ABOUT

Welcome to the licensed fortnightly Smooth Groovers review. Our regular program featuring views, insight and the ignition of past experiences based on our passion for new and past Smooth Jazz, Soul and Funk.
All shows are currently hosted by Dr Groove and Professor Smooth.

The show format for season 5 consist of 3 main segments:

Discovery – A round up of new tracks, either newly discovered or new releases – basically new!!
Soul Revue – Amazing soulful tracks
Re-Discovered – Bringing you some great flavours from the past

How did the programme come about?

Dr Groove is a PhD in Organisational Behaviour (whatever that is!) and has an MBA too!
Hey! The most important part is he adores Smooth Jazz, Funk and Soul – He also shares the show with Professor Smooth.

The Doc (that’s me) and a really close friend of mine we call ‘The Prof’ have known each other for years. We grew up together visiting shops to seek out new and rare grooves. Our partners put up with our Podcast sessions. We have a little studio in the UK and we’ve been running a fortnightly podcast since Oct ‘05

In addition, the Prof and I have seen many of the major Smooth Jazz artists ‘live’ (sorry if this sounds bold but we really can’t get enough music into our souls)!

We love Smooth Jazz, Jazz-Funk, Funk , Soul, Old School and Disco oldies – We’re just some folks getting together for memories and more!

What is Podcasting or new media type content or shows ?

What about licencing rules for Podcasters?

Good question, it was only Aug/Sept ‘06 that both the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society (MCPS) and Performance Rights Society (PRS) worked hard to issue the shared Limited Podcasting Exploitation Licence – Known as LPEL. This license has been paid for and granted. In reality this means that if we feature any song writers and performers their copyright and royalities will be protected. This is achieved by the terms of the licence. For example, reporting, monitoring and protecting any tracks from the possibiity of being ripped. Full rules are available at the alliance website. In summary:

* Obscuring of the first and last ten seconds of each track featured
* 20% voice content
* No more than 3 tracks by the same artist’s CD
* No more than 4 tracks by the same artist
* Track listing restrictions
* Limited download compliance
* Set reporting requirements

Join us by contributing and listening to our blog and weekly podcast.

Q: How are the shows put together? In other words, what does it take to develop a Podcast?

With any quality production it is important to research, accredit, script and perform both pre and post production work.In terms of items needed, these range from the software skills, computer hosting set-up and investment in good quality recording equipment, royality free loops (for jingles, interludes and backdrops) and editing tools.

Although increasingly today more tools are available to develop podcasts it is important to focus accuracy, frequency and informative content.

Hey! The most important thing is to have fun!

We Thank you for taking part in the Podcast revolution and value your continued support and ears!

Smooth Groovers

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