Roger Williams

SOULSORTS ON SOLAR RADIO - SUNDAY 30th NOVEMBER 2008 SPONSORED BY SOUL BROTHER RECORDS, LONDON TEL: 0208 875 1018 https://www.soulbrother.com Podcast now available from https://www.soulsorts.co.uk or direct link: >> HERE << Click to listen, right-click to download. PLAYLIST (album titles in brackets): The Chestnut Brothers - Whole Lotta You In Me (Grown & Sexy) (The Chestnut Brothers) Richard Hartley - Jesus Makes Me Happy (Face to Face) LaShell Griffin - Jesus Said (Dreams Are Possible) Chuck Arrington - My Sole Desire (I'm Gonna Praise You) Nicki Richards - Bring The Love (Nicki) Sabrina Starke - You Are My Love (Yellow Brick Road) LaBelle - System (Back To Now) Freddie Lee - Oh How I Love You (Beyond Comprehension) Ledisi - Children Go Where I Send Thee (It's Christmas) Deborah Cox - All Over Me (The Promise) LaShell Griffin ft. LaTress Thomas - Way Back When (Dreams Are Possible) Marvin Winans Jr. - Come 2 Me (Image Of A Man) Tracy Cruz - Emotional Love (Feel'osophy) The Sunburst Band - Moving With The Shakers (Joey Negro Extended Mix) (Z Records) Cultured Pearls - Envision This! (Sing Dela Sing) Bobby Ross Avila - Changing Times (Unissued) Carrie & David Grant - So Good To Know (Watching & Waiting) Blu Cantrell - No Place Like Home (Bittersweet) Jully Black - Free To Love You (This Is Me) Tony Tatum - Gotta Have Faith (Never Turn Away) BSTC - Fly Away (Music For A Saturday Night) Esperanza Spalding - I Know You Know (Esperanza) The Rurals - Brand New Day (Farming Grooves) M-Swift Feat. Marcina Arnold & 24-Carat - Joy Of Life (Evening Sun) Blu-Swing ft. Angela Johnson - What's On Your Mind (Revision) Dawn Tallman - Who Can I Run To (Bams Main Vocal) (Thick Recordings) BSTC - Love And Lust (Music For A Saturday Night) SPONSORED BY SOUL BROTHER RECORDS, LONDON TEL: +44 0 208 875 1018 www.soulbrother.com Older podcasts/shows available here: >>>>> HERE <<<<< Cheers Roger Williams

SOULSORTS ON SOLAR RADIO - SUNDAY 26th OCTOBER 2008 SPONSORED BY SOUL BROTHER RECORDS, LONDON TEL: 0208 875 1018 https://www.soulbrother.com Podcast now available from https://www.soulsorts.co.uk or direct link: >> HERE << Click to listen, right-click to download. PLAYLIST (album titles in brackets): James Day ft. Deanna - Sponsored By Love (Natural Thing) Carl Henry - Go To Guy (Essential Street Soul 08) Honey B ft. Keith Crouch - Sistagirlfriend (Soul Survivor) Jazzanova ft. Paul Randolph - Lucky Girl (Of All The Things) Kindred The Family Soul - Love We Share (The Arrival) Nikka Costa - Without Love (Pebble To A Pearl) Bamboos ft. Kylie Auldist - Make It Real (Side Stepper) Shena - It's A Mystery (One Man Woman) Sol Edler - The One Pt. 2 (iTunes) Slique - Your Body (Rhythm & Ghetto Soul) Foreign Exchange - Leave It All Behind (Leaving It All Behind) Slakah The Beatchild ft. Ebrahim - I'll Be Alright (Soul Movement Vol. 1) Brenda Boykin - Love Is In Town (Chocolate And Chilli) ****** Every bit as good as Mario Biondi 'This Is What You Are' Nicola Conte - Like Leaves In The Wind (Rituals) ****** Ditto!! ************* Liquid Spirits - Music (Music) Kindred The Family Soul - No Limit (The Arrival) Tonya Baker - Joy Of Forgiveness (Special Friend) De Ann Lott - Return To The Center (Return To The Center) Andrae Alexander ft. Deborah Bond - The Right Time (Andrae's World) Soul Movement - Unity (Universal) Bennson - Incredible (Let The Love) Bahama Soul Club - But Rich Rhythms (Rhythm Is What Makes Jazz Jazz) Jeff Lorber - You Got Something (I Heard That) Paul Jackson ft. James Reese - Can This Be Real (Lay It Back) Tim Bowman - All I Need Is You (Tim Bowman) Sean Miranda - Amazing (Ready) Kindred The Family Soul - Hey (The Arrival) Spanky Wilson & The QSO - Waiting For Your Touch (Domu Remix) (Shapes 08.02) SPONSORED BY SOUL BROTHER RECORDS, LONDON TEL: +44 0 208 875 1018 www.soulbrother.com Older podcasts/shows available here: >>>>> HERE <<<<< Cheers Roger Williams

