Inexpensive Records For Big Djs?

[Len]

Its when you check up on Mick you see its not a USA issue but UK demo or even a rarera issue, Mick ain't the normal record guy.

 

Adam has been playing 'Ain't No Mountain High Enough' for years, and always when it was right to play it - The greatest record on a Sunday night at Cleethorpes

 

All the best,

 

Len  

Edited October 25, 2013 by LEN

[Len]

Repetitive shouter.

 

I call that 'Gotcha Gotcha' Soul - I like it (but not all night) It certainly keeps a place 'going' - I'll give Gordon that.

 

I didn't like 'The Majestics - Strange World' at all (My 'difference' I was talking about Terry)

 

Just opinions guys

 

All the best,

 

Len  

[Quinvy]

Quality soul is never cheap, but it can be inexpensive.

 

 

My favourite Dj's have always been able to throw in the occasional, and sometimes more than occasional, less expensive tune into their sets, it's very much part of what makes them quality DJ's.

 

However, it doesn't matter if you're buying records at £10 or £1000 the only thing that you can't buy is taste, and having great taste is the thing that separates a smallish group of Premier League DJ's from the rest.   

 

Hear, hear. Nail on head time.

Edited October 25, 2013 by Quinvy

[Quinvy]

Spent a big part of my DJ career following him... and resetting em (...along with the Pitch control).

 

Gotta love the man.

 

 

Sean

 

 Exactly! he's a very nice man, but he wouldn't get near the decks at any nighter of mine. You're only as good as your last set in my opinion, and history counts for nothing. 

Edited October 25, 2013 by Quinvy

[Guest Gangus]

GINGER AND LEVINE HAVE TO BE THE BIGGEST DEEJAYS.MICK H IS PRETTY BIG TOO-MUST BE 18 STONES AT LEAST,.AS FOR MICK SMITH,WELL HE MAY HAVE BEEN AROUND THE SARF FOR YEARS BUT YOU CANT HEAR/UNDERSTAND A BLEEDIN WORD HE SAYS[DOES IT MATTER IF THE RECORDS ARE DECENT].

[Steve G]

 Exactly! he's a very nice man, but he wouldn't get near the decks at any nighter of mine. You're only as good as your last set in my opinion, and history counts for nothing. 

 

 

I don't get the aggression that's coming out here.........is it "Trash a long time DJ" week in Lancs or something?

Edited October 25, 2013 by Steve G

[Quinvy]

Like I said it's constructive criticism, not personal attacks. The scene is stale and controlled by cliques of individuals and long time Dj's who are worshipped for what they once were, not what they are now. Someone mentioned James Trouble, and although I don't agree with a lot of what he did, he was at least trying to give the scene a kick up the arse, which it really, really needs.

[Len]

I suppose I better put my 'head on the block' as I gave my opinion on the last two records......

 

......This is my 'Heaven'.......Just TRY and imagine it being 'spliced' in at the right time (and that everyone liked it!)  

 

'The Festivals - You Got The Makings Of A Lover'

 

Enjoy!  (I'll get me coat)     

 

All the best,

 

Len  

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUWV1qhlt6Y

Edited October 25, 2013 by LEN

[Kev Cane]

I suppose I better put my 'head on the block' as I gave my opinion on the last two records......

 

......This is my 'Heaven'.......Just TRY and imagine it being 'spliced' in at the right time (and that everyone liked it!)  

 

'The Festivals - You Got The Makings Of A Lover'

 

Enjoy!  (I'll get me coat)     

 

All the best,

 

Len  

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUWV1qhlt6Y

Great pick Len, there,s 1000,s of records of the like out there, unfortunately, not rare enough for the sheep or BIG DJ hangers-on, so like the Festivals, will be confined to the record room and the few innovative venues

 

Kev

[Len]

I know some may think 'The Festivals' track isn't a dancer (I disagree) So here's one that I think more would like.

 

‘Lee Williams - It’s Everything About You’

 

All the best,

 

Len  

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQOHZZo7QRs

Edited October 25, 2013 by LEN

[Steve S 60]

I know some may think 'The Festivals' track isn't a dancer (I disagree) So here's one that I think more would like.

 

‘Lee Williams - It’s Everything About You’

 

All the best,

 

Len  

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQOHZZo7QRs

 

Nice record...intro reminds me of Smokey's "If You Can Want".

