Soul Mafia
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Soul Mafia was a term used on the 1980s UK club scene to denote a group of jazz funk purists, who argued that electro funk was "not real music" due to its technological nature.
Greg Wilson explaines that "the reason the electro scene took so long to fully establish itself in London was down to the stranglehold the all-powerful Soul Mafia DJs held on the Southern scene. The Soul Mafia, with big names like Chris Hill, Robbie Vincent, Froggy, Jeff Young and Pete Tong, continued to play jazz-funk and Soul grooves (later referred to as ‘80’s Groove’). It wouldn’t be until 84 that their virtual monopoly of the clubs, radio, and the black music press began to erode as a new order of music replaced the old, laying the foundations not only for Hip-Hop, but also the subsequent UK techno and house scenes."
List of Soul Mafia DJs
The regular line up of 'Mafia' DJs who appeared at Caister-on-Sea (and other big events) included:
- Chris Hill
- Robbie Vincent
- DJ Froggy
- Sean French
- Tom Holland
- Chris Brown
- Jeff Young
- Pete Tong
- Bob Jones
- Nicky Peck
- Greg Edwards
- Martin Collins
See also
- Pete Tong worked as part of the Kent "Soul Mafia" bringing soul weekenders to seaside towns like Caister-on-Sea and Prestatyn.
- Chris Hill (DJ) was the head of the 'Soul Mafia' in London and the South East of England into the early 1980s.
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