Recording of Steve Laming's weekly Groovin show for www.afro-disiac.co.uk. This was the second yacht rock special and featured an excellent 35 mini mix put together by Mr Mellow, Les Fisher.

Smooth Sailing,  Yacht Rock, Steve Laming featuring a Les Fisher Minimix

Norma Jean Bell - you Belong To Me, Love Unlimited - Move Me NO Mountain (bydesign rework), Sixth Borough Project- If The Feeling Moves You, SE62 - Dreamin', Mark E - one Way Your Way, CosmicBoogie/Rayko - Do I DO (Sleazy McQueen edit), Mat Chiavaroli- War Outside, MCDE - Raw Cuts 3, Bob Marley - Sun Is Shining (moodwax edit), Moodymanc - Black Paint (Larry Heard's After Dark mix), Norma Jean Bell - Dreams, Wbeeza - he's So Crazy, Bas Amro - Ten (Vincenzo mix), Olene Kadar - Baby Keep It Up (pooley's Main Mix), Farley Jackmaster Funk - I'm a House Head (Mike Dunn Blackball Soul Mix), Inner Souls - Satisfy (Booker T mix), Moodymann - I Can't Sensurreal

Steve Laming - The House That Disco Built

Steve Laming goes off the rails with a departure from the usual jazzy and afro house kinda stuff to delve into some jazzy hip hop and beats for a one off 2 hour special. Catch Steve every Thursday between 8 and 10pm on www.soulpower-radio.com.

 Tracklist includes DJ Cam, DJ Tonk, DJ Day, Sound Providers, Gagle, J Rawls & John Robinson, Digable Planets, Taku, DJ Ezaccsul, Grooveman Spot A, Count Bass D, Tribe Called Quest, Shinsight Trio, Kero One, DJ Spinna, Jazz Liberatorz, Us3, Visioneers, Kid Stone etc....
Big love x

Laming With The Jazzy Hip Hop Good Stuff on Soulpower Radio 13th August 2015

This is what happened when the awesome Les Fisher joined Steve Laming for a special Smooth Sailing, 2 hours of records with an Aloha Soul vibe. Join us for an easy few hours around the harbour, thanks for your ears x

Smooth Sailing With Steve Laming & Les Fisher 6th October On Soulpower Radio 20161006 2000

Taking an occasional road trip down the west coast.

1 Sa Fosca by Joan Bibiloni
2 Around The Bend by Universal Cave
3 Kleeer Sailing by Kleeer
4 All I Want by Kalapana
5 Soft Soul Transition by SST
6 I’ve Been Around by Dos Palos
7 I Name This Ship Survival by Cado Belle
8 Feel Like Flying by Gino Vannelli
9 Don’t Hang Up Those Dancing Shoes by Terence Boylan
10 We May Never Pass This Way Again by Seals & Crofts
11 Fazon by Sopwith Camel
12 Lady Love, Atlantic by Barrabas
13 Coming Down From Love by Bobby Caldwell
14 Black Country Lady by The Movies
15 Discover Your Life by Stylus
16 Summer Blue by Bread & Butter
17 Thunder In The Afternoon by Bobbie Gentry
18 Under the Jamaican Moon by Leah Kunkel
19 Jesus Luvs You by Los Porcos
20 El Cumpleanos Di Jaimito by Joan Bibiloni
21 Doing Nothing by Bruce Blackman
22 Ben’s My Friend by Sun Kil Moon
23 Silence in the Sand by Neville Skelley
24 Opposite House by Cass McCombs
25 Easy to Love by Leo Sayer
26 Peckin by The Peckers
27 99 Miles From LA by Art Garfunkel

Mountains & Coves, Laming With An AOR Good Stuff On Soulpower Radio 16th March

Bunch of tunes which were in the bag for the COR 2012 Easter Bonnet Boutique with special guest Terry Farley
Tracklist: Crazy P - Love on the Line, Dale Howard - Merrt, Trent & Damier - The Choice, Raw Instinct - De La Bass, Mood ii Swing - Call Me, Nathan G - Come and Get It, RIP Productions - On Cloud 9, Kerri Chandler - Love To The World, Vanessa Daou - Once In A While,  Sasse & James Flavour - The Right Way, Terrance Parker - Let Your Love Show, Rose Rouge, Jazz Society, C'mon and Get Down


Steve Laming - COR Easter House

A mix put together for the Civilisation of the Rough Advent 2017 series.

Afro House Groovers

Lovers Rock old school style
White label...mash up
- Sensi Addick
Natural Ites and Mystic - Picture on the wall
In Crowd - Back a Yard
Tradition - Moving On
Matumbi - Point of view
Shelene Thomas - A little more time
Black Harmony - Don't let it go to your head
Susan Cadogan and Rudy Thomas - You know how to make me feel so good
Jimmy Lindsay - Aint no sunshine
Tyrone David - Mind blowing decisions
Eargasm - This is lovers rock
Dillinger - Coacaine in my brain
Eargasm - P Pop & the Beagle

Steve Laming - Lovers Rock Reggae

July warm up mix, nothing too rare or too new, just stuff from the last few months. No manic banging grooves just nice vibey dance music. Join us on 27th July at Farm Festival where we open our secret disco tent for some serious business with special guest Graeme Park. Info and tickets www.c-o-r.co.uk

Steve Mill & Luke Fair, Sascha Dive, Maceo Plex, Dale Howard, Nick Holder, Moodymanc, Nick Holder, Eric Powa B, Maya Jane Coles,The Realm, Soul Magic, Sasse & James Flavour,  Mark Farina...proper list to follow!!!

