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Early Works: Funk, Soul And Afro Rarities From The Archives

by ATA Records

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DJ Kobayashi
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DJ Kobayashi Full support!
Cant wait to hear part two!
Feat on Soho Radio
www.mixcloud.com/sohoradio/b-side-sessions-w-dj-kobayashi-15062022/ Favorite track: The Flip.
Tracker
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Tracker Unbelievably good.
(As always)
Thanks ATA
Torsten
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Torsten Absolutely amazing. Thinking that all of this has started only 7 years ago in a small garage in Leeds - feels like ATA has been around since the 60s. This is how fab they are in recreating the original analogue sound. And 12 fantastic tunes to boot. Outstanding for me are the three early Sorcerers pieces, but especially love Moscow Central under Neil and Pete’s Lamplighters pseudonym. Favorite track: Moscow Central.
mwides
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mwides New to ATA records but man I’m blown away. Anyway you listen to it makes me wanna move my ass. Drums, horns, fuzz oh my. You’ll get my support for years to come.
Yokrimi
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Yokrimi As They say ATA, they bring the best of Funk, Soul & Jazz (I would add Library and Afro)...here the best proof of the quality of the label.Not to mention the Sorcerers is one of favorite of all time Favorite track: The Terror.
Bob Hill Illicit Grooves
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Bob Hill Illicit Grooves Have already earmarked the pre-release tracks for The Illicit Grooves Radio Show and am looking forward very much to the rest of the album. A real feeling of a funky good dancefloor with this.
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about

Since 2013 label founders and musicians Neil Innes & Pete Williams have been tirelessly fulfilling their shared dream of making the records they weren’t hearing. Having spent years working in various bands both players felt the desire to break free of the constraints of working within another band and started on the slow path to creative autonomy by starting to work on the 12 tracks presented on this compilation. While deliberating their next steps they were approached by Here & Now records who licensed the 12 tracks and released them under the title Funk, Soul & Afro Rarities: An Introduction To ATA Records in 2014 as a limited run of 300 copies that sold out within weeks of release.

Now in 2020, celebrating their 5th year of running successfully as a label in their own right, ATA are re-releasing these 12 tracks on a new vinyl pressing under the title Early Works: Funk, Soul & Afro Rarities From The Archive with new artwork and liner notes that detail the labels birth.

The compilation features 12 tracks that include the very first 3 tracks from The Sorcerers that led to their self-titled debut LP & the first proper release on ATA. Cave Of Brahma later featured on their debut LP in a slower, more menacing form whereas The Terror & Elephant map out the direction The Sorcerers were heading. Brother Move On by The Harmony Society & Hawkshaw Philly by The Yorkshire Film & Television Society may also be familiar to fans of The Lewis Express as they were covered by the band on their 2018 debut. Here however they’re presented in very different forms with the piano lead of The Lewis Express replaced with vocals in Brother Move On and the face-melting Brass onslaught of The Yorkshire Film & Television Society on Hawkshaw Philly. Elsewhere we find Innes & Williams indulging in their love of Library music as The Lamplighters on the tracks Moscow Central & London Station, an Iprcressy pair, all fuzz guitar and ominous brass. Leeds soul stalwart Cleveland Freckleton features twice on the comp, once under his own name on the driving soul-stomper The Flip and again under the assumed name Reverend Barrington Stanley on Cookie Jar. Soul-Jazz fans are also well-catered for with What We Are Made Of by The Cadets, the first outing by The Mandatory Eight with Suckerpunch and the west-coast hash party of Ivan Von Engleberger’s Asteroid and the track Thought Forms.

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released May 15, 2020

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ATA records was set up by Leeds based musicians Pete Williams and Neil Innes in 2014. They are based out of Neil Innes's ATA studios, a disused garage on the outskirts of town, ATA studios is an aladdin's cave of vintage 1960s recording equipment. Recording exclusively to 2” tape and adopting mid-century recording techniques has resulted in their distinctive sound. ... more

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