Northern Soul

The instrumental has always been an integral part of the Northern Soul scene, right back to its very earliest days. Not everyone likes them, but they’re so ingrained into the culture of the scene that it’s hard to imagine life without them. Certainly enough people do like them for us to have been approached by those who have wondered why the Kent catalogue has never opened its arms to embrace a whole CD of Northern instros – especially considering how many of them there actually are. Those who have, need wonder no more. After much thought and planning, we can finally lift the lid on Kent’s first ever overview of nearly a decade’s worth of floorfillers and all-time anthems that, between them, provide a comprehensive overview of what happens in a dance when the singing stops and the music takes over.

Keeping The Faith / 28 Stompin' Northern Soul Classics consists of Northern Soul classics from the late '60s until the early '70s, including artists like Jimmy James, The Sapphires, The Showstoppers, and Kim Davis. Many of the tracks on this compilation are the rare grooves that those original fanatics of Northern Soul would have hunted down relentlessly and paid big bucks for had they found them.

Northern Soul: The 150 Greatest Floorshakers in the World… Ever! Updated Improved Remastered Expanded Super Deluxe Edition is designed and signed as a reference on your choice of several exchangers file. I decided to revisit my Northern Soul compilation of all-time greats and expand it to 150 of the absolute best of the best, cream of crop Northern Soul floorfillers, the tracks that most 'soulers' would want to hear and dance to at a party or an all-nighter. These are the songs which rate highly in virtually every Northern Soul poll online, and would be an absolute blast to play in the order I've compiled them.

Northern Soul Anthems contains 26 classic tracks of northern soul. Sleeve with original photography from Northern Soul (2014) filmmaker Elaine Constantine. Contains defining northern soul anthems from Judy Street, Al Green, Sue Lynne, Chairmen Of The Board, The Vibrations, Little Richard, The Charmaines, Willie Kendrick, Gloria Edwards and others.

No.3 in the roots of Northern Soul series, hot on the success of the “Age Of Northern Soul” and “The Dawn Of Northern Soul”. Here we feature 27 more rare, forgotten and new-to-CD maximum R&B dancers. The album opens and ends with Northern Soul legends H B Barnum and Jerry Jackson, and sandwiched in between are Europe’s hottest R&B stompers including Anna Belle Caesar, Willie J Charles and the fabulous Ruby Johnson.

Last year, Universal Music scored a No.1 Hit with ‘Move On Up’, introducing Northern Soul music to a new generation with the help of 18-year-old Northern Soul YouTube star Levanna McLean.100k sales and one gold disc later, it’s time for Volume 2. ‘Move On Up Volume 2’ is released 18th March. This follow-up album is packed full of Northern Soul classics for the wider audience plus includes some hard-to-find gems from the Northern Soul scene which the fans are going to love.

Northern Soul, also known as Rare Soul is a British music movement, which emerged at the end of the 1960s. Northern Soul includes not only a very limited musical direction, but also a subculture, which is mainly defined by the re-discovery and passionate collection of well danceable, rare and largely unknown soul music, mainly of American origin, as well as a club scene. The Northern Soul movement, with its more than 40 years of history, is one of the oldest still existing music scenes of pop culture.

In the North of England in the early 1970s, a very strange musical phenomenon evolved. Club-going Mods who loved soul music were either bored with the output of Tamla Motown or simply hungry for more music in a similar vein. So club DJs went out hunting for a new supply of soul music. They found it in the form of singles released by smaller American record labels, like Ric-Tic, Golden World, Okeh, Mirwood, Shout and dozens more. The movement came to be known as Northern Soul and though it persists in a nostalgic form today it had its heyday in the mid to late 1970s. All of that excitement and some of the rarest records can be found on this comprehensive collection.