Soul A:M Records ft Master J Podcast

Master J In My Studio @ 54

To round off a truly fabulous week of birthday celebrations spearheaded by my too cool family where everything was sprinkled with the very essence of disco from cup cakes to cards...
The inspiration to this show goes back over 33 years where at the ages of 21 I was asked what year I wanted to celebrate next... and notable ages of 30-40 or 50 were not mentioned but one year was! 54 the year that hallmarked Disco, back then what I did not foresee was not only the demise of dance... but would be the very deconstruction of music itself.
 
This weeks trip is hip! As I attempt to just play music selected in real time from my record vaults to ignite a spontaneous spark seldom heard on broadcast radio.
Music played for their mutual attraction!
Their superior production levels which were designed to compel you to abandon your best chat up lines mid flow! place down your drinks to find your place on the Dance-floor to embrace Utopia... The Music of life, Our life my music.
 
I have so many visuals to share observing the many souls that stepped onto into the lights of Hope, Safety and expression! Sort after within the 1970s and 80s when we never knew that we were already free? Until now...
Maybe one day I will unveil my Tales from the Dance-floor enjoy,

SOUL A:M Lookin for the Perfect Beat!

Welcome to what could quite possibly be the most unique December on record! As we enter the festive armed not with reindeer printed face coverings…or Christmas tree scented sanitiser? 
But with a studio filled to the brim with records as i embark on a brand new mission in search of the perfect beat…
Over the decades for those fortunate to have graced the Hallowed turf of a real dance-floor served like a Platter for the curator stat stood tall on the booth armed with 1&2s loaded with killer cuts caught fresh from the days record store hunting…if they were True-Players mind!
Guaranteed to become a series in the new year, prepare to hear beats rhythms and dope rhymes that are driven not by the lyrics… But the beat,
 
Enjoy MJ

Master J A Soul Unique House Mix

This null n void November continues to hold up its end to the bargain of keeping us all conformed and paranoid asking will we or wont we!  have a Festive holiday we so deserve…There are some so tuned into the Soul sapping Messages projected from the screens that consistently threaten a future like so many science fiction dystopian depictions before, that if you do not comply! Sorry Sci Fi!!! Good Gods is nothing original anymore! Its now changed to SyFi Damn SJWs.
Thankfully there is Music, and this week we take you back to the Hallowed turf of Dance-Floors past in the hope of unlocking the sweetest pain unleashed within the confines of your memories should you be so fortunate to have collated them.Conceived a decade after Disco’s demise the Sounds of House unleashed many formats, But it was the 1990s that the once Soulfulness of 80s dance would once again infect beats and tempo’s this time through the harmony’s of Uplifting messages of hope in the guise of Gospel House. It was within these years that this music was best served ironically within the confines of a converted church at a then Night club called Limelight situated in central London’s Shaftesbury AvenueThere were many more hotspots…But this was a very special venue.
After deciding to reduce the length of our weekly excursions in soul to between 1 hour and 90 minutes very reminiscent of cassette tape TDKs anyone! Until the Festive period at least where i am quietly confident bigger productions will be created for you to break free to enjoy Family & Friends to the fullest.
Break free from conformity and feel the unmistakably positive “Message in the Music” Enjoy.

Master J A Soul-Unique Disco

Grab the Water! Clear the furniture! And switch off the Mind-manipulation tool that is Television as it is indeed time to prepare to be transported back to a decade of sincerity, positivity and an era when we appreciated the artists musicians and producers for their authenticity for believing in their crafts thus creating the origins of the Dance….
Feel the raw undiluted power of this cultural vibe spawned from mainstream rejection, A disillusioned society fuelled by paranoid oppression thus unwittingly creating an underground society locked within a closet separated from societies acceptance… Until the music pushed back until containment was no longer an option? Breaking free like a Fever that would infect all.Welcome back to the glorious 1970s and a time we working to live…and not the other way round which is a sad fact of these dystopian  times… 
After deciding to reduce the length of our weekly excursions in soul to between 1 hour and 90 minutes very reminiscent of cassette tape TDK anyone! At least until the Festive period where i am quietly confident bigger productions will be created for you to break free to enjoy Family & Friends to the fullest.
Break Free from the Matrix and Dance to my Soul-Unique DISCO.

