Acid Jazz Records is a

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based in East

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formed by

Gilles Peterson Gilles Jérôme Moehrle MBE (; born 28 September 1964), better known as Gilles Peterson (), is a French broadcaster, DJ, and record label owner. He founded the influential labels Acid Jazz and Talkin' Loud, and started his current label Brow ...

and

Eddie Piller Eddie Piller is a British DJ, radio show host, and founder/managing director of Acid Jazz Records. Early life and career Piller was born in 1962 and grew up in Essex. His father ran a firm of bookmakers and his mother ran the Small Faces' fa ...

in 1987. The label is the namesake of the acid-jazz subgenre of

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music for which it is most famously known for producing.

Background

The label's first signing was singer-songwriter Rob Gallagher's band, Galliano, which released the label's first single "Frederick Lies Still" in 1987, which features a sample of "Freddie's Dead" by

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. The label was known in its early days for putting on club nights at Camden's

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featuring artists such as The Night Trains and A Man Called Adam. In 1989 after Peterson left in order to create his own label

Talkin' Loud Talkin' Loud was a record label, originally founded by Gilles Peterson in 1990 after he left Acid Jazz Records. The label name is based on Peterson's Dingwalls club night "Talkin' Loud And Sayin' Something", itself a reference to James Brown and ...

, Acid Jazz signed a second wave of artists including the

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, who released their self-titled debut album in 1990,

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, Mother Earth, and

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, who released their debut single "

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" on the label in 1992. Throughout the 1990s the label also put out a number of compilation albums, most notably the Totally Wired series which covered the range of influences and sounds within the acid-jazz genre, as well as what was being released on the label at that time. In 1993, Piller, the label's owner purchased a night-club which he named the Blue Note. Initially used as a way of promoting the record label's music, the club soon built up a large reputation and was open seven nights a week hosting various different club nights including that of musician Goldie's Metaheadz label. After the closing of the Blue Note in the late 1990s the label somewhat shifted its focus from producing just acid-jazz and its similar genres of music to that of soul and mod. The mid-2000s saw the signing of Andy Lewis and the release of his top 40 Northern Soul inspired single "Are You Trying To Be Lonely?" featuring

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on vocals. The label also released the "Rare Mod" series, a collection of rare 7" vinyl EPs from the 60's, presented in a picture sleeves, as well as accompanying compilation albums. In the last decade the label has celebrated its 25th anniversary and re-issued a number of its best-selling records such as

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and

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, as well as putting out a special 6-CD boxset including an artwork book and DVD. This period has also seen the label sign more contemporary soul artists such as

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and

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, as well as the folk-rock of British actor

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. In 2017 the label issued a previously unreleased single by soul-singer

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, "Positive Forces", as well as releasing an Anthology of his work. In 2018 they re-issued his two most popular albums

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and

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and produced a short four-part online documentary about him, titled "Leroy Hutson: The Man!" As part of their 30th anniversary celebrations they are set to release a jazz compilation ''"Jazz on the Corner"'' featuring song choices by Eddie Piller and his friend

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, while

released their first album in 18 years entitled "Return of the Fabric Four".

Staff

* Eddie Piller - Founder, Chairman * Gilles Peterson - Founder * Trevor Randall - Vice president

Roster

*Akimbo *

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* The Filthy Six *

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*The Frays *

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* Goldbug *Grand Union *Humble Souls *Jarvis Humby *

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* The James Taylor Quartet *

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*Jinrai *Kenny Bernard & The Wranglers *Le Leo *

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* Andy Lewis * Freddy Mack *Manasseh Meets The Equalizer * A Man Called Adam *

*Mister Exe * The Moons *

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(of

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) * Mother Earth *

*Night Trains *The Ossie Layne Show *Parlour Talk *

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*Pleasurebeach *The Apostles *The Red Inspectors *The Richard Kent Style *The Sandals *Satisfaction *

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*Smoove *

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*The Stabilisers *

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*The Third Degree *Tito Lopez Combo *Tony and Tandy *Twisted Tongue *

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Totally Wired Radio

Totally Wired Radio was set up by Acid Jazz Records in 2019 as an extension of their original series of ''Totally Wired'' compilations compiled by Eddie Piller and Gilles Peterson. As well as playing the kind of sounds Acid Jazz Records and Piller are generally known for (when compiling compilations such as ''Eddie Piller presents British Mod Sounds of The 1960s'') the stations output also includes country music, library music, reggae, film soundtracks, EDM, Afrobeat, Latin, punk, psyche and disco.

References

External links

* – official site *
BBC Radio 1 biography, Gilles Peterson
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