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Music brought to you from the Test Pressing website. Home for balearic beats and other things of interest that make the world go round.
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174 / Bing Ji Ling / Mex-i-coastin’ | This is a perfect mix for the weekend. Some of you may know Bing Ji Ling from his work with Incarnations and also the Phenomenal Handclap Band with next up a new release from his Paqua project alongside Paul Murphy and Alex Searle on the Claremont label. Some hot debuts on this mix - the aforementioned Paqua, a Quantic/Alice Russell track that isn't out yet, and a new PHB track that will be a B-side at some point in the future. Also on the mix is one of our favourites, 'Toda Menina Baiana' by Gilberto Gil. It's a beauty of a mix actually. First out of the balearic traps for us this year and if we can post more like this I'll be a happy man. The mix is called "Mex-i-coastin'" as he just spent six weeks in Mexico scouring the Pacific Coast from Mazunte, Oaxaca to Sayulita, Nayarit. We are about to do the Mexican tourist office a favour here (not that it needs one) and post some of Bing's photographs from his trip. I need to get there. Download | 3 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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173 / STEVE KOTEY / DISCO HONEST | Haven't done a mix this year so happy to welcome Steve Kotey to get the ball rolling. I like the way when Steve sent the mix through he'd put the genre as '1976 Porno Soundtrack'. If that doesn't give you a clue where its going we are talking full on sleazy disco. Steve is pretty busy right now. Firstly, he is working on a new project with Andrew Meecham of Emperor Machine called Grand Corporation. It's mostly analogue based house music with plenty of Chicago references. Releases coming on the 'good to see them back' Classic as well as 2020 vision / Redux. The Classic release has Jeremy Glen on vocals. Then there's his Soiree project with Max Essa whose Zim Zim track I played a lot. Cheeky and funny but then with a serious edge apparently the new album has lots of crazy vocal action from Max. Steve says "if "Flight of the Concords" made New Wave, Disco and Krautrock it might sound like this". It's coming on Bearfunk in the summer. He's then got his My Ambassadors Reception label with some great releases this year with new projects from Loud-E with 'Loudefied Vol.II', Albion returning with 'Mixtura II' and a new 'Disco Diva Delights' compilation. Finally, more releases from Max Essa and Utopus (ace mix from The Beat Broker on that one) and a new imprint (does he sleep?) with the Utopus crew called Future Nuggets. You can check that here. Download | 30 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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170 / Joel Martin – Quiet Village / Velvet Vibrations | Joel Martin is a man of principles and probably one of the most knowledgable people I know in the world of synth-based soundtracks. He's also part of underground heroes Quiet Village who, as their name suggests, like to slowly get on with things in their own particular way. He's soon off to Berlin to finish the 3rd instalment of their Maxxi and Zeu project for International Feel. Next up from Joel is a new project with Gerry Rooney from Black Cock where they have created two labels - Lucky Hole and Golden Hole. You can follow/like them at the Velvet Season & The Hearts Of Gold facebook page for updates and news. We've heard two of the new tracks and they are bottom heavy and sleazy as can be. They are also about to remix the new project from Mo Morris and Phil Manzanera (that sounds good already) War Cry. Busy in a quiet way. Download | 12 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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169 / Peter Visti / Live At Qvist Grammofon Cafe | New mix from Peter Visti here, a DJ for over 20 years and producer of releases on Music For Dreams, Eskimo and Mindless Boogie as well as one of the men behind one of the underground hits of the last few years 'Stars' alongside Jakob Meyland. Early next year he'll release his solo album 'Illusions Of A Twisted Mind' on Bearfunk. Look out for that one. Download | 6 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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168 / Dr Rob / Tokyo-To Kissa #10 | The Tokyo-To Kissas were made, one a month, during 2007. My first year in Japan. Prior to the move to Tokyo, I had spent much of my free time recreating Harvey`s Moonshadow sessions in a shed at the end of our garden in Croydon, so I was already on a pretty mellow one. Then someone, probably Tim, gave me a load of Jose`s Café Del Mar sets, about ten of them on a CD. While a Pre-90s Balearic obsessive, my attention had been focused solely on Alfredo`s box, Blancmange b-sides, wondering why there weren’t more records like The Woodentops, and why you couldn’t get hired playing records like that anymore. I knew very little about the Café Del Mar. Although I had thrown up there once. Listening to Jose’s tapes, I thought “I’ve got loads of stuff like this. I can do this.” I had originally planned to sell all my records in Japan. To quit DJing. To let it go. Anyone who knows me will know that I am always saying this. But something always seems to come along and spark my interest again. DJ History, the Sarcastic mix, Baldelli’s tapes. I fast found that I couldn’t “do this” and that telling a hopefully entertaining story using largely beat-less instrumentals is a lot harder than you might think. A fact that anyone who has listened to a To Kissa can attest to. I was uneducated, but with assistance from friends like Moonboots and Jolyon, who provided mixes and IDs, I began to acquire “Café Classics” from Tokyo`s countless second hand record shops. Awash with Windham Hill and ECM. The To Kissas were really just compilations, made for friends, of what I`d found that month, with a few other things I thought might fit thrown in. Paul was kind enough to run with them. After I’d done a couple, I realised that they were never gonna be tributes to the Café. To this day I think I’ve only made one “mix” with a beach in mind. They were all made late at night, when the kids had gone to bed. And I had started drinking. That year I was a mess. I had quit my job to move and look after the boys. I was often on my own. After dropping my sons off at school, I thought about killing myself pretty much every morning. But then there would be the laundry and the vacuuming to do. I had just turned forty, and mid-life (well, you can only hope) and my hormones, as they approached the cliff at a clip, were a devil on my shoulder taunting me to continually prove that I was a man before it was too late. I never thought I measured myself that way. I guess we all do if we are honest. I was also hung up on the language. I was lost. I spent hours every day studying. And still I was lost. My frustration and fear would peak into bouts of anger. Tired of being ignored. Tired of being treated like an idiot. “I’ll have you know I’ve got a PhD.” But I was an idiot. I couldn’t read or write. And I was essentially deaf and dumb. Paul once said to me “You seem to be on a bit of a downer about Tokyo. How can you be on a downer in such a fantastic city?” He made me feel guilty. I was on a downer, and I was blaming the city, which wasn’t fair. Tokyo is an amazing place. It was just me. And my age. Consumed with regret (such a bad place to be) and having the “luxury” of the time to reflect on all my bad habits and daily mistakes. Driven crazy by all the hard naked bodies I would never get to see. The lingerie of dreams. Gone. Days bitter with “Why did I never sleep with a blonde when I was at university?” Nights awake thinking “I’ll probably never see my grandchildren”. “Never. Never. Never” was my mantra. The To Kissas were something to lose myself in. In hindsight, to wallow in. I’d never call it a night and it would always end with me waking on the floor, ‘Let It Bleed’ still playing, and the weight, or lack of it, of the two litre carton of sake informing me that it would be a few days before I would feel “normal” again. I missed my friends, and I missed my youth. But I don’t feel like th | 4 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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167 / Psychemagik / Sunrise | So here we are with a new mix from Psychemagik. These two have been on something of a roll when it comes to their own releases and the quality of their mixes which make highly rare music sound pretty accesible. On a remix front they've been busy recently with mixes for Metronomy (free download on this one!), Time & Space Machine, Azari & lll and Crystal Fighters. They also have a Valley Of Paradise remix 12" out early next year with versions from Leo Zero, Time & Space Machine, Greg Wilson and Toby Tobias and are releasing a very limited edition EP in the first few months of the year named 'Triumph Of The Gods Suite' with bespoke artwork and limited edition screen print by designer Trevor Jackson. Finally there is a new Healin' Feelin Edit 12 out now - check it here at Phonica or here and here at Soundcloud. To keep up to date on what Psychemagik are up to follow them at Soundcloud, Twitter and Facebook. So back to the the mix, it's a two hour epic full of records I've never heard and, as ever, is totally on point. Top draw. Download | 23 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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166 / COS/MES / Opera City | We are big fans of COS/MES at Test Pressing so happy that they've come through with a mix for us here. Their productions and remixes are always doing something interesting away from the traditional notion of what our "balearic" scene should be doing. They have odd arrangements, can last 12 minutes (happily) and seem to be in a world of their own. Hope you enjoy this one. Download | 10 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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165 / Pavel Plastikk / Tree Line | Happy to welcome the man like Pavel back to the fold. A serious collector and mix. Go Pavel... Download | 4 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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164 / Walk Music / The Low Life Elite | Brand new mix from