Jaheim [2023] - Just In Case / Diamond In Da Ruff [Jai Alai #JAR11]

Jaheim H. Hoagland from New Brunswick, NJ, is the grandson of singer Victor Hoagland, aka Hoagy Lands, known well to the Northern Soul community for his classic tune "The Next In Line" (Laurie 1967) in particular. Lands was born to an Afro-Cuban father and Afro-American mother of American Indian descent. His singing career spanned the late 50s to the mid 70s.

Jaheim grew up in a New Brunswick housing project, (176 Memorial Parkway Home). His father died when Jaheim was just two years old. At 15 he was a three time winner of the famed Apollo theatre talent show. Just two years after that his mother also died but he persevered and continued winning talent shows and four years later (around 1999/2000) submitted a demo tape to Kay Gee's (aka Kier Gist a founding member of Naughty By Nature) Divine Mill label (distributed by Warner Brothers). 

Divine Mill released his debut album "Ghetto Love" in 2001 and followed it in 2002 with "Still Ghetto". A third with a Ghetto title, "Ghetto Classics", appeared in 2006 which debuted at #1 on Billboards Top 200 album chart. He has released a further four since making seven albums to date, his last "Struggle Love" in 2016. Only a couple of singles have materialised since.

Soul4Real has selected a track from each of his first two albums for release on 7" on their Jai Alai imprint: "Just In Case" from "Ghetto Love" (which gained some spins on some of the hipper modern soul rooms on release) and "Diamond In Da Ruff" from "Still Ghetto". Both have seen previous 12" releases but appear on a 7" for the first time.

The single is available to pre-order from Soul4Real with a release date of 14 Oct.

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Details

Rating:	8.4
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Modern Soul
Format:	Single
Media:	7" Vinyl
Label:	Jai Alai
Cat No:	JAR11
Date:	14/10/2023
Key/BPM:	8B/101 / 2B/91
Price:	€14

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VA [2023] - Soul 1 [FirstCom Music / MasterSource] (Full Album)

We stumbled across this compilation "Soul 1" during our searches over the weekend releases which was originally released in Aug 2001. We tried to find the original release but all that it turned up was a subscription service for Universal Records. So it's a strange one as it seems like it's library music that is licensed. All the tracks feature either Jamie Dunlap or Paul Taylor.

A Jamie Dunplap is listed on Discogs but only for appearances on half a dozen compilations, four of which are from the same source i.e. MasterSource, so it's more than likely the same artist. It gives his full name as James Ronald Dunlap who was a member of a group/duo named Lazarus Heart who released an album  "Open The Sky" in 2002. All songs were written by Dunlap and Molly Pasutti who also only otherwise features on MasterSource or Killer Tracks compilations.

We gave up on Paul Taylor as there are literally dozens of artists with the name, but suspect the result will be the same i.e. a session singer who featured on MasterSource compilations.

Whilst many of the MasterSource compilations are listed on Discogs we could not find this one listed.

It seems a bit 'random' that it has been reissued all of a sudden and out of the blue and it wasn't available on Spotify until today.

It's a mixed bag with a lot of pop/blue-eyed soul and many of the tracks sound older than 2001. However, there is one 'jewel in the crown' credited to Jamie Dunlap, Scott Nickoley & Stephen Lang "Take A Little Time" (track 14) along the with perhaps the last track "More Than I Can Say" which reminded us of something and think it may be Heatwave's "Always And Forever" in parts).

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Details

Rating:	N/A
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	New Soul
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	FirstCom Music / MasterSource
Cat No:	None
Date:	21/07/2023
Price:	£9.99

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21st Century Soul - 2001 (The Best Of)

Artwork by Roger Williams

Continuing a series highlighting top tracks for each year throughout the 21st Century on a week by week basis, here's this weeks selections for 2001.

Previous Years

2000

As with last week's batch you may know many of them but, hopefully, there will be a few surprises that you may have missed or forgotten about.

As the guys have dug deep, again there are some not available on Spotify (highlighted in red below) so obviously only the ones that are will be in the playlist but many of the others you may find on YouTube. 

Steve Aggasild's selections are missing this week as he is unwell and was taken into hospital last night so we wish him well for a speedy recovery. So SoulStrutter has stepped into the breach to fill the gap. 

Note Jaheim and Karen Bernod album selections may be 2000 not 2001 but no one included them last week.

The playlist is simply alphabetical by artist against each DJ who selected them. 

