A1 - DJ Spen & Jovonn feat. Tasha LaRae - Soulful Storm
A2 - DJ Spen & Fonda Rae - Nobody But You
A3 - DJ Spen & Cornell CC Carter - Keep Your Head to The Sky (Flugel Horn Instrumental)
B1 - Crystal Waters, DJ Spen & Micfreak - Party People (Michael Gray Remix)
B2 - David Morales & DJ Spen feat. Carla Prather - I Got The Love (Alternate Vocal Mix)
B3 - DJ Spen & Monique Bingham feat. Roland Clark – The End Of It All
C1 - DJ Spen & Michelle John - You Are My Friend (DJ Meme Remix)
C2 - DJ Spen & Sheila Ford - Mr. Melody
C3 - DJ Spen & Gary Hudgins feat. Brandon Yancey - Sumthin Sumthin (Funky Flow Mix)
D1 - DJ Spen & Soulfuledge - Goin Home (To See My Savior) [Kerri Chandler Remix)
D2 - Tasha LaRae & DJ Spen - I Wish I Didn't Miss You
D3 - DJ Spen & Brandon Yancey - Perfect Timing (Ralf Gum Remix)

It has been 6 years since DJ Spen released his artist album, Transitions, and now fresh for 2021, the Baltimore House legend reveals his highly anticipated new long player, Soulful Storm. Across the album you’ll find a bounty of new Soulful, Gospel, Disco and Afro House gems.

Included are recent singles, Party People with Crystal Waters, The End Of It All with Monique Bingham & Roland Clark, and I Got The Love with David Morales & Carla Prather. In addition, Soulful Storm features some cherry-picked classic covers; including Natalie Cole’s ‘Mister Melody’ with Sheila Ford; Earth Wind & Fire’s ‘Keep Your Head To The Sky’ with Cornell CC Carter; Maxwell’s ‘Sumthin Sumthin’ with Gary Hudgins & Brandon Yancey; and Angie Stone’s ‘Wish I Didn’t Miss You’ with Tasha LaRae.

Ablaze with 12 powerful and uplifting songs & featuring a vinyl-exclusive collection of remixes from Kerri Chandler, DJ Meme, Michael Gray & Ralf Gum, Soulful Storm boasts some of DJ Spen’s best work to date, testament to the unrivalled creativity and depth of one of House Music’s best loved artists.


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Quantize Recordings are thrilled to present a reimagined version of Evelyn 'Champagne' King's timeless classic, 'Love Come Down'. This iconic R&B anthem has been revamped for 2025 with a fresh collaboration featuring Evelyn, Ezel, and DJ Spen. Music lovers worldwide will delight in this renewed rendition, blending her authentic, powerful vocals with a track that is second to none.

Evelyn's newly delivered vocals shine with the same energy and emotion as her original 1982 performance, showcasing her enduring talent. This release holds a special place in our hearts, and we're honored to share it with the World.

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All replayed featuring J Kriv on Bass and guitar parts, along with Morgan Wiley and John Himself on Keyboards and of course Jocelyn Brown re recording the vocals.

Released on Quantize with a full picture sleeve. Limited Press act fast.

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Celebrating 10 years at the top of their game, Quantize Recordings unleash a real collectors edition 12'' bringing together four of their biggest tracks to date all of which make their much anticipated debut on vinyl.

Featuring hand-picked, choice cuts from DJ Spen, Michele Chiavarini, Emmaculate, Terry Hunter, Reelsoul, Tasha LaRae & Rona Ray this is a timeless snapshot of Quantize’s undeniable impact on house music to date.


