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Fair comment, but surely sticking it on youtube is/was always asking for trouble? Do you see where I'm coming from, or am I too wide of the mark?

Asking for trouble as in making stuff available for anybody to have as an MP3 and therefore diminishing the tracks kudos?

There are lots of tracks that are rare and in the hands of a small number of DJ's that are on Youtube but I'm not aware that this makes a significant difference to that part of the scene as a whole. Those that want to seek out the upfront scene will continue to do so no matter how many tracks are on Youtube.

Just a view, mind.

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Mp3s have a place.  For listening to at home or on an iPod.  Not being played at a soul event.

 

But, I don't mind if CDs are played as A) they're a physical format you can actually look at and hold and B) many great unissued tracks are on CD and deserve to be danced to in my humble opinion.  Just to add, I mean proper well compiled and produced CDs like those from Ace/Kent et al, not 2.99 ones from the local garage.

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teenagers @ the moment are into stone roses,happy Mondays etc.

 

we are into 60's,70's & some 80's.

 

keb doing the 50's.

 

im one step ahead......

 

coming to a club near you.the next big thing in music...THE "40's" ORIGINAL 78'S ONLY (patent pending) :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

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im one step ahead......

 

coming to a club near you.the next big thing in music...THE "40's" ORIGINAL 78'S ONLY (patent pending) :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

 

Sorry, you are behind the times already. The Llandeilo Jazz Festival had a session on the Saturday afternoon done entirely from original 78s....OSO. Original shellac of course

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Sorry, you are behind the times already. The Llandeilo Jazz Festival had a session on the Saturday afternoon done entirely from original 78s....OSO. Original shellac of course

 

Yep there's been quite a few 78's only nights (Jazz, Swing and Mento/Calypso) at my local boozer in Walthamstow as well - DJ's from the 'Shellac Collective'

 

 

Dave

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Here's a question, might be a daft one: How come all this sacred music from vinyl has ended up as MP3's. Don't shout at me for being ignorant.

 

Not a daft question at all IMO. Its a double edged sword with mp3's and soundfiles youtube etc.  We all request them as easy way listen to new sounds etc, bring on holidays but would have loved for some of them to be left in original format personally. Can miss the time myself where punters had to travel to hear a specific sounds played on vinyl. It takes away bit of the mystique of a record no doubt about it. 

 

For the artists themself easy access must be purely positive though as more people get access to their work.  Ive also gained loads of knowledge from Souclub, refosoul here, mp3s etc so can't moan to much myself Im afraid :g: ,  

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I'm not excluding myself from that statement but some of you or knocking on a bit about time you moved over and flog your records for low low prices. Lol

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to be quite honest,  these aged, youth clubbers, getting together to listen to a bunch of shite oldies, is akin to pissing on the real scene's grave and if you dont get that, you never got it in the first place. imho of course

 

Or you could look at it from the other angle. That being, there's a small amount of people clinging on to something from their youth that has been overtaken and killed off by technology and lack of interest. Not necessarily my opinion . . .  

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Or you could look at it from the other angle. That being, there's a small amount of people clinging on to something from their youth that has been overtaken and killed off by technology and lack of interest. Not necessarily my opinion . . .  

 

In terms of audio, technology will never eclipse originality with regards the Northern Soul scene, which, like it or not, keeps on burning.

 

For and on behalf of The Soul Police.

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Yep there's been quite a few 78's only nights (Jazz, Swing and Mento/Calypso) at my local boozer in Walthamstow as well - DJ's from the 'Shellac Collective'

 

 

Dave

What Pubs that.. When i lived there you were lucky to have oops upside your head on the Juke box!

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What Pubs that.. When i lived there you were lucky to have oops upside your head on the Juke box!

 

The Rose and Crown - they have live bands, comedy, the lot - loads of pubs done up into 'gastro' pubs (even the Checkers), it's turned into quite an interesting place. Even the Bell is now trendy (full of w*nkers from Stoke Newington in red trousers and sandals).

 

Even went into the Checkers and there was some bloke playing Northern(ish) on vinyl - reissues unfortunately but all definately changed in the last few years.

 

 

Dave

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There isn't one single promoter who puts on an event 'for the greater good of the scene', it's ALL done for their own ends, 'ovo' or otherwise. Get real.

Roger

NOT TRUE...

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Or you could look at it from the other angle. That being, there's a small amount of people clinging on to something from their youth that has been overtaken and killed off by technology and lack of interest. Not necessarily my opinion . . .  

fair point Graham.

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What about the rare records the ones, owned by the few.The ones we all wait to hear ,but seldom do, there the ones that I don't care what its on as long as its played. Fact is I've stopped at do's all night waiting to hear that 1 track but only a few have the record ,so there seldom played I say a bit of all 

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What about the rare records the ones, owned by the few.The ones we all wait to hear ,but seldom do, there the ones that I don't care what its on as long as its played. Fact is I've stopped at do's all night waiting to hear that 1 track but only a few have the record ,so there seldom played I say a bit of all

What about them?

