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House 4 Soul Saturday 17th November @ Omeara

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This month Makin’ Moves co-host the House Room with our good friends We Came To Dance aka Graeme P & SoulDiva! Matt & Jamesey will be fresh from their trip to ADE in Amsterdam and armed with the latest Makin’ Moves exclusive releases for you!

If you’ve not been to a We Came To Dance event, they are second to none! Initmate gatherings with only quality house music on the menu but also very social with great people and we look forward to joining forces with them for the first time!

Also on the bill is David Bailey who will be in the house celebrating his new release with ShezAr on Makin’ Moves Records. Also all the way from Japan we have our good friend DJ Uchikawa who is one of the best DJs in the world and we are very excited to welcome him back!

In the Soul Connoisseurs Room, JM is joined by Morpheus Soul, Mr Undercover and Franklin Sinclair!

Dont forget you can munch out all night at the Reggae Britannia food stall open during the night.

Get your advanced tickets now to avoid missing out!

House Room 

Matt L-S & Jamesey (Makin’ Moves)
Graeme Purple & Debs SoulDiva
David Bailey
DJ Uchikawa (Loftsoul, Japan) 内川 マサヒコ

Soul Room

JM Soul
Dean Jackson’Undercover’
Franklin Sinclair
Morpheus Soul’s

Very limited £5 tickets available from Resident Advisor and Eventbrite!

Saturday 17th November
House 4 Soul @ Omeara
6, O’Meara Street
London SE1 1TE



MAKINCD008 – Various Artists Vol. 3

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London’s favourite deep house label Makin’ Moves now into its sixth year release their third compilation of tracks.
The compilation features 14 hot tracks released in the last year including DJ Beloved remixes of Ding Ding with Omar on vocals and also his remix of Kissing You featuring Lifford which was also a big hit for label.
Other artists also featured on the comp include Sheldon So Goode, Alton Miller, Dihann Moore, Ahmad Larnes, Stealy Vybe and Aisling Iris to name but a few.
As a bonus you can also pick up the exclusive Loftsoul Retouch 2008 of ‘Dear Friend” sung by Lisa Millet a track licensed from our good friend DJ Uchikawa aka Loftsoul from Japan just for the compilation!
The compilation is available exclusively on Traxsource.com from Monday 15th October.


Shapes x Makin’ Moves ADE Special @ 5 & 33 at the art’otel, Amsterdam Thursday 18th October

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The Makin’ Moves team head to Amsterdam for their first ADE event at the amazing
art’otel on Thursday 18th October and what an exciting line up they've put together for this FREE event! 

The team is in great spirits after celebrating their 6th birthday in London last week at
House 4 Soul and are looking forward to joining forces once again with Shapes Festival
who invited us this summer to their greek edition in Zakynthos. Shapes hold fabulous
festivals across the year at beautiful locations such as Leysin in Switzerland in March,
Norway in May and Zakynthos in August. Shapes Festival director Franck Alfier and
Spyros Housemotion one of the main contributors to house music in Greece will bring the solid Shapes vibe to Amsterdam.

Following Makin Moves residents Matt L-S and Jamesey across the channel, will be
Jihad Muhammad from Bang The Drum New York, will take control of the decks. Jihad is
one of the top US House DJ/producer who runs Movement soul Records and has
released countless quality soulful house tracks. Also on the bill, we have DJ Carlito from
Amsterdam one of the weekly residents at 5 & 33 and then not forgetting we have one of the best female House DJs around Mikki Afflick who’s also a mean producer to boot
putting out some seriously dope records on her label Soul Sun Soul Music.
As a label Makin Moves is keen to push the best vocal talents around and we are proud
to welcome for her ADE debut, coming all the way from Chicago, Sheree Hicks, who will perform her biggest hits.

This all takes place inside the 5 & 33 venue kitted out with a state of the art sound system for this special event at the trendy art’otel.

