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Great spoof that site, but mix djing is really considerably more skillful than the skills employed in collecting records imho.

I was thinking about this the other day, but traveling to bradford in a nicked capri has to be one of my personal highlights, the guy who'd knicked it, later a member of the tunstall mafia is now an alccy and vagrant I see around sometimes, though I thought he was cool as fuck at the time. after all were all just few feet from the gutter.

its the most basic technique a hip hop dj can employ, simply sliding the x fader across- on the beat to cut into the other deck. Mind you, EQ and volume need to be matched really well. Heard Kev roberts do it with just like the weather/ love reputation at the kings hall years ago too. Its dead simple but takes bottle to carry of on a dancefloor, and it sounds shite if done badly

sad news, nice, genuine guy.

rob I find it a little odd that you only choose to talk about the technical aspects of the music rather than to focus on the music itself, particularly why the scene continues to be looks towards the 1960's and earlier. Many might say that the NS scene by its nature is defined by its association with the 60's, I and many others would disagree. I think its worthy raising because the possibilities of the scene moving along a timeline may be linked to its technical advancement.

compared to mixing disco, soul and funk, house is peasy but most kids (anyone below 30 in my book) shrivel at the though of using proper vinyl, as opposed to cdj's or seratto/ tractor.

sounds essential, will do my upmost to be there, thanks for letting me know allison.

been pondering this for ages, are they singing about frankie, in the tune? 'lets give thanks to the one who started it all' thats how ive always read it anway. wish I been to this and I just gotta go this year.

I'd love to rob, just cant see it happening on the ns scene, a lot of punters just plain wouldn't get it, its a generational thing. if your in your 50's,with no insight into house or hip hop the very concept of the mix can be quite an alien thing. I grew up with house and hip hop but there's not enough open minded punters out there who would appreciate or dance to a mixed northern set at a venue. I also believe the archaic nature of the soul scene's culture adds to its appea,l for many, including the younger scenesters. A rejection of the contemporary, or the act of refusing to conform to modernity lies at the very heart of what NS is about surely? So why should it seems so strange that this attitude extends to even the presentation of the music?

funk and soul sets can and are mixed together very well off the scene, take someone like scruff, his southport mix cd from a few year back retained the credibilty and essence of every cut, yet they were enhanced by the records blended either side of them. Kenny dope, DJ spinna and a host of others have done it really well. would I trust anyone to do it well on the northern scene? your having a warlocks staff!

er, any other kind of soul, funk, disco, boogie and house thatwas still around, black underground music, just like now really.

wonder if its anything to do with blowfly, his 'girl, can I cum in you mouth' is quite soulful.

A couple few to add, sold's and final reductions on others! Mill Edwards Use what you got- Bunky-NM, fantastic copy £10 Top notch funk/ soul, ruff cut dancer Bill Stone- Get down kind/ everybody's hustling- solar E+ £15 Uptempo, funky 70's dancer, great tune! Lenny welch- mainstream- eyewitness news- Mainstream NM £5 great uptempo philly style dancer

more added below, final reductions an sold's on these. Junior wells - Youre tuff enough-Blue rock- £ 8 SOLD SOLD SOLD Superb, r and b uptempo dancer Robert John- Cant stop loving you- Canadian columbia £ 5 Nm nice copy The Emotions I cant no more heartaches- Brainstorm £6 E+ great female group dancer Betty Wright- Sweet lovin daddy/ girls can do what the guys do- Alston £5 NM SOLD SOLD SOLD Fantastic double sider bargain Ben E King- Too bad- Atco- £5 VG+ Plays fine, tiny bit of pen on label Thats all for now more to follow, pm if interested Len Jewel- Bettin' on love- Teri Dee VG++ little pen and light marks, plays fine- £ 15 SOLD SOLD SOLD Marvin Smith- I want - Brunswick Demo NM, lovely copy £15 SOLD SOLD Fantastic midtempo Lost Generation- Your so young but so true- Brunswick E+ £8 SOLD SOLD SOLD Great dancer! Volcanos- Storm warning- artic white blue print- NM £8 again fantastic copy of this classic Boyd Mcoy- Got to give a little- Funky records- £5 nice uptempo, obscure dancer.

tune, never heard it before, would seriously like to hear the lp russ deserves credit for pushing the boundaries of the sound at least.

Reductions folks

I know what you mean about the atittude thing, house people are generally want to share the knowledge. I was thinking about going to legends in warrington at the start of 1990, the height of the madness you might say I asked two guys from Blackburn what the rarest tune was, the both said in unison, 'loverock'. Think I heard it for one of the first times at the end of the night. You might call it a house cover up, what they meant was what is now know as the 'source- You got the love'. John truelove issued in late 89 I think on an ep with other early bootleg mash ups, just dj's putting acca's over known tracks. You just could'nt get hold of that tune at the time, it was selling for £100 i manchester In fact I once went into eastern block and they had, 'Frankie knuckles your love' and the candi statton 12 with the accapella on it next to one and other on the shelf, with a sign saying 'do it yourself loverock' I've tried it its bleedin impossible!

Additions, Len Jewel- Bettin' on love- Teri Dee VG++ little pen and light marks, plays fine- £ 20 Marvin Smith- I want - Brunswick Demo NM, lovely copy £20 Fantastic midtempo Lost Generation- Your so young but so true- Brunswick E+ £10 Great dancer! Volcanos- Storm warning- artic white blue print- NM £12 again fantastic copy of this classic Boyd Mcoy- Got to give a little- Funky records- £8 nice uptempo, obscure dancer.

Hamilton Bohannon maybe?

not sure I agree with how readily availble most of the top house sounds from the early days were. I'm still searching for some now! There loads of guys still going through parksy's and Sasha's tracklistings from old tapes, site devoted to it and real fanatics out there. From my recollection getting the best sounds on the early house/ underground rave scene was harder than northern, nobody announced the names of the records for a start! Standing for hours on end on saturday in Eastern block to hear what was played on the big system in the was one way, word of mouth another. Lots of imports were about for a week or two from the distributors to disappear if you missed them and hadnt the cash that week, otherwise you'd have to wait 20 years for discogs to be invented to get another chance.

Got you Eric, updated, items sold, more to follow shortly

I have the following up for sale, feel free to make and offer. Charles Diamond and the inspirations- No one else can take your place -Pink Breakthrough £40 VG++ just a few marks, loads of gloss Sold! sought after and some say the better version! of this wigan anthem, just sooooooo rare on first issue that this is the only realistic way to own for most. Chappels- Help me somebody- £25 Bedford E+ Sold! Obscure, uptempo female group, good tune. Cassadons- 2 sided love- Beltone- E, Sticker mark on label £25 Sold! Stafford spin for Gary Rushbrooke, uptempo male group dancer, tune! Junior wells - Youre tuff enough-Blue rock- £ 10 Superb, r and b uptempo dancer Robert John- Cant stop loving you- Canadian columbia £ 8 Nm nice copy The Emotions I cant no more heartaches- Brainstorm £10 E+ great female group dancer Betty Wright- Sweet lovin daddy/ girls can do what the guys do- Alston £8 NM Fantastic double sider bargain Ben E King- Too bad- Atco- £8 VG+ Plays fine, tiny bit of pen on label Thats all for now more to follow, pm if interested

No Dj has contributed as much as Frankie, aside Larry, and the pair were inseprable anyway. Much missed, a sad day for music indeed.

i'm wondering if masking fluid ( smells just like the marvyn glue we used at school) would be better, it seems different to pva, far more elasticity, but think its water based, anyone tried it?

probably more likely that they sort out those 'weirdo music fans, who want to dance in that old fashioned way'.