This Is Northern Soul

This Is Northern SoulNorthern soul is in the news again, as once more this most resilient of dance floor cults is discovered by a new generation. For four decades now Ace Records has been a natural home for the music and using that experience we are bringing you our first ever all classics collection of some of the scene's greatest hits. All on one LP. The recordings featured on this release are tried and tested, often in the hot forge of the scene's earliest day, when

were written as early as 1973

Track X (Live from the Queen Elizabeth Hall)

An accessible collection

Dental Hygiene Dilemma (Part II

14 True Colour

Johnson City

Vinyl re-issue of Future Sound of London’s seminal album

It accompanies original sleeve photography by Nigel Grierson

There are also fascinating oddities like American radio Commercials

This reissue comes with new artwork and sleeve notes by Malcolm Dome who has interviewed members of the band to get the complete story

Laurie fully reclaimed the Gong drum stool

which starts out chug-a-lugging and then breaks into a raging rocker