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    Acid House

    1988 Acid House taking over http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_P5dNyRDNU http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geIah0omm3s&feature=related http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWQhCIq6CcY http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKeMFnF8vSk&feature=fvwrel I think the 1st one above ie...
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    Acid House

    Historical Acid House footage If anyone is interested in seeing the moment when the old jazz/funk/soul underground dance scene was suddenly brushed aside search for Prestatyn1989 on YouTube. Actually as is explained the footage is from a 1988 at the Showstoppers soul/dance weekender (the...
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    Yacht-disco thread

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    Rick Wright RIP

    I can't believe no-one's mentioned the passing of Pink Floyd's Rick Wright on here... This after all was a man who was a part of the group who were easily most favoured chill out soundtrack for anyone involved in the early Acid days and to be honest for many years after..."Echoes" for instance...
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    bankruptcy of 'nuum as concept

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    80's R'n'B/Electro-soul

    ...other classics Unique "What I've Got is What You Need", the Jammers "Be Mine Tonight" Hot Streak "Body Work" (wicked intro and eighties synths) Major Harris "All My Life" Serge Ponsar "Out in the Night" (I think this was a rare European (French) track) track)...absolute classic managed to...
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    80's R'n'B/Electro-soul

    This was British and I had a tape for years from the Spring 1986 Bognor weekend where Paul Oakenfold as a kind of record promotion bloke is trying to speak to the geezer behind this and the producer doesn't want to know and Oakenfold is trying to calm him down. I had this up until the early 90s...
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    Jazz funk

    Same here along with going to my first Caister (and Pete Tong* not reading our request out on Caister Radio) and Bournemouth weekenders, coachtrips to the Goldmine, Flicks, regular nights at Windsor Safari and the Rio, JFM and Horizon, dodgy "If it Moves Funk It" sunstrips, Robbie on Saturdays...
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    Jazz funk

    I not saying he didn't have a big influence on the North Western dance scene but just that the vast majority of that scene was surely based around London and adjoining counties and I got the feeling that the article was trying to imply otherwise. Maybe just my take on the article.
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    Jay-Z is killing off Glastonbury festival

    I know just what you mean from my time at university as a mature student in the late '90s. I think it was because the used Oasis etc as an excuse for a kind of vicarious laddism that used to make it so unbearable. Laddism is unpleasant at the best of times but the kind of NME sponsored fake...
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    Jazz funk

    Oh yes Funkmasters...sounds of the long hot summer of 1983..I suppose it was pop jazz-funk.... The summer of 1983 to me was just about the time that hip hop ( ie "White Lines" crossing over, The Rake "Street Justice", Cuba Gooding "Happiness is just around the Bend" (sort of soul with hiphop...
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    Jay-Z is killing off Glastonbury festival

    Obviously not but as with most guitar rock a large proportion of their fanbase will NOT be working class. And that (notwithstanding the Gallaghers background) even goes for Oasis who owing to the massive way they crossed over in the 90s obviously transcended the usual indie=middle class...
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    mark ronson-brit awards

    Apologies for that someone had vandalised/made a mistake on wikipedia with the Gerald Ronson stuff and it and it hadnt been corrected when I'd looked him up...just when I thought they were getting better too...
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    happy hardcore

    Don't think it was particularly Northern (at least not at its peak) I was living down south up until the late 90s and happy hardcore (along with jungle) was the sound of vast swathes of working class kids in the South East as it is up here. Surely most of the MCs and DJs like Slipmatt were...
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    mark ronson-brit awards

    his dad is Gerald Ronson one of the top 50 (?) richest men in Britain (nothing to do with Mick Ronson)...his stepfather is Mick Jones of Foreigner...
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    Youth (Sub)Culture Films/Documentarys

    I can't believe that no-ones mentioned what for all its faults is IMO probably the best of the lot..."Quadrophenia" (Mods obviously). "Saturday Night Fever" (disco) obviously set in New York but based on an article about youths into Soul in Stevenage, Herts (!) in the mid-70s (believe it or not...
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    In the UK, dance music gets faster the further north you go...

    As someone pointed out there are west indian communities in those cities but the fact remains that something like 90% of the West indian community in Britain lives in London and the South East. The West Indian communities in other cities have never been big enough to influence youth culture in...
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    Great soul LPs

    On the smoother jazzy tip..Leon Ware by Leon Ware (includes "This Is Why I Came To California") Something by Bill Withers even if its just one of his compilations. And "Live In New Orleans" by Maze featuring Frankie Beverly including both sides of the "Joy and Pain"/"Happy Feelin's" single...
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    bassline house

    To be honest i was thinking they were still like a couple of places I went to around there 2 or 3 years ago when I first heard the term "scouse house" they just seemed like pretty mainstream places playing a vaguely distinctive type of pop-dance...but yeah things move on and I'm already well out...
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    bassline house

    I'd say Scouse House wasn't even music for kids on pills more pop music played in (pre-88-style) mainstream clubs where the majority are just on booze. I wouldn't be surprised if Basshunter somehow got into this thread just because it's got "Bass" in the name! Even in Liverpool Scouse House is...
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