Test Pressing Podcast

I feel bad that I am only just getting to posting this as its been sitting on my desktop for months but I keep playing it so felt time to get it up. With the passing of David Mancuso last year it seems more important than ever that the original free Loft vibe of the […]

There`s a load of timeless music due for release this January and February. Most of it new. Track-List  Benedith – Mis Mehefin – Aficionado Jonny Nash – Eden – Melody As Truth Black Classical – Batuque de Nacao – On The Corner Dazion – Rigola – Second Circle Awa Poulo – Mido Yirima – Awesome […]

There`s a ton of good stuff in shops, or just about to hit shops, now, as 2016 draws to a close. So don`t finalise that “End Of The Year” list just yet. There`s Jazz from The Growing Bin. Balearic bits from Versatile, and Running Back. Percussive dance-floor fillers from Music For Dreams, Aficionado and Tiff`s […]

A few weeks back Lexx and I did a night at Brilliant Corners. It was a lovely night so here’s a recording of Lexx’s set. Fine music as every from the Swiss chap.

Dark, pounding, yet soulful – as sweet Garage vocals sing of unity and love. A return to Chicago basics, but with a New York swing and Miami`s bass. A stripped-back, bottom-heavy sound, like Nu Groove on steroids, that pre-dates Junior (Vasquez) and Danny (Tenaglia) on Tribal & Twisted. Pre-dates DJ Duke`s Power Music. The first […]

Max Essa has moved. Into a new apartment. And two tapes of Murk playing live, which we bagsied nearly three years ago, have come out of storage. This is the first one. I`ll let Max explain…. “Back in the olden days, before music mated with the internet, before we knew everything about everything, information was […]

Here`s my pick of November`s releases, trying to stick to music that`s forthcoming, music that we haven’t covered yet (stuff we have covered like those Be With reissues and Yussef Kamaal`s “Black Focus”, Maajo (which sounded super nice at Bonobo – upstairs and downstairs – on Saturday), and PLSD on Golf Channel are obviously a […]

When I asked Raphael one of our standard questions, “Would you say you have a particular “sound”?”, he replied specifically to this mix: “You know I can spend days selecting records when I have to play somewhere or to record a mix. I really do it from the heart, taking care of everything around it […]

Apocalyptic Afro, chilling chuggers, claustrophobic clanking, creepy Kosmische, demonic Disco, subjected to doom-inducing delay. Giallo guitar, a House of horrors, icy-fingered Industrial, Jack(ing) The Ripper. Jugular Jazz, Library lunacy, lycanthrope laughter and petrifying Proto. Psycho Psyche, sinister strangers in the shadows of the city. Slaughterhouse Sleaze and Soul sacrifices. Synth-pop screamers, terrifying Tribal, vampiric Voodoo, […]

Epic Electro, squelchy Synth-Pop, Detroit-like urban ambience, chugging Cosmic Tribal Funk, and a House where the Africa meets the Orient, all in search of that “Organic”, “Rhythmic Modern” that the chaps talk about. Tex / Mex border Rock N Roll guitar Noir, cowbell & teeth-rattling bass, French dudes, strange scats, and Techno with castanets. Their […]

Roberto Musci / Nexus On The Beach (from the beautiful and fascinating compilation of the Italian composer / musician`s work on Music From Memory); The Igniters / Hakka Suru (from “Midnite Spares” – Andras Fox & Instant Peterson raiding the Triple R Radio archives for Antipodean New Wave – I really should have covered this […]

I first met Dubby when he worked at the legendary Cisco Records in Tokyo (alongside the equally legendary Dr. Nishimura). There he was a buyer with some ten years experience, covering everything – Jazz, Latin, World, Soul, House, Disco, Drum & Bass, Dubstep – and responsible for bringing labels like Music For Dreams to Japan. […]

Phillipi & Rodrigo are two good time Brazilians signed to the DEEWEE label making future samba sound and a whole lot more. They also release killer music under the name Fatnotronic but we are here to talk P&R. Their first release was ‘Karma / Gueto De Gent’- a double hit of crazy acid samba with […]

The annual Test Pressing board meeting took place in London a couple of weeks ago. Top of the agenda, as usual, were “Beer” (Apiento) and “Why Am I Not Rich & Famous” (me). I suspect that these two topics will remain constants, year in, year out. A new one though was the monthly “Round Ups”. […]

This final instalment was supposed to be uptempo, and while I used most of the recent Drum Island are more peak-time White Isle Alfredo, circa 1989. Harmonious Thelonious revisits Bang The Party`s international smoke signals. Butter Sessions` Multiple Man makes the kind of EBM that could have been played at The Shoom. There`s Proto-Techno surprises […]