Manchester-based James Walker for you here. A journalist and former music reviewer for BBC Manchester and the Manchester Evening News, James started producing mixes a few years back, and is a regular contributor to music websites including dirtyRadio. Taking in transatlantic low-down vibes from Jon Lucien to Zoo Kid, The Low-life Elite has become a swan song to yet another mental summer. Download | 4 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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163 / DJ Milo / Tribute To John Peel Mix | DJ Milo needs no introduction to most of you. From Wild Bunch days right up to now with the Nature productions. Here he is with a mix in tribute to John Peel. I'll leave it to the music... Download | 31 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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162 / Ali Renault / Mix | New mix from Ali Renault previously of Heartbreak fame here. His new self-titled album 'Ali Renault' has been described as sounding 'like one of John Carpenter’s themes, at others like a ZTT away day in Warriors-era New York' which sounds pretty good to us. It's out on November the 7th on Cyber Dance records and to have fun and promote it they are throwing a free party at the Baby Bath House on November 11th. For what you can expect on the night check this mix. Am liking his mangled twisted take on electronics. Download | 29 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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160 / Lexx / Live At Boutique Hostal Salinas | New mix from Lexx for you here recorded live in Ibiza on the 20th September. The event was organised by the lovely Folk Tree people from Manchester with Nick Acid Tree also DJing on the same night. Sounds like a good one. Download | 24 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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159 / Jolyon Green / Ibiza Hippy Mix ’74 | I love this mix. Jolyon did it a little while back and now has added some new bits in. Perfect for this Indian summer hitting the UK. Download | 1 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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158 / Legendary Children / Dance With Dionysus | We like this lot at Test Pressing. They have been quietly getting on with doing their own thing for a little while now and its all going rather well. Legendary Children have a lovely website and run a very good night of the same name which is highly recommended if you are on the East Side of London (especially as they have Frank Tope playing tomorrow night). Here they are playing the sort of sound you'd expect on a visit to their club. You can also catch the guys on Facebook and Twitter. Follow. Download | 22 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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157 / Dompteur Mooner / Live At Golden Bar Pt.II | This is a good one for the weekend. Dompteur Mooner has been heavily involved in the Munich underground scene for over 15 years, with Club Le Bomb (an illegal club in an underground aqua power plant), Hart Of Noise, GMAM and his long running party / art project Zombocombo with Pollyester, Kitt Bang and DJ Kaput. He's probably best known to the pop charts worldwide for his co-writing of electro smash 'Kernkraft 400' which in his words 'now makes me chuckle'. Dompteur has been a long-time fan of the North-Italian "Afro/Cosmic" wave in Munich which played an important role as the most northern point on the map for those parties. He has been collecting records from this scene for many years and in turn compiled the ELASTE compilations on Compost Records where the goal was to pull together the most outstanding tracks from the scene known as Cosmic Disco. Quizzed on his goal as a DJ he answers... "As a DJ I always play what I think is important and emotional, whilst trying to draw people into the music which has worked many times, but sometimes also does not. I am trying to be a DJ that tells a story. Who draws you into something you would probably not dance to, but, in the mix, it makes sense, and it makes you lose your sense or control of what is "cool" and what is not. What I play you might call Deep Disco." This mix was recorded live at the Golden Bar of Haus der Kunst in Munich at the Sunday Sundowner in July. Download | 16 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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156 / Balearic Social / Hanglide | Balearic Social is a radio show hosted by Andy Pye and broadcast every Tuesday on Northern Underground from 8-11pm. The show features weekly guests who either drop by to mix live or pre-mix the one hour guest slot. Guests to date include Moonboots, Martin Brew, Timm Sure, Ampo, Dr Rob and Raised by Wolves. Guests over the coming months include Phil Mison, Soft Rocks,Stevie Kotey, Max Essa & DJ Zak Hamburg. Andy has been an avid collector of records having worked in record stores for 15 years and being part of the Secret Liason nights in Leeds with Craig Christon. As well as the radio the guys also run Balearic Social on the second Saturday of the month at Dock St Market in Leeds which is the setting of Joe's Bakery where they host the monthly Joe's Bakery guest mix on the show once a month. You can permanently link to the podcasts here. Download | 14 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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155 / Rune Lindbæk / Boonoonoonoos Mix | Apparently Boonoonoonoos means happiness in Caribbean! I like that. Rune has come through with a new mix and is as busy as ever. Recording a solo album for Smalltown Supersound, remixes for Mateo & Matos and Bryan Ferry, and upcoming DJ gigs in Glasgow, Slovenia and Berlin with Daniel Wang at Wang's monthly night. Then there will be an edit of Leo Zero's remix of 'Shuffle' by the Bombay Bicycle Club coming out via Mule Musique shortly. His mixes are always interesting and as ever its a mix of tropical, disco and anologue business with the music sounding familiar but totally different at the same time. Reminds me of the Idjut Boys with the odd turned up to 11. Download | 6 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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154 / Apiento & Tim H / City Play | Went to see James Murphy last night and it reminded me of this mix I did with Tim H a while back. James Murphy was brilliant. Played 'Everything She Wants' by Wham and generally mixed the disco with the electronic and did that nice New York thing of long mixes of disco records with house beats. Oh and he played 'Love Is Alive' by Gary Wright which the hip hop kids were keeping to themselves for a long time there. So here's a mix from a while back. Lots of our own edits of disco bits and bobs. Download | 3 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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153 / DJ Alonzo / Top Nice Kitchen Mix | Download DJ Alonzo came with a tea-themed mix to Test Pressing back in the early days of Test Pressing and we asked him for a new one as we like his style of going from techno through to mellow dubbed out business, old balearic Candy Flip records (its good!) and proper disco. They run clubs in Stockholm and the UK and have just got their own space together, an old slaughterhouse in Sweden, where they can throw their own parties and exhibitions. They've got a new website up and running which will feature news on everything they are up to so check in there. Live radio coming soon we hear. Anyway, here's the ups and downs of DJ Alonzo. Top Nice Website | 1 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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152 / Toby Tobias / Sounds In The Shade – For Rose | Download Toby Tobias makes a welcome return here to Test Pressing with a mix taking in all styles. He's a busy guy with remixes of Phreek Plus One and Toro Y Moi just out then forthcoming a new single on Moore Music, 'Tomorrows Bringing' featuring Brendan Reilly on vocals (remixes by Lee Foss and Bicep), a new single on Quintessentials, and completing the 2nd Rekids album. He's also got mixes upcoming for Franz Ferdinand/LCD Sound System and Psychemagik and finally the next release on his label Tracky Bottoms, Deep Space Orchestra EP, about to come out with a remix from Toby on there. Phew. Busy busy. | 23 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean151 / Main Stem / Drunk Again | Main Stem are a small group of music fiends comprising of Rob.J, Ben Shenton, Tim Silver and James Flanagen based out of Stafford and Birmingham. Some of their work can be found here and here for Project Club and Deadstock 33s. They have a new album coming soon which we'll give more info on when the time is right but until then here is the perfect soundtrack to a Sunday. Download | 16 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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150 / Finger Magazine / Come To Marina Del Rey | This is a nice one. New mix from Adrian, head honcho of Finger Magazine, which features some brand new bits you might not have heard. Some new edits and 3 exclusive tracks - the Psychemagik remix of "that" track everyone is crazy about right now, a Lexx remix of Incarnations and a Riccio Remix of Prommer & Barck's 'Pictures Of The Sea'. Mix number 150. Wallop. Download Finger Magazine are here. Check them out. | 18 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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149 / Jamie Paton / Cage & Aviary / Contort Yourself | Here’s a banger for the weekend. Over to Jamie to tell you what this one is all about. “The mix takes in all sorts over a C90′s worth of running time, including Weatherall putting the Beat between Meat and Manifesto, one of Arthur Russell’s more abstract Funk Popping moments and a quite frankly awesome stratospheric excursion from Gigi Galaxy and his Disco 2000. It sums up a lot of what I’ve been playing this year, quite prototypical and stripped down, tough in places but with the odd musical flourish here and there. There are also a couple of Cage & Aviary productions on there, one from our forthcoming Migration LP which will finally drop in October.” Looking forward to the album. More news on that as it comes. Download | 15 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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148 / Joe Hart & Andy Blake / Live From A World Unknown 13.05.11 | What it says... The label is coming soon and here's the guys having fun at their monthly World Unknown night. Download | 7 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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147 / Eden Rock / Kona Winds | Happy to welcome back the chaps from Eden Rock to the house. Download | 5 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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146 / Phil South / Country Haus | Just finished reading 'Storming Heaven - LSD And The American Dream', and this new mix from Phil South of Golf Channel would make a perfect soundtrack to an afternoon into evening session. As Phil says, "best listened to with close friends, a fog machine, a strobe and very strong drugs in a remote place far from neighbours and interruptions. Too country to be house and far too house to be country. Too black to be white and too white to be black... Its country haus. Neck up and get down. You might need a place to lie down or a beanbag at points too." Totido. Download | 1 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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145 / Disco Dawn / Sunday Live | A two-parter Friday mix special coming up frmo Disco Dawn and Golf Channel's Phil South. The ying and the yang. First from Disco Dawn (and one for the young guns here) some rocking house (that goes deep at the end for the old fellas), from the guys behind Fool House, Fluokids contributors (good site) and regular DJs at the Rex in Paris - Guilaume Red Hot Car and Mondkopf. They are deep into balearic so we thought we'd let them showcase their style of house here... Rocking. Download | 1 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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144 / Mock & Toof / Live! | We're really into Mock and Toof at Test Pressing towers and are happy to bring you an exclusive here. This is the Mock & Toof live set that they have been touring over the past year, as they say 'it's been a trip!'. For those at the Big Chill they'll be playing there on August 5th but for everyone else check this mix... Download | 30 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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143 / Rob Hyde / Kiss Of Death | Rob Hyde is a record collector and DJ and was formerly part of Twisted Nerve's seriously out-there band Mum & Dad, as well as more recently the motorik Eat Lights; Become Lights. Here he delivers on the psyche, Brasilian soul tip. Perfect Friday sounds. Download | 24 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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142 / Ken Drone / Australian Music Sampler | This one comes courtesy of Roman Wafers and Michael Kuyck of the Noise In My Head crew and is a mix of purely Australian balearic, electronic and disco sounds. Who knew... Download Check the Noise In My Head radio show for more in the way of balearic beats and disco deepeness. | 14 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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140 / Azari & III Presents Alixander III / Shimmers | We have been speaking to the chaps from Azari & III about doing a mix for a while and here Alixander III steps up with a mix of alternative styles going from Spaceman 3 to Chris and Cosey, Swell Maps to the Dum Dum Girls and on... Good taste. Download | 2 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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138 / Hardway Bros / ALFOS / We Are One | Not only named after a brilliant AR Kane record, the A Love From Outer Space night has, by all accounts, been a bit of a success. From talking to one of the chaps involved one night the gist is keep it sub 120BPM. Sounds good to me. Here's the Hardway Bros mix which was given out at the club on Thursday to celebrate the first birthday. Download | 22 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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137 / Phil South / Live At Electric Elephant | Phil South, as many of you know, is the head honcho of Golf Channel records, purveyors of modern twisted disco and balearic beats. Actually, talking of balearic beats and Golf Channel they are about to release a new record which is one of the best things I have heard in ages. Must be an old record but the people with the knowledge that I have asked don't have a clue what it is. Anyway, if you see a new Golf Channel in the shops in the next week or so check it as it's a killer. So here's a mix from Phil live at Electric Elephant last year. Enjoy. Download | 21 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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134 / Niles / Labour Of Love | Don't worry, there's no Hue & Cry on this one, well saying that I wouldn't mind as I quite like that record, but here Niles from Emotional Pop has compiled a mix of some of his favourite European pop records. Cheers Niles. Download | 14 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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133 / Ku / 1985 | This one came via Jolyon Green who discovered it on a Spanish forum. It sounds authentic - every so often someone says 'KU' on the mic. All it said on the file was KU 1984 Discoteca though the music dates it as more like '85. One for the hardcore balearic heads. Download | 13 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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132 / Carsten Klemann / The Long Game | Always happy to bring a new DJ to the table, well new to me anyway, and this could be one to watch. A quick potted history for you. Carsten Klemann was born and raised in Berlin and now lives in London and has had long-standing residencies at Watergate, Panorama Bar, Cookies and Paris-Paris amongst others. He has worked under Basic Channel at mastering studio Dubplates and Mastering in Berlin (so his ears are attuned) and records under the name My My. He's good. And he likes to play through the night from start to end so hopefully this gives a quick take on that. Welcome Carsten. Download | 5 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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131 / Finger Magazine / Meet Me At Zabriskie | We like the dudes at Finger Magazine. We wrote about them before but if you missed it they have a magazine full of lists of music to check so if you haven't seen what it's all about go here. They currently have a nice mix from balearic heads The Project Club up on site which is well worth checking. So here the Finger Magazine chaps come with their own selection of music for us which starts off on a slow mo tip and builds into disco towards the end. Nice. Download | 4 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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130 / Suono / Signs Of The Sun | Suono are Danny Potts and Tony Daly who have regularly been running Bank Holiday Sunday parties just outside Newcastle at a venue (well pub really) called The Tanners for over seven years now. Over that time they've had as guests such as Moonboots, Balearic Mike, Mudd, Phil Mison, Daniel Baldelli, The Idjut Boys, Kelvin Andrews and Greg Wilson to name a few. Clearly men of taste. This weekend sees the great Mudd making an appearance with some of the Claremont crew in tow (see below for more details). Looks like a good one. Here's a mix from the chaps. Starts mellow and builds from there... Download | 28 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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129 / Spencer James / Life! | Spencer James has spent more time in clubs than most and has great taste in music from those well spent years so we asked him to do us a mix of his favourite mellow moments. Enjoy. Download | 27 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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128 / Phil Mison / Notes From An Island | Always happy to welcome back our friend Phil to the fold. This mix was originally done for Sonica radio in Ibiza. In Phil related news the Reverso edits album is in the shops now and we expect good things from the next wave of Cantoma. We are also talking about doing a little party soon but we’ll keep you in the loop on that one once we push it on. Download | 17 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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127 / Psychemagik / Celestial Love | Here's a good one for the weekend - a new mix from Psychemagik. It's a sweet sounding one with lots of bits I haven't a clue about and it hits the mellow balearic nail square on the head. With the sun out this sounded lovely on the stereo today. Hope it sounds as good in your place. Download | 8 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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126 / Ruf Dug / Underwater Mixtape | Here's a mix from the Ruf Dug of the Wet Play crew in Manchester which he describes as 'a special underwater disco adventure in tropical waters, breaking through to the next level for a little while before a rapid but painless decompression. Unreleased cuts from Seahawks, Soft Rocks, Begin and yours truly together with a few other specials. Hope you enjoy the ride!.' Boom! The next Wet Play is happening this weekend at The Soup Kitchen in Manchester and if you live north it looks like a fun night out. Get more information here. Download | 5 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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125 / Cyril / Make A Bubble | Always nice to welcome a new (to us) face to Test Pressing and here's a good one. Cyril is part of the Beauty and the Beat crew, who alongside our friend Cedric Woo, organises regular parties in London. They are all about lovely sound, great music from across the world (and the board) and good people getting into it. Cyril likes music with a psychedelic soul and I hope this one triggers a few daydreams... Download | 1 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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124 / 雨ニモマケズ〕宮澤賢治 / Be Not Defeated By The Rain / Kenji Miyazawa | Dr Rob lives in Japan. This is his response to recent happenings. Help where you can people. Ed. :: 雨ニモマケズ 風ニモマケズ 雪ニモ夏ノ暑サニモマケヌ 丈夫ナカラダヲモチ 慾ハナク 決シテ瞋ラズ イツモシヅカニワラッテヰル 一日ニ玄米四合ト 味噌ト少シノ野菜ヲタベ アラユルコトヲ ジブンヲカンジョウニ入レズニ ヨクミキキシワカリ ソシテワスレズ 野原ノ松ノ林ノ ノ 小サナ萓ブキノ小屋ニヰテ 東ニ病気ノコドモアレバ 行ッテ看病シテヤリ 西ニツカレタ母アレバ 行ッテソノ稲ノ朿ヲ負ヒ 南ニ死ニサウナ人アレバ 行ッテコハガラナクテモイヽトイヒ 北ニケンクヮヤソショウガアレバ ツマラナイカラヤメロトイヒ ヒドリノトキハナミダヲナガシ サムサノナツハオロオロアルキ ミンナニデクノボートヨバレ ホメラレモセズ クニモサレズ サウイフモノニ ワタシハナリタイ Be Not Defeated By The Rain by Kenji Miyazawa Translation by David Sulz Be not defeated by the rain, Nor let the wind prove your better. Succumb not to the snows of winter. Nor be bested by the heat of summer. Be strong in body. Unfettered by desire. Not enticed to anger. Cultivate a quiet joy. Count yourself last in everything. Put others before you. Watch well and listen closely. Hold the learned lessons dear. A thatch-roof house, in a meadow, nestled in a pine grove’s shade. A handful of rice, some miso, and a few vegetables to suffice for the day. If, to the East, a child lies sick: Go forth and nurse him to health. If, to the West, an old lady stands exhausted: Go forth, and relieve her of burden. If, to the South, a man lies dying: Go forth with words of courage to dispel his fear. If, to the North, an argument or fight ensues: Go forth and beg them stop such a waste of effort and of spirit. In times of drought, shed tears of sympathy. In summers cold, walk in concern and empathy. Stand aloof of the unknowing masses: Better dismissed as useless than flattered as a “Great Man”. This is my goal, the person I strive to become. Download | 29 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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123 / Jan Hammered / Fly With Me | More goodness from the man like Jan… Download | 23 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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122 / Dr Rob / Tokyo-to Kissa #9 | I wake in cold blue before the sun. Unraveling the dreams I have come to treasure. One or five AM. I have no idea. My head so cold it aches. I check the kids are covered and brave downstairs. Three degrees in the kitchen. But the fish are still swimming. I light the stove with stones thrown from Asamayama soaked in kerosene. Set the coffee on it. A shower, the quickest way to warm up. But it`s hard to get in. Ice on the inside of the window. Frosted glass. Move the frozen laundry. On tip-toes against cold tiles. Harder to get out. Minus eight during the day. Minus twenty at night. All effort spent on keeping the family alive. No time for anything other than the business of surviving the weather. Chopping wood while the sun shines. Sleeping once it sets. A complicated city boy with a simple country life. It can be good to have your priorities straightened once in a while. Snow makes roads impassable, so I carry my youngest son to school. My own personal trainer. These weeks we are working mainly on calves and shoulders. Dressed in cheap Wellingtons, three layers of thermals and a goose-down jacket that was too warm to ever wear comfortably in England. Now I never leave the house without it. We take a short-cut. Across jidoukan. The snow has cleaned everything. Made everywhere new. It shines with countless jewels. Our footprints the first. It seems a shame to leave them. Ever more elaborate chandeliers of ice, dragon`s teeth, hang from drainpipes and branches. Down empty streets early morning in Nakakaruizawa. Not the Old Town, with the summer houses, the bessou, the money, the famous and the expensive French restaurants, but the community of people who work to serve the holiday makers. Jimoto no hito. Those that suffer the seasonal cold. Lack of activity and lack of work. Together. Don`t worry. Shinpaishinai de kudasai. There`ll be skiing come February. The roads will soon be busy again. We stand at a crossroads. Waiting for lights. Watching the sun reflect off everything in long broken sunglasses. A bright red hat bought from Slam City before the kids with “Destructo” stitched on it. I draw air through my nose and it hurts. I think about a balaclava. Then memories of meeting Millwall. I guess I might be a bit scary in a ski-mask. Most likely get arrested as I enter Lawson. Get shot as I go for my point card. As we pass, a village wakes and shutters rise on a parade of shops where, customer-less, life goes on. Slowly. The bakery are playing my CD. With optimism, we talk of sledging and snowmen. My youngest son and I. We wonder at our freezing breath. We play at who can make the bigger cloud. Weekends we go ice-skating. The open-air arena at Kazakoshi Kouen. My kids struggle with their laces, and I selfishly lose a Karuizawa minute in thoughts of Streatham on a Saturday afternoon. Sometimes a Wednesday night. Nicola Sagar, Tony Chattaway, Dave Miller. Steven Wilbury, Robert Storer, Mark Perry. Karen Szulkai. Tony and Steven Robinson. DaSilva. Jackie and Janice. The Human League versus Frankie Smith. George Benson. Give me the night. Bauer hockey boots. The barrel roll. Galaxian and Centipede. Leaving my diary around so others might reveal my loves. To shy or lame to do so myself. Innocent days. Moments before drink. And discos. Twenty-nine years off the ice and fifteen minutes back on and I think of buying my own boots again. Smiling with the past for once. I watch a pretty girl skate backwards. Nostalgia. Love. Promise. To the south, mountains are all I see. The skating has had another plus besides reminding me of being next to teenage girls in tight jeans and tie-blouses. It has put me back in touch with my second son. Six years old now, but only three when we arrived in Japan. In England I would carry him everywhere, and he would not sleep unless I was next to him. Then came his younger brother, putting some distance between us. And then came the language. More fluent now in Japanese, | 4 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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121 / Soft Rocks | Soft Rocks - more to them than meets the eye. Four producers based around the South of England, from Brixton to Brighton, who between them run record dealership Pure Pleasure Music, produce house under the name Roots Unit (new label from them just out and about by the name of Vibrations) and then of course produce their own music through Soft Rocks Recordings and release edits of anything they fancy via Disco Powerplay. P-h-e-w. The ones I have met (well one) seem very on the level so if you need some good people to turn up at your club and play some records and have some fun with put them on the list of possibles. Here's a mix they did for us. Haven't got a clue what any of it is (I never do these days) but it builds very nicely into a disco finale. Enjoy. Download | 2 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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120 / Pete Wiggs / Saint Etienne / Mix! | Saint Etienne seem to be one of those bands that has its heart in the right place. From the off with 'Only Love Can Break Your Heart' they paved the way for melodic, club influenced music all wrapped around a classic pop sound. I get the feeling they still believe in pop. They still run a fan club. Not sure how many bands do that these days. Aside from that they have always gone forwards (while going backwards) and this mix from Pete Wiggs of the band sort of shows that perfectly with a mix of pyschedelic soul and classic pop noises taking in Dorothy Ashby, The Supremes, Ike and Tina and Sam Dees along the way. Download | 21 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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119 / Max Essa / Live At Jardin Studios Japan | Max Essa has really ramped it up in the last year with releases on his own Jansen Jardin label and also, notably, his epic 'Panorama Suite' for Is It Balearic? recordings which came with a tidy Mark Seven mix of another of his tracks. The last mix Max did for us at Test Pressing was his 'Twilight Horizontal' which is here if you missed it. It was aces and this new one picks up where that one left off. From very balearic beginnings to a house finale, it's high quality throughout and full of good music that boys can track down and girls can dance to Download | 16 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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118 / The Acid Tree / Rendezvous | Happy to welcome back Manchester's The Acid Tree (Nick & Justin) to Test Pressing. More laid back mellow sounds from the guys behind Folk in Didsbury, Manchester. Download | 13 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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117 / Paul Jenks / Cutloose / Waterlog | We love a good warm up DJ at Test Pressing. The ability to hold it down and make sure it's set up for the DJ coming to play. No ego, just the right sound. It's also the bit of the night where we hear the records we really like on a sound system. Paul Jenks has been lucky enough to warm up for some of the best DJs currently out there at his monthly shindig Cutloose in Manchester - Theo Parrish, Rahaan and Moodyman to name a few. This month, on the 18th of February, he'll be making sure the party is right for Phil South and Anton Esteban of Golf Channel. That'll be good. Download | 9 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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116 / Jolyon Green / Passport To Eternity | Nice to welcome Jolyon Green back to the Test Pressing fold. This one is pure, melodic and mellow and all the better for it. Perfect for the papers on a weekend. Enjoy. Download | 4 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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115 / Andy Blake / Strange Days | Have to hold my hands up here and say I really didn’t know how to describe this mix as I hadn’t heard a single thing on here (this seems to be happening a lot as people dig deeper and deeper) so I asked Andy what it was all about and he replied, “it’s a bunch of early and mid 70s psych 7″s, almost entirely from France and Turkey with a some reinforcements from California and Libya about half way through. The original idea was to put together some relatively mellow but interesting things and then, pretty much as always, my mind wandered and i couldn’t resist spiking the drinks a little bit.” Hope that helps. Drink up now… Download | 31 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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114 / Lexx / Pressure | Always a pleasure to have a mix from Lexx and this is as good as ever. Also check his mix live from the Folk party at Boutique Hostal Salinas in Ibiza here. Download | 22 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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113 / Anton Esteban / Resurrection | Anton Esteban could become a new underground hero of ours. He seems pretty busy, what with DJing and making records as Ghost Note on Golf Channel as well as being a filmmaker. This is one of those mixes where I haven't got a clue what any of the records are but it's all the better for it. We asked Anton what it was all about and here's his reply... "This music was what originally inspired me to make Ghost Note II. I went to the Philippines last year and took a trip around my country with an old friend and it deeply affected me. The original title of the mix, which eventually became the title of the A side of Ghost Note II, is 'Kapwa'. Translated from Tagalog, it means seeing yourself in the other. I thought it would be interesting to make a mix and then a song about the dual nature of man. The mix and the song both have a dark and bright side. The word caught my attention when an artist named Kidlat Tahimik (translated Quiet Thunder) explained the significance of the word to me. 