Test Pressing Podcast

More daydreams. More Library vibes; from L.U.C.A., from a Funk Factory, once sampled by The Beasties, reopened by Be With, and via the discovery, care of Mind Fair, of Nino Ferrer`s recordings with Ice / The Lafayette Afro Rock Band and the lovely Radiah (Jean-Paul Goude`s pre-Grace Jones muse). More reissues come from Philippe Chany, […]

Starting off easy, as if in and out of sleep. Perchance to dream. From the Yangtze to Cala Conta, last swimmers in tight pants follow Buddah`s footsteps. Tracks from Ambala project and a truly special piece from Coyote`s soon come “Songdogs”. Dmitry Evgrafov – Anthem – 130701 The System – Pendy! You`re In Some Awful […]

Pictures, text, and outstanding music by Nick The Record. Oppa-La is a wonderful and unique venue in Enoshima, about an hour from Tokyo.
It`s a curry house by day and a live music venue many evenings and most Sundays as well as being a DJ bar at weekends. Enoshima is on the coast and part of […]

Bookended by modern-sounding House mutations discovered on “The Lost Tape”, the music takes flight with the boss Electronic Fusion of Jon Tye & Ruf Dug`s Cherry Garcia. It runs into a (re-issued) Italian Who Does It Better at the Bossa Nova Civic Club and catches a funky Hammond “Big Fish” courtesy of more Italians at […]

First up the mellow stuff. Things get uptempo again in Part 2. We begin with Manchester`s Tom Boogizm and “Posh People Make Me Ill”, which I would of missed if it hadn`t been for the persistence and praise of The Growing Bin`s Basso. Germany`s Growing Bin also contribute a preview of the Shy Layer`s album […]

Tremelo stars blink to intro an island sunrise of tides, strings and vibes. Innovative communications segue into Creation`s choirboys (and girls). Shoegaze in a fog of dream (Pop). Vini`s thin fingers paint blue skies. A Swiss gentleman blows a soft, warm, steel-pan breeze. Punk Jazz spends the morning wrestling with sobriety. Electro melodies and trumpets […]

Picking up the tempo for “Part 2” we take in Parisian diggers, Bongos from Denmark, and Swedish Kosmische Disco. There are reissues from Japan, Estonia, Brazil and Bristol, and a previously unreleased gem of an album from Ethiopia. There are echoes of Africa in new music from Poland, England and Italy, House that wants to […]

So many promos, so little time. After a relatively quiet April we were inundated with great music during May, so much so that I`ve had to divide the “Round Up” into two. Part 1 is the mellow stuff. Proper ambience from Wolf Muller & Cass, KWC `92 (my pick of the recent batch of L.I.E.S […]

A few months ago Paul Paul Raffaele (of Most Excellent Unlimited) got in touch and asked if we could help publicise the relaunch of legendary NYC party “Better Days” which was being organised by the equally legendary DJ / Producer / Remixer, Bruce Forest. We said, “Sure, love to” as we`d already run a “Producer […]

Time to get horizontal with Alexis Le Tan. Well mellow. x.

In a month typically slowed by national holidays as Spring (usually) starts to think about Summer, and in recent years as Record Store Day puts pressing schedules on hold, we have been eased through April with more than a little help from our friends. Andras Fox and Eleventeen Eston camped out with the wild life […]

Ok this one is a little bit different but it is a truly lovely thing. Matt Sewell is an illustrator of note. If you haven’t seen his work this is him above – an apt drawing of a cuckoo. Nature is very central to what he does. If you haven’t seen his work before we […]

This weekend is the long bank holiday weekend in London and I’m off to play with Tiago, Mudd, Chida and the Bad Passion peoples at Canal in Caledonian Road. It’s going to be a fun one and its this Friday. Bad Passion are the chaps behind the party as well as running the ace NOT […]

We were big fans of Eugene Tambourine’s last release ‘North Satellite’ on Tummy Touch. It was a lovely record that pulled and leaned towards a new take on that Compass Point sound. We spoke to Mr Tambourine to ask for a mix to show us more of what he’s about and into and here it […]

Ok. The final mix in Joakim’s super nice run through from 1989 – 1999 is here and again it doesn’t fail to put a smile on the face. This one runs from that version of ‘Midas Touch’ (which still sounds great) to Romanthony and on through that year finishing on a fitting ‘Knights Of The […]