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The Unmistakeable Sound of Independence since 1978 | Call to order: +44 (0)20 8996 3120
Croydon Municipal is a label curated by Saint Etienne’s Bob Stanley that loves to root through boxes of old 45s and 78s, give them a quick wash, package them together, and make them available again at a nice affordable price. We think of it as a public service.
It’s also intended as a way of curating the past, the early years of pop – almost everything is out there and available if you know which dusty rooms to look in, but you have to have the keys.
Croydon Municipal is an attempt to make sense of the analogue pop era in a digital world.
On Bob Stanley's label, following up the acclaimed first volume of Troxy Music, here is another batch of film themes from the 50s and 60s, the golden age of cinema. From kitchen sink (A Taste of Honey) to Hollywood (Lolita), from cool jazz to proto rock'n'roll, and with vocal contributions from Jane Russell and Fred Astaire, TROXY MUSIC SCREEN TWO blends the rare, the famous, and the truly exotic.
On Bob Stanley's label, here is a collection of rocking rarities from 50s girls who rarely got the chance to challenge the dominant males of the era, but sound top of the shop to 21st century ears in tune with legends like Wanda Jackson and Ella Mae Morse. They are both included among two dozen terrific, hard boppin' tracks with a side order of country twang.
On Bob Stanley's label, here is an exotic collection of rarities that evoke the heart of Bohemian London in the fifties and sixties. The coffee bars, the trattorias, the ouzo, Ricard and whatever Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud's tipple might be in the Colony Room.
Renowned girl group collector Bob Stanley pulls 24 gems out of his collection. It’s a fabulous cross section of this much-loved sixties genre, ranging from...
On Bob Stanley’s label, following up the acclaimed Popcorn Girls (“this enchanting… enlightening collection is an indispensable window on a rarely celebrated scene” – The...
• Compiled by Bob Stanley, and making sense of the great American songwriters of the pre-rock era, this is the first in Croydon Municipal’s Songbook...
• A unique collection! The first ever UK compilation of Popcorn, the continent’s answer to the Northern Soul scene. The atmospheric sound of Popcorn has...
Wake up and smell the coffee! Here’s the ideal soundtrack for spring, the latest in the highly successful Saint Etienne Presents… series following on from...