Professor Eddy

This is the follow-up to the quite successful Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky . Again all the tracks have 'funk' or 'funky' in their titles. I initially thought that 'Holy ghost' from the Bar-Kays was sampled in the Fila Brazillia track that I played on It Takes Two , but it appeared to be 'Shake your rump to the funk'. The latter is featured in this podcast. Tracklist: Fred Wesley & The Horny Horns – We Came To Funk Ya (1978) Paris – Guerrilla Funk (1994) Peter Brown – Do You Wanna Get Funky With Me? [Eddy’s Funky Edit] (1977) Frantique – Strut Your Funky Stuff (1979) Slave – Stellar Funk (1978) Southroad Connection – We Came To Funk You Out (1980) Sparks – Let’s Get Funky (1986) James Brown – Funky President (People It's Bad) (1974) Lee Dorsey - Everything I Do Gonh Be Funky (From Now On) (1969) Dyke & the Blazers – Funky Broadway [part 1] (1967) Parliament – Tear The Roof Off The Sucker (Give Up The Funk) (1976) Bar-Kays

What’s exotica? Well, it’s some kind of tropical jazz or easy listening with exotic instruments, like flute, vibraphone and bongo’s. One of the key figures of exotica is Les Baxter who created the sound in the 1950s. He also composed ‘Sunset mood’ for Carmen Lesay and ‘Pharaoh’s curse’ for Tony Martinez, two songs that can be heard in this mix. I selected a couple of similar tracks around these exotica songs, like the one from the Avalanches (whatever happened to them?). Some of the tropical ingredients were copied by Dr. Buzzards Original Savannah Band and more seventies disco acts (that are gathered on ‘Cocktail disco’, a compilation from Dimitri From Paris). And many lounge acts used the typical exotica sounds in the 2000s. Listen to ‘Slip into something comfortable’ from Kinobe or the album ‘Silent movie’ from Quiet Village. Enjoy! Picture by Kristine May Tracklist: John Scofield – Flower Power (1990) Ju-Par Universal Orchestra – Is Anyone Listening (1976) Carmen Lesay

The only thing I have to say about this mix is that I love big movie themes and that late seventies/early eighties space sound! So consider it a soundtrack to a non-existing sf-movie, or something like that... I'm still waiting for an assignment to compile the music for a movie officially, though! ;-) Probably the best space track ever is Starship 109 from Mistral. It’s such a good song! Mistral is a space disco project from Dutchman Robbie van Leeuwen who wrote ‘Venus’ for Shocking Blue, a number one in the US in 1970 (and for Bananarama in 1986). You can hear him play guitar on this track as well. 'Moon-boots' is also available on Discogs Mixes . So put on your space suits and enjoy this trip to the moon! And if you can’t get enough of the space sound, listen to Beats In Space or the posts from Beat Electric . Next up is ‘Be gentle with my ears’, my first mix with some exotica (or tropical jazz ) in it. Tracklist: Asteroid – Asteroid (1967) Meco – Meco’s Them

About a year ago I put ‘ Players, pimps and pushers ’ online with tracks from black action movies (the so-called ‘Blaxploitation’ soundtracks). It was originally a mix I did for Laid Back radio a few years ago. For a long time I wanted to do something similar, but with a different approach. A combination of modern funk and old school tracks. I started to work on this mix in 2008 and finished it only last week after hearing the ‘ Black Belt Jones ’ OST from Dennis Coffey . Tracklist: Resonance – OK Chicago (1974) Dennis Coffey & Luchi De Jesus – Super Slick (Get Pinky) (1974) Hidden Strength – Hustle On Up (Do The Bump) (1976) All Good Funk Alliance – Sha Sha (2008) Rhibosome – Walkin’ (2005) Karen Bernod – Tell ‘Em Let ‘Em Know (2006) Palov & Mishkin – Theme From ‘Backslam’ (2007) Superphonics – Give A Little Love (2008) Q-Tip (feat. Amanda Diva) – Manwomanboggie (2008) Reel People (feat. Omar) – Outta Love (2007) Alice Russell – Turn And Run (2008) Incog

This is a tribute to my wonderful dad. He died on the 23rd of September, the day I’ll always remember, to quote the Temptations. For some people you wish that they could live forever and my father was certainly one of them. He was always there for me. I’m going to miss him, that’s for sure. Here’s a collection of songs that my father loved to hear. Each time I played this mix for him, he said he enjoyed it. He even wanted to hear it in hospital while he had an MRI scan. The intention of the mix was to create a jazzy, peaceful, relaxing and overall hopeful sound that made my father feel comfortable. Hopefully you’ll enjoy this tribute to my dad as well. If you want to download any of the mixes, contact me. Tracklist: Señor Coconut Y Su Conjunto – The Man Machine (2000) Quincy Jones – Soul Bossa Nova (1962) Sound Directions – Song For My Father (2003) George Michael & Astrud Gilberto – Desafinado (1996) Claude Monnet & Monica Nogueira - La Rua Madureira (2004) Nou