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Thanks to the brilliant Rough Trade for including four of our releases in their year-end poll. If you're ever in London (East or West), Nottingham or Brooklyn we strongly recommend visiting one of their great stores.

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roughtrade.com/re-issues-of-the-year

Thanks to the team at Shindig! for naming us Best Label of 2016. Also included in their year-end polls were Clearlight, Alice Clark, Ray Stevens, Billy Hawks, Kinked!, Love Hit Me! Decca Beat Girls, Celestial Blues and Let it Be: Black America Sings Lennon, McCartney & Harrison. For full details see pages 24 & 25 of the current issue.

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Every now and then we here at Ace Towers take a break from excavating discographical databases or spooling through the vast archive of multiple takes on the tapes and kick back and have a little funtime. In the golden ages of the 50s and 60s, novelty records were surprisingly successful and as the technology improved the opportunity to make funny noises with speeded-up tapes and other devices proved irresistible to many producers in search of a hit, regardless. They were mostly aimed directly at teens and the appeal was to the juvenile sense of humour or even angst. But they retain an often quaint charm, tapping into our younger selves. Wow, it went all serious and psychologicalistic there for a moment and that’s not the point, mostly its just plain stupid and none the worse for it.

main photo caption: The Bootles as featured on Beatlemaniacs

Chris Carter is a Los Angeles-based disc jockey, producer and music consultant. A founding member of beloved powerpoppers Dramarama, Chris moved into management, handling among others the Wondermints, the members of whom now constitute Brian Wilson’s band. As a producer, he supervised the cult rockumentary about influential LA deejay Rodney Bingenheimer, Mayor of The Sunset Strip, which was nominated for Best Documentary in the 2003 Independent Spirit Awards. Currently Chris hosts two weekly radio shows: the long-lived and popular Breakfast With The Beatles, and Chris Carter’s British Invasion on Sirius/XM radio as part of Little Steven’s Underground Garage.

www.breakfastwiththebeatles.com