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Pixabay Let’s just chillout on a sunshine afternoon, to paraphrase the song by Collage! 😊 The new EP by Glam Sam & His Combo marks the beginning of a new chapter for both Glam Sam (Mats Samuelsson) and singer Angelina. A few months ago, Mats came across Angelina’s soulful vocals while listening to the debut album from the Monks Road Social project. With tracks featuring artists like Dr. Robert of The Blow Monkeys and Mick Talbot of The Style Council, he was instantly struck by Angelina's voice, particularly in the song Golden Day which she had co-written with Miles Copeland. After hearing it, Mats was eager to connect with her: “I reached out to Angelina straight away. Her voice just bowled me over. It's so cool and unique. I just had to work with her.” Two years ago, the composer Skinshape met the young Brazilian talent Pedro Mizutani. From this chemistry comes a collaboration where the burning sands of Rio blend with the icy bricks of London. Their first EP, released a ...

Pexels Yesterday a lot of snow fell in my hometown of Groningen and this cold weather inspired me to create something warm 😊 Enjoy! In Heaven Magazine the enigmatic Cosmic Crooner tells about his upcoming second album: “Last summer was a beautiful time. I recorded a lot of material with legendary musicians in the dunes near The Hague. For those songs I was inspired by jazz and progressive soul by Curtis Mayfield, among others. But what I especially listened to and was captivated by was Brazilian music. That makes my new material feel like a big sultry summer evening.” Next week we are going from far away places back to California for a new part of Sunny Breeze From The West Coast ! Tracklist: Burt Bacharach – Touch (1981) Cosmic Crooner – Never Wear Your Own Merch (2024) Everything But The Girl – One Place (1991) Raffi Quijano – Baby Come Back (2008) Bellestar – Best Of My Love (2016) Sarah Menescal & Eve St. Jones – Break My Heart (2023) Mina Okabe – Maybe One Day (2024) Cl...

Ron Lach We all need some sun in these dark days of December, enjoy! 😊  The song by Patti Labelle is from the outstanding compilation album Yacht Soul 2 . The other two best compilation albums of 2023 are, to my humble opinion, Tribal Rites Of The New Saturday Night (Brooklyn Disco 1974-5) , which contains the Al Foster Band track, and Disco Giants 18 , which I played tracks from earlier. American Gypsy are best known for their song Inside Out , which has been sampled by DJ Shadow, Jazzanova, Groove Armada and others. The band began club performances in Los Angeles in 1971, followed by a two-year tour of Spain. Because of the language advantage the group settled eventually in The Netherlands in the mid-1970s. The line-up then was: Joe Skeete (bass guitar), Michael Hamane (lead guitar), Lorenzo Mills (vocals), Richard James aka Ricardo James (drums), David Harrell (vocals, guitar, sax, flute) and Steve Clisby (vocals, keyboards). During their American period, individual members rec...

Pexels Enjoy the “quiet storm” mood of this funky chillout night session! The track by Esther Phillips is from the new Too Slow To Disco compilation Yacht Soul 2 . To be honest, I think the term yacht soul is quite ambiguous and most of the times it is used to play pure soul or disco tracks, like Shalamar, which has nothing to do with the original concept of yacht rock at all. The term has become blurry, if there is no “yacht” connection. However, DJ Supermarkt has found that connection by selecting soul covers of well-known yacht rock songs: “The pure Yacht Rock fans sometimes don’t appreciate the black music part. That’s why I never used that expression on our compilations, instead went for Yacht Pop. To me that integration of soul, jazz, funk is the essence of the part of YACHT music I like. That soulful vibe was already all over the other TOO SLOW TO DISCO compilations. So for me it wasn’t a big step. But for some it is….” (DJ Supermarkt / Westcoastsoul.de) On February 2, 2024 th...

