Professor Eddy

This 8th episode of Soul Searching starts with a really nice track from The Bird And The Bee 's 'Interpreting the masters volume 1' album. And it’s followed by the late Rick James. No one can sing ‘sexy, sexy, sexy’ better than he did in his prime. There’s also a track from the new José James album ‘Blackmagic’. It’s one of the best albums of 2010 so far, if you ask me. Check it out! Thanks to Baron von Luxxury for sharing Serge Gainsbourg! He almost wrote a track for the latest Britney Spears album, but his effort was rejected. But that turned out to be a good thing when the album came out… Mayer Hawthorne will play on the 5th of May at the Liberty Festival in Groningen. Picture by Rod Monkey Tracklist: The Bird And The Bee – She’s Gone (2010) Rick James – Cold Blooded (1983) Serge Gainsbourg – Requiem Pour Un Con [LeBaron Edit] (1968) Masterfleet – Academy Awards (1973) 80's Ladies – He Is Mine Forever (1980) José James – Detroit Love Letter (2010) ...

This podcast is a tribute to the movie ‘ Last days of disco ’. You have to check the dvd out, because it’s piled with good quotes about disco! The Nuyorican Soul (Kenny 'Dope' Gonzalez and Lil' Louis Vega) track was especially made for ‘ The last days of disco ’. The beautiful Kate Beckinsale (‘Underworld’) has one of the leading parts, although she plays a real bitch in it… The declining of disco in the early eighties is a metaphor for the disappearance of youth. Going out is no longer priority number one for the main characters. In this LDOD tribute you can hear the killer dance track ‘Funk it up’ by Sweet. Glam artists of the seventies like David Bowie (‘Fame’ and ‘Golden years’), Glitter Band (‘Makes you blind’) and Mud (‘Shake it down’) made successful moves to the dance floor (the guitar player of Mud, Rob Davis, wrote ‘Can't get you out of my head’ for Kylie Minogue). Funk and disco music seemed to go very well with glam rock in the seventies. At least the mu...

Angie Stone’s latest album ‘ Unexpected ’ contains quite a few mediocre tracks, but I do like the title track. I extended the song a little bit to make it fit more into this new episode of Soul Searching. And I couldn’t resist the temptation to play ‘Family affair’ by the legendary Sly & the Family Stone afterwards. The superb longer version of Roxy Music’s classic ‘Love is the drug’ is created by legendary dj Greg Wilson and can be found on his album ‘Credit to the edit 2’. He was one of the pioneers of electronic beats in the late 1970s and is still around to play at international gigs. And Martin Fry of British new wave (or should I say new romantics?) band ABC has borrowed some of his stage act from Bryan Ferry. This mix is inspired by the movie Hot Tub Time Machine in which a couple of guys travel back to the 1980s by sitting in a hot tub. Tracklist: Roxy Music – Love Is The Drug [Greg Wilson Edit] (1975) The Staple Singers – Slippery People (1984) Starlight &...

Founder Berry Gordy (picture) has to blow out 51 candles this year. It’s a good opportunity to make a brand new Motown tribute (so not only at their much celebrated 50th birthday last year). I like the straightforward lyrics sung by the Sisters Love. It’s all about a guy who needs some Viagra, I presume. If he can’t fix it, singer Merry Clayton warns him that ‘maybe the milkman can’. Merry appeared on several Joe Cocker releases, but is best known for her impassioned appearance on the Rolling Stones’ classic ‘Gimmie shelter’. The Sisters Love worked with singers such as Willie Hutch, Leon Ware and Gloria Jones, toured the world with The Jackson Five, and appeared in the Blaxploitation movie ‘ The mack ’. The tracks by Associates and Robin Thicke (from his excellent new album 'Sex therapy') were not published, but inspired by Motown. And 'I can't help myself' by The Four Tops has been mashed up with 'When I'm 64' by the Beatles in this Motown mix. Joh...