo" and many others, as well as Benny's own tracks "Electro sixteen" featuring Iggy Pop and "DJ" his forthcoming single with the voice of David Bowie. CD 2 is a more stripped back, deep affair, including tracks from ATFC "I'll work ya babe", Dave Spoon "88", the Workidz's cover of "Enjoy the silence" by Depeche Mode, Zoo Brazil's "Technik", Onionz ft. SNOW "Nothing but love" and Kim Fai's "Excuses" just to name a few.  (Franco Martinelli)

The first release of Stilnovo Music is "Hollywood story" by Rogiers, a classic R&B song turned into an House anthem for the label's debut sihgle. Leech (AKA Demarcus Lewis) and Poussez delivers a brilliant remix, a superb combination of deep and tech house elements that perfectly fits with the intense soulful vocals and warm Rhodes chords, while the "Sona remix" is a more classic deep affair.  (Franco Martinelli).

"Run free" is another beautiful deep track taken from the stellar Dennis Ferrer album "The World As I See It". Featuring the unforgotten K T Brooks (RIP) on vocals, this package is delivered with some extra remixes. UK’s producer Sean McCabe provides a soulful rework with a funky edge, while Japanese-NYC transplant producer Tomo Experience presents a killer deep remix, adding pumpin' beats, bouncin bassline and infectious organ chords.  (Franco Martinelli)

4 Ears & Lady Bird are German soulful stars Ralf GUM and Benny Pecoraio who teamed up with Lady Bird on vocals. Their new single is a smooth, soulful track titled "Can't be without you" on Iwanai Music. The "Original mix" is a sweet and intense piece of soulful-house, with great jazzy keys and infectious vocals. Benny Pecoraio provides a peak-time dub, cutting the vocals and adding pumpin' beats as well as an hypnotic sax hook, Ralf GUM goes deeper in his "Love dub", while Toronto based Suges delivers a beautiful jazz influenced remix with solid beats and funky bassline. Finally, Jihad Muhammad offers his fresh and uplifting rework of the track.  (Franco Martinelli)

Soopasoul is Danny Hybird and "Hot & cold" is his new single release taken from the forthcomung album "Twin six" on Jalapeno Records. This 2 tracks release is a fresh dive into funky territories, recorded with a live band, "Hot & cold" is a jazzfunk party monster, it has funky beats, hot brass section, great Hammond chords and awesome soul vocals from Dionne Charles. On the flip, "Hustlin" is another jazz-funky gem with an infectious retro flavour. "Hot & cold" will be released as 7" vinyl single very soon, while the album will follow in early March.  (Franco Martinelli)

"I wanna go" is the Stereo Mutants' second single release on Germany's top deep/soulful label Diamondhouse Records. The "Original mix" is a beautiful track with an uplifting vibe, great soulful vocals, hot keys and some warm electronic elements. Central Avenue provides a classic soulful rework, with great piano chords, funky bassline and solid beats, the "Central Avenue dub" is a less vocals, filtered and groovy affair, while DJ Circle provides a fresh and infectious rework. The package also includes the electronic influenced Jazzyjok remix as well as a useful Accapella.  (Franco Martinelli)

House music diva Dawn Tallman returns with a new awesome track on Thick Recordings. "Who can I run to" is a beautiful rework of The Jones Girls 1979 classic, getting the House treatment from B.A.Morgan with stunning results. The "Main mix" is quality soulful house, while the "Dub mix" is an irresitible groovy rework.  (Franco Martinelli)

"No other man" is another hot release from Steven Stone on Reel Groove, featuring Angie Brown on vocals, the "Original mix" is a solid piece of classic soulful house, with solid beats, funky bass, hot guitar drops, warm keys and infectious strings. The remixes comes from Christian Hornbostel who provides a groovy and deeper rework, while Soul Conspiracy delivers a powerful version for the main floor, adding pumpin' beats, catchy vocal drops, and old-school elements. The package also includes the "Instrumental mix" and the deep "Groove'O'Holics dub".  (Franco Martinelli)

I really loved this track when it was first released about 10 years ago, now is time for a remix package on Peppermint Jam Records. The new package includes a very strong remix by Fedde le Grand who perfectly conbines the Cunnie Williams original vocals with the Monie Love parts on a powerful, dark, deep and groovy rework. Other remixes comes from Alex Gaudino & Jason Rooney who delivers a killer house mix, using the original hook, while Samir Maslo provides an irresitible, driven rework. The package also includes the powerful main-room style remix by Nari & MIlani as well as the underground rework by Rulers Of The Deep.  (Franco Martinelli)