Pexels We’re chilling out like a lazy breeze. Enjoy this new funky chillout session ! 😊 The track by Glam Sam & His Combo is brand new. A follow-up single is on its way! “Soulful and psychedelic, the haunting melodies of Club Level float above a steady strutting rhythm section, punctuated by moaning baritone saxophone and drenched in washy reverb.” (Bandcamp) Tracklist: Lexsoul Dancemachine – Lazy Breeze (2022) 79.5 – Club Level [Eli Escobar Remix] (2022) Glam Sam & His Combo – Lost In The Art World (2023) Sunset Rollercoaster – Coffee’s On Me (2021) Carol Welsman – What A Fool Believes (2007) Parthenope – Don’t Know Why (2022) Nekta – Hot Stuff (2010) Twennynine With Lenny White – Slip Away (1980) Creme D'Cocoa – Leading Lady (1978) Sam Green & Scherrie Payne – You Are (1989) Joe Thomas – Let Me Be The One (1979) Odyssey – Battened Ships (1972) Young Gun Silver Fox – Moonshine (2023) Marlena Shaw – Feel Like Making Love (1976) Laure Briard – The Smell Of ...

Unsplash Fasten your seatbelts, sit back, relax and enjoy this funky chillout airplane session! Midnight Plane To Houston , a song about Hollywood actress Farrah Fawcett, was the original title of the soul classic Midnight Train To Georgia . When Cissy Houston (mother of Whitney) wanted to record it, songwriter Jim Weatherly was asked if she could sing about a midnight train to Georgia. Her audience did not take planes to Houston. Weatherly did not mind, and certainly not after Gladys Knight's cover version, which went to number one a year later. Gladys Knight & The Pips had already scored a number 2 hit with Neither One Of Us , also a Jim Weatherly song. Tracklist: Bossasonic – Amazing Flight / Club Tropicana (2008) Sunset Boulevard Project – Fly Like An Eagle (2019) Bad Colours – Maybe I Should Move To L.A. (2022) California Flight Project – California Flight (1979) Kim Carnes – Bon Voyage (1985) Peter Allen – Fly Away (1980) Mascara (Feat. Luther Vandross) – See You I...

Unsplash Many yacht rock artists sang about boats and used them as their cover art. The genre was some kind of soulful variant of mid-seventies West Coast pop/rock. It was made popular by bands like The Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan and Hall & Oates who were inspired by R&B artists. Because of the soulfulness of yacht rock, quite a few black artists covered these West Coast pop songs and they did it in an even more soulful way. Most recently Thundercat made a wonderful version of Steve Miller’s Fly Like An Eagle . Greg Caz wrote about this subject in the liner notes of Too Slow To Disco Yacht Soul : "Rock and Pop artists found covering Blues and R&B songs to be a reliable source both of great material and of artistic credibility. Meanwhile, Soul and R&B artists would routinely cover current Pop-Rock songs as a way of expending their audiences and crossover potential…" Enjoy this new funky chillout sofa session ! Next up is a new show on Mellow Mellow FM . Trackl...

  Kai Dahms If there's one song that sounds like a warm summer breeze, then it's Avant De Nous Dire Adieu by American model, singer, and actor Jeane Manson  After being photographed for Playboy magazine in 1974, she moved to France and appeared in several movies. In the summer of 1976 Avant De Nous Dire Adieu reached #12 in the Dutch Top 40. The song is featured on this cloudcast. Earl McGrath had the honour to discover Daryl Hall and John Oates in the early 1970s. According to Light In The Attic on Bandcamp, McGrath was the ultimate jet setter, an art collector and comic bon vivant who incidentally stumbled in the record business. In 1970 Atlantic founder Ahmet Ertegun gave him his own label, Clean Records. After his death in 2016, some of the demos he had recorded were literally found in a closet. Mark Rodney’s California, which is on this cloudcast, was one of them. Enjoy this funky chillout soundtrack to sundown!  Tracklist: Thundercat – Fly Like An Eagle (2022) ...

