Earful: June 11th, 2010

Music Update: June 11th, 2010

We're turning the corner into Summer and things are heating up! We're putting the final touches on our 4th of July party, and we're lining up something special......announcement to come soon!

* click an image to get an earful of our featured artists and labels...

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The Funk
featured: artist. Special Interest / label. Soul Fuel




One of Chicago's House music icons, PAUL JOHNSON, teams up with GANTMAN and returns with a bang for the Stompy-exclusive "Brother 2 Brother" for the red hot label Farris Wheel, and this is must for all house djs this summer; VERNON & DaCOSTA's Homecoming enlists PHIL WEEKS and ANDRE CROM & LUCA DOOBIE to rework their "Northern Light" single; before the turntables have even begun to cool down from his last release, the ineffable SONNY FODERA returns to Guesthouse with "Disco Biscuits"; our man and fellow resident, JONENE, lays down a sweet remix of "Digital Charisma" for Juiced; THE HOODFELLAS remix both the NONBELIEVERS' "Six Feet Deep" on Hudd Traxx, as well as MIRCO VIOLI's "Lazy Fingers" on their Smoke City label; currently sitting on top of the Top 100, GIANO "Gets Down On It" for Sutra Sounds; FUNK MEDITERRANEO & ALBERTO DRAGO's "Old School" is remixed by ERIK BO, MR CLEAN, BYRON FOXX and UNCLESOUND; the funk of TRACY COOPER's "Uptown & Greengrass" gets treated by CHEMARS, MEL ROSARIO, SPOON and WILL JAX; and the "Ultimate Anti-Hero" is the latest episode in the 'Remastered Bits' series from Swirled, including the JT DONALDSON & LANCE DeSARDI remix of 'Espionage'.

Staff Picks of the Week for The Funk

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Soul Full
featured: artist. Davidson Ospina / label. Transport




Distant Music has been one of the finest examples of Soul Full house for 15 years, and label boss JON CUTLER refreshes everyone's memory with the "Volume 1 Compilation" featuring OSUNLADE, DENNIS FERRER, KERRI CHANDLER, KARIZMA and a ton of others that made the label what it still is today; "Vahina" comes from ROCCO's SMOKE IN THE CITY, a more big room sound then his usual territory on MN2S; "Infection Point" comes from MAT PLAYFORD's HERMANI on the seminal UK label Paper; JUNIOR WHITE & NINA CREESE throw "Something in the Air", and it's filled with Soul on Spirit Sound; two producers who know a thing or two about deep house, SOUL MINORITY and JOSHUA IZ, remix ATNARKO's "Close Your Eyes" for Onethirty; JAY TRIPWIRE remixes TOM LOWN's "Love Potion" for Lost My Dog; the smooth vocals of NICOLE MITCHELL are featured on the vibin' "I Don't Need You" for Bigspin London; SUN ORCHESTRA's "Sundance EP" from 2000 is the latest from the Straight Up vaults; and THE 5 BEATS' "DJ Breaks" drops on Real Tone's sister label, Franck Roger Productions.

Staff Picks of the Week for Soul Full

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Tek
featured: artist. Panpot / label. Niveous




The sounds of NRK are wide and varied, and are also responsible for some of the most familiar House, Tech and even Deep tracks of all time. Offering up a taste of their astounding back catalog, "Underground Goodies" displays some classics from GEMINI, PEACE DIVISION, IAN POOLEY, SPENCER PARKER, and an impenetrable list of who's who across all genres; CLAUDE VON STROKE and BEN KLOCK remix KENNY LARKIN's "Glob" on Planet E; JIMPSTER and POL_ON remix the lovely "People Say" on Freerange; combining the special touch of dOP with the power of artists like NOZE, WAREIKA, and CATZ & DOGZ, you will get some serious Bombs and Watergate presents four of them on the "Penguin EP"; MIKE MONDAY offers up his remix of DA LUKAS' "Go" on Beef; "Central" is the first new TECHNASIA album in 5 years, and surely one of the musical highlights of the year; and for the next installment in International Deejay Gigolo's compilation series, DJ HELL focused on Vienna and other European producers for "CD Twelve", a 32 track monster of which 17 are previously unreleased.

Staff Picks of the Week for Tek

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Down-N-Out
featured: label. Leng



For the third release on Home Taping Is Killing Music, they hand over the controls to the safe hands of Swag's Chris Duckenfield, aka DUCKBEATS, to deliver the musical heat of "House Back Home"; things get "Chilled & Unbroken" for JESSE SAUNDERS' Broken; JAMES CURD, STERO HEROES, DEVIN BYRNES and TOMMIE SUNSHINE all remix "Live Like You Wanna Live" for Greenskeepers; New York natives John Paul Jones and Ryan Cavanagh make up the band WORST FRIENDS, and after a handful of edits and remixes under their belt for Thom Yorke, M83 and Jack Johnson just to name a couple, they lay it down for Future Classic with "Neve".

Staff Picks of the Week for Down-N-Out


Enjoy the Music!
-Stompy Crew

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