1978

The year dance music evolved with sights that set the floors alight,

Polyester shirts and pashmina flows of glam clothes hit the scene for those in the know!

Record companies spawn away from the generic tone! Whilst artists formally unknown multiply and clone,

A tempo is born from 4 beats on the floor! Creating an uplifting tempo, that kept you up all night craving for more, more, more…

Being overweight in club world was rare… As your moves toned by the Grooves burned the calories away! As body positivity became the new rage?

We wished the working week away! To get out in front of your Local DJ…

As the euphoria grew! So did your blood pressure! What was once reserved for behind closed doors was now displayed on the dance floors! Hedonistic Voyouristic flirtatious… and very dangerous!!

Little did we know hanging loose would soon be blamed… As out of the darkness came AIDs…

Something that has never sat quite right with the name… almost as if it was man-made to shame?

The birth of the Disc Jockey was also. born, Spinning the latest Sounds… A Few Pioneered to craft in the Art of melding beats Matching rarities into new uplifting feats out of the lofts & Garages Block parties often replicated but never quite re-created,

Grooves from the streets were cut up into beats from sounds

seg-wayed straight from the Get down! The objective… to extend the joyful parts of the records, inspiring the extended hits aka the 12” mix,

Just in case you enjoyed nostalgia within My rthym…

Wait until you hear next week!

As I present to you 1979

As for this week,

Welcome back to the star-date 1978 this weeks edition of

Soul A:M Records the Dance Decade

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Dance Decade Season has arrived,

Welcome to this Prelude LP Edition for next weeks Series launch where we will touch down in the Star-Date 1978 Right onto the centre tile of the Dance-Floors,

Every original record a thriller every single release a winner!

This week, We will spin the releases that made the 1970s an experience we will forever embrace in this special 2 part pre-release concluding this audio biography told through My memories portrayed through my Long Play record media collection also known as Albums but for me! Forever known as the LP,

For todays music lovers I serve to you My depiction of just how the Multi genres within Soul forged from the mean streets of the early seventies fused together to create the definitive sound that later became Disco.

Welcome back to the 1970s An A to Z of My LPs,

A two part Prelude to this summers Dance Decade,

2024 Dance Decade Sponsored by Legend Vinyl - Keeping your records Dust free, As your Soul Should be... Soul A:M.

Are you ready to continue our journey! After experiencing a windfall of universal love received over the last seven days in particular with listeners consistently reached out to share just how this music has made you feel! It’s always greatly appreciated "Blushin" I get it, I really do as I too stand proud to have lived, Breathed produced Mixed and Soul searched melodies on a truly global scale, curated by Artists who have dared to master their chosen arts into melodic crafts all towards creating Real Music to be appreciated by real music loving people. I welcome you back to your memories… The Star-date 1985 this weeks Dance Decade,

This is for you…Enjoy

I have in recent past editions of this series described the warm and affectionate feelings that make up my collective that is my thought process, where music memories are concerned! I have also previously welcomed you the "infected" A musically minded collective that longs for a weekly injection of sweet rhythms cultivated from our soulful pasts, Experiencing a Revival of past sounds from within your very own inner minds for a dose of much needed feel good.

If you had recently had a reason to unlock pure positive vibes, Fear not! for you have struck liquid black gold, No Not Me! Rarities in melodies that will once again unlock true revival pressure.

If you once sought solace within the confines of a Night Spot to embrace the true magnificence of harmonised human nature!! This is for you.

Dancing the night away would unleash the essence of love… The ultimate vibes often invoking a chance encounter or a mutual attraction embraced pairing Entities on a celestial natural high.

I welcome you to the year that Soul Music got it so right! Every beat of every musical treat within this shorter than usual but equally potent edition will warm your senses, if you were there! Prepare to be propelled back! If however you were not… fear not! I would like to transport you back to experience Utopia.

However Caution strongly is advised as we transport you back to relive a magic harnessed within a year we danced, Body popped and locked to the finest Grooves presented to any Dance-Floor!

We were also oblivious to the fact that a Cold War raged, So heightened was the threat! We could have easily have shacked our Groove thing to the rumble of Armageddon on any given night!

I Welcome you back to the year that nearly was our last…

1984 This weeks edition of the Dance Decade.

We crank up the Warp drive to transport you back to the year our music re-established our dominance of the Dance-Floor,

Off the back of the Brit Jazz Funk-a-tiers revolution 81-2 Production houses unleashed full blown Dance Mixes designed to fuel an 80’S DanceFloor.

This evolution was not a singularity! As sub Genre’s like Hip Hop and Electro Rock would also be carried on a wave that would fracture the conformity that was the mainstream, And it is within this edition you will feel the infectious Positive vibes that translated into the very DNA of Dance with Artists replicating this new found resurgence of which was projected into the very lyrics and harmony’s of the Good Groove…

Record Labels, Record Stores Soul belts Farah’s and so much more! This was indeed the year of Dance as Feel Good once again impacted the real social network [Going out and Meeting someone] Disco Pubs were backdrops for interaction often generating Mutual Attraction further supported by Pirate Radio transmitting when able above the Law.

This year was wonderful and as you once again experience this Journey through my records, Original, Worn and lightly scored… Bare in mind this year is but a mere pre-curser to…

The year that nearly wasn't...1984

Welcome back to our collective memories The Star-Date 1983.

The Dance Decade Soul A:M Records Vinyl Uncut.

This Soul A.M Sunday we prepare to revive your memories that reside within your inner minds,

Dance Decade season returns this Soulful Sunday as we transport you back to a

time zone where we just did it properly!

We kick off within a year that I cued up my first 12” record in a Nite Spot…

I encode this influential 20th anniversary Edition since piloting Soul A.M in 2002 in the hope of replicating Club Classic Vinyl Free-play, into Modern Millennial digital Air Play…

Celebrate 40 glorious years of making Music with Music through the sheer undiluted Joy of Mixing sweet soul Music,

Welcome back to the Star-date 1982

The Dance Decade.

Folding under the weight of my very own consciousness as the fab Preludes were served up to you one Star-date short... Just what! in the ? was I thinking!

Dance Decade 2022 and our 40th anniversary edition gets pushed back one week as, No depiction of how the dance-floors were won would justify leaving out the Brit-tastic year that once revived Disco to Dance once again! Unleashing new sounds evolved from the origins of Jazz... Defining a brand new generation of Artists and Admirers in the Arts of Feel good.

Enjoy last years edition once more, Rhythms crafted for the new 80s dance-floor.

Welcome back to 1981 this weeks Dance Decade.

Dance Decade Prelude Edition

The celestial centre of the solar system known to us as the Sun is not the only star bringing the heat this Soul A:M Sunday as i take our rhythm section into unknown territories,

From the second you press play you will be transported back to towards the sacred turf where everything from productions to back beats and lyrics were rewritten in the hope of saving the very essence that became the foundations that were once described as the building blocks of Dance formally known as D.I.S.C.O.

Best served with fond memories an open heart with enough space to dance, let the positive rays envelope your Minds Bodies and Souls letting these priceless melodies take back full control…

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