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OK HERE WE GO IF FOR SOME REASON MOTOWN AND NORTHERN SOUL DIDNT EXCIST WHAT MUSIC WOULD YOU LISERN TO AND WHY  . I WILL START

    Tecno is probly the genre i would lisern to it got a  fast beat and i have herd some good stuff come out it over the years even got a favourt peice its Adagio for strings by samual barber there i done but never fear soul will live for ever

 

 

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Well Dave, for me it wouldn't be bloody techno!!!!! :)

 

Two things I guess - P-funk and some nice classic disco etc for dancing', dark, doomy indie (Nick Cave etc.) for listening.... I know, I'm a bit odd.

 

However, a massive cold chill came over me even imagining life without northern and motown - I don't think the sun would be bothered to come up.

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Samuel Barber wrote Adagio for Strings, it's a classical piece. There have been a couple of dance versions produced, the most succesful of which was the trance version around 15 years ago which was by William Orbit, the best mix being the one by Tiesto - not exactly techno, but still excellent!

 

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A bit of Punk, some Reggae, all flavours of House, and everything inbetween!

 

I do love old school trance though.... the post about Adagio for Strings has got me going through some old favourites, Ayla, Gouryella, Cafe Del Mar, Shine.... they all still raise the hairs on the back of my neck and give me goosebumps.... as does an awful lot of Old Skool piano house! 

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When I first started listening to Northern Soul and Motown as a stupid teenager - and naively believing that it was a black and white world in which life's choices were about picking one thing or the other - I recall saying to a friend that if this great music that I'd just discovered didn't exist I'd probably get into ska and reggae. 

 

That though would probably have led me to a completely different, possibly more "mellow" life, which ultimately may not have suited me. I like the heart-pumping adrenaline hype that goes with dancing to Northern Soul, and the tingles that come from listening to Northern Soul, so guess I'd need these feelings from some form of music.

 

Like a lot of people, I listen to stuff across many genres such as the aforementioned Ska and Reggae along with jazz, bebop, jump blues/swing, Latin, cumbia, African, classical, blues and more. The thing is though, I rarely if ever get the 'Northern Soul' emotional highs - the rapture - with other forms of music, and I have no conscious control over these feelings. They happen or they don't.

 

Some Latin sounds come close. For example, I recently bought a CD of Haitian music from the 60s through the 70s call Haiti Direct. It's got some great stuff on it like this one below. Reckon I could go for stuff like this in a big way in the non-Northern universe.

 

And all those tropical cocktails and other colourful things that you'd associate with the tropics is a big step up from pints of lager, beer bellies, talc and grim venues in grey-skied towns  :D

 

 

 

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For me it would be Detroit Techno and house, like Northern Soul Techno is a very misunderstood Genre. In my view most of what is considered Techno is very far away from real Techno with no real thought into its composition. Yes Techno can be hard, extremely repetitive but many tunes on UnderGround Resistance, Red Planet, Transmat, Planet E, Submerge, Axis are years ahead of their time, some paradoxically emotional and fantastic music - although I can understand many on here hating it :)

Think it was originator Derek May who described Techno as something that is "...like Detroit...a complete mistake. It's like George Clinton and Kraftwerk are stuck in an elevator with only a sequencer to keep them company."

I think prime examples (although played out oldies to techno fans) would be Knights of the Jaguar, or Jeff Mills Purpose Maker series. Both taking Latin and African influences to create something quite unique.

And Jeff live with the Montpelier orchestra (who approached him to create a rendition of the bells)

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Samuel Barber wrote Adagio for Strings, it's a classical piece. There have been a couple of dance versions produced, the most succesful of which was the trance version around 15 years ago which was by William Orbit, the best mix being the one by Tiesto - not exactly techno, but still excellent!

You're right, it's not Techno, although many get stuff like this mixed up because of it 140bpm kick drum. hard to describe why it's not other than it's far too obvious and formulaic in its 'hands in the air break downs' and wholesale use of a piece of music that exists; you'd have a gaggle of Detroit chin strokers (and they exist, with bells on) clambering to the decks to demand this taken off for one of James Penningtons finest. :)

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You're right, it's not Techno, although many get stuff like this mixed up because of it 140bpm kick drum. hard to describe why it's not other than it's far too obvious and formulaic in its 'hands in the air break downs' and wholesale use of a piece of music that exists; you'd have a gaggle of Detroit chin strokers (and they exist, with bells on) clambering to the decks to demand this taken off for one of James Penningtons finest. :)

 

I know, 10 years of a couple of my best mates running 'pure techno' in Hull and at various festivals has taught me what is and isn't techno, and that Techno chin strokers definitely exist!   :thumbsup:

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Samuel Barber wrote Adagio for Strings, it's a classical piece. There have been a couple of dance versions produced, the most succesful of which was the trance version around 15 years ago which was by William Orbit, the best mix being the one by Tiesto - not exactly techno, but still excellent!

 

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and now come to think about it i like a bit reggie but i think it would be a very sad world with out northern soul & motown

A bit of Reggie eh, Dave? Is Hot Line your favourite record then? Or are you on a bit of a Kray/Perrin/Yates obsession!  :lol:

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A bit of Punk, some Reggae, all flavours of House, and everything inbetween!

 

I do love old school trance though.... the post about Adagio for Strings has got me going through some old favourites, Ayla, Gouryella, Cafe Del Mar, Shine.... they all still raise the hairs on the back of my neck and give me goosebumps.... as does an awful lot of Old Skool piano house! 

Chooooon!!

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Being something of a Hi-Fi enthusiast, recording quality can play a large part in determining what I listen to at home. Other than Jazz and Opera, I will give almost anything a go. 

Northern Soul rarely sounds particularly 'hi-fi', but then it doesn't need to.

Kent CD releases sound awesome on decent kit though. 

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Been listening to BBC 6 Music of late and pleased to discover that there are still loads of contemporary British bands /artists making great music as, of course, was always the case going right back to the 60's. You just have to search for it but I am happy to listen to that.

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NO SOUL THEN CLASSIC DISCO /FUNK

  ONLY MUSIC I CANT STAND COUNTRY& WESTERN WHICH SHOULD BE BANNED

 

I'd take country and western over jazz any day - I used to think the same about country until I listened to some really old stuff.  Can't dance to it though...

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I could live without soul completely if I could keep my rocksteady and early reggae.

Agreed Pete. Rocksteady is the perfect contrast to Northern in its many many guises. Some of the techno merengue out of Latin America at the turn of the millennium is brilliant. Some of the female club sounds from the early noughties are pretty good dance tunes. There are plenty of great pop tunes going back to the 60's and 70's for when you need a bit of background music - the Beatles have a superb range of songs for starters, much of the Spector Wall of Sound stuff, California surf music and Mersey Beat sounds, something for any occasion. Oh, and House of Pain's 'Jump Around' to play each time you stop at a traffic light...

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