Archive

This is the Royal Groove archive where you will all the previous shows. Can't find an old show? Let us know!

Deadline

A tight bossa groove by Toco, Vera Cruz meets David Matthew, the Stance Brothers, the Truth and Soul version of Dinah Washington's Cry Me A River, folky funk man Guerrero, jazzy sounds from Bordeaux, Nature Boy by Gandalf, one of Britain’s finest sax players comes with the Deadline, 8-bit game sounds, Ophir 'Kutiman' Kutiel, and Belgian sweetness by the legendary Wizards of Ooze.
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Con Alma

A deep funk version of the Artic Monkeys track "I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor", a new tune by Jimmy Owens, spacy work by keyboardplayer Gene Harris, more spaciness, but now from St Louis, comes from Coultrain, Dizzy's Con Alma by Elizabeth Shepherd, the Sonarkollektiv Orchester - a Sonar Kollektiv super-group made up of label artists and friends, soul with a hip hop attitude from Middle Child and J Rawls, the Nightflight by Hungarian jazz guitar player Gabor Szabo and finally the lovely vice of Marina Celeste.
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El Unico

Groovy sixties jazz by Donald Byrd, Sexteto Electronico Moderno and Billy Larkin. New sounds by Clutchy Hopkins, Medeski, Martin & Wood and Lettuce. Classics by Bobbi Humphrey, Bill Evans and The Hot 8 Brass Band. And finally, Buddy Rich singing. It's all here, at your number one spot in the world of funk, soul and jazz. The title track is by Raphael Sebbag. 
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Good Bye Sweet Pops

Great blending by Dan Aikido, Manila jazz with a bossa twist, British group with a French name on a Italian label with a bossa joint, Norwegian Jazz Singer Karin Krog, spiritual soul jazz from Archie Shepp and the title track for this edition Good Bye Sweet Pops, Smoke City, Cleveland Watkiss, funky work by Diesler, soundtrack stuff by the legendary Galt MacDermot, moody jazz by Elan Mehler and the beautiful vocals by Lucy Wilkins with Speeka.
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Vor Dem Start

Show called Vor Dem Start from back in the days, requested to be put back online by one of our listeners. The show contains some great short instrumental tracks. Enjoy!
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Park Bench People

Show by DeLuca with Chicano funk by War, a jazzy version of the bossa classic by Dizzy Gillespie, the Hi-sound that you know from Al Green by the lesser known Quiet Elegance, obscure funk from a Nu Mark mix by Tony Luisi, the King of Pop taking care of the Stylistics classic, dark jazz by Solo Moderna, solo work by session cat Wah Wah Watson, nu soul jazz sounds from Belgium, Freddie's childsplay, sweet love by Rosey, slow spacey funk with a reggae tip by Andy Cotton and the title track - Park Bench People -, by the Freestyle Fellowship. Needless to say, we hope you enjoy all this!
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Tauhid

Good music for the discerning listener and a collection that you can leave playing from start to finish. Highly recommended!
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A Drummer's Choice

Guest show by my friend Mad Martigan. Being a drummer himself, you won't be surprised by both the title of this show and its main focus. Drums please!
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Easy Does It

Eighties funk by Prince, city love by DJ Krush, all or nothing from Finland, Italian all star jazz piano sounds by LTC. A project called The Black Feeling by The Bamboos' Lance Ferguson that is all about taking it back to the source. Dimitrov and Adnan feeling me on, Bitman & Roban's answer to the beat, Benedic Lamdin's little steps, I'm wishing Lorez drops by more often, planetary sounds by Funki Porcini and Cibelle's poern. It's al here, just listen and enjoy!
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Folks

Four letter words by Roy Budd, Jimmy's groovy Cat, Ruckus Roboticus playing with scratches, a spiritual dawn, the combo discovered by Donald Byrd, raw funk from down under, a conversation in New York, struttin with Quantic, Clutchy's song for Wolfie, Frisina's hi note, Ike's rap, having fun with Torrosi, jazzy folks and of course blackeyed Susan. It's al here, just listen and enjoy!
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In The Silence

