This week we welcome a true selector and LBC favourite on the podcast!  Paul sent over these words about his musical journey to date;

I began buying records as a young teenager in the mid to late 70s, starting off with Soul, Funk and Disco, partly due to my Dad’s influence and taste, as he loved bands like Earth Wind & Fire, War and The Isley Brothers etc, but also through listening to tastemaker radio DJ’s like Robbie Vincent and Greg Edwards, as well as the numerous black music pirate radio stations of the day, and club DJs such as Froggy, Chris Hill and Bob Jones. My tastes grew to include Jazz, Latin and Fusion, and with a passion for new cutting-edge music developing, early Hip Hop and Electro, what is now known as Boogie, then in 1985…  HOUSE!

I started DJ’ing out in the early 80s, mainly at friends parties, progressing to warm ups at local Soul nights, before getting residencies at bars in London and Birmingham, and playing guest spots all over the UK and beyond.  

I was also co-organiser and one of the resident DJs at The Sands, the ‘pop-up’ gig across the road @Southport Weekender, which we did for 9 years until it moved to the new site in Minehead and am honoured to have played at the legendary Southport Weekenders since. I am also partnered with Nick Ferrara promoting Basement 108, a quarterly night in Glasgow, dedicated to Soulful Deep & House, where we’ve welcomed the cream of UK DJs like Neil Pierce, The Journey Men, Groove Assassin and Craig Smith to play for our knowledgeable crowd. 

I have also enjoyed many years doing internet radio before settling at STARPOINT RADIO where I can play all the music I love, always with a focus on new releases from contemporary Soul and Jazz, and the many shades of House music thru to vintage grooves from the 70s and 80s.

More from hime here >

Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/paulstuart
Mixcloud - https://www.mixcloud.com/PaulStuart/

Look Busy Collective 

Look Busy RhythmCast 182 - Paul Stuart (Basement 108 / Southport Weekender)

1 - Melvo Baptiste, Dames Brown - Sweat (Snips Extended Remix)
2 - Chiffon Zoo, Rona Ray - Answers (Soulmekanikz Remix)
3 - Dasoul, Morris Revy - Ready To Love (Corey Holmes Vocal Remix)
4 - Seychelle Elise - BLESSED (2 STEP MIX)
5 - The Realm, Tony Momrelle - Take You There (Squirell Soulful Mix)
6 - DJ Fudge, Kiko Navarro - So Tight (Original Mix)
7 - Karizma Good Morning (DJ Spen & Gary Hudgins Beautiful Morning Mix)
8 - Mark Hill, Ridney, Aaron James Cashell - Do What We Do (Sebb Junior Remix)
9 - Prefix One, Angenita Brown - Connectivity
10 - Sister Pearl-The Calling (T.Markakis Remix) 
11 - Babs Presents - Luv Me Like I Luv You (Original Mix)
12 - DJ Oji - The Good Ol' Dayz (DJ Oji's Groove And Bang Mix)
13 - 95 North - Let Yourself Go (Nautica's Make It Count Remix)
14 - 2Sleep, Tommie Cotton - Nite Time (Garage Dub)
15 - Oculist - Soul Saved (Original Mix)
16 - Vasily Umanets - Back in Business (Original Mix)
17 - Angelo Ferreri Time To Close (Original Mix)
18 - Black Rascals, Cassio Ware - So In Love (Atjazz Extended Peak Remix)
19 - Roland Clark, ANT LaROCK - I'm Not A Plugin (Saison Remix)
20 - Studioheist - All My Love
21 - Bonetti, Lee Wilson - Under The Moon (We Dance) (Scott Diaz Dub)
22 - ColorJaxx - Make It Better
23 - Laroye - First Sight feat Javonntte

Soul Chemistry Show (16/10/23) - Keith Harmer - D3ep Radio

Time for a new episode of Feel The Music!
Featuring one of my favourite things in Hardstyle: the sidechain.

A sidechain is when the volume of the music dips every time the kick hits, making everything sound more punchy and rhythmic.
This can result in trancy stuff like Soul Train, but it also works great for dark and epic screeches.

