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Groove On The Wireless 81 Lazy Hazy July (in the city)

Dr. Groove · July 18, 2014July 18, 2014

Dr. Groove put this show together in a lazy hazy July evening and hopes that it finds you in a similar way. Easy mellow slow grooves which start with Pink Floyd tampered with the Orb sound and then we find ourselves drifting onto an electronica sea, set adrift. There sounds like the voice of Javier …

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Groove On The Wireless – 80 Come to Daddy (Cool)

Dr. Groove · July 11, 2014July 11, 2014

We were only talking about this the other day, but the man Richard D James – looms large in music right now and without him we’d probably not have many of the heads which we are listening to now. So that got me thinking, in a way he’s the Daddy of all the music makers, …

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Groove On The Wireless #79 Apres Groovefest

Dr. Groove · July 4, 2014July 4, 2014

I love it when a plan comes together – and with Groovefest – it did. Take over a big country house in an estate in a beautiful part of the countryside, bring in a sound system, add electricity and friends. We got the weather and luck but it was truly awesome. Sovietpop was integral and …

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Groove On The Wireless 78 – It’s a Man’s Man’s World [Cup] still

Dr. Groove · June 20, 2014June 19, 2014

1966 James Brown sang about it being a man’s man’s man’s world but we’d be lost without the women or the girls. That’s nearly fifty years ago, and we still are living in a world where the man’s world cup is, the World Cup, where I saw a picture from an international conference on women, …

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Groove On The Wireless # 77 Samba Time

Dr. Groove · June 13, 2014June 13, 2014

77 – and in the 70’s they started with color television and the first image that is burned into my memory from then is ‘sheer delightful football’ coming from the men from boys from Brazil and Carlos Alberto coming on the right, bam. The mens world cup is starting in Brazil and that’s really honestly …

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Groove On The Wireless #76 Cold night falls in D7

Dr. Groove · June 6, 2014June 5, 2014

Night Falls in D7 and Dr. Groove and his stylish cat, Pancho find themselves in the spare room, box room, office, Groovetown studios, working on the latest radio show. It’s too cold for June and the music went in a direction of warm places, Jamaica, Georgia, New Orleans, San Francisco, back to Louisiana, then New …

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Groove On The Wireless #75 – Slow Drag

Dr. Groove · May 30, 2014May 29, 2014

It is a show about slowing down songs and going with that sound. Doctor Groove got this idea into his head, to play a few songs that are famous for being slowed down, or dragged. We are talking about DJ Screws version of the Phil Collins classic. Then off to Nigeria with Fela Kuti, and …

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Groove On The Wireless #74

Dr. Groove · May 23, 2014May 23, 2014

Funny how we got to show # 74, and it coincides with the day that we’re supposed to go down and exercise our democratic right. There are many issues with the interpretation of a great idea like democracy into what it currently resembles. The matter is dealt with in much greater detail here – but …

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Groove On The Wireless #73

Dr. Groove · May 16, 2014May 16, 2014

Some days you walk into a coffee shop and they’re playing a tune that you know you have, you’ve heard it before, but you can’t quite place it in your head. That happened to the Doctor, when he walked into the Twisted Pepper the other morning. John Talabot was on the speakers and …

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Groove On The Wireless # 72 it Stoned me

Dr. Groove · May 2, 2014May 1, 2014

click on image for full effect yo all This show finds the Doctor in a philosophical mood as he contemplates the big questions around purpose, existence and what it means to live a life. This determines the starting point, Van Morrison was played at the funeral that the Doctor attended that afternoon, the father of …

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Groove On The Wireless # 71 Seeking the Groove

Dr. Groove · April 25, 2014April 24, 2014

The fine weather has the Doctor in good sprits despite the fact that exams hang over his head like the sword of damocles, and there are a lot of faces on lampposts pleading to have his vote, the Doctor is still in good form. Sun shine powers the world and also powers the soul. We …

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Groove On The Wireless #70 – Walk a mile

Dr. Groove · April 18, 2014April 18, 2014

Dr. Groove is in the house with a biographical show, about walking a mile in his shoes. He is a tired man, happy, and booze free for nearly six years and he was delighted as he recently had cause to walk through the hell mouth known as Temple Bar and that gave him cause …

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Groove On The Wireless #69 For Frankie K

Dr. Groove · April 11, 2014April 10, 2014

Frankie Knuckles is gone, and that is like switching off a light. His broad beaming smile which used to light up dark clubs from behind the controls will shine no more. His music, style, production and mixes went on to light up the world of dance clubs and built the genre known as …

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Groove On The Wireless #68 Dreams of Riotous Streets

Dr. Groove · April 4, 2014April 3, 2014

Doctor Groove returns to the wireless this week with some good tunes and is relieved to emerge from the dungeon of his student research projects to bring you show number 68. Of course, 68 for the Doctor is synonymous with Paris, the tear gas, the posters, the masses involved in the beautiful display of rebellion. …