Funk Soul Sisters. (Vinyl 2xLP) Electronic

Funk Soul Sisters. (Vinyl 2xLP) ElectronicThere is sometimes an element of giggling and laughing involved in putting together an Ace compilation. Not condescending or rude laughter, but more the sort that you get when you are young and Santa Claus has been with a large pile of presents. It's an uncontrollable urge forced onto you by the sheer joy of being given so much good music to play with. Of course it's not all fun round here, we sometimes have to clean the drains and stuff as penance

while soft guitar tremolo picking and synth pads produce a delicate atmosphere over which the singer mournfully longs for a lost love

'The Light In You' being the first Mercury Rev album with Bella Union

Nas presents his new album King's Disease II via Mass Appeal

and Bill Isles

jazz and other undefined forms of music from the Beat Konducta's 4-ton* stack of vinyl

A succession of mini-albums and mixtapes surrounded all of this

Gene Chandler recorded for almost every label of note in the City

Gilbert Deflez / Les scandales (1974)

beautiful Gatefold sleeve featuring the original an extra track pacific coat highway plus mixes from Jackson and Dustin n' Guyen

promoter of the original Woodstock music festival

with whom she recorded her second album

Built on four years of personal and musical soul-searching