WCC RADIO EP-028 (April 2010) is ready for download on the radio page either as an AAC or MP3 file. I apologize for not updating the blog often but I've been real busy these last few weeks with personal and professional things. I've been keeping up to date with the radio shows but I haven't been posting entries about it on this page. I did not skip a month you can find WCC RADIO EP-027 on the same page as EP-028. You will notice that there is new drops on the last two shows. They are done by our LA friend Louis Hale who does killer spoken word. Actually he and Torin (of the WCC) have done an amazing track that they are shopping right now. Can you say Defected Peak Time? This is going to destroy the dance floors this summer. In the meantime enjoy EP-028 (and 27 if you haven't download) and rate it on the radio after you've listen to it. Stay soulful!

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

WCC RADIO EP-026 (February 2010) is ready for download on the radio page either as an AAC or MP3 file. Second one of the year already. The first half of the show starts off and stays pretty soulful but picks up to some peak time tracks on hour 2. New tunes from Jay-J, Guy Robin, Reelsoul and others. Classic 90s garage from Butter on the great Smack label, classic Joey Negro and some amazing edits that you won't find at any store by Mario Dubbz and by Jask of Thaisoul. I hope you like this episode and as always tell me what you think by leaving a comment and/or rating the mix on the radio page.

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

WCC Radio EP-024 is here. Last one of the 2009. Two freakin' years already!! Actually if you count when the show was called "Shameless Sessions" then it's been longer than that and boy do I have a treat for you with this one. I was in San Francisco for the Thanks Giving holiday to hang out with my bud Jay-J. He was doing a gig with his old producer partner Chris Lum at Temple on friday and then on Saturday he was playing with Julius Papp and David Harness at Mars Bar for a classics night. OMG they blew the roof of that place. The music was incredible, the mixing was flawless and the crowd gave me hope about the scene again. All the old heads came out. They left the kids with the babysitter and came out for one reason only: to dance! Watching and listening to these 3 veteran of the West Coast Sound playing back to back and switching it up every 30 minutes was so inspiring (BTW Jay-J recorded the set and he will have it as a podcast soon). Hence EP-024 which are some of my favorite classics. Not the usual stuff you hear in these classics show but more like the stuff that wasn't overplayed. If you were a club rat like I was in the mid to late 90's you will go "hell yeah" and raise your hands in the air as you listen to this set. You might have to take out the baby powder for the full experience (the heads know what I'm talking about:) I had to dust off some the old vinyls for some of these tracks so I apologize in advance for the fluctuating sound quality of the set. I also need to thank Jay-J for hooking me up with some of these tracks that are virtually impossible to find anymore and will never come out as digital.

It's funny that after I wrote that entry about our scene things seem to be showing signs of improvement. The San Francisco trip certainly made me come back with a smile and new energy and hope. Here in Los Angeles things seem to be picking up also. Some new local events (that actually play soulful house) are filling the clubs. Tortured Soul played this past week end and the place was also packed with happy people that just wanted to get their groove on. We might turn this ship around after all. Thank you to all who contributed to the entry and wrote in their two cents.

Please let me know what you think of this episode. Thanks to all who have supported the show these last two years. Hope we can keep it going for a lot more.

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

WCC RADIO EP-023 (November 2009) is ready for download on the radio page either as an ACC or MP3 file. This one starts off real soulful and then picks up with a mixture of deep, classics, and jakin' tracks. I hope you enjoy the November episode of WCC Radio and please rate it on the radio page after you listen to it. Next up is City Sonar vol 3, the now popular Deep House series of mixes. Thank you all for the support.

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

WCC RADIO EP-022 (October 2009) is ready for download on the radio page either as an ACC or MP3 file. I think this one has turned to be one of my favorites. This show just glides with soulful tracks bordering the deep side. It really sounds like one of my live sets. I think it came out good because I didn't put too much thought into it and kind of didn't pick the tracks in advance. I had an idea of what I wanted to play but in no particular order.

Early in the set there is a very cool and soulful edit from Jask of Maxwell's "Ascenssion" that always gets people to the dance floor early. The bass line kills it. Mr Patron is also back with more bootlegs that just take you back and makes you want to sing along. Rambone Sold (not their real name but sounds just like it ;) comes back strong with a Marvin Gaye bootleg which is not your usual putting an accapella over a house beat. It's an amazing production of the classic "Heard it Through The Grapevine". My friends Yogi & Huski from Random Soul (sounds familiar?) were also visiting Los Angeles from Australia this week. They were staring their US West Coast tour and they have hooked me up with some of their amazing, yet unreleased tracks that will be coming out in the near future. Check out "Just Bounce" and "Got To Get Up" - funkin' jackin'.

