There's more than a few on here from the darkside, or at least have one foot in there, so I guess that some could be up for modern soul CD exchange...

Anything post 1970, any style.... deep through soulful house, and maybe even some jazz ...any tempo, but let's not make 'em to obvious, some deeper digging would be doing it justice....

Sign up here, and PM me with address details, so's I can compile the darkside swappers.........

Just one last thing....please only sign up if you're gonna do the right thing and send your CDs out.....ta.

s7oul... who knows a thing or three about quality modern soul, and rhino signed up so far.........so come on don't be shy......

I'll play

I'll join in this one if that's ok. Are we limiting the numbers or will be be a bigge like some of the earlier ones i got involved in?

Looking good...... the list of swappers is buliding up nicely, there's 7 of us now. I'd thought about limiting numbers to 20 to keep it manageable....

Right then............anymore for anymore..............

We're halfway there at 10 in the darkside mix now......which includes some highly respected collectors and DJs...which promises for some tasty CDs......

Just 10 more places left, so don't miss out......

9.......

........8.......

......6.....

I'll give it a go.....

I'll give it a go.....

You're in very good company John...

.......5........

I'll have a dabble in this one if it's OK, Cliff?

Roger

I'll have a dabble in this one if it's OK, Cliff?

Roger

Absolutely ok Roger....

.......4........

..........3...........

Final countdown..

I,m in if there's still space.

Gary

......2......

....be quick..

KarlM's just grabbed the 19th space....so that just leaves..........

.......1..........

KarlM's just grabbed the 19th space....so that just leaves..........

.......1..........

got pleanty of modern cds but most made up cdrs but some very nice tunes ,any good if so i will play

I'm game, have i missed the cut ?, happy to do a full CD with post 1970 tracks taken from my own record collection.

Brett

Edited February 23, 201015 yr by Brett F

Thanks to everyone who've joined up on the swap, the response has been outstanding, and all the signs are right for some very tasty CDs.........

So the gate's now closed with final darkside entrants from Soul SV10, and Brett F, making us a final group number of 22...guys please PM me with your address details...ta...

I'll round up all of the addresses and confirm details via PM to everyone by the end of the week.

Yowsah...

Right i've got my final draft for the cd swap, 24 tracks all vinyl except one cd only track, just started burning the first of the 21 needed, need some gloss paper for cover and listing then i'm ready to go to press, just need those addresses.

Brett

ps.. it is tough, when trying not to be too obvious, you end up thinking ' oh they are bound to know this and that'

but i sort of went down that route, hopefully everyone will find the odd thing they haven't got (know) and enjoy them.

Edited February 25, 201015 yr by Brett F

Missed this thread, can I be 1st reserve?

I would like to be 2nd reserve if possible,

in case someone gets cold feet realising

that they won´t have time to complete a disc,

I can step in. Please let me know if the opportunity arises.

Melismo, living on the dark side

+ Or the techy-minded and computer-literate people can post a zipped/RAR-file

for people to download the tracks, thus no need for CD-Rs, stamps or envelopes... +

If not DJM. we'll do a 2 man disc swap ok?

Just completed a final round-up of swappers and details, and found that I'd mis-counted.... . So PhillyDaveG and djmelismo are also in, making a final total of 21.

Only 3 more addresses to collect and I'll have the mailing list out to everyone tomorrow...

20 CD's done, cover and track list finished, just waiting for addresses now Cliff mate.

Brett F

Blimey Brett I haven't decided what were going to have for dinner tonight let alone choose the tracks and burn 20 CD's

Blimey Brett I haven't decided what were going to have for dinner tonight let alone choose the tracks and burn 20 CD's

I'm always early John..always...........

Fookin' el Brett I'm still wading through thousands of obscure 45s and album tracks for my comp.

Best

Blake

20 CD's done, cover and track list finished, just waiting for addresses now Cliff mate.

Brett F

Strewth Brett....I'm still warming the valves on my amp.....

Looks like the pace has been set guys.....addresses with you all tomorrow.....

Strewth Brett....I'm still warming the valves on my amp.....

Looks like the pace has been set guys.....addresses with you all tomorrow.....

done my cd now and have sent email/pm out to day i think???

Thats 7 international participants including Jock , that blows my 2nd class stamp strategy out of the water......

