Smash Hit Music Co.

A few weeks ago, we checked our mailbox and to our delight was a demo from James of the new material recently completed with his long time friend and collaborator, Ziggy Franklin. When we popped the cassette in it was love at first listen, and it wasn’t long after that we were on the phone [...]

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photo by Chris Savas / 1983 / Danceteria / “Jam Hot”
When Nina Hagen sang “AM/PM, Pyramid, Roxy, Mudd Club, Danceteria” in her 1983 classic “New York New York” she could have been describing Johnny Dynell’s work week, as he played at them all, beginning at the seminal Mudd Club in 1980. Throughout the 80s he [...]

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You may never have heard of Return To Sender if it wasn’t for the art of the remix. We originally discovered this cool little song on a garage rock album by these youngsters from Utah, and were blown away when we found the wacky dialect was made up on the spot when they recorded the [...]

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Our good mate Greg Wilson is currently in SF for the week on tour supporting his latest effort on Tirk, Credit to the Edit II, featuring music from our very own 40 Thieves & Anthony Mansfield.
He talks to Guardian reporter Marke B about the disco scene, technology and the future of the past.

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We’re proud to present our latest signing and newcomer TAD WILY to the world. His new release, “Brockley Boogie EP” is on pre-sale this week at Juno and rising up the charts. Look out for more great stuff from him soon…
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Our own DJ Qzen was interviewed recently by SF station. Check it out!

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Our in-house playgroup 40 Thieves recently remixed a nice ditty called Disk for FineArt Recordings. To support the release they asked for a dj mix so here we go!
40 Thieves Feb \’09
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To celebrate the re-launch of shm.com we’re offering up a free download, “Gotta Get Your Love (Gary Davis Electronic Mix), off our next release, Chocolate Star EP II in exchange for signing up for our newsletter. Use the Reverb Nation widget to get the track, and we’ll merge your address into our master [...]

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[SHMEP11] Gary Davis - Chocolate Star EP II
Produced in collaboration with Mr. Chinn, 6 new songs from the man who brought you Gotta Get Your Love and Professor Here , courtesy of P&P/Chocolate Star Records (1982). This time around GD teams up (for a drama-free situation) with relative newcomers James Pants & Space Division [...]

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