North Sea Groove

Funk radio in the Netherlands usually means one of two things: dutchified yacht-rock nostalgia or a wedding band's greatest hits. North Sea Groove dodges both. The playlist digs into the real stuff, hard-hitting horn sections modelled on Tower of Power and New Cool Collective, plus deep soul cuts most Dutch stations treat as filler. There's a jazz thread too, closer to Benjamin Herman's Blue Note side than to background smoothness. The R&B selections have grit: think Leon Bridges or Durand Jones, not the polished chart version. Audio sits at 192kbps, which is plenty for horns and bass to breat…