DJs

Jihad A Muhammad (Bang The Drum, NYC)
Jamesey & Matt L-S (Makin’ Moves)
Franck Alfier (Shapes)
DJ Carlito (Amsterdam)
Spyros Housemotion Lefkaditis (Shapes)

Mikki Afflick (NYC)

Live PA: Sheree Hicks (Chic Soul Music, Chicago)

FREE entry 
Doors: 6pm-2am

Prins henddrikkade 33 1012 tm Netherlands

Tel: +44 (0)20 7254 3718

Makin’ Moves, 57, Oldfield Road, London N16 0RR
Email: matt@makin-moves.co.uk
Web: www.makin-moves.o.uk
Thursday 18th October



House 4 Soul @ Omeara Saturday 20th October

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Thanks to everyone who came out to our 6th anniversary at the weekend.. a great time was had by all! Special thanks to all the djs that played on the night, some great sets!  

Moving swiftly on to next month, Saturday 20th October we welcome two heavy weights to House 4 Soul!! Our very good friend DJ Jihad Muhammad from New York and singer sensation Sheree Hicks from Chicago!! 

Jihad hails form New Jersey and is on one of the best DJs on the planet, his sets are electric and mixing skills are second to none. He’s been in the music industry for over 40 years, brought up listening to great djs in NYC such as Timmy Regisford, Louie Vega. He has his own event Bang The Drum which he runs every month in New Jersey and also runs Movement Soul a very creditable dance music label.

He’s also been part of our Makin’ Moves HouseFM.net show every month doing a month segment so we know many of you are itching to see him live! We’re very excited to welcome him back to London as its been 4 years since we last had him over. 

Also, flying in from Chicago we have Sheree Hicks! This woman is one of the hardest working in the music in industry and has numerous hits on her music CV! Starting early singing in church she was picked up by Def Jam to make up a girl band at the tend age of 17! Since then she has gone on to write for the likes of Backstreet, heavy D and C&C Music Factory.

One rnb jam she wrote was remixed by Maurice Joshua and soon she working with all the best house music producers around town including Terry Hunter Josh Milan, Beloved Tennant, Jihad Muhammad, DJ Spen, Vick Lavendar, and of course Jihad Muhammad!

Sheree currently runs Chic Soul Music currently working with DJ Pope, Beloved, Sean Ali plus many more. 

She will be performing a PA of some of her hits over the years! 

We’ve also got some amazing DJs In the soul room and tickets are only a mere £5 at the moment!

DJs

House room 

Matt L-S & Jamesey (Makin Moves)

Jihad A Muhammad (Bang The Drum, NYC)

Sheree Hicks (Chicago) Live PA

 

Mi Soul Connoisseurs Room

JM (Mi Soul Connoisseurs)

Minnie Dipple

Patrick Steele

Morpheus Soul’s Johnny Rebel

 

Tickets - https://www.residentadvisor.net/events/1161504

House 4 Soul, Omeara London

6 Omeara Street, London SE1 1TE

Doors: 10pm-6am



MAKINCD007 – Luis Radio & Stefano Guerra “We Can Shine” – Digital album release

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Luis Radio is one of the most influential DJ/Producer’s to come out of Italy’s House Music Scene in recent years.

From a young age, Luis had a big passion for music and would entertain friends playing music in his cellar. Since the early 80′s he has played at some of the biggest parties around the world and his mixes online are always highly sort after.

In the studio Luis has worked on tracks for labels such as Quantize, City Deep Music, TR Records plus many others over the years. His series of EP releases over three years on UK Label Makin’ Moves reached the best top ten’s around the globe! He has been really looking forward to this release along with Jamesey & Matt in 2018 on Makin’ Moves Records. His highly anticipated album ‘WE CAN SHINE’ in collaboration with Stefano Guerra, a ten-track album of deep house sounds that will have many a dance floor going to the small hours.

Catch Luis performing in London at Omeara on Saturday 22nd September for more details visit the event section of the site.

All tracks produced and written by Luis Radio & Stefano Guerra.

