STAX has been around for years...I think they started out as Satellite Records...probably around the late '50's or early '60's. Hugely influential label...

The tunes on the compilation CDs have all been released before - some of those I have in my library, and I really should do an A/B listening test to see if the remastered versions are any better than the originals (or better, srtip out the wav files (remastered versus original) and do some math on them to see if they have been simply cleaned up, or otherwise level-compressed etc).

Anyway...the tunes on the CDs are awesome...and in many cases, I heard tunes that I had either forgotten about, or had (erroneously) attributed to another artist.

Highly recommended.