Next up on Tribe is a fantastic vocal cut from budding South African artist Tumelo. Tumelo hails from Sebokeng in South Africa and was inspired to write and produce songs from a very early age.
Throughout the last ten years Tumelo has worked on various projects as a producer and songwriter. In 2004 Tumelo meet with legendary South African producer Black Coffee and together they produced a remix for a song titled Expressions, which was later released on a compilation titled Outrageous Records.
A few years past and then Tumelo began work on his debut album Arise and Shine again joining forces again with Black Coffee along with a whole host of talented names including Vikter Duplaix, Deborah Frazier, J.R. and Zano.
Release Your Soul is the stand out track from the album, which was released earlier this year in South Africa on Soulistic Music and was nominated for Beat Urban Dance Album at this years South African Music Awards.
It's been a floor filler on the Tribe dance floor for the last six months and one that always gets requested and we're proud to finally release it with fantastic fresh new interpretations from New York's Timmy Regisford & Adam Rios and ChicagosVick Lavender.
Timmy Regisford & Adam Rioss mix takes the track firmly to the heart of the dance floor with a bouncy early nineties Chicago vibe about it.
Sophisticado main man, Vick Lavender, currently on tour down in South Africa delivers two different mixes of supreme quality musicianship showing us why hes one of the men of the moment right now.
WRITING & PRODUCTION:
Written, produced and performed by Tumelo Ruele. Mixed by Black Coffee at the Soulistic Music Studios.
Additional mixes from Timmy Regisford and Adam Rios
And Vick Lavender for The Sophisticado Music Group ASCAP
All keys by Vijay Tellis-Nayak / Percussion by Bobby D / All drum programming by Vick Lavender
Some reactions..
Osunlade (Yoruba Records) - its all about the original...great song and happy its finally out!
DJ Spinna (Wonderwax, NYC) - Nice package, love all versions.
Ian Friday (Libation, NYC) - A nice package of music that will get play at Libation.
Jose Marquez (LA) - Smoooooth! Loving all these mixes!
Louie Lou Gorbea (NYC) - Thank you Trbie for the love of music !!!! Loving this track as always....Instrumention, vocals and that bassline are hott !!! Definiately a floor shaker !!!!
Boddhi Satva (Offering/Vega Records) - Really feeling the Vick Lavender & Original Mixes.
Marques Wyatt (Deep, LA) - Been waiting on this one!
Carlos Mena (Ocha Records) - Timmy and Adam's mix is a nice ride. I'll play this at the next BEMBE Party!
David Harness (Taboo, San Francisco) - amazing package. Too hard to choose which is my favorite. Where is the all of them button?
Josh Milan (Honeycomb Music, NJ) - Great song. I love the original. But you can't go wrong with any one of the mixes. Great job everybody!
Phil Asher (Inner Rhythm / Soul Heaven, UK) - Love the Timmy & Sophisticado Mixes, Dope X
Aaron Ross (Defected In The House Radio, UK) - Geez... that's killer// love it!
Manoo (Ambassade Club, Lyon) - fantastic remix from timmy.....
Black Motion (South Africa) - Good Package. Sophisticado Vamp Vocal does it
Sean McCabe (Various) - Lovely song. Vick's Vamp vocal mix is doin it for me personally, although Timmy's mix is more for the floor. Will support this!
Ruben Turo (Kiss FM, NYC) - FIRE!! A future classic for sure this record will be played for years to come. Keep it coming guys!
Fabio Genito (Valenostrum, Ibiza) - Just beautiful
Ezel (Barcelona, Spain) - Vick Lavender did a amazing job on this one!
