So when digging’ our vaults recently, we came across a never released Draaikolk remix of a – by now – classic Soul Snatchers tune featuring the legendary soul singer Jimi Bellmartin. A groovy rework of ‚Can’t Stand It’, still very suitable to get people on the dance floors. Find out for yourself and that’s easy since we offer you the track for free, ain’t that wicked ?! All you have to do is Continue reading
Free Christmas Single – ‘Christmas Time Baby’
No more time to waste! Everybody should get ready for a soulful Christmas, which is precisely what The Soul Snatchers did. Last week The Snatchers decided – while being in session – to spontaneously record a Christmas original. A riff driven soul classic was born in no time featuring legendary Dutch soul singer Jimi Bellmartin. Continue reading
PopUnie Review
Scratch My Itch is het tweede album van soul/funkband The Soul Snatchers. Wat een plaat! Van begin tot eind zitten alle noten op hun plek, de cd is goed geproduceerd en het totaalplaatje klopt. Dit vervolg zit net zo vol met funk en soul als het debuutalbum Sniffin’ & Snatchin’. Wie denkt dat deze genres dood zijn, heeft het mis. De acht heren en hun special guest houden ze springlevend! Continue reading
New Testament of Funk
On august 3rd ’12, Unique Records released a new compilation in the New Testament of Funk collection. The New Testament of Funk is a melting pot of known and unknown dancefloor pearls. Here on this compilation (only available as download) we have 4 bonus tracks!! Metrophonic´s “Latin Racer” is a classic Nu-Jazz track loaded with the funk that counts!! With Diesler, Laura Vane & The Vipertones , Jaffa and the Soul Snatchers , Henry Storch had to place four nice killers from the last 2 years!! Enjoy!! For a lot of Dj´s the “New Testament Of Funk” was a change of style…you can play this to many different audiences from Hip Hop to Rock from Funk to Soul lovers! Real drums! No plastique!!!! Continue reading
Saint Paul trois Chateaux, France – Blog
After being deprived of Soul Snatchers gigs for a period of ten weeks, because of my road trip through the Deep South of America, I was lucky to play at the Soul Jazz Festival on the 6th of July in St. Paul 3 Chateaux, South France. I can imagine worse things to do when returning from a long vacation.
When we arrived at Lyon Saint Exupéry Airport, Antoine of the festival organisation picked us up and brought us to St. Paul in two brand new festival vans. It’s a two hours drive, but the vans are comfortable and Antoine plays real fine funky Hammond Soul music on the car stereo. Continue reading
Junks e-Mag Review
Tra gli album usciti quest’anno sull’etichetta tedesca Unique Records, probabilmente è Scratch My Itch (Gratta dove mi prude), l’atteso secondo album del collettivo olandese The Soul Snatchers di inizio 2012, ad essere il mio preferito. Non solo perché la band dimostra chiaramente di aver interiorizzato perbene le lezioni d’oltreoceano per quanto riguarda il funk & soul, con un sound spiccatamente inspirato al periodo a cavallo tra la fine degli anni 60 e i primi 70, ma anche perché dall’inizio alla fine, l’album copre quasi tutte le basi di quel che cerco in un disco. Brano per il dancefloor in un prossimo dj set, c’è: l’uptempo e contagiosissimo Good To Me che invoglierebbe persino un cadavere a ballare. Brano funky soul da polleggio in una giornata calda e afosa, c’è: il bluesy Who I Am. Continue reading
Review – Hotspots Magazine
Groovende seventies funk en warme sixties soul. Compleet met spetterende blazerspartijen en bezwerende hammondklanken. Je zou er vergif op innemen dat The Soul Snatchers afkomstig zijn het zuiden van de VS. En dat deze muziek een slordige veertig jaar oud is. Het antwoord luidt tweemaal nee. The Soul Snatchers zijn het geesteskind van Ton van der Kolk en Tim van der Holst. Uit Dordrecht. Schratch My Itch is na Sniffin’ and Snatchin’ (uit 2008) het tweede album van The Soul Snatchers. En wat een plaat! Het spettert, schuurt en swingt. Niet in de laatste plaats dankzij de schuurpapieren soulstem van de Nederlandse soulzanger Jimi Bellmartin. Indrukwekkend goed spul. Continue reading
New in Japan!
Last week, all of a sudden, a brand new review of our first album ‘Sniffin’ & Snatchin'” appeared online. Only five years since the release of this record, someone recently discovered it in Japan and goes without saying: we highly appreciate it! ソウル、ファンク、ジャズの間を、自由に往来すること。それは気ままなようで、実に難しいもの。この3者の往来には、確かな演奏力と真の理解を必要とするからだ。3者は近いようで、似て非なるもの。そのことを十分理解した上で、それぞれのグルーヴを体に染み込ませ、楽器やヴォーカルで表現しなければならない。理解した者だけが表現できる奥行きを、ザ・ソウル・スナッチャーズは持っている。 Continue reading
The Soul Snatchers touring Europe
The past couple of weeks The Soul Snatchers have had a busy touring schedule. After the release of their second full album ‘Scratch My Itch’ (also available on vinyl by the way) the band took their impressive live show to many different festivals and venues. Not only did they play many shows in The Netherlands on major festivals like Dunya, Breda Jazzfestival en IJFE but they were also invited to play France twice. A couple of weeks ago the band shared the bill with none other than Smoove & Turrell whilst playing Boogienight in Lille. Continue reading
Smoove & Turrell
@soulsnatchers Thanks very much boys it was a top night you guys rocked it! 😉