The Soul Immigrants - Migration (D.S.P. Club Mix)

Straight-up house from Canadian brothers Yogi and D'Pac Patel illuminated on the channel today.

In the early 1990s the two were were regular collaborators across the border with seminal Detroit house labels like KMS, Serious Grooves and Prescription.

Their collaborative releases together as The Soul Immigrants came in later in the 1990s and back in Canada on labels such as Crash records and Nick Holder's DNH.

Migration (D.S.P. Club Mix) comes via Hannover label ProgCity in 1997, which might explain why it is less sought after than US releases. D.S.P. is an alias of D'Pac that stands for Different Shades Production.

From a time when Garage sounded like Garage House and it didn't matter which side of the pond you were on. Full frontal piano stabs and swung out rhythms make this a great cheap pickup!

Check out the record on Discogs here.

Zack - I Wanna Be The Only (Vocal)

Dug this one up from a bargain shelf this week and stoked to find a true diamond in the rough. 

Both mysterious artist Zack and suburban New York label Solid-Gold Records look to have only released this record, with very small amounts pressed. 

Only credited producer DJ White Rock has released any other work, including another particularly rare hip-hop 12-inch from the 1990s and a smooth jazz album from 2017. Quite the hiatus. 

I Wanna Be The Only shines as an underground artefact of street-soul elements present in the US. There are clear tropes of New-Jack Swing and Hip-Hop, but drum programming and vocals synonymous with UK Street Soul, showing the movement made it across the Atlantic. 

Shattered to be missing the original picture sleeve, with a superimposed photo of an iced-out, raw Zack against a cloudy night sky, but glad a copy somehow made it to the floor of record shop on the other side of the world. 

Check out the record on Discogs here.

BPM on P.B.S. in June

I was back on the PBS airwaves on the weekend!

Hosted B.P.M. for two hours bringing some deep house and techno and finishing with some electro classics.

Listen back here:

Tracklist:

  

DJ D	Systems Activated (Full Club Experience)	Other (1996)
Steve Loria & Kenneth Graham	Transitions	Stickman (1999)
D. Diggler	Liquid Floor	Raum…Musik (1999)
Kenneth Graham	Centrefuge (E.B.E.'s Centred Rework)	Jump Recordings (2001)
Wax	30003A (Original Mix)	Wax (2010)
Mr. V	Circle Track	Sole Channel Music (2008)
Eddie Richards	Someday	Soco Audio (2001)
Dee-Lite	Power of Love (Ian Pooley Remix)	Elektra (1996)
Mike Dunn	He's Gonna Make It Alright (MD'z Hard Azz Dub)	Sub-urban (1997)
CK	Patience = Transcience	PRS (2020)
Dave	Medium	Muller (1999)
D5	Floatation Tank	Delsin (2009)
Mayaku	Lost Pearls	Wally’s Groove World (2001)
Circulation	Street Beat	Primary Recordings (1999)
Central	Mix A	Help Recordings (2019)
51 Days	Tracktion	Touche (1994)
Get F**cked	Stripper II	Eukahouse (2000)
LNS & DJ Sotofett	Airwaves	Wania (2025)
BFC	Chicken Noodle Soup	ART (1993)
Pink Freud	Musica Suave	Lifetime Music (2001)
Moca	First Steps	Black Love Records (2000)
Drexciya	Andrean Sand Dunes	Tresor (1999)
Rockband	I Smoke Cigarettes	Dancemove (2025)