(DIA014) Have You Felt This Way Before [2003]

(original release sheet:)

Recognised for its uncompromising commitment to soulful music of depth and integrity, London-based Diaspora Recordings is proud to launch its new live imprint diaspora in Session.  Following the highly regarded limited release 7" for Directions' debut commercial release, the original album mix of "Have You Felt This Way Before" receives the remix treatment by Kyoto Jazz Massive for this pre-album 12” release…

BLUES AND SOUL Magazine (September) says…

“If you actually look for music and don't just let a radio presenter, magazine writer or club DJ tell you what's hot, you'll know that there's an obscenely huge amount of music out there awaiting discovery. Sometimes it seems like there's too much, which makes it harder for things like this superb 7 inch - the first release from London label Diaspora Recordings' new live imprint - to be heard, because the video for it doesn't exist and I don't think I caught it on daytime radio…brought to life by Jason Kenemy, Wayne Ogilvie, Benji Perosin and Chantal Thompson: … a vivacious, soulful jazz ballad with frantic percussion blasts, horns and keys…”

A1 – Kyoto Jazz Massive remix

The Okino brothers bless the Diaspora stable with a late summer ‘feel good’ boogie.  A punchy broken house beat melds seamlessly with rhythmic funk guitar and sweet keyboard work (courtesy of Sleepwalker) to form a luscious bed in which Chantal Thompson’s vocals can lie…both radio and club-friendly and already working floors worldwide…