CLOSERThanMOST - The Working-class Brand Blog.

British Subculture, Deep Funk, Football Casuals, Heavy Soul, House Music, Manchester Soul, Mods and Rockers, Motown, Northern Soul, Scooters, Skinhead, Suedehead, Underground Dance Music, working-class, Youth Culture - January 21, 2019

The Dynamite Soul Collective

Dynamite Soul is a collective of crate diggers and DJ's from all corners of the UK who came together out of necessity. Not content with what was out there, they created their own platform to showcase the harder edge of heavy soul and deep funk.

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January 18, 2019

January tees (so far so good)

So what if it's cold? You still seem to love our tee drops all year round anyway! With that in mind, let's have a little re-cap and catch up to where we are with our most recent releases. First up, we'll start with our anologue retro Acid Casuals tee. For this one we have morphed some our your favourite classic acid house drum and bass computers from Roland with some famous terrace clothing brands. Think Stone Island TB909 and a 303-Three Stripes! And of course in true 80's/90's fashion, we've even thrown in an old cassette mix tape, just for good measure. Next...

Suddi Raval : A Brief History of Acid House

A talk with Suddi Raval of Together (Hardcore Uproar) on his new book A Brief History of Acid House.

CTM - Philosophy for commoners.

No matter how much success I may or may not experience in life, I don't think I'll ever see myself as anything but working-class. I'm proud of that. Regardless of what happens I'd always consider myself that way. In fact, if you look around, some of the best innovations and biggest global brands out there arise from people who were otherwise considered an average Joe, with no academic qualifications to boot. The problem for me is that more often than not when they "make it", a large portion of those people forget where they came from. Looking back , I had always...

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January 10, 2019