Mod, as Peter Meaden might have once said, is a very broad church! He didn’t say that of course, but what he did say is “modism, or mod living is an aphorism for clean living under difficult circumstances”…

It is in the spirit of Peter Meaden that Acid Jazz launched the RARE MOD series…A collection of Extended Play vinyls, artist albums, compilation albums and books that shine a light into the lesser-known areas of the genre. Overseen by Paul ‘Smiler’ Anderson and Damian Jones, the team has collected impossibly rare and (mainly) unheard material from names both famous and obscure. The end result has been rapturously received and whilst the compilations have been favourably compared to Nuggets and Pebbles and the books have topped the charts in HMV (where they are exclusively available), it is the EPs that have garnered most praise. Lovingly crafted in special sixties style sleeves with stunning visuals from Bold Design, the series has been designed to be collected and, after the first six releases, fit snugly into a box set that is exclusively available with the seventh EP in the series.

There are dozens more releases planned in the series for 2011/12, so keep scanning the RARE MOD section of the website for details