IN STOCK
1LP - VAMPISOUL
1976 => 2025

The Rhythm Macine is now available again to the musical public, legitimately reissued in its original packaging. Offering up brilliant soul, haunting ballads and high-energy mid-70s funk, this tasty medley is served best in its entirety.
Virtually impossible to find in its original edition, we are now reissuing it once again thanks to a collaboration with Now Again.
Pressed on 180g vinyl.

TRACKLIST
Side A
1. YOU GOT ACTION, YOU GOT ME
2. LIL’S PLACE
3. PUT A SMILE ON TIME
4. THOUGHT MY LOVE WAS FINE
Side B
1. BRENDA AND ME
2. EVERYBODY’S CHIPPIN
3. YOU MAKE ME FEEL RIGHT, THINK RIGHT, DO RIGHT
4. CAN’T DO WITHOUT YOU

DESCRIPTION
Indianapolis' legendary Rhythm Machine is one of the rare funk bands that transitioned between eras of funk's history seamlessly, creating awesome funk sides for a host of independent labels between the years of 1968 and 1976. Born out of cult Indy funk band The Highlighters' ashes, the Rhythm Machine was founded in the early '70s by bass player James Boone and guitarist James Brantley.
Their self-titled and only LP, originally released in 1976, is a wild, super-groovy ride with tight band energy and a bunch of unexpected twists that keep things interesting from start to finish. At first, you might catch some Earth, Wind & Fire vibes—deep basslines, funky beats, and killer horn sections—but dig a little deeper and you’ll find something a little looser, a little cooler. There’s a smooth, jazzy undercurrent running through a lot of these tracks that gives the whole thing a fresh, off-the-beaten-path feel.
Some songs drift into a dreamy, almost spacey zone—think cosmic funk with a romantic twist. The production is silky, almost liquid-like, letting the guitars shimmer and the keys float. And when the soprano sax kicks in? Pure magic. It adds just the right bite to take the tracks up a notch.
Perfect for late-night grooves, chill sessions, or anyone hunting for that hidden gem funk record with serious soul.
Virtually impossible to find in its original edition, we are now reissuing it once again thanks to a collaboration with Now Again.
Pressed on 180g vinyl.

IN STOCK
1LP - MUNSTER
2024

IN STOCK
1LP - MUNSTER
2024

IN STOCK
1LP - VAMPISOUL
1970 => 2023

IN STOCK
1LP - VAMPISOUL
1974 => 2022

IN STOCK
1LP - FATIADO DISCOS
1975 => 2021

IN STOCK
1LP - BE WITH RECORDS
2018

IN STOCK
1LP - VAMPISOUL
2016

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NEON RED
1LP - SONY LEGACY / VMP
1994 => 2019

IN STOCK
1LP - NOW-AGAIN RECORDS
1971 => 2023

IN STOCK
1LP - HARLEM SHUFFLE RECORDS
2023

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1LP - BELOW SYSTEM RECORDS
1999 / 2015 => 2023

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1LP - SMOKERS CLUB RECORDS
2023

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COLOR = BURGUNDY VINYL
1LP - NEXT RECORDS
2023

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1LP - RRC MUSIC
2023

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1LP - SURF SCHOOL
2023

IN STOCK
1LP - NOW-AGAIN
2023

IN STOCK
1LP - TUFF KONG RECORDS
2019 => 2022

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1LP - GET ON DOWN
1990 => 2019

IN STOCK
1LP - NOW AGAIN
2021

IN STOCK
1LP - NOW-AGAIN RECORDS
2021

IN STOCK
1LP - NOW AGAIN RECORDS
1976 => 2021

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OPAQUE ORANGE
1LP - NOW AGAIN
1975 => 2021

IN STOCK
1LP - MADLIB INVAZION
2020

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RSD 2020
1LP - NATURE SOUNDS
1974 => 2020

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1LP - POST UP MUSIC
2025

- Karpenters features guest verses from hip-hop icons like Tash (Tha Alkaholiks) and Marc Live (Analog Brothers/Black Elvis), alongside rising talents Dear Derrick and Yah Zillah, all complementing Kool Keith’s signature eccentric style
- This is Kool Keith’s first official album since Black Elvis 2, a cult classic, making it a must-hear release for dedicated fans and new listeners alike.
- LP is pressed on standard black vinyl.