[Master J] A Soul-Unique

Wow what a week! with last weeks big production leaving me so feeling depleted as everything i had in the locker went out towards you through arranging and compiling a ensemble of hits to respectfully allow us to once again dance with the Soulful deceased now endorsed into the Afterlife…
It was you my cherished and respected listeners who made me aware of the fact that “Givin out” my very essence every week must sometimes take its toll! and as now know! that you know that i give it my all for my music to reach you in the most sincere way i can…
I have decided to reduce the length of our weekly excursions in soul to between 1 hour and 90 minutes very reminiscent of cassette tape TDKs anyone! Until the Festive period at least where i am quietly confident bigger productions will be created for you to break free to enjoy Family & Friends to the fullest.
 
Meanwhile enjoy todays gathering of albums which was really fun to choose knowing full well that you were in for a real treat,
Every record that i play is given the ultimate respect in the hope of being absorbed by appreciators of quality Soul Music…

PROJECT AFTERLIFE 2020 28 PLAYS LATER

And here we are! The one night of the year when we intentionally and hopefully warn of dark spirits ghouls and otherworldly forces that fill us with a sense of impending Dread! Little would we have known back in 2019 that we were about to experience a whole year of Darkness laced with curiosity powered by our own fears of uncertainty of just what the NWO “whoops” I meant World health organisations world will look Like when the Plandemic agenda is realised by the many! all too late to matter.
To make matters even more weird! This years theme loosely based off of a Masterpiece of film making from 2002 that hit cinema-goers hard with a stylised and updated take on the Zombie trope that i actually created for last years show! Sadly Postponed due to software issues only to be re-released this year... The year that an actual global pandemic would be unleashed upon our world playing out frame by frame like another pandemic Hollywood movie with a frightfully similar plot line from the first contagious frame to last...For 2020 I have remixed the way you will celebrate our artists n craftsmen and women of the Soulful dead, In total respect to all of the musicians, singers song writers and producers who have left our rheum, This all Hallows I have not only dropped the mic! But I have created a very rarely constructed playlist for you to be able to synchronise whilst you listen to see if you got the artist right...This year pioneering DJs are included with a few of the tracks made famous by David Mancuso, Larry Levan Froggy and the Mix doctor, Respec is due.Have fun! And remember! On this night and day of Sam Hain, Artist return to take back what has always been rightfully there’s…You Souls! 
PROJECT AFTERLIFE 28 PLAYS LATER
1 Ashford & Simpson - It seems to hang on  RIP Nick Ashford 22/08/20112 Curtis Hairston - Take time  RIP 18/01/19963 The Whispers - Up on Soul Train  RIP Nick Caldwell 05/01/2016 4 A W B - Work to do RIP Molly Duncan 08/10/20195 Leon ware - On the Island   RIP 23/02/2017 6 Donald Byrd - You and Music RIP 04/02/20137 Sharon Redd - Beat the Street  RIP 01/05/20028 Carl Anderson - Somebody up there likes me RIP 23/02/20049 Stanley Turpentine - I’ll be there  RIP 12/09/200010 The Temptations - Law of the Land RIP Denis Edwards 2018 Eddy Kendrick 1992
11 Chic - My forbidden lover  RIP Bernard Edwards 18/04/199612 Sherrick - Tell Me   RIP 22/01/199913 Minnie - Memory Lane RIP 12/07/197914 Crown Heights Affair - Larry Levan Mix15 George Duke - I want you RIP 05/08/201316 Emotions - Your the one RIP Pamela Huchingson 20/09202017 Kashif - Help yourself to my love RIP 25/09/201618 Brothers Johnson - No 23 RIP Louis Johnson 21/05/201519 The Jones Girls - Sitting on top! RIP Brenda 1993 Shirley 03/04/201720 Ingram - Music the power RIP James Ingram 29/01/2019
21 EWF - Sir Maurice White  RIP 22 George Howard - Love will find the way RIP 20/03/199823 Phylis Hyman - Falling under your spell RIP 30/06/199524 The Jackson’s - This Place Hotel  RIP MJ 25/06/200925 Harold Melvin and the Blue-notes - The love I lost RIP Teddy P 30/01/201026 Heatwave - Groove-line RIP Rod Temperton 2016 Johnny Wilder 200627 Marvin Gay - My Love is waiting RIP 01/04/198428 Luther Vandross - The Sweetest one RIP 01/07/2005

