Soul Essence with Martin Gale

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

A fresh feast from the soulful house servery, where this time we’ve got some classic remix action from Masters at Work blended up with something deep, something disco and something banging - find the tracklist here: djmartingale.com/tracklistings#show-350

The first show of 2025 and starting off high-vibe with a retrospective of 2024 and some of the best tracks we've enjoyed together 😀 - find the full tracklist at djmartingale.com/tracklistings#show-349

The final show of 2024! To finish up the year, no frills, I've just played a show for you from the heart, with an eclectic blend of fresh and classic soul-flavoured house music for the festive season 🎄 Full a full tracklisting, go to djmartingale.com/tracklistings#show-348

Back again with another heartwarming story told in soulful house, including soulful, deep, nudisco and everything in between - find the tracklist here: djmartingale.com/tracklistings#show-347

A slightly heavier sprinkling of the classics together with the fresh disco, soulful and deep house sounds of the moment, bringing some hopeful feelgood vibes to your winter chill - find the tracklist here: djmartingale.com/tracklistings#show-346

A heartwarming tale in soulful, disco and classic house genres, as usual taking you on an international story arc via Glitterbox, Cafe Mambo and even my local twenty five years ago. Find the full tracklist here: https://djmartingale.com/tracklistings/#show-345

A few classic house anthems in amongst some fresh soulful, disco and funky house magic, including a vinyl-only mix of one of my favourite tracks and a great Dimitri from Paris remix of Jamiroquai - find the tracklist here: djmartingale.com/tracklistings#show-344

Back once again with the soulful behaviour, this week I think a kind of tale of hope, with some classic soulful house throwbacks coupled up with some disco and deep house grooves to make you move - find the tracklist here: djmartingale.com/tracklistings#show-343

This week, a selection of current and classic house once again, ranging from soulful house, through deep, disco, nu disco and jackin' house, I was in a kind of Glitterbox sort of mood when I made it, with elements of Cafe Mambo thrown in - find the tracklist here: djmartingale.com/tracklistings#show-342

Your soulful storybook this time sees us take in some classic Masters at Work, the latest soulful house and some beach house for added atmosphere - as usual, a blend of the latest sounds with the soul you know to help you find the flow and you can find the tracklist here: djmartingale.com/tracklistings#show-341

Another great story of soul for you this week, taking you through twists and turns of deep, soulful, latin, jacking, funky and classic house tunes - a pinch of Glitterbox, a dash of Defected and a hint of Strictly Rhythm does the trick. Find the tracklist here: djmartingale.com/tracklistings#show-340

We're back again, and this time as it's summer here in the UK, we start off with some beach house vibes, and then into the soulful and disco house feels before some tech touches from the big room - find the tracklist here: djmartingale.com/tracklistings#show-339

Another soul-flavoured feast, where this time we’re going with the Glitterbox/Defected type feels, moving through soulful house, some absolute stone cold classics into some disco and jackin’ house funk action - find the tracklist here: djmartingale.com/tracklistings#show-338

A return to presented shows, where we span the full spectrum via deep house, soulful house, a Latin house digression plus one or two classics thrown in for good measure - find the tracklist here: djmartingale.com/tracklistings#show-337