Can anybody please provide me wih an image of this please? I've lost my file.

It was in Blues and Soul in the early 90s and called something like '30 Tracks To Crossover To A Better World'

Thanks

On 23/09/2025 at 20:25, Ncfc said:

Loads of those great Parkers tunes were being played way before on the London 2 step scene. (Not all of course)

Think the stepper guys need some credit now and again. 😊

The 2 Step scene became quite big quite quickly & even prompted a few bootleg releases to cash in on the popularity of certain tracks. I recall being in Euston stn & going into a small kiosk there to buy something. The black girl serving customers had some tracks playing & I suddenly thought I KNOW THIS, WHAT IS IT ... it was only Lou Ragland's "Makin Love" (off his LOVE MOODS album - 1985) which had become a top play on the scene there. It became so popular that it was booted (a fact that didn't please Lou at all as he'd happily have licensed them to release it properly). I ran a UK tour for Lou in 1990 and he had to perform this song at the Caister Weekender & the shows he undertook in Windsor & the London area.

Have there been any threads on here in the past that detailed / explained the 2 Step scene ?

Edited September 26Sep 26 by Roburt

On 26/09/2025 at 08:15, Mickey Finn said:

Norman Jay seems to have been a leading light in that scene via his pirate radio shows and a Monday night residence at the Bass Clef in London for several years during the late 80s/early 90s. That's certainly the kind of "rare groove" I learned at the time and those Dez Parkes comps on Arista were a fair reflection of that particular scene (and apparently quite collectable today - some proper rarities on them).

Norman's contribution is disputed, Barry K Sharpe was definitely there first

We talked about this dispute on here a while back when discussing Norman's book, which doesn't mention Sharpe. I don't think it matters in any case. He was certainly a leading light. For me personally, and many others, Norman's work is what we were following at the time and I owe him a musical education. For those who feel similarly about Barrie K Sharpe, fair play to them. I mentioned Dez Parkes because he's someone else who deserves a lot of credit for lifting the scene.

As a wise man on here once taught me, "credit where it's due, it's all you can do"

10 hours ago, Mickey Finn said:

On 26/09/2025 at 08:35, Roburt said:

The 2 Step scene became quite big quite quickly & even prompted a few bootleg releases to cash in on the popularity of certain tracks. I recall being in Euston stn & going into a small kiosk there to buy something. The black girl serving customers had some tracks playing & I suddenly thought I KNOW THIS, WHAT IS IT ... it was only Lou Ragland's "Makin Love" (off his LOVE MOODS album - 1985) which had become a top play on the scene there. It became so popular that it was booted (a fact that didn't please Lou at all as he'd happily have licensed them to release it properly). I ran a UK tour for Lou in 1990 and he had to perform this song at the Caister Weekender & the shows he undertook in Windsor & the London area.

Have there been any threads on here in the past that detailed / explained the 2 Step scene ?

I've got a bunch of bootleg compilations with two step tracks, they came with a load of street soul stuff, so I'm guessing Jetstar distribution was behind them.

Edited September 30Sep 30 by Geeselad

This book is now almost 3 years old and contains a lot of information about the London scene.

It's not the easiest read if you're looking for a straightforward story from A to Z. It might be better as a reference book you dip into here and there, but that would require a proper index for that to work properly. I don't blame the author, who has tried to make sense of a very complex story of the organic growth and development of an underground scene that certainly had its leaders but, as is often the case, only retrospectively do some of those leaders get identified as significant while others are unfairly forgotten. How can it be otherwise unless there's more books, articles and blogs of this nature to come. The London scene alone was/is huge and would probably require volumes to get a proper handle on it, but this is a good start and even if you disagree with the author DJ DSL, he's given you something to disagree with and go develop an alternative version.

The book was published by the Dance Radio Network. There's a FB page here:

https://www.facebook.com/danceradionetwork.net/

Didn't know about the book, I'll have to check it out.

I knew mostly about the club related scene. Which format mainly led the scene; club or pirate radio ?

Did any London based BritSoul artists get in on the act & make new records aimed at the scene ?

Only releases I've got are these .....

Edited October 1Oct 1 by Roburt