Electronic Northern Soul

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Got lots of Northern Soul, which is all great.

Soft Cell is the only electronic Northern Soul band i can think of.

Anyone know any other Northern Soul that was done with electronic instruments??

Or covers of Northern Soul with electronic stuff?

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― 20jazzfunkgreats.blogspot.com (20jazzfunkgreats.blogspot.com), Sunday, 13 February 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

Arab Strap?

― Rizz (Rizz), Sunday, 13 February 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

that B.E.F. covers album, maybe

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Sunday, 13 February 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

Leila's "won't you be my baby, baby" sung by Luca Santucci - one of my favourite songs of all time!

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 13 February 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

Can we count Japan's two Motown covers - not northern soul I know, but...

― darren (darren), Sunday, 13 February 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

What about Saint Etienne ? A large part of their output is flecked with hefty dollops of northern soul - "Nothing Can Stop Us", "The Bad Photographer", "You're In A Bad Way", "Girl VII", loads more...

― darren (darren), Sunday, 13 February 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

"Hit The Brakes" is a great St Etienne soul stomper.

― everything, Sunday, 13 February 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

not particularly electronic but the bees "chicken payback" is a great recent NS pastiche.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 13 February 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

Sub Sub- Ain't no love? Though it's more seventies than sixties. Obviously the current Doves single (and much of the album) is more than a little, er, informed by Northern. A (Mancunian) friend of mine, who loves his House, swears that it took so long for Mancs to get disco that by the time house came along no one save hacks and djs noticed it was anything new. (As a soft southerner who didn't grow up going to Manchester discotheques I have no opinion on this)

― snotty moore, Sunday, 13 February 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

Heaven 17 "Temptation"?

― KC's Black Hole Sunshine Band, Sunday, 13 February 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

Good call that one.

The Human League had bits and pieces of a nothern soul influence in many of their electronic pop songs. There's that beat in Mirror Man, and of course the melody and words to 'Don't You Want Me'.

How about All Seeing I? Didn't they have a crack at some electronic Nothern Soul?

― thee music mole, Sunday, 13 February 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

not a fan in the slightest but i guess bronski beat could fit in here.

and i third 'temptation'.

― stirmonster, Sunday, 13 February 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

Jed, could you possibly post an mp3 of "won't you be my baby, baby" sung by Luca Santucci? It is unfindable on Ssk & Emule and I am very keen to hear it.

― Affectian (Affectian), Sunday, 13 February 2005 23:04 (twenty years ago)

Thieves - "Unworthy"

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 13 February 2005 23:39 (twenty years ago)

This guy sucks.

― Dan M. (OutDatWay), Monday, 14 February 2005 00:28 (twenty years ago)

it's a noble effort though... i've never seen anyone make a typeface out of catsup before.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 14 February 2005 00:29 (twenty years ago)

I have a CD of electronic sounfing northern soul tracks that i piched up cheapo somewhere, thinking it was a proper northern soul comp. I think it was called 'keep the faith' or something like that, although i haven't listened to it for a while.

i have a feeling that it mgiht have been made by ian levine, which would sort of make sense, as he went off to make hi-nrg tracks at some point...

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Monday, 14 February 2005 01:45 (twenty years ago)

Affectian, i sent that track - always happy to spread the gospel on that one.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 14 February 2005 02:21 (twenty years ago)

Steve Grant - "Run for cover" (drells cover, Levine production, very weird)

Wigan's Ovation - "northern soul dancer" b-side to "skiing in the snow", execrable moog-y cash-in.

Some other moog tunes on the Spark label "pepper pot" or something like that. Actually quite good.

― Jacob (Jacob), Monday, 14 February 2005 02:51 (twenty years ago)

Stazi's "Love is lethal," which is clearly the bastard child of "Tainted love."

― brittle-lemon, Monday, 14 February 2005 03:05 (twenty years ago)

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