Soulfuric Recordings

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Soulfuric Recordings is an independent house-music record label owned by Marc Pomeroy and Brian Tappert. It releases soulful house records worldwide and is the owner of music download site Traxsource.com. [1]

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In 2017 Soulfuric was sold to Defected Ltd.

Artists

Artists signed to the label include Off the Cuff and Sandy Turnbull

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