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A1 - DJ Spen & Jovonn feat. Tasha LaRae - Soulful Storm
A2 - DJ Spen & Fonda Rae - Nobody But You
A3 - DJ Spen & Cornell CC Carter - Keep Your Head to The Sky (Flugel Horn Instrumental)
B1 - Crystal Waters, DJ Spen & Micfreak - Party People (Michael Gray Remix)
B2 - David Morales & DJ Spen feat. Carla Prather - I Got The Love (Alternate Vocal Mix)
B3 - DJ Spen & Monique Bingham feat. Roland Clark – The End Of It All
C1 - DJ Spen & Michelle John - You Are My Friend (DJ Meme Remix)
C2 - DJ Spen & Sheila Ford - Mr. Melody
C3 - DJ Spen & Gary Hudgins feat. Brandon Yancey - Sumthin Sumthin (Funky Flow Mix)
D1 - DJ Spen & Soulfuledge - Goin Home (To See My Savior) [Kerri Chandler Remix)
D2 - Tasha LaRae & DJ Spen - I Wish I Didn't Miss You
D3 - DJ Spen & Brandon Yancey - Perfect Timing (Ralf Gum Remix)

It has been 6 years since DJ Spen released his artist album, Transitions, and now fresh for 2021, the Baltimore House legend reveals his highly anticipated new long player, Soulful Storm. Across the album you’ll find a bounty of new Soulful, Gospel, Disco and Afro House gems.

Included are recent singles, Party People with Crystal Waters, The End Of It All with Monique Bingham & Roland Clark, and I Got The Love with David Morales & Carla Prather. In addition, Soulful Storm features some cherry-picked classic covers; including Natalie Cole’s ‘Mister Melody’ with Sheila Ford; Earth Wind & Fire’s ‘Keep Your Head To The Sky’ with Cornell CC Carter; Maxwell’s ‘Sumthin Sumthin’ with Gary Hudgins & Brandon Yancey; and Angie Stone’s ‘Wish I Didn’t Miss You’ with Tasha LaRae.

Ablaze with 12 powerful and uplifting songs & featuring a vinyl-exclusive collection of remixes from Kerri Chandler, DJ Meme, Michael Gray & Ralf Gum, Soulful Storm boasts some of DJ Spen’s best work to date, testament to the unrivalled creativity and depth of one of House Music’s best loved artists.


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A1 - Hot Shot - John Morales M+M Edit
B1 - Hot Shot - Thommy Davis & DJ Spen 45 Mix

Baltimorean producer, Thommy Davis, has been contributing to the House Music scene for more than 40 years. Boasting a huge musical portfolio, he is highly regarded amongst peers and fans alike as one of the founding fathers of the Baltimore House family. This 7-inch sampler showcases one of the highlights from Thommy’s new album, 'Mr Davis’, the electrifying cover version of Karen Young’s disco gem, ‘Hot Shot’, by way of a brilliant duet from Tasha LaRae (Arrested Development) and Quantize royalty, Sheila Ford.

One side sees a signature M+M Edit from the maestro John Morales who provides a stunning slice of disco euphoria, with the other side combining the power of Thommy and DJ Spen to give a soulful house tinged spin on this classic.

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Soulful house legend Timmy Regisford brings his trademark sound to DJ Spen & Thommy Davis’ Quantize Recordings.
‘Falling In Love’ is a sumptuously sizzling heater, marrying Regisford’s classic soul-laden production with Tiger Wilson’s sensuous vocals. It’s a combination that will ease any pains, calm any worries and bring a smile to the face, bottling up that sunshine feeling for those darker days when a little lift is needed.
Timmy then offers up three mixes to bring a real versatility to the e.p. First up, the ‘Instrumental Mix’ that lets Regisford’s bumping bass, jazzed up piano, swelling strings and spiritual keys do the talking. Secondly, the ‘Alternative Vocal Mix’ switches the percussion of the original opting for more congas, shakers and bongos whilst leaving the claps at bay to give a deeper interpretation of the original. The final mix then drops the vocals of this alternate version completing what is a standout e.p. from Timmy Regisford that captures the essence of 2018’s summer of love.


