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 👊🏻

The full night (pretty much) from my gig at Rita's in Southampton, all the way from some deep and latinhouse, through a fair chunk of disco (we had a party in!) and finishing up with some of my favourite UK garage classics.

Shared untouched apart from a fade out at the end so be kind 😉

The full night (pretty much) from my gig at Rita's in Southampton, all the way from some jazzy soulful house, through disco, funky and tech house and everything else in between 👌🏻

Shared untouched apart from a fade out at the end so be kind 😉

The whole night of house music from my live gig at Rita's in Southampton 🙌🏻

A full build from deep and soulful cocktail lounge vibes all the way up to some bangers to finish ✨

Recording is as it was played with no retouching so be kind 😉

The first couple of hours or so from my first gig of 2026 at Rita's in Southampton 😎

I've labelled it classic house but slipped in a few contemporary soulful tracks that fit too 👌🏻

The first couple of hours or so of my last gig of 2025 at Rita's in Southampton - the usual blend of feelgood cocktail-hour tunes.

The recording here actually comes from three different bits of kit in the end as we had to have a kit switchover and a small three track section got lost so I recreated it at home so it flows. Nothing else has been retouched as per usual.

I hope you enjoy it anyway 🙏🏻

The first couple of hours or so of my gig at Rita's Southampton, where I blended up a mix of latin house, deep house, US garage house and even some disco house for good measure 👌🏻

One for all you Cafe Mambo, Hed Kandi and Glitterbox lovers 😎💃🏻

The first three or so hours of my live gig at Rita's in Southampton, for a new night of classic-flavoured house music.

When I put these together it usually starts with me being triggered by a single track and working outwards from there. This time it was Harry “Choo Choo” Romero’s classic “Tania” from 2001, so edging out sideways from there I took in some disco, jackin’ and funky house, both past and present. Always room for a few classics too, so listen out for those.

Full tracklisting: djmartingale.com/tracklistings#090825

This week I'm feeling more on the soulful side, starting out nice a mellow with some latin-style beats, moving through some contemporary and classic soulful house into something funky to finish up with.

Full tracklist: https://djmartingale.com/tracklistings/#270725