Here is the second single from the forthcoming album COOL MILLION III. This time the featured vocals come from those lovely WestCoast Soul Stars Janine Johnson & Eli Thompson
These is yet another fantastic slice of retro soaked soul from Rob & Frank - and leads into an album which will emerge as the soundtrack to your Summer.
The record features collaborations with some of the UK’s finest – including CHIDI , NATASHA WATTS ,LAURA JACKSON and MONIQUE THOMAS – amongst others.
This is without doubt the strongest album release from the boys – and they will be here later year for very select dates.
Music blog Soul Bounce have a great 1st play feature on Cool Million’s brand new single Without Your Love ft Kenny Thomas, which the band previewed last week.
Following their critically acclaimed album Back For More, Germany’s Cool Million (aka Rob Hardt & Frank Ryle) return with a stunning new single Without Your Love featuring the one and only Kenny Thomas!
The boys have just uploaded an exclusive snippet of the single, which you can check out here:
Without Your Love will be available April 9th on Sed Soul … and we hear that remixes from Dave Doyle will be coming soon.
You can catch Cool Million on the forthcoming Soul on the Road UK tour kicking-off March 7th alongside Tom Glide, Soul Talk, Westcoast Soulstars. Further deets and booking links on the tour here:
The two founders of Cool Million (Rob Hardt & Frank Ryle) join forces on a new exciting house music project as The Defloristics. The duo’s first release, is the beautiful single Because Of You featuring Laura Jackson.
The single will be backed up by a full album in early 2012, featuring various vocalists.
The concept for The Defloristics is pretty much in the same vain as with the two gents Cool Million project – only this time the two are aiming for a soulful house sound with elements of jazz and bossa as well.
This release come with 3 mixes, including a laidback summer bossa mix (Brazilian Waxing Mix), perfect for the loungebar or livingroom.
Just a reminder that UK rising Soul star Nathan Watson has released his Student of Life EP this week!
Adamant that he won’t fall into stereotypical, manufactured soulstyles, Nathan takes his vast knowledge of yesteryear heroes and moulds his songs and style into something that is both eclectic, but drenched in historic appeal.
The EP includes the great Sed Soul remixes of Reach Out, which is currently climbing the Urban Club Chart!
Watch Nathan sing Reach Out for Smooth Radio here:
…and catch the official video here:
Read a great review of the EP on Soul Culture here:
Cool Million’s Rob Hardt is in the UK for a whistle-stop visit to talk about the forthcoming Christmas at Sed Soul album, featuring Eugene Wilde, Ann Sexton, Robert Walker, Peggi Blu, and Noel McKoy (whose cut This One’s For You has been earmarked as a single!).
You can hear Rob being interviewed live on Solar Radio at midday today!
The Soul legend that is Mr Leroy Burgess, will be performing two tracks at the Groove Odyssey clubnight, taking place at Vauxhall’s Fire and Lightbox club.
Bobby & Steve, Blaze, and Funkie P are amongst the DJs, and topping the bill is none other Louie Vega!
When we spoke to Cool Million’s Rob Hardt a couple of weeks ago, we asked him to give us a rundown of the tracks that have most inspired him as a songwriter and producer.
After some thought, he gave us this cracking list…
There’s a great new interview with Rob Hardt from Cool Million at Blues & Soul online.
As ever, B&S writer Pete Lewis comes up trumps, bringing the best out of the artists he interviews.
Here’s a choice excerpt:
“The music that’s most influenced me as a musician has always been the disco/R&B/soul of the late-Seventies/early-Eighties – mainly because of the great vocals that those artists delivered back then. Plus I always loved the whole ‘I wanna go out tonight and have fun’-type vibe of it. Which is something I miss a lot in the R&B of TODAY – where instead everything and everybody is so cool, and nobody’s really SHAKING anything! So for me it felt like a great combination – to keep the vibe alive and work with legends that I’ve always loved from the Eighties, while also bringing in some new people who don’t wanna record with those autotune-type effects on their voice that are so popular today… And it ended up being a really fun project, where we had a lotta freedom to work with brilliant artists who could deliver great vocals to our tracks. You know, everything flowed very easily; there were no big heads… In fact it was one of the easiest jobs I’ve ever HAD as a producer!”
