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Souldade, é um seletor que navega por eras e gêneros para descobrir melodias esquecidas. Seus edits são como aqueles sonhos em que estamos em lugares esquecidos, de piscinas exóticas para banhos de sol a clubes úmidos antiquados.

De Paris, sua terra natal, viaja pela Europa, África, Brasil, cidades americanas a outras ilhas do Caribe, e sempre com o lema  de que é no movimento que as coisas acontecem, e claro que o seu Altercast vem de muito remelexo num incessante charme para quem ouve e dança(se move)junto.

Souldade - Alter Disco Podcast 80

Funny story: while zapping through TV this summer, I came across the video clip of this 1996 hit by French pop singer Zazie and immediately felt the potential of its surprisingly dreamy, breakbeat instru ✨

So here is an edit mixing both instrumental versions with and without choirs, playing around with percussion loops and female choirs to give a dancefloor twist to this pop track 🕺

🛒 - https://souldade.bandcamp.com/track/zazie-un-point-cest-toi-souldade-instrumental-edit

Zazie - Un Point C'est Toi (Souldade Instrumental Edit)

🔥 Promo mix to celebrate the release of my compilation "From New York to Miami", which gather 9 freestyle edits by 🇬🇧 @runninghotmusic 🇳🇱 @redlegonaroll 🇫🇷 @clubroquette 🇸🇪 @richardfribert and myself 🔥

🛒 The compilation is out on March 28th on Bandcamp, and you can already preorder it here 
👉 https://souldade.bandcamp.com/album/saudedits-2-from-new-york-to-miami

🇺🇦All the proceeds will be donated to the Ukrainian Red Cross 🏥

I’ve always been passionated by the evolutions and cross-influences in musical genres, and lately my attention was caught by freestyle 💃🏽🕺🏽

Born in the Latino communities of NY, this genre was mixing synthetic instrumentations as heard in mainstream synth-pop with latin percussions and syncopated rhythms, and eventually boomed in the late 80s, on American airwaves and in NY or Miami clubs 🗽🏖️👙

Our freestyle edits oscillate between latin house-not-house club anthems and balearic head-bobbing tunes - as Gloria Estefan once sang, « Come on, shake your body baby do the conga, I know you can't control yourself any longer » 🥁🎺

Artwork: Jee ook (jeeook.tumblr.com/)

Moove oo3 ~ Freestyle special

This summer, Stijn from Steppin' Into Tomorrow kindly asked me to record a guest mix for their Mixed Feelings series!

Released in late November on their website, the mix comes with a quick interview on its preparation process and my conception of music overall: https://www.steppinintotomorrow.com/post/mixed-feelings-souldade

(...)
How is the mix reflecting your current music taste?
I always try to record mixes with a large variety of genres, so this mix moves from zouk and afro to italo and more classic disco. Still, I can go through some periods where I focus more on a genre, which is the case here with Zouk and Freestyle (latin / synth-pop genre from the late 80s).
(...)

Mixed Feelings #47 ~ Souldade

Eclectic selection of edited French tracks from the late 80s: orientalish boogie, housy bossa nova, electro-boogie and power pop

A1. Souldade - Keskiyah
A2. Souldade - La Boîte À Images (Bossa Novhouse Edit)
B1. Souldade - Le Blues Du Routier
B2. Souldade - Pas Cher L'Amour, Pas Cher

Out before Xmas 2023 (:

[Snippets] SAUDEDITS #3 ~ French oddities 1985-87

Two years after exploring the frantic rhythms of latin freestyle and gathering contributions from several DJ friends into a first release, Souldade returns back from Miami with a new compilation of fresh freestyle edits in his bags ✈️🌴🧳

This time @thesquaresun 🇳🇱 and @discofrenchy 🇫🇷 were on board, bringing out the heat and the hits 🔥💃

Get it on Bandcamp: https://souldade.bandcamp.com/album/saudedits-4-back-from-miami

[Snippets] SAUDEDITS #4 ~ Back from Miami

In April 2022, I spent the whole month in Granada, in the very South of Spain, to prepare for upcoming cycling races in France. It was a memorable and introspective period, climbing up the mountain roads of Sierra Nevada on my own.

One day, I was looking for something to read and ended up in this old second-hand bookseller, who turned out to offer vinyls as well. I took some time to dig there, and on top of a nice copy of Beni Life’s only EP (including « Amor En El Cielo » beauty), I found this unusual maxi featuring remixes of « Asi Me Gusta A Mi » by Mallorcan singer Azuquita, which is itself a cover of Chimo Bayo’s 1991 techno hit, but in a euro house fashion and with a rumba flamenca twist.