Great new releases, and classics as well! Both Aaron Jerome and Coffee Garner really impressed us with their releases and they went right into this edition of Royal Groove. But also DJ Days' tribute to Jon Lucien, the Daktaris afro groover, the Mystica Plants trip and of course the title track by the great Michael White.
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Over The Horizon

Dutch beatcraft by Arts The Beatdoctor, great traditional jazz sounds by Quasimode and the Hi-Fly Orchestra, cinematic grooves by the Stance Brothers and Heliocentrics. And finally, already one of our favorite records for 2008, Raz Ohara. plus much more.
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Jazzamusica

Guest show by Jazzamono, who normally spins for DJBroadcast. 76 minutes of very spiritual jazz grooves!
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Overview 2007

Summarizing the music of the year 2007 in 90 minutes, that's a hell of a job. But we managed to do so, with tracks by Zeep, Kutiman, Marc Collin, Toco, Elizabeth Shepherd, Jimi Tenor and Feist. Among many others of course.
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Spirits Up Above

Friend Cortez - opent in een nieuw venster Club Cortez - did a great job by mixing some of his most heavenly tracks. The result? Just look up to the skies and enjoy the spirits up above.
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Vinyl Vulture

Sie and Chris from opent in een nieuw venster Vinyl Vulture did a exclusive mix for Royal Groove Webradio a few years ago. After one of the terrible melt downs of the Royal Groove site the show disappeared into the Royal archives. Until last weekend, when I found the original CD and brought the show back to life!

The Vinyl Vulture website is not really active anymore, but to us the Vinyl Vulture crew will be remembered as the real connaisseurs. Respect!
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The Trip

What we call a trip? Donny Hathaway's Zambezi by guitar player Eddy Senay, hard and heavy female soul by Mitty Collier, Sugarman's Soul Barrio, sounding out with El Michels, Zapp's interpretation of Stevie Wonder's Living for the City, bossa from Peru, an Axelrod production, a gem saxophonist Gary Bartz, latin soul by Harvey Averne, the Duke, New York Latin by mister Collon, Bobbi and Larry, again Donny Hathaway and finally mellow Joe Henderson. That's a trip!
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Space Lady

Duke Ellington's favorite guitarist, life according to Roy Ayers, electric colorations by Lonnie Liston Smith, spacy lady Anna Mazzotti and three Azimuth members, Atlanta-based producer Chris Brann, the Advancement, yes or no by Sleep Walker, Mango Cool Venezuelan style, massive sampled New Birth soul and the United Future Organization featuring Mark Murphy. What do you think?
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Sold Out

Will Holland's first and succesfull mix of raw ingredients to enter the world of rare grooves, the third album by Brooklyn soul Queen Sharon Jones and her Dap Kings, the imaginary Stance Brothers, a new project by Teppo “Teddy Rok” Mäkynen, featuring the imaginary members the brothers Isiah and Dwayne Stance plus Byron Breaks, Belgium soul sounds by Mongoose, timbalero Pucho with a heavy dose of '70s psychedelic Latin funk, the main theme from the movie Mark Il Poliziotto by Stelvio Cipriani, a bit of cultural archeology by The Harlem Experiment, samba soul by Di Melo, funky 45 sounds from the German Ajabu label, bossa grooves from Helsinki, more Finnish sounds by Echosystem, and finally, Kapteeni Kosminen unpronounceable titles.
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Mobius Flip

Heavy drums, turntable soul music, arrangements by genius Charles Stepney, sound library style grooves from composer Herb Pilhofer & Thes One, Swedish jazz pianist taking care of Hebb's hit, Rotterdam producer Gert Jan-Bijl, Panacea ft. Raheem DeVaughn, Gary Marks self-produced first album, more sunshine by HBMS, Lyon based group Le Peuple de l'herbe, the long forgotten samba by Gerry Olds and mother and daughter Moreno.
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Olympic Girls

