Paul-s

Just went to other great nighters! Stafford being one...but Morcambe, Warrington, Bradford etc.

A legend who i was lucky enough to have a bit of email correspondence with at times. So, so sad to read that article and the circumstances of his death. Listening to his last show now..... His contribution was immense and his philosophy towards the music and artists was pure. Even sadder he felt that it would not be valued and all the more important to preserve his work as a memorial.

Thats Trickster!

I think people have got sidetracked by my inclusion of a debatable example. It was listed as soul/funk....whereas maybe 5 years ago it would have been funk. Im suggesting that dealers , sellers, are creating misleading ad's because they see a fast penny in the emergent soulful funk thing. But they are just banging the label on everything in the hope that some will go for the bait? I certainly don't remember everything being listed as Soul/funk when i think back even 5 years. So is it an emergent tactic or a blurred genre or a confused child?

Beautiful!

Very nice!

voices!!!

https://www.mixcloud.com/paulsadot/soul-full-gospel/ 1.Alston Brothers - When All God Children Will Be Going Home 2. Fabulous Tapps - Jesus Loves Me 3. Songbirds of the South - We Got To Get Together 4. Soul Stirrers - Jesus Is The One 5. Gospel Crusaders - This Heart Of Mine 6. True Tones - Talking Bout The Master

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Reduced!

Loving the debate. It was actually a funk dj who many years ago described bad generic funk as FONK and I knew what they meant. Maybe I picked a bad example. I actually mean all the amorphous stuff that appears on lists and ebay as Soul/funk or Gospel/funk and is absolutely way off the description. Its what I see as a cynical attempt to cash in on this new craze to feed the soul funk.....But it seems the quality of those early days when it took a year or more to find one or two great new discoveries (Soul Injections, Wally Coco, Sir Guy, Delon Washington for example) as a result of hard selective, critical, dance led investigation, are now compromised by this new rally to discover soul funk sounds. Hence many criticising, often quite rightly, the quality of whats being put forward. But i guess, thats what happened during Wigan, Stafford etc as loads of tunes were thrown on and off the decks to gauge response. I would still rather go to a night of exploration that includes that, than a night of the hackneyed oldies. My question was really about the listing of tunes that now seems to say Soul/Funk or Gospel/Funk on everything regardless.

FONK you very much.

Come on Pete its taken dance int the realms of an ology and Genetics There mission statement is also very exciting with the formation of Dance crews and such like: Are you so hard to please and excite! Even bloody lovely Aperitifs at the end of the night! Northern Soul is most definitely a part of our cultural background, and has always been a part of Three Stroke Productions' genetics. So we were only too pleased, and proud to support the Northern Soul Dance Society, in their latest event that took place on the 24th of May 2012 in Anguillara - a small and wonderful city on the Bracciano Lake not far from Rome. Not new to high quality Northern Soul dedicated events, the Soul O'Sessions Dance Crew, in collaboration with Sharon Sullivan Finch of the Danceology School of Leeds in the UK, organised a video shoot with the aim to releasing a professional Northern Soul dance tutorial DVD. Running several courses in her School, most of them dedicated to NorthernSoul Dance Society UK, forming an highly and successful NS school near Leeds, Sharon Finch was the perfect choice for such an ambitious project. Sharon, along with the S.O'S. Dance Crew, and dancers, enjoyed an eventful workshop supported musically with DJ sets from some of the top Italian NS DJs on the scene today (Gabriele from R.I.T.C - Stefano from Nuts!Lite - Giorgio from Roma Modernist). The evening ended with aperitifs and drinks all round.

Yes, maybe we did..ha! As opposed to namby pamby bad quality student Fonk. It had to have a ghetto soul quality, great vocal and lyrics and be danceable I guess.

My point exactly...thats why we need to have a definitive term. So I suggest FONK to describe these tunes "playing poor quality funk records that should never see the light of day."

True Phil!

Oh yes...its definitely a teaser. .

Heres an example: Listed as Funk/Soul.....nuh! This is FONK!

Is it just me or do you also get frustrated when trawling through online lists or ebay sales to listen to clips that are often described as Crossover soul or Funk/soul or gospel/funk when in reality they should file under dire bin ends! Also, I have noticed that what me and Karl Heard used to call 'dirty funk edged soul' is now being confused with what I would call FONK. By this i mean the sort of generic funk or FONK thats better played at student nights where they are drunk and want to wobble about a bit. Is the desperate desire to unearth new tunes leading to generic FONK infiltrating many nights?

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I have a spare of Artistic Sounds 45 on Savoy vg++ Give it Up. All dried up now and a storming dance floor winner! £40 Clip below is from Album (same cut). paulsadot@hotmail.com

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LP only cut on this increasingly hard to find release. Quite rightly packing the floor in many clubs vg++ £65 (for reference)

Its an old DDA track of mine from 2007/8. I moved 3 copies of this back then at £75 each

Which soul chargers i couldn't see it?