https://www.vanessahaynes.com Her 2006 album is superb, she's the kind of real new talent that needs exposure imvho. Roger

Only with idiots who can only post one line inane shite on forums . . .

That's like a line out of my own autobiography mate!! :lol:

You're a prime case in point, Beeks - I can guarantee you that because of this forum and some of the fuss surrounding you, regardless of it being of your making or what others have said, people wouldn't book you to DJ purely because of it, despite never having met you or know anything about you and regardless of how good a DJ you might be. Not that you'd be bothered in the slightest I suppose, but that can be how it works. All a bit daft really. Imvho of course. Roger

Doesn't always work like that though does it Jayne. I'm sure that vocal punters and other DJ's also getting in the ear of the promoter can sometimes have an effect as well. Sad but true.

Would you?

Do the majority even care who the DJ's are as long as they hear the music they want to? And how many promoters would book a DJ they don't actually like for whatever reason despite them always doing the business behind the decks when they play anywhere?

I believe this was taken recently when Steve was DJ'ing:

You can buy it legally on a download here: https://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/1234284-02.htm

SOULSORTS ON SOLAR RADIO - SUNDAY 28th SEPTEMBER 2008 SPONSORED BY SOUL BROTHER RECORDS, LONDON TEL: 0208 875 1018 https://www.soulbrother.com Podcast now available from https://www.soulsorts.co.uk or direct link: >> HERE << Click to listen, right-click to download. PLAYLIST (album titles in brackets): Kloud 9 - All That Matters (Enjoy The Ride) Maysa - Happy Feelings (Metamorphosis) Shuya Okino - Summer Love (Root Soul Remix) (United Legends More Remixes) Joe Johnson - Steppers Holiday (The Afterparty) Femi - Crush (Sweet Water Soul) Vernon Williams - If (Anticipation) Dionyza - Today Will Soon Be Yesterday (Dionyza) Heston - Radio (Storyteller) Kenny Lattimore - It Ain't No Use (Timeless) Eric Benet - Weekend Girls (Love & Life) Divine Brown - Next Best Thing (The Love Chronicles) Solange - Ode To Marvin (Sol Angel & The Hadley St. Dreams) Jazz Crusaders - I Want A New Man (Kick The Jazz) Maysa - Simpatico (Metamorphosis) Lenora Jaye - Taking Over (Independent Soul Divas) Chanel - Lovely Day (Independent Soul Divas) Dionyza - Waiting (Dionyza) Keelay & Zaire - Alright With Me (Ridin' High EP) Tarsha McMillian Hamilton - Praise Him (The McMillian Story) Raven Williams - Should We (Love Rises) Leigh Jones - Free Fall (Music In My Soul) Robin Thicke - Ms. Harmony (Something Else) Wayne Brady - F.W.B. (A Long Time Coming) Dionyza - Give It To Me (Dionyza) Keni Myles - 4 This Luv (My Rhythm & My Blues) Kloud 9 - Never Give It Up (Enjoy The Ride) Shena - One Man Woman (Sheriff's Organic Funk Mix) Older podcasts/shows available here: >>>>> HERE <<<<< Cheers Roger Williams

I don't think the Fantastic Four 'Back In Circulation' or 'Night Time Is The Right Time' ever got the attention they deserved. Great tracks, both of them. https://www.emusic.com/album/The-Fantastic-...d/10991742.html

I don't post anything contentious now Ian. People are always watching, ready to pounce . . .