Artist	Title (Album)
Kevin Oxberry	Starpoint Radio
Blu Cantrell	Blu Is A Mood (So Blu LP)
Boney James feat. Trina Broussard	Heaven (Ride LP)
Charles & Gwen Scales	Something New (So Good LP)
Cooly's Hot Box	What A Surprise (Take It LP)
Faith Evans	Where We Stand (Faithfully LP)
Jaheim	Happiness (Ghetto Love LP)
Joe	Let's Stay Home Tonight (Better Days LP)
Marcus Johnson feat. Alyson Williams	Got To Give A Little Bit (Comin' Back Around LP)
Michael Jackson	Butterflies (Invincible LP)
Vaneese Thomas	Sweet Breath Of Life (Talk Me Down LP)
Yolanda Adams	A Song Of Faith (Believe LP)
Paul Goldsmith	Starpoint Radio
Aquabox	I Keep Runnin' Back (The Evolution Will Not Be Televised LP)
Joe	Let's Stay Home Tonight (Better Days LP)
Kenny Lattimore	Come To Me (Weekend LP)
Lafayette Reed	He'll Never Be A True Gentleman (I'm Ready LP)
Nathan Heathman	Until We Meet Again (Right Here Right Now LP)
Phil Perry	More Of Your Sweet Love (Magic LP)
Tonia Woods	Will You Do It (You Make Me  High) (All That Glitters LP)
Transitions	Back In Da Days (Back In Da Days LP)
Ali-Ollie Woodson	Drama In The Bedroom (Right Here All Along LP)
Roger Williams	Starpoint Radio
Allure	Enjoy Yourself (Sunny Days LP)
Bass X	As I Am (Vol. 1 The Beginning LP)
Beverlei Brown	Love You Yes (Next To You LP)
Blu Cantrell	I Love You (Bittersweet LP)
C-Nario	Don't Take Your Love Away (Turn Around LP)
Case	Wishful Thinking (Open Letter LP)
Darrius Willrich	Blissful (Darrius LP)
DeLouie (Avant)	Debrorah's Song (King Before His Time LP)
Eddie M (Mininfield)	Baby Leave The Lights On (Eddie M LP)
Fontella Bass & The Voices Of St Louis	Waiting (Travellin' LP)
Gary Taylor	Erotica (Under The Nightlight LP)
Incognito	There Will Come A Day (Life Is Stranger Than Fiction LP)
Janita	Angel Eyes (I'll Be Fine LP)
Jimmy Sommers feat. Eric Benet	Stay A While (360 Urban Groove LP)
Jon B	Jon B - Don't Talk (Pleasures U Like LP)
Joy Enriquez	Joy Enriquez - Tell Me How You Feel (Joy Enriquez LP)
Koffee Brown	Koffee Brown - After Party (Mars & Venus LP)
Ledisi	Ledisi - Autumn Leaves (Feeling Orange But Sometimes Blue LP)
Lexi	Lexi - Conversation (And That's The Way It Is LP)
Maurice J	Maurice J - Beautiful Thang (Devoted LP)
Prophet Jones	Prophet Jones - Cry Together (Prophet Jones LP)
Regina Belle	Regina Belle - Don't Wanna Go Home (This Is Regina LP)
Remy Shand	Remy Shand - Take A Message (The Way I Feel LP)
Ren	Ren - Breathe Again (Ren LP)
Romina Johnson	Romina Johnson - Never Do (Superbad LP)
Syleena Johnson	Syleena Johnson - I Am Your Woman (Chapter 1: Love, Pain & Forgiveness LP)
Vaneese Thomas	Vaneese Thomas - The Magic Of You (Talk Me Down LP)
SoulStrutter
Aaliyah	I Care 4 U (Aaliyah LP)
Angie Stone	Wish I Didn't Miss You / Snowflakes (Mahogany Soul LP)
Beverlei Brown	Somebody Knows How You Feel (VRS Mix) / In The Summertime (Next To You LP)
Bilal	Soul Sista / You Are / Love Poems (1st Born Second LP)
Brian Culbertson	Nice & Slow / Without Your Love (Nice And Slow LP)
DeLouie Avant, Jr. & Sara Devine	Baby I'm Scared Of You
Dennis Taylor	Steppin'  / Lover For Life (Unconditional LP)
Howard Hewett	Joy (The Journey LP)
Jaheim	Could It Be / Just In Case (Ghetto Love LP)
Karen Bernod	Do Ya Wanna Do / Reminiscin' On Yo Kissin' / The Pocket (Some Othaness For U LP)
KeKe Wyatt	If Only You Knew (Soul Sista LP)
Key	Don't Know Why / Stroke (Thoughts From Key LP)
Ledisi	I've Got It (Feeling Orange But Sometimes Blue LP)
Lina	Too Good (Stranger On Earth LP)
Lisa Stansfield	8-3-1 / Face Up (Face Up LP)
Marcus Johnson	Got To Give A Little Bit (Late Nite Mix) (Comin' Back Around LP)
Michael Bohannon	Build A Fire / Make Love Last Forever (Build A Fire LP)
Michael Jackson	Break of Dawn (Invincible LP)
Phil Perry	Living For The Love Of You (Magic LP)
Romina Johnson	I'll Always Find You (Superbad LP)
Sandra St. Victor	Holding Out (Gemini Both Sides LP)
Sir Charles Jones	I Wish He Didn't Trust Me So Much (Sir Charles Jones LP)
Sunshine Anderson	Heard It All Before / Where Have You Been / Last Night (ft. Anthony Hamilton & Dolo Pichino) (Your Woman LP)

