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Flickr Enjoy this new part of my imaginary station Mellow Mellow FM Radio ! The funky track by Marlon Hunter is from the new compilation album Message In Our Music Vol. 2 , selected by Waxist. The new album Straight Round by Four80East is out on Friday the 28th of February. In 1979 Australian folk/jazz singer Justine almost entirely wrote, produced and arranged an album that was funded by a radio station as the beneficiary for emerging talent. The music was created specifically for radio play without any intention of being manufactured. Luckily however, a friend managed to sneak into a record plant one evening and press up a small number for the enjoyment of family, friends and those involved. Forty years later Left Ear Records decided to release the two most significant tracks from this album to make them available worldwide. Justine Bradley is still making music and occasionally releases new material, most recently with Randy Brecker in 2017. Tracklist: Tender Leaf – Shore...

Unsplash Partly inspired by Soulgliding, the new compilation album from Rainer Trüby, known for his Trüby Trio. According to the liner notes on Bandcamp soulgliding is… “…evocative airy music that feels like a dream-flight across a friendly sky” . 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..." Next up is a new episode of Mellow Mellow FM Radio . Tracklist: Poolside Feat. Arno Arno – Around The Sun (2020) Tom Misch Feat. Poppy Ajudha – Disco Yes (2018) Rhye – Count To Five [Tensnake Remix] (2018) Gosto – What Is It Like (2018) Sweatson Klank – Kiss In The Shadows (2020) Bobbi Humphrey – Sweeter Than Sugar (1975) Beatchild & The Slakadeliqs – California Coastin' (2018) Marvin Franklin With Kimo And The Guys – Kona Winds (1978) Wee – Aeroplane ...

Bring a little bit of love to the world, to quote LTD! :-) Enjoy this new episode of Best Of 70s Soul . William DeVaughn had a daytime job as a civil servant, when he wrote a song called A Cadillac Don't Come Easy , which was eventually re-written to become Be Thankful For What You Got , in 1972. He spent all his savings to buy studio time to get it recorded. Luckily he got in touch with producer John Davis of Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia, used by Philadelphia International Records. The session featured the core members of the famous MFSB group: guitarists Norman Harris and Bobby Eli, drummer Earl Young, vibraphonist Vince Montana and percussionist Larry Washington. Allan Felder developed the separate ad-lib back-up chorus with his sister's vocal group. John Davis played keyboards on the track. Frank Fioravanti, the executive producer and co-ordinator, secured the song's release on Roxbury Records, a subsidiary of Chelsea Records, run by industry veteran Wes Farre...

Unsplash Let’s paraphrase Syreeta: move it & groove it 😊 Most of these grooves are lesser known electro jams from the 1980s. They stayed relatively unknown for years, but were discovered by musicians and dj’s many years later. Enjoy! In 1970 Syreeta (or Rita) Wright and Stevie Wonder got married and although they were divorced just 18 months later, they continued to work together for several years. Born in Pittsburgh in 1946, Syreeta originally joined Motown Records as a receptionist. Brian Holland discovered her musical talents and she then became a performer and songwriter. Big successes after her work with Stevie Wonder were her duets with Billy Preston at the end of the 1970s. The following years she slowly moved out of sight, appearing one more time in the charts with Can’t Shake Your Love with Move It, Do It on the flipside. She sadly passed away on the 6th of July 2004 of heart failure, due to cancer treatment. Don Laka's masterful electro funk album I Wanna Be...

Enjoy this new episode of Mellow Mellow FM Radio ! What to expect? Forgotten pop songs, jingles and radio fragments from the past, but some of the tracks are brand new, like the one from the Blossoms. They know how to combine disco, yacht rock and indie pop perfectly. Their album Foolish Loving Spaces came out last week. I Remember Yesterday was Giorgio Moroder's second concept album for Donna Summer. The songs represented different times, such as the 1940s, right up to the 1970s. All were sung on microphones from their respective eras. Finally, I Feel Love was meant to be the sound of the future and that is exactly what it became. Big Mouth from Dutch duo Mouth & MacNeal (their How Do You Do went to #8 on Billboard in 1972) once said that he drank a lot, but that there were two people who could drink even more. The first one was Noddy Holder from glam rock band Slade and the other one was the Greek giant Demis Roussos, former singer of prog rock band Aphrodite’s Child....