'Kapwa' is the original fundamental value of pre-Hispanic Filipinos. A sense of community spirit through a kind of communal bond through empathy and love. I reflected a lot on that word for the last year and realized that in order to see yourself in the other you have to understand man's dual nature. It is only when you accept the destructive and constructive tendencies within us can you move forward with any kind of communion with yourself, your maker, nature, and your fellow human being. Hence the Resurrection title. The record and mix mean a lot to me in terms of trying to communicate that idea through music. I'm not sure if I quite succeeded but I sure had fun making it!" It's nice to see a bit of thought and get an understanding why people are doing what they do. I once read an interview with Brian Eno where he said the longest part of making a record for him was the thinking before he actually turned the machines on. Anyway, here's the mix. Anton digging deep. Download | 20 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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112 / Matt Moroder / Little Leaf / Loving The Alien | Matt Moroder has the perfect surname to be involved in the disco scene and was behind one of our favourite releases last year, 'Secret Secret', the first release on his own vinyl-only Little Leaf imprint. It was a slow-mo version of a Bowie track looped and looped on chunky drums with the vocal kicking in after some time. A hypnotic effective dancefloor jam (thanks Sleazy Beats) that came in a sleeve that showed love and care. Check it if you haven't yet. Little Leaf 002 is out towards the end of this month with one side being a remix of a Shuggie Otis track by Moroder himself with the flip being a track by Erobique that uses samples from the late great Arthur Russell. Moroder has been Djing since the 90s and initially got into the scene with his first label Glossy. He is soon to visit Vienna on the 27th of this month for a date with the dancefloor there. You can find Matt on Facebook, Soundcloud, Resident Advisor and the Little Leaf Facebook page. Enjoy the mix. Download Thanks to Matt and Anna (who is also behind the Little Leaf design). | 5 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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111 / Gala Drop / Interview | One of our favourite records of the year was the Gala Drop 12" on Golf Channel so we got in touch with Nelson Gomes (below) of Gala Drop to ask for a mix and also a few quick questions on the band and what it's all about. The mix shows their eclectic tastes are and the interview hopefully explains more on the band and where they are going in 2011. Picture by Marta Pina Who is Gala Drop? Me, Afonso, Guilherme and Tiago. Where are you based? Lisbon. How did you guys meet? We all met in different periods in time (between 2003-2005) at a place called ZDB where i used to be the music programmer. What do you each bring to the party? Electronics, guitar, percussion and drums. How did the hook up with Golf Channel come about? Tiago met Phil a few years ago in New York and gave him a copy of our first record at the time. Phil loved the record and suggest that would be great do something with us in the future. Have you been to one of their parties in NYC yet? It's on our list of things to do... We played at the party in September. was pretty amazing. I was pretty impressed with the fact that the crowd instead of being facing the band, they were raving like crazy as they do in dance clubs. What's the long term goal for Gala Drop? Do good music, record music, play a lot of shows and have fun. We heard you play live? What does the show consist of? Yes, we do. Imagine a rock band playing dance music. What's the scene like where you are? Amazing. It's happening a lot of great music in such a different scales of genres. Your mix for us is pretty eclectic - how do your different tastes filter in to the music? I wouldn't say they got filtered, but that they help you clarifying you more in a way of what you wanna do and/or don't. I think the music you love became to be part of what you are. The music we do is a reaction to who we are. What was the scene you grew up on? I grew in a small factory town called Barreiro in the other side of Lisbon. Was pretty raw there, but i can't complain. At the time, was happening there a lot of different things: good dance music in the clubs, a few rock shows, good African clubs, good music in the bars, a lot of loud African music in the streets of my neighborhood....good times. Finally, tell us what you are up to so people can get involved... We are focused right now in doing new songs for the next record, the idea is be in the studio in February 2011 and we are working in a North European tour that will take place in April. Cheers Nelson. Welcome. Download | 29 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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110 / Andy Blake / Nuclear Ritual | Andy Blake's back with some more balearic nu-beat hip hop business. This one hits a groove and stays in it with a lot of it sounding like that early early druggy hip hop (think 'Beat Bop'). Good sound. As you may know Mr Blake is resident DJ alongside Joe 'the Body Hammer' Hart at World Unknown in London's Brixton. It's a great party and the next one is happening on the 17th of this month. Click here for more information and mixes in a similar vein. Download | 6 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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109 / Dr Rob / Tokyo-to Kissa #7 | Sitting in a cold school playground. Neath a clear Autumn sky. Koyo in reds and browns. Pale yellows. Jealously watching my kids hot-foot it after girls. A game of “Taka Oni”. Up the slide. Round the Jungle Jim. Old tires rolled for hula hoops. I fold my arms and pull my shoulders up around my ears. I try to remember the first time I fell in love. Was it kiss-chase at primary school? Being dragged into the red-brick Girls' Toilets on Birchanger Road. The girl in the house opposite. Net curtains for wedding gowns. Or was it when Laura Johnson smiled? Was it the girl I was too shy to kiss? Long weekends sat on my Chopper outside her house, waiting for her to appear. One long Saturday matinee spent frozen with fear. Or was it the force of nature with the tattooed ankle in Corfu? Was it a copy of Clara Bow's bob and Kohled eyes? All dressed in black with drawn on pout. The hardest body. Dark taffeta. Was it the tom-boy who wouldn’t take no for an answer til it was too late? A glimpse of hung-over white lingerie in a four poster bed. A glimpse of jade at the foot of her stairs. Was it a bright red mouth. Or an overnight bag hidden under a restaurant table. My mock acquittals accompanied by a dramatic removal of glasses and flick of the fringe. So much passion there. Was it the electricity when our lips touched on a Sunday morning after the Saturday night before. Heaven's promise. Then Sunday nights lonely crying. Red Stripe and The Wonder Years for company. What ever happened to Winnie? Whatever happened to Croydon's Kylie? Was it a scrapbook? A faded beauty in 50s gear. Someone longing to be held but too used to rejection. Pressed so close to me in sleep that handprints accompany me to the shower. Was it the green contacts and the flattery I felt? Or the impossibility of it? Was it a shot at redemption? Or a means of escape? Something unbroken I felt compelled to break. Or was I just too high? Was it when my wife blushed? A goofy grin. Caught off guard as Badlands lit the ICA. Or was it when I held my first son? Was it with the act? Or just the idea? Every night I dream of friends and lovers my life has left behind. These are happy dreams. Conversations, jokes and warmth. Not spectres and farewells. Love doesn't fade. It grows. I wish I could reach out and tell these people who shaped my life that their memory makes me smile the biggest smile. I wish I could hold them. Last night I kissed my grandmother. “Good night my love” she said and I opened my eyes lonely. Lonely for a moment, then my sons awake and the day once more is given purpose. No-man: Days In The Trees (Reich) Scott Cossu: Purple Mountain Haroumi Hosono: Honeymoon Yusef Lateef: Plum Blossom Elmore Judd: Otherly Love Azimuth: Lina Da Horizonte Last Night: Cool Water Steven Halpern: Play Of Light Chapterhouse: Epsilon Phase Shinozaki Matasugu: From A Distance Michael Lorrimer: Remembranza Shakti: Bridge Of Sighs Les Negrettes Vertes – Face A La Mer (Massive Attack) Transglobal Underground: International Times (Haunted Dancehall) Arvo Part: Spiegel Im Spiegel Download | 29 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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108 / Andrew Weatherall / The Music That Made Screamadelica | Here's the Andrew Weatherall show that was on 6 Music on the weekend working through the music that inspired the Primal Scream album 'Screamadelica'. It's still a great album - play 'Higher Than The Sun' loud and it's still got it. We also posted a piece a while back which was Weatherall's tour diary from the Screadelica tour that originally ran in The Face in