#ListenUp Chicago House Meets UKG on Soledrifter’s Spirited “Let Me Sing”
The hidden gem on a diamond-studded vinyl release, Garage Connection, from Hi! Energy Records and also featuring tracks from Lombard Street and Melodymann.
#ListenUp I’LL TAKE YOU is an Insane Jack Track from Dennis Quin
Rejected drops an electrifying homage to the sounds of Chicago jack on I'll Take You by Dennis Quin.
#ListenUp Louie Vega & Sean McCabe Remix I Wonder
The 2013 Nathan Adams track "I Wonder" gets some expert remixes from Louie Vega and Sean McCabe on the latter's Good Vibrations label.
#ListenUp Disco Fire from ESCORT for New Album City Life
New video, new single, new album, new tour - "City Life" from Escort, America's favorite live disco band.
#ListenUp NDATL Rallies an All-Star Line-up for Who Do You Love?
Ricky Corey, Chez Damier, Kayenne, Josh Milan and of course Kai Alce make this funk cover one of the soulful house jams of the year.
#ListenUp: S.E.L. Shares The Sweetest Pain for Record Store Day
The soulful house cover of Dexter Wansel's 1979 classic The Sweetest Pain is pressed up by Quantize for Record Store Day.
#ListenUp Jamie 3:26 Drops a Sweet Stomping Remix of Calendar
Jamie 3:26's highly desired edit of Calendar's Comin' On Strong is reissued - and then the reissue is reissued - on BBE from the A Taste of Chicago sampler.
#ListenUp Pontchartrain Invokes Ancestral Funk Spirits on AFTERLIFE
Debuted as a dubplate at the Red Bull Stage of Movement 2016, AFTERLIFE makes a fair claim to being one of the REAL anthems of the summer.
#ListenUp: Sir LSG and Melanie Scholtz Offer Up Some Gratitude
Jazz vocalist Melanie Scholtz joins with South African House Music producer Sir LSG for "Gratitude," another big single from his Moving Circles album on GOGO Music.
#ListenUp Dreamy Techno from Dispak’s Debut EP
Chris Child and Kasson Crooker aspire to tap the infinite on Dispak 1 and they nearly get there on their debut EP released by FOIL.
#ListenUp Strut to Release “Definitive” Patrice Rushen Retrospective
Remastered from original tapes, Strut's "You Remind Me" covers material from jazz, soul & disco singer Patrice Rushen's bountiful 1978 to 1984 Elektra recordings.
#ListenUp Dubby Vintage Deep House from ChicOlindo’s Carpet Burn EP
Crazy remixes from Spence Chicago and Leandro Di make this Smashing Trax EP irresistible.
#ListenUp Ralf GUM’s Ready For Love with Tony Momrelle
Ralf GUM's new LP PROGRESSIONS has landed. "Ready For Love" with UK solo artist and the voice of Incognito Tony Momrelle is our choice cut.
#ListenUp Ornaments Prepares Another Choice Carlos Nilmmns EP
"Copa" sets the tone for the adventurous IRIS EP, coming this month on wax and next month on digital from the ridiculously on-point Ornaments.
#ListenUp: Sound Therapy Do Deep House Live
Three man Italian band Sound Therapy bring the element back to deep house on Black Fever from Closer To Truth.
#ListenUp Lay-Far’s New Album Dropping August 24
Lay-Far's 3rd LP WAR IS OVER features collabs with Stee Downes, Recloose, Phil Gerus, Andy Compton and Pete Simpson.
Listen to Ron Trent’s Spellbinding Remix of AFRO PARTY
Ron Trent's remix of "Afro Party" by Chicago Afrobeat Project with the immortal Afropop legend TONY ALLEN dropped this week on Future Rootz.
#ListenUp: Victor Simonelli Releases a Record 21 Years In The Making
Victor Simonelli has some unfinished business on his old West Side Records imprint - a record more than 21 years in the making.
#ListenUp Jask Mixes Tortured Soul’s Undercover Remixes Album
"Undercover Remixes" features 13 Tortured Soul tracks remixed by Fred Everything, Chuck Love, DJ Spinna, Dimitri From Paris, Eric Kupper, Mark de Clive-Lowe, Quentin Harris, JKriv, the late Ethan White and more.
#ListenUp Karizma/Kaytronik Remixes Atjazz & Jullian Gomes’ LOVE ME
Love Me: Hypnotic 12" remixes by the master artist Karizma on black wax from Atjazz.
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