Just completed a final round-up of swappers and details, and found that I'd mis-counted.... . So PhillyDaveG and djmelismo are also in, making a final total of 21.

Only 3 more addresses to collect and I'll have the mailing list out to everyone tomorrow...

Thanks Cliff, have PM:ed you my address,

putting it here in the thread too:

Mats Olofsson

Torget 1A

264 32 KLIPPAN

SWEDEN

And just to clarify, I´m DJ Melismo on here, well, it´s the moniker I always use in soul music circles, but as you can see above my real name is Mats :O)

Ok fellas' , 21 cd's done each a 21 track affair, mainly 70's a few 80/90's plus one from last year, all with sleeve, disc artwork, track listing, label info etc, all ready to post tomorrow.

Keep an eye on the post.

Brett

hi chaps

is there room for a little 'un.

alan

Edited March 4, 201015 yr by ajb

hi chaps

is there room for a little 'un.

alan

posting my 2cd out to every one later this afternoon ( ajb email me and i will add you to the list if you still want to )

My CDs go out this afternoon as well...

posting my 2cd out to every one later this afternoon ( ajb email me and i will add you to the list if you still want to )

My CDs go out this afternoon as well...

Won't be able to burn the stuff till next weekend, I just moved into a new flat and it's a big mess!

Will do the selection this weekend and maybe record it during the week!

Looking forward to the cd's!!

For many years been buying the same type of FUJI CD-Rs, never had any problems, bought a packet of TDK CD-Rs now and the first disc I burned skips somewhere halfway through. Strange... Maybe have to go to town to buy those FUJI ones after all, since they have never given me any grief in the past.

Any guidelines apart from the obvious - modern soul is mid-70´s and onwards up until brand new releases, I supply tracklisting with year, label and format, and I try to dig a bit deeper and come up with some overlooked gems?!

I suggest people make a tracklisting like

1.

2.

3.

because otherwise it´s hard to find the right track. Was part of another CD swap, was sitting in the car and wanted to play a certain track and it was very complicated because the tracks weren´t numbered so hard to locate.

In case someone happens to supply insufficient postage, especially when there are a few `international´ participants in a CD swap, always a good idea to write "sender" and your address on the backside of the envelope, in case something´s wrong (in some cases the letter may be damaged and the address becomes unintelligible) then the letter will be returned to sender.

My local post office would like me to give as much information as possible, so hopefully I can make out which ones are UK addresses, and they even want me to state whether the letters are supposed to go out to England, Scotland etc.

Best,

Melismo

Edited March 5, 201015 yr by djmelismo

For many years been buying the same type of FUJI CD-Rs, never had any problems, bought a packet of TDK CD-Rs now and the first disc I burned skips somewhere halfway through. Strange... Maybe have to go to town to buy those FUJI ones after all, since they have never given me any grief in the past.

Any guidelines apart from the obvious - modern soul is mid-70´s and onwards up until brand new releases, I supply tracklisting with year, label and format, and I try to dig a bit deeper and come up with some overlooked gems?!

I suggest people make a tracklisting like

1.

2.

3.

because otherwise it´s hard to find the right track. Was part of another CD swap, was sitting in the car and wanted to play a certain track and it was very complicated because the tracks weren´t numbered so hard to locate.

In case someone happens to supply insufficient postage, especially when there are a few `international´ participants in a CD swap, always a good idea to write "sender" and your address on the backside of the envelope, in case something´s wrong (in some cases the letter may be damaged and the address becomes unintelligible) then the letter will be returned to sender.

My local post office would like me to give as much information as possible, so hopefully I can make out which ones are UK addresses, and they even want me to state whether the letters are supposed to go out to England, Scotland etc.

Best,

Melismo

i have listed mine 1 2 3 etc and will make sure postage is right when i send them today and enclose address etc

For many years been buying the same type of FUJI CD-Rs, never had any problems, bought a packet of TDK CD-Rs now and the first disc I burned skips somewhere halfway through. Strange... Maybe have to go to town to buy those FUJI ones after all, since they have never given me any grief in the past.

Any guidelines apart from the obvious - modern soul is mid-70´s and onwards up until brand new releases, I supply tracklisting with year, label and format, and I try to dig a bit deeper and come up with some overlooked gems?!

I suggest people make a tracklisting like

1.

2.