Unsplash Enjoy this funky chillout "cool in the pool" session!😊 The track by Cash & Carry is from the brand new compilation Super Hits Of The 70s , out on Numero Group: "The ninth installment in Numero’s Cabinet of Curiosities is 100% chart smashes. Culled from the depths of the private press, Super Hits gathers 12 magical adaptations from the Me Decade’s introspective songbook." (Bandcamp) The closing track is Disco L'Africain by Dutch band Chica Chica. They are inspired by cumbia, psychedelia and disco grooves. According to themselves, the song is "the perfect soundtrack to go on a midnight adventure." Next up is a new part of Smooth Sailing ! Tracklist: Kadhja Bonet – JGS (2022) Arc De Soleil – Gimme All Summer Please (2020) Rioland & Goldfeder – Tension (1984) April March – California Fall (2022) Ramp – Daylight (1977) Harpers Bizarre ‎– Knock On Wood (1969) Bill Withers – Kissing My Love (1972) Steely Dan – Negative Girl (2000) Br...

Unsplash Enjoy this new episode of my Boogie Bunker Radio show! The Dutch Soulster is out in the air and online at 12.00 hrs CET every Monday. Tracklist: Kleeer – Open Your Mind [Dave Lee Seeekret Mix] Full Flava –  Love's Comin' At Ya Flamingosis – Ohhh Baby HE3 Project – Thesis On Love Professor Eddy – Bongo Interlude War – Galaxy Roy Ayers – Running Away Sade – Your Love Is King Rey De Copás – Frontera Del Ensueno [Jerez De La Frontera Mix] Sérgio Mendes Feat. will.i.am – Yes, Yes, Y’All Amerie – Take Control Kem – Find Your Way (Back In My Life) India.Arie – I Am Not My Hair Cosmo's Midnight Feat. Tkay Maidza – Bang My Line Jazz Juice – 52nd Blues (Minor Blues)

Unsplash It’s still April, but the last couple of days it feels like summertime in the Netherlands already 😊 Enjoy this funky chillout summer session ! I told it before, Groovejet by Spiller was co-composed by Rob Davis, guitarist of successful seventies glam rock band Mud. He was the one who wrote the melody. A new slowed down, chillout mix of Groovejet by Breakbot & Irfane came out recently. The song was an instrumental track in the very beginning, then Sophie Ellis-Baxtor was asked to do vocals on it: “I agreed to sing on the track and went into the studio with my own ideas and wrote the verses quickly. Eventually, they spliced my verses with a brilliant chorus by Rob Davis. Mine was rubbish in comparison! The track’s magic is in his chorus and Spiller’s instrumental. I was so happy to be the voice on it.” ( The Guardian ) Next up is a new part of Best Of 70s Soul ! Tracklist: Spiller (Feat. Sophie Ellis-Bextor) ‎– Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) [Breakbot & Irfane Re...

  Pixabay The Italian disco group The Salsoul Invention from producer Anoub, can easily be mistaken for The Salsoul Orchestra from vibraphonist Vince Montana Jr. (formerly of MFSB). The names are very similar and their only LP, Salsoul Explosion , released back in 1976, covers some Salsoul Orchestra classics, like Nice 'N' Naasty , Salsoul Hustle and Get Happy . But The Salsoul Invention also recorded tracks form Anoub himself and did a very pleasant version of Jesse Green’s Nice And Slow . Enjoy this funky chillout sofa session ! Tracklist: Niia & Superposition – The Body Keeps Score (2022) Velvet Lapel – Softly (2022) Weekend – Summerdays (1982) Starship Gilbey – Take A Train (1982) Janice Bulluck – Do You Really Love Me (1987) Fruitcake – We Are Children (1981) Jean Honeymoon – Beginnings (2017) Télépopmusik ‎– Breathe (2001) Alex Cortiz – Magic Touch (2001) Minnie Riperton – Inside My Love (1975) Macebo Feat. Laura Philips – Ain’t No Sunshine (2019) Earth, Wi...