TRACKLIST
Super HIts
Style Wars feat. Tash
Pierre 9
Body Rock
DAW
Pissing
Serious
Nights feat. Marc Live
That's Us feat. Dear Derrick
Stomp
Jim Kelly

DESCRIPTION
Karpenters, the latest album from Kool Keith, produced by Grant Shapiro, stays true to the essence of Hip-Hop: boom bap beats, clever samples, and heavyweight guest features. Hip-Hop legends like Tash (Tha Alkaholiks) and Marc Live (Analog Brothers/Black Elvis) add to the project, complementing Kool Keith’s signature eccentric flow. This marks Kool Keith’s first official album since the cult classic Black Elvis 2—a long-awaited release for dedicated fans. The album boasts mixing by J-Styles (Keith’s in-house engineer) and mastering by Grammy winner Steve “Steve B” Baughman, ensuring top-tier sound quality. Leading the charge is the official music video for "Super Hits," directed by Wayne Campbell—known for his work on Kool Keith’s Love Infringement and videos for artists like Benny The Butcher. With executive production by Kool Keith and distinctive, hard-hitting beats from Grant Shapiro, Karpenters is a project fans have been craving—raw, authentic, and unforgettable.

IN STOCK
1LP - DEWOLFE MUSIC
1976 => 2025

- Founded in 1909, de Wolfe Music’s legendary production music catalog has gained cult status among vinyl collectors and crate diggers worldwide.
- Featuring music from a roster of composers including Reg Tilsley, Roger Webb and duo Frank MacDonald & Chris Rae, it also includes performances from iconic musicians such as Jimmy Page and Herbie Flowers. 
- De Wolfe Music has provided the soundtrack to countless feature films including Monty Python and The Holy Grail, The Witchfinder General, Dawn Of The Dead, and more than twenty of the Shaw Brothers’ Kung Fu classics. 
- Major recording artists who’ve sampled the collection in recent years include Beyonce, Drake, Jay Z, Madlib, Danger Doom, Alchemist, Lily Allen, Gorillaz, Action Bronson, Jay Electronica, Cam’ron and Ja Rule, to name just a few. 

TRACKLIST 
Presentation
Transworld
Bite Hard
Shark Beat
Action
The Greatest
Big Double
Wild Double
Bombing Along
White Death
Flash Barrier
Dramatone
Dramatone (faster)
World At Your Feet
Evil Eye
Here Comes The Band
There Goes The Band
Skin Full
Drunk Scene
Short Out
Quick Out
Quick Pause
Penny Piece
Sleepy Head

DESCRIPTION
Unleashed in 1976, “Bite Hard” is a relentless funk juggernaut from the legendary composer, Johnny Hawksworth. Defined by its brash urgency and dramatic flair, this album is a powerhouse lineup of brass, driving drums, searing electric guitar riffs, and soulful piano grooves.Hawksworth's dynamic compositions transcend mere danceability, delivering a visceral sonic experience that commands attention. With blistering beats and soulful instrumentation, "Bite Hard" captures the essence of 1970s cinematic funk with a bold and unapologetic swagger, making it a soundtrack of unbridled musical intensity.

IN STOCK
1LP - BGP
1970 => 2025

TRACKLIST
Side 1
01 Rainbow Ride
02 I'm Leaving Home (She's Leaving Home)
03 Candle Waxing
04 Baby James
05 The Love Flow
Side 2
01 New York Good Sugar/Love Lyric #7
02 For You, Child
03 Jennipher
04 Take Away This Pain
05 Velvet Smile

DESCRIPTION
When Creed Taylor was setting up his CTI label one of his proposed signings was Billy Vera. This led to a deal for Vera’s younger sister Kathy McCord. In fact, McCord was the first artist signed and recorded by CTI. Her debut, “Kathy McCord” was released in 1970.
Although the label would go on to establish a fine reputation in jazz, Kathy McCord was a folk rock album. A gifted young poet the 17-year old McCord wrote many of the tracks on the album which were then interpreted in the studio by a crack team of jazz musicians that included Harvey Brooks (bass), Hubert Laws (flute), John Hall (guitar) and Wells Kelly and Ed Shaugnessy (drums). Musically and lyrically both the musicians and McCord stretched out on tracks like ‘Rainbow Ride’, ‘Jennipher’, ‘Candle Waxing’ and ‘Take Away This Pain’ to conjure up an amazing fusing of folk and jazz. The only cover on show was a version of Lennon and McCartney’s ‘She’s Leaving Home’ which McCord repurposed as I’m Leaving Home.
Upon release the album sold poorly. Creed’s expertise and contacts were in the jazz field and he had no idea how to market an album of folk jazz songs sung with fragile beauty by a good looking girl still in her late teenage years. Also, when Billy Vera did not sign to CTI McCord was dropped.
Over time “Kathy McCord” attracted a dedicated following amongst folk-rock collectors in America and the UK. In many respects it was an echo of something like Deena Webster’s 1968 folk rock LP, “Tuesday’s Child” that also came, went and is now sought after.
Ace are delighted to give the world the first vinyl reissue of “Kathy McCord” since 1970. Pressed on black 180gm vinyl it also includes liner notes from Billy Vera who, in conclusion, has this to say about his later beloved sister, “My sister had the goods. She could sing, she could write and she looked great. Like so many other talented people, she just failed to get lucky. Listen and enjoy her. I love her stuff”. You will too...