Steve Laming  - July Loosener

Li'l mix put together of randomly selected grooves prior to raving in the COR secret disco tent at the Farm Festival: Johnny Dynell - Jam Hot, Crazy P - Love On The Line, Nikola Gala - I Get U, Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime (Leftside Wobble Mix), Joey Negro/Doug Willis - Universe of Sound, Dennis Ferrer - Shout, Dubtribe - Do It Now (Tom Middleton Mix), KB" (kerri Chandler) - Love To The World, East West Connection - East West Connection

Steve Laming - Farm Festival Mix

Steve Laming - The House With No Name

Those Southsea party monsters Civilisation of the Rough aka COR, came into the studio for Steve Laming's weekly Groovin show and absolutely tore it up. This was the first anniversary of the show and what better way to celebrate it than have the boys in for a 2 hour mayhem special. 

Groovin' with COR live on Afro-Disiac Radio 3rd Mar 2013

Soul Bros Inc. - Pyramid, Supremes - Stormy, Alice Clark - Never did, Barbara Mason - World In Crisis, Beloyd - Get Into Your Life, Dennis Rogers - it's You Girl, Flowers - For Real, Jesse James - if You Want A Love Affair, General Johnson - Don't Walk Away, Natural High - I think Im Falling In Love With You, Gail Eason - Loves Gonna Find You, Ruby Andrews - merry Go Round, Gloria Scott - As Long As We're Together, Thelma Jones- You're the song, Hard Cover - Do You Love Me, Rita Wright - Touch Me Take Me, Mary Mundy - You Put a Hurting On Me, Sterling Harrison - You Got That Thing



Steve Laming Slow and Midtempo Soul

Just a micro mix for sending to my COR buddies for inclusion on the fortnightly radio show on Groove School.....
MCDE - Send a Prayer Part 1
Cecilia Stalin - Afro Blu
Jaymo & Andy George - Take it to the hoop
Scope - Deep Inside
Jordan Peak - Kinda Fine

COR Radio Micro Mix 18th April

Special guest Rosko joining Steve Laming for his weekly show on www.afro-disiac.co.uk. Bumping house, mostly deep, some jazzy.

Groovin with  COR's Steve Laming & Rosko 23 Jun 2013

Please check out the radio show every Thursday at 8pm UTC on www.soulpower-radio.com for a pile of jazzy and afro house with some soulful and deep grooves. 
also check Mixcloud for radio podcasts  http://www.mixcloud.com/steve-laming/

Steve began by jointly setting up the legendary Black Velvet Soul and Funk club in 1977 which started as one-off party and then snowballed to 400+ attendances on fortnightly Thursday sessions. Membership grew to over 1200 and a bi-monthly fanzine called Read the Groove was circulated to the membership. Steve established a reputation for playing cutting edge jazz funk, latin, soul and disco, he was breaking a lot of new stuff which would eventually become rare groove, Reuben Wilson and Got to Get Your Own started in a junk shop in Gosport. There was real hunger in the early disco/jazz funk clientele and regular coach trips were run to see guys like Crown Heights Affair and Roy Ayers.

Adding various other local venues to form a weekly round of gigs then attracted the attention of London promoters Funky Fox and under their banner he was playing a lot of venues in Portsmouth, Isle of Wight weekenders, and in London as well as promoting regular parties. The dj line up for these events included the late Steve Walsh, Tony Hodges, Greg Edwards, Cleveland Anderson, Owen Washington and the Sunday night Funky Fox sessions saw Steve and Black Velvet playing alongside the Soul Mafia man Sean French and the legendary Crackers’ own George Power.
The DJing covered all-dayers, all-nighters and weekenders as well as promoting parties and gigs. The Portsmouth all nighters drew in over 1500 people and these were often followed with a coach trip to an all dayer. He even promoted the first ever cross-channel funk cruise, the car deck of a cross channel ferry was converted into a club and with guests including Chris Brown and Sean French an alldayer to Cherbourg and back was a duty free dance off! Other ventures saw a young jazz funk DJ named Pete Tong guest at one party above the Crown Bingo in Gosport!

The promoting side brought bands like Players Association, Steel Pulse, Hi Tension to the city and in addition Black Velvet had a two year residency at the now legendary Cabin in Portsmouth. The Cabin was one of the most underground clubs on the circuit holding just 150 people but the music policy ensured the newest and the rarest music was played and the legendary Afro Arts founder and king of the jazz dance scene Paul Murphy was a very special and welcome guest at the club.

Steve played at many now-legendary venues including Upstairs at Erics in Bournemouth  Other venues included: Blues in London and had regular residencies in venues including, Floaters in Southampton the Old Coach House in Fareham.

Over the following 20 years or so Steve really just played the odd party and occasionally re-surfaced in promotions such as Just Jazz.
Steve has worked with good buddy Mick Hood over the years and in the 1980s their Vibes Soul Club venture saw sessions in the Dungeon Club in Fareham which were a legendary blend of rare independent soul and underground jazz and they were often joined by the Northern Soul guru, Shay. Recently Steve and Mick had a residency at Pulcinella in Southampton, under the banner of Thank Funk and have over time guested at many parties.

Steve now plays a mix of balearic, disco, deep house, rare groove, funk, NY disco, cosmic disco, soul and latin. Still a manic record buyer he is always launching new tunes sprinkled with some gems from back in the day. More recent influences include stuff produced by: Joe Claussell, Ron Trent, Moodyman, Ray Mang, JT Donaldson, Prins Thomas. and all time favourite tunes would include Hudson People’ Trip to your mind, Crown Heights Affair, Far Out, Funk Inc. Sister Janie, Second Crusade, May the funk be with you, amongst many, many thousand others.

Steve is part of the Southsea underground disco collective Civilisation of the Rough www.c-o-r.co.uk

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