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Jan Kohlmeyer - Yuletide DJ Mix

Wednesday 07 December 2011, 02:34 1

The Paris DJs German connection runs deep in time. Summer 2007 we were inviting Tobias Kirmayer from funk/jazz/afro new releases and reissues label Tramp Records - his Freestyle party mix is still available and has became one of our classics. When we saw he was releasing a Soul and Funk Chistmas compilation this year we couldn't pass on inviting him for our annual xmas mix. Tobias pointed us towards DJ Jan Kohlmeyer from the wild, hot & sexy funk Disco Fantastique parties in Wuerzburg. During 10 years of Disco Fantastique the legendary Christmas parties have become tradition. Being...

Omar - Sing (If You Want It) - out on Tru Thoughts

Monday 18 July 2011, 11:42

Omar - Sing (If You Want It)
(CD/Digital) Tru Thoughts TRUCD233, 2011-07-18

Omar's Sing (If You Want It) album - featuring collaborators including Stevie Wonder, Estelle, Common and Angie Stone - will be re-released by Tru Thoughts on 18th July 2011 with the addition of two new bonus tracks (one of which, the Zed Bias collaboration Dancing, is currently riding high on the BBC 1Xtra playlist). Omar's sixth album, Sing (If You Want It) is a bona fide soul classic and was all set to tip the UK soul sensation into the pop-star realm, once and for all, on its release in 2005. However, a series of setbacks - not least the sudden collapse of the record label involved, a week after release - severely dented its chances of breakthrough success. Hardly a flop, it impressively still sold over 50,000 copies, but as Tru Thoughts A&R and long-time Omar fan Robert Luis says, "it was so heavily anticipated, and with collabs from the likes of Stevie Wonder...well, everyone knew it could have sold ten times that".

Stevie Wonder vs Grant Phabao - Uptight

Friday 14 November 2008, 19:59 1

A few months ago we received some bootleg MP3s of Grant Phabao riddims that had leaked on the p2p, credited to the Booty Smash Soundsystem. It's probably the same guys who sent us a copy of this glorious 7 inch, for which they said "only 100 copies were pressed, in Jamaica"... Stevie Wonder's magic voice on Grant Phabao's 'new vintage' 70s reggae production works so well we decided to share this track with you - Reggae Soul at its best! You can hear the Cee-Lo vs Phabao bootleg in the Molesting Laura Vol.7 mix by Grant Phabao & Djouls, from way back in May 2007 - Soulful hip hop...