As Groovadelica's head honcho Jason Eli reaches 50 years young, he's joined by his fellow 50 year old Soul boy Paul Tilley and Bradley McNamara to look back at 50 beautiful tunes, with each tune being their stand out song of each year from 1970 to 2020. The guys talk about what was happening with music, fashion and life in each of those years. This episode is over four hours long, so strap yourself in for a fun musical journey through time.

TRACK LIST & YEARS

1970 Psychedelic Shack Temptations

1971 What’s going on Marvin Gaye

1972 Get on the good foot James Brown

1973 Jungle Boogie Kool and the Gang

1974 Be thankful for what you got William De Vaughan

1975 The Hustle Van McCoy

1976 As Steve Wonder

1977 Riga Mortis Cameo

1978 Love Don’t Live Here Anymore Rose Royce

1979 Off the Wall Michael Jackson

1980 Guilty Barbara Streisand

1981 Southern Freez Freez

1982 The Message Grandmaster Flash

1983 Come with me Tania Maria

1984 Poo Poo La La Roy Ayres

1985 Saturday Love Cherelle

1986 Dreamer BB&Q

1987 Bob George Prince

1988 Teardrops Womack and Womack

1989 Back To Life Soul II Soul

1990 Fight the Power Public Enemy

1991 Unfinished Sympathy Massive Attack

1992 The reminisce over you Pete Rock and C L Smooth

1993 Slave to the vibe Aftershock

1994 Sabotage Beastie Boys

1995 Horizons L T J Bookham

1996 Ascension / No Ones Gonna Love Maxwell

1997 Sweet Tears / Runaway Nuyorican Soul

1998 Evel Keneval Deadly Avenger

1999 I Try Macey Gray

2000 Crazy Love MJ Cole

2001 Eye on the gold chain Ugly Duckling

2002 Hold it down 4 Hero Bugs in the Attic Remix

2003 We know something you don’t know DJ Format

2004 Happy Max Sedgley

2005 Feel Good Inc Gorillaz

2006 Rehab Amy Winehouse

2007 Paintings and journeys Quatincs

2008 Tighten Up - Black Keys

2009 Erykah Badou Honey

2010 Mad Slinky ft Omar Special

2011 Heart Aches and Pain Charles Bradley

2012 First Serve We Made It

2013 That’s Right Jason Eli

2014 Magic Disco Machine Jorun PMC

2015 Waves Mr Probz

2016 Anderson .Paak Am I Wrong (Malibu)

2017 Steve Nichol Dangerous Romance

2018 Like Sugar Chaka Khan

2019 Heaven The Vision

2020 Two Steps Behind - Soul Prophet & Jason Eli featuring Jem

 

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What can we say about Prince, apart from “Wow”. If you don’t know a lot about this musical legend, then this Masterclass is for you.

It’s a one hour long special on Prince's music and career in his year's at Warner Brother’s Records. 

With commentary on Prince’s career from Darren Simpson and a track from each and every one of the 18 albums released within this period from 1978 to 1996.

This podcast episode also includes an unreleased Prince demo that never made it to the Tim Burton version of the Batman franchise.

Presented, recorded and edited by Darren Simpson A.K.A .Boston Rodriguez

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Formed in 1987 in Long Island, New York City, a Rap music trio known as De La Soul created a new and unique approach to the genre. During the late 1980's, Hip-Hop's subject matter consisted mainly of bragging or stories of urban decay, but the trio of Posdnuos, Maceo & Trugoy brought a sly sense of humour and psychedelic imagery to the then exploding rap music scene. They went on to loose their hippy image but continued to make great music. In this Masterclass episode, presenter Darren Shredder dives into and talks about their back catalogue.

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Seen as an all-time classic album in Hip-Hop and beyond. Created by Hip-Hop's most successful music producer, we take a look at the tracks from Dr. Dre's "The Chronic" and delve into what made this album so successful in spreading west coast Rap music.

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In the first of our short, sweet & special "Masterclass series" we take a look into the career and music of Jazz legend John Coltrane. 

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In the mid 1970's, piano playing prodigy Herbie Hancock practically invented Jazz fusion with his album "Headhunters". In this episode our presenter Darren Simpson explores this seminal album.

"Headhunters" is a unique mix of Funk, Jazz & Rock with African & Latin rhythms and appealed to not just Jazz music fans. The album features on Rolling Stone’s ’40 Greatest Stoner Albums’

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Formed in 1992, British  group Jamiroquai have created a fantastic body of music while remaining close to their musical roots of Jazz, Funk, Latin, Disco & Soul. Presenter Darren Simpson takes a look and listen at their history and some of their less well known songs.

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Dom Servini is a DJ, music lover and co-manager of the fantastic Wah Wah 45s record label & club night. Based in London, Wah Wah 45s has been putting out an eclectic & high quality selection of music and artists that range from Jazz, Soul & African music to blue eyed soul, Funk & Disco. In this episode, Jason Eli talks to Dom about how he turned his love affair with music into a full time adventure and also looks back on 20 years of the label with the releases that are special to Dom. Featuring music from Bonobo, Talc, Dele Sosimi and much more. Enjoy!

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We look back on some classic 1990's rave music that helped shape the following era of Dance music. 

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Presenter Darren Simpson takes a look at Peter Tosh’s memorable music and career.

Peter was one of the core members of the band The Wailers (1963–1976), after which he established himself as a successful solo artist and a promoter of Rastafari. His lyrics were often political as well as spiritual. He was murdered in 1987 during a home invasion.

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