Professor Eddy

Here are a couple of tunes from the city of brotherly love. I originally recorded ‘Philly grooves’ for Laid Back Radio a few years ago, but it was never broadcasted. I updated the mix with some 2010 remixes. And to be honest, I reworked the Tom Moulton remix of First Choice and the Dimitri From Paris remix a tiny little bit. Look out for the new Tom Moulton album ‘ Philly Re-grooved ’ on Harmless Records that is out now! I listened to a lot of Tom Moulton remixes, old and new. He always starts with a long instrumental intro with a few harmony vocals (sometimes he adds a break), in the middle are the vocal parts and he usually ends with a full orchestra playing (with normally one solo instrument). I tried to copy the trick and DJ Dazler will play my Guilty [of stealing from Dimitri and Tom] remix of First Choice in his Dazling Soul Show on the 25th of September. So keep listening to his shows! Tracklist: Harold Melvin & Blue Notes - The Love I Lost [Dimitri From Paris Super ...

What does boogie mean? I’m still not sure. Is it synonymous for dancing or do they sing about making love? Some people call the electronic disco of the early 80s s ‘boogie’, but there’s only one song in this mix from that period (Lesette Wilson) and that song doesn’t sound very electronic, does it? This is what Wikipedia has to say about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogie . In short, boogie comes from ‘boogie woogie’. Brooklyn People was remixed by the legendary Tom Moulton, the inventor of the remix and the 12 inch disco single. Nowadays he'd probably be called a re-editor, because he stretched (in a unique way) original 7 inch radio-edits into longer versions for the clubs. He was the first to do so in the early 1970s, but he didn't add new instruments, which is quite essential for a remix today. He used the original mastertapes only. Look out for his new album ‘ Philly Re-grooved ’ that will be released very soon! Leyo and Uptown Funk Empire can be found on Soul Uns...

When I heard English dj Alan Champ on Starpoint Radio play ‘You don’t have to go’ by the Chi-Lites on a Sunday, I got inspired for this ‘erotic soul’ mix. Some seventies and early eighties disco with sexy female voices and very low singing guys (to seduce the ladies, I guess…). A mix to celebrate the sexual liberation of the 1970s. Turn off the lights and enjoy! Thanks to the the Dazler (Nite School!), Nicolas Drosos and Alena Arpels for the inspiration! By the way, I did a mix in the same mood for the very nice Russian mp3-blog Music Dawn , called Love Grooves (available for download as well). The idea behind that mix was to play uplifting soul tracks that are not only soulful, but also a little bit sexy. I tried to create the vibe of a soundtrack for a non-existing romantic movie. One of the tracks, 'Sea of love’, was sung by Richard Gere in the recent (and very cool) movie Brooklyn’s Finest . The mix can be played on Valentine's Day as well! ;-). This is the tracklist:...

Let's bump into the weekend! Professor Eddy gives you a full hour of instructions to learn how to bump! This dance was particularly popular around 1975. The main thing was to move your behind in the direction of your partner. How simple can a dance be, uh? Perhaps British glamrockers Kenny tell you the best instructions in their hit ‘The bump’ from 1974/1975. Even Barack Obama can learn you some tricks ! But you can have some bad experiences as well, as Joe Tex explains in his 'Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman)', about a certain type of lady. It's a good song, although the lyrics are not very political correct and does he really sing about dancing? And well, you can hear German Schlager singer Frank Farian do his parts on his lip-sync project Boney M. Although they don't sing, they can show you how to bump . And on YouTube you can also hear the radio version of ‘Lady bump’ from Penny Mclean, because I play the 12 inch, without the very nice spo...

Here’s another history lesson in sampling, told by your favourite teacher! ;-) This mix (which I’m quite proud of) starts with most probably the first recorded rap record in history. It’s by a guy named Jocko and the track was released on Philadelphia International Records. He borrowed the beats from McFadden & Whitehead’s classic which came out on the same label (so there were no troubles about infringement of copyright, I think). From there you can hear a lot of similarities between the songs. One of the key tracks is ‘The champ’ by the Mohawks which appears in a couple of songs. The last track is my attempt to remix the new Bryan Ferry single in a Funkadelic house groove (or something like that…) Enjoy! Janelle Monáe is one of my favourite artists of the moment. Check out her new album, called ‘The Archandroid’, which is very, very good! She has quite an original approach to soul music, using rock, new wave and musical elements. The track I use in this 'I love music' m...

This mix is in a way a tribute to the so called ‘beach music’ of the late fifties, sixties and early seventies. This type of uplifting soul ruled the jukeboxes at the beaches of both Carolinas in the US. It’s more or less the same kind of music as ‘northern soul’ in the UK, although beach music goes back to the doo wop of the fifties and has some rock ‘n’ roll traces as well. It vanished in the mid seventies when disco music, played in discotheques, became the most popular kind of dance music and wiped out (to quote the Surfaris) beach music. Enjoy the handclapping, the raw saxophones and the excitement of being young! It’s not typical beach music, but ‘ Summer wine ’ written and sung by Lee Hazlewood (in a duet with Nancy Sinatra) is an outstanding summer song. It describes a summer love as some kind of a drug (‘my head felt twice its size’) in a very poetical way. It seems to be sung by an old villain and an innocent girl. It’s the well-known theme of Little Red Riding Hood (the w...