I also periodically bring in a guest artist to perform. Obviously, being an artist myself, I think it's really important for people to reconnect to the music and bring it to life beyond that moment on the dancefloor. I've had a lot of artists come through, like Jocelyn Brown, Jody Watley, Kathy Sledge, Ann Nesby, CeCe Peniston, a lot of DJs like Quentin Harris... Louie Vega been through twice. I try to mix it up and also have some of the more underground artists like Monique Bingham, Kenny Bobien - I could go on for days. A lot of heads have come through and a lot of heads are still trying to come because they know that when they come, it's nothing but mad love.

So how about the singles off the album?

"Automatic" is doing awesome on the charts, and the video's getting a lot of hits on YouTube - it's only been up for a week and I think it's had 10,000 hits already. On the Billboard club chart I think I'm at #4 in the fourth week it's been up there [as of April 10], so it's been climbing pretty aggressively. I think it was the most downloaded track on iTunes last week.

I think I'm going to release "Falling" as my next single, which I wrote about my son when he was on my lap one morning when he was seven months old. He inspired me to write the song.

You also started your own record label?

I started a label called Sugar Music to put out my own artists. The first one I signed is named Jada. I signed her in partnership with Code Red, DJ Spen's label. She has a record out now called "Love Is (Love Breeze)" which was picked up by Defected and is the first song on the Defected in the House: Miami 2007 compilation. The first week it was out, it was the most downloaded song on the Defected website, so people are really feeling it.

The second artist I signed is Lisa Mack, who is another vocalist with a track on Code Red that was picked up by Defected called "Shine." Jada especially reminds me of myself as a budding writer and vocalist. She's a really sparkling talent that just needs the right kind of development to get out there and do her thing. Lisa is a little more developed as an artist because she's been out singing in bands for many years. She really wanted to work with someone who is going to champion her as an artist.

That's the main thing I've been working on now - their projects for the Sugar Music label and also working with known acts. Spen and I also did a partnership on a song called "Don't Give Up" and it was also picked up by Defected. So I've been busy!