Sophisti-pop, blue-eyed-soul, new wave and some Japanese funk are the ingredients for the best years of our lives: the 1980s 😊 Enjoy this new sofa session ! What was called easy listening in the early days, became sophisti-pop later on. In the 1980s the big orchestras of the previous decade were replaced by small synths and the cheesy musical structures disappeared in favour of more complex ones. Sophisti-pop could be described as stylish, predominantly electronic, sometimes jazzy or funky and always very cleverly put together. I suppose Bryan Ferry was the king and Sade the queen of the genre.  On May the 25th, at the 50th anniversary of Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry will publish his book Lyrics . It contains the lyrics of his 17 albums, from the first Roxy Music album in 1972 to 2014’s Avonmore . The book includes an introduction by the author, and an essay by James Truman. The track by Mizuki Koyama is from the compilation Tokyo Glow by DJ Notoya. He explains the quality of the song...

Taylor Simpson How do you call this kind of music? Well, I name it “funky chill”, but I suppose “smooth jazz”, “mellow soul” or “folk funk” might fit the bill as well. Enjoy this warm summer breeze during cold winter days! 😊 Love The One You’re With by Stephen Stills (Crosby, Stills & Nash) was released as the lead single from his debut self-titled album in November 1970. The song, inspired by a remark Stills heard at a party from Billy Preston, became his biggest hit single, peaking at #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1971. Several cover versions have since been released. The most famous one came from the Isley Brothers, whose unique gospel-driven version of the song sent it to the charts again reaching #3 R&B and #18 pop, giving the group their fifth US top 40 pop single. Nowadays Ronald and Ernie Isley still perform as The Isley Brothers. Last year they released Friends And Family, accompanied by a great video. Tracklist: Meeka Kates – Laredo (2022) The Reflections...

Pixabay Although autumn has officially started, it’s still warm in the Netherlands. This gives me the opportunity to upload one last funky chillout hammock session. Enjoy! Without any doubt Isaac Hayes helped shaping the music of the 1960s and 1970s. After laying the fundamentals for the Memphis soul sound through his work with Stax-Volt Records as a producer and songwriter, Hayes began a highly successful solo career. When he released Theme From Shaft in 1971, he predated not only the disco movement, but also the evolution of rap. I chose to play a song from later in his career, Life's Mood II . Next up is part 41 of Eddy's 80s Grooves ! Tracklist: Carl Hudson & Galactic Gunslingers – It All Began Underwater [Soulpersona Mix] (2021) Four80East – Tikitango (2015) Motel Club – La Plage (2021) Till Brönner & Bob Jame s – On Vacation (2020) Weekend – Summerdays (1982) Isaac Hayes – Life's Mood II (1995) Dee Dee Sharp Gamble – See You Later (1980) Anvil Band – I’...

The words from her record company that accompany the new Geneva remix summarize this funky chillout session: “The perfect accompaniment to lazy late summer days, hanging poolside or running the playlist at the family backyard BBQ.” Tracklist: MFSB – Summertime And I’m Feeling Mellow (1976) Johnny Hammond – Can’t We Smile (1975) Marvin Gaye – Heavy Love Affair (1981) David Bendeth – Feel The Real (1979) Ramsey Lewis – Caribbean Blue (1980) Marshall Hain – Take My Number (1978) Hudson Ford – Shy Girl (1977) Kokomo – Anytime (1975) Spaceark – Our Love Will Last (1975) The Blackbyrds – Love So Fine (1975) Grover Washington Jr . – Loran’s Dance (1979) George Benson ‎– Breezin' (1976) Jiva – I Realized (2004) Aaliyah – (At Your Best) You Are Love (1994) Geneva – Smoke & Mirrors [Circle Research RMX] (2021) Erika De Casier – Someone To Chill With (2021) United Future Organization – Friends ... We'll Be [Jazzanova Mix] (1997) Kali Uchis – Body Language (2018) The Ju...