So, what to expect? Madlib going East with some great Bollywood soundtrack style, Montreal's best kept secret called Bullfrog, the very calm and slightly jazzy orchestrated Clara Hill's Folkwaves, Espen Horne’s alter ego Bobby Hughes Combination, Zeep - Nina Miranda & Chris Franck -, Weather Report's sixth album, Cherrywine's debut record, Bronx singer and songwriter Stephanie McKay and Parliament.
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Mr Walker

Another edition of Royal Groove Webradio with that classic mix of the old and the new, with some interesting highlights by Arts The Beatdoctor, Def-Tron, Connie Boermans and Lyn Collins. Enjoy!
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Crystal Telephone

The old and the new are fitting so well together, like it was ment to be. Terry Durham and the Ohio Players, in one show with Jneiro Jarel, Common and Democustico. Followed by the Oneness of Juju and Barry White plus D'Angelo and the Sound Stylistics.
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Blue Jay

Sometimes you just need to rely on good old classics, sometimes you just need to grab some oldies like Spirit Of The Boogie and In Flight and realise that everything is going to be all right. That's exactly what I did for this show. I hope you agree and enjoy...Just listen!
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Quadrante

The Summer weather is awefull here in the Netherlands, but as long the music is good, you won't hear us complain.
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Summertime

The Royal Groove crew is on a short holiday break, so listen to this Summertime grooves...and enjoy!
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Feet

Some great hard funk sounds by Dutch group opent in een nieuw venster Soul Snatchers, opening this show with their rock solid and well oiled rhythm section of clean drums and thumping bass. Wow! And speaking of well oiled, Christian Prommer - you probably know him from the Trüby Trio - is doing some good work on the drums as well, making a crisp bossa tune out of the house classic Strings Of Life.
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Steady Rockin

It's the return of DeLuca with the show called Steady Rockin, named after the suberb new album by the Flow Dynamics, plus Dutch funkpride Lefties Soul Connection, Toco and The Cinematic Orchestra. So, don't hesitate and enjoy!
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The Born To Jazz Movement

This mix is an exclusive mix by DJ Soon [aka THNK] of the Belgium crew opent in een nieuw venster The Born To Jazz Movement. This genre hopper contains some of the finest jazz grooves around.
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Groove-Jitsu

The mix by King Megatrip is full of groove-jitsu technique... upper blocks, roundhouse kicks and some fantastic beats... plenty of fight related word samples rounding it all out. Fetch your black belts and polish up the katanas.
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Apple Green

Apple Green, the latest Royal Groove edition named after the sweet Mother Earth track, is a show with the usual-but-never-boring mix of styles, going from hard soundtrack stuff by Shawn Lee to smooth instrumental grooves by Moiano and Bossa Nostra to more hard edged latin jazz by Daniel Lencina, a spiritual groove by Stanley Cowell and psychedelic work by Rodriguez.
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Jungle Strut

While Spring is here to stay, Royal Groove plays the best tracks in your favorite genres. Theme from SWAT, Shifting Gears and The Windmills of Your Mind, played by the best artists in the industry. But the lesser known artists have some stage time as well. You might remember Smoke City singer Nina Miranda. She's back with a new project called Zeep. Or Nu Braz, and Zo, and Armado Pereza.
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Violet

Hard boogaloo jazz, soulful tuba, weird grooves from the Isle of Wright, a slight piece of p-funk, plus bits of spiritual soul jazz: we call that eclecticism.
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Keep It Like That

Crossing genres from funk and soul to bossa and afro jazz to ska and cinematic beats. Great tracks by the Troublemakers, Mulatu Astatke and...the new EP by the Cinematic Orchestra. Lovely!
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Keep The Groove

A nice show from the Royal archive by King Megatrip! This show was originally on the website in the beginning of 2005, but is now back in full effect.
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A Magic Afternoon

A show with some nice European contributions from the lowlands by C-Mon & Kypski, American Gypsy, Dijf Sanders and Marc Moulin. When we are heading South, we will find the Schema Sextet there, and up North, we will meet Hird. Well actually, it's a universal thing going on here, with nice sounds from Brazil as well, by Chico Correa, and Japan, with the Soul Bossa Trio.
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Yelling Away

