Professor Eddy

nurirashid Imagine yourself on a Sunday morning in a hotel room. You have a little hangover from the night before and you are staring out the window. You watch the first seaside visitors arrive, while your girlfriend is taking a bath. You take a peek behind the curtain. Then you take a sip from your first cup of coffee. You are starting to enjoy the day, but most of all you like the easy Sunday morning sounds in the background… ;-) Key track of this mix is 'Any old Sunday' by Chaka Khan. It's from her best album 'What cha' gonna do for me': “Teaming again with Arif Mardin, slowly but surely the two began to craft an even more successful and innovative sound.” ( Allmusic.com ). Thanks to Nicolas Drosos ! Have fun with this Sunday edition of ‘ Groovy, sexy and soulful ’! Tracklist: Johnny Hammond – Tell Me What To Do (1975) Ronda Thomas – Show Me How To Love You (2014) Sunburst Band – Everyday (2004) Chaka Khan – Any Old Sunday (1981) Eddie...

Picture: Lauren Outloud Enjoy this 10th part of Boombox ! The Boombox series is about music that sounds best on your oldschool ghettoblaster. Belgian singer and music producer Lou Deprijck was the main member of Two Man Sound, a Latin-disco outfit that he formed with Sylvain Vanholme and Yves Lacomblez (a three man sound, so to speak). Two Man Sound sold over a million copies of their 1975 single ‘Charlie Brown’, while the album ‘Disco Samba’ had sales of more than a million copies in Latin America. In 1978 Deprijck also had a major solo success in France, the Netherlands and Belgium with ‘Kingston, Kingston’, under the moniker Lou & The Hollywood Bananas. In the English speaking world Deprijck's best known hit was ‘Ça plane pour moi’, which he recorded and sang for Plastic Bertrand. 'Que tal America' has become a big underground disco classic over the years. It has been played by Bob Sinclar​, Joey Negro​ and Dimitri From Paris​. Tracklist: Bloodstone ‎– Nite...

Prepare yourself for Valentine’s Day with these love ballads! Robson Jorge & Lincoln Olivetti's 'Alelui' is from the outstanding new compilation album 'Brazilian Boogie Connection – From Rio To Sao Paulo 1976 to 1983'. This collection of songs is a great example of the nation's rich legacy of soul music, especially the kind of upbeat, hard-grooving styles that still stay strong on today's global dancefloors! The ground-breaking selection is a wonderful batch of rare club, disco, and boogie tracks from the Brazilian scene of the late 70s and early 80s. The grooves here are razor-sharp throughout and many tracks may well blow away better-known US cuts from the time! One of the best tracks in this mix is the doo wop disco song 'Tonight' by American Italians The Earls (a bit similar to the Four Seasons). It sounds incredibly good! You can feel the excitement of the singer. It’s a rework of their sixties original in a style that is comparable to di...

Pedestrians in Georgetown,(Star Collection, DC Public)  I'm very proud and happy to be number 7 in the Mixcloud Top 25 of Best Crate Diggers 2014 . So for this new cloudcast I dug as deep in the crates as I could! ;-) Back in the day dj's used to play a typical sound on the radio. That's what this mix is basically about: to recreate that sophisticated sound of FM radio in the 1970s. One of the key figures in pop music is Mike Hurst. Before becoming a producer in the 1960s he was one of the Springfields (together with Dusty and Tom). He discovered Marc Bolan and Cat Stevens and was having hits with Manfred Mann, The Move, Spencer Davis Group, Colin Blunstone (who named himself Neil McArthur), Chris Farlowe and P.P. Arnold. In the 1970s he signed the band Showaddywaddy and subsequently produced 17 top 40 hits in a row with the band. In this decade he also produced and worked with artists like Cilla Black, Mud, Merton Parkas, The Four Tops and Hello. In 1978 he took o...

Angel Grant "In 1966, singer Al Wilson signed with manager Marc Gordon, who quickly scored his client an a cappella audition for Johnny Rivers -- the "Secret Agent Man" singer not only signed Wilson to his Soul City imprint, but also agreed to produce the sessions that yielded the 1968 R&B smash "The Snake." The minor hit "Do What You Gotta Do" appeared that same year, but Wilson then largely disappeared from sight until 1973, when he issued the platinum-selling Weighing In -- the album's success was spurred by the shimmering "Show and Tell," a Johnny Mathis castoff that sold well over a million copies. 1974's "The La La Peace Song" proved another major hit, and two years later, "I've Got a Feeling We'll Be Seeing Each Other Again" cracked the R&B Top Three. With 1979's "Count the Days" Wilson scored his final chart hit" (Quote: Allmusic.com ) Enjoy the deep down edition of...

Karen Alexander Around 1987 there was a musical no man’s land. Disco, soul, funk and new wave faded out and house and hip hop were ready to take over. In this vacuum swingbeat popped up too with exponents like Alexander O'Neal, Full Force (on my previous cloudcast) and Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam. Swingbeat (or new jack swing) was a fusion genre spearheaded by Teddy Riley and Bernard Belle that became popular from the late-1980s into the early 1990s. Its influence, along with hip-hop, seeped into pop culture and was the definitive sound of the inventive New York club scene. It used R&B style vocals sung over hip hop and dance-pop style influenced instrumentation.  Enjoy part 13 of Eddy's 80s Grooves ! Tracklist: S.O.S. Band – I'm Still Missing Your Love (1989) Narada Michael Walden – Divine Emotions (1988) When In Rome – The Promise [The Ollie North Mix] (1987) Sparks – So Important (1988) Inner City – Good Life (1988) Oscar Perry – You've Got My Nose Op...

Professor Eddy is your ‘ switch board operator '… This cloudcast is a disco-soul-funk extravaganza, based on telephone calls. Booty calls, calls (and cries) for freedom, prank calls, calls for help, you hear all kinds of calls. So enjoy my long distance conversation! Ramsey & Company were the group Mainor Ramsey had pieced together. Their only release being the super charged sexy disco hit ‘Love Call’ backed with super blaxploitation fodder ‘Leg Grease’, was released on Mainor’s own label, Ramco. This limited 7” single was sold exclusively at the groups live shows and never saw its way into proper distribution. Oddly this limited release eventually found its way onto the dancefloors of the UK’s northern soul/modern soul scene, and became a super smash, ripping up floors whenever played. The sheer quality of this tune mixed with the utter rarity has made this record nearly impossible to find and quite valuable on the collector’s market. Picture: Elvis Presley, the King of Ro...