IN STOCK
1LP - BGP
1978 => 2025

TRACKLIST

SIDE ONE
1. DISCO TO GO
2. WARSHIP TOUCHANTE
3. NAPPY
4. BIRDIE

SIDE TWO
1. JUST LIKE YOU
2. WHEN YOU'RE GONE
3. AMOROUS

DESCRIPTION

George Clinton’s imagination knew no bounds and, defying normal music industry convention, by 1978 had five bands signed to three different record labels. One of these comprised of three other Parliament/ Funkadelic female backing singers working under the name of Parlet, whose debut single, ‘Pleasure Principle’ was released on Casablanca Records in March 1978.

It was Clinton’s idea that two other backing singers, Lynn Mabry and Dawn Silva, become the Brides Of Funkenstein, a character he invented for the 1976 Parliament LP, “The Clones Of Dr Funkenstein”. “I have to be honest – at first, I hated the name and I thought George was kidding,” Mabry told Blues & Soul, “But I have gotten to like it – especially just the Brides.”

Clinton got the Brides signed to Atlantic Records and their first single was ‘Disco To Go’ / ‘ When You’re Gone’. The A-side was written and produced by Clinton and Bootsy Collins and had originally featured in live shows by Collins’ live band. Clinton was asked by Black Echoes why the song was recorded by the Brides rather than Bootsy. “He could, and it would have been a smash too,” he replied. “But we thought it sounded too much like James Brown, so we gave it to the girls. Now it don’t sound like James Brown.” It certainly did not and this electronic bass and horn-powered banger – complete with an Old MacDonald nursery rhyme refrain – debuted on the Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart at #80 on 30th September 1978. By the time the P-Funk crew were flying across the Atlantic in early November it had peaked at #7. Sadly for UK fans, ‘Disco To Go’ was only available on import although a Black Echoes review stated it was a “Slow chunky handclapper. It sounds not unlike Funkadelic’s own ‘Coming Round The Mountain’”.

‘Disco To Go’, went gold in America selling over 500,000 copies. It was the perfect springboard for the Brides debut LP, “Funk Or Walk” which quickly climbed into the upper reaches of the R&B chart and even saw the duo embark upon a signing tour of record stores. All of the songs on “Funk Or Walk” were written by legends of P-Funk, such as Bootsy Collins, Rodney Curtis, Bernie Worrell, Gary Shider and Clinton. “George has got thousands of tracks,” Mabry told Black Echoes. “When we go into the studio he says, ‘Like this track?” And we go‘Aaaaaahh naa.’ ‘Like this one?’ ‘Well, yeah.’ He’s got thousands of tracks. He’s got a whole cupboard full of them. He’s got enough tracks to keep him in albums for two years.” Clinton himself told Blues & Soul how his busy production line worked, “How do we do it? Real simple: we lay down rhythm tracks all the time and just decide who should have what.”

“Funk Or Walk” kicked off with the dancefloor filler Disco To Go’ while elsewhere the nine-minute ballad ‘Just Like You’ showed another musical side of the group. ‘Birdie’ was a prime slice of word-playful danceable horn-powered funk arranged by Fred Wesley. ‘Amorous’ and the ethereal intergalactic ‘War Ship Touchante’ splattered with electronic and vocal effects – a close encounter of the P-Funk kind – were released as the Brides’ second single and peaked at #76 on the Hot Soul Singles chart in February 1979. “I especially like ‘Amorous’ and ‘War Ship Touchante’”, Silva told Blues & Soul, “because they convey a real message and I like that. And that message is happy and it is important to us that people get happiness from us. We really get upset when we don’t win over an audience.”

“Funk Or Walk” peaked at #17 on the Billboard R&B album chart and #70 on the Hot 100. It was also released in the UK and Germany to tie in with UK and European dates at the end of 1978 and early in 1979. Blues & Soul gave it a positive review, “If you like Parliament/Funkadelic, then it’s easy – you’ll lap this up.”

The album has not been reissued on vinyl since 1976 and Ace are delighted to put it out again. It comes with an inner sleeve with notes written by Ace’s Ian Shirley.