When I first gave it a spin, I thought the track had all the elements to become a dance floor burner: housy keys and rhythm, heavy baseline leaning towards acid at some point, balearic guitar eruptions, catchy vocals, break with trancy chords.

It’s finally time to release this edit that was unfairly sleeping on my computer, after adjusting and re-mastering it a bit.

Download it on Bandcamp: https://souldade.bandcamp.com/track/souldade-esta-me-gusta-edit

Souldade - Esta Me Gusta (Edit)

💿🔥 Out on "Saudedits 005 ~ Italo Inferno": https://souldade.bandcamp.com/album/saudedits-5-italo-inferno

The whole track is driven by an insane and powerful bass line, combining a gliding synth and a slapped guitar. Add on top some nice verses of female rap, some more synth and flute bursts, and you get a mesmerizing italo burner 👯🏼‍♀️🔥🎹

Souldade - Out Of My Life (Edit)

💿🔥 Out on "Saudedits 005 ~ Italo Inferno": https://souldade.bandcamp.com/album/saudedits-5-italo-inferno

Infectious synthesizers and silly Spanish chorus for the win, mixed with vocoder and smooth bridges to spice it up 💃🤖🔥🎹

Souldade - Yo Te Quiero Mucho (Edit)

💿🔥 Out on "Saudedits 005 ~ Italo Inferno": https://souldade.bandcamp.com/album/saudedits-5-italo-inferno

Stellar instrumental italo track ready to invade the dance floors. Don’t try to fight this heady whistle from outer space, the mesmerizing synth arpeggios and the killer slapped bass break 🪐👾🔥

Souldade - Corpo Orbitante (Instrumental Edit)

💿🔥 Out on "Saudedits 005 ~ Italo Inferno": https://souldade.bandcamp.com/album/saudedits-5-italo-inferno

When you find this typical kind of italo disco track, where you are not sure if you should label it as completely silly or utterly brilliant, stop thinking and spice it up by adding the classic 808 hi hat sound on top of the infectious synth loops, and you’ll get a dancefloor tool that cannot miss 🥁🔥🥁🎹

Souldade - Non Mi Sta A Guardare (808 Edit)

French hi-nrg with a pumping bassline, plus some nice oriental and housey chords - a genuine dancefloor burner! 🔥👾 ✨

🛒 - https://souldade.bandcamp.com/track/rodrigue-penelope-souldade-edit

Rodrigue - Penelope (Souldade Edit)

Soca burner with uplifting chords, heavy bassline and frantic percussion breaks, perfect to light up the dancefloor at peak time 🌴🔥🥁

🛒 - https://stereoferment.bandcamp.com/album/fermented-grooves-vol-1-sf004

Taxi - Land Of Jam (Souldade Tool Edit)

"Viens sur les ailes du rêve" - New route, first flight

Artwork: Jee ook (https://jeeook.tumblr.com/)

Moove oo1

Turned this late-80s trance-infused italo tune into an even more progressive track!
Amazing blend of trancy layers, balearic percussions, heavy bassline, rap vocals and even Yazoo-like chords for the eurodance nostalgics! ✨🎹👾

Valentino - Each Time I Touch You (Souldade Progressive Edit)

Few months ago, we came across Souldade’s SoundCloud channel (@simon-de-forni)and we got caught up by a super nice edit of “Penelope” by Rodrigue. 

As our next vinyl release got delayed because of the lockdown in France, we decided together to publish one of his newest edits on our channel to promote his selector and editing skills. Two weeks ago, he sent us this excellent “Ain’t Like Reggae” edit that we are now sharing with you. We took the opportunity to ask him few questions about his background and this edit.

MTT: Hello Souldade, how are you? What are you up to these days?

Souldade: Hello MTT! I’m doing pretty good in my native South of France; nothing left to do but exercising outdoor, spending hours digging through the web (and incidentally doing some remote work)!
I think the upside of this quarantine is that DJs and selectors around the world get much more time to focus on their musical activities, and so do I. I regularly visit my peers’ great YouTube channels or SoundCloud profiles to give a listen to their latest mixes or uploads; I browse many other YT channels or Discogs pages to find new stuff to play (or edit); I even watch documentaries about the story of the genres I love – by the way I recommend the “Paris c’est l’Afrique” old docu series, recently uploaded on Pan African Music YT channel!
In brief, many projects come to my mind right now, hopefully I have time to start materializing them, and I look forward to going further when I’m back in Paris!

MTT: Can you tell us how you became a record collector? When did you start DJing?

