Geeselad

Your right in principle Russ, but in reality most venues aren't set up to play anything other than vinyl, unless its modern or the dreaded cheesy oldies venue, with perhaps some former big name from the hacyon days, earning a crust on his rep, whilst having sold his collection, and imho, his credibility, but I digress. so if I had something that wasnt availble on anything other than CD, or file, I'd want to get a dub of it cut just for practicality. Do you have a cd player plumbed in at lifeline Chalky?

oops, sorry I though I'd read that it was album only.

Im be trying to get a copy of the lp on vinyl to play at octobers Change night, great cut, wish was on 7 but I cant see why anyone would have a problem with me playing it off the lp, for the sake of OVO.

ther you go

I'm happy about the whole thing on tsop, top notch philly and brillient flip I seem to recall.

Tribute is terrible, but there are plenty of great soulful dance records that use non traditional instruments, and still retain the right sentiment

imho, Funky soul as a concept obviously means several differet things to different people, and its interpritation is probably as varied as the tastes of those have an opinion on it. What concerns me however is that the biggest records to come from the genre will probably be, as with other sub genres of the NS scene, the rarest ones. Saag Warfare is a good tune to me, as is Grey imprint, but I really doubt the're the best, and dont hold a candle to many cheap and common records with a similar feel, but they are undoubably two of the biggest thus far. The problems not a new style of Northern, its a quality contol thats overided by exclusivity and really, ego. Someone told me about one certain 'top NS dj' being desparate to get a copy of the Saag Warfare tune from another 'top NS DJ', why? cause its the best Funky soul tune out there? Bullshite! Cause its realy hard and the other DJ would no longer be able to spin it in his sets, more like. Same senario as crossover 10 of 15 years ago, same old really. What the scene is desparate for in my opinion, and I said it many times before, is some great, relatively cheap tunes of any ilk, that go big nationaly and get played at commercial nights throughout the land, to generate excitement and a sense of progression, whilst scuppering the booters in the process. Or were knackered really.

can I see an elephant in the room, its in the main, a load of tacky crap and has no place at allnighter and soul nights, although I will conceed it may be exceptable at some, in the right context, daytime events. I've not got a big problem with it personally, but it can be very invasive and ruin the vibe if its in a main room, ie somewhere folks are dancing, and I think if I was young I'd run a mile at the sight of someone flogging, cups, pencil sharpeners, talc holders, and particulrly plastic clothing for plasic people with plastic minds and plasitc ideas.

I just wrote a speil for the Change Anniversary CD making exactly that piont, the whole piont of Northern compred top so many othger scene's is that its live or alive, were not Teds and never will be, there's a long history of Funky sounds being played, many are classic top 500 oldies. If you'd played Torch sounds to a regular from the the Scene club or Brazennose street you'd probably get the same reaction as many moaning about the changing style of NS inb the 21st century.

Lost count of the times I've heard the gospel according to P smith onb here!

The worst of it aint as bad as, a. the pop shite played at Wigan b. some of the leaden plodders from Stafford and the 8ts. its injected some much needed pace into dancefloors after nearly a decade dominated by lots of tricky, albeit soulful tunes with a crossover flavour, A much needed change of direction, imho but then I've loved funk since being surrounded by the rare groove scene in London as a stude.

spot on, some Dj's wouldnt be seen dead out at a soul do unless they were playing

In my experience yes, yes, yes! To the extent where I dont liike accepting booking cause you feel that you have to reciprecate and return the booking sometimes. But really I've seen it happen all over the north west and midlands in the last few years, but you cant blame it entirly for seeing the same DJ's on flyers again and again, thats as much down to promoters playing safe and repeat booking the same old, same old.

Maybe part of the problem is that many of the RS crowd, who started out in the 8ts have kids and although they can make nighters and soul nights, there more limited for a whole weekend, this would certailt apply to me and a few other I know.

spot on really, for me its always been about what makesyou collect, is it the deisre to hear fresh tunes; to delve deeper and learn about underground music or do you look up at say Sean Chapman and think, 'I wannabe like him', or maybe even, ' i cant afford to do that, so I'll buy boots, no one cares anyway'

its all so true, but so sad and depressing.

Just had a flash back seeing the bottom flyer, what a line up, a who's who, of top northern Dj's from that era.

best time I had record shopping was queens day a few years back, when loads of locals use it as an excuse to flog their old junk outside there graght's, found loads of interesting bits, including a dutch fan club only Timmi Yuro EP.

janis sou-less, well tony dont start me on that one, next you'll be saying Hendrix didn't play the guitar with any soul, or Coltane wasnt a soul-ful Horn player, its an atitiude not a style of delivery surely.

I'd say that was the best shop I've been to in Dam too0, freindly staff too, its in the 9 streets area if my memories serve me well, and had some wonderful orig funk albu8ms on display behind the counter last time I was there.

Alabama shakes, just came across this act on r6 this morning, and mighty fine they are too, anyone else like it? have the album? seen them? top notch on this track at least methinks!

top stuff youth! !