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We are very happy to presents you the 2nd part of "The Ambient Trilogy" by Zoo Brazil on HOUSEWAX!

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Nick The Record returns to Natural House for his third outing, delivering three essential edits straight from his record bag to yours. For those who’ve caught Nick in action over the past couple of years, these floor-tested versions have been mainstays in his sets - now finally available for the wider vinyl community.

The A-side brings the proto-house/NRG bomb “Move On Down To The Other Side” - an instant energy lift for any dancefloor. On the flip, “Break Fast Club” channels the Balearic spirit, all sun-soaked grooves and late-night momentum, while “Steamy” pushes up the BPM for a deeper, boogie-tinged workout.

Limited vinyl only.

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Musiq Voyage sets sail with its debut release by TORRE Bros, a producer duo from Aix-en-Provence. A heartfelt tribute to Marseille and
the Mediterranean through two shimmering Space Disco cuts: Gyptis and La Pointe Rouge.
Remixed by the legendary Moplen, Alex From Tokyo, and Julien HBT, this EP blends house, boogie, and balearic vibes into a warm
and elegant sonic journey.

After cruising their native Provence and spinning on the mythical shores of Ibiza with their iconic pink-and-blue DJ truck, the Musiq
Voyage crew is proud to launch their new label with a sun-soaked debut EP.
Rooted in Mediterranean soul, Phocaea Vol. 1 features longtime friends and local legends TORRE Bros (Jean-Marc & Patrick Torre),
producers from Aix-en-Provence with over two decades of musical exploration—from disco and house to hybrid electronic jams. Known
for underground hits like Corps à Corps and Baleora, supported by artists such as Carl Craig, the duo now pays tribute to Marseille,
their beloved coastal city

A1 – Gyptis
A2 – Gyptis (Moplen Remix)
B1 – La Pointe Rouge
B2 – La Pointe Rouge (Alex From Tokyo & Julien HBT Remix)

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12" YELLOW MARBLED VINYL 2025 REISSUE

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Category 1 Music Sampler - Vol. 3 illustrates how the world’s most talented artists, producers and remixers come together to create great house music.

Beginning with 'I’m Alive (Touch the Sky)' featuring 2 of Chicago’s most iconic figures, Ron Carroll and Glenn Underground, it contains all of the elements that represent the ultimate Chicago soulful house production.

Shawn Christopher, another Chicago mainstay, has teamed up with the UK’s Richard Earnshaw and Ron Carroll to deliver a rousing Gospel inspired gem, 'He’s Got It'. This track will get everybody moving, whether it’s onto the dancefloor or off the sofa!

Terry Dexter’s hit, 'You Saved Me' is given a hard driving Garage infusion by UK born Marc Cotterell. It’s a fresh approach that’s been universally acclaimed. Lastly, the world-renowned DJ, Eric Kupper is the force behind Ron Carroll’s production of Aires Adora 'Magic Carpet Ride'. Eric’s big room touch is unmistakable throughout this masterful remix

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Repress!
On the label (A-Side):
This special release is dedicated to Detroit DJ Legend Ken Collier. His untimely passing deeply touched me personally, as he was one of a small few who always supported me & my music. Because of Ken Collier, Detroit developed a dance scene, which inspired artist & producers to make dance records, which gave birth to Techno, which has provided careers for many of you in the business today. So I dare ask all you techno producers, djs, record labels, record shops, techno magazines, clubs which play techno music, and fans of techno to pay respect to Ken Collier just as you would our other fine music innovators.

Side B:
However, this special compilation isn't about techno, it's about H.O.U.S.E. sounds - broadcasting it to you live from the inside in lovely Ste - re - o!!. This record contains no artist or track listing because i don't want this to be about who made the tracks, track titles, or even who wrote this commentary. This record is my personal tribute to him and how he has motivated me to make my contributions to house music. Thank you Ken Collier, for helping me grow not just as a dj or record producer, but as a person. Every dj and dance artist here in Detroit owes thanks to you for going out into the musical forest, chopping down trees, thus paving the way for us to build HOUSE!.

