Best of Perception & Today Records compiled by DJ Spinna and BBE Soundsystem (2012)

01 Matrix - Dizzy Gillespie 4:01
02 I Can't Get No Higher - The Eight Minutes 3:19
03 BrotherTitle - Adam Wade, Johnny Pate 1:55
04 You Owe It To Yourself - J.J. Barnes 8:30
05 Too Sad To TellO - Debbie Taylor 2:46
06 Chitlins & Cuchifritos - Joe Thomas 2:46
07 NjiaNija - The Fatback Band 3:07
08 Naturally Good - Bartel 5:16
09 Get Some Of This - Madhouse 4:18
10 GingeleOriginal Mix - Astrud Gilberto 3:57
11 One LifeOriginal Mix - The Albert 3:03
12 Honey BunsOriginal Mix - Bobby Rydell 2:50
13 You And IOriginal Mix - Black Ivory 7:04
14 Take My Love Don't Set Me FreeOriginal Mix - The Eight Minutes 5:54
15 Instant ReplayOriginal Mix - Wanda Robinson 2:46
16 Dance GirlOriginal Mix - Fatback Brother Bill Curtis 2:51
17 BoogieOriginal Mix - Bartel 4:46
18 AlligatorOriginal Mix - Dizzy Gillespie 5:04
19 I Keep Asking You QuestionsOriginal Mix - Black Ivory 3:08
20 Rock SteadyOriginal Mix - Julius Brockington 3:32
21 SubmissionOriginal Mix - Tyrone Washington 4:28
22 Every Brother Ain't A BrotherOriginal Mix - Joe Thomas 5:55
23 You've Just Been BittenOriginal Mix - Bartel 5:18
24 SurrenderOriginal Mix - Black Ivory 2:25
25 Find The One Who Loves YouOriginal Mix - The Eight Minutes 2:44
26 Take It Easy My Brother CharlieOriginal Mix - Astrud Gilberto 3:20
27 Heritage HumOriginal Mix - James Moody 4:59
28 Wishful ThinkingOriginal Mix - J. J. Barnes 4:37
29 Looking For A Brand New GameOriginal Mix - The Eight Minutes 2:30
30 A PossibilityBack Home - Wanda Robinson 2:31
31 Me 'N ThemOriginal Mix - Dizzy Gillespie 12:17
32 Goin' to See My BabyOriginal Mix - The Fatback Band 3:16
33 Foot TrackOriginal Mix - The Odds, Ends 2:34
34 Serve'EmOriginal Mix - Madhouse 2:59
35 ABCOriginal Mix - Lucky Peterson 3:25
36 Good Old CandyOriginal Mix - Lucky Peterson 2:40
37 Our FutureOriginal Mix - Lucky Peterson 3:18
38 Vote Original Mix - Madhouse 3:33

Perception Productions, a New York based label that ran from the late 60s through until 1974, was a strangely eclectic affair. Its roster stretched from a radical Afro-American poet through to the pop band King Harvest whose hit ‘Dancing In The Moonlight’ became a massive hit for the UK band Toploader a couple of decades later. The inbetween points covered jazz, funk, vocal harmony soul and proto-disco. In fact distilled down into this compilation the label provides us a view of Manhattan’s black music scene of the period, from the established greats to the fresh young things who would make their mark in the coming years.