Soulacola

This guy has been generating interest among a lot of younger people who down load for a while. I remember hearing "maybe so, maybe No" being played by some Djs in a London bar on Brick lane about a month ago and the bar was rockin, everyone appeared to be listening to the tune and singing along. depends on your age group but this is soul for teens and twenties, its hip, tight and not dad like. My son whos 18 is trying to get a vinyl copy of some of his stuff to play out in the bars he djs in, not sure i could play this but i reckon hes very very cool. love the videos and like his attitude. he's not got Marvin Gayes voice but he sings within his range and thats class.

wish he'd played some of those great tunes in Madame JOJO's when i was there instead of ackerbilks version of "in the mood!!!!"

well he played 3 Edwin Starr tracks in a row because he loved the first one and that a DJ "no no" but actually its nice to see someone discovering 25 miles for the first time and going WOW!. i can just remember hearing it in Violet Mays record shop in Sheffield when i was 15 and going " sheeeeet thats the best tune i ever heard how much?" 25p mate.

hmm never saw him play in the 80's that i can remember but found my way into madam JOJO's in Soho London about last year on a pub crawl. My mate from Camden rang him to guest list us. he said " Keb,s got a regular night in here and its ace".as i remember it used to be called Kebs deep funk?? we got there bought two 7 quid drinks ( thank god i didnt pay to get in) and he was spinning what can only be described as big band pseudo rockabilly swing. Bloody terrible. now i love old RNB, hard rockabilly and riff lead rock n roll but this was bloody aweful, i can take drums and bass and i can take early house and i'll listen to classic music if im in the right mood but this was bloody awefull, no really bloody awefull.

Horror of horrors, my 18 year old son asked if he could Dj at a bar i was playing in Sheffield and took over the night. He might have been brought up in a soul household but never showed any real interest in vinyl unless they were old 90's house/soul tracks he could play while his mates were round POW suddenly he's started getting really into rare soul and playing it on his Ipod all the time. His first ever go on the mixer was precceeded by a two minute tutorial in a very busy city centre club and he did 2 hours without a miss; hadnt got a clue what he was playing but just loved the labels and go really into the tunes!1 looks like i ve found a new DJ partner to replace my aging ones. never give up on the new generation. he'll be bloody dancing next!!!

ha ha , clack,soulie Paul, Roger,Big Ted it was nice to see a do again full of people under 30!! Travellers rest was a fantastic local do full of people who still know eachother today.

My son whoes an 18 year old bootleg/house dj plays vinyl, if he's shopping in London he can get everything from Britney Spears to Lady GAGA on vinyl now. why do they still release their tunes on vinyl? cus it gives them credibility and the kids dont want to be playing Cds like the wedding DJs theyve had to put up with through the past 20 years!!!

why does everyone want to do everything now and instantly. DCs are just a symptom of cant be bothered finding that tune so i'll down load it now and play it tomorrow. I cant afford to buy every tune i love but the ones i have i share on the decks with passion, committment and sheer bloody love of a bit of vinyl!!!

Northern soul should be heard in working class club/bar in the north of England and shouldnt be about the value of a record but its soul. Not sure where many of these comments have been thought up but i dont think about why the tunes affect me deeply because im busy in a 9 to 5 factory job and always have been. if soul doesnt mean escape from that still then i suppose its changed to a theme park event. I never listen to soul on CD because putting on a record is a procces that involves a little bit of meaning for me.That said ive got plenty of other things i do in life but i dont identify with most of what i guess you call on here the "current soul scene". I feel that a working class guy in Yorkshire has a lot in common with a working class black guy trying to escape Detroits car factories by recording the best tune they could and hoping its going to be a bill board hit. its all about hope innit.

picked up a copy of "I BEEN CHANGED!" by the SOUL MESSENGERS on ELBAM kind of a gospel fast RNB track. i bought it cheap and used it to go with an RNB set i did and i got half the people in the gig asking about it. the more i hear it the hotter it sounds. Not heard it in any do's before but it is a greaat record for those with the energy!!

not really into all this ebay jive, if a copy turns up im happy to mail a cheque or switch it! just pm me on here, dont mind if its original or bootleg so long as its a 7". cheers

hi, been looking for ages for this bit of vinyl to drop it in my set as they start flaggin, electric stuff but needs to be on a seven. ive never come across it yet. any ideas? anyone got a copy?

*sorry this copy is now provisionally sold* dont tell me how good other records are or the bloody money will be spent before i even get it- im putting my head in the sand.......

ALRIGHT THEN BUT WERE HARDLY TALKIN bRITNEY sPEARS LEVELS OF EXPOSURE. !! I'M ONLY LOOKIN FOE A COUPLE OF HUNDRED FOR ONE OF THE BEST RECORDS EVER MADE. IMAGINE BUYING FINEST ANGEL CAKE AT TESCO VALUE PRICES!