Sorry Phil, I'm chocka with work right now. I wasn't being critical of you in any way though mate, not at all, I think the label's pretty good personally. Cheers Roger

Steve, you were quite some mentor in the early days over things like that mate, and for that I thank you!! I tell you what though, I looked through the old Topica archives fairly recently, going back to 2001 and I subsequently had to hire a tractor and tow rope to uncurl my toes after reading some of the stuff I used to post, some of it was funny, but a lot of it . . . . f*ck me I wouldn't even THINK some of that stuff now, let alone post it on a public forum!!!!! We live and learn mate. Eventually. Roger

Look for the kind fonts that have an old 'hot metal' equivalent, ones that would have been used in the 60s and 70s in particular - Engravers, Gothic, Imprint, Didot, Modern (funnily enough! ) - I know these can cost money but equivalents to most of them can be found on blogs or free websites. Arial is quite simply the shittest typeface ever invented, why anyone would ever use it is beyond me. Also by making the type too lined up, structured and uniform can give it too new an appearance, if you look at the old labels, the layout of a lot of the type was very random and rough in a lot of cases. Just a few thoughts, that's all. Roger

It's all good mate, most of us know that. Have you heard the new Jazzanova record? https://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/328496-01.htm I reckon you'll like it, and it's on a seven. Roger

He's certainly demolished this one!!! JOKE!!!! Sorry Paul, it's just the usual scenario of words on a screen and a too quick response and all that. Roger

I like the new pastiche designs, I've done a few for Expansion over the years and I think the idea of doing them should be looked on as complimentary, rather than looked on as something derogatory. Got to agree on the typeface issue though (being a typographer I would do!), the choice of font can be all-important to the genuine look of these labels. Roger

Don't talk down to me Paul, there's a good lad. Roger

Ian, what you might want to realise that people clicking on a zshare link cross-posted on various forums doesn't necessarily equate to 530 people actually downloading the track to their computer because they think it's great and thereby creating a 'monster' sound - every single click on a link on that site registers as a 'download' - people more often than not will click on a link simply out of curiosity to hear it, as I did. I'm sure any member of this forum could upload any track along with massively excited hype along the lines of 'best undiscovered 60s northern soul dancer in history' attached to it in a lot of their forum posts and the 'downloads' would be in the hundreds in a short space of time, regardless of who posted it. But that said, ribbing aside and despite my own personal opinion on it, I wish you the very best of success with it mate, seriously. And regarding my top 500 for 2008, I'm not actually going to bother this year, because I've seen the light and now understand that the only worthwhile new releases are those that sound like they were made in the 1960s, I've been wrong all along and now bow down to those far superior to me. Roger

For the crime of raving about Gary Masterblaster I'd put Ian Dewhirst in prison, on Deaf Row.

I know.

Are you printing up some certificates for these venues to hang behind the decks? Or badges for OVO DJ's to wear? You could set up your own organisation, Steve, in the way we have to conform to ISO standards at work, and you could recruit OVO Inspectors to go round each venue on a quarterly basis and ask all the DJ's and promoters to fill in forms and problem/complaint reports and file them away to show to the OVO Inspectors when they do their rounds. Could be onto something here don't you think? Look out for stickers being printed up and put in the back window next to the OKEH stickers of cars with tenuous registration plates containing the letters OUL coming to a car park outside a venue near you. Roger