3.

because otherwise it´s hard to find the right track. Was part of another CD swap, was sitting in the car and wanted to play a certain track and it was very complicated because the tracks weren´t numbered so hard to locate.

In case someone happens to supply insufficient postage, especially when there are a few `international´ participants in a CD swap, always a good idea to write "sender" and your address on the backside of the envelope, in case something´s wrong (in some cases the letter may be damaged and the address becomes unintelligible) then the letter will be returned to sender.

My local post office would like me to give as much information as possible, so hopefully I can make out which ones are UK addresses, and they even want me to state whether the letters are supposed to go out to England, Scotland etc.

Best,

Melismo

Hi Melismo, i have individually recorded (over a period of time) some of my vinyl from my deck to a pioneer CD recorder (all on memorex audio/music CDR's) then downloaded them into my laptops itunes (in AAC format 128kb) then burnt to a CDR (with full text, number/ artist /title /label ), i have also printed full information on paper as well. Now this is the tricky bit the final CDR will play in my laptop and also the Pioneer CD recorder separate (plus my Toshiba DVD player), but they will not play in my older Marantz CD player (hi fi separate)...But i have done all my CDR's in recent years the same way and other folks have been able to play them on their own set-up.....Just think any older CD players were not as advanced to cope with plain CDR's........(what's annoying is the Marantz cost me a bloody fortune when i got it, just shows how fast technology moves on ).

Brett

Edited March 5, 201015 yr by Brett F

Received Brett's and Lars' CD's yesterday, looking and sounding good so far. Cheers chaps.

Roger

Received Brett's and Lars' CD's yesterday, looking and sounding good so far. Cheers chaps.

Roger

so did i ,mine should be with every one this week as all posted now

There's more than a few on here from the darkside, or at least have one foot in there, so I guess that some could be up for modern soul CD exchange...

Anything post 1970, any style.... deep through soulful house, and maybe even some jazz ...any tempo, but let's not make 'em to obvious, some deeper digging would be doing it justice....

Sign up here, and PM me with address details, so's I can compile the darkside swappers.........

Just one last thing....please only sign up if you're gonna do the right thing and send your CDs out.....ta.

I'm interested if its still open ?? I pulled a modern selection for the one we just did, but plumed for a sixties CD in the end..

Mal.C.

Got 3 so far, some chunky tunes on them...... Not really sure I can compete with the presentation on these, but will try my best

Got 3 so far, some chunky tunes on them...... Not really sure I can compete with the presentation on these, but will try my best

You obviously have'nt got mine yet then John !

Gary

Cheers guys, glad the CD's arrived safely (and play), i have received Lar's and Rob's so far and both members have incredible taste, thank you fella's, i am eager for the following swaps.

Cheers Brett

Enjoyed lars cd last night, some standout tunes on there, love that new year track......

Don't miss lars at the next dab of soul night on April 17th!

Chris

Enjoyed lars cd last night, some standout tunes on there, love that new year track......

Don't miss lars at the next dab of soul night on April 17th!

Chris

I have Lars' CD playing now.....some very nice tunes, and future bank balance impact...

Rob's CD duo arrived yesterday, so I'll be getting into them over the weekend...

Cheers guys, glad the CD's arrived safely (and play), i have received Lar's and Rob's so far and both members have incredible taste, thank you fella's, i am eager for the following swaps.

Cheers Brett

Brett, thanks for the Mondo Grosso version of Family mate, I wasn't aware they'd covered that, love it.

Roger

I have so far received five discs from four different people: Lars, Brett, Gary, and the two CDs from Robert (SOULWV10), yes, Robert sent out two discs, a wonderful bonus.

Enjoying these discs, I have listened to all five of them already, couldn´t wait, and I am glad to say that they were all top notch, you´ve set the standards very high gents

My CDs won´t be ready until the end of the month, but within the timeframe that has been set, unless something very unexpected happens, like me falling from a cliff breaking legs and arms or something similar. It will take some time to select the tracks, burn the CDs, compile tracklist, put addresses and stamps on the envelopes etc. Will let you know when they´re done and/or has actually been sent out - and everytime a new parcel drops on my doormat I will let you know in this thread as to confirm that they´ve arrived safely and also post some comments on the actual tracks if I can find the time.

Once again thanks for the CDs I have received so far!

Cheers,

Melismo

Edited March 11, 201015 yr by djmelismo