With our Spotify series “Smooth & Soulful Sounds”, the WEST COAST SOUL.de editorial team presents current favorites, potential hits as well as fresh songs and artists that deserve more airplay. Discover the latest from Soul, West Coast, Slow Funk and Sunset Disco.
Summer is at its best and for many of us a long weekend is just around the corner. Reason enough for the WEST COAST SOUL.de team to descend into the vaults, dig out some summery R&B, funk and boogie records and compile a playlist that will hopefully sweeten the time for you.
It all started with an internet phenomenon: “Plastic Love” by Mariya Takeuchi became a viral hit in the 2010s. The 1984 single, written by Takeuchi and her husband Tatsuro Yamashita, sounded nostalgically familiar and at the same time exotic to Western ears, and opened up a musical cultural space previously known only to insiders: the world of City Pop. A genre that provided the soundtrack for Japanese economic prosperity in the 80s.
“Stunde Null – German Krautrock, Electronica & Kosmische Musik from the 70s” is the third chapter of our WEST COAST SOUL.de Spotify series “ZEITGEIST”. It brings together some of the most innovative German bands and sound wizards who worked on their vision of a new music language in the 70s. What they had in common, despite all their musical diversity, was the courage to experiment and the rejection of classical song structures in favour of free-flowing forms of interpretation.
With our Spotify series “Smooth & Soulful Sounds”, WEST COAST SOUL.de presents current favorites, potential hits as well as new songs and artists that deserve more airplay once a month. Discover the latest in Soul, West Coast, Funk, Indie Pop and Sunset Disco!
It all started with an internet phenomenon: “Plastic Love” by Mariya Takeuchi became a viral hit in the 2010s. The 1984 single, written by Takeuchi and her husband Tatsuro Yamashita, sounded nostalgically familiar and at the same time exotic to Western ears, and opened up a musical cultural space previously known only to insiders: the world of City Pop. A genre that provided the soundtrack for Japanese economic prosperity in the 80s.
At the end of the 60s, LSD-soaked psychedelia and hippie esotericism merged with the enthusiasm for space travel and infinite expanses – astronautics met psychonautics.
