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Deep House: Aki Bergen ft. Carmen Sherry – “Into My Soul (Spiritchaser Remix)”

Posted by Jasmine McGee ⋅ December 1, 2011 ⋅ 7 Comments

All my fellow house music junkies need to check out The Future Is Fresh podcast with Fresh 27. If you love that deep, soulful, and vocal house music, then The Future is Fresh is another podcast you should subscribe to. My daily dosages of house music are never running short, because I have my trusted podcasts that I know will bring forth that real house music. The podcasts that any house lover should check out are: Deeper Shades of Houses, Deep House Cat, SS Radio UK, Grant Nelson’s Housecall, Sweat Soulful House, DeepSoul Maison, and The Future is Fresh with Fresh 27.

All those podcasts are constantly being pumping out shows with great music, and a lot of the old shows will blow your mind. I still have so many episodes of The Future is Fresh I haven’t listened to, but I decided to switch up my workout playlist and listen to nonstop house. It’s nice to have a continuous mix while I’m on the elliptical, instead of songs that just randomly jump around and don’t have a transition. Don’t get me wrong, I love my Dance/Electronica playlist I put together, but something about the sounds of house make my workout more fun and less stressful.

Earlier today I was listening to the November 8th episode of The Future is Fresh and I heard this amazing song called “Into My Soul.” I had never heard of this track until today, but I couldn’t help but immediately fall in love with it. It’s so deep, so beautiful, so organic, and it’s that real house vibe that my soul craves. The song is by Aki Bergen and it features the vocals of Carmen Sherry. The original version of the track is quite beautiful, but the Spiritchaser Remix takes the song to an entirely new level; a dreamlike escape with deep rhythms, pulsating effects, and soulful vocals that could start a spiritual revival. There is just something so majestic about this track, and if you listen to it while working out, you’re bound to wanna hop of the machine and start housing dancing. Ah, it’s such an enticing track, the type of track that is truly a deep house lover’s delight. Man, can you imagine being in a lounge and having this spinning live? OMG, that would be heaven!

Check out the track below and download it for free from soundcloud!

P.S. All the podcast I mentioned can be subscribed to for free on iTunes.

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24/7 House Junkie: A Guide to House Vol 1.

Posted by Jasmine McGee ⋅ April 29, 2011 ⋅ 2 Comments

I wake up in the morning, I pray to God, get out of bed to stretch, turn on my laptop, and begin blasting house music in my room. This has become a routine for the past eight years, a routine that doesn’t have an end in sight. I barely listen to hip-hop nowadays and when I’m not grooving to jazz or gospel, I’m having a spiritual revolution with house. House is a major part of my life, I may not be a dj or an active musician (retired from the days of playing flute), but I love listening to house when I’m writing, working out, reading, playing video games, or simply laying on my bed and reflecting on life.

Sometimes it’s exhilarating to lay down and reflect on my life while the soulful sounds of house music pump energy into my soul. It’s hard to explain the feeling I get when I listen to house, but it can be equated with a euphoric sensation. It’s like I’m in a relationship with house music, I’m that committed. I don’t bad mouth it, I don’t cheat on it with techno, and I actually take time to learn new things about it on a daily basis. Whether it’s new record labels, new artists, or finding new clubs that play soulful house music and not mindless radio anthems, I’m dedicated to being a full-time house music junkie. Full-time student, full-time writer, and full-time house lover….I like the sound of that!

I’ve been busy with the final weeks of school work and coming up with an explosive yet romantic end to my novel, so I haven’t had much time to blog. Yet I realize that blogging doesn’t just have to be posting rants about life and dating, but it can be a musical experience. A lot of people are intrigued by the sounds of house and always craving more, so I could do my service in the world by passing on the good music I hear. I want the world know about the deep bass, piano chords, angelic vocal riffs, and beautiful musical accents that make you jack your body. All this information I have acquired over the years and continue to learn on daily day thanks to podcasts and Youtube, I want to pass on. So be sure to come back on the regular. I’m going to start showing you who I really am and how the beautiful sounds of house music kiss my soul….

PODCASTS to CHECK OUT

Deeper Shades of House, Deep House Cat, SWEAT Soulful House, Vince K ‘s “Deep and Soulful”

Bargrooves Strictly Rhythm

Tracks On Repeat: The Tracks I Can’t Get Enough Recently. Be prepared to start dancing around the house for hours, these are some dope tracks. Ah I love house music…..it’s so amazing! House Music Junkie 4 Life, 8 years and counting so far!

The song below is actually a new track from Foliage Records, which have some great deep house music on their record label.

Rocco & C. Robert Walker – I Love the Night (Original Mix)

Roland Clark- Deep in House (Jon Silva’s Parapella)

Dj Spen Presents LaShay- All By Myself (MuthaFunkin Vocal Mix)

A Dope track with this amazing house sound, Mosca- Tilt Shift (Julio Bashmore Remix)

Danny Krivit- When Can Our Love Begin (Timmy Regisford Mix)

For the disco house lovers, Lisa Millet- Don’t Bring Me Down

I heard this track below on Beach House Podcast.

