Hi!
Must agree with Ian, Jason and James: here in BCN there are 20 hardcore soulies at most, so when you're djing in a club there's no point in playing well know, "safe", northern-modern oldies as 95 % of the people on the dancefloor haven't the slightest idea of what "soul scene" is. So, you end up playing a mixture of funky soul, not so fast deep funk, modern soul and the odd northern and boogaloo tracks and, believe me, it goes down pretty well ( Ian, who's been Djing at Powder Room, can confirm that).
It's a much healthier way of having a night out: Have some drinks, try to pull a bird (or a boy), and dance to quality music: that's what club culture is all about, isn't it?. No politics involved, no trainspotters, no endless moaning about why did you play this or that...
By the way, is any of you playing at Jo Jo's on 4th of november?
Best!
Eduard
nice post jason, how could i possibly even try to follow it
but just to say you can add porto to the list, dj'ed there a couple of weeks ago at the brand new 'pitch' club, they'd spent a fortune renovating an old building with two floors, lovely wooden dance floor and a top sound system, but more importantly the predominantly young crowd were totally into the 'modern' stuff like ellipsis, mellow madness, motherfox, split decision band i.e. the funkier, more 'disco' orientated tunes, which as you say mixes in great with the straight funk, pretty similar to your night in finland tho in that straight (60's) northern wasnt called for or requested, or indeed wouldnt have fitted in at all