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Joan Smalls This is the hottest summer ever in the Netherlands, so the only place you can properly chill out is at the beach… The opening track is by party pop duo More Giraffes. Surf is their version of a summer anthem. On C-Heads Magazine they tell about the song: “We started this song with the chorus, which was so simple and perfect to us. We love imagining characters and creating vignettes in our songs, so we wrote the verses about someone leaving the material world behind to live their best life oceanside, chilling with dolphins and drinking negronis with turtles. More than anything it’s about self love." In the BBC4 series I can go for that: the smooth world of yacht rock Katie Puckrik argues that the pure Yacht sound was born in 1976 when seasoned session musician Michael McDonald joined The Doobie Brothers. "Alongside The Doobies’ mellow tracks, Steely Dan and Hall & Oates also delivered perfect studio-engineered productions that remain as escapist and indu

Unsplash To celebrate summer and the fact that I have three weeks off from work, I uploaded this new cloudcast called Tropicolo and subtitled Latin Jazz Carnival. Enjoy! One of the tracks is Danca De Duas Maos by The Lewis Express from their new album Clap Your Hands : “The band's intention was to produce an album of dancefloor friendly, uplifting, funky soul-jazz with a stripped back line up of Piano, Bass, Drums and Percussion.” The album is out this Friday 26th of July. Tracklist: Sergio Mendes Feat. Jill Scott & wil.i.am – Let Me (2005) Bebel Gilberto – Memento (2005) Offworld – Nurnen Sun (2001) Anne Reburn – How Deep Is Your Love (2019) Emily King – Can’t Hold Me (2019) Chico Hamilton – Mysterious Maiden (1980) The Lewis Express – Danca De Duas Maos (2019) 79.5 – Wavy (2018) Feater Feat. Vilja Larjosto – Time Million (2019) D’Andy Feat. Melania – Cry Me A River (2014) Melodiesinfonien – Tropicolo (2019) Four80East – Cinco Cinco Seis [Radi

Unsplash The holiday season has started and  The Smooth Operators  (Martijn Soetens and I) have left for a cocktail bar on a tropical beach. Come go with us and enjoy our fruitfully mixed smooth drink! One of the tracks is from A Quiet Storm by Smokey Robinson: "The title track became the namesake for a music format. The album itself had three singles hit the charts. Arranged in an intermittent rhythm, "Baby That's Backatcha" ran up the Billboard R&B charts to number one inside 16 weeks." Tracklist: Claude Fontaine – I’ll Play The Fool (2019) Smokey Robinson – Baby That’s Backatcha (1975) Gizmo Varillas – Give A Little Love (2016) Sonya Spence – Let Love Flow On (1981) Nu Guinea – Disco Sole (2018) Shuggie Otis – Aht Uh Mi Hed (1974) Joao Donato – Nana Das Aguas (1973) Lana Del Rey – Doin’ Time (2019) Will C. – Almost Summer (2012) Masayoshi Takanuka – Bamboo Vender (1979) Michael Kiwanuka & Tom Misch – Money (2019) Coke E

The APX Enjoy this cloudcast that was made for the love of disco, exactly 40 years after Disco Demolition Night. Huffington Post says about The APX that the duo "drops funk that goes beyond good and hits excellent. " Legendary musician Teddy Riley calls the group " Incredible! ", Kiss 104 FM Atlanta says " The APX is keeping REAL funk alive! ", and Creative Loafing describes their music as " Saturated in the funk... while still blazing trails of their own design! " Despite their well-deserved reputation and boisterous, jubilant harmonies and sound, the Trammps were never a huge commercial success in the US, even during disco's heyday. They share this injustice with many other representatives of the so-called Philly sound, although the Trammps had a handful of hits in Europe, like Shout and Hold Back The Night . Body Contact Contract from their album Disco inferno was never released as a single, but it surely could have been one!

Clayton Cardinalli (Unsplash) Easy going on the first episode of mellow mellow retro radio ! Quite a few songs are so-called "blasts from the past", but the tracks by Yung Bae, Wizaard, Work Drugs and State Cows are brand new. Enjoy! I chose to play Sand In Your Shoes by Al Stewart ( "The summer sun beats on and on" ). This is what Allmusic.com writes about his timeless masterpiece Year Of The Cat : "One of those albums you can play at any time. Uplifting, melodic and, should you need it, full of engaging stories." Tracklist: Lowrell – Mellow Mellow Right On (1979) Yung Bae – Pacific Standard Time (2019) Wizaard – Green Dollar Bills (2019) Pages – Let It Go (1978) Lemuria – All I’ve Got To Give (1978) Al Stewart – Sand In Your Shoes (1976) Kathe Green – Beautiful Changes (1976) Chaka Khan – What Cha’ Gonna Do For Me (1981) Randy Crawford – Look Who’s Lonely Now (1982) Work Drugs – L.A. Looks (2019) Robert John – Sad Eyes (1979)