Professor Eddy

Imagine you’re chilling out with an intimate friend until the sun comes up… ;-) Having made her mark on Brazil’s rich musical legacy with three best-selling albums to date, Rio’s original nu-bossa queen Sabrina Malheiros has returned with a tour de force of golden-era Brazilian soul music. From the spiritual swing of the early pioneers of modern Samba, to the dizzying hedonism of Brazil’s eighties disco/boogie craze, her new album 'Clareia' is a life-affirming journey through the rich and varied sounds Sabrina Malheiros has been immersed in since she can remember. For her most up-lifting and danceable album to date, Sabrina has (as always) enlisted her father Alex Malheiros (bassist of samba jazz-funk legends Azymuth) and London based producer Daniel Maunick (aka Dokta Venom), son of Incognito’s Bluey. Singer/songwriter Jamison is not a typical R&B singer. With a voice that garners comparisons to Anthony Hamilton and R Kelly his baritone sound coupled with outside the b...

This time I made some kind of a “Boombox Beach Special”. The term ‘daytime disco’ was first used by L.A. based dance duo Poolside. It's music best to be played at times when you're too comfortably seated in a beach chair to dance, but you certainly wouldn't mind watching other people do it. It’s, in other words, pre-party music to steam you up for the night. Future funk recaptures the feeling of retro dance with modern equipment. It’s basically new dance music with a wink to the 1970s and 1980s. Enjoy part 14 of Boombox ! Next up is new episode of Groovy, Sexy and Soulful . Tracklist: Gladys Knight & The Pips – Save The Overtime (For Me) (1983) Two Another – Over My Shoulder (2017) Luther Vandross – I Really Didn't Mean It (1986) Kasso – Brazilian Dancer [DJ Version] (1981) Pop Up! – You Know How (2016) Cape Coral – Chest Pop (2017) Kiki Kyte – Disco Chick (2016) Juan Laya & Jorge Montiel Feat. Andre Espeut – Innermotion [Petko Turner's ...

Sade Enjoy 'Digging your scene' by The Smooth Operators ! Sophisticated pop is a smooth, jazzy style of mainstream pop/rock that first appeared during the mid-'80s. Sophisti-pop artists, like Sade and The Blow Monkeys, merged jazz-soul characteristics with their sound. About three decades later bands like Work Drugs and Capital Cities borrowed elements from that style to create something new. Sophisticated pop sounds best on lazy days when the weather is extremely hot. "Sophistication" by Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel is originally from 1986 and was produced by Harley and Mickie Most. Like much of Harley's output from the same period, the song was due to be released on Harley's solo album El Gran Senor. However, the album was shelved and left unreleased after RAK Records went bankrupt later in the year. Although many of the songs would later be re-recorded for Harley's 1992 album Yes You Can, "Sophistication" remained unreleased. Despit...

Barry White Enjoy this summer edition of ‘ Best Of 70s Soul ’! The tracks by Jay Black and Ecstasy, Passion & Pain are from the brilliant Roulette compilation album ‘Disco music is a passion’ that I bought for only one euro last week. 'Never never gonna give ya up' by Barry White​ is on the soundtrack of the excellent new movie Baby Driver​. The song reached top ten in the Netherlands in 1974. The ‘walrus of love’ was a disco pioneer by recording ‘Love’s theme’ with his Love Unlimited Orchestra and many solo records in the mid-seventies. When disco reached its peak at the end of the decade, White’s popularity was already declining. His typical ‘slow disco’ sound with spoken sexual innuendo was copied countless times at that point, so he was not that unique anymore. He was rediscovered in the nineties, when R&B and hip hop artists began to sample his work extensively. Barry White died on Friday the 4th of July, 2003, after a lengthy battle with numerous health problem...

The wind is in the sails again for a new part of Smooth Sailing ! My intention was to make a mix that brings back memories of those wonderful summers in a faraway past that won’t return in any kind of way… ;-) I made it with a little help from my Smooth Operators-partner Martijn Soetens. Check out his excellent series Sunshine 70s on KX Classics every Saturday at 20.00 hrs. CET. Two of the tracks are from the wonderful compilation album ‘ Seafaring Strangers: Private Yacht ’, out on Numero Group. The track by Minni is brand new. Her biography on Bandcamp tells us: "Rooting her emotions in a deep and long romance with Bryan Ferry and Sade, Minni’s voice floats somewhere between the latter's irresistible sensuality and Annie Lenox’s fierce dynamics. Her low-register and sometimes uttered flow isn’t without bringing Nico to mind." Enjoy this warm weather episode of Smooth Sailing ! Next week a summer edition of Best Of 70s Soul . Tracklist: Michael Miglio – Neve...