Wednesday 12 May 2010

William Bell - Headline News




A deep, smoothfunk groove for special evening listening from William Bell, which I'm sure was featured on a Mastercuts compilation. For those who may have stumbled upon this blog by accident, then your in for a treat with this. But for those who know, catch a piece of the groove action.

William Bell - Headline News

Thursday 22 April 2010

Block Party presents Hot Toddy (Crazy P)



Our Newcastle buddies have pulled out another cracking guest for their Block Party afterparties, following on from Craig Smith (6th Borough Project)they will be welcoming Hot Toddy from the Crazy P bunch. With support from our friends One20 ,Paul T and Tommy Rocksteady seems like the coming May Bank Holiday will be a belter...

Check out the Facebook link below for details...and here's an ace new remix from the man himself.


Set it off (HT mix)-SMOKIN MIRRORS by hottoddy

Block-Party-presents-Hot-Toddy-Facebook-event-page

Future Steppin with Aaron Dae



Another mix for the page and another from Aaron Dae, here focusing his track attention to some slo mo, future boogie grooves which is well worth an hour or so of your time. Check it below or get a DL over at Soundcloud...

01. Hot Toddy - Magnetic
02. Hot Toddy - I Need Love (Morgan Geist's Love Dub)
03. I:Cube - Falling (Original Mix)
04. Joey Negro - Beyond The Dance (The Revenge Demo Mix / Superbreak Edit)
05. 6th Borough Project - McLovin
06. Manolo - Lose Myself
07. Jayson Brothers - All My Life
08. Silver Convention - Fly Robin Fly (The Noodleman Lost Temple Dub)
09. Jake Island - What If You Wanted More? feat. Joanna Christie (Tensnake Remix)
10. Sister Sledge - Lost in Music (The Revenge Rework)
11. Sharon Redd - Beat The Streets (Cosa Nostra's Chop Shop Edit)
12. Michael Wycoff - Looking Up To You (The Revenge Rework)
13. Dayton - The Sound of Music

Steppin' In2 The Phuture by aarondae

Thursday 15 April 2010

D-Train - Keep Giving Me Love (Touchsoul Edit)



Another done a little while back. Dancefloors should all be beserk when this is on.

D-Train - Keep Giving Me Love (Touchsoul Edit)

Donald Byrd - Love For Sale (Touchsoul Edit)



Another track of Mr Byrd's done for DJing purposes. From an amazing album...git down funky!!!

Donald Byrd - Love For Sale (Touchsoul Edit)

Wednesday 14 April 2010

Airwaves - Touchsoul Edit



An extended edit on the Nick Straker Band track that I was gonna try and fit in a mix somewhere. Lovely rhythm and sexy horns on this on this one!!

Nick Straker Band - Airwaves (Touchsoul Ext. Edit)

Wednesday 7 April 2010

BPS - Korova Prays For The Sunshine Mix



It gets deep down and disco funked in Dundee!! Lovely mix of tunes here from Korova Conspiracy with much emphasis on the groove...Check this and the rest on Soundcloud at the below mix link.

BPS-Korova prays for the Sunshine mix by The Korova Conspiracy

1.Gaz Nevada-Special Agent Man-Nassau Slow Dub
2.Bangles-Walk Like an Egyptian-Todd Terje Edit
3.Talk Talk-Lifes What you make it-Nick Davies No FX mix
4.Russ Brown-Find a way-Leftside Wobble edit
5.Greg Wilson-Gotta Keep Working it
6.BlackLodge-Lay it on the line
7.C.K.B.-Teach Me try Me-The Noodleman Rework
8.Alexander O'Neal-Fake-Butterfunk's 2010 edit
9.Nicholas-Flow
10.Jamiroqui-Little L-edit
11.Social Disco Club and Maia-The Way-GW edit
12.Chic-Burn Hard-Touchsoul's REfunked edit
13.Dirty Metal Choir-For Long
14.Michael Jackson-Thriller-OOFT re-edit
15.James Brown-Superbad-Sly Players Edit
16.Barbara Mason-Another Man-Baresi's dub edit
17.Ella Fitzgerald-Sunshine of your love.

Superbreak Live at The Cheetah Lounge



Cracking mix from Kosta Ellis a.k.a SUPERBREAK with a top notch tracklist. Some super listening for to get down for an hour or so...

Check more of Superbreak at the Soundcloud link.

