Funk
Funk, hip-hop, R&B, groove...some blues and soul albums are included on this page if they contain some uptempo numbers that get the groove on.
We work diligently to make these sections, but it's not a perfect system--items get placed in sections like this one by how we tag the item, and mistakes happen.
No northern soul--every record nurd has their silly (and/or meaningful) pet peeve about the naming of a genre when genres can be really helpful to listeners (and often harmful to others) but the Northern Soul tag really bugs us--we know how helpful that tag can be for listeners but feel that naming a genre after the location of the predominantly white audience rather then the location of the artist is lame.