"In Loving Memory Of Detroit DJ Legend Ken Collier"



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Tracklisting
A1 Unknown Artist - Free From Desire
B1 Unknown Artist - X-Pansion

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FJAAK return with FJAAK014, a four-track EP packed with their signature analogue energy, funk-driven grooves and unmistakable Detroit-inspired synth work. This release is raw, percussive and unapologetically dancefloor-focused: Across four tracks, FJAAK once again prove why they remain one of the most vital voices in electronic music. The EP kicks off with 'Soulfriction', a cut built on a groove where power house meets jungle. It's a pure body-mover, all pulse and propulsion, with layered percussion that nods to classic warehouse sets while pushing things forward in true FJAAK fashion. On 'Run To Me', the duo bring soulful vocals in, weaving them into a driving rhythm that fuses housey breakbeats and thick analogue grooves. The result is a warm, kinetic blend of Detroit flair and modern funk sensibility, tailor-made for peak-time dancefloors. The B-side starts with 'Keep The Balance', a track that strips things down a touch. More introspective, but still locked into a deep, funky flow. It's mellow without losing movement, full of crisp drums and glowing chord progressions that let the groove breathe. Closing the EP is 'What's My Name?', a true FJAAK-style banger: Punchy kicks, sharp vocal cuts and a commanding low-end give it that warehouse edge. It's a punchy blend of groove and raw-energy, making it the perfect club weapon. The Berlin duo has been sculpting their sound identity with hardware-heavy, genre-blurring releases that span techno, breakbeat, house and jungle. With FJAAK014, they further refine their groove-forward vision, blending soulful vocal textures, infectious breakbeat energy and timeless Detroit-style synth work, making this EP another bold statement from a duo that remains on the frontlines of electronic music evolution.

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Khruangbin did not know if they were actually making an album. All they knew in the first frigid days of 2025, as they shivered in the Central Texas barn where they’ve recorded almost all of their music, was that the 10th anniversary of their debut, The Universe Smiles Upon You, was steadily approaching. Months earlier, they’d bandied about ways to mark the occasion, debating orchestral arrangements or compendiums of bonus materials and alternate takes. Thing was, back before Khruangbin helped establish a new modern idiom of semi-instrumental and gently psychedelic American music, there had been no bonus material, no unused songs. And how interesting would alternate takes or symphonic extravagance really be for a band whose aesthetic—essential vibes, infinite grooves, riffs that rippled across the horizon—seemed so direct and pure, anyway? What if, they had instead wondered, they went back to the barn where it all began and recut the record that had started it all, on the actual 10th anniversary of those sessions? They decided, at least, to try.

It did not take long for Laura Lee, Mark Speer, and DJ Johnson to know that the idea was indeed a good one, that in holding up a mirror shaped by the past 10 years to their formative set of songs they could feel and hear how they had changed as people and players. The result is The Universe Smiles Upon You ii, 10 entirely new renditions of the songs from Khruangbin’s oldest album, played and sequenced in a way that works for them now without being strictly allegiant to who they were then. Watchful eyes, for instance, will notice that “Bin Bin ii”, a bonus track back in 2015, has moved toward this album’s center. More importantly, attentive ears will hear how liberated Khruangbin sound from any expectations rendered by their own success, how this is once again the sound of three longtime friends deciding how this material might move in real time.

The barn is an essential piece of Khruangbin lore. In 2009, many years before Khruangbin’s early singles started to shape their course or even before they were really a band, they began to head to the barn, bought by Speer’s parents in the ’80s on a modest cattle farm midway between Houston and Austin. They’d been looking for a place to rehearse in Houston when Speer’s parents volunteered the spot and the small house next door—three bedrooms downstairs, dorm-style bunks above, a century-old stove in a small kitchen. The process was so consummately D.I.Y. that, when they convened there in January 2015 to make what would become The Universe Smiles Upon You, Speer and Lee rushed to remove a nest of bees by playing bass and smashing cymbals loudly before Johnson (famously not into bees, mind you) arrived. They made the record for $1,500.