Pixabay Enjoy this funky chillout & jazzy soul sofa session !  The story of the Isley Brothers is quite remarkable. In 1959, when they first charted with Shout , they were contemporaries of rock ‘n’ roll legends Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley. In the 1960s, the group recorded songs for a variety of labels, including Twist And Shout (later covered by The Beatles) and the Motown single This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You) . In 1969 they released the Grammy Award-winning hit It's Your Thing on their own label, T-Neck Records. The next decade the brothers were at the peak of their career, when they reinvented themselves as a funk-rock band and recorded hits like That Lady and Summer Breeze with wonderful guitar solos, played by younger brother Ernie. During the 1980s the Isley Brothers went on with a more sophisticated R&B sound, especially on their 1987 Smooth Sailin' album. Ernie Isley joined Isley-Jasper-Isley briefly, but returned in the 199...

Unsplash Looking forward to the summer of 2021 😊 Enjoy this new funky chillout sofa session ! Someone To Chill With by Erika De Casier is from her new album Sensational . It brings back the days of Janet Jackson and Aaliyah somewhere around the turn of the millennium: “Sensational expands the universe of de Casier’s 2019 self-released debut album Essentials.  Where Essentials dealt more with the infatuation stages of love, Sensational has more of an attitude, aiming to dismantle the stereotype of single women looking for love, tackling relationship dramas and the toxicity of dating.” ( 4AD ) Next up are the retro radio sounds of Mellow Mellow FM ! Tracklist: Sabrina Malheiros – Salve O Mar (2017) Haim & Thundercat – 3AM (2021) Incarnations – Let Love Find You (2010) Black Mighty Orchestra – Ocean Beach [Rollin' Surf Remix] (2001) DJ Cam Quartet – Summer Breeze (2021) Fil-à-Fil – Just An Illusion (2010) Bossa Nova Lounge Orchestra – You Can’t Hurry Love (2017) Erika De ...

Unsplash My attempt to make a mix for Valentine’s Day, enjoy this funky chillout sofa session ! 😊 "You need the evening action, a place to dine, a glass of wine, a little late romance. It's a chain reaction." Singer Del Shannon was one of the best performers of all-time and the first one to release a ‘synthesized solo’ (by Max Crook) on Runaway , exactly 60 years ago. He also paved the way for the Beatles in the United States by recording their song From Me To You in 1963. At first John Lennon was flattered when Del Shannon told him about the idea, but he quickly changed his mind. He was aware that a cover version by Del Shannon might hurt the Beatles’ chances of having a hit with From Me To You in America. Although struggling with alcoholism and being manic-depressive, Del Shannon still managed to pursue a long-lasting career, despite having no big hits after 1965 (he had some minor successes afterwards, like Runaway '67 in 1967 and Sea Of Love in 1980). ...

Unsplash Enjoy this new part of my Funky Chillout Sofa Sessions ! This cloudcast is inspired by DJ Supermarkt and his new Too Slow To Disco compilation, The Sunset Manifesto : "Our intention? To bring you a globe-trotting playlist of some of the most sophisticated, adult-orientated and dance-inducing pop music from today’s exponents of that Too Slow to Disco sound." Tracklist: Nicolas Bassi – Flying On The Clouds (2020) Nicolas Godin (Feat. Alexis Taylor) – Catch Yourself Falling (2019) Secret Rendezvous ‎– Back In The Day (2019) Leisure – Spark It Up (2020) Poolside & Neil Frances – I'm In Love With You (2020) Bleu Toucan – Universalis (2020) Private Agenda – 4 Step (2020) Jessie Ware – Remember Where You Are (2020) Yuksek – The Rollercoaster [Claap! & Santana Remix] (2020) Tora – Can’t Buy The Mood [Two Another Remix] (2020) The Shadowboxers – More Than A Woman (2020) Arc De Soleil – Gimme All Summer Please (2020) Cannons – Touch (2017) Poom – Adagio ...