Ady Croasdell

Strewth. I'm exhausted just thinking about it

You're on, I'll have a crack next week. ta

Thanks Eddie, I don't know how the last mixcloud went up so would need some advice, I can make the mix OK but don't know where and how to put it up.

It ends at 6am but I could do a beat ballad set at 2am if you wanted an early night

Ha, i forgot about the LP, sorry Dean

On a deleted Kent Select 45, watch out for inflation!

I guess its getting them to eager DJs who are hot and getting plenty of gigs, are happy to get behind a track that isn't originally their own. Plus realistically they need to hear them down the 100 Club to know if they like 'em or not; though I did do some mixcloud or summat that things are on.

It's on the flip of the recent Toussaint McCall 45 so double dynamite for lovers of new 70s soul. We're putting Bobby & Eddie on Vol 2, so feel free to bung me a scan and I wouldn't mind hearing Please Mr Guru though I'm not expecting too much! You might just end up with a Natural Resources!

No, legitimate licensing as they weren't tracks we owned or had exclusives on but in the past the company concerned had asked me if we had plans of our own and we'd compromised over any clashes but the person who did that isn't involved any more.

That was another company's efforts a long while ago and ours has had full access to the tapes and found a lot more great tracks and documented them more accurately too. There's a second volume to follow.

Maybe we should go right back to the 60s and reintroduce Payola

Yep, we need to up our profile as the ad men say. It's on the Dore Soul CD which is rather wonderful two. The Natural Resources flip is the sort of 70s dancer that could go massive on the Northern scene given the right backing.

I'd love to but I have my 6 year old lad most weekends and it takes me another day to recover after that!

Do you mean 'I Fell In Love'? If so do you prefer the Kapp released version or the Kent release which is technically an underdub (less instrumentation) but sounded better to me when I compared them?

You could get the original 60s tape machine and console, connect it to the sound system and put the original master tape up or simply refer them to me and I'll sit on them.

Thanks for all the comments and the very constructive suggestions. Feel free to chuck your thoughts this way. Ady

Don't worry Ian, I'm not gonna be blowing my funky whistle in the immediate future. Vote with your feet.

I was only using the Top 500 as a general term for oldies that are a bit bleedin' obvious; it wasn't a dig at your book. I play a lot of them myself but mainly at "party" nights and when requested. Young Brothers did well but it was on the flip of the Hytones which was a guaranteed seller anyway.

It's taking a while but undoubtedly deleted 45s like 'Torture', Luther Ingram, Lillie Fields and the Pretenders 'A Broken Heart Cries' are fetching a few bob. Candi Staton has just been deleted if you ain't scored one yet!

Watch this space Eddie. I must just get a moan off my chest and say I think it's poor form when other companies dive in and release some of our discoveries on 45 without asking if we'd mind, or even sending a bleeding copy as a thank you for Christ's sake. The Cavaliers 'Ooh It Hurts Me' and Vibrations 'Follow Your Heart' being recent cases of lack of respect and acknowledgement.

You Da Man Chalks

I will rethink our promo strategy-or lack of it. However with Amazon and the like I think anyone can get a copy easily in the week of release. Not having regular big venues is the main problem, there are hardly any monthly venues let alone weekly and it takes so many plays to break a record you'd have to hold off for a very long time between promos and issues before any momentum was built up.

You are forgiven my child.

Thanks Stu, as I don't get out and about much I needed to know what gets spun around the scene. Thanks massively to all the DJs who don't let the availability put them off playing them out and hopefully this thread will nudge a few to give records like Voo Doo Madamoiselle a chance at a more conservative venue. Other Kent tracks that I think suffer from being available are the Dave Hamilton tracks O C Tolbert 'You've Got Me Turned Around' is at least as good as 'Sweep It Out In The Shed' but has largely been ignored compared to that one and Little Ann Who Are You Trying To Fool should be well known right across the scene; Ian Levine rates it very highly. Maybe if we deleted it and put it out in a different format for ten times the price people would play it-only half-joking!

Thanks Mik, you've nailed the question for me which was actually the secondary one about the younger dance crowd and their preferences. I know that like-minded souls like most fellow SSers are keen for more of the same, I was really just thinking aloud about how hard it is to break new classic uptempo 60s soul dancers. As some of us get to spend less and less time on the dancefloor it's the preferences of the increasingly younger dancers that will dictate the direction the scene goes in. If I play a new 60s discovery that is appreciated mainly by those sitting or verballing and a funkier (in my opinion less g0od) track works for the dancers, as the promoter and DJ I'm going to tend towards the latter in a lot of cases. Though having said that I ain't got many great funk tracks to play so I'll programme more DJs who do-but ones who have collections and tendencies to cover all bases as you never know quite what type of crowd you'll get on the night. I'm rambling a lot here but I suppose the essence of it is if you want more 60s recent discoveries you need to get out on the floor to them as that is the main way a promoter can gauge the direction a club is going in. I do pay heed to comments too but a vital dancefloor is what makes an all nighter a success.