Soul A:M Records ft Master J Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Music as Free, As your Soul should be…!

If indeed you lived this wondrous period! You will once again love this open invitation to Open your Mind…

If however you did not due to age other! You will after this, Wish that you did…

Welcome back to the Star-Date 1983 this weeks edition of the dance Decade served one glorious original record at a time for your musical entertainment,

Enjoy Master J Soul A:M Records all rights reserved 2024.

This week see’s us touch down within a star-date that reminds me that we are indeed reached the business Segway of this anthology series! 

You see this is the actual year that I cued up my first 12” or record to be factual!

And if this wasn’t  enough to get excited as I was invited like so many of us around this time to gain early access to the place where the big people did there thing or should I say thang…

Laying witness to how energy is created by the body was one thing ! witnessing first hand how thermo-nuclear kinetic energy was created between Ying n Yang was something else completely previously only being subjected to house parties (remember those] with elders Rump-Shaking to the Bump & the now  legendary Hustle or older siblings practicing their moves in front of the mirror before stepping out thankfully good old TOTPs and the Kenny Everett shows were on hand with Dancers teasing my young mind seductively through suggestive thrusts and poses indicating that there was more to Nite-life than I thought that I knew.

Little did I know the music that once sounded reminiscent to Disco was about evolve once more s the 1980s cranked up the wheels of fortune…Feeding this new found positivity to not only make the Dance-Floors shake your very skeleton with Bass but would make the very Planet Rock…

Welcome back to the Star-Date 1982 this weeks Dance Decade My Vinyl served Uncut,

Enjoy MJ

The Spirit of 76/7 Silver Jubilee

In and out of 70s Soul 

I have always silently thought that I was never previously able to quite portrait! My original intended objective in the creation of this very Unique Production,In  Particular due to listeners with very specific tastes in music would find this concept hard to digest with the merging of many genres of the Pop’ular and Soulful worlds unionised 

Whilst those with an expanded musical pallet of whom embrace an eclectic range of music understood my intensions! 

My yearning to demonstrate my own appreciation for all genres & artists mainly stems from my childhood, being exposed to mainstream music mainly due to over exposure through our then entertainment sector that was TV [tel-I-vision]!! And Radio our only forms of media back in these days...

I particularly noticed this in the 1970s being gravitated to music contributed further by being the perfect age to experience the best that this decade had to offer against all odds being deep within a global recession and all...All the hallmarks for great song writing.

At the perfect age of 10 in the year 1977 looking back now I was fortunate enough to experience the best the 1970s had to offer Spearheaded by none more than the explosion of toys from, Stretch Armstrong to Pogo sticks, Star Wars toys to Action Man (GI Joe, U.S), Playing outside with actual friends [Not Virtual] to Open air swimming, All of These magic moments growing up were made all the more memorable by a never ending soundtrack that was the world of popular music.

All artist back were then given a exposure to co-exist side by side to feed our taste of preference, Popularity & Progression was based on singles record sales, the more sold the higher you climbed the more notoriety you received.

In the United Kingdom no platform was more popular than the UK top forty served to us on Sundays on the wireless aka Radio where we would sit through the countdown…(No way to manipulate or Fast Forward) often enduring listening from 40-1 in the hope of hearing your favourite tracks hopeful progression. This one dimensional and only way of listening to the latest hits of the time gave us inadvertent access other genres and unwittingly gave many of us a future greater appreciation to absorb all forms of music, This format would later be challenged by the visually enticing Television shows like TOTPs [Top of the pops] Soul Train [US] and the Old grey whistle test for die hard enthusiasts,

We also Previously selected top hits on duke boxes in public or in our front room via radiograms designed for playing purchased Records of your personal taste in the comfort of your home.

The many memories I have are effectively synchronised to tracks released at the time of memory recording…It has always been a passion to recapture the very essence of the 1970s in such a way that captures the fabric of feel good often on display within an era of invitation, Creativity and musicality seldom seen today, Those really were the days…Fast forward to today,

This rare double bank Holiday weekend I would like to transport you back to the relive the music magnificence that resided around the silver jubilee we experienced back in 77, and if by chance you are around my age… every single hit Record has been chosen personally with 20 from the popular charts alongside 20 from the Sweet rhythms chart that broke through being to good to contain,

This Soul-Unique perspective of a top forty will provide you with the ultimate 70s play-list for your Platinum Party’s as a tribute to your life, Your Youthful  experiences & and your unique taste in Music… As I present to you In and out of Soul,

The Spirit of the 70s JUBILEE 

Play loud and Street Proud and Enjoy. MJ Soul A.M.

