me like that music …. Northern Soul et un URL génial pour en écouter : Northern Soul

Northern soul is a music and dance movement that emerged from the British mod scene, initially in northern England in the late 1960s. Northern soul mainly consists of a particular style of black American soul music based on the heavy beat and fast tempo of the mid-1960s Tamla Motown sound. The northern soul movement, however, generally eschews Motown or Motown-influenced music that has met with significant mainstream success. The recordings most prized by enthusiasts of the genre are usually by lesser-known artists, and were initially released only in limited numbers, often by small regional United States labels such as Ric-Tic and Golden World (Detroit), Mirwood (Los Angeles) and Shout and Okeh (New York/Chicago).

Northern soul is also associated with particular dance styles and fashions that grew out of the underground rhythm & soul scene of the late 1960s, at venues such as the Twisted Wheel in Manchester. This scene (and the associated dances and fashions) quickly spread to other UK dancehalls and nightclubs like the Catacombs (Wolverhampton), the Highland Rooms at Blackpool Mecca, Golden Torch(Stoke-on-Trent), and Wigan Casino. As the favoured beat became more uptempo and frantic, by the early 1970s, northern soul dancing became more athletic, somewhat resembling the later dance styles of disco and break dancing. Featuring spins, flips, karate kicks and backdrops, club dancing styles were often inspired by the stage performances of touring American soul acts such as Little Anthony & The Imperials and Jackie Wilson.

During the Northern soul scene’s initial years in the late 1960s and early 1970s, popular Northern Soul records were usually not recent releases, and generally dated from the mid-1960s. This meant that the movement was sustained (and “new” recordings added to playlists) by prominent DJs discovering rare and previously overlooked records. Later on, certain clubs and DJs began to move away from the 1960s Motown sound and began to play newer releases with a more contemporary sound.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_soul

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I don’t know what’s goin’ on at Stereo, but they seems to be booking some good quality gigs lately.

Richie is coming to town, back by Gaiser, a Minus live act. Booked with Layo & Bushwacka (which are currently producing some progressive we’re not sure we like) and local Daniel Maher.

You can say what you want about Richie, he is the guy.

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On me demande souvent à quoi sert Twitter et je suis bien d’accord que c’est pas toujours clair. Mais s’il y a une utilité majeur à Twitter pour le commun des mortels, c’est la recherche en temps réel avec Twitter Search. Pour une recherche sur ce show en particulier (underwordl montreal), Twitter me redonne 5 résultats, dont 3 sont des commentaires de fan en extase devant la nouvelle qui ont posté dans les 3-5 derniers jours. De son côté, Google ne me retourne aucun résultat lié à l’événement en première page (surtout des résultats pour la shop de skate).

Twitter m’apprend de surcroît que The Orb (un non moins mythique groupe britannique de la scène électronique) sera à Montréal dans le cadre du festival de Jazz le 8 juillet au Club Soda. Et c’est exactement le genre d’info que je recherche.

La même recherche sur Social Mention, engine de recherche “social media” d’un startup d’Ottawa m’apprend qu’un blog  de Montréal rapporte la même nouvelle.

Si ce n’est pas un excellent exemple de la supériorité de Twitter Search dans certains contextes…

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