September '91. Click here if you fancy reading it. Download | 23 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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106 / Brennan Green / Live At Cutloose | Brennan Green putting it together live at Cutloose. Download | 19 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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105 / Rahaan / Live At Cutloose / Part Two | Part two of Rahaan ripping it up at Cutloose... Download | 19 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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104 / Rahaan / Live At Cutloose / Part One | I've never been to Cutloose n Manchester but it sounds like the sort of club I would like. It's dark, it's in a basement and they play large variety of underground music with people getting down. Cutloose is a monthly shindig, no mean feet in these hard times, with guest DJs such as Mark Seven, the Idjut Boys, Theo Parrish, Justin Vandervolgen and Moodyman. We spoke to the chaps about reposting some of their mixes from the club for those that haven't stumbled upon them so here we go - part one of Rahaan ripping it up... Check their website here for a host of other mixes and for more information on forthcoming parties. Download | 18 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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103 / Golf Channel Resident Advisor Mix / New Gala Drop E.P / Golf Channel | Got sent a lovely package of bits from Phil Golf Channel the other day which contained the new Gala Drop E.P. I must admit I don't know much about these chaps (I think they are from Portugal) but it's great in a modern electronic trippy disco sort of fashion and sounds more like a band than a studio project. I'll ask Golf Channel for more information but until then you can click onto Phonica's website and check the E.P yourself. While chatting to Golf Channel they asked if we'd back up the Resident Advisor mix as they don't stay up forever so here it is. It is the same mix so don't download it if you already have it from the RA site. Tracklisting Spike: The Golden Eye Gala Drop: Overcoat Heat Ghost Note: Kapwa Dominik Von Sender: No Name 2009 DJ Nature: Feeling Like a Woman DJ Nature: It's Over DJ Nature: This Side of Heaven DJ Nature: Everyone Gala Drop: Izod Ghost Note: Holy Jungle Try To Find Me: Get to My Baby (TBD Extension) Try To Find Me: Make Dance Sexican: Liza Version In C#5 Justin Vandervolgen: Clapping Song Ghost Note: Albularyo Try To Find Me: Hey Love Justin Vandervolgen: Sheebooyah M.E.: R+B Drunkie DJ Nature: Destiny Reprise Spike: E.S. Rever Spike: Fooling Around Spike: Goodnight Download | 12 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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102 / Joe Hart / Nuit Decadente | One of my mates told me Joe Hart wears a latex glove to handle his rare records. I have a feeling this isn't true but like to believe it is. I think it's also true that one of the Stones Throw lot keeps his rarest records in a safety deposit box. This is the world we live in. That of collectors and obsessives. Joe Hart is one of the chaps behind the underground happenings Body Hammer (described somewhere as a 'jack party') and World Unknown. We had a great night dancing down at World Unknown to some music we'd never heard before courtesy of Joe (and partner in crime Andy Blake) so asked for a mix and it's here. The next World Unknown is on November the 19th and comes highly recommended if you want to go and get into some good electronic sounds in a 'do what you like' atmosphere. Download | 9 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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100 / Apiento / Tribute | Here's some sweet old records for our 100th mix. Download For lovely Alison.x. | 1 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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099 / Jose Padilla / Cafe Del Mar / Number 2 | Class. Download Thanks to Andrew Pirie for the tape. | 20 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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098 / Eden Rock / An Autumn Mix | Eden Rock are Swedish-based duo Albin and Christoffer. They have recently made a couple of reworks and a remix for the Concretes amongst other bits. Their aim is to bring you sweet disco sounds from unknown sources. To reintroduce music that has been forgotten, ignored or just didn’t fit in a world of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. (Those were their words - mine would be far less eloquent). They have a couple of lovely tracks up on their Soundcloud page if you are of balearic bent so check the links below. The mix is a perfect blend of sunny autumnal sounds. Roll on winter. Eden Rock have a website, MySpace and Soundcloud all well worth checking in on. Download | 16 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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097 / Baleariksoul / L.I.F.T. | Nice mix of quality house across the board from Paul Williams a.k.a Balearik Soul. Crack it in the car and it'll brighten up your day. Love the Kenny Dope track (Five-O) on this one... Download | 16 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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096 / Rune Lindbæk / Rune Lindbæk Flytog Mix | Rune Lindbæk - where to start? He seems like a modest man so we're not going to blow the trumpet too much but check the discography. He's a long time maker (and supporter) of mind-bending Nordic electronic disco years before the word 'balearic' got pulled back out of the sea at Salinas. Sometimes disco doesn't cover it and it's all just straight up good. On the new release front Diskoism are about to release a compilation of his remix work in collaboration with Kåre Frisvold, Smalltown Supersound are releasing an ambient project, Pechenga (another collaboration - this time with Astralnaut), then there's a new project coming early in the new year by the name of Metamorfózy together with Øyvind Blikstad (their album 'Decasia' will be out in January). Finally, we should give a quick mention to a few 12's - an edit 12 on Black Disco and his ESP Insititute, Barking Dogs remixes and a 12" on Fascinating Rhythms that's worth picking up while you can. That's a right pickle of a paragraph so excuse that. Anyway, enjoy this mix. It's a tight 21 minutes long and all the better for it. Download | 29 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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094 / Al Kent / Al Kent’s Sweet Mix | Al Kent (Ewan Kelly to his ma), for those that don't know, is a long-time soul and disco DJ from Scotland whose introduction to these sounds came through his discovery of Motown's '20 Mod Classics' (a killer album from start to finish). Along the way he has released albums on BBE as Million Dollar Orchestra and more importantly started his own Million Dollar Disco label (check their site - there's tons of stuff from a Walter Gibbons discography to articles on Italo as well as a gallery of disco sleeves through time and other related disco business). Recently there has been a blaze of releases on MDD with the PAJ Disco Mix Volumes 1&2, The First Floor EP and The Other Side EP out on 12", a 12" of Million Dollar Disco Edits on All Out War, as well as a new Disco Love compilation for BBE. Studio work currently includes completing the new Million Dollar Orchestra album, another 12 of edits for Stillove4music in Chicago and remixes on the go for Donald Byrd, Katzuma, Kings Go Forth and Deep City Soul. Busy Al. There was also a guest mix for Red Rackem's Smugglers Inn radio show if you're feeling this one. Anyway, we asked Al to do us a mix on a slow and low disco tip and he's delivered perfectly. Here it is... Download | 18 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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093 / DJ Sergio / Island Life | The beach DJs of Ibiza have kept the original mellow sound of the Cafe Del Mar alive over the past twenty odd years. Here's one of them, DJ Sergio, with a brand new mix for Test Pressing. Download | 12 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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092 / Yozo / EAD 12th Anniversary Mix | Following the eleventh here's the 12th anniversary mix from Yozo of EAD in Tokyo. More cosmic balearic goodness. Download | 11 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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091 / Yozo / EAD 11th Anniversary Mix | Here we have the 11th anniversary mix for the cult record shop from Tokyo mixed by Yozo. Lovely stuff. Download | 10 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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090 / Phil Mison / Cafe Del Mar / Summer 1994 | Here's a nice mix for the end of Summer, Phil Mison of Cantoma fame (check the album on Claremont 56) live from the Cafe Del Mar at sunset from '94. Ben Turner, ex-editor of Muzik Magazine, recently wrote a piece on the summer of 1994 and listening to Phil at the Cafe Del Mar. Click here to read. Here's an excerpt... And here's the mix... Download | 5 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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089 / Emperor Machine / Emperor Machine Lo-Fi Blend | We're back from our holidays and with a lovely mix paving the way for the new Emperor Machine album coming in the next few months. In Andy's own words, 'All the tracks I used were amongst my inspiration for EM LP4'. Say no more. Bring on the album. Download | 28 8 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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088 / Lexx / Sunshowers | It's always a pleasure to have a mix from Lexx... Download | 8 8 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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087 / Phil South & Anton Esteban / Love From The Rooftop: Drunk / Part Two | Second part of the Phil 'Golf Channel' South and Anton Esteban live mix from a NYC rooftop. It's a fun one. If you missed the first dig down the page as it's great. Download | 7 8 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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086 / Dr Rob / Tokyo-to Kissa #6 | Image by Francesco Yayoi Tanabatta. The seventh day of the seventh month. Once a year star-crossed