Jamaican Sound System Culture and its influence on British Music 1950 - 1991

Using Soul II Soul's massive 1989 hit Back to Life as a starting point we trace how Sound System Culture has played a fundamental part in shaping British Music; taking in early Jamaican Sound Systems and the American RnB t hey preferred, through Ska. Reggae, Roots. Dub, Lover's Rock, and Dancehall. Northern Soul, Jazz Funk, early Electro, Rare Groove, Acid House, Street Soul, acid Jazz and Trip Hop

Contained lots of great music and interviews with the Musicians, DJs, Producers. DJs, promoters and Soundmen involved.

The story of how dubstep developed; from US Garage to UK Garage, through speed garage, two step, break step and on into grime and dark garage until the underground dubstep sound went overground around 2005 and how it continued to develop into the 2010s.

The podcast features tonnes of music, and interviews with the people who created the sound .

In this episode we explore the origins of disco music in the early 1970s, in the gay dance clubs of Boston; The Other Side and the 1270.

The episode features excerpts from a series of interviews with first generation disco DJs conducted by Brian Halligan of Boston LGBTQ organisation, the History Project.

In particular I focus on one DJ, Jimmy Stuard, I feel Jimmy's contributions to the craft of DJing have been overlooked.

The History Project YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgFZZB_pNhTXOlRAt0i_2Tg

Brian Halligan on Bluesky

https://bsky.app/profile/briandhalligan.bsky.social

The Other Side Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/share/1FiCasptnX/

1270 Facebook group

https://www.facebook.com/groups/803649106339832/?ref=share

Steven Burke's Podcast

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/djstevenburke

Carol Mitro's podcast

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/carilmitro

Bobby Busnach's Mixcloud

https://www.mixcloud.com/bobbybusnach/

Wendy Hunt's Mixcloud

https://www.mixcloud.com/djwh8/

Jimmy Stuard - Live at 12 West - New Year's Eve 1976 (6 hour set)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6bCL0VB_G8

Danae Jacovidis - At Midnight Melody 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wItGs9Dzdxk

What we're gonna do here is go back... back to first evidence of human artistic expression, back to the dawn of civilisation and back to the enduring human need to be, both physically and spiritually. free.

As we voyage across the millennia, Let's uphold the fundamental right of all the peoples of this earth to write their own histories.

And never forget to embrace that unquenchable desire, found in every man, woman and child, to dance together under the stars to some funky ass tunes.

Seven songs about the Ancient World

Fenster's Funky Sevens- Ep 28 - A History of House Music

Covering the time period between two UK pop chart entries; George McCrae's number one "Rock Your Baby" in June 1974, and Farley 'Jackmaster' Funk "Love Can't Turn Around" in August 1986; the first disco hit and the first house music hit.

I look at how Disco developed over the 70s until its "death" in 1979. Then how, with Funk and Post-Disco and European influences, Disco was reborn on the dancefloors of Chicago as House Music.

We also take in the stories of the first House Music records and young ambitious (and sometimes unscrupulous) characters involved in their creation.

An update to episode 19 - Irish Hip Hop - 1979 to 1999

Some exciting revelations about Ireland's first ever rap record and an overlooked vibes man supreme

A continuation of Ep 24, where I retroactively created a genre called Dude Hop. Dude Hop is a particular type of indie rock influenced hop hip that was made by white dudes with hangovers in the mid 90s,

In this episode I talk a little about the mid to late 90s US punk and ska scenes and show the connections between these scenes and how the sound of Dude Hop evol also introduce a cousin of Dude Hop; Haze Hop.

Dude hop timeline playlist

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4dNXabIDPDFwQ00UwK06Gr?si=t5odFGTDSL6jwHBoMgsPcg&pi=DEGJhS-ZQx6aZ

The history of the Californian Punk Scene from 1976 to 1994; covering the early LA punk scene, the beginnings of hardcore, the influence of hardcore on metal, ska and funk, Westbeach Recorders, Epitaph Records, Gilman Street, Lookout Records and the rise of punk to mainstream pop culture