SUPERBREAK Live At The CHEETAH LOUNGE by SUPERBREAK

Willie Edit (Nicholas Edit)-Willie Hutch
Groove Is On My Mind (LTJ Experience Mix)-The Beatdown Sound Machine
Get Down, Ain't No Time To Sleep-LTJ Experience
Beyond The Dance (The Revenge Demo Mix)-Surround Sounds
Stratus Quo-6th Borough Project
Big City (Noodleman Edit)-Fatback
Nah That's Hot Man-Prince Language
Winelite (Eddie C/SB Edit)-7 Inches Of Love #3
Cant Play Around (Munga/SB Edit)-Lace
Sometimes (Touchsoul Edit)-UB's

Tuesday 23 March 2010

Jeff Lorber - Step By Step



Some great eighties boogie from Jeff Lorber here, from his same titled album.

Tuesday 16 March 2010

6th Borough Do It Again



New release on IOR from Graeme and Craig. Deep & Dope...check it out!!!

S l o w D o w n B a b y

6th Borough Project : Slow Down Baby by The Revenge

C l o s e r

6th Borough Project : Closer by The Revenge

S t r a t u s Q u o

6th Borough Project : Stratus Quo by The Revenge

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Janet Jackson - When I Think Of You (Touchsoul Regroove)


Extended from the original 3 and half mins. There is other remixes from when released, but just structured this slightly for personal use...80's pop groove from Jam & Lewis in their element...

Saturday 13 March 2010

Do Ya Wanna Boogie??


Anyone heading to the WMC at the end of the March would be seriously foolish to be missing these two events. A four hour set from edit maestro Greg Wilson on the 24th and the Do Ya Wanna Boogie party featuring Crazy P and Chicago's own Aaron Dae & Dirty from Philly. Check out Aaron's guestmix below. Thanks Mr Dae...It's a belter!!!


Give it up for Love :: A collection of boogie grooves & disco moves by aarondae

Thursday 11 March 2010

Touchsoul Last Orders Mix



A short selection of tracks recorded at our residency in Sunderland recently...

Billy Griffin - Hold Me Tighter In The Rain
Dharma One - Weekend With Brandy
Popular People's Front - Why Can't I Stop?
6th Borough Project - Do It To The Max
War - Galaxy
Max Essa - 2 Be The One U Want
Julius Papp - Round In My Mind (Touchsoul Retempo)
The System - This Is For You


Thursday 18 February 2010

Craig Smith (6th Borough Project) Deeper Groove Mix




1. Ratiocination (The Reason) / For The Love (Accapella) - Andy Ash / DJ Spen

2. Night People (6th Borough Love Rub) - Illya Rudman

3. Seventh Disco - Greymatter

4. Umbilical Chord (P.P.F. Remix) - Ooft

5. Lead Me On - Dan Electro

6. Word (To The Masters) (Original Mix) - Moodymanc

7. Word (To The Masters) (Dub) - Moodymanc

8. Coney Island Boppers - Ethyl & Flori

9. Wait & See / It’s Alright (Accapella) - Bobby & Klein / Sterling Void

10. Turn Around - Chubby Dubz

11. I Stole Some Thunder (Ooft Remix) - Esa & Mervin Granger

12. Love Connection (MAW Dub) - Towa Tei

13. I Won’t Lay Back - Rick “Poppa” Howard

14. 008 / Slave To The Rhythm (Accapella) - Mountain People / Grace Jones







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Recent Soundclound Edits and Reworks

Latest tracks by touchsoul

Friday 29 January 2010

Rufus & Chaka - Live In Me (Touchsoul Edit)




In my opinion, one of the best tracks these done while together, a top track from the Masterjam album. For me it's all about the background harmonies at the end of the track and great mid tempo groover. Here I've slightly extended it at the intro and end as for me, 3 and half mins is too short with this one. To download click divshare logo...

Loose Ends - Nights Of Pleasure (Touchsoul Edit)


This is a personal favourite of mine which I've given a little reworking to, ommiting most of the vocal and smoothing out the already sublime groove. From the great 1986 album 'Zagora'.





Saturday 16 January 2010

Hot Toddy - Summer Daze



Been a while since I've posted anything other than my own edits/reworks so thought I'd hit y'all up with something from almost 4 years ago which I've been re-listening over again on vinyl. This is my personal favourite from this EP from the great Hot Toddy on Winding Road.


Hot-Toddy--SummerDaze

Wednesday 13 January 2010

Feel My Bicep Beats



A recent edit I done of "Don't Stop The Funk" by James Brown, posted over at the great, Feel My Bicep. Check out the track and the rest of the blog at the link below.

feel-my-bicep--don't-stop-the-funk-(touchsoul-edit)

Monday 11 January 2010

OOFT! Business...



Unless your new to music blogs are just good music in general, you will hopefully be well aware of the site that is OOFT! This blog has been running for well over 2 years now and is home to The Revenge, 6th Borough Project and Ali Herron, responsible for some of the best underground house, downtempo and electronica beats released of late...

Check out Ali's recut of an SOS Band edit I did a little while ago over at their blog...It's a corker!!!

