Osunlade left his native St. Louis to seek his fortune in Los Angeles, aged 17. He hasn't looked back. After scoring a break through Toni Basil, Osunlade soon found himself producing for the major labels, working with the likes of Patti Labelle, Gerardo Mejia, Freddie Jackson and Eric Benet. Osunlade is also an ordained priest in the African religion of Ifa. In what seems to most as a reverse course for a career in the music industry, Osunlade left the big league to start his own label, Yoruba, and exploded onto the underground Deep House scene. He recently released his first album, 'Paradigm' on Soul Jazz Records.
Osunlade was inspired by Club Shelter and DJ Timmy Regisford: " I think at the time it was the variety of things he'd play. He'd play the deep club anthems like the Masters At Work tracks to BeBe Winans’ ’Thank You’, to a German Tech song, which to me was like: "Whoa, what's this music?" And that kind of opened my eyes." The track that blew Osunlade's mind was by the Tech Band Isolee the fusion of tech sounds and soulful flute with a Salsa song and it's Soul gave realisation to Osunlade that " House music isn't just 'unch-unch-unch' and some fat woman singing over some rhythm." Right click, save target as, to download Isolee track. MP3 Isolee - Bleu (Dixon Edit)
Osunlade was inspired by Club Shelter and DJ Timmy Regisford: " I think at the time it was the variety of things he'd play. He'd play the deep club anthems like the Masters At Work tracks to BeBe Winans’ ’Thank You’, to a German Tech song, which to me was like: "Whoa, what's this music?" And that kind of opened my eyes." The track that blew Osunlade's mind was by the Tech Band Isolee the fusion of tech sounds and soulful flute with a Salsa song and it's Soul gave realisation to Osunlade that " House music isn't just 'unch-unch-unch' and some fat woman singing over some rhythm." Right click, save target as, to download Isolee track. MP3 Isolee - Bleu (Dixon Edit)
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