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2 hours ago, Martin L said:

that happened to me zoom  following a fri oldies and a sat nighter !!  what a coincidence 🫣

I don't know why they need to, most post their playlist, seconds after their set is finished 😂

Some great information thanks Robert 

29 minutes ago, Paul-s said:

Quite frankly the soul source team are ridiculous for issuing me with a warning (see below) for using threatening behaviour without giving an example. See below. All this cloak and danger censorship with no reference reeks of abuse, personal opinion and marginalisation of members based on partisanship.

I was the one who was threatened in a PM. Before that I had made absolutely no reference to the said member. If I had then please post below and I will acknowledge my error? Impossible, because I did not do anything. I do not even know them. 

Mike/Mal (whoever the chief censor is) you are totally out of order here and are suggesting that members can PM each other threats based on projected slights and egos is absurd.

This post will probably get censored and me banned, but hey I feel good because I did nothing at all that you can show?

It's all a bit conceited and cloak and danger vague and goes quite well with the level of wider public censorship we are seeing with 'Cancel Culture'. Th irony is that we started the scene to escape wider censorship by the state and now you seem to echo that state censorial responses to nothing.

'disruptive'.   =  what?  Its a bit open to interpretation fellas?

I guess your advocating then that I send a direct response to the said member: no problem, but don't then give me another warning for doing so.

I have of course copied this message and can post on my site if you want to censor it. 

Thanks.

Paul

 

 

 

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Totally agree Paul, this is wrong! Not the way to treat a member who has done nothing wrong 

11 hours ago, Sjclement said:

I see this Willie Hutch penned stormer  has begun to appear on you tube which will help people get behind it (or its  the kiss of death) don't overlook their other offerings for the label  p.s. watch your speakers if playing  out it's a very bassy mix 

I've played 'down in the ghetto ', heard it played out a few times lately too. 

8 hours ago, Mal C said:

Cheers Ken, and thanks guys.

Ken I found a video on YT, of a guy called Ralphie D being interviewed, in fact he's all over the net, and I should have recognised him with my house head on. This chap was a resident at Odyssey 2001 Disco, Brooklyn, in 1977? Same guy?

What's interesting here, for me at least, and I'm not saying this is the same guy, but this chap states he had a certain release on NU Groove Records, 'Major Problems - Overdose' a classic house track, has echos of 'GTO - Pure' for those of you who know that record.

This all might be a BIG Stretch to be honest given his age, but you never know, if Toni Basil can do it!

I love propositions like that, nu- groove was a new York label, but I love the idea. I know both tracks very well, GTO was ace at the time a regular play @ Shelly's. The club you mentioned was the night club used in Saturday night fever, wasn't it? 

11 hours ago, BraveDamage said:

some body mentioned The Moments, this is not too shabby, cheap but not that well known

 

New to me, a cracker

6 hours ago, Leicester Boy said:

What you even on about 😂

4 hours ago, Benji said:

I said there are hardly any quality allnighter tunes below 3 figures any more. And so far I'm not proven wrong in my opinion. Some nice songs posted in this thread but I wouldn't play majority of them at an allnighter.

As I said, where these quality nighters? I wouldn't knock the 100 club but 'rhythm and soul', its has never been about big nighter records, has it?

4 hours ago, Chalky said:

Andy Dyson played a good few at Ashton, he played another batch on Dean's show as did Tim Ashibende who played an hour all under £50

Tim set at FTMNTC last week was ace, littered with great underplayed, available records.

10 hours ago, Frankie Crocker said:

Harsh criticism.... Russ was the cornerstone of The Casino. He’s kept a fairly low profile for decades - indeed, he’s hardly been involved in event promotion and record label stuff. As a local lad, he’s the go-to voice on matters Northern Soul. Wigan 1973-1981. It would be appropriate for followers of the music to show more respect, especially at this time.

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22 hours ago, Kenb said:

Why aren’t they played then? Is it because in reality there aren’t lots of allnighter tunes at affordable prices….just affordable N.S.tunes.

They aren't played because, as chalky intonates ego's get in the way. why play a cheap record when you can show off and play what you spent £3k on last month. That's the default setting for most.  

I just ignore this crap tbh, switched radio four off this morning, when a feature on it came on. You know exactly what they'll say and who'll say it. You have your official spokespersons of the scene and sometimes the junior official or youth spokesperson. It say more about the quality of journalism since the invention of the net than anything else, every subject matter is dealt with in a patronising way. 

3 hours ago, Kenb said:

Why aren’t they played then? Is it because in reality there aren’t lots of allnighter tunes at affordable prices….just affordable N.S.tunes.

Ken, to quote the Scottish vernacular, I disnae ken?

3 hours ago, Solidsoul said:

I think one of the reasons dj's tend to play the popular records is because most people will know them and will dance. But I know it can be boring listening to a full hour of very predictable expensive records.

The dance floor had always kept the Northern Soul scene on the right track. But when dj's don't have to play to the floor they wander off down lanes and alley ways of music, that only they know! Then it becomes boring for the average punter.

When there used to be weekly venues playing the same records to the same people it was easier to break new sounds regularly. 

But things are so fragmented now with what people know, and how often they go out, it's not surprising the dj's can't promote the lesser known goodies!

Many moons ago when I used to dj, I would try and play two out of three that most people would know then the third something lesser known I wanted to push forward!

This kept things entertaining to the crowd, but also got new records accepted. A compromise, but it seemed to work for the dancers and also for the collector/listeners. 

 

Integration is the key, totally agree. Setting up a great lesser known with something more familiar often works but so can contrasting the tempo and atmosphere to create a reaction in the room. 

17 minutes ago, Benji said:

Sorry for picking out just this bit. But I have to say in my opinion the days of great allnighter tunes at affordable prices are long gone. Everything even half decent is three figures nowadays with the odd exception.

Sorry I disagree, but then I'm not sure where these nighter tunes can actually get played to a credible audience nowadays.

This is what I was really driving at with the 'when did it become about rarity?' Thread, there was shit loads of great cheap records played at all the great venues of the 70's, they don't get played now!

Playlists are the scourge of the scene, can't remember the last time I read one and it wasn't full of the same old, tired rarities. These lists sat nothing about the imagination of the DJs other than how much they've spent and how big there ego's are. The big problem with the upfront scene has become exactly the same, Willie Dale is the new John and the weirdest. 

5 hours ago, Twoshoes said:

I posted a link to Youtube some months ago about a guy digging for records in West Africa, albeit not soul but still very interesting. If you put in Record digging in West Africa it should come up.

German guy, ace documentary, next level digging. 

15 hours ago, Clee93 said:

Think this is a pretty cool little question...

Personally can't stand Judy Street - What (soz.) & I've been playing the flip of Nev Wherry's old spin from Cleethorpes & Sheffield KGB, Flamma Sherman - Where is he, for ages now. I don't even know if its really ever been played cos I'm too young to know. 

Properly off kilt for traditionalists I'd imagine but is a power dancer once it gets going that hardly anyone I've spoken to knows... Surely this must have been played at the Pier & the Winter Gardens??? I think its hardly known cos it has a 45 second intro and a long outro which might have put people off playing it out.

 

Great that

59 minutes ago, Solidsoul said:

I thought Soul Source was for people who actually liked Northern Soul records, not relish in pulling them down!

There are plenty of records I don't care for, but I don't come on and criticize them and spoil it for the people who do! 

It's half of the topic😂. I'd love to hear about all the records you don't like, go on a dare you!