Jason S

List updated on the site https://www.witchsbrew.co.uk/indexshep.html

I've taken the laundry in and PM'd you

and includes 'What're You Trying To Do' have a near minter (original) for sale if you need it

christ, what a mess...now you see why I didn't do that Email us the solds and I'll knock em off the website. (if you click the underlined links they do actually seem to play the record - just looks a shambles )

That's odd...it's working here, mate Just tested it...maybe your ISP is blocking it? https://www.witchsbrew.co.uk/indexshep.html

Weird I'll have to test it in Mozzy Shep's ID is MARKS4282

afraid not though Tommy might see this and post it up

No, pretty sure looking at it, it's definately a boot - you can tell from the colour, the print and the matrix info (I sold my original to Tommy from the Oslo Soul Ex a few years back and sent him the exact matrix details which differed from the boot...which I got in the deal - pretty sure the writing was either all upper case or all lowercase) If you have both in your hand it's blatantly obvious but if not then I guess it's confusing. That said I guess even the boots are 'scarce' now which would explain the interest?

Huge set sale list on behalf of Shep - 174 titles on offer. Too big to list here, all with clips: you can find it here Please use the email link on the page to order - don't PM me for anything - Shep's handling sales/enquiries Thanks

No, but odd that the women in that advert dancing to The Snake are dancing in a style pretty much the same as a Belgian techno dance called Jumping. Maybe it's been remixed

...looks like one has already seeing as you missed off the Magpies The way we're going we will be gone soon

The same guy did have loads...funnily enough after the first (or was it second) batch he claimed the rest were 'the last few'...then more came....and more...and more until he stopped saying they were the last few. Think he had stock of a bunch of west coast things.

Best bet is to lock the thread once you've asked and do it through PMs, stops the 'ooh, you'll never get that' or 'sold mine for £xx now goes for £xxxxxxxxxxx' brigade jumping all over it. That way if anyone's got one, they'll PM you and do the deal. Easy

And you're being simple. Ten records = 30 mins. hardly all night now is it. Oh well, soul spec or soul rev'll do for now

The question i asked was would you play those ten records in the same set at a northern soul night anywhere in the country where the majority of the punters didn't know you or those records on the basis that funk was and is played (and has always been played) on the NS scene? Those are funk records, proper hardcore in your face 'deep' funk records so why not play them if funk is played (and accepted) on the NS scene? The answer is (as you pointed out) that "most of them bear little relevence to northern". Correct, cos they're funk records, not (Northern) soul records. Night of the Wolf and Boogie With Your Baby are DF 'anthems' and NS spins yes, but that's not the point, I'm talking about taking straight up and down funk records (that haven't been played on the NS scene) and playing them to the week-in week-out northern soul clubs the country over and seeing how long it takes for the plug to be pulled and marching orders given. Old mecca, cleethorpes classics, fine, because people have grown up with them and know them and have (by and large) accepted them and compared to the ten examples I gave are soul records in essence, but the point I'm making is take 10 'deep Funk' spins into the NS scene and expect traditionalists to accept them? You're having a girraffe, even if they did dance to Mickey a few times. I'm making a (probably really pedantic) distinction between 'established scene spins which are slightly funky and against the norm' against proper funk records that have never been part of the NS scene. Cos they're funk, not funky northerny type records

James you and I both spent a good few years pounding the floor at Deep Funk and you'll admit that all of the below are bona fide 'Deep Funk' classics. Much as I'd love to hear all of these mixed in with 60's soul at the same venue I can't see it happening (outside of Soul Rev, or Oslo Soul and some of the overseas dos or even Soul Spectrum when it starts...but they aren't as the first poster was hinting at, 'traditional northern do's') or being wanted at a traditional Northern do, and by and large I can see why, much the same way I'd not want to go to Deep Funk and hear some wishy washy Wigan Oldie that bears no resemblance to the kind of stuff I'm into and that I can't relate to, didn't grow up with and says nothing to me about what I want music to be. So, a lot of the examples given of 'funk records' that have been played on the NS scene deviate from the traditional 4/4 northern soul sound but all of those records have been accepted as 'northern' because of when and where they were played, and because of how they could be worked into a set. If funk was ever meant to go hand in hand with northern why are we not hearing as par for the course, the likes of Larry Ellis, The Blenders, Mickey etc at trad (and non-trad) Northern do's? Because it's a different sound, and different beat, and most of it isn't 'soulful'. Much as I'd love to hear the two it's a marginal thing and on the trad NS scene and at the majority of local do's - the 100's that make up the network of clubs the country over - it ain't gonna happen. You try to play SOUL records that you think would get the floor and you're looked at gone out, so playing 'out and out' funk? (not previously accepted, slightly 'funky' or agressive 'aggro soul' sounds) Can't see it taking off on the mainstream. (Ok, so you'll say that Mickey is now 'accepted' as Northern because some of your mates dance to it, or that the Love Exp must be northern cos Ady says they're dancing to it, or that the Groove Merchants has been played out a few times, but in reality, plonk yourself in a local soul club and play these ten records to a bunch of people who don't know you and see what happens - there'd be f**kin carnage! You may as well drop hardcore gangster rap and plead that the muscial heritage validates it being played as it dervives from Soul ) https://www.funk45.com/rm/carleen_and_the_g..._can_we_rap.ram https://www.funk45.com/rm/ellis,_larry_and_...y_thing_pt1.ram https://www.funk45.com/rm/blenders_ltd_-_you_got_it_all.ram https://www.funk45.com/rm/mickey_and_the_so...ood_is_good.ram https://www.funk45.com/rm/ernie_and_the_top..._-_dap_walk.ram https://www.funk45.com/rm/frazier,_ray_and_...ave_nothing.ram https://www.funk45.com/rm/unknown_-_egg_roll.ram https://www.funk45.com/rm/groove_merchants_...eone_for_me.ram https://www.funk45.com/rm/forrest,_otis_-_f..._16_corners.ram https://www.funk45.com/rm/majestics_-_funky_chick.ram

Same tune, yep.

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yeah, except 95% of 'northern dancers' would have left the floor by the 4th bar

Absolutely! 100% - nothing but.

Pressing it is then, thanks pete

Jesus f*ck, that's ridiculously cheap...surprised one of the funk lurkers has't had your hand off yet! Still sounds good

can anyone described the matrix info on a real one (or boot) What's it usually go for? thanks

True, but others had said those records were funk so I was agreeing. But by the same token it's not the funkadelic type sounds that people who might try funk at NS do's would tend to play, though, seeing as a generation of funk fans coming into the music over the past 15 years or so mainly regard that sound as gimmicky and a bit cliched. All the examples of 'funk' things that have been given so far are either old plays on the scene or not really 'funk' in the way that the kind of stuff likely to be played now are understood, heard or collected and DJ'd as funk. Flamming Emeralds is more likely to fill a floor in a tower in Blackpool to 2000 people than Larry Ellis & The Black Hammer which would kill it and probably result in things being thrown in the direction of the dj.