“Don’t Chain My Soul” by Carlton Basco is a Rare and serious Northern Soul Funk selection, best played on a ’45
Some background on the Northern Soul movement, and why the genre is a crucial source to Bboy DJs around the world:
Northern soul is a music and dance movement that emerged, initially in Northern England in the late 1960s, from the British mod scene. 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 Records (Detroit), Mirwood (Los Angeles) and Shout and Okeh (New York/Chicago).
And from our homie Genghis Than (@genghisthan), the always-DOPE “Genghis Edit” of Carlton Basco’s joint:
