Soul Essence with Martin Gale

This week, we begin with a little nod to that classic soulful house sound, then turn up the warmth with familiar voices and a few fresh spins on old favourites. Toscana gets us underway, while Johnny Corporate's Sunday Shoutin' brings an old school touch and DJ Fudge keeps us moving. Blaze and Barbara Tucker's Most Precious Love still has plenty of life in it, and Dajae's Brighter Days gets a gosp...

This week, we start a little deeper with N.W.N. and Emél, then settle into the soulful voices of Hannah Khemoh, Arnold Jarvis and Stephanie Cooke. There’s plenty on the pile for Soul Essence: a fresh Dave Lee take on The Brand New Heavies, Birdee and Kelli Sae’s Sweet Love, and that lovely lift when Pauline Henry leads us into the second hour. We’ve got one of my all-time favourites, Adeva, coming...

This week, we begin October with classic vocal house before taking a turn through gospel, disco and a bit of jackin house. We've got familiar favourites with a fresh touch, keeping Soul Essence nice and soulful along the way. Jody Watley's Off The Hook gets us underway with that MAW mix, while Peacey and Rona Ray's Playground brings Groove Assassin into the picture. Dajae's Brighter Days gives us...

This week, we ease into Soul Essence with the warm, soulful glow of Sticks & Stonez and Liv East before moving through John Morales groove and Sam Curran's classy, deep funk. We've got The Shapeshifters and Joss Stone bringing the big vocal feeling, while Tim Deluxe's Ibiza favourite gets a fresh lift. In the second hour, Michael Gray, Kelli Sae and DJ Spen keep the soulful house flowing, with Bar...

This week, we begin Soul Essence with Jaegerossa and Suki Soul, bringing a little 1979 sparkle into the opening before a beautiful RedSoul and MIMI JAZMINA take on a Kathy Brown favourite. From there, Kym Sims gives us a lesser-heard E-Smoove touch, while Clara Hill and Crackazat bring those smoky jazz vocals that always land so well. The second half settles into deeper soulful house with Soul In...

This week, we begin with a big soulful-house moment from Loleatta Holloway before moving through fresh vocals, original garage, disco and some bassier business later on. As usual, we’ve got new flavours blended up nice and smooth alongside the classics we love. Inner City and Steffanie Christi’an bring us Turn Me On, Barbara Tucker and Tyyla get right in the feels, and Mariah Carey takes us into t...

This week, we start soulful, sunny and beautifully relaxed for a birthday broadcast, with a few Latin flavours carried through from last time and some proper Soul Essence warmth in the mix. Ezel and Rona Ray open things up with Endless Summer, with Audiowhores and Susana Montero, Jerry Ropero, Roger Garcia and Mijangos, Stryv and Hotmood keeping that early glow moving. Then the show rolls into sou...

This week, we ease ourselves in at the deep end before the Friday feelgood switch gets properly flicked. Incognito opens with Wake Me under Louie Vega and Joe Claussell’s hands, Crackazat takes on Tryin’ Times, and there’s warm soulful house from Candice Hoyes, Paris Cesvette with Tracy Hamlin, Kym Sims and Cafe 432. The Shapeshifters bring a classic-house lift with Back To Basics, while Daisuke M...

This week, we ease in with a melodic, soulful opening before the sunshine properly kicks in. Memi P. and Djarah get us moving with 100 Proof, Detroit Rising and Kimberly Davis keep things smooth on Good Vibrations, and Barbara Tucker brings one of the classics we love with Stay Together. Then we stir up a little Latin house party, with Harry Romero's take on Ritmo Da Rua, Mirko and Meex's Amore an...

This week, we start in proper vintage territory before bringing things bang up to date. Black Rascals and Roger Harris set the tone, Waterlillies take us back to the garage-house days, and Barbara Tucker brings one of those voices that gets us every time. We keep it soulful with Juan Hoerni and Terry Dexter, then Dr Packer gives Angie Stone a warm disco lift. Hour two opens with proper Friday feel...

