Keymailrecords

21/05/2026

18/04/2026

Coming soon to Camberley...
Happy Record Store Day!

10/04/2025

30 years ago today saw the release of 'The Sound Gallery' on EMI. At the time it was a 'retro' release, but today the compilation is older than the music was in 1995! Should you wish to know more, I wrote an article for its 20th anniversary: https://paulsaiya.wordpress.com/2015/04/08/20-years-of-the-sound-gallery/
The actual complete album doesn't appear on YouTube or streaming services but many of the tracks are available in playlists - just search for 'Sound Gallery'!

26/01/2023

If anyone saw the short interview on BBC World Business Report this morning about "Return of the CD" and the claim that sales are up for the first time since 2004, it is horses**t.
There was no source for any data to supply that headline. CD sales in the UK are already down on last year by 13.7% according to the Official Charts Company.
However, we still love the compact disc!

19/11/2021

In a remarkable act of 'line extension', Universal Music have put out at least 21 different formats of Abba's new album 'Voyage' And here they are: 8 CDs, 6 cassettes and 7 vinyl records. And thanks to the shrinkwrap, a bu**er to photograph!

18/10/2021

For those of you interested in early examples of music making with samplers then we have stumbled across an excellent South Bank Show documentary from 1982. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scmYG1Pv1_Q It follows Peter Gabriel constructing his fourth album and includes great footage of him at work in his studio playing with the classic Fairlight CMI computer, one of the first sampling set-up's which revolutionized music making in the 1980s. Or not, depending where you sit on the matter. Anyway, it also features Tony Levin explaning what a stick is and how he plays it so definitely worth 50 minutes of your time.

08/02/2021

https://www.keymailrecords.com/asha-puthli-asha-puthli-sky-blue-vinyl-mrblp221 Hailing from Mumbai, India - singer, songwriter, producer and actor Asha Puthli is finally getting her cult 1970s albums for CBS reissued by UK based label Mr Bongo. Listen to her first album in full right here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD4SKAQ7fFM&t=288s
https://open.spotify.com/album/04MZ8sL3zU0oWJM7q9D38E?si=qkN9hbFdQPOx1XcR4jUCzA
Asha first came to prominence singing on Ornette Coleman's 1971 classic 'Science Fiction'. This lead to signing a solo deal with CBS in the UK who released this, her debut album. With covers of tunes by John Lennon, George Harrison, JJ Cale among others, luxuriate in the warm bass, sultry strings and of course Asha's gorgeous voice, all wrapped up with Del Newman's (Carly Simon, Cat Stevens, Elton John) crisp production. This album is, THE s**t. Mr Bongo are about to reissue her third album 'The Devil Is Loose' and we trust more from her largely undiscovered catalogue. For lovers of rare fusion everywhere!

23/10/2020

Get creative with this wild app and time thief! Now you can create your own Acid House track with a fully programmable Roland TR-808 drum machine and TB-303 bass synthesizer. And you can record the results! Full marks to the creator Yuri Suzuki. Check it out here: https://808303.studio/

06/10/2020

Yesterday (5th October) we had a send off for Sharon O'Neill who passed away peacefully on the 5th September after dealing with cancer for the past 12 months. A silent vigil on the beach at sunset quickly descended into a (socially distanced) knees-up which is what she would have wanted!

"Shaz" dragged our company, literally, kicking and screaming (that's me!) into the 21st Century with a fresh brand, new website and a positive outlook which we will maintain in her honour. We will keep your memory alive Shaz! X

29/08/2020

https://www.keymailrecords.com/the-complete-cbs-recordings-1966-72-tremeloes-crsegbox071 There have been Tremeloes compilations before. However, ‘The Complete CBS Recordings 1966-72’ is unquestionably THE definitive anthology of one of the most successful British pop groups of the late Sixties. This 6-CD release features every note of the band’s recordings during their halcyon days with CBS. Tune into “Here Comes My Baby” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMy6PaZT7_g filmed for TV in 1967.

Originally fronted by Brian Poole, they were auditioned by Decca Records on the same day as the Beatles and it was The Tremeloes that got the prized record contract. They had their share of success including a No.1 single (“Do You Love Me?”). After Poole left in 1966, The Tremeloes carried on as a four piece and the following year had a second wave of popularity with hit singles “Here Comes My Baby”, “Even The Bad Times Are Good”, “Silence Is Golden”, “(Call Me) Number One”, all featured here along with highly-regarded psych-pop B-sides, criminally overlooked album tracks, alternative versions, outtakes, foreign language recordings, a live cabaret album and even the first-ever full release of the complete sessions for the 1970 cult movie ‘May Morning’. ‘The Complete CBS Recordings’ gathers everything under one roof for the first – and, almost certainly, the last time.