Artist: Phocean Drive
Title: Smile
Label: Sex Tapes From Mars 
Cat No: STFM001
Format: 12” Vinyl

Tracklist: 
A1. Smile
B1. Dingalong
B2. Ding Dang

Phocean Drive’s highly sought after ‘Smile’ EP resurfaces with a full reissue for the debut venture on Sex Tapes From Mars new reissue imprint. Three esoteric yet funked up club-ready cuts that perforate the heart with euphoric, twigged out madness to rumble the more leftfield dance floors.

The full sonics were taken from original DAT and remastered at Analogcut, making for a full-bodied sound palette, and losing nothing from the original masterwork. 

The title track ‘Smile’ epitomises a golden era of Dutch progressive house, pairing sparse, titillating synth stabs, bionic vocoders and purposeful, grooving bass. 

On the flip, Dingalong heads for the basement, with an unabating acid line and steady, thumping drum work. It flaunts its subtle abstractions, coyly tripping while serving relentless energy. 

Ding Dang is a moody rework of its forerunning track, conjuring 7 am ambience through lush, gradually contorting pads and slick, sultry vocals. The shiny allure of galactic synth tones cooly rounds off a deeply mesmerising three-tracker on an intriguing new label series.

Phocean Drive - Smile (STFM001)

Coming out the 28th of June

Tracklist:
1. Kevin Deep - Goosebumps (original mix)
2. Kevin Deep - Goosebumps (KRS Two Remix)
3. Kevin Deep - No Space (original mix)

Artwork: REda daRE
Mastering: RS
Distributed: LABEL WORX, BANDCAMP

Goosebumps EP

Kevin Deep - Goosebumps EP (inc. KRS Two remix) [BAD011]

Top 10 selling vinyl
Part 2 of the re issue series- My Life With the Machines.

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Carlo Gambino - 'The Pastor'

Another Bootshonk white label has surfaced from the Apollonia crew. Although we have no confirmation as to who's behind it, the name of the imprint pretty much says it all. Here's the A-side, "Troubled Times."

Bootshonk - Troubled Times

Phill Prince - "Menagled" [OGE White001]

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Premiere : Sepp - Take This (HDZDGT47)

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𝐕𝐢𝐧𝐲𝐥 ▶ Giralda - Pirka Vinyl Cuts 02 [PVC02]

Artist: @lenlewis
Label: Bubble ldn @reece-bubble-ldn

Premiere: Len Lewis - Sonic Boom

Think Croydon and a few things come to mind; Kate Moss, punk band The Damned, Crystal Palace football club, Peep Show  and of course Dubstep, the now world conquering music genre that will forever be linked to the south London suburb. What you never hear though, is any mention of Tech House, another world conquering music genre. And to be honest we’re a little bit peeved about that. Because if Tech House has a spiritual home it’s Croydon, and that is due mainly to Swag Records and the people that gravitated towards the humble West Croydon record shop and studio.
Swag began in late 1992 and within a year it has positioned itself as the leading store to buy the strange new, stripped down, trippy, driving brand of house music being played at underground parties in and around south east London. On any given day you could walk in and find Terry Francis, Dave Mothersole, Grant Dell or Richard Grey serving behind the counter, Eddie Richards, Colin Dale or Mr C buying records and Matthew B, Gideon Jackson or Affie Yusuf at the helm in the studio upstairs. The building shook night and day with the throbbing, bass heavy grooves and the beat never stopped – or so it seemed. And now all these years later some of those records made in that little room at the top of the old Victorian building that housed the Swag headquarters are finally starting to get the recognition they deserve. Back when those tunes were cut, in the late 90’s and early 00’, pretty much the sole intention was to have something new and exciting to play at parties like Wiggle, Heart & Soul, Whoop Whoop and Kerfuffle. Now they’ve become highly collectable for those who recognise the huge part they had to play in defining the tech house sound. None more so perhaps than Sound Of The Suburbs  ‘I Won’t Stop’, which is now fetching up to £100 on Discogs. And that’s why we’ve decided to release that as the lead track on Swag Classics – so people can buy it again, on vinyl, at a fair price.
Produced by Pete Hurst and Paul Stubbs under their Sound Of The Suburbs moniker, it sounds as fresh today as it did back in the day, more so perhaps. Meanwhile on the flip side there’s a previously unreleased track from Pete aka Sloth UK titled Mr Eko
Hope you enjoy it. This is the first of many vinyl only releases, which will come from the hallowed Swag vaults. All compiled and selected by Liz Edwards who dedicated around 14 years to Swag Records behind the scenes and financially.
Hand-stamped and Limited to 200 copies only
Your feedback is most welcome; liz@edsvinyl.co.uk
Viva Croydon!
Words by Dave Mothersole
Dj support so far from Alex Arnout, Craig Richards, Ralph Lawson, Adam Shelton

SC001 - A - SWAG CLASSICS - VOL 1 - Sound of the suburbs - I won't stop

A2 Pending ORIGINAL MIX

Beyond trends and the passing waves of one genre or another making a comeback lies the core of what house and techno is all about. The groove that Jack preached in his house, the unity and the people must not be forgotten. We won’t let you forget.

We’re bringing back the oldschool, the real house and techno sound of the 90′s and early 2000′s, when the music was about dancing and making people go crazy and start running to the nearest record shop every week just cause there might be some new shit on the shelf.

Such moments in time can’t be reproduced but we sure as hell can try our best and give everything we got to the music. So be on the lookout cause we’re stepping up and calling you out. Ya’ hear?

A2 Pending ORIGINAL MIX

Crystal Structures Rec.