c2eMusic Soulful Deep House

Another special guest show and this month I'm proud to present good friend and Sydney legend DJ Dante Rivera, founder of Klubhouse and countless other Sydney events over the years.  Dante was partly responsible for my exposure to Sydney clubbers.  He was the first person to reach out post Covid to ask if I would play for Klubhouse.  That set has resulted in me playing for multiple promoters around...

This mix is a recording from the set I played for Night Safari on March 22nd at Carousel in Sydney. Carousel is a relatively new club that recently got voted one of the top clubs in the world!!  It's somewhere I go regularly, the sound system alone cost $600k AUD!  Funktion one throughout, even in the bathroom they have a small Funktion One! It's been a dream of mine to play there ever since it op...

We had another special guest DJ on the show this week, DJ So Michael from Sydney.  Tried to get him on before Xmas, but you know Xmas.  So glad we didn't let it slip and so here we are. Sol is a very rare talent having started DJing at the very tender age of eight!  By 14 he was playing in Sydney's clubs warming up for the likes of Dave Lee (back when he had his cool name) no less. His Mum was a r...

Full write up over the weekend. For now, here is the recording from this week's show.  Theme ended up being 00's which in turn ended up being a homage to Soulfuric with a couple of exceptions. This is a 90% vinyl mix on a radio show.  There are a few dodgy transitions, I hope it doesn't spoil your enjoyment of the overall mix.  I normally don't release mixes with ropey transitions, but the tunes a...

Finally broke my Soul of Sydney duck.  I went to their very first party at Sydney Park maybe 14 years ago with my then two little boys.  The youngest who was only two took to it like a duck.  He dragged me into the middle of the makeshift dancefloor and started dancing.  He didn't want to leave. Fast forward to 2025 and I'm the one behind the decks spinning vinyl classics from 91-94.  It was a bea...

Here we go with the start of a new month and with it a new mix of fresh new sounds. I actually ran out of new tunes, it was a well discussed topic in the chatroom as to whether I had enough.  So I decided to end the mix with two of my own tracks, Can't Play which was my second track made and my latest one, Beautiful Persons. I was also so happy to be able to play a track I melted in 1998 in my att...

Last show of the month and we were lucky two get two guests on the show, em_laa and Jeremy Sylvester.  The first show on VBR was a new mix of new(ish) tracks, so that leaves this week for crate digging and boy did we dig!  At least three quarters of the mix is vinyl as I didn't switch to digital until 2005 and most of these tracks are much older than that. No preconceptions of what I was gonna pla...

No you are not seeing things! If you had told me at any point in the last 30 years that I would get to play b2b with the person that made so much of the music that I played back in 97/98 I’d have maybe peeeeeeed laughing.   With over 350 releases under his belt and over 950 DJ gigs around the world there is no doubt Jeremy Sylvester is one of the godfathers of UK garage. Jeremy is a DJ who is capa...

Week two on VBR and it's guest mix time! Joining me on the show this week was DJ em_laa (Emma McGuigan).  As the name suggests she is in fact Irish.  Em spent her Uni years in the heart of clubland, Liverpool and Manchester through the 90's and 00's.  Now calling Sydney home for the last 2 years it's time to test the local scene and showcase her skills. Em played alone for the first hour to maximi...

Last month we said goodbye to Pressure Radio after almost 13 years (Feb). This month we make our debut on Vocal Booth Radio, a new radio station set up and run by Andy Ward.  We've moved from Thursdays fortnightly to Tuesdays weekly.  The time remains the same. You'll be wanting the new URL.......  www.vocalboothradio.com The chatroom is similar but with new updated emojis which kicked off a few E...

This is my last ever radio show on Pressure Radio after almost 13 years! It all began with me wanting to be challenged to mix live, no pre-programming which is what I had been doing with my podcast series.  The radio is challenging because there is so much more to stay on top of.  You have to maintain a presence in the chatroom, but be careful not to get sucked into conversations or the music sudd...

This mix is a recording from a recent event at the Civic Underground club in Sydney. It was the gloves off set for Mark Farina who had just done a four hour harbour boat party for Mushroom Jazz earlier that evening. I was asked if I wanted to do the closing set, and who would I wanted to go b2b with. Two names immediately came to mind, Ritmiq, a deep and minimal house DJ who I rate highly and iLLy...

