Published on
March 19, 2008 in
DJ Music, Labels and Producers.
Tags: Afro-Beat, Bodhi Satva, Esperanza, Fred Everything, Gotsoul, House, Jaffa, Jojoflores, Kenny Bobien, Miguel Graca, Mike Fresco, Nick Holder, Osunlade, Rise Ashen, Santos, Soul, Soulcreation, Trevor Walker, Winter Music Conference, WMC.
Gotsoul is a two-fold company founded by a hip and talented team of musicians, DJ’s and producers, along with specialists in PR and Marketing. As a record label Gotsoul specializes in soulful music and eclectic music. According to them, anything that embodies true soul music can be seen and heard from Gotsoul. As a production company, Gotsoul houses an experienced and serious team in image-making, branding, and event planning.The label has included such awesome artists as Jojoflores, Mike Fresco, Osunlade, Trevor Walker, Rise Ashen, Santos, Jaffa, Miguel Graca, Soulcreation, Kenny Bobien, Fred Everything, Bodhi Satva, Nick Holder, Esperanza, and many more.
Gotsoul will, of course, be attending WMC 2008 and we’ll be right there with them!
Check in next week when TCR reports straight from the Winter Music Conference in Miami!
Published on
March 6, 2008 in
DJ Music and Producers.
Tags: , B.A.W. Collective, Beats, Brassmunk, Do Right Music, House, Jazz, John Kong, Moonstarr, Nick Holder, Ottawa, Required Listening, Soul, Toronto.
Toronto. Ontario. Canada. The streets are alive with the sound of music. Ditto the clubs, lounges, restaurants, community radio stations, wa
rehouses, and studio spaces. This city is bursting at the seams, mad with talented producers, musicians and DJ’s creating fresh sounds. There’s a reason for the increasing international buzz surrounding this bustling city: a music scene is truly coming into its own. Toronto based beats guru John Kong has been pushing at these bursting seams with his bare hands for years. He’s grown with the scene, DJing since the early 90’s and turning his love of jazz, soul, house and all things deep into a career that now earns him global gigs and respect. John Kong cares about music, not categories.
Witness Required Listening. Born from Kong’s desire to showcase some of the quality tunes he was hearing friends make, the collection is a snapshot of T.O.’s club-centric music scene as it stands now. John has ears to be trusted. Required Listening features all Toronto artists (with the notable exception of Ottawa’s B.A.W. Collective), and covers some seriously diverse musical terrain.
“Listen to the beats of Moonstarr or the hip-hop of Brassmunk“, exclaims John Kong, Do Right Music label boss. “They’re totally doing their own thing!
It’s the same with house and someone like Nick Holder … he has a totally unique sound. We here in Toronto may take all of that for granted, but when people from overseas hear this music, they’re like ‘This is different; it’s not what I’m used to.’ It’s totally Toronto.”
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