This week, we begin deep with Helmut Ebritsch, Factor E and Ian Pooley before opening things up into old-skool garage, soulful vocals and plenty of disco warmth. We head back to 1994 with 24 Hour Experience, visit the Vinyl Vaults for Gwen Guthrie’s Padlock, and hear fresh music from Barbara Tucker alongside Bobby & Steve and Gwen Yvette. Hour two keeps the soulful house rolling with Funkatomic, T...

This week, we ease in with terrace warmth and a proper US-garage swing, then roll through soulful house vocals, nineties memories and a few favourites brought nicely up to date. MDA Grooves and JKriv set the tone with Caparica Sunset, Dave Lee gives Our Love that throwback garage feel, and Cafe 432 with Lifford bring the warmth on Symphony. From there, Barbara Tucker and Sounds of Blackness keep t...

This week, we start with warm, summery soulful house on the terrace before heading into a funky room for the second hour. Crackazat brings the shine, DJ Meme gives The Police a fresh lift, and Dave Lee’s Z Mix of Benjamin Diamond adds one of those Y2K-flavoured moments that always gets your tush going. The second half digs deeper with Harry Romero’s treatment of Radio Slave and Kameelah Waheed, th...

My comeback show on House FM!

I'm on my holidays this week, so I've gone into the vaults and picked out a show from five years ago and my House FM days when I had the ace producer Richard Earnshaw on the show for a chat 🙌🏻 Stay tuned, I'll be back with a new show when I'm home again 👍🏻

A hot and steamy show from the South Coast with a nice pile of fresh tunes for you to enjoy, ranging from some soulful and jazzy house to start all the way through disco to a few bangers at the end as per our favourite recipe 💥

Another big helping of soulful house goodness, from more classics from Physics and Kim English right the way up to date with Micky More and Andy Tee plus Sgt Slick's epic cover of Sade 🎧

Another feast from the soulful cellar: a special blend of classics and contemporary tunes, ranging from Kim English and Billie all the way up to date with fresh sounds from Marc Cottrell and Wh0 🎧

Soul Essence is back after more than two years away! This one is pure soulful house joy: warm vocals, disco touches, US garage flavours, deep grooves, and a few familiar voices reworked beautifully — from Marvin Gaye and Level 42 through to Louie Vega, Kenny Dope, Dave Lee, Sean McCabe, Mousse T. and more. I felt real joy putting this together, it's so nice to be back - hope you feel it too 👊🏻

What I was feeling one day in May as I flicked through my new purchases and old favourites - a journey from soulful house through disco and nudisco to funky house. Full tracklist: https://djmartingale.com/tracklistings/#24052025

Back once again with the soulful skills to pay the bills, including a pair of epic tracks from the Shapeshifters, some Fouk-ing magic and a Tall Paul rerub of a Hacienda classic. Full tracklist: djmartingale.com/tracklistings/#show-355

Feeling high on life with today's soulful selection of house music, from back room to the big room as we like to do it, including an absolute thing of beauty from Crackazat, a nice slab of Louie Vega and a throwback track from Lisa Stansfield. Find the full tracklist at djmartingale.com/tracklistings#show-354

Another celebration of the fresh and and the familiar, blending up garage house throwback tracks with Ibiza 2001 bangers and Traxsource Top 100 tunes. Includes a tribute to the brilliant Angie Stone who we tragically lost this weekend. For the full track listing, go to https://djmartingale.com/tracklistings/#show-353

Another feast from the soulful servery, with a journey from the beach to the big room. We've got Tasha LaRae, Sgt Slick, David Penn and everything in between for people who like their house music with a hint of soul 👌🏻 Find the tracklist here: djmartingale.com/tracklistings#show-352

A slightly older school flavoured show this week, with a good handful of some classic US garage sounds mingled in with some of the freshest soul-flavour house tracks of today. Find the tracklist here: djmartingale.com/tracklistings#show-351