I Take It That We're Through Anthology 1965-1967

3CD Anthology of 1960s mod beat group who featured music legends Mitch Mitchell and David Bowie in their ranks at different times.

Includes the A and B sides of their seven singles (four produced by Joe Meek), alongside 54 tracks from Meek’s Tea Chest Tapes, two tracks from a newly discovered acetate, four demos from the period when David Bowie was a member, and the 1967 acetate album 'Making Up For Lost Time' issued on CD for the first time.

Features 41 unreleased tracks including previously unissued songs, some featuring female singer Flip, and another 14 tracks that have never been issued on CD before.

The original Riot Squad played the kind of jazzy R&B and soul favoured by the 1960s mods on singles such as ‘Anytime’ and ‘I Wanna Talk About My Baby’ before a new line-up signed with producer Joe Meek and broadened their musical horizons to take in beat pop on ‘Cry, Cry, Cry’, Eastern-tinged freakbeat on the classic ‘I Take It That We’re Through’ and from the Tea Chest Tapes, folk rock on an early arrangement of ‘It’s Never Too Late To Forgive’ and even proto-flower power on the wonderful ‘Walking On Ice’.

Sessions for a planned album pairing singer Glenda Collins with The Riot Squad, 'It’s A Riot!', are featured - the album was never finished due to Meek’s death. The group then came under the influence of David Bowie who recorded demos with them in 1967 including a cover of The Velvet Underground’s ‘I’m Waiting For My Man’.

Everything on the 3CD set has been newly mastered by Alec Palao. Several performances only existing in the Tea Chest Tapes as discrete twin-track recordings are represented by a "stereo balance”, with the vocals in the centre of the sound picture.