Look at it another way, if people didnt hunt down rare vinyl, we wouldnt even ever hear such tracks, so instead of complaining that we dont hear them enough, be thankful to hear them at all.

If djs could play any format, such tracks would no longer be rare and there would be no point booking the dj who has them on original.

Those djs would lose the - already only marginal - incentive to find new tracks and we'd be left with all the short-cut djs, playing the same stuff.

Did you ever think that maybe it's the excitement of only occasionally hearing that rare or new track that can only be played off an original that is the bedrock of these scenes?

We are still glowing now with the excitement and mystique which was generated over the years by exactly that practise.

You might say 'but its about the music', but the music was universally ignored untill djs and collectors took the trouble to uncover it.

It seems reasonable to take what achieved that and stick with it no? It works.

Everyone at a do, more or less, has the not particularly impressive ability to identify good songs and play them in a sequence, the filter that helps to narrow down the field to select the most suitable dj is how much, and what quality, of original vinyl they have.

Like everything else in life, you should get out what you put in, whether that investment is time, research, money or whatever. If anything, it seems that a soul dj gets very little out compared with what they put in, you know, compared with a trance dj or simon cowell.

Life doesnt work out that way but lt's at least be thankful that our world is still clinging on to such a principle.

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The Rose and Crown - they have live bands, comedy, the lot - loads of pubs done up into 'gastro' pubs (even the Checkers), it's turned into quite an interesting place. Even the Bell is now trendy (full of w*nkers from Stoke Newington in red trousers and sandals).

 

Even went into the Checkers and there was some bloke playing Northern(ish) on vinyl - reissues unfortunately but all definately changed in the last few years.

 

 

Dave

Where's the Rose and Crown? I drank in the Chequers when i first left school.Next time you go there the Q in Chequers faces the wrong way.. Used to drink in the Palmerston and the Brewery Tap too. Nearest we got to music was Disco night in the Royal Standard :ohmy:

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Where's the Rose and Crown? I drank in the Chequers when i first left school.Next time you go there the Q in Chequers faces the wrong way.. Used to drink in the Palmerston and the Brewery Tap too. Nearest we got to music was Disco night in the Royal Standard :ohmy:

 

It's on Hoe Street past the cinema on the right, going towards Forest Road. Palmerston is still going but I think the Brewery Tap is gone (was that down by St James Street - if so it's a gym now) and the Standard definately is (shame many a fantastic gig in there).

 

Small world - we even have a proper Northern Night on in the Stow.

 

The Cock Tavern has been done up, but still has the same dodgy clientel lol.

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It's on Hoe Street past the cinema on the right, going towards Forest Road. Palmerston is still going but I think the Brewery Tap is gone (was that down by St James Street - if so it's a gym now) and the Standard definately is (shame many a fantastic gig in there).

 

Small world - we even have a proper Northern Night on in the Stow.

 

The Cock Tavern has been done up, but still has the same dodgy clientel lol.

Yeah i know it now. Opp where Small Wonder Record shop used to be. The Tap was a bit lary bitd. The Cock was an old market trader pub. My Mum used to run the Mecca Bingo Hall in Buxton Rd in the 70's I think that;s gone too, Yep i've been to WOHA.. Near the Snooker club that used to be a porn cinema!

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from merriam websters

Definition of PROVIDENCE

1

a often capitalized : divine guidance or care

b capitalized : God conceived as the power sustaining and guiding human destiny

2

: the quality or state of being provident

mp3s sound worse because they don't have crackle and hiss like trashed records?

 

The term is Provenance not Providence it refers to validated history!

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:lol:  :lol:  :lol:

 

Soulontop you're a scream!  :thumbsup: The comment, the signature, the whole schmear!

 

Keep it up, ktf, right on, okeh..  :wicked:

 

 

 Just like to have a giggle I'm very passionate about the scene but just find some bits a bit cheesy sometimes. :yes:

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Food for thought, say you were on holiday abroad and it had 20 bars/clubs in the town and one of them played soul all be it of a laptop which bar would you most likely frequent the most & would you have an opinion the fact it was of mp3 rather than vinyl, we,ll assume the person playing them is foreign with no knowledge of the scene and has just got a random playlist that ranges from classic oldie to the ultimate rarities, Would you come back from your hols thinking that bar/club was a stroke of luck or think i,m glad i didnt go to that place as they didnt have a clue and they didnt play of ovo vinyl !    I had a much better time listening to Abba & the Beegees :) What i,m getting at is I reckon most would be suprised & happy to be offered it in any format as it somehow comes under different rules although the music is the same, Here it would be debated and opinions would fly left right and centre, so possibly for the masses they have the same attitude that its just music and a good old social knees up with a musical genre they like which is fantastic, It doesnt dilute the scene at all cos if you want that underplayed/rare scene on ovo you will seek it out . you can have 1,000 soul nights with only 5 of them playing rare ovo and you,ll see more or less the same faces at all of them, EACH TO THERE OWN enjoyment is the key not politics the OVO flag will always fly high and proud but just in minority numbers :)

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