ACE @ 50… HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!
The doyen of reissue/archive labels, ACE is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year! Yes the grand old label is now accepted as the longest running independent record label in the UK! Ace was founded...
GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS…
ACE RECORDS open their 2025 account with a new, quality compilation aimed fairly and squarely at 60s collectors – and, indeed, anyone with a real interest in the evolution of British pop music. The...
SWEET SOUL HARMONY…
The sweet grooves of harmony ballads is a soul sub-genre that’s always had a huge fan base but in recent years with the burgeoning of the so called Low Rider scene, more and more...
ACE ACE VINYL 45s!
The UK’s premier archive/reissue label ACE RECORDS has some quality vinyl 45s lined up for imminent release on its various imprints. Of real note is the release of Miss Louistine’s version of ‘Con Me’...
SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER!
‘TRIBAL RITES OF THE NEW SATURDAY NIGHT’ is a rather grandiose title for a new collection from Ace Records. Cut through that verbosity, though, and you have a wonderful soul compilation offering music that...
SHAKE IT UP BABY!
Ace Records continue their excellent ‘GIRLS WITH GUITARS’ series with a 25 track, ‘Gonna Shake!’ The idea behind the series, of course, is to establish that despite what music histories suggest there was an...
I WRITE THE SONGS…
UK label ACE RECORDS has just released two more albums in their successful “songwriter” series. The discs in the series offer a varied and eclectic selection of recordings by various artists of key songs...
SOUL MEN!
ISAAC HAYES and DAVID PORTER are the latest writers to enjoy a compilation tribute to their work from Ace Records… and soul fans might say about time! The pair, of course, are always linked...
SNAPSHOTS IN TIME….
For our younger readers the “snapshots” in our title (above) means photographs. In the days before digital cameras and smart phones, people used real film and took “snaps” at opportune moments – usually on...
