Hi,a thought for a topic.

A list of when styles of soul started to be played in the NS/MS scene(s) from sixties to now.

Early R&B, Funky Soul, some Soulful House, Beat Ballads, midtempo Big City, 70's floaters etc.  Some of this is obvious, but some less I envisage.

This will also show what styles were introduced into NS after the original era (let's say early 80s approximately).

For example I recall when the R&B sound came in during late 90s and how friends then returning to the scene could not hear it as NS.  Before that I struggled with some of the subtle midtempo songs typified as Stafford TOTW but were part of a style shift and exploration at the time.  Of course now it's all part of the diverse mix I enjoy.

So let's see if this creates any interest.

Well when I started out on the soul club scene, NS hadn't been invented. Of course, this was back in the mid 60's & most stuff was being played as new releases.

It was just all soul; so we got Stax, Atlantic, Okeh, Motown, Bell, Brunswick, Duke, Chess, Sureshot, King, Arctic, Cameo-Parkway, Sansu, Wand, Modern (as opposed to MS), Kent, ABC, in fact the lot. If it was a soul 45, you could dance to it (fast or slow dance) & it was good ... it got played.  

First heard soulful house, emotive, clubhouse, New york house around 92 at a nighter in Congleton, but I can remember Ion banging on about it back in 88 or 89

I had left the NS scene and was on the early house one in 86-88 dancing to and buying 12s of Ten City, Virgo, Marshall Jefferson, J. M. Silk, Mr. Fingers, Frankie Knuckles,late Salsoul and Prelude, Peech Boys, New York early Garage, Detroit Model 500, Frankie Bones, Arthur Baker, early Todd Terry productions. Same impulse as NS collecting vinyl. John at Arcade Records here in Nottingham had made the shift before us and confused everyone when he played at Rock City and locally with sets more like Greg Wilson than NS.  I was one of those banging on about it in NS from about 89 when I was back and doing both in parallel.  At that time popular NS was feeding into contemporary dance a tiny bit along with funk, rare groove etc but it was a while before it started to cross back.

I remember the shock when early 60s, even late 50s R&B started to be played.  It would clesr floors then over time a different set of of younger dancers would come on.  I'm a bit hazy on precisely when it was precisely, feels late 90s-early 2000s.  With the beat having a different emphasis and before faster R&B/doo-wop started to be played that feels more like NS, this music was troubling to the people returning to the scene in droves at the time expecting to hear the same music.

I really enjoyed the fast hard R&B soul played a little before that from Jimmy Fraser, Fats Domino even Sammy Davis Jr's scorching Not For Me.

This music troubled me and I've been going solidly since 1978...

Mark C