HI, I HAVE A COPY OF THE ORIGINAL COOKIE JACKSON SINGLE "DO YOU STILL LOVE ME?" side no 912 ON THE GOLD "PROGRESS" LABEL FOR SALE, AN ALL TIME RNB MOD/NIGHTER CLASSIC (B/W BLIND LOVE) side no 913. THIS STORMING TRACK WAS BOUGHT BY ME IN 1990 AT A SOUTH LONDON MOD RECORD FAIR FROM A CATFORD DEALER FOR £60 AND HAS RECEIVED MAYBE 50 - 100 DJ SPINS SINCE - THIS BABY PLAYS LOUD ENOUGH TO BLOW THE DOORS OFF ANY VENUE!!! . PM ME IF YOU WANT A PIECE OF SOUL HISTORY, I'M GUESSING THERE ARENT MANY COPIES OF THIS ABOUT. or call 07887 932 940

to be honest you will probably find it was local druggies/oppertunists,was the box fancy or it could have looked like it might contain valuables? if it had been me id have checked the area in daylight with in 200 metres. petty car thieves usually stop when they know their not being observed and check what they stole, in your case to them "worthless records", it might pay to check behind all low walls near the area, around bins, alleyways, bushes within a mile, if these guys were local yokels they will have slung them after checking content, its not worth a patrol car nailing you or even carrying them back if theyre not worth money, criminals dont have any interest in 7 inch singles or knowledge of vinyl on ebay/posting/selling, id still go back and check the area, i cant beleive a soulie would steal these precious items from another, have you checked cctv in the area via police/council?? hope they resurface but it wont be on Ebay.

i think the least complicated way to catagorize it is music from one generation back. its about music that the LATEST generation of artists are influenced by but consider a predecessor.

..not even that! the greedy record companies have bulldozed the public into cds as a multiformat big profit f*** the consumer - cheap to produce - "improved" sound which we now know over a pa at least is a lie.(unless youre into Tudor chamber music or tracks RECORDED for cd)Now the corporate faceless profit machines are failing and cd sales are all but gone, the cd format is for cars and grannies who like jim reeves and kids either use ipods and computers or buy vinyl again ( number of indie nights run with vinyl? loads around me cus its cool to play records as your dad plays cds- even Britney Spears releases vinyl) good riddence to big shops full of cds and serves the greedy buggers right!!! As you might have guessed i am small minded vinyl fetishist with a vintage periscope outlook. you got to admit that the sound of RNB on a cd was never what ike Turner heard when he said " sign that Album off its a wrap!!!!"

A few mates and me spin a little vinyl in a busy town centre wine bar in Sheffield, we often drop in tunes that have been sampled. loads of people come up and say "that tunes familliar!?!". maybe covers and remixs promote original sounds to people and influence other purer sounds later in their lives.

sorry but its all about good dancing.of all the genres of cult music this one is about the dancing not being inclusive or have a go! come on, i appreciate the cameraderie and socialist inclusive attitude but i want to be inspired by peoples moves and see passion translated into movement. I can go to a wedding and listen to soul round yer 'andbag any time. we would all be liars if we said we hadnt smirked at some riverdance antics perpetrated by out of time kangeroo. If you are too old just slow down and dig the grooves, im afraid its all about the skill of the feet for me, as president bush might have said " its the dancing stupid!".

well, this saturday the first drink of the night was at the Sheaf house pub in Sheffield , next to the Sheffield united (hallowed) ground and there were two blokes djing Northern soul on cds to a small crowd but it was good dancing stuff,no advertising or forum promotion but all the same a little niche night that pubs put on to get a few bodies in with a couple of dozen punters drinking bitter and eating pork scratchings. proper northern pub, proper northern music (although cd), proper passion for the sounds and definately a pattern you could find anywhere in Rotherham, Rochdale, Blackburn or whereever, Northern soul is the possession of the working Northern man/woman and has only become elitist because there are too few and too expensive record shops now to accomodate the average bloke in the street - so he gets his northern soul in Tescos or a shopping centre, i still beleive Soul music is extremely popular with people who need something uplifting after a 40 hour week at a forktruck factory. Stuff £100 records.You dont buy a medal.A soulie is a man who's soul is lifted by sweet music and feels the need to dance and forget the grind?

how many people are into the scene is different to how many like northern soul along with other music and own a few soul cds,but still have a real passion to actively listen to the music. loads of London night clubs in Shoreditch, old street,camden and Brixton will play northern soul along side funk and hiphop on any given saturday and on vinyl, the last time we were at the Dogstar in Brixton they had a dj "who used to work for acid jazz" playing good northern on vinyl,then we left abnd went accross the road and they were wierdly playing "if i could only be sure" by nolan porter on a bootleg 7".I went to a Northern soul nighter in Morcone in Tuscany in April and that was packed with 7 djs!!!all on vinyl!! are you adding these people up or is it just people who collect vinyl and dont like break beats,garage and drums and bass aswell?

CHEERS FOR THAT,AT LAST!!, I DO LIKE TO OWN?SMELL?LICK ORIGINAL BITS OF HISTORY BUT AT THAT MONEY IM GONNA SEARCH OUT THE CREDIT CRUNCH PRICED OPTION!!!!! TONY

I keep hearing this track over the years , in fact im in the crowd on the dancefloor somewhere , but i always forget to ask what it is or that i heard it .now im sober and its being played at the beginning of this you tube clip, can anyone tell me who its by and where i can buy it on 7". i bet you can! cheers Tony -Sheffield