Hardsoul is a duo of house music

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, made up of the brothers Rogier ( DJ Roog) and Greg van Bueren.

Biography

Founded in 1997, Hardsoul began releasing music on Soulfuric Recordings, a

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owned by Marc Pomeroy and Brian Tappert. This led to another release on Soulfuric, "Sweatshop", in 2003, before graduating to

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' sublabel ITH Records, where they released "Backtogether", a vocal anthem sung by

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, in 2003. It received airplay on mainstream radio, and peaked at #60 in the

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Discography

*1998 "Do What I Gotta Do" *1999 "Fight The Feeling/Your Last Dance" *2000 "Late Night Sessions Vol. 1" *2001 "Where Did Our Love Go", with Forrest Thomas *2001 "La Pasion De Gozar" *2001 "All Night Long", with Rose Stigter *2002 "Caracho" *2002 "Never Gonna Stop", with The Soul Hustlers *2003 "Sweatshop", with New Cool Collective *2003 "6 Dah/Former Destiny" *2003 "Tricky Bizniz #1" *2003 "Back Together", with

*2004 "Committed" *2004 "Plastiko EP" *2004 "The Hardsoul EP" *2004 "Lapoema", with

Olav Basoski Olav Basoski (born 1968, Haarlem, Netherlands) is a Dutch DJ, remixer, house music producer and trainer in Electronic dance music techniques. He is best known for records such as "Windows" (1991), "Don't turn your back on me" (1993), "Opium ...

*2005 "Bounsoun", with New Cool Collective *2005 "Über", as Hardsoul presents Roog & Greg *2006 "No Man", with

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*2006 "Don't Let Love Weigh You Down", with Amma *2006 "Deep Inside" *2006 "My Life", with Ron Carroll and Sven Vigee *2007 "Your Mind Is Twisted", with Jeroenski *2009 "Shed My Skin" with Erick E as HouseQuake, featuring Anita Kelsey

References

Remixers Club DJs Dutch DJs Dutch house music groups Dutch musical duos Electronic music duos {{house-band-stub