[Shaun W]

Hi Gaz, that's not strictly true. there's a collectors angle here too. A lot of us have played sizeable sums for good unknowns, either on spec or because they are unknown and hence by definition rare....But I do agree everyone is on a journey and everyone is at a different stage of that journey. One man's great £10 find is another's moment of boredom. We are all in different places. 

 

Also there is a massive difference between "rare" and "in demand". Rare is the most over used word I've ever heard (apart from "across the board").....basically used to describe any record more than £20. Plenty of these so called "rare" records are not rare at all and plenty of genuine good quality rare records aren't even on most people's radars.

So very true, I know a fair bit about the records I own and those I wish to own but in the grand scheme of things I can accept that I really know f*ck all.

 

However, I’m still able to discuss, on a regular basis, records of mine that some of my friends don't know and in return they put me onto things that I've never heard before; that's part of the joy of hunting down and collecting records.

 

JM recently said, quite genuinely and sincerely, to a close friend of mine who he was doing some insurance work with, that one of the joys of his business, even now, is that every week he still comes across records that he'd not heard before. I feel the same, but I'm hearing stuff that's new to me every day.

 

I don’t think that, for the majority of us, there’s any danger of us ever running out of records to listen to that are new to our ears. Unfortunately, as the soul population reaches ever advancing years I do see us running out of people who listen to these records though.

 

Will the last man please turn out the lights?

 

Naturally for those KTF, It’ll never be over for me, Northern Soul - it’s a way of life, Right On Soul Brother / Sister types then I apologise for talking complete B*ll*cks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[jocko]

Ahh forget it, I am off down the Bowls club, nothing to do with me anymore.

Edited October 25, 2013 by jocko

[Steve G]

Ahh forget it, I am off down the Bowls club, nothing to do with me anymore.

 

You not working fella?

[Len]

Ahh forget it, I am off down the Bowls club, nothing to do with me anymore.

 

Good man - 'Soul in the Bowl' is where it's at!   

 

Sorry Jocko - Couldn't resist  

 

All the best,

 

Len  

[Guest gordon russell]

I suppose I better put my 'head on the block' as I gave my opinion on the last two records......

 

......This is my 'Heaven'.......Just TRY and imagine it being 'spliced' in at the right time (and that everyone liked it!)  

 

'The Festivals - You Got The Makings Of A Lover'

 

Enjoy!  (I'll get me coat)     

 

All the best,

 

Len  

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUWV1qhlt6Y

len i,ve seen you have edited your post..................it can,t be working properly the festivals track is still there

[Len]

len i,ve seen you have edited your post..................it can,t be working properly the festivals track is still there

 

.......I was 'Bracing' myself for something Terry  

 

Len  

[Guest gordon russell]

A bloody record is either a dance record or it ain,t.........some of these posted clearly ain,t,but some (you len) of you obviously don,t get .....there is no debate on that......debate one tune being better/more soulful ect........if it wern,t made to dance to......it ain,t a dancer......ergo   DON,T PLAY EM OUT JUST COZ YOU LIKE EM!!..........it,s not the point  

[Steve G]

^{Ok let's have a proper northern cheapie.....I know there's the expensive version as well}

^{https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOKRspE-8rI}

[Len]

A bloody record is either a dance record or it ain,t.........some of these posted clearly ain,t,but some (you len) of you obviously don,t get .....there is no debate on that......debate one tune being better/more soulful ect........if it wern,t made to dance to......it ain,t a dancer......ergo   DON,T PLAY EM OUT JUST COZ YOU LIKE EM!!..........it,s not the point  

 

 Me and you have very different 'histories', so are obviously influenced differently. I know if the two tunes that I posted above were played at The 100 Club (in my days there at least) the dance floor would have been packed - So in my opinion they are both dance tunes that sound fantastic at the right moment.......For me - at 4.00am......For you - in the car on the way home.....just before you sling the C.D out of the window!     

 

I like your opinions though - Keep em coming (Need not that I ask you to!)  

 

All the best,

 

Len  

Edited October 25, 2013 by LEN

[Guest gordon russell]

 Me and you have very different 'histories', so are obviously influenced differently. I know if the two tunes that I posted above were played at The 100 Club (in my days there at least) the dance floor would have been packed - So in my opinion they are both dance tunes that sound fantastic at the right moment.......For me - at 4.00am......For you - in the car on the way home.....just before you sling the C.D out of the window!     

