Spacehopper

sorry ...soulies ! cant even remember last time i bought a cd !....while i still run up to the dex and ask djs titles( although these are often forgotten by the time i get home )...i 'discover' a lot of new to me tunes by soundfiles either on ebay or dealers websites...

well theres always 2 sides to a story and there are lots of good points on this thread ...but things have changed ,back in the day most people relyed on the dj for unknown or unreleased tunes,not today...with the internet most punters can go on either ebay or soul websites and hear tunes the djs havnt heard !! ...dont even need cds !!

well reggae sound systems (who have their own resident djs, or selecters as they call them)have a world cup clash every year....i think they have earlier heets to find out the four finalists...

soulfusion had a room playing all this type of motown,atlantic etc on saturday and although i only passed through it to get to the toilet it was verry busy all night !!...so some people still love it and fair play to them ...its all soul at the end of the day and still better than alot of the shit made today !.....or am i just getting old cos i sound like me mum when i was a kid !

agreed an excellent tune...dont get me wrong cant remember the last time i played it and if i heard it out would walk off the floor cos i like most of you am bored with it but along with 'out on the floor' tainted love' etc it is a great tune...and once when you werent all so judgemental,didnt have the choice of today and were just out to dance and have a good time most of you thought so too...although now it seems cool to deny it !

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i like her....got 3 7s...not played them for a while as they were overplayed when i got them a while ago....'feeling free' 'four leaf clover' good dancers,different styles of soul....ok not as good as the 60s productions that influenced them but as good as duffy and ami and although she has had play in 'other' clubs i think she derserved more sucsess than she got...cool vid too

agree top tunes... dont play dust my broom much as is a bit overplayed elsewhere but saying that does fill the floor still ! JC cost me about £30 a few years back now on issue but well worth it and almost always in my box love it..hard not to play !!...well done on a bargain find

as steve said its about entertaining the people,gotta do your best to get them on the floor hopefully by playing BOTH well known oldies and rarer (not just expensive) largely unknown trax...when i buy a cheap unknown original i ask myself would i dance to this on the first hearing ,has it got that instant foot tapping wow whats this factor !!...if not it doesnt go in my play out box....too many tunes for sale and gigs to widespread to play growers nowadays,its not like wigan or the mecca where a tune can be played week in week out till it breaks IMO...and i dont play tunes just cos i like them !...and ofcouse every crowd and venue is different although you may only play 20 tunes you need a wide selection with you well known oldies?...sadly that comes down to what i can afford ! a compitition ?....nice idea,cant see it working WAY too many djs...would be a bigger q at the dex than those saddos who think they have the x factor !!...

also paid about a tenner and have been playing this all year..a go go fave in bristol....cannot believe more people have not been playing ,this pure quality...great lyrics,melodies ,production the lot.... to be honest surprised this thread is still going !.....only skimmed through the last few pages but whats this about original uk issues not being allowed ??....i understand the bootleg,carver and reissue arguement even on the well pressed maybe even unissued grapevine etc but come on theres f*** all wrong with original 60s released uk soul !....i personally collect us but 2 of the go go djs are uk collecters and trust me they have some beautiful records which are pressed and sound a lot better than a lot of us stuff !... and more expensive !!

agree with steves above post and "the more info on label" post also as we have said before generally they sound better but also with the new boots that are copies of original labels ,they are obviously scanned on pcs ,compared to those printed in the 60s/70s they actually look shit even down to the font...doesnt look 60s/70s at all.....kinda like a new gt/et vespa compared to an old gs or rally (sorry if ya not into scoots).....and as with any collector looks are also important....and then as a nice extra theres the investment factor,it will hopefully only ever go up....pay £10 for a new boot and as a secondhand one its immediately only worth a fiver...IMO

i thought this thread was about a list of some sort cant remember the last time i saw it !.....sadly seems to have gone the same way as many before it ....round and round for a bit before the negative comes out.....obviously we are all passionate but lets try keep on topic and beeks maybe you should stop saying things just to wind people up...an internet forum is not like chatting over a pint !...damn my teas gone cold again ...bloody soulsource !!

agree with that paul its upto the dj and promoter (obviously if its advertised as ovo it should be).....but to those punters who do not care ,just think if every dj played the same cheap boots all the time at every venue you went to and didnt spend their hard earned money and time finding new spins...i reckon even those die hard wigan only soulies who may still be still passionate at the moment about the golden oldies would get bored after a while....just like a lot of the new spin fans are already....which along with the recession would kill the scene off for us all......so it does matter sorry for the doom and gloom,had a shit week will be better friday evening !!

