VA – Luke Una Presents É Soul Cultura Vol. 1 & 2 (2022, 2023)
Satisfying as it was, É Soul Cultura was also tantalizing in its nanoscopic unmixed sampling of the varied collection possessed by Luke Una, a North of England DJ legend — Sheffield, Manchester, the...
View ArticleVA – Red Hot & Ra: Nuclear War (2023)
Sun Ra’s ‘Nuclear War’ might be the Jupiter-born free-jazz maniac’s most malleable tune. Starting life in 1984 as the opening track on his album of the same name, there brimming with fucked-up be-bop...
View ArticleVA – Jon Savage’s 1980-1982: The Art of Things to Come (2023)
Ace are delighted to continue with Jon Savage’s highly respected year-by-year series documenting the music scene on a world stage, which began with a volume based on his successful 1966 book for...
View ArticleVA – Silberland, Vol. 2: The Driving Side of Kosmische Musik 1974-1984 (2023)
Welcome to Silberland – where the streets are paved with strobes. Home to neon lights, straight lines and open roads, this futurist fantasy was first founded in the mid-seventies, when Germany’s...
View ArticleVA – Black Diamond Express: Matchbox Bluesmaster Series Set 11 (2023)
The latest six-CD boxed set in the marvellous Matchbox Bluesmaster series collates six compilation albums originally released in the Late 60s and early 70s. A collection of piano blues, something that...
View ArticleVA – Written In Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos (2023)
In its heyday, Stax Records was synonymous with soul music’s biggest stars – from Otis Redding and Carla Thomas to Sam & Dave and the Staple Singers. But behind their iconic hits was a talented...
View ArticleVA – Where Have All The Bootboys Gone? A Celebration Of Yob Rock (2023)
“A Celebration Of Yob Rock”. A swaggering 3CD collection featuring 60 tracks that were the soundtrack to the terraces and back streets of 70s Britain. Featuring ‘Lads Rock’ legends The Faces, Mott The...
View ArticleVA – Afghan Musicians in Exile; Mashhad 2022 (2023)
For several decades now, on and off, the musicians of Herat, Afghanistan have been living in exile in the Iranian city of Mashhad. Their cyclical journeys across the border and back correspond to...
View ArticleVA – The Chants of the Holy Oyster (2023)
There’s something delightfully paradoxical about Rey Colino’s Kalahari Oyster Cult. For the past six years, the label has helped define dance music’s vanguard by looking to the ’90s. Colino understands...
View ArticleVA – Kids On the Street: UK Power Pop and New Wave 1977-1981 (2022)
The emergence of punk rock in the U.K. in the mid-’70s had a massive impact that extended far beyond the spiky hair and safety pin brigade. It made the pretension and excess that tainted much of...
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