 

I like your opinions though - Keep em coming (Need not that I ask you to!)  

 

All the best,

 

Len  

hoorah!!!........got it nearly right..........the c.d would of been  aimed out the window before it could contaminate the c.d player lol

[Little-stevie]

A bloody record is either a dance record or it ain,t.........some of these posted clearly ain,t,but some (you len) of you obviously don,t get .....there is no debate on that......debate one tune being better/more soulful ect........if it wern,t made to dance to......it ain,t a dancer......ergo   DON,T PLAY EM OUT JUST COZ YOU LIKE EM!!..........it,s not the point  

 

 

The uptempo banging bully against the mid tempo dancing queen  .... 

 

Give up now Len.... Surrender....

 

No matter the topic title you will have to have your banging tunes debate for the millionth time....

Edited October 25, 2013 by little-stevie

[Len]

The uptempo banging bully against the mid tempo dancing queen  .... 

 

Give up now Len.... Surrender....

 

"I will never give up!"......He simply has to be stopped  

 

You're 'one of us' Steve  

 

Len  

 

P.s - I did like the phrase Irish came up with, describing us as 'The Tempo Twins'  

Edited October 25, 2013 by LEN

[Reg]

I know some may think 'The Festivals' track isn't a dancer (I disagree) So here's one that I think more would like.

 

‘Lee Williams - It’s Everything About You’

 

All the best,

 

Len  

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQOHZZo7QRs

Are you playing my record collection Len?

[Len]

Are you playing my record collection Len?

 

At last - A man with taste!    

 

Len  

[KevH]

At last - A man with taste!    

 

Len  

 

Except Reg is a woman.Just a thought Len,could you ring Terry and discuss uptempo...?,,,,,then reverse the charges.?

[Kev Cane]

Sorry for sounding negative chaps but its something about the "scene" that has bugged me and influenced my whole thinking about it, as time went on I got to realise that it wasn,t what was playing but rather "who" was playing it. Sick of hearing about so called "Big" DJ playing cheap record then everyone saying he,s "innovative" or and "cutting edge" when the same record (and more alike) being played by someone else, reaction being a few admiring nods of the head by a few but mostly, total ignorance to the "insignificant small fry" in my book, the "small fry" is the innovative one, rather than the obvious playing of trophy records which isn,t really clever (to me that is)

A lot of the threads on here now in my opinion lead to the same conclusion, most people are influenced by "who" and not "what", hence the ever more frequently used term "sheep"

 

Kev

[Guest northernsoul62]

How the f*ck has catch that teardrop ended up in a list with build me up buttercup!? :-/

I was just saying i will dance to a £5 or a £200 record.

[Little-stevie]

At last - A man with taste!    

 

Len  

I see Kev already posted..

 

Yes indeed Reg had lady bits the last time i was in her company..   

[Len]

I see Kev already posted..

 

Yes indeed Reg had lady bits the last time i was in her company..   

 

.....So it's just the ladies that like my type of tunes......Terry's gonna have a field day  Damn, damn, damn  

 

 

 

Len  

[Guest penny]

Could you please elaborate so I may avoid any further transgression. I would hate to think that I have made the strange world of Northern Soul sound weirder than it is.

I'm not talking about northern soul only - soul music doesnt begin and end with the northern scene - but general soul djing practice. On one hand there are people putting lots if work in trying to find lost gems and exclusive tunes to make their dj sets unique, on the other hand there is the fetishisation of rarity. Both occur but arent the same thing.

My rule was always :

For expensive / rare records - would you still like it / play it if it was cheap / common

For cheap records - would you pay at least 100 quid for it, if it was rarer.

t

If the answer to either is 'no' then the record's no good enough.

Edited October 25, 2013 by penny

[Len]

I'm not talking about northern soul only - soul music doesnt begin and end with the northern scene - but general soul djing practice. On one hand there are people putting lots if work in trying to find lost gems and exclusive tunes to make their dj sets unique, on the other hand there is the fetishisation of rarity. Both occur but arent the same thing.

My rule was always :

For expensive / rare records - would you still like it / play it if it was cheap / common

For cheap records - would you pay at least 100 quid for it, if it was rarer.

t

If the answer to either is 'no' then the record's no good enough.