SOUL A:M REWIND [2019] PROJECT VALENTINES

After a successful summer transporting you back to the now unbelievably musical safari that was the 1980s, like many others I was fortunate enough to have experienced the evolution of Dance music all played out to a never ending backdrop of record stores, night clubs parties choice encounters and so much more! 
Fast forward to today!!! Filled with uncertainty dystopian authorities around the globe pulling us down in unison from a count of billions to a percentage of 1? 
My hope is the dance decade will serve you well to a much needed love injection of creativity and artistry seldom seen or heard since the turn of the millennia.
Whilst I prepare my next project to unleash the Soulful dead All Hallows’ Eve through unlocking the vinyl vaults for them to  reclaim what they gave us... their Souls. 
I would like to unleash a powerful show rewound from Feb 2019 which aired Pre Pandemic, absorb this fine selection of Me music which for all the right reasons... I would love to share once again on a Global scale Enjoy.

SOUL A:M Pres 1989 DANCE DECADE 80s

This episode brings us to the year it all changed! Whilst we still had the very popular wine bars and disco pubs to feel the groove within this Star-date we lived for the night life, From a UK perspective up and down the United Kingdom night clubs dominated the dance landscape from Wigan to the West End the sound of Chicago house set the tempo us to feel free...whilst Soulful Jazzy Flava’s would make a welcomed return 1990 and beyond! this year ironically would reflect a decade before where disco evolved honestly only to become demonised through blatant hijacking by the mainstream to curb its meteoric rise that elevated its popularity threatening the very fabric of the music industry.
Here we are in ten years on and yet again out of the ashes of Disco comes this raw sound that emerged once again from the Hispanic & Black underground only to once again take control... the critics said it just would not last! 
Welcome back back to the very definition of dance music 1989 this weeks conclusion to my favourite timeline of music... The Dance Decade.

SOUL A:M Pres 1988 Dance Decade 80s

With the Music industry experiencing one of the biggest transformations in over a decade, the dance floor spaces we were accustomed to around a bar or disco pub were about to be assaulted as the sound of the underground previously shunned by the yuppie wine bar scene were about to create their own stage bigger, louder and more progressive than any sound experienced post Disco.
Garage house had hit our shores as early as 1985, but it was about to evolve once more! Infected with the signature British sound with bpm’s cranked up to meet the elevated heartbeats of both excitement...and a prescription on enhancements that some needed to fuel the desire to hyper dance to the acid house sounds best experienced at undisclosed locations to heighten the excitement to attend a Rave.
Hip Hop, Dance Soul and house now known as Classic all took centre stage...
Exciting time for those who like myself were at the right age, at the right time to live and breathe this exciting period of change! The irony is this same change happened a decade before with Disco... Coincidence !! or Planed??
Welcome back to the Star-date 1988 this weeks Dance Decade 80s

SOUL A:M Pres 1987 Dance Decade 80s

Within this Soul-Unique episode our music and its origins are in jeopardy of dilution as corporate labels and media yet again spin their web of deceit and lies tempting our artists of soul towards the darker side of fame and fortune.
With many contracts not worth the paper that they were written on our sound was at risk of disappearing into popular culture forever, But there was hope as raw Hip Hop & now Classic House withstood the temptation to dilution forging there own empires that the mainstream said would not last. 
Within this Year they would all Sound clash together on the precipice of change this eclectic mix of high hats, Bass Beats n rhymes would make for one undiluted excursion for true music lovers everywhere... 
Music is just not celebrated in its purest vinyl format anymore to share Joy without gain… Make sure to like and review to keep the vibe alive…
Welcome back to the Star-date 1987 this weeks Dance Decade.