The new release on Panevino is an hot soulful track provided by Marquito, "Around love" has solid beats, funky bassline, great keys, uplifting strings and beautiful male vocals. The "Panevino remix" is a deeper affair, with pumpin' beats, rolling synth bass, wicked keys and an infectious electronic vibe. The package also includes a less vocals "Panevino dub" as well as the "Original instrumental mix".  (Franco Martinelli)

"From bespin with love" is a very strong electronic-deep EP from Jay Tripwire on Conya. "I see a city in the clouds" is a dark and underground tack with trippy beats, hypnotic bass and spacey pads, "Ugnaught chamber" is a groovy track with bouncin' blips and wicked filtered synths, "Carbonite freeze" is a powerful tune with solid beats and driven synth line, while "No choice" is an infectious deep track with funky bass and infectious synth pads.  (Franco Martinelli)

Jeremy Sylvester's "Keep it hot ya" is a simple, powerful and irresistible crowd mover. The "Club mix" is set fot the Big Room's peak time moments, with pumpin' beats, wicked synths and catchy vocal drops. Silvano Da Silva delivers a driven remix with an irresistible percussive groove and simple but effective synth chords. Doc Pahatt and Dani Masi & Oliver Shmitz remixes are more electronic affairs, while the "Funkanomics remix" is an unique rework, combining funky, breakbeat and rock elements.  (Franco Martinelli)

Roasted Soul returns with an awesome new release featuring Hollie O'Brien on Coffee N Creme Recordings. "Reach out" is a beautiful piece of uplifting soulful house with silky smooth vocals, solid beats, powerful bassline and warm keys. Beside the Original mix, the package includes the "Mystery & Matt Early Revamp" wich is a powerful funky-house affair, the "Mystery & Matt Early Broken Beats remix" that is a funked-up broken beats rework and the intense "Reprise mix".  (Franco Martinelli)

This compilation celebrates 20 years in the business for Mr Bongo Recording label, and what a box full of gems it is. The double CD includes all the Mr Bongo best cuts as well as some brand new and forthcoming tracks. Mr Bongo is known as one of the best labels for Brazilian and South America influenced contemporary music and its catalouge includes releases of artists like Masters At Work, Jazztronik, Kaori, Tito Puente, Terry Callier, Mr Hermano and many others. The 34 tracks compilation brings together the many facets of the label's styles, from Brazilian to Latin, from Hip-hop to Funk, and from House to Afrobeat, Jazz, Reggae and Drum'n Bass. This is an high quality, essential release for music lovers.   (Franco Martinelli)

Built on the Johnny Corporate's Sunday Shoutin track, with additional vocals by Lauren Rose, this cut is a real peak time bomb for every funky-house dancefloor ! The package presents a rich set of mixes, including the solid "Warren Clarke Vocal remix", as well as the more minimal and electro influenced, pumpin' rework by Alex Gaudino and the beautiful filtered, funky remix from Richard Earnshaw. The package also includes Instrumental versions of all the mixes.   (Franco Martinelli)

The third release of Nu Deep Music is a strong record from Love House Movement. It consist in two hot, deep influenced vocal tracks provided in various versions. "Missing u" has an intense deep atmosphere and infectious vocals. Beside the "Original mix" there's the Instrunetal version as well as a pumpin' funky rework by Deep Y'all aka DJ Rico. "In love" is a smooth and sweet track with great soft keys, rolling groove, funky bass and inspired soulful vocals. This track is provided in 4 mixes, including a darker remix and instrumental versions of both Original and Remix.   (Franco Martinelli)

After the powerful "Chicago EP" DJ Dealer returns with another hot release on Look At You. This time he teams up with singer Lisa Millet and provides a strong funky-house track with a soulful edge. The "Original mix" is a solid, groovy and funky affair, with geat keys and uplifting vocals. Ralf GUM provides 2 very hot remixes, the "Classic vocal mix" is a soulful rework built on a driven groove, funky bassline and beautiful keys, while the "Trippin' dub" is a groovy and deeper, less vocals affair. The second set of remixes comes from Dalminjo who provides 2 powerful funky reworks.   (Franco Martinelli)

"Glad I found you" is the new release by DJ Gomi feat. Louie Balo & Yasmeen. It is a nice, catchy and uplifting vocal house track provided in various mixes. Full Intention delivers 3 solid mixes for the dancefloor, with pumpin' beats, hypnotic bassline and wicked synths, Trouble Men are responsable of another 2 (Vocal and Dub) powerful, dancefloor friendly remixes, while Scott Wozniak goes deeper and underground in his version. The package also includes the fresher and uplifting "Ethan White Remix" as well as the soulful/jazzy influenced "Blaze & DJ Gomy vocal mix".   (Franco Martinelli)

