WCC RADIO EP-018 (June 2009) is ready for download on the radio page either as an awesome ACC file or the tired old style MP3 (can you tell I'm not a fan of this format). I guess this is the first show of the summer.  When does summer start anyway?  After living in Southern California for 14 years it feels like we are in a permanent summer here.  How quickly I forget my winter cold Montreal roots.  I love my hometown but I just couldn't take those winters anymore.  It doesn't matter where you live this show has some hot tunes.  For once I do not have any white labels in this set. That means that you music collectors and DJs out there can easily find any of these tracks at the popular dance music digital retailers like Traxsource, Stompy or Beatport.  If there is any time to support the artists who make this great music it's now.  A lot of them are struggling in these hard economic times and we don't want them to stop doing what they do best.  I urge you to please go to these sites and buy the tracks you like. You can easily do that by clicking on the labels' name of the track list from that show on my site.  That will take you to where I purchased the track.

I'm very happy with this show.  I got to experiment again with some accapellas and some live edits using 3 decks.  You will hear that with Osulande's "Momma's Groove" and Jay-J's "Keep on Rising".  I have to give props to Yogi and Huski from Random Soul cause I heard them do that live edit of "Keep on Rising" and I thought I give it a try.  I also found some great house remixes of Janis Joplin and the Doors.  If you don't now who those artists are then I feel like a relic. I wasn't sure about these cause it's real hard to do a house remix of a classic rock tune that is not cheesy but Latenight Society and Mr Patron came through with two of my favorite tracks from this month.  Check out "Southern Comfort" and "Storm Riding".

About a third into the show the set gets real Jackin' and Funky with great tracks by Tommy Largo and Jazzy Eyewear but the highlight and my favorite track this month is the craziest and funkiest in the set.  It is courtesy of two guys from Belgrade, Serbia who go by the name of Gramophonedzie.  "Why Don't You" is one of most creative house tracks that I've heard in a while.  It guarantees to get the party started where ever you play it.  It's not for nothing it is in the top 5 of almost every House Music download retailer.  I played in Belgrade a few years ago with Jon Silva of Pesto Music but I don't think these guys were around then. I would have love to have met them.

The set ends with and old forgotten B-side from Naked Music and Miguel Migs.  If it wasn't for my compadre Dustin Brown of the WCC I would have completely let this track go into House memory lane.  I heard him play it during one of our jam sets and it reminded me why I felt in love with the West Coast Sound.  This Atjazz remix of "Take Me to Paradise" is everything that is right with sexy soulful House.  If you like it then you will like Dustin's new mix that will be up soon that includes this track and many more like it to bring you back to circa 2000 when Naked Music was in his glory days.

You can of course do a direct download of the show on my radio page or you stream the show online or subscribe to the podcast on SS Radio UK.

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WCC RADIO EP-017 (May 2009) is ready for download on the radio page either as an ACC or MP3 file. In this episode we have more of the same and I mean that in a good way. Lots of white labels from producer friends who've done really cool edits / mashups or unreleased mixes (thank you Jask, Jay-J, Random Soul, Zack Hill and Raul Kahn). We start off with some sexy vocals and then pick up with some great new Jakin' tracks from the Little Men, Giom and Frankie J among others. The second half of the show gets more soulful with a Random Soul remix out of Jay-J's new artist album "Love Alive" which will be out this summer. You will also find another Jay-J track in there that dates a few years back and features Latrice Barnett. "Love Is" was the big single of her debut album Illuminate but here we find an unreleased mix done by Jask of Thaisoul. Why was it unreleased? I have no idea but it should have been. As of now it's my favorite mix of that song. Check out the tracklist to find out about all the goodies this month.

You will also find a lot of these tracks (and more) in the last recording the WCC did at BALANCE on April 25th. We have another 6 hour set that will be available for download soon. The live recording from March 14th is available now. Don't forget to rate EP-017 after you've listen to it. Thanks!

Tags: SSRadio UK, WCC, Radio Show, Raunchy Rhythms