Compilation aficionados Harmless will release a monster four-disc compilation celebrating 25 years of iconic Brit label Acid Jazz this autumn.
Acid Jazz was founded by Eddie Piller and Gilles Peterson in 1987 and over subsequent years helped join the dots between mod rock, northern soul, acid house and Blue Note jazz. Acid Jazz the label launched highly influential soul, funk and dance-edged artists such as Jamiroquai, Brand New Heavies and the James Taylor Quartet as well high-profile compilation series such as Totally Wired.
Harmless’ forthcoming anniversary box set – dubbed simply Acid Jazz - corals both the Acid Jazz label’s milestone releases (by the aforementioned, as well as Snowboy, Mother Earth and alt-house experimentalists The Night Trains) as well as those tracks that influenced it so and, alongside the label’s output, helped fuel the unstoppable rise of acid jazz as a genre during the Nineties. Contributions fly from Francois K (remixing Dinosaur L), Stonebridge, Incognito, Cypress Hill, Jazzy Jeff, Nu Yorican Soul, The Pharcyde and Italo-housers Jestofunk, to name but a few.
Acid Jazz, the box set, is released by Harmless on November 5.
