SOUL'S BACK !

Soulab is a recording label dedicated, with love, to modern Soul music.
Soulab brings a full sound spectrum of good grooves: Soul, House, Jazz, Nu Soul, Broken Beat, Doo Wop, Afro Beat, Latin, Funk…
Old school, New school ? Gold school ! We've got one foot in innovation,
one foot in tradition, because there's no branch where there's no roots.

Our first souful gems delivery is a reissue on vinyl & mp3 of the now mythical singles series "The Retrofuturistic Soul Experience" by prodigal singer & multi-instrumentist Allen Hoist.

Allen Hoist originates from New York and took his first steps on stage with Latin, Jazz and Soul legends such as Solomon Burke, Tito Puente, Dizzy Gillepsie, Ron Carter, Mongo Santamaria, Millie Jackson… He now works with inspired modern soul producers from London, Paris & Scandinavia: 4 Hero, Swell Session, Greg Gauthier & Tony L...

Allen Hoist's music spreads groove, authenticity & happiness.
It's a breath of fresh air into the soul nation.
It's modern soul music... with soul !

"The Retrofuturistic Soul Experience" singles series: "Inner City Blues" (2004) - "With Love part 1 & 2" (2005) - "You'll Never Know" (2006) - "The Lost & Found Sessions" (2007) has been acclaimed from New York to Tokyo, London to Toronto, in Paris, Johannesburg, Milan… It's been air-played by mainstream & underground radios such as: BBC 1 (uk), Radio Nova (france), Kiss Fm (uk), CKLN (usa), Jazz Fm (uk) Tokyma Fm (japan), NRJ (france), Smooth Fm (uk), XM Radio (usa), Radio FG (france), Subground FM (germany), Radio Monte Carlo (italy), 1 Xtra (uk), Generations Fm (france)...spun, charted, compiled or supported by great DJs such as: Norman Jay, Gilles Peterson, Joey Negro, DJ Morpheus, Knee Deep, Robert Owens, Rainer Truby, Little Louie Vega, Kyoto Jazz Massive, Jazztronik, Claude Monnet, Patrick Forge, Basement Boys and by webradios such as milkaudio.com, faithfanzine.com, bogaloo.de, metronomic family.com, undergroundsolution.de, deephousenetwork.com...
The first editions of "The Retrofuturistic Soul Experience": "Inner City Blues" -
"With Love part 1 & 2" - "You'll Never know" were originally released on the now closed Soulution label and are now being re-issued by Soulab. The "Lost & Found Sessions" single concludes with class these inspired & innovative recording series before an upcoming Allen Hoist album.

And since good news loves company, we are proud to announce the release of Dan Electro's "Got Soul" single, in partnership with Dan Electro's own label, Rodeo Gay. Mysterious Dan Electro is a brilliant organ player, programmer & arranger. He mixes together deep organs harmonies, amazing laidback rythms & elegant soulful voices. His touch is magnetic, mystical, inspired. Dan Electro music's really got soul...

This vinyl single includes three original Dan Electro tracks & a massive Franck Roger rmx. This is a warm-up before the upcoming Dan Electro album "Bite the hand that feeds you" on Soulab/Rodeo Gay.

Been played by Gilles Peterson, Joey Negro, SUMO, BBC 1, Recloose, DJ Morpheus, Radio FG, Spiritual South, Nick V, Michael Rutten, Juan Sunshine, Nik Weston, Unabombers, Erik Rug, Philarmonix, Patchworks, Frequence Jazz, Stevie Sole, XFM Scotland, Compost radioshow…

And here comes a great 7 inch of Uptown Funk Empire. Two tracks, two instant classics. This is the first release issued from the upcoming album «The Empire Strikes Back». Uptown Funk Empire is an exciting and ambitious project, worthy of its name. Forget the whole revival thing, this sounds like an actual rebirth of the real funky stuff.

And then comes a bunch of exciting new cd releases: Soulab's first compilation with Allen Hoist, Dan Electro, Uptown Funk Empire also includes brilliant featurings & productions by Les Nubians, 4 Hero, Juan Rozoff, Greg Gauthier & Tony L...
also expect shortly some inspired albums by Allen Hoist, Uptown Funk Empire, Dan Electro...

Stay tuned... Soul's back !