SOUL CENTRAL DELIVER NEW DISCO, HOUSE & GOSPEL HIT

Not ones to rest on their laurels, the UK production duo Soul Central continue to forge forward with an stream of fresh new music. Teaming up with gospel talent Jennifer Wallace and West Loop Chicago on the instant classic “Work It Out (People)” here they have delivered a surefire house anthem, which aptly sits alongside stellar versions of Soho’s timeless tune “Hot Music” and jazz-fusion pioneers Weather Report’s “Teen Town”. CoOp affiliate EVM128 is on the remixing duties as his broken beat take on the soulful “Work It Out (People)” blazes through.

“It’s another classic Soul Central cut. This is 100% dancefloor fire right here” – Le Visiteur

RELEASE DATE: TUES 27TH OCTOBER

Most famously known for their global house rendition of Derrick May’s “Stings Of Life”, Soul Central aka Matt Mckillop and Paul Timothy make their debut on Tru Thoughts doing what they do best. Celebrating 20 years since the Defected Records release that placed them in the top ten in the UK charts and saw them receive an NMC award for reaching over 1000 radio plays worldwide, Soul Central have been championed by the godfather of house Frankie Knuckles, Kerri Chandler, Pete Tong (Radio 1) plus many more, making them a household name.

Talking about “Work It Out (People)”, the duo said: “Musically just try to imagine a piano house track from 89/90 trying to copy a disco record. Lyrically, the song is inspired by Willie Hutch from The Mack, “Brother’s Gonna Work It Out”. These kinds of sentiments will always resonate because, pick any year, decade, situation, government or world power… we never really seem to have our shit together.”

Releasing on leading labels such as Ministry of Sound, Master At Work Records and Strictly Rhythm – more recently the duo hit number one on Traxsource with “All This Love” for Tropical Disco Records. Expect to see Soul Central supersede former glory by breaking down musical barriers and taking on new re-edits of superlative tunes.

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THE TRU THOUGHTS STORY

Tru Thoughts is a British independent record label founded in Brighton in 1999 by Robert Luis and Paul Jonas. Since the acclaimed first album release of Bonobo’s debut Animal Magic, the label has put out over 200 LPs, across genres from electronic, funk, soul and hip hop to jazz, tropical, grime and more. It has developed a reputation for releasing a wide variety of high-quality music. Back in 2005 Tru Thoughts were awarded Label Of The Year at the annual Gilles Peterson Worldwide Awards which further showed their impact upon the world of leftfield inspired music.

As time has gone on, the label has released music from an increasingly global roster, including Quantic Soul Orchestra, Belleruche, The Bamboos, Lanu, Menagerie, Hot 8 Brass Band, Hidden Orchestra and many more influential acts. In recent years extending to Moonchild, Space Captain, Youngblood Brass Band, The Seshen, Lost Midas, Kinny, Drumagick and Saravah Soul, Anchorsong, Maddslinky aka Zed Bias, Flowdan, Hint, Zero dB, Omar, Wrongtom, Riz MC, Harleighblu, Ty and Rodney P/London Posse.

The ever evolving stable holds an impressive list of collaborators and remixers working their releases, including Skream, Stevie Wonder, Daedelus, Cut Chemist, Aloe Blacc, MJ Cole, Beth Rowley, Toddla T, Prins Thomas, Clark, Sam Sparro, Falty dL, Flux Pavilion, Rizzle Kicks, Megan Washington, Tim Rogers, Roy Ayers, True Tiger, Tawiah, Common, Angie Stone, Maxi Jazz, Adrian Utley and many more. Tru Thoughts has also discovered various notable artists who subsequently signed to other record labels; Bonobo signed to Ninja Tune, Chris Clark signed to Warp Records, Jon Kennedy to Grand Central Records, Chroma to LTJ Bukem's Good Looking Records and The Capoeira Twins signed to Timo Maas' Hope Recordings.

The music from the label has been used on adverts for iTunes, Ford, MLB, Mercedes Benz, and Unilever and appeared on numerous films and TV programs including Mad Men, Big Little Lies and Netflix's Sex Education, and continues to be a pivotal club night in the UK.

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