Dj Le Roi ft. Chappell- Get Ready

Love this song below. I heard it on Ultra Nate’s podcast and omg I love Ultra Nate! She is so cool and her music is dope!

Sonny Fedora- Work

Sandy Rivera & Yasmeen- Love (Original Mix)

My, Myself, and House (thinksoul25.com)
Deep Sugar: The Residents Keepin’ it Deep (thinksoul25.com)
Deep Sugar: A Main Ingredient for House (thinksoul25.com)

My, Myself, and House

Posted by Jasmine McGee ⋅ March 23, 2011 ⋅ 1 Comment

Since I’m finishing my degree online, it doesn’t really feel like spring break. My weekday’s usually consist of working on tons of homework every day, writing, helping my brother and sister n law plan dance workshops, and a good three to four hours of Black Ops, so spring break doesn’t really feel different than my usual week.

It’s getting kind of addicting playing Black Ops, especially when you play it so much and your start getting better. At first I was only getting like 4 kills every team deathmatch and domination, but now I’m getting up to 20 kills each round. Of course it’s not 30 or 40 kills like most of the hardcore Black Ops players, but it’s a good start considering the fact I just recently got into playing it online. Playing it online is way more fun then just playing local and the commentary from the other gamers cracks me up!

My bluetooth doesn’t work that well and I’m not a fan of talking to random people I don’t know (except via FB and my blog lol), so I tend to just listen to them while the match is loading. It’s hilarious to hear them get some upset over someone killing them, they go off so badly! I’ve heard some interesting conversations, even ones involving my gamertag and how this guy got upset that I kept catching him off guard and stabbing him. One thing I’ve learned about playing Black Ops, is to keep moving all the time and don’t stay in one spot too long. You think you’ve got this great hiding spot and unless you secure it with a claymore, someone will come up behind you and shank you. How do I know this? I’ve done it to people plenty of times and I’ve had it happen to me.

It’s a fun game to play and it can be addicting, especially when you get in a competitive mode and don’t want to take your eyes off the beautiful HD screen. Yet I do find balance and haven’t devoted my entire life to being a champion in the craft of Black Ops. I’ve actually been working on my book and deciding which direction to take the story. Not sure if I want her to have this fairytale ending or be proud knowing that she doesn’t need a man by her side to define her, but it she is still open to the possibility of love. The book is inspired by my dating life and some true events, of course names have been changed( I’m not that cuthroat, only in Black Ops).

For those of you who have been reading my blog, you know that I was in a brief relationship the past month but I had to end it, for reasons in which I don’t entirely feel like discussing. Let’s just say I’m quite content with being single and actually really missed the freedom I had, especially with men. Being single allows me to focus on my writing and fall deeper in love with house music. When I’m writing or relaxing in my room thinking about life, house music is always the soothing soundtrack. It’s always me, myself, and house.

I have the best of both personalities, introvert and extrovert, resulting in a fair balance. I enjoy going out and being in a crowd of people, but I cherish the moments I have alone. Being in a state of soltitude gives me so much joy and the house music creates a world of my own. House music is the soundtrack to my life. I wake up in the morning listening to house, I have it blasting from the Ipod dock while taking a shower, I walk around the house singing fragments of soulful house chants, and I fall asleep to the sounds of soulful house music and lounge music.

Deep House Cat, Deeper Shades of House, and SS Radio UK are my source for deep house tracks that will move your body and soul, even alter your mindstate. Next to God, my family, and writing, house music is something I love with a passion. I go out of my way to study every aspect of it and learn about different artists from around the world. When I feel like I have nobody else outside of my family to understand me, I sit back and relax to the enticing drums, keys, bass, and other resonating segments that make up house music.

There are ingredients that make up house music and I know this for a fact.I once heard it in a house podcast I was listening to and this black guy was speaking in a deep soulful voice. He described the elements that make up house. After further research I found the song on youtube and the rest of the lyrics.

True house music consists of four main ingredients: a cup of spirituality, a tablespoon of love, a dash of togetherness and a pinch of soul penetrative beats. House music has the power to heal, to soothe, to comfort. It’s a music of love, a music from up above. True house music is an instrument of God and if this instrument is used wisely, it can change your soul. This is true house music!

I played this song on repeat for a good week and couldn’t get it out of my head, I didn’t want to. I didn’t want those words to escape my soul. I feel like house music completes a part of my personality, it’s something that I cherish deeply. True houe music, I’m talking that deep soulful pure house, has this astonishing quality of connecting with your soul. When I look at the lyrics from that song, C&M Production "True House Music", I can’t find any fault in the abstract ideas. House music does have the power to heal those who are sad, those in war torn countries, those who are heartbroken, lonely, and missing joy in their life. House music is that feel good music for the soul. Even when there isn’t vocals involved, every beat hits the soul in all the right places, and there is only that one beat that delivers that final KO…the beat that takes your body to dreamland.

True Ingredients of House Music