Souldade: Vidal Benjamin explains it better than I do in an interview he gave to Record Magazine: “I discovered that all those house music tracks (…) were made out of disco samples. I thought isn’t it more interesting to discover the music of the origins, the disco (…)?” Besides house, I would only listen to American hip-hop as a young basketball player, and I started opening to black music when I discovered that many rap instrumentals would sample older soul, jazz or funk tracks.
So very naturally I joined the French “Chineurs des Origines” (CDO) in 2016, one of La Chinerie’s Facebook groups where members share overlooked tracks with the community. I eventually became admin, and my friendship with the whole team was born back then: Julien, to whom I’m particularly thankful for introducing me as an admin, Rémi, Norman and Simon, who are doing a truly outstanding work with their collective Bayetë, Baptiste, Jeanne, Elise and Hugo.
Both CDO and Make It Deep, which I also had the chance to join for a while, took selecting and DJing to another level for me. After putting all my musical activities aside as I started as a strategy consultant and saw my free time shrink, the passion eventually became to strong and I decided to breathe new life into my hobby, by launching my YouTube channel and upgrading my SoundCloud page, as an attempt to pass on to people the same emotions I can feel when I hear or dance to a track for the first time.

MTT: How did you come releasing edits ? Where do you find the material and what’s your creative process ?

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Find the full interview on our website: http://mister-t-records.com/lockdown-paradise-edits/

Follow Souldade:
https://www.facebook.com/souldade.dj
https://soundcloud.com/simon-de-forni
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcVEs2b07MgM0Rxff4oyXag

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Souldade - Ain't Like Reggae (Edit)

Trillion ft. Fred Bekky - Step By Step (Souldade Edit)

Last month, Lewis Ross (@lewisross-2) from the Edinburgh-based crew Hand-made (@hand-madedjs) kindly asked me to put together a 1-hour mix for their monthly residency on their local station EH-FM 📡

They cover the first hour with some reggae and downtempo, carrying through to the mix I cooked. Really appreciated to combine recent digs and long-time favorites, ranging from reggae to disco, street soul to SA bubblegum, zouk to italo 🏝️ <3

You’d better keep an eye on these guys as they have a few nice things in the pipeline! . . . 👀
📻https://www.mixcloud.com/handmade3/
👉https://www.facebook.com/handmadedjs/
📷https://www.instagram.com/hand_madedjs/

Hand-made with Love w/ Souldade - EH-FM - 03.07.20

ID requests: https://soundcloud.com/simon-de-forni

Ladies and gents, dancers and DJs, artistes and amigos... it's with great pleasure that we formally launch episode #1 of our the Desert Island Disco 'Islander Cast' podcast series. The 'Islander Cast' series seemed the most natural way for us to extend our passion for discovering and sharing amazing music from talented DJs, musicians and producers who share our love of era-spanning, genre-hopping boogie music. 

The first mix in the series is brought to you by exciting French DJ, Souldade, who we believe perfectly captures the essence of our sound.

Souldade navigates across eras & genres to unearth overlooked tunes. His mixes and edits take you to forgotten dream places, from sunbathed exotic poolsides to moist outmoded clubs. Travelling back and forth between Europe, Africa, Brazil, American cities and other Caribbean islands, the motto remains unchanged: move you and make you move.

Following an intense, careless summer, this mix was for Souldade the perfect medium to enter the gloomier season that was ahead of every single one of us. Slowly switching from warm, bitter-sweet lovers rock songs to colder italo sounds, Souldade builds this typical outdated atmosphere he loves so much, and paves the way to more club-oriented tracks including an unreleased edit in the finale!

Souldade - Islander Cast 01

"J'ai traîné la nuit, attendant que le jour se lève" - One-way flight, away from 2020

Artwork: Jee ook (jeeook.tumblr.com/)

Moove oo2

Available on bandcamp: https://souldade.bandcamp.com/album/saudedits-1-a-lonely-summer-night-on-the-french-riviera

A1. Souldade - You're So Dangerous (Whisper Version)
A2. Souldade - Tell Me Why
B1. Souldade - Orient Escape
B2. Souldade - Hypnotic Samba

[Snippets] SAUDEDITS #1 ~ A lonely summer night on the French Riviera

Souldade navigates across eras & genres to unearth overlooked tunes. His mixes & edits carry you away to forgotten dream places, from sunbathed exotic poolsides to moist outmoded clubs. 
Travelling back & forth between his native Europe, Africa, Brazil, American cities & other Caribbean islands, the motto remains unchanged: move you & make you move.

Souldade

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