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A curated selection of Ace Records archive items is now available through a special Wax Poetics auction, live 13–20 November.

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"..this is all California all the way, even when its geography doesn't agree. It's choral, it's orchestral, and it brings the US West Coast's version of summertime into your ears more than any Beach Boys song could do, if you can imagine such a thing." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‪@shindigmagazine2643‬

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If you missed it yesterday, here's the BBC iPlayer link for Ted Carroll and Roger Armstrong's guest spot on Cerys Matthews' BBC 6 Music show. Great stories and superb music as always.👌
"Cerys presents your Sunday sonic and cultural/social adventure. She chats to Roger Armstrong & Ted Carroll, founder members of Ace Records as they turn 50. Founded as Chiswick Records and later Ace Records, the label has been pivotal in shaping UK independent music from the 1970s onward. They're celebrating 50 years of the label, known for its genre-spanning catalogue, from Northern Soul to Rockabilly, Acid Jazz to World Music. Their legacy includes launching careers (Joe Strummer, Kirsty MacColl), reviving forgotten gems, and curating iconic compilations."
Starts 57.55mins in:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002ldr2

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The following new Ace titles are all released today! 🥂🍾

SAFE IN MY GARDEN – American Pop in the Shadows
1967-1972
CDTOP 1667/ XXQLP2 162
In the world of late 60s harmony pop, pacifism was a subtext. Outside the studio, America seemed to be imploding, and so the soft rockers created melancholic songs of escape and loss, dreamscapes in a minor key. With woodwinds, brass, orchestration and complex vocal harmonies, they gently, beautifully, sounded the alarm.

NINA SIMONE, LET IT ALL OUT - Selected Singles
1961-1978
CDTOP 1668/ XXQLP2 163
Two decades of the High Priestess Of Soul’s career on singles, with the emphasis on ‘Soul’.

IRMA THOMAS
WISH SOMEONE WOULD CARE
HIQLP 157
Ace Records are delighted to reissue Irma Thomas’ classic debut album “Wish Someone Would Care”. As well as pressing the album on 180gm vinyl Ace are
delighted to feature an interview with Irma discussing this part of her career with writer Garth Cartwright.

Bobbie Gentry
Thunder in the Afternoon/ Slow Cookin'
NW 521
The latest cracking release on Bob Stanley's MEASURED MILE label pairs two long lost sides from Bobbie Gentry’s brief stay with Warner Brothers in the 1970s.

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"... a bona fide soul classic." ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Record Collector Magazine (Reissued tomorrow)!

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Spring Revisited - the highly anticipated album redefining soul, funk, and disco with a modern house edge. Out now on all digital platforms and Double-LP on Cosmos Music/Acid Jazz.

An eleven-track collection crafted by a standout lineup of artists and DJs, each reworking the timeless grooves of New York’s legendary Spring Records - the label behind Fatback Band, Millie Jackson, and Joe Simon.

Listen here: www.youtube.com/playlist?list...

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#justlanded Nina Simone "Let It All Out - Selected Singles 1961-1978" Release date: 31.10.2025 🔥
‘Icon’ is an overused word when it comes to describing singers and musicians, but when it comes to Nina Simone there are few artists that the word describes more accurately. The ‘High Priestess Of Soul’ is surely one of the most iconic singers of the 20th century, and one whose fame and acclaim stretches far beyond conventional black American music circles.
Nina Simone has featured on Ace and Kent CDs before but this is the first time she’s had one all to herself. “Let It All Out” is the first and only Nina Simone collection to draw repertoire from every label she recorded for between the late 1950s to the late 1970s.
Not a traditional ‘Best Of’ or ‘Greatest Hits’ package (although the performances included here ARE among her very best, and do include most of her Greatest Hits!) it is a singles collection that presents Nina Simone’s soul and R&B-slanted 45s in chronological order. Invariably they are the definitive versions of the songs, whether she recorded the original versions or not.
As well as almost all of her American pop and R&B chart hits from 1960 onwards, “Let It All Out” also contains all of Simone’s UK chart hits from the same period – several of which were more successful here than they were back home, including both versions of her biggest British hit ‘Ain’t Got No-I Got Life’, a UK #2 that did not chart at all in the US as was the case with the belated UK Top 5 hit ‘My Baby Just Cares For Me’ which also made no chart impression on its home turf…
Carefully curated and concisely annotated, “Let It All Out” lets the listener in to two dozen of Nina Simone’s most celebrated singles. There have been many compilations of her works since she passed away 20+ years ago, but none that gets to the heart – and soul – of her catalogue in quite so direct a manner as this one does.

