ATA Records: The Library Archive Vol.3 (LP)

ATA Records: The Library Archive Vol.3 (LP)

Release Date: Nov 3, 2023

For fans of: Lalo Schifrin • Alan Hawkshaw • David Axelrod • The Heliocentrics • Menahan Street Band • The Sorcerers • The Gaslamp Killer • Khruangbin

Step back into the analog vault with ATA Records: The Library Archive Vol. 3, the latest entry in the Leeds collective’s deep-crate odyssey of cinematic soul, funk, and library jazz.

Think blaxploitation-era swagger meeting BBC Radiophonic mischief, played live by a crew of crate-digging savants with dust under their fingernails. Every cut here feels like it could soundtrack a lost 1973 detective pilot or a late-night European B-movie: crisp drums, moody organs, rubbery basslines, and horn sections that sound equal parts Leeds and Lalo Schifrin.

Highlights include the noir strut of “Hardcastle, P.I.,” the cosmic exotica of “Pineapple Diode Daiquiri,” and the deep-funk menace of “Satan Stalks Among Us.” Recorded to tape at ATA Studios with no computers in sight, this is pure analog escapism—an homage to the era when music was mysterious, dusty, and dripping with groove.