Brand new compilation, newly re-mastered, with many tracks on CD for the first time incl. "Try Me". Lim. Ediiton of 400 numbered copies. CD 1 & 2 consists of tracks recorded at the Chess Studios in Chicago. CD 3 & 4 consists of non-Chess recording sessions made between 1977 and 1983. Track 2-2 is misspelled: "Fanny […]", Track 3-6 is misspelled "[..] (yor love)".

Ace’s odyssey through time and space to bring you this compilation has taken almost as long as the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. The 40th anniversary of the moon landing had yet to be celebrated when this CD was first scheduled for lift-off. It has taken a fair old while to get to the launching pad, but we haven’t Saturn our backsides waiting for mission control to clear us for lift-off. The Ace-tronauts of Steele Road never lost sight of their mission statement – which was to boldly go where no CD of its type had gone before; maybe even to The Final Frontier as far as space-themed compilations go. Nearly five years after the final countdown first began, we are ready for the blast off! “Greatest Hits From Outer Space” offers a stellar collection of music that can truthfully be said to be nothing less than out of this world. Whether you live on Jupiter or in Jesmond, on Venus or in Ventnor, on Pluto or in Prestwich, Ace’s lab-coated boffins have bet their moonboots that, unlike Houston, you won’t have a problem in enjoying this voyage around the galaxy of space-related music. We don’t claim to be definitive in our quest – to be so would require a boxed set, at least – but we do feel that we’ve left no moon rock unturned in an attempt to bring you the best selection of space-related music ever to orbit around your CD player.

5CD set. Collects five of his original albums, Features "Here Comes The Whistleman" (1965), "The Inflated Tear" (1967), "Left & Right" (1968), "Volunteered Slavery" (1969) and "Natural Black Inventions : Root Strata" (1971). (RAHSAAN ROLAND KIRK).