Going from 1955 to 2007, crossing genres like latin, bossa, funk and jazz. Artists like Eli Goulart E Bando Do Mato, Beanfield featuring Ernesto, The New Mastersounds and Mario Biondi & The High Five Quintet. All mixed up in a natural way, that's in a nutshell what the new Royal Groove is about...
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Jungle Cat

Royal Groove helps you navigating through the complex world of funk, soul and jazz with some delicious tunes. This time topped with some Brazilian stuff, by Manfredo Fest for example, plus Joe Loss And His Orchestra, playing the track Soul Bossa Nova that you might know from Quincy Jones. And don't forget Mariana Aydar!
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Blind Man Can See It

The beginning of the new year, hopefully with lots of nice new releases, reissues and new discoveries of old stuff! But a show we can't start of course without the help of Mr. Dynamite.
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Overview 2006

The traditional overview of the year, here at Royal Groove Webradio. As always a tough job to reduce one year of fine releases into a 90 minute show, but, we managed to do so and we're happy with the result!
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Walking Thought

Covers of songs by Radiohead, Wu Tang Clan and the Beatles? Yep, we are talking Royal Groove Webradio once again.
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Too Many Notes

Samba funk, Sufjan Stevens and a tribute to Lewis Taylor; this edition of Royal Groove features some not so common artists in one fine mix. Got curious? Well, just try it!
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The Rain

Wow! New material by some of the favorite Royal Groove crews and artists. What to think of the second album by Amy Winehouse, or the stunning Spanky Wilson & The Quantic Soul Orchestra. Not enough? Well, listen to the debut by Danish duo Owusu & Hannibal or the material by Marcell & The Truth. It's all there, in one nice edition of Royal Groove Webradio. Enjoy!
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Ainda Sonhar

One from the past, and a personal favorite by DeLuca. Tracks by Dave Pike Set - this track has been used as an introtune by a radiopsychologist in Germany many years ago-, the London Jazz Four, Jazztronik and Pizzicato Five. And of course the beautiful title track by S Tone Inc. Enjoy!
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All the Wrong Places

Show by DeLuca, with tracks 4 Hero, Ivana Santilli, Broken Time Orchestra, RH Factor feat. D'Angelo. Show is named after the smooth soul by Finnish group Quintessence.
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Sound is everything

Another show by your host, DeLuca. Dom Salvador Trio, DJ Spinna feat Heavy, Lalo Schifrin and much, much more. You know the procedure, just listen and enjoy!
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The Moonbounce

A new joint by DeLuca, and in this show we visit a place where music and life swing to a slightly different drum.
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Madam's Organs

Guestshow by dr Orion
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Paul Murphy Mix

Guestshow by Paul Murphy (opent in een nieuw venster Afro Art Records)
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Fusion 76

Another great guestshow by Ed The Man (opent in een nieuw venster Blaxploitation.com)!
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Atlantis

Tasty show with some rare versions of known tracks.
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I Changed My Mind

A Dutch beatgroup, samplecuts and soundtracks!
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Side To Side

Omar, Honeymunch and the lovely Alice Russell.
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French Connection

Again, a personal favorite from yours truly, DeLuca. Sarah Nelson, Five Up High, Bobby Hughes and Kenny Burrell.
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Cafe de Flor

Breezy music by the Matthew Herbert Big Band, Nino Ferrer and Rosalia de Souza.
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Sneaky Search

A groovy version of Summertime by Mark Murphy featuring the Louis Van Dycke Trio. Plus, Roberto Menescal & Cris Delano taking care of that Police track, Nostalgia 77 kicking in
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Demain [Jazz]

Tracks by A Bossa Elétrica, Les Nubians, Celso Fonseca, & Thilo´s Combo.
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Strings, Swings & Martini´s

Show by Gibbs with Quincy Jones Orchestra, Hugo Montenegro's vision upon Heard It Thourgh The Grapvevine and La Lupe's Fever.
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Something

Listen to this Beatle cover show by the notorious Dr.Orion. He digged and came up with a groovy and nasty jazz/soul/funk hommage to the fab four: 'Something'.
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