PW Featuring ATOM PW Featuring Kym Strickland - Sea Of Beats Echo Of The Wave

Although very similar to a 88 Sade track https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzBHMiw-R8c

This was the first record I made. 
A deep house track featuring a local, Reading, singer called 'Kim Strickland' who used to come into my shop ' The Record Basement' and as I loved her voice I wrote this for her to help her get noticed. Kim got picked up after the release and had some minor Chart success with a cover of Sister Sledges 'Thinking Of You'.

A real beauty.

This was the first record I made. I was putting on a weekly Party at 'The After Dark' Club in Reading on a Thursday Night. I used to also give Live Acts a spot, so when these two guys gave me a demo of theirs, I was so impressed I offered them their first gig. The guys were Tom Rowlands (Chemical Brothers / Ariel) & Brendan (Ariel) and they called themselves 'ATOM'. As the guy's were so pleased with their first gig, they said that if there was anything they could do for me I should ask. So I did, I asked them if they would help me make my first tune. They suggested that I give them the samples and to tell them what I wanted and they would produce it, so I agreed. So at first they took my samples to their studio and came back to me with their mix a weeks later. Even though I had given them an idea of what I wanted, they produced a tune which was nothing like the one in my head. So I went to their studio and made this tune myself.
I asked some guys who used to produce the Rare Groove boots back in the day to press it up for me, so it originally came out as PW (PW stands for Phil Wells) featuring Atom on Law records.I sold about 2000 copies over the next two months. After the record was released Tom & Brendan went to Manchester University. Over the next couple of months the guys rang me up with an order for 500 copies. Then a few weeks later rang for another 500 selling them through Eastern Bloc. Then the guys pulled a sneaky one and signed a deal with Eastern Bloc as'Ariel'and left me out of the deal! Obviously I took steps at the time to stop the release, but Eastern Bloc still sold 1000s of promos, however at least my mix didn't come out. I have to say though I loved 'Justin Robertson's mix and got to meet him due to this mix. The most hurtful thing was reading an interview Tom gave for a Dance Mag, where he was asked about the tunes debut on Law Records. Tom said he met a dodgy guy who offered to press it up for him! 
On the AA side is a deep house track featuring a local, Reading, singer called 'Kim Strickland' who used to come into my shop ' The Record Basement' and as I loved her voice I wrote this for her to help her get noticed. Kim got picked up after the release and had some minor Chart success with a cover of Sister Sledges 'Thinking Of You'.໿