I would like to question how people always say why they want to hear new sounds when it wouldn't be so new if the tune had been released 30 years or even 40.

Plus if you did get to hear a new sound it wouldn't be so new after so people would be playing it more and then saying i want to hear something new.

For me i think the way people should see it is play something that is long forgotten. As in you play a tune from say 1968 which hasn't been played for like 30 years so when you are out you think i have heard something like 10 tunes i hear weekly over past year and few years and then all of a sudden a tune i hadn't heard in ages. it could be big, obscure or anything. (as in you never hear Out on the floor anymore and i have never heard it in my years being on scene which to me is a shame because it's still to me an classic and would certainly get me on the dancefloor)

Matthew,

Many, many of the people on here have been going to soul venues week in, week out for much, if not all of there adult life (I've only done 20 years, and am a relative beginner). For most of us, soul music has been playing in the background 24 hours a day during this time.

As such, those of us with a true passion ache to hear records that are new to our ears - that does not necessarily mean records that are newly made, but records that are new to us as an individual.

As for forgotten sounds, yes it is wonderful to hear something played out that you've not heard for years, but some tunes sound very dated - Out On The Floor being one of them.

I think that if you actually ventured further than your home town, you would find a lot of answers for yourself

Edited October 19, 200618 yr by Guest

Something you may not of heard for a while does not mean others have`nt as its down to where you go and what you listen too whilst either driving, housework,work, whilst on your PC, listening to your cd`s playing your own vynil or round a friends and listening to what they might have,

Kirsty hit the nail on the head when she said that many have been doing this scene for just about all thier life and they eat sleep and breath NS and at the end of the day to hear something that you have never heard before is still a massive buzz.

It is also nice to hear forgotten tunes and underplayed tunes but that can be another soulies overplayed tune. so for me i dont mind a mixed bag of new, rare, oldies etc as long as they are part of a well thought and played out set by a dj who feels what he is playing.

One thing about NS is garaunteed and that is you wont be able to keep everyone happy all the time so do your homework and go where the music policy suits your taste in NS.

just a thought of mine on how i see this topic.

Bearsy