Mix 2 Inside returns with a new soulful-funky release titled "Move up" and featuring Jeanette Taylor on vocals. The "Happy soul night mix" is a classic soulful track with funky bassline, great piano chords and disco strings drops. The "Mr Boards Glamour remix" is an uplifting and driven soulful affair, while the "Soul groovy remix" is a stripped-down rework with pumpin' groove and minmal arrangements. Finally the "Piano dub mix" is a driven piano version with minimal vocals, funky beats, soulful keys and an infectious sax solo.   (Franco Martinelli)

The new Cloudsteppers release on Pesto is "Make me shine", a fresh and soulful vocal-house track provided in various mixes to please all the audience. The "Free bee version" and the "Deep mix" are soulful influenced mixes with an infectious deep vibe and warm jazzy elemnts. The "Bedroom beach remix" is a fresher and uplifting rework. Jon Silva provides an electronic influenced remix with pumpin' beats for the dancefloor, while the "Disclosure Project remix" is a beautiful and atmospheric version. The package also includes the underground "Scope's noche urbana remix" and the pumpin' "Chris Udoh rework".   (Franco Martinelli)

Really loved this track a few years ago when it was first released, now the remixes gives this great track a new life. The new package includes pumpin' and electronic influenced remixes by Groove Junkies, who provides some very strong and powerful versions, adding pumpin' beats and filtered sounds in the "Prime time filth mix" and more electronic synths and blips in the infectious "Freqs mix". Less vocals Dubs from Groove Junkies and Morten Trust himself are also included.   (Franco Martinelli)

Here's another chapter of the stellar "Mix The Vibe" series on King Street Sounds, and what a shiny nugget is this. The legendary Basement Boys members Teddy Douglas and DJ Spen reunite after many years on this extra special King Street commemorative double mix CD. Both the mixed sets are amazing, including real gems from the King Street and Nite Grooves catalouges as well as tracks from their own artists. Disk 1 presents the Teddy Douglas mix, a very strong and infectious underground set with an intense deep flavour, including tracks like Ananda Project's "Where the music takes you", Urban Soul's "Goodbye love", Kimara Lovelace's "When can our love begin" and "Far away", Hideo Kobayashi's "Yuki", as well as cuts from Mateo & Matos, Peven Everett, Quentin Harris and Kerri Chandler. DJ Spen provides a funkier set, including many house classics like Dennis Ferrer's "Church lady", Studio Apartment feat. Blaze "The rising sun" as well as very hot tracks from Kerri Chandler, Barbara Tucker, Big Moses ft. Kenny Bobien, Kimara Lovelace, Kiko Navarro and others. This is one of the best compilation this year from my point of vew, the spirit of the real house music lives here !   (Franco Martinelli)

Funky house at its best ! "Reach 4 you" by LEM feat. Tara J. is one of the hottest releases of the moment. The "Original Club mix" is an uplifting funky track with an infectious soulful flavour and great vocals, but it's the Mood II Swing mix the real gem of this package, a solid and deeper rework for the dancefloor that spread more energy, keeping the soulful vibe alive. The package also includes the "Mood II Swing Dub" as well as the intense "Alternative mix" arranged with soft spacey pads and filtered vocals, and finally the jazzy influenced "Urban lounge remix".

Born To Funk join the Gotta Keep Faith family with a powerful funky release titled "Get funky". The "Original mix" is a classic Born To Funk track with pumpin' beats, solid bassline, rhythmic elements and wicked stab sounds. The "Organ dub" has the same poweful rhythm impact but is enriched with an infectious Organ sound. DJ Rico goes very deep and underground in his "Deep y'all funky dub", while Spirital Blessings provides a beautiful deep and softer rework adding infectious pads and guitar drops.  (Franco Martinelli)

Cabana Recordings returns with another soulful nugget, a beatiful soft track with an infectious jazzy / lounge flavour. "When love comes" is an intense instrumental track from Martin Mamzer featuring Susanne Alt on Sax. The "Original mix" is a lounge essential version, soulful and jazzy, featuring the beautiful Sax solo, hot keys and warm percussions. Justin Imperiale adds pumpin' beats, funky bassline and soft Rhodes in his infectious soulful rework, while the Souldub Quartet provides another intense remix, adding warm afro percussions and great piano keys.  (Franco Martinelli)

"Music talking" is a fresh funky-house track provided in various mixes for every situation. The "OIriginal mix" is a classic filtered-house track with a catchy vocal hook. Fred Falke provides an irresistible dancefloor monster adding pumpin' beats and a little french touch, Joey Negro delivers a funky rework, adding some infectious 70's sounds, while D.O.N.S. & DBN goes deeper in their remixes. The package also includes dubs and edits of the track.  (Franco Martinelli)