This show was so much fun. Carrying on the guest mix series, we welcome local Sydney DJ legend Illya Cooper. Illya has been part of Sydney's house music fabric for over 25 years.  Known or his jacking, jazzy rhythms but more so his insane technical ability.  He's played with the biggest names out there including Basement Jaxx NYE on Bondi Beach to 20,000, Derek Carter and Mark Farina NYE and most...

This mix is the first in a new series of guest mixes on the show. Once a month I will showcase a local Sydney DJ on the show. Joining me on the show this time, ahead of his debut for Larry’s Herd is WIP Music’s @mikekon One of the ambassador’s of Sydney soulful Deep underground scene, Mike has been busy building an amazing following that guarantees a WIP party is not to be missed. Mike will be war...

This mix is from the last show in August, but since we already have an August release out there it's more of a peak into the upcoming September mix. The beginning of the mix is like the start of the night.  A nod to those minimal deep rolling, chugging sounds you hear when you first get to the club. We then have a flurry of vocal tunes thanks to Martin Evans (Brum's finest) who was in the chat roo...

This months mix comes in nice and early.  It's made up of mix of new tracks and ones I've Shazammed when out over the last few weeks.  The result is a really nice blend of the old and new. Highlights for me include DJ Rolando's "Jaguar", Cinthie's "Mellifluous", DJ Chus's "The Feeling" and Spiritual South's "Green Gold". I've had this mix on repeat for the last four days which is usually a good si...

This is a recording from a show I did recently for SoulfulHouseDJs in the UK. My friend Will Nice has a slot on Sundays and asked me to cover for a couple of weeks. Two became three and this mix is from the third show.  The show was at 9pm Sunday night in Sydney where I am, but only 12pm Sunday lunchtime in the UK.  As a result the mix stays very much on the soulful, vocal vibe out of respect. The...

Back after six weeks off the airwaves.  Internet problems, still ongoing but workable this week. It's actually a pretty chilled mix this month.  The mix opens with lush deep vibes courtesy of Jimpster.  We build gently with jazzy vibes along the way, the odd sing along here and there. The main part of the mix again has a UK feel, with those bumpy skippy warm beats. I really thought I was going to...

This months show is a mix of new and nearly new. It was recorded during last weeks show on Pressure Radio and was not a new release destined for a podcast rollout.  However I tried to play all of the tracks from the last couple of months that I bought but have yet to play.  The result is a decent mix different enough to stand on it's own. The mix opens with three tracks from the same Italian artis...

This mix should have really been March 24 as it was recorded during the last show of the month.  However I didn't get round to mastering it until April and it makes no sense to release a mix in April and call it March. I found it difficult to connect with Soulful House and House releases last month.  As a result this mix is mainly deep mixed with UKG.  There are a couple of classics towards the en...

Here we go with the first mix of 2024.  Half of the tunes have been sitting in my Traxsource basket since January, some since December!  I'll be honest I wasn't feeling the urge to put a new mix out.  The music wasn't inspiring enough.  The radio shows were more nostalgic and I got back into rediscovering my older music and mixes.  I did actually do this mix two weeks earlier on the previous show...

Longer than normal mix this month.  Music shopping was slow after searching soulful house, garage and deep house and I was starting to worry.  Then along came house and everything changed.  I went from having not enough music for a show to way too much.  It took longer to download and I ended up being 10 minutes late for the start of the radio show.  I played longer to make up for it and so we hav...

This is the recording from the RFOX VALT VR club event I did on the 27th October. It's essentially a virtual nightclub in the middle of a virtual world created by Sydney based RFOX. Anyone can come along, especially for anyone with an Oculus headset. I'm looking forward to doing future events and I'll keep you posted on my FB & Insta accounts (www.facebook.com/c2eMusic & @richiec2emusichay...

This mix was heading in the "for my ears only" box as I didn't get a warm fuzzy at the end of the show.  I wasn't happy with the flow and there were a couple of key clashes that made my bum whistle that little bit higher. However my partner fell in love with it over the following weekend.  She pleaded with me to release it, "it needs to be heard" she said.  I continued to listen to it over and ove...

This is a recording of a set I recently played at a really cool rooftop club in Sydney. It was the warm up set, which is perfect because you have the freedom to choose how to go from zero to everyone warming up on the dancefloor. The set is a mix of new tracks that you'll hear in the upcoming c2eMusic podcast for October and some of my favourite tunes of 2023. I'll be playing for Underground Jack...