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    the hot box would reflect your tastes and not neccessarily anyone elses...of course it may reflect others tastes....thats ok...

    WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT BUT SHARE COMMON EXPERIENCES AND INTERPRET DIFFERENTLY

    and that is the above common element to it....so please do make your choices known...there is no right or wrong answer it is merely discourse on a soul forum...the personal element that it may have developed into is not required...sharing ones ideas is.... thumbsup.gif

    when we have quite a few recommendations rare or not...it doesnt matter its YOUR HOT BOX :thumbsup:

    i will collate and post them

    some interesting points made by all...thats what a forum is discussion :thumbsup:

    no dont consign it to the shelf.....its a great record....both sides....paid 2.00 for it both copies....LOOONGGGGG TIIIIMMMEEEEE AGGGOOOO thumbsup.gif nice to see butch breaking a leg trying to pick it up.... :thumbsup:

    the idea was simple simply post the records that make it into your hot box to fill a floor.....it is open to everybody..not just a few...you dont need to be a dj :thumbsup:

    i know what records would work for me and was interested in finding others views ... :ohmy:

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    the thread is simple dont worry about theory...

    hot box records are for this thread's purpose

    records that both rock the floor either physically or metaphorically and may be hard to locate ....they do not need to be super rare :wicked: they may even be super cheap :wicked:

    when we get enough together i shall post a long list...say at least 100 titles

    Now, if you want a hot box try this. I have a nice leatherette covered doctors bag type of box for my 45's. Was djing somewhere last year and they had a desk lamp on the table behind the decks, someone had knocked it against my bag, next thing I know smoke is coming off the bag. Burnt my hand patting out the smoldering bag. Now that's what you call a hot box!!!!!!!!!!

    DAVE....THATS VERY VERY FUNNY :wicked::wicked:

    I came up with the phrase "hot box DJing" so I'd best say somthing on the theory:

    There are only 1 hour sets on the northern scene and more DJs than sets to go around so it seems ideal to use this theory. Maximum impact with your 60 minutes behind the decks.

    It's a bit like a football team. You can only ever have 11 players on the pitch. Somtimes a player gets stale, or the other teams figure him out or he just doesn't do the business. So sell the loser on and get in some fresh meat. It's as simple as that.

    You have a back bone of quality floor fillers, a couple of good strikers, some flair players a couple of big characters, a captain of the team if you like the metaphor. A keeper to save the day if things go wrong etc etc. You then get to know your team on a very intimate level and manage their play and tactics.

    What do you want, a 22 player squad like Chelsea's or the entire 2nd division's team's players? You can only pick 11 a game after all.

    But why do this, why want to DJ at all? In my opinion the vast majority of DJs on the soul scene in the UK are either inept and do not understand what it means to be a dancer getting sweaty for hours on end dancing to near exhaustion. Many have huge collections of middle of the road records displayed in the common practice of carrying huge boxes when they are DJing with hundreds and hundreds of what are basically dull records that they dip into seemingly randomly and play in some bizaar, confusing order. Other DJs are washed up and have forgotten what a good record sounds like and are only up there DJing on reflex, like a chicken with it's head chopped off. Then there are the DJs who are living on past glory and feel they have some right to be up there playing off vinyl carvers of records that people in the room have on OG.

    It seems given the very high price in both time and money to obtain both tunes and knowledge of rare soul the only way to knock out of the way the inept, the tastless, the washed up and the wallies was to get as strong a DJ set together as physically possible through clever trading, a willingless to let records go in order to get in new and exciting tunes, plenty of determination and aggression, not being afraid to take a few risks and plenty of good taste to build a competative DJ set to make people sit up and take notice.

    Is it an ego thing? Of course not, it's about wanting to hear the best sets of the best music in the best venues being danced to by the best people. As a DJ you should be aiming to put together the best, most interesting, freshest, rarest and just plain slap them in the face till they submit sets. There's no point just wanting to put together average sets that many other people in the room can put together. So many poeple have 'ok' collections. But how many of them put a good set together that you can't hear anywhere else? Hardly any of them, so why do they want to DJ? Shouldn't they have the good sense to say "Thanks but no thanks I'd rather hear Butch DJ for an extra hour please than stand up there playing a bunch of dull dross for an hour myself that you've only asked me to play because I'm your mate"

    Also, why talk publically about my theory and risk it back firing with public mockery? Because everyone I know into the music of my generation has limited resources but I want to see more people coming through as DJs, fresher taste, fresher approach, more enthusuasm, more energy. And the only way that the next generation are going to do this IMO is if they take my approach or a similar one. Aggressively construct a DJ set that will compete with the best DJs on the scene. That includes going up against the Butch, Mick H, Arthur Fenns of the scene. If you do not have the ambition to do that don't think about DJing at all as you are only taking up space that is better served by better DJs with more ambition, more ability and a better set.

    This is not about 'collecting' records. It's about DJing and improving the quality of sounds heard at northern soul events. It's about clubbing, dancing and getting sweaty. It's not about internet forums and geeky meetings in the back rooms of pubs.

    There's no excuse for middle of the road sets. From guest DJs especially. Every set should the dogs nuts, dynamite explosive, and only possibly copied by another top DJ or by no one at all.

    There is no excuse for DJs not to try to be playing the best sets. No excuse.

    Try to be the best DJ or don't bother at all as there are people out there who are the best and should be given more time to give the dancers the best.

    Just my humble opinion of course, and I'll get ready to dodge a few tomatoes that are bound to be thrown in my direction... :tomato2:

    james NICELY SAID :wicked: we all need to rock the joint as they say in hip hop parlance :wicked:

    JAMES CARR DARK END OF THE STREET ....IN fact any of his slow emotional stuff...the man lived and died a tortuous life....poor mental health...addiction and finally suicide...chewed up by the music world.....left him with nothing....

    i echo dans sentiments above

    Exactly what I did at Prestayn in the Modern Room at 4am on Friday night, I played what I term ' a freestyle set' that incorporated Soul from 60's to 2007, Gospel Dance, Soulful Dance (House), Funk, unreleased future gems and some Jazz. Just quality Black Music with no age barriers and the dance-floor was healthy for my 90 mins despite the room being so large and for me slightly intimidating. I really enjoy playing sets like that.

    bob couldnt agree more....splash of everything always did it for me :yes:

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