Finding the Rhythm

A few weeks ago, I received a DJ promo copy of a hot new track titled Let It Go. The artist, Ruff Loaderz, wasn’t familiar to me, but the track really stood out, and I was anxious to learn more about who was behind it.

As it turns out, it’s a pretty exciting collaboration between two very talented artist/producers: Julian Napolitano, and the fabulous Sheryl Deane. 

Julian Napolitano is one-third of Soul Seekerz, the UK-based production team responsible for some very hot remixes of Dannii Minogue, Bananarama, Sugababes, and many others, as well as some great original music. Napolitano has a number of named efforts, including JDS, One Hit Wonders, and Perpetual Motion, so Ruff Loaderz is merely his latest alias. 

Sheryl Deane is the incredible voice behind (among others) the extremely strong and popular track from The Thrillseekers, Synaesthesia, which keeps popping-up on playlists (including mine) since it was first released in 2000.

As Ruff Loaderz, the duo was unsigned until recently; Napolitano is working with Positiva Records out of the UK to get the tracks into the hands of music buyers, so be looking for availability of the track on major download sites (hopefully soon). 

I had the opportunity to sample some additional Ruff Loaderz tracks, and one in particular, Fever, you can expect to hear popping-up in my sets soon too… It’s a very powerful, high-emotion track.

In any case, I suspect we’ll be hearing more from the Napolitano/Deane team over time.