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Hi everyone Released 7th July - Complete Loma Singles, part 1 and 2 on double CD. All Loma Singles to be released in 4 volumes. There was a double CD singles anthology years ago but this has far more and all from the master tapes (bar one song). https://shop.realgonemusic.com/collections/upcoming/products/the-complete-loma-singles-vol-1-2-cd-set

Thanks for the reply. It's the usual version that has Modern Soul spins. I can hear it online at YouTube and I know there are apps to scrape tracks off YouTube but the quality isn't there. I'd like a proper offline track to listen to when out and about.

Hi everyone, this has only been released on an out of print limited run 7" that came with a download of the song. Is there a way to buy a legal download of it? Thanks.

Loving this CD on regular play!

Loving this CD on regular play!

That is a great article, thank you. The album is classic Hi style Memphis Soul that is authentic 1970's Southern Soul music.

Excellent. CD of new album arrived yesterday. Listening today while reading the article. Thanks.

Chalky - my point about giving records to them is that we will be so old we have no use for them, our kids probably won't be that interested other than to sell them (in many but not all cases) and I assume many of us would like the next generation to continue the scene. I guess it doesn't really matter, age will make the decisions for us.

Awful???

I wonder how NS vinyl is going to reach the next generation. They will never be able to afford it. The financial commitments to young adults now are huge to have a future quality of life. At a certain point and I am serious about this, we are simply going to have to give it to them to keep it going. Cue gasps I am sure, but as people age, pass away and move beyond vinyl being an active part of their lives, it will either be passed down family, sold off anyway or left behind. Wheel go-ers are at a minimum into their sixties now as are many DJs. This becomes an active consideration from this point on and I welcome perspectives. At a certain point of age the money will become irrelevant that can be recouped on vinyl, it will just be more money the state can access for social care. It will be the continuation that is most vital at that stage. Thoughts?

A great book and bargain at that price.

Regarding Freddie North's music on this compilation, they have issued a dedicated CD to him this month too which is also great.

Regarding Freddie North's music on this compilation, they have issued a dedicated CD to him this month too which is also great.

Listening to it now, very enjoyable music indeed.

New album by The Limboos is out in that early 1970s soulful Rhythm and Blues soul (think Sam Cooke, Bobby Bland, Etta James, The Impressions or such as James Hunter and Boz Scaggs recent album)

Hi everyone, a great new CD of Spyder Turner's 1970's recordings in the Modern Soul / Soulful Disco & sometimes Funk style. https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/is-it-love-youre-after-the-whitfield-records-years-1978-1980/ Thanks Mark

Great write up and excellent CD. I have just put my order in. Soul Junction is becoming a label like Kent that everything they release needs to be purchased. Wonderful work.

Great write up and excellent CD. I have just put my order in. Soul Junction is becoming a label like Kent that everything they release needs to be purchased. Wonderful work.

As promised here with this comment is a picture of the over spill room next to Rob's Records, seen from Hurts Yard but I an not sure if anyone has ever been inside, including Rob since putting in all the records. It's a kind of permanent art installation.

As promised here with this comment is a picture of the over spill room next to Rob's Records, seen from Hurts Yard but I an not sure if anyone has ever been inside, including Rob since putting in all the records. It's a kind of permanent art installation.

This is a brilliant release that has a broad spread of Northern, Deep, Modern and Southern soul. Don't miss this one.

This is a brilliant release that has a broad spread of Northern, Deep, Modern and Southern soul. Don't miss this one.

Highly recommended. I learned a lot and enjoyed the read.

Hi all, just to let everyone know I have just received a preorder of the complete Major Lance on Okeh double CD. It is issued by Epic records through Cherry Red in UK, so a proper release from the masters to extend the selections Kent issued on CD a decade or so ago. Sure to be popular here I envisage! Details at: https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/aint-no-soul-in-these-old-shoes-the-complete-okeh-recordings-1963-67/

Hi, thanks for the thread. There are many of us here listening to new soul music across a broad spectrum, typically under threads with 'Modern Soul' in the title. I've posted up lists of Soul artists before that have plays and note here, some of which get included by DJs in the non-Oldies area of the scene. Northern Soul isn't a general soul scene as we know, so has a particular style, era and qualities that are sought. It's a broad spectrum in itself though and always was - what is now an oldie that someone loves and will only listen to was perhaps a new release back in the 1970s. Obviously Dome, Expansion, Disco Soul Gold, Papa Records/Reel People, Joey Negro's Z Records, Outta Sight and many other labels are either releasing new music or reissuing Crossover/Modern Soul dance music (others like Kent are reissuing too, but I'm focusing on post 1970s issue music for a moment). There is a healthy vinyl scene for Modern Soul releases too now which for some combines old and new well. While I like the UK bands mentioned and others, I don't find some don't quite have the snap to their music, just a tiny almost imperceptible groove thing that's not quite there. I also find some themselves are too limited to a sound before about 1972 and don't themselves take in what has happened since. I don't mind of course, it's still fun to listen to, but this far away from the era trying to recreated it musically is starting to feel a little unncessary, especially when done by so many pop artists in recent decades. I travel a lot for work and like stereo music on headphones, so listen extensively to Modern Soul (and jazz etc) while out and about and save the older Mono music for playing (loudly) at home. I don't think people only listening to their original music is a function of Soul music, I think it's people who enjoyed some music a lot in their youth but then aren't really interested in music in and of itself as an interest that keeps them exploring new music (or even old music new to them). Thanks Mark