Tracklist:
01. Geck-O - Soul Train
02. Wildstylez & Noisecontrollers - A Different Story
03. Virtual Self - Ghost Voices (Clockartz Remix)
04. Frontliner & Max Enforcer - We Forget To Live
05. Activator - Summer Breeze
06. The R3belz & Vamper - Cosmik
07. ANDY SVGE - Gravity
08. Zatox meets The R3bels - Choir
09. B-Freqz - Destiny
10. Clockartz & Deetox - Music
11. B-Front & Andy SVGE - Beat The Darkness
12. Bass Modulators - Oxygen (Clockartz Remix)
13. B-Freqz - Hope
14. Sub Zero Project ft. Christina Novelli - The Contagion
15. Devin Wild - ACID
16. Artifact - Temples
17. B-Front & Aftershock - We Are All Stars
18. Prefix - Outrageous (Phuture Noize Remix)
19. Radical Redemption & Kold Konneccion - The Motherload
20. B-Front - Illusion (Original Anti Mix)
21. E-Force - Freakz At Night 2014
22. Day Mar - Feel Terror Cloud Your Senses (Radical Redemption Remix)
23. The Machine - #ghosts
24. Chris One - Sin City (Phuture Noize Remix)
25. Thera & Delete - Welcome
26. Genox - Doom

Feel The Music #82 - Twenty-Six Sidechains

Hardstyle DJ/Producer from The Netherlands

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Catch us broadcasting every Saturday on Manchester's underground station Disc Break Radio.

Radio www.discbreak.live/

You can also find us playing across the UK in various Clubs, Bars and Festivals as well as on podcasts or radio shows such as RhythmCast, Berlin Boombox, Crossfade, Dream Chimney, House Salad and Making Waves Underground.

Our Club Nights and Festival appearances have supported and booked DJs that include Dam Swindle, DJ Sneak, Dusky, Paul Woolford, George Fitzgerald, DJ Haus, Brawther, Robert Owens, Mella Dee, Slam, Horse Meat Disco, MK, Booka Shade, Chaos in the CBD, Darius Syrossian, Green Velvet, Purple Disco Machine, Basement Jaxx, John Digweed, James Zabeila, Palms Trax, Jamie Trench, Oli Furness and Ejeca.

This project is our creative platform to celebrate and share our collective love for House, Funk, Soul, Disco and any oddity or curve ball we come across in-between.

You can Find my Facebook Like Page here, please click on link below and like page for full details of my radio show, upcoming parties and much more :

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I go Live every Monday night at 20:00 - 22:00 GMT on D3ep Radio Network with my Soul Chemistry Show www.d3ep.com 

Bio:
Keith first started listening to House music back in 1991 when he would listen to his older brothers mix tapes which he brought back from raves.  At the weekend He would also listen in to pirate radio stations and was soon hooked to the rhythms of House ! It wasn’t until 1993 when he was 17 that he attended his first club and it was a life changing experience.     Not long after he got his first full time job and on his first payday brought a mixer, then following month brought some decks, every Saturday he would head out to his local record stores picking up the latest promos and search out tunes from some of his favourite labels and producers. He would spend the rest of the day spinning tunes and continuously practicing on the decks and then head out clubbing with friends in the evening. It was on the club scene he met many other friends with the same passion and they would hang out at after parties spinning tunes together. In 1995 he met Jackie after a cheesy chat-up line on the dance floor and they got married 3 years later. Jackie was a huge influence on Keith introducing him to more Soulful, Jazzy House beats and she also had a huge passion for music and had her own decks set-up at home.  Keith continued to play at parties and buy tunes up until 1999 when their first son was born.  Music then had to take a back seat and over the years he sold his vinyl collection and decks. Then in 2011 he was invited by an old friend to a charity house event and stepped back on the dance floor, Victor Simonelli was on the decks and the passion was reignited.  He went out again to a few more clubs and soon after brought a whole new DJ set-up and started mixing again.  He also started handing out mix CD’s and got his first break playing at Mi Casa Es Su Casa parties in the Nomad Club London in Feb 2013. Since then he has played again for Mi Casa as well as Harmony Parties, Smitten, Deep Into Soul, Funkalicious, House That Patrick Built, Interlaced, Mas Profundo and more in venues such as The Qube Project, Nomad Club, Metal Works, P.O.W, Cantina Bar, Project B, Charthouse Bar, Thames Boat Parties and many more.  Keith’s sets are always influenced by his US Soulful House roots with a mixture of long forgotten classics as well as the latest upfront Soulful & deep House cuts!

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