HighHopes-TouchsoulEdit-OOFT!Recut

Sunday 10 January 2010

Set Fire To Me - Touchsoul Edit



Edit/rework of the overlong dub version of the Willie Colon track. Utilizing the best elements for my own DJ use and adding the usual tweaks and shit...

Set Fire To Me - Touchsoul Edit by touchsoul

Saturday 9 January 2010

Reset - Juicy



A quite sublime edit of Juicy's "Sugar Free" from Leeds based geezer, Reset. Check it out below or download the WAV at the soundcloud link and see what else he's been up to...

Reset - Juicy (v.1) by Reset*

Thursday 7 January 2010

My Favourite Disco - Touchsoul Edit



A personal favourite of mine from, in my opinion, one of the best 70's era disco albums, "Time Is Slipping Away" by Dexter Wanzel which is 'I'll Never Forget (My Favourite Disco). Edited/stretched out the into/outro and removed some vocal. This was done for personal use with intention of playing at one of our events that got cancelled...

My Favourite Disco - Touchsoul Edit by touchsoul

Universal Love - Touchsoul Edit



Edit of Woods Empire's 1981 soul funk number. Sure elements of this have been used/sampled in a previous production...but here's my version with the usual crude treatment...

Universal Love - Touchsoul Edit by touchsoul

Tuesday 5 January 2010

Billy Griffin - Serious (TouchSoul Edit)



Some electronic soulgroove seduction beats from Billy Griffin's 1983 LP, "Respect". Also used in an edit released last year on Jisco Music by Casinoboy, called Timerider. Download at the widget below...

Billy Griffin - Serious (TouchSoul Edit) by touchsoul

Monday 4 January 2010

Tensnake - Beats in Space Radio Mix



1. Mick Karn - The Sound Of Waves - Virgin
2. Linda Di Franco - My Boss - Warner Italy
3. Krisma - Carefully - Franton Records
4. Son Dexter - Sonrise Dance - Alleviated Records
5. Bottin - No Static - Italians Do It Better
6. The Faint - Battle Hymn For Children (Tensnake Remix) - Boysnoize Records
7. Plein Soleil - Casus Belli (Brontosaurus Saga Remix) - Playhouse
8. UBQ Project - When I Fell In Love - Logic Records
9. Kerri Chandler - Atmospheric Beats - Shelter Records
10. Deep Dish - The Dream (Sharam's Deep Dish Dreamscape) - Tribal America
11. Romanthony & DJ Predator - Clap Ya Handz - Glasgow Underground
12. Phuture - Inside Out (Roy's Rad Nomad Mix) - Strictly Rhythm
13. Julian Jonah - Jealousy And Lies - Cooltempo
14. Azari & III - Hungry For The Power - I'm A Cliché
15. Toby Tobias - In Your Eyes (Tensnake Remix) - Rekids
16. Komiko - Feel Allright - BMC
17. The Comsat Angels - I'm Fallin - Jive

Tensnake - Beats In Space Radio - 23-06-2009 by R_co

Saturday 2 January 2010

TouchSoul's Best Of 2009



Just some selections of what moved the dancefloor feet and tapped the TouchSoul toes over the last twelve months...in no particular order...


Mario Basanov - Do You Remember (6th Borough Project Mix) Future Classic

I:Cube - Falling (Versatile)

Betcha Would'nt Hurt Me - TouchSoul Edit (CDR)

Lovebirds - U Give Me (N2Deep)

Change - You Are My Melody/Mutual Attraction (WEA)

Toby Tobias - In Your Eyes (Tensnake Remix) ReKids

Lindstrom - Baby, I Can't Stop (Feedelity)

Gwen McCrae - Poyson (Blacklodge Edit) CDR

PPF - Why Can't I Stop? (PPF)

Touch Sensitive - Body Stop (Apres)

Casinoboy - Timerider (Jisco)

The Persuader - From West to South (Svek)


...and so many others that have blessed the ear...Here's to 2010!!!

Here's one of the TS favourites...


Mario Basanov : Do You Remember (6th Borough Project Mix) by The Revenge

Friday 1 January 2010

Feelin' Hot - TouchSoul Edit



Another personal edit I've decided to share. Just a dubbier rework of Futura's boogie funk number, 'Feelin' Hot'. Ive edited the vocal version from the vinyl rip..so has a few crackles & pops, omitting some vox and lengthened out the amazing bass funk groove with the usual tweaks...

Feelin' Hot - TouchSoul Edit by touchsoul

Life Is Special - TouchSoul Re-Cut



40 Thieves wopping 11 minute electronic boogie megamix released on Rong Music a couple of years ago,condensed down here and edited/looped the first part of it to a more palatable 6 mins. This was done for my own personal use of playing out...

Buy the original version and check the vid at the links...

Life Is Special - TouchSoul Re-Cut by touchsoul