I've been buying some modern 12"s recently and noticed how cheap they are compared with 'northern' singles (i might be wrong). I was just wondering what are the big modern rarities or the holy grails of modern soul?

I don't really mean tunes that have crossed over into northern main rooms like Ellipses, UBP, Ujima or Joseph Webster etc... but those that are still associated more with the modern scene.

Any suggestions?

  Matt Male said:

I've been buying some modern 12"s recently and noticed how cheap they are compared with 'northern' singles (i might be wrong). I was just wondering what are the big modern rarities or the holy grails of modern soul?

I don't really mean tunes that have crossed over into northern main rooms like Ellipses, UBP, Ujima or Joseph Webster etc... but those that are still associated more with the modern scene.

Any suggestions?

One of the nice things about the Modern scene is that hard to track down or pre-release tunes are played alongside relatively easy to come by tunes-as it was back in the good old days when Woolworths were adding to peoples collections.

Some tunes tend to become harder to find as they dry up.

hence you can still find copies of

Shazz-innerlife

Sean Oliver-You and Me

Kenny Bobein 12"s

Cunnie Williams

Maxwell

The list is endless but you can quite easily find them if you shop around.

When you put them beside

Dennis Taylor

Aretha-Wonderful

Al Green-Keep on Pushing love-One in a Million etc..

R Kelly-Step in the name of love

You see not a lot of this is particularly rare or hard to find.

Also there are new cd's coming out all the time

Leonard Julien 111-Reflections of Soul

Stan Mosley-Man Up

Tony Fields-Elegant Lady

Although some dj's will have exclusives to push and some will become hard to finders IMO a lot of what's played on the Modern scene is (by it's own definition) available. I think this changes when you tread the thread of 70's, 80's etc being Modern as these tunes have had longer to become a) desirable and less available.

I personally like the fact that much of it is available at decent prices and that you can (sometimes) chat to the artists via Facebook etc.

I certainly hope this situation is maintained as recordings are easier to obtain and the artists get there tunes heard by more people.

My views only

Ta. Kev Moore

  Kev Moore said:

Shazz-innerlife

Don't you mean Innerside

The Blaze mix is the wanted one. There's about 6 or 7 remixes if any ones trying to track it down.

  SoulJihad said:

Don't you mean Innerside

The Blaze mix is the wanted one. There's about 6 or 7 remixes if any ones trying to track it down.

That's the one! But IMHO The original mix on yellow is smoother than other mixrs I've heard out.