lovers meet. Orihime and Hikoboshi. Vega and Altair. Opposite banks of the Milky Way. That heavenly river. Kawa in the sky. Seperated by Tentei for the sake of the Emporer's new clothes, once a year the Princess and the Cowherd cross a bridge of magpie's wings, and grant wishes upon their joy of union. “Be careful what you wish for” my Mum used to say. Some reference back to macabre pulp horror stories like The Monkey's Paw. When you wish for wealth, your family is killed in a plane crash and you cop the insurance. When you wish to be happy for the rest of your days, you die tomorrow in a lover's embrace. To live forever means being plugged into a life support machine, or kept in a cryogenic state just a fraction not cold enough. Be careful what you wish for. Can kinda take the fun out of it. Kids make coloured streamers. The tails of comets. And attach them with wishes in verse to shafts of new bamboo. The lovers look down in a break from their passion and fore fill all that they can see. Weather permitting. We are one week from monsooon. It's 1997 and I'm alone in Antigua in the aftermath of Islington. When hurricane Erika struck. Covering everything in ash from Monseratt's Soufriere Hills. Hammered by winds on a sole sun-lounger on a deserted beach. Ice-bucket full of gin and tonic. Stealing pizzas from the hotel buffet for the local children who'd come to quiz me. So free I feel as if I am flying. Doug Scharin's genius. Like Fela in dub. In a pile of 12s. A gift from Fat Cat. Stuff to review for Sidewalk. Know your demographic, the magazine said. They want Britney. We give `em Shellac. Dry humping Ian Svenonius on stage. Fighting with Modest Mouse. F*****g Calvert. Stealing from Silas. Saffron kisses. What becomes of a teenage pro-skater? I wonder if he's still alive. I hope so. What was the line that he liked? I took a short holiday from myself. Unfortunately, now I'm back, doing the laundry. Dreaming in red. Sherwood & Wyatt. Must have been a Steve Beresford thing. 6:30 AM Tokyo and an old Weatherall favourite soundtracks a Japanese English lesson on TV. Before kids telly starts at 7. An obscure spot. Caught by the strangeness of it all, I'm sat being taught scientific English to pads like a mylar chamber. Moving through honeyed glass. Beats propagate like aural fractals. Mixmaster Morris at SpaceTime in the Liquid Loft. The first time I met Kensuke. Morris, he still wears that mirrored waistcoat. Chilled by Nature. Not the sound of stars, but Christmas lights imitating them. I used to hate Christmas. But now all my memories of arguments and drink and loneliness have been replaced by a BBC production of a Christmas Carol. Mulled wine. The smell of cloves. Roaring log fires. Girls in fur-trimmed pink skaters outfits. Stolen kisses on thin ice. Warm glows and seeing the error of your ways. Everything viewed through gently falling snowflakes. A world where people can change. From Fat Cat to Small Fish and big Nick. I pretty sure it was Nick but now all that’s left is Mike. Trading in Trance for Glitch back in 2000. Dub Tractor takes The Third Man for a skank. Harry lime caught in cobbled shadows. The sunshine's better. The late great big John. A blues for The Blue Note. The endless line for the door. And the lines off the back of my wallet in the middle of the dancefloor. One of those solitary wired mornings. The No.19 outside my window. Union chapel across the street. My girl's been to India. Found a god. Changed her name. Does that mean no more punches thrown in the Social? The mistake I made was thinking I could look after her when I couldn’t even look after myself. Falling in love with old photos. Rock and Roll weekenders, bum-biters and sherbet lemons. “You're just a young pup” she`d say. Would have been better for everyone if I'd walked away at the start. F*****g mess I made. | 31 7 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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085 / Phil South & Anton Esteban / Love From The Rooftop: Drunk / Part One | It is what it says. Two hours from a rooftop party in NYC. Part two to follow soon… Download | 30 7 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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083 / Vidal Benjamin / Live From Carlton Gardens | It's been a bit slow in these parts as we've been off on our travels but we're back. We have some new releases to talk about soon but until then here's a very entertaining mix from guest Vidal Benjamin. It starts off on a nice mellow tip and then moves through the genres ending up with some great wonky pop towards the end and contains lots of stuff we haven't a clue about... Download | 24 7 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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082 / Chris Kontos / Grand Bleu | Chris Kontos is one of the chaps behind the very balearic plaidmusic blog. The blog is run with his friend Vags and they launched it as a way to while away a slow afternoon after feeling inspired by a Bobby Konders track. Chris also runs the Journal Of Curiosities blog based around his love of fashion and art. Chris is an Athens- based photographer working in fashion and portraits whose main inspiration is the sea and the life on an island. Grand Bleu is an audio representative of this. As Chris says, 'a Mediterranean love affair of some kind.' To be listened to with a sunset. x. Download | 14 7 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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081 / Cosmic Jane / When I Grow Up | Craig Smith aka Cosmic Jane is originally from Leeds. He works as a Gene Jockey or a Genetic engineer (academic) to most. His influences are the original DIY Punk attitude, 80’s John Peel, mavriks, obsessives and eccentrics everywhere and separate realities. He has been buying records for the last 35 years. “I adore vinyl and the whole ritual of putting it on is like opening a bottle of fine wine. I love digging too, but its rare I get chances these days. I have met some amazing folk through music, such as Rob Harris in Japan and Adriaan Denorme in Ghent, who share my fever and thirst for beautiful sounds. The internet is wonderful for sharing and my aim when stringing these tracks together is simply to share what I think is nice music. I hope you do too.” He has edits on Electric Souls and Sixty Five and has a monthly party near his home in Hebden Bridge with Chris Price called What the Freak who’s only policy is to play good music that people enjoy and may dance to. Welcome... Download | 13 7 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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080 / Jez Proctor / Midnite Cocktails | Jez Proctor of Innersounds spent his early working years behind the counter of cult London record shops. He originally fell in love with vinyl while on exchange in Tokyo and maintains strong links with the disco massive in Japan who continue to turn him on to new sounds. In the last few years he has dropped his first edit on the GAMM label, launched the well worth reading Innersounds blog and has recently been working with musician Don Froth, helping spread the word about his Froth'n label. We asked Jez to do us a mix a while back (I think we say that for every mix but it's only 'cause everyone takes ages to deliver) and here it is. Good work Jez. Download | 6 7 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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079 / Chris Berg / Acid | Chris Berg is a bit of an unsung hero. He has quietly got on with producing some of the finest sounding music out there - half the Fever Ray album, mixing The Knife and remixing Massive Attack (under his Flash pseudonym) to name a few. We have a lot of time for Chris at Test Pressing so we asked him to pick his favourite acid records as we know he has a love of the genre. So here it is, starting with 'Acid Eiffel' by Choice it goes from there... Download | 25 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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078 / Roual Galloway / What’s It All About Mix? | Second part of our Faith take over for you today with Roual Galloway stepping up to the fray following Terry Farley's mix last week. Last up will be Jimmy P in the next week or so. So here we go with 90 minutes of quality house music... Download | 21 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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076 / Terry Farley / Terry’s Chocolate Orange Mix | Terry Farley needs no introductions to most of you, someone long respected and still getting it right. From Boy's Own to Junior Boy's Own and now as one of the key players in the Faith crew Terry has been keeping the house flag burning for years now. If you Google Faith fanzine here's what you get. Kind of sums it up really. Download | 2 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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075 / Phil South / Lake Como 2010 | Golf Channel has quietly got on with being one of the most interesting labels around. Run out of NYC by Phil South, it’s delivered time and time again and is shaping up to have it’s best year yet. Head honcho Phil has delivered the first of a run of mixes for us and here it is. In Phil’s words, this one is ‘best enjoyed in front of a nice view on a hot day with a cool breeze… Special thanks to Tako and Jason Kincade for turning me on to a couple of the records’. Bank holiday special! Download | 29 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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074 / Balearic Mike / Let The Happiness In | This mix, as you would expect, is quality and moves from Brasilian pieces to heavy soul, Dusty Springfield and deep house. Enjoy. Download | 27 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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073 / Dr Rob / Toyko-to Kissa #5 | Painting by Tsuyoshi Ozawa. When he calls she doesn’t pick up. As she was leaving Monday morning, he asked if there was anything she wanted to talk about. He had been surprised by the look on her face. She had remained silent, quickly picked up her bags and gone out to the taxi. Absent from Monday to Friday. Nothing in her side of the oshiire save a denim skirt and a few t-shirts. The Jimmy Choos all gone. She’d spent the last hour silent with tongs curling her hair. Something he’d