Side A: Northern Soul Mix pt. 2, Side B: Sweet Reggae Music

I first heard the term Northern Soul in the early 2000s while watching a one-hit wonder show on VH1 that mentioned "Tainted Love" as a song the members of Soft Cell used to dance to as teenagers in discotheques. A few years later, I was watching a documentary on rave culture, and there was Soul again. I was hooked. It turns out that for every Motown hit we all know and love, there were probably 50 copycat bangers that never made it to the radio and ended up coveted by British DJs in the late '70s. Side B is all about sweet, sweet Reggae music.

Side A
The Temptations & James Jamerson - You're My Everything
Ann Sexton - You've Been Gone Too Long
Sam Dees - Lonely For You Baby
The Cashmeres - Showstopper
Earl Jackson - Soul Self Satisfaction
Freda Payne - Cherish What Is Dear To You (While It's Near To You)
Terry Callier - Ordinary Joe
Soul Brothers Inc. - Teardrops
Luther Ingram - If It's All The Same To You Babe
The Royal Esquires - Ain't Gonna Run
The Salvadores - Stick By Me Baby
Lou Pride - I'm Com'un Home In The Morn'un

Side B
Super Beagle - Dust A Soundboy
Don Carlos & Gold - Natty Dread Have Him Credential
Sister Nancy - I Am a Geddion
Ansel And The Meditations - Tricked
Linval Thompson - Look How Me Sexy
Lord Tanamo & The Skatalites - Keep On Moving
Marcia Griffiths - Band Of Gold
Bob Andy - Too Experience
Delroy Wilson - Mother Nature
The Heptones - Love Don't Come Easy
Michael Palmer - Pon Your Toe
Horace Ferguson - Great Stone

More info on Northern Soul: http://blog.gregwilson.co.uk/2013/11/northern-renaissance/

I went by DJ alt.rock for 10 years as a tongue-in-cheek diss at lazy rock & roll radio program directors "discovering" '90s alternative rock in the late aughts. DJ alt.rock was also a nod to early rap names that usually contained either "rock" or "ski"... Never in a million years did I imagine that the prefix "alt-" would be so drastically ruined by a former reality TV clown, but that's exactly what happened in 2016/17... I've done my best to clear that name from as many mixes and artwork as possible, but some sets have so many alt.rock DJ-drops in them that I've opted to just post this notice and keep it moving. From now on, I'm using my first name, because nobody can mess it up (other than myself).