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Unboxing of the Spring Revisited Double-LP. ✨

On Friday, October 24, the album will be released on all digital platforms and on Double-LP, via Acid Jazz.

Beautifully packaged with Spring Revisited’s label design, the vinyl comes in cream/off-white and emerald green, complete with sleeve notes by Frank Tope.

Pre-order and pre-save here: lnk.to/SpringRevisited-Album

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Ace Records close the curtains on their 50th anniversary celebrations with a royal flush of classic releases that define the label. Five of them are limited editions on coloured vinyl whereas one is a stone cold classic reissued in it’s original form. All released: 28th November 2025.


First up is Link Wray’s classic album “The Early Years” which Ace originally released in 1978 on Chiswick Records. Backed by his Raymen this album excavated tracks from his years with the Swan label and contains classic Link Wray instrumental tracks like his prowl through the ‘Batman Theme’, ‘Rumble’. ‘Jack The Ripper’, ‘Ace of Spades’ and many more. “Early Recordings” is waxed on sunflower yellow vinyl and limited to 500 copies.
Produced by Ace legend Roger Armstrong, “Machine Gun Etiquette” was originally released in 1979. This third Damned album is a stone cold classic and spawned hit singles such as ‘Love Song’, ‘Smash It Up’ and ‘I Just Can’t Be Happy Today’. every track is solid gold and not only took the band to a different level but laid down the foundations of a career that sees The Damned celebrate their 50th anniversary in 2026. This limited edition of 500 copies is pressed on fucshia coloured vinyl.


As they musically developed The Damned brought were not afraid to add more elements to their music including a mild case of psychedelia and potent goth darkness. ‘History Of The World Part 1’ and ‘Wait For The Blackout’ were just two fantastic singles lifted from “The Black Album”. Other tracks like ‘13th Floor Vendetta’ and ‘Drinking about My Baby’ remain potent. The third side was given over to the ambitious 17-minute long ‘Curtain Call’ whereas the fourth contained live versions of classic tracks. This Anniversary edition is limited to 500 copies pressed on white vinyl.


The Damned took great delight in putting up this fictional umbrella under which they covered all manner of 60s classics such as The Human Beinz ‘Nobody But Me’, The Seeds ‘The Wind Blows Your Hair’ and The Litter’s ‘Action Woman’. The front cover artwork purported the fiction that it was the soundtrack to a lost 1967 film. The original version of “Give Daddy The Knife Cindy” released in 1984 was waxed on purple vinyl although since then we have pressed it on black. This limited edition of 500 is pressed on clear vinyl. With the Damned remaining red hot and approaching their 50th anniversary year in 2016 this one is sure to sell out before you can sing ‘I Had Too Much To Dream (last Night)’.


This compilation of the best of Gil Scott-Heron’s Flying Dutchman output was originally released in 1974 and pulled together tracks from his first three albums “Small Talk At 125th And Lennox” (1970), “Pieces Of A Man” (1971) and “Free Will” (1972). Ace first reissued this album on vinyl in the UK in 2017 (BGPD 306) although that version came in a single sleeve with a printed inner. This version restores “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” to its original Flying Dutchman format in a gatefold sleeve. The music and words, pressed on 180gm vinyl are as relevant today as they were in the early 1970s.


The fledgling Ace records risked it all in financing this album back in 1977 that is now hailed as an all-time metal classic. Motörhead has literally never been out of print and producer Speedy Keen caught lightning in a bottle on classic tracks such as ‘Motorhead’, ‘White Line Fever’ and ‘Keep Us On The Road’. This limited edition of 500 is pressed on silver vinyl in an act of homage to the original first pressing that had Joe Petangno’s famed band logo printed in silver on the front cover. Limited to 500 copies.

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Fabulous Ace piece in the new @RecCollMag which just dropped through the letterbox. It includes 40 essential releases from our back catalogue to kickstart your collection (hand picked by Ace compilers and the Ace founders). 🔥

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