No soul in work

For the past few weeks, I've been listening to soulradio while working, a Dutch online radio station playing, soul, rnb, disco and all these wonderful stuff from mostly past decades. Stuff like these:

Turns out, can't work.

tracks'info:
 Shalamar - Make that move
Three For Love
RCA Victor 1980

Maxwell - Ascension (Don't Ever Wonder)
Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite
Columbia 1995

Aaron Neville - I wanna love you
Apache
Tell It Records 2016

Aretha Franklin - Soul Serenade
I Never Loved A Man The Way I Loved You
 Atlantic 1967

The Serres late night wonder

As Monday sucks bad for everyone, I thought I’d share with you something that could light up your day – assuming that a Monday can actually be lit up. It’s a radio show hosted by Disco B and Dino Tziara on rodonfm95, sharing music that ranges from disco to funk, soul and many many MANY edits that are usually just brought into this world sounding fresh and mixed together.

Here you can find the soundcloud page of the show, where among the sets, edits etc., you can listen to the first release of Disco B with Nicko Marineli (Late Night Boogie EP), consisting of 4 awesome tracks - with "Heartless" as my personal favorite (sampling Evelyn Thomas - Heartless). Here you can listen to their shows to get the gist and if you prefer the live experience, tune in every Wednesday 23.00-1.00 (GMT+3) on rodonfm.net.

Time for my confession: apart from the fact that the music is really cracking (really. trust me), I’m also proud for this show as it is put together by fellow Greeks, from the city of Serres, in northern Greece. You can understand how exciting it can be -at least for me-, when most of the music selectors out there suck (remember, I’m getting old and weird), to find a show that absolutely suits my taste in music, from two people that are a few km away (ok, not a few, more like 600).

If you don’t mind the Greek (I know it sounds weird to everyone except for the Greeks, but give it a chance), check it out and share it with the world out there. Maybe you 'll make someone's Monday (or Wednesday) too.

Way to go guys. Proud. 

radio show: late night sessions
presented by Disco B & Dino Tziara, every Wednesday 23.00-1.00 (GMT+3) on rodonfm.net

Ready, set, groove!

If you 're into soul music, you search for rare grooves, you reach ecstasy with voices like that of Willie Hutch, Minnie Riperton, Betty Wright and so on (I could go on for the next 2 hours at least) or you just look for the perfect soundtrack to... seduce your significant other, I believe I'm about to make your day - or night.

Rare grooves and modern soul flavours is a weekly radio show presented by Paul Collins on solar radio and if my memory doesn't play tricks on me, it's been over 3 years since I randomly found out about it on the internet.

Paul Collins does a really great job selecting and presenting grooves that are not only rare, but can root deeply into your soul -and your player. As if that's not enough, he also avoids doing the "trick" that most radio producers do, playing the same 5 tunes over and over again on each show. He carefully selects tracks that haven't been heard previously and although the infinity of music can't be doubted, you can imagine how hard it can be to constantly dig for tracks that you haven't played before, that are rare, 3-4 minutes long (tops) and at the same time that can make a 2 hours long show leave you bowled over.

Through "Rare grooves and modern soul flavours" I' ve found and loved songs like Elvin Spencer's - "Lift this hurt", Love & friendship - "Firefly", Emmett Garner jr - "So much better", Tomorrow's men - Who's that lady" and lots lots lots of others, while I do have my own personal favorite show which goes back in June 2010 (you can listen to it here).

Now that your speakers have got soul, I think I'm gonna pay my respects to Paul Collins - something I should have done years ago.

Thank you Mr. Collins, whoever you are.

radio show: Rare grooves and modern soul flavours
presented by Paul Collins, every Wednesday 20.00-22.00 GMT on Solar radio