Professor Eddy

Pexels Enjoy this new show on Sunshine Radio ! 😊  The idea behind this cloudcast was to make an eighties radio mix with authentic air checks and jingles that really sound like that particular decade. I got inspiration when I worked with Martijn Soetens as The Smooth Operators on a similar project recently. Dutch producers and songwriters Bernard Oattes and Rob van Schaik used to call themselves The Limit and composed several great dance/pop tracks, for instance Love Take Over by Five Star and She's So Divine by Jan Akkerman. As a duo they released a full-length album in 1985, which contained their hit single Say Yeah with background vocals from Gwen Guthrie and David Sanborn on saxophone. For legal reasons they became Oattes Van Schaik, just before they released their album. Due to the confusion after their name change and the different titles of their album ( The Limit and Love Attaxx ), the sales were poor and the so-called "Dutch Hall & Oates" disappeared from...

C-Heads Magazine Dutch-Israeli singer Danny Kuttner explains on Bandcamp that the lyrics of her new single are about “the desire to live curiously and a constant reminder to play.” To me Come Play With Me sounds a bit like Minnie Riperton in her early days and it also has that neo-soul nineties sound of Erykah Badu. Give Up Your Guns, the second single by The Buoys was written by Rupert Holmes (famous for his Pina Colada Song ) and first released in 1971. The song was not a big hit in the US, but it reached #5 in the Dutch Top 40 a year later and after its re-release in 1979, it became a top ten hit again. Their debut single Timothy (written by Rupert Holmes too) went to #17 in the Billboard Hot 100. Their only, self-titled album contained both songs. This week in 1981 the album Arc Of A Diver from Steve Winwood entered the UK charts: “I intended to make Arc Of A Diver so it would sound like a band was playing. When I was a kid, I always used to mess around with tape machines; ...