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Steve Cato, Mace, Johnny Beggs, Adam Topping Gumbo George Mahood, I could go on but I dont want to list all the change DJ's weve had in the last 12 months, and I started change partly to hear Dj's that I thought needed to be heard out more often

Great crossection of tunes played throughout the night by all concerned, Superb underplayed straight edged northern from the Wonderful Diva Di and Mister Jones certainly has his own niche sound now. First set of the night from me, played around 7.30 till 8ish, we alternated 1/2 hour sets throughout the night. Gene Anderson- Baby I dig you Ted Ford- you're gonna need me Denise Laselle- The right track Earl Gaines- Soul Children Stone Fox band- Down in a hole Bee houston- Hava a heart Coldblood- i'm a good woman Valerie Simpson- Sinnerman Jonah Jones- What you are Frank Butler- the love I need Bobby fisher and the Bishops- now your gonna cry Dynamites- dont leave me this way.

the Mongo is brilliant mate.

Been spinnin the gene anderson me sen, got played it at the last Bidds nighter too.

5 I've been hammering at wom in preparation for Change this sat, not bought a great deal for the last couple of months so some are things I've dug outta the shelves Valerie Simpson- Sinner Man Black Sugar- Too late Royal Jesters- That Girl Le Grand Melon- Baby pleasse dont go Baby Ray- house on soul hill.

fair do's just checked it again, but its not coming through on this thread sadly, I' have to Add, Ron Hardy, Frankie and levan but all again intonated at least in the article.

you could try contacting the Colema, store in Lima, peru. There very reliable and honest in my experience.

This is a little narrow to say the least, most mentioned so far are all NS DJ's, how about some great straight soul DJ's, Bob Jones, perhaps, Norman Jay and Mr Scruff can all put great soul sets together, and are truely DJ's rather than just great collectors that know how to sequence a set in a passible order.

certainly a fair portion of it is as you described, the new bingo, I dont know about matured, regressed more like, to its most comercial phase in the mid 70's perhaps. It doesnt mean that we have to accept it though, I'm sure there were plenty pissed with it then, like I and others are now. I think really the problems come when its intrusive, in a lobby or foyer area around the entrance to a weekender is reasonable but inside a room where people are tring to dance and enjoy an atmoshere its totally inappropriate for me.

It certainly is on my part, the comercialisation of a once underground scene deserves to mocked. Its all a load of garbage, generally the people who buy it aint got a clue, go make money somewhere else.

sorry chalky I was being naughty and got caught out! Your spot on about it though and If I thought the guests wanted to use one I'd bring one to saturdays Change night, I'm just a vinyl fetishist really, that would be my prime reason for cutting a slate of a CD only track really, I just like to dj from vinyl, cd's are fine at hme for me, but even then, 2nd best.

Your right in principle Russ, but in reality most venues aren't set up to play anything other than vinyl, unless its modern or the dreaded cheesy oldies venue, with perhaps some former big name from the hacyon days, earning a crust on his rep, whilst having sold his collection, and imho, his credibility, but I digress. so if I had something that wasnt availble on anything other than CD, or file, I'd want to get a dub of it cut just for practicality. Do you have a cd player plumbed in at lifeline Chalky?

oops, sorry I though I'd read that it was album only.

Im be trying to get a copy of the lp on vinyl to play at octobers Change night, great cut, wish was on 7 but I cant see why anyone would have a problem with me playing it off the lp, for the sake of OVO.

ther you go

I'm happy about the whole thing on tsop, top notch philly and brillient flip I seem to recall.

Tribute is terrible, but there are plenty of great soulful dance records that use non traditional instruments, and still retain the right sentiment

imho, Funky soul as a concept obviously means several differet things to different people, and its interpritation is probably as varied as the tastes of those have an opinion on it. What concerns me however is that the biggest records to come from the genre will probably be, as with other sub genres of the NS scene, the rarest ones. Saag Warfare is a good tune to me, as is Grey imprint, but I really doubt the're the best, and dont hold a candle to many cheap and common records with a similar feel, but they are undoubably two of the biggest thus far. The problems not a new style of Northern, its a quality contol thats overided by exclusivity and really, ego. Someone told me about one certain 'top NS dj' being desparate to get a copy of the Saag Warfare tune from another 'top NS DJ', why? cause its the best Funky soul tune out there? Bullshite! Cause its realy hard and the other DJ would no longer be able to spin it in his sets, more like. Same senario as crossover 10 of 15 years ago, same old really. What the scene is desparate for in my opinion, and I said it many times before, is some great, relatively cheap tunes of any ilk, that go big nationaly and get played at commercial nights throughout the land, to generate excitement and a sense of progression, whilst scuppering the booters in the process. Or were knackered really.

can I see an elephant in the room, its in the main, a load of tacky crap and has no place at allnighter and soul nights, although I will conceed it may be exceptable at some, in the right context, daytime events. I've not got a big problem with it personally, but it can be very invasive and ruin the vibe if its in a main room, ie somewhere folks are dancing, and I think if I was young I'd run a mile at the sight of someone flogging, cups, pencil sharpeners, talc holders, and particulrly plastic clothing for plasic people with plastic minds and plasitc ideas.

I just wrote a speil for the Change Anniversary CD making exactly that piont, the whole piont of Northern compred top so many othger scene's is that its live or alive, were not Teds and never will be, there's a long history of Funky sounds being played, many are classic top 500 oldies. If you'd played Torch sounds to a regular from the the Scene club or Brazennose street you'd probably get the same reaction as many moaning about the changing style of NS inb the 21st century.

Lost count of the times I've heard the gospel according to P smith onb here!

The worst of it aint as bad as, a. the pop shite played at Wigan b. some of the leaden plodders from Stafford and the 8ts. its injected some much needed pace into dancefloors after nearly a decade dominated by lots of tricky, albeit soulful tunes with a crossover flavour, A much needed change of direction, imho but then I've loved funk since being surrounded by the rare groove scene in London as a stude.

spot on, some Dj's wouldnt be seen dead out at a soul do unless they were playing

In my experience yes, yes, yes! To the extent where I dont liike accepting booking cause you feel that you have to reciprecate and return the booking sometimes. But really I've seen it happen all over the north west and midlands in the last few years, but you cant blame it entirly for seeing the same DJ's on flyers again and again, thats as much down to promoters playing safe and repeat booking the same old, same old.

Maybe part of the problem is that many of the RS crowd, who started out in the 8ts have kids and although they can make nighters and soul nights, there more limited for a whole weekend, this would certailt apply to me and a few other I know.