This time around, Khruangbin decided to try a few functional updates. They finally ripped out the plywood dancefloor that had been installed for a wedding nearly two decades earlier but had since become something of a sanctuary for critters that would inevitably destroy any gear left behind. They rented a new floor, then bought silent new space heaters and boxes of hand warmers that they’d stuff into gloves during sessions. The first day was Central Texas paradise—T-shirts in January, the sun shining as they set up their instruments, ran cables, and even recorded the seven-minute version of “Two Fish and an Elephant” that appears here, the rhythm that Lee and Johnson built offering a welcoming group hug for Speer’s flickering lead. But then the cold set in, a cold so gripping that they stuffed bits of construction flotsam into every crack and crevice they could find inside the barn. They moved closer and closer as the four days progressed, as if trying to absorb one another’s radiant heat.

Perhaps, then, that’s why The Universe Smiles Upon You ii feels so warm, as if they were tending a fire simply by playing together. Early into “August Twelve ii,” Johnson watched an eastern meadowlark sing just outside the barn, its song picked up by the microphones. It wasn’t their favorite performance, but they knew it captured the magic of the time and place, the yellow beauty’s melody calling these six gorgeous minutes to order. They are likewise jubilant during this very extended take on “People Everywhere (Still Alive),” applying the lessons about pace, momentum, and dynamics they’ve learned during a decade on the road to start and sustain this dance party. It is an immaculate map of the moment.

Funnily enough, while on tour with this electric trio during the last several years, Speer became fascinated with early European instruments that could sound full without being loud—the viol de gamba, for instance, or the clavichord. He imported that enthusiasm into these sessions, not only often playing acoustic guitar alongside Lee’s hollow-body Höfner bass and Johnson’s brushed drums but also covering instruments in contact mics, so that they sounded close and real. You can hear that pursuit clearly on “White Gloves ii,” a song that has become such a Khruangbin staple they initially struggled with how to remake it here. When Johnson suggested it become “country disco,” though, the track suddenly unlocked. A rural-funk canter buttresses the bittersweet vocals and twilit guitars; the recording makes it feel as if you’re sitting in the center of the barn, head pressed between the bass amp and bass drum as Khruangbin drift away.

In many ways, The Universe Smiles Upon You ii represents the close of Khruangbin’s first chapter, the complete culmination of the music they made when they arrived at the barn in January 2015. During the last decade, they have reached an apotheosis of sorts, their love of Thai pop and heavy dub and American soul and Ethiopian haze perfectly crystallized in a string of splendid records and live shows that have hypnotized massive theaters and festival crowds alike. They’ve repeatedly sold out the United States’ most famous venues, from Red Rocks and Forest Hills to the Hollywood Bowl and Radio City, and they’ve crowned festivals from Glastonbury to Bonnaroo. Paul McCartney plucked them to reimagine one of his songs, while they’ve collaborated with Mali legend and band inspiration Vieux Farka Touré to honor his late father on 2022’s Ali. After more than a decade of relentless touring and recording, their expertly polyglot 2024 album, A LA SALA, helped earn a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist. Not bad for a band that recorded its debut in a barn of bees and mice for a grand or so.

So, then, what is next? The Universe Smiles Upon You ii provides a point of pause for Khruangbin, a chance to step back from a sound they now know so well and figure out where it may go from here. They talk about woodshedding, about spending a few hours every day with their instruments to see what new shapes they can make. Khruangbin’s splendid next run, then, begins where the first one did, too—in the barn, finding their way into the world through the songs of The Universe Smiles Upon You, second time even more absorbing than the first.

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