you dont have to spend hundreds to play ovo....this friday i will have over 200 originals in my box some with a book price of £200 although ive not paid more than 50 for any of them....they are there if you look hard enuff and its part of the fun of being a dj on a budget... and if you dont wanna play your 5000 grand tune then dont you only get to play about 20 tracks anyway you must have that many decent orginals

i was born in 67 so i missed the casino etc so yes i agree you were lucky but although i bought my first northern tune in 78 (i was only 11 and living in norwich)a year later two tone happened and this was also a great time to be a teen and when i see youngsters today getting into ska i feel lucky i was born when i was...also when i go on a scooter rally i feel lucky to have been going on rallies in the 80s in its heyday with thousands of others...again a great time to be in your early twenties....i agree with other comments i cant see what todays kids will feel lucky about !! but we are also lucky to be into a music and a scene that seems to refuse to die and where your age doesnt matter...long may it continue

hi steve...dont think it was the postie who comes to me but one of the idiots in the sorting office who throw things around and stack heavy objects on top of fragile ones !!....was gladys in a box ? cant remember but believe you which makes me have even less faith in the post office employees...!! yes it was the buy it now copy....as it turned out shame you forgot...at least a good record would still be about

would you believe it !...in twenty years of getting tunes through the post without a prob ive now had my second break in a month !!!.....this time it was the sunlovers/never make the grade a near mint original...the corner of the packaging was creased and as i pulled the record out of the sleeve i had a little crescent shaped bit in my hands....NOOOOOO !!!.....books at about 100/150 luckily i only payed 35 which i should get back but gutted again.... starting to get paronoid thinkin i have an enemy in the bristol sorting office.....or maybe its just a crazy cd nut who hates vinyl thing is the day before i had 2 common cheapies (back st/edwin and new girl/accents) arrive fine...bloody typical and despite gettin tunes from all over the globe both breakages were from the uk...maybe uk sellers should start useing the boxes like overseas sellers instead of the card envelopes ?? sickening when you look at a tune thats been kept in such good nick for over forty years to be broken by some useless c*** not doin his job right....was obvious what was inside and just in case they were really thick it also had a 'fragile please be careful 'sticker on it....

reach out for me/lou johnson.....flip to magic potion.....closed for the season/bettye swann

not nit picking at all barry drum and bass,hip hop,reggae...all black music,all liked by youngsters and all underground and watered down whenever entering the charts.....as with northern but other than that not comparing it to the northern scene today or years ago but answering your original post still

received a near mint gladys knight version of 'stop and get a hold of myself' the other day,been looking for it for a while only the second one ive seen and it had a big crack through it ...gutted...especially when i played it and you could hardly hear the break...but had to send it back as it will only get worse.. to be fair its the only one ive had broken by the posties and was only a 30 quid tune anyone had any biggies break ??

this duffy /weller shit is getting tedious !!...how many times are they gonna have to tell us they WANT to use original recordings for the dance scenes but its all legal shit you cant just pick your fave songs and use them.... i dont think newbies will go to soul nights expecting to hear weller and duffy(although i can remember people saying she had been played at some) anymore than you go to a scooter do and ask for 'the real me' by the who !! we all want the film to be 'real' and show us in a good light but even if its shit its not gonna stop those already going to nites and however bad it is its not gonna make youngsters laugh at us anymore than if they go to a nite today and see there overweight bald dads shuffling around the floor tring to a spin or backdrop without falling over !!.....wont be surprised if some see the film ,like it,go to a do and think maybe not....especially if they make it as good as you all say wigan was....most of todays nites will be a bit of a dissapointment to em well thats my head out of the trench...let me have it !!

agree mate ,i cant do the long distance rallies anymore,lucky for me iow is only about 100 miles from bristol....and yeah weather is a big factor in enjoying or not....couple of years ago during our last good summer, i rode back on my own on a warm sunday evening and was f***** great... going through the new forest came round a corner and nearly hit a donkey walking across the road !!...was expecting the ponies but a donkey ...dont know who was more shocked tho him or me especially when i went to the right an so did he so i had to change and go to the left and just missed him....this time i will be coming back with about a dozen others so will take twice as long...we have 10 pitches on kite hill camp site and taking a van with gazeebo,music and some laminate flooring for our own dancefloor...gonna be mental !!...praying for good weather

will be riding my scoot back from the isle of whight scooter rally after two days of madness ....and then sleeping !!

what about drum and bass ?....flirted with the charts but very underground again....originally black music, now loved by all races...although i suppose early 90s when it started isnt 'old' yet

not sure if its on cd but FOOTSTOMPERS on kent is by far my fave lp ....every tune is a classic...if i had to choose one record to own that would be it...