Executive Producers: Matt LS & Jamesey (Makin’ Moves Records)

Traxsource exclusive will be available from Friday 21st September



MAKIN’ MOVES 6TH ANNIVERSARY @ OMEARA, LONDON BRIDGE SATURDAY 22ND SEPTEMBER

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We’re very excited to tell you that we will be celebrating our 6th anniversary at House 4 Soul on Saturday 22nd September at Omeara in London Bridge!

Matt and Jamesey have consistently worked hard to build a quality party here in London while hosting some of the best DJs in the world as our guests.

We will be celebrating the occasion with Luis Radio who will be flying in from Rome for the launch of his album ‘We Can Shine’ which drops on Makin’ Moves Records in September. Also on the bill is Josh Grooves from movementcalledhouse. There will also be some live PAs on the night including UK talent Shazer and Andre Espeut performing new material.

In the Soul Connoisseurs Room resident JM is joined by Minnie Dipple, Patrick Steele and Morpheus Soul.

Dont forget you can munch out all night at the Reggae Britannia food stall!

DJs

House room

Matt L-S & Jamesey (Makin Moves)
Luigi LuisRadio De Angelis (Rome, Italy)
Joshua Grooves (movementcalledhouse)

Live PAs: ShaZer & Andre Espeut

Mi Soul Connoisseurs Room

JM (Mi Soul Connoisseurs)
Minnie Dipple
Patrick Steele
Morpheus Soul

House 4 Soul
Omeara London
6 Omeara Street, London SE1 1TE
Doors: 10pm-6am

Tickets are a mere £5 from https://www.residentadvisor.net/events/1151544



MAKIN083 – Luis Radio “We Can Shine”

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Makin’ Moves are proud to present the new single from the highly anticipated album from Luis Radio & Stefano Guerra “We Can Shine” which will be available exclusively via Traxsource.com from Friday 30th August!
A deep soulful tune with its hypnotic bass line, percussion and synths, this is sure to get you moving on the dance floor in true Luis Radio style. Teaming up with Stefano Guerra on this feature and will be sure not to disappoint!!
Catch Luis in London on September 22nd for the album launch party at Omeara in London Bridge!
Full digital album will be released on Friday 21st September 2018.


MAKIN085 – DaSoul ft Prince Lion Sound ‘Fighter Of Love’

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Makin’ Moves now moves into its 6th year with over 80 fantastic releases under our belts with many exciting projects in the pipeline!

Our next release comes from the very talent DaSoul from Naples Italy with his spoken word floor filler ‘Fighter for Love’ featuring Prince Lion Sound!

This one has been a favourite on the Makin’ Moves show on HouseFm.net for some months and we’re sure you won’t be disappointed!

Released on Traxsource on Monday 20th August 2018.



MAKIN086 – Sheldon ‘So’ Goode ‘I Want You’ (Reelsoul Remixes)

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Sheldon ‘So’ Goode bringing us the his rendition of a Marvin Gaye classic ‘I Want U’! William ‘Reelsoul’ Rodriguez on the remix duties.

Already a form favourite with DJs in Ibiza this summer and graced the Traxsource Top Ten chart in it’s first week!

This release is a must have for your collection!
https://www.traxsource.com/title/1009070/i-want-you-reelsoul-remix



MAKIN084 – Aisling Iris ‘Hey Lover’ (Josh Grooves Remixes)

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MAKIN084 – Aisling Iris ‘Hey Lover’ (Josh Grooves Remixes)

Dear DJ

Our next release is a hot new remix of one of our favourite past releases ‘Hey Lover’ from Aisling Iris.

Aisling has worked with some of the top names in the soul, hip-hop and jazz world including Roots Manuva, Domu. More recently she has worked with the likes of Phil Asher and the Urban Soul Lab.

Hitting you now you fresh remixes from UK based producer Josh Grooves (Movementcalledhouse) who surely doesn’t disappoint! Giving you his take with a live club mix which compliments Aisling’s vocals and also a broken mix for the deeper heads.