The big news this month is that two people that are very close to me have brand new releases. The most beautiful girl in the world, AKA my wife Sandra Lima has 3 releases out and one of them is with my WCC brother Torin Rea. First, her track with Irish producer Scope is #4 on Beatport's Deep House chart. The track is called "This Rhythm" and you can hear it on my latest CIty Sonar Deep House mix. It's track #4. For now this release is exclusive to Beatport. She also has a new song on Reel Grooves with UK producer Greg Dorban. The Stereo Mutants kill it with their remix of "Get To Me" (track #9 on this episode). You can find this release on Traxsource. Finally Sandra has her first track out with our friend and my WCC partner Torin Rea. "My Kind Of Saturday Night" (track #19 on this episode) is a fun, funky track that will get any dance floor going. This production killed it when Torin played the first draft of it at Balance a few months ago. Torin also has another release out with another LA singer named Erin Powers called "Duplicity". I will play this one on the next show. Both of these tracks will soon be available on the Baldeelox label from the UK. They are now out as promos for DJs to get their reactions.

I hope you enjoy WCC RADIO EP-022. Let me know what you think of it by rating it on the radio page after you hear it or leave a comment here. Please also support Sandra and Torin by purchasing their tracks and keep House Music alive!

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

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.

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

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

WCC RADIO EP-016 (April 2009) is ready for download on the radio page either as an ACC (better) or MP3 (booooo) file. This month we go back to our original format which is fresh tunes mixed with rare (and sometimes obvious) classics that still hold up the dance floor today. New music from Martin East of Kapa Music (my pick this month), Random Soul, Tortured Soul, Richard Earnshaw and others. Also an awesome remix of Marvin Gaye "What's Going On" from 1200 Warriors and the classic track is courtesy of Lisa Stansfield. I don't know why but lately I've been seeking out her tracks and especially her old remixes. She had such an incredible soulful voice and she reminds me of what was good and positive about the 90s. I got my hands on some of her accapellas and I'll see if I can do a bootleg of one of her tracks with the help of some of my friends who know what they are doing.

Speaking of accapellas I did some experimenting and live edits at the beginning of the mix with that real jazzy track from Stacey Mallory and over the Martin East track. And last but not least a very rare Jay-J / Chris Lum remix featuring Latrice Barnett.  From what Jay-J told me this was the first time that Latrice had worked with them. The stories goes that Latrice was at Moulton Studios to record with Chris and Jay-J the classic "Summer Time" that came out on Loveslap. Both producers were also finishing a remix of Brancaccio & Aisher's "It's gonna Be a Lovely Day". They had an idea to throw some vocals over the remix and asked Latrice to improvise over the track to warm up her voice. The result is track #17 of this episode. This remix never came out because the label didn't like the vocals. Big mistake. I think it's amazing, the best version and now vary rare. I hope you enjoy it and don't forget to rate the show after you've listen to the whole set.

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

WCC RADIO EP-015 (March 2009) is ready to be downloaded on the radio page. It's March so this is the Miami WMC edition of the show and I did something different with this episode. Instead of playing some of the new tracks that will be hot at this year's conference (not that impressed so far) I did a set with 19 tracks that really floated my boat from previous conferences. These are tracks that range from the last 10 years or so. I picked these tracks because they made an impression on me when I heard them for the first time in Miami. Don't expect anything too underground. These are high energy tracks that really made people dance and have summer written all over them. Very Miami you might say. Think Defected and In The House of the late 90s and early 2000. I hope you like it and next month when I'm back from the conference with new tunes I will return to a deeper more underground sound. I will also post in a few days details of where I'm playing in Miami for WMC.

You will also notice that on the download page you will find two links for the mix. One is for the ACC and the other is for an MP3. Please only download one. I recommend the ACC for reasons outlined here. If the ACC doesn't work with your player only then download the MP3. Bandwidth costs money and I don't want to pollute this site with advertisements so I can cover the costs of the extra bandwidth.

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

I did and interview last month with Craig Stewart on his Soul Horizon show that airs on Raunchy Rhythm Radio. Take a listen to this 10 minute conversation if you want to find out more about the man behind the site ;)

Tags: Raunchy Rhythms, WCC, Radio Interview

WCC RADIO EP-014 (February 2009) is ready for your listening pleasure on the radio page. This is the first mix in the ACC format with higher quality, track indexing, playlist embedding, and a bunch of other features as outlined in the previous post. Don't forget to watch the video tutorial to find out all the features and advantages of ACC over MP3. I'm also excited about this show because the classic track(s) take up the last 30 minutes of the show. It is a tribute to Eddie Perez of the Smack crew fame and who goes by the name of Mentalinstrum. Smack Productions put out some of the best and unforgettable Garage from the mid 90's. Eddie as re-release a lot of their classics on digital and I couldn't be happier since I had lost a lot of my Smack Crew vinyl that was out of print. I can't wait to play some of this stuff live again. It's going to set the roof of Balance on fire when we play there just before WMC. Enjoy the mix and don't forget to rate it after you listen to it.

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

WCC RADIO has found another home for it's monthly show. Besides SS Radio UK on the first Sunday of the month we are now also on Raunchy Rhythms Radio on the first Friday of the month. You will get to hear on Raunchy Rhythms the mix before it is posted and available for download. We premiere with WCC RADIO EP012 (December 2008). The shows air the first Friday of every month at 22:00 GMT. Click here to find out at what time the shows play in your corner of the world.

Tags: Mixes, WCC, Radio Show, Raunchy Rhythms