In this edition of Soul A:M we continue to absorb the essence of the ingredients that collectively progress the evolution of Soul music in the UK and indeed all around the globe.

Within this Star-Date our music continues to evolve as producers continue to bend the envelope testing the constitution that regulates pop music culture.

This year the scene gets colourful, the influence of the B-Boy scene spills over onto the dance-floor as sportswear brands Adidas, Nike, kappa and my fave Fila Bjorne Borg track suit illuminating the already bright lights of any hallowed turf with my petrol blue coolness...

In this very production you will experience the progression of a dominating force, an Unstoppable entity that compelled music lovers to gravitate towards night clubs eager to show off a weeks choreography sweated out in front of your bedroom mirror.

I welcome you to a very special place in anyone’s heart that has the pleasure to be around the grand old age as I,

welcome you home to the Star-date 1983 this weeks Dance Decade...

If rumour be believed there was a secret code embedded within the lyrics of Disco for all to embrace...If you were indeed within the  Soul-Space to receive its transmittion across the Dance-Floors of the 1970s it read that... Love was the message! After disco's demise [by namesake only] and out of the Oppression and depression of the turn of this new 80s decade, the dance music community once more emerging with a new found enhanced sound filled with pride but was that enough to cut through the barriers!  It was only time that hope would once more materialise in the guise of a wordsmith from the streets who would lay out a stark reality of just how it is if you seek fame and lay claim to riches without gain... A Message which stands tall as a warning for all to this very day Profit or Poet!

Welcome home to the truly inspirational 1982 this weeks Dance Decade.

Ever wondered what the 1980s were really like? Are the tracks you know and love that circulate on every compilation a real representation of the true sounds of Soul? Join me Master J as I invite you to sample my favourite timeline of music recorded in my mind from a Soul-unique perspective of both the DJ Booths and hallowed turf of Dance-floors from London to Miami, Jamaica and beyond... Prepare for music served undiluted all in original Vinyl with the Soul Intension of making you feel good.

This week we move up one to 81 that will be forever known as the year that the Brit Soul music scene spearheaded a revolution  that would both unite us as a nation on the Dance-Floor whilst breaking down barriers towards creating a truly United Kingdom... Welcome back to the Star-Date 1981 this weeks Dance Decade Enjoy, Review, like, care, and share.

Ever wondered what the 1980s were really like? Are the tracks you know and love that circulate on every compilation a real representation of the true sounds of Soul? Join me Master J as I invite you to sample my favourite timeline of music recorded in my mind from a 

Soul-unique perspective of both the DJ Booths and hallowed turf of Dance-floors from London to Miami, Jamaica and beyond... Prepare for music served undiluted all in original Vinyl with the Soul Intension of making you feel good.

Launching with a 40th anniversary edition celebrating the definitive Star-Date that is 1980.

I present to you the Dance Decade...

Enjoy, Review, like, care, and share.

Wishing away the last seven days to continue our celebration of this Soul-Unique period within our musical spectrum responsible for the building blocks of Dance R&B Jazz and Fusion. Catapulted into a Euphoria that would set the tempo for dance music for decades to follow. Inadvertently acting as a beacon of hope for song writers musicians singers bands, record labels and Disc Jockeys to Ignite a spark that would set up the definitive lights sights and sound of the 1980s. I invite you to feel free once more to  1970s Floor-Fillers slippin and sliding towards concluding this prelude to this years event. Get ready for blast off!! Warn the neighbours... and turn up the base! Star-date 1980 next weeks Dance Decade.

In eager anticipation of this years Dance Decade event, I would like to take you on an Unscripted Unauthodox and 101% Undiluted journey out of today’s Dystopian society and transport you back to a timezone once lived filled with Originality, Creativity & innovation, energetic  Nightlife long lines decorated with boob tubes big hair and flared trousers underpinned by uncut dance music,

This part 1 of 2 will reintroduce you to Artists who dared to dream to propel themselves out of oppression and straight onto the now hallowed turf that I once called my home… The Dance-Floors,

Acting as a Prelude to this years DD18 series I welcome you back to the Groovy 70s, Subscribe Review, like and share most importantly…Enjoy MJ.

To be able to enjoy this production to its fullest! you are invited to play it very loud and proud...This Production is a sequel to last weeks smash hit where I invited you to once again appreciate the finest floor-fillers that were served up to you in our Heyday on the hallowed turf of music and lights where we congregating to dismiss the worries and woes of the working week.

Lets travel back to a timezone where being a DJ was an expensive career choice or sideline! Soul satisfying and a heavy crate sifting privilege to collect records…and not something you did because of convenience!

Make some space and feel that natural base…Enjoy.