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1LP - MUNSTER
1986 => 2024

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1LP - CONTINUED SOUND
2007 => 2024

BIS => 2025 08 29
1LP - KENT / FAME
1972 => 2024

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1LP - KENT
2024

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1LP - UBIQUITY RECORDS
2023

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1LP - FUNK NIGHT RECORDS
2010 => 2023

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1LP - CLOSED SESSIONS
2012 => 2023

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1LP - BGP / FLYING DUTCHMAN AMSTERDAM
1970 => 2023

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1LP - BGP
1974 => 2023

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1LP - VAMPISOUL
1967 => 2018

SOLD OUT
1LP - BGP
1975 => 2023

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1LP - FAT BEATS RECORDS
2009

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1LP - WESTBOUND
1979 => 2023

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1LP - BGP / FLYING DUTCHMAN
1976 => 2023

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1LP - SOUTHBOUND
1973 => 1989

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1LP - FLYING DUTCHMAN
1970 => 2023

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1LP - VAMPISOUL
1976 => 2023

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1LP - SOMEOTHASHIP
1999 => 2022

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1LP - BGP
1966 => 1993

IN STOCK
1LP - VAMPISOUL
2022

BIS => 2025 08 01
1LP - VINTAGE VIBES / MA DUKES OFFICE
2017

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1LP - BGP
1969 => 2022

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1LP - FUNK ON SIGHT
2019

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1LP - VAMPISOUL
1970 => 2022

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1LP - AKASHIK RECORDS
2019 => 2022

BIS => 2025 08 29
1LP - SOUTHBOUND
1975 => 2018

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1LP - BGP
1973 => 2011

BIS => 2025 08 29
1LP - BGP
1971 => 2014

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1LP - BGP
1971 => 1993

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1LP - SOUTHBOUND
1974 => 2018

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1LP - FAT BEATS
2018

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1LP - BGP
2016

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1LP - BGP
1971 => 1994

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1LP - BGP
1972 => 1996

BIS => 2025 08 29
1LP - BGP
1971 => 1992

BIS => 2025 08 29
1LP - WESTBOUND
1972 => 2020

BIS => 2025 08 29
1LP - STAX
1973 => 2017

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1LP - BGP
1975 => 2020

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1LP - BBE
2019

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1LP - BEAT JAZZ INTERNATIONAL
2022

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1LP - NOW-AGAIN RECORDS
2024

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1LP - BIG DAWG RECORDS
2024

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1LP - GRILCHY PARTY
2023

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1LP - RAP VACATION
2020

BIS => 2025 07 25
NEON YELLOW
1LP - REPRISE / VMP
1974 => 2021

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LIMITED TO 500 HAND-NUMBERED COPIES WORLDWIDE
CLEAR TEAL WAVE COLORED VINYL
1LP - NEXT RECORDS
2024

IN STOCK
1LP - NOW-AGAIN RECORDS
1977 => 2024

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1LP - CINEMATIC MUSIC GROUP
2015 => 2024

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PINK VINYL WITH BLACK SPLATTER
RUN PRESSED AT 45 RPM
140-GRAM VINYL
HOUSED IN A 24PT REVERSE BOARD JACKET 
1LP - NOVELTY RECORDS
2023

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SOLID RED COLOURED VINYL
1LP - ROCAFORT
2024

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FRUIT PUNCH COLORED VINYL
HAND NUMBERED OBI LIMITED TO 2000 COPIES 
1LP - GET ON DOWN
2009 => 2023

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1LP - MADLIB INVAZION MUSIC LIBRARY SERIES
2023

IN STOCK
1LP - 600 BLOCK RECORDS 
2023

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RSD 2023
1LP - NOW-AGAIN RECORDS
1969 => 2023

IN STOCK
1LP - CULTURES OF SOUL
2020 => 2021

BIS => 2025 07 25
1LP - NATURE SOUNDS
1998 => 2018

IN STOCK
1LP - NOW-AGAIN RECORDS
197? => 2022

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BLACK FRIDAY
1LP - MADLIB INVAZION
2011 => 2022

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1LP - NOW AGAIN
1970s => 2022

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1LP - GET ON DOWN
1984 => 2022

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1LP - MASS APPEAL
2019

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1LP - EXPANSION
1982 => 2020

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1LP - VAMPISOUL
1971 => 2022

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1LP - SILVER AGE
RSD 2022 - DROP 1
2022

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1LP - LUV N' HAIGHT RECORDS
RSD 2022 - DROP 1
1996 => 2022

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1LP - MR BONGO
1969 => 2022

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1LP - SILVER AGE
2018 => 2022

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1LP - NOW AGAIN
1975 => 2022

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1LP - MADLIB INVAZION
2021

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1LP - MR BONGO
2021

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CLEAR
1LP - TIDAL WAVES MUSIC
2021 07 30