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Sunshine Anderson [2023] - Heard It All Before [Warner Music Group & X5 Music Group]

A reissue of four mixes of Sunshine Anderson's "Heard It All Before". It consists of the album version, a radio edit and two remixes, E-Smoove House Filter Mix and Ben Watt Lazy Dog Mix. All mixes were originally released in 2001 with the two remixes on a 12" titled "Heard It All Before (Dance Remixes)" and the other two versions on the standard 12". 

Sunshine Jocelyn Sian Anderson was born in Winston-Salem, NC in Oct 1974. She was spotted humming in a queue at the university (from where she obtained a degree in Criminal Justice) by a friend of Mike City (A&R and VP of Soulife).

After graduating she moved to Washington, D.C. but eventually relocated to L.A. where she worked with City on her debut album and was managed by Macy Gray. Her debut single, resulted in the release of her first album "Your Woman" which rose to #2 on the R&B chart and sold over 800k copies certifying it gold.

She released two further albums "Sunshine at Midnight" (2006) and "The Sun Shines Again" (2010) but not a great deal since, just a handful of singles that have mainly been reissues/remixes of earlier songs.

Sunshine is still performing and in fact has a show tonight at House Of Goats, Waterbury, CT.

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Details

Rating:	8.4
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	New Soul / Reissue
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	Warner Music Group & X5 Music Group
Cat No:	None
Date:	10/03/2023 / 2001
Key/BPM:	1A/97
Price:	£3.96

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The Soul Immigrants [2001] - Sunday Drive [i! #IR-204]

I don't normally post instrumentals, I can't even think of one, but this is a great dance record with a really cool vibe by The Soul Immigrants from 2001. It's taken from a four track 12" EP 'The Collective Orchestra' which was 12" vinyl only as far as I can tell. It's still pretty cheap but that could change once someone starts playing it!

There is another group still active with the same name but it's a different group. This outfit consists of brothers D'Pac and Yogi Patel from the midlands (UK) who emigrated to Canada in the 80s and appear to have released half a dozen singles/EPs, this being their last.

It's got a feel of Young-Holt's Soulful Strut combined with Nite-Liters K-Gee about it.

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Details

Rating:	8.2
Genre/Style:	Neo Soul
Format:	EP
Media:	12"
Label:	i!
Cat No:	IR-204
Year:	2001
Key:	N/A
Value:	£2-£5

The Transitions [2001] - Rainy Night (In Harlem) [Biv Ten #440 013 366-2]

A one album group, presumably from New York, which is a surprise as this is a very good album throughout. The standout track is a retro southern soul deep ballad with Rashawn Worthen on lead (who appeared in 'The Fighting Temptations' movie in 2003 which featured many soul/R&B artists i.e. starred Cuba Gooding Jr. & Beyonce with Eddie Levert, Faith Evans, Melba Moore, Ann Nesby and Angie Stone among several others).

Listen to Full Album here

Details

Format:	Album
Media:	Digital/CD/LP
Label:	Biv Ten
Cat No:	440 013 366-2
Year:	2021
Key:	8B
BPM:	79
Value:	£5-£15 (approx.)

Janita [2001/05] - Firefly / Let Me Love You / I Can't Get Enough Of You

Janita (Maria Ervi nee Raukko) is from Helsinki (Finland) and released her first album aged 14 in 1993 before moving to New York when she was 17. This album was her fifth and she was still only 23 and she has subsequently released another 4 up to 2015.  

Firefly

From the 2001 album 'I'll Be Fine' and released as a single in 2002. The album is quite good all through with smooth jazz undertones.

Listen to Full Album here

Let Me Love You

From 'Seasons Of Life' 2005

I Can't Get Enough Of You

Also from 'Seasons Of Life' 2005

Raymond Jones [2001] - Bad for Me

Top quality Modern Soul / Jazz from Raymond Jones' Intimate album from 2001 featuring Lori Perry on vocals, a member of Perri - a sister group from the 80s.