>House of Music to me is something different because it's such
>a faithful, studious, religious recreation of various soul
>sounds, but the reason it just doesn't count as neo-soul for
>me is that a lot of times it seems to be pretending that
>hip-hop never existed.

^ Neo-Soul is all of those things. except maybe it has a bit more HH influence, but generally HoM is Neo by definition.