Soulful disco mix

After years and years of doing a relatively freeform college radio show, I've been wrestling with how to adapt it to internet radio with my new show, 2 Busy Saying Yeah.

My sense is that you can't really grow an internet audience through serendipity like you can with broadcast radio-- people who happen to be switching the dial, get seduced by a song and stick around to see what else you have. Instead, I think you have to offer something really identifiable and desirable to get them to go out of their way to check you out in the first place and then, if the quality's good, maybe they'll be impressed enough to keep coming back, subscribe, etc.

Last Friday's show is a step in that direction. I wanted to create a mixtape-quality set that would merit repeated listens and hopefully some word-of-mouth. It's a live, two-hour mix of late 70s/early 80s soul music with no back-announcing and minimal talking. The selections are drawn from a bunch of sub-genres-- boogie, modern soul, disco, jazz-funk, etc. Some are obvious, some rare, others just neglected, but it's all great music.

Listen and if you enjoy it, please spread the word.



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1. Brief Encounter: Human
2. The Jones Girls: When I'm Gone
3. Jean Terrell: Rising Cost of Love
4. Cream De Coco: Disco Strut
5. Donna McGhee: It Ain't No Big Thing
6. Quietfire: Makes Me Wanna Shout
7. Bill Cosby: You're Driving Me Crazy
8. Breakwater: Work It Out
9. The Sugarhill Gang: Passion Play
10. Carly Simon: Why
11. Sister Sledge: Reach Your Peak
12. Rick James: Moonchild
13. Flowers: For Real
14. Rance Allen Group: Reason to Survive
15. Raw Soul Express: The Way We Live
16. Chocolate Clay: Free (I'll Always Be)
17. Heaven & Earth: Let's Get It Together
18. James Bradley: I Can't Get Enough of Your Love
19. Hunt's Determination Band: No. 1 Lady
20. Stevo: Pay the Price
21. Leon Ware: Can I Touch You There
22. Roy Ayers: Love Will Bring Us Back Together
23. Don Blackman: Heart's Desire
24. Azymuth: Dear Limmertz
25. Junior: I Can't Help It
26. Karin Jones: Here I Go Again
27. Linda Clifford: Runaway Love
28. One Way: Hold It
29. Hipnotic: Are You Lonely?
30. The Strikers: Hold On to This Feeling