The Groove
Saturday July 16th, 2022 with ELORIOUS CAIN
SLURP SHOW (Rolling along abandoned emotional tracks in a route from 1966 to 1973; originally closed and shuttered.)

Disc jockeys in various American and British discotheques, bars and dancehalls in the last few years of the 1960's and the very early 1970's had their own sounds and plenty of useful and popular club hits to draw from. Extremely few remember the emerging industry with it's vibrant underground market. They would often buy their music on 7" singles at stores like those in Montreal and New York City that sold FUNK and SOUL selections along with the latest REGGAE and DUB tracks from Jamaica. This is not just a "FUNK and SOUL" show. There is also Psychedelic music, BOOGALOO, early DISCO and oddities like the legendary 7-Eleven record. There was a majority of deejays in Discos that played this fun Soul sound starting around 1966. It had it's own distinctiveness and sense of cultural identity that dancers throughout North America and The United Kingdom were addicted to, just as dancers would become addicted to the sounds of Electro and Hip Hop in future years. This "Soul" sound offered marvellous early Disco tracks and Funk recorded expressly for discotheque programming. These artists were loved by a buying public that heard them in the clubs. They may not have been as popular as the megastars of the day like JAMES BROWN, ARETHA FRANKLIN, SLY STONE or THE SUPREMES. Yet the previously mentioned artists and their other 'a-list' competitors didn't always have fresh music to offer to a growing discotheque industry. Many of the artists featured in this show helped feel the void. This is just a small sample of the hundreds of records that deejays in the late 1960's depended upon to keep their dance floors full. The massive impact of MANU DIBANGO's "Soul Makossa" and the growing influence of emerging Sophisticated Soul artists like THE OJAYS, THE THREE DEGREES, ISAAC HAYES and BARRY WHITE began to weaken the pull of this sound in 1973. Two groups of deejays have been known for insisting upon keeping this sound alive after 1973. In various parts of The United Kingdom some establishments still maintained the Northern Soul movement concentrating on SOUL records from that period. Many of these recordings were extremely popular to dancers in the Northern Soul scene. Artists like Chicago's C.O.D.'s eventually broke up not knowing that their songs like "She's Fire" from 1966 were extremely popular in Northern Soul establishments on the other side of the pond. There is still a sizeable crowd in the U.K, and Europe that continue the movement today! In the 1980's, 1990's and 21st century many HIP HOP producers and BREAKS deejays accessed records from this period for 'funky material'. It has become popular now to call it 'OLDSCHOOL BREAKS' or 'FUNKY BREAKS'. Because of demand from a growing number of such deejays, some of the titles we feature here are extremely expensive to buy now.