 

The cost of records is, and always has been irrelevant to me - When D.Jing, if I have a £1,000.00 record on one deck, and a £5.00 record on the other, I see them both 'averaged out' to £502.50 each  

 

All the best,

 

Len  

Edited October 25, 2013 by LEN

[Steve S 60]

The cost of records is, and always has been irrelevant to me - When D.Jing, if I have a £1,000.00 record on one deck, and a £5.00 record on the other, I see them both 'averaged out' to £502.50 each  

 

All the best,

 

Len  

 

 

I'll give you £502.50 for the £1000 record. 

[Reg]

.....So it's just the ladies that like my type of tunes......Terry's gonna have a field day  Damn, damn, damn  

 

 

 

Len  

As My husband would say...I am an honorary man  :-)

With the lady bits.....Steve!!!!!!

[Ian Parker]

It was an anniversary and it's the same as Keith Minshull playing Hey Girl Don't Bother Me at the Casino 7th anniversary really:

I remember thatVividly. Was stood in the archway through to the record bar. Yeah man!

[Pete S]

As My husband would say...I am an honorary man  :-)

With the lady bits.....Steve!!!!!!

 

Why are you called Reg, Reg?

[Reg]

Why are you called Reg, Reg?

Have we not done this before years ago?

Bloody Hell Smithy do I have to regale the long story again  

[Back Street Blue]

As My husband would say...I am an honorary man  :-)

With the lady bits.....Steve!!!!!!

 

....does your family call you " R - Reg" ? 

[Reg]

....does your family call you " R - Reg" ? 

You mean "Austin ambassador Y Reg"  ??

We are going to get in trouble soon from the we are the mods!!  :-)

Off topic posts and that.

Ok reason....my brother always called me Reg Molehusband when I was learning to drive and when I had scooters...based on the old PIF. Since the internet was invented (I work in IT)  I have always been Reg.

That's it really     Bloody mystique lost now...hahaha!!

[Len]

I'll give you £502.50 for the £1000 record. 

 

Done!.....Hang on, no.....it's 'buy low, sell high'.......I keep getting that mixed up.......  

 

........Well maybe......if you find a buyer for the other record.......hang on (again)......um......there's no profit there is there? I'd be just like a proper Record Dealer - Doing it for love

 

Len  

Edited October 25, 2013 by LEN

[Steve S 60]

Done!.....Hang on, no.....it's 'buy low, sell high'.......I keep getting that mixed up.......  

 

Len  

 

One way to remember it....Ike & Tina Turner......"Buy them cheap, sell them high, if I sold it would I cry?"

[Guest gordon russell]

The uptempo banging bully against the mid tempo dancing queen  .... 

 

Give up now Len.... Surrender....

 

No matter the topic title you will have to have your banging tunes debate for the millionth time....

Fair play fella l own up  .......just fed up at some venues when people moan..."it,s gone flat"   and people are starting to go home...and it,s as plain as day  why.  

[Patto]

Check out this thread for loads of examples of great underplayed uptempo and under fifty quid records.Would have loved the thread to have lasted longer and would love to hear more of them played out

 

[Russ Vickers]

^{Ok let's have a proper northern cheapie.....I know there's the expensive version as well}

^{https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOKRspE-8rI}

 

Slightly off topic I know, but what is the other version Steve ?...didn't the Norvells come out on 2 labels as well ?.

 

Best Russ

[Pete S]

Have we not done this before years ago?

Bloody Hell Smithy do I have to regale the long story again  

 

Was it something about Reginald Molehusband?  If so, you told it before I was posting I think

* sorry hadn't seen your post above

Edited October 25, 2013 by Pete S

[Steve G]

Slightly off topic I know, but what is the other version Steve ?...didn't the Norvells come out on 2 labels as well ?.

 

Best Russ

 

Hi Russ, Two labels as The Norvells also on Twinight as The Perfections - that's the rare one....

Edited October 25, 2013 by Steve G

[Chalky]

Here's a great cheapie......

 

[Chalky]

and another 20 quidder...

Edited October 25, 2013 by chalky

[Pete S]

You know when you see a record all over the place and it's only a fiver or a tenner and you automatically think it's probably that cheap for a reason?  I'm ashamed to say I do that a lot.  I did it with this record which I'd had off and on for 20 years but NEVER EVEN PLAYED IT.  I really was shocked when I did.  A lovely little fingersnapper, and while not as good as a couple of his other's, it's still well worth a listen

 (Chubby Checker - You Better Believe It baby - not the Joe Tex song)

 

[Chalky]

Last one, off to watch the idiot box....