Test Pressing Podcast

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 […]

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 […]