#4 Yogi Haughton: Northern Soul, Record Collecting, and a Lifelong Passion for Music

[@peterhailes4679]

It was nationwide. Known yogi and a man who owns over 70,000 records in his personal collection. From early 80s he was always a top draw dj from Northern,modern soul and house and techno. Still in touch with him still TOP BLOKE AND TASTE IN MUSIC IS UNREAL

[@wanderlusterer442]

Yogi...speaks for the die harders. Followed his knowledge and musical ear for many a decade....his charts in DJ magazine helped me grow musically as a dj. Many thanks Yogi❤😎🙏🏻

[@yogihaughton]

😮Thank you for the love

[@Flavio90s]

Speaking nothing but the truth 👏🏼👏🏼

[@yogihaughton]

There u are ;0) 😊

[@theoneandonlykk777]

@@Flavio90s he’s full a shite was a tea boy he brought house music to Scotland 😂😂

[@dons4europe]

MFSB is a great wee club , My wife and I are in our 50's and first went last New year . It's so good and we have met so many nice people including Yogi , Caroline and Dave. I've been to a few day clubs over the year and hes right no one really pays any attention to the Dj's they just dance away enjoying themselves.

[@NellyOcker]

Well said Martin and so very TRUE M8 👍🏼♥️🌈😎

[@markuseden2105]

Another great and very entertaining interview Kieran! Nice one!

[@theapterparty]

Thank you mate!

[@jdsmobiledisco1068]

So glad to hear someone call out the rewriting of House music history. I remember listening to house music mix tapes in the mid 80s that had come over to the UK from Chicago. The London DJs started nothing. I was going out to Acid House nights in Birmingham and I’d never heard of the likes of Oakenfold. I totally agree too that it’s all about the music, nothing to do with the pose or dropping drops every 30 seconds. I’d much rather DJ in a booth where the crowd can’t see me than being centre of attention. As long as I can see crowd reaction that’s all I want.

[@TerryJC1971]

In London those in the know never tried to claim we discovered house or played it first. There was a cool scene in most major cities. Shoom was Balearic not pure house anyway. The London scene was far quicker to embrace the ibiza approach to a set than anywhere else in Uk. Big shout to Yogi, I always respected his DJ Mag reviews. Knows his onions.

[@souljambo]

One of the comments were "stand clear of the bass bins"

[@yogihaughton]

😂

[@johnstewart1920]

Great day every time at mfsb..❤

[@markuseden2105]

Sorry to spam the comments section but there's another interesting thing he says about big DJ's play classic house / the big tunes. The truth is that if Solomun - to name but one - would get up and play a set of eclectic interesting music that nobody's heard before most people would get up an leave. With the commercialization of house that element of "educating" the crowd - at least at the top level has completely been lost as the crowd is not made up of connoisseurs anymore but of punters who just wanna hear something they know. Another thing I've noticed is that a lot of producers have gone from DJing other peoples music to playing 99 % their own productions as Djing has in essence just become an extension of their narcissistic social media profiles where promoting ANYTHING but you you you is seen as a waste of precious exposure time. Rant finally over. :)

[@naisygriff]

There are people into listening to new music and I am one of them though I am 61 and most of the people that go to the Rhythm funk and soul weekenders are my age and most of them are DJs so it’s like a dj convention. Not enough dancers. More space on the dance floor for me though!

[@davebrowning7811]

fantastic interview, in my opinion as soon as they started talking about this as "an industry" corporate business started getting involved. We got into this because of an "underground" mentality and there are very few venues and events that have not been bastardized in the search of more and more money

[@RoseberrySt74]

Great interview I loved it Yogi. I loved your delve in the Northern scene and Mcr. All the best from old Manc in Melbourne. Ps I want a MFSB t shirt badly! 😊

[@zeezee3513]

Good interview. Have to say that London doesn't claim to be the first for playing House music. Upfront djs all around the country played it from it's arrival, because Rare Groove was around in London that dominated quite a lot until the arrival of the whole Hedonism/Shoom/Future/etc etc style clubs which took over. What can't be denied is that the blueprint of the stylE and fEEl of those clubs was what was exported all over the rest of the UK and then the world. The rest of the UK had been playing House and even some of the big Balearic tunes eg Stop Bajon was massive in Scotland in 1987 but they hadn't presented and styled it the way London did.

[@spectrummarkh3986]

🙂

[@Rosso456MGT]

I have a decades long (80k tracks) collection ripped to lossless digital form. This is backed up on two digital back up devices plus a solid state hard drive. I am glad I did it but I need to sell the hard copies to reap any reward. Ripping losslessly means I get to control how I present my music in my DJ sets.

[@benitolazio8193]

Nothing beats vinyl.

[@markuseden2105]

Agree with what he says about Djing. But then Djing isn't exclusive to the underground anymore. And neither is dance music. It's well and truly crossed over to mainstream culture. That's just what happens when things become popular. Add social media to that and the average attention span of the youth nowadays.. the important thing is though that there IS also an underground scene that builds the backbone of House music. As DJ Hype once said, the reason UK Garage and Dubstep died overnight is because the ENTIRE scene migrated from the underground into the mainstream. When that ran out of steam (as it always does) the "scene" imploded almost overnight. I don't mind the Barbie girl spinnin DJ as he will come and go. The foundation of House - just like jungle / drum n bass to give but 2 examples is strong and there to stay.

[@yogihaughton]

Totally agree. There are DJs that basically play cheese, mash up pop records with house beats, are technically so proficient but play gash, but as u say, it’s all crossed over and become one big mish mash of a scene. I still try to fly the flag for quality house as much as I can though. Thanks for watching Markus and I hope u enjoyed it.

[@markuseden2105]

Nice one Yogi! Ur a legend! Keep doing what u do! :) @@yogihaughton

[@theoneandonlykk777]

Tin Pan Alley in Glasgow and Zoom in London before Yogi

[@VinylFresh]

'HOOCH'

[@zoolhert3535]

Remember Yogi selling me a copy of Anthony Acid - Bass in ya Face.. when he had a Record shop in glasgow.. just off George Square. Then trying to blag a lift off him From Euro Dance at Prestwick airport.. how you doing Yogi

[@yogihaughton7646]

Toon that

[@mapuppa]

I remember that record shop, can’t remember the name, but he had a bargain section in it labelled, GET THIS SH:T TO FUC K 🤣

[@lynseywheeler5233]

It became prescriptive years ago ..people have had surprise trained out of them ..Small clubs will,save nearly all forms of music given the chance .Face the DJ …lol..shame

[@kevinwhitmill2599]

Sad to see him spouting the usual nonsense about Northern Soul...working class...miners..etc. As for the dancing alone being a gay thing (probably). Utter tosh.

[@rabhip]

70s Prog Rock forever........ It's always the same with these self egotistical 'northern soul' and 'house' videos. Ohh and don't even get me started on vinyl collector snobs. Who cares how much you paid for a bit of plastic that probably doesn't even get played.