Various Haynes - Ultimate Guide To Northern Soul (2-CD)

(Sony) 40 Tracks - This 2-CD compilations owns extra class, especially for those who get into this type of music for the first time. It's truly the ultimate guide to Northern Soul music! All 40 tracks are originbal recordings made between 1963-1979!

But what exactly is Northern Soul?

Northern adj. 1. Coming from the North
Soul adj. 1. characteristic of, or for black Americans or their culture.
noun. the principle of life

Northern Soul is a very particular type of music; it's less mainstream than regular soul music, but not even slightly inferior to the kind that made the charts. This is Northern Soul, hand picked by our experts to deliver on, not just the definition, but also the kind of in-depth knowledge from Haynes that's guaranteed to give you the very best music possible.

Northern Soul is music designed for dancing and it was in those clubs already mentioned along with Catacombs in Wolverhampton and the Highland Rooms at Blackpool Mecca that dancing became increasingly athletic, somewhat like the later dance styles of disco and break dancing. It featured spins, flips, karate kicks and backdrops that took their inspiration from the stage performances of touring American soul acts. These are not the kind of records that normally made the charts in Britain, or in America.