never seen her do. Eight years of marriage and he sees betrayal in every break from the norm. Days with only the birds for company. He wonders why for the last few months she would only consent to oral. And now late and lonely he guesses at promises. Late and lonely, all he can think of is her with another man. Late night mountain madness. A scream comes across the night sky. He sees them tearing the clothes from each other in some hotel room as if they’re ten years younger. With a passion and excitement all but forgotten. Tokyo’s neon, ever the voyeur, cutting in. He pictures them and he hurts himself a little. He makes it as graphic. To test himself. Exercise those muscles so that he should be ready when and if the time comes. He then takes a knife from the kitchen draw and runs the sharpened side of the blade across his chest. And pours his first drink. Tells himself it’s ok. He can hurt himself. It’s easy. They’re not out to hurt him. People caught in the moment. Enjoying themselves. Forgetting themselves. He can’t blame them. He tries not to hate them. They’re not even thinking about him. As she climbs on top, her back arched, palms on her lover’s chest, he is long forgotten. He has ceased to exist. Affairs seem born of ego. Not love. Everyone wants to be desired. Everyone needs to be desired. What is love without desire? Fidelity and virtue are lovely words but mean nothing until you find yourself naked before beautiful flattery. He wonders why she no longer desires him. He takes off all his clothes and looks in a mirror. He wonders why she desires another. Despite his vanity he can think of more than it would be wise to count. Is he funnier? Is he better looking? A more considerate lover? Less considerate maybe? Or just there in a moment of weakness. In the right place, when the wrong thing had been said. Younger for sure. Self-doubt and selfism were the cheapest things he`d ever bought. He tells himself he’s played this game before. That the new scar joins the old. And the older. He hears his father pleading with his mother, just before she left. The circle being life’s one great miracle. “Please come to bed. You can keep your clothes on. Just hold me.” A veteran. If anybody knows this ride he does. Lead soldiers and ballerinas. He pours another drink and while they’re hitting the all-night convenience store for more condoms for another round of a**l, the kids are asleep upstairs. He lets the dishes pile up until tomorrow. It’s possible he’s imagining it. All in his head. Only sleep can save him now. Trees make shapes in the dark and the static on TV pornography. Her sex with another feels like a personal violation. A stranger’s breath on him. So close now. To be in him could not be worse. Every small sound she makes moves her further away. Their secrets discarded and replaced. Swinging between violence and resignation. Powerless just the same. These things continue until the lies break down. Calls from the hotel room, to speak to the kids, in an attempt to alleviate suspicion. An attempt to waylay the guilt. Takes some front. Until too much f*****g makes you sloppy. Or you just can’t take the weight. Do you panic when you look at your phone in the morning to see a string of unanswered calls? Do you wonder what kind of reception you will receive when you eventually make it home? Are you sweating? Have you got your story straight? Can you still see the blood? When he calls, she doesn’t p | 26 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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072 / Mock & Toof / Hurt In The Suburbs | Mock & Toof’s ‘Tuning Echoes’ album is still getting hammered in our house. The album is out this coming Monday on their own Tiny Sticks imprint so to give us an excuse to talk about it again we got in touch to ask the chaps for a mix. Here it is… Wallop. Download | 19 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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071 / Pete Reilly / Bogle! | Pete Reilly comes back to the fold with a mix of killer bashment. Bogle that. Download | 15 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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070 / Niles & Baggy / Emotional Pop | Niles & Baggy are two of the chaps behind Cosmic Disco. Entertaining music lovers with their hearts in the right places. In their own words, 'Niles and Baggy know emotion, they live emotion, they are emotion. They know pain and they know glory. It coarses through their veins and drowns their hearts. Love and hate, joy and sadness, anger and fear - they are in touch with their souls. They ain't afraid to cry, but then they aren't reticent to strip to the waist and beat their chests in a display of primal expression either. And this s**t needs soundtracking. It needs segueing and to made available to stream and download on the internet and we need it now. And so we can present the below blend for your attention. Feel Baggy wiping the torrent of salty tears away to the instrumental of Shabba Ranks and Niles stood arms aloft on a sofa to 'We Don't Need Another Hero'. Boys don't cry but, in private, anything goes to this mix. Fill your boots and eyes. Catch Niles playing the Upcoming Trip Festival as part of Cosmic Disco (Saturday in the Balearic Tent) and check the Makin' Music podcast site for literally weeks worth of reem music from Baggy & Niles.' Get it. Download | 13 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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069 / The Acid Tree / Love Is Here To Stay | The Acid Tree is a monthly night now into it's fourth year, that takes place on the first Friday of every month at the very balearic 'Folk' in West Didsbury, Manchester and I am happy to welcome them for the first time to Test Pressing. I have never been but from all accounts the parties are fairly laid back affairs, with minimal promotion, and a focus on the music. Folk will shut up shop for a week in July and all the staff and the extended family of DJs, which includes Phil Mison, Balearic Mike, Jan Hammered, Lexx, Kelvin Andrews and Mudd amongst others, will be heading to Ibiza to party at various venues, day and night, well off the well trodden tourist path to have some fun in the true spirit of the island. If you're interested Folk Ibiza takes place between 22nd - 26th July. Get in touch with the chaps for tickets and more information here. On with the program... Download | 5 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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068 / Paul Williams / Island Records Mix | More Test Pressing housekeeping. Here’s another mix we forget from our numbered list and it was a corker. Paul Williams got to grips with Island Records back catalogue and did a fine fine job. Download | 1 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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067 / Max Essa / Twilight Horizontal | Test Pressing is growing into a site for anything good that takes our fancy along the way, but we originally started as a home for purely mellow music and the new balearic mellow sound still stays close. Keeping that thread alive we are happy to give you a new mix from our man in Japan, Max Essa. Max is a man quietly on a mission, collecting and producing wonderful music. He releases the single 'Drive Time' b/w 'Back To The Beach (John Daly remix)' in the next few weeks with the album 'Continental Drift' following soon afterwards. All will be released on the continuously good Bear Funk imprint. Max has also been working over the seas on two collaborations with Stevie Kotey. First up is the Soiree project on Bear Funk (including party moment 'Zim Zim'), with their second, Salon De L'Herbe, following soon after on Electric Minds. Look out for those. We asked Max to do us a mix in a low down balearic mixed up fashion a few months back and here it is. Happy listening. Download | 25 4 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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066 / Moonboots / Whirlpool Version 1.5 | Whirlpool was a party that happened in London a few years back with Moonboots and Balearic Mike DJing. You may remember we posted Mike’s mix a while back and promised we’d try to find the Moonboots one. Well we have, and here it is. Test Pressing back on it after a little spell under the weather. Primavera. Download | 23 4 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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065 / Andy Blake / That’s The Night | Nice mix from Andy Blake of Dissident, and now Test Pressing, for you all. This one is put together from his collection of 7 inches and first appeared in a short form on the recent Red Bull Radio but we liked it so here it is in full. Download | 22 4 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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063 / Amnesia / 1990 | Thanks to Rich Beeley for running this one off. As the title says, here's a mix from Amnesia 1990. Splendid stuff. Download | 2 4 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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062 / Cedric Woo / Gazelles | We love Cedric from the Voices Collective. His acid-infused melting pot of music sounds good whatever the time. Here's a mix from Cedric showing what Voices is all about. Two hours of world music with some lovely slow slow 4/4 tracks towards the end. You know the saying 'mind the apricots'... Download | 2 4 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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061 / Paul Williams / Sleepy Moon | Paul Williams steps up to the plate at Test Pressing with a super mellow mix very much living up to its title. Apparently Sleepy Moon is what the Chinese call the last full moon of the winter. That was last weekend so this is perfect timing. Download | 29 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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060 / Balearic Beats / Volume 2 | We did this one back in the mid to late 90s (I think) at the Junior Boy's Own label. We all sort of felt it was time for a follow up to the original Balearic Beats compilation so one summer we recorded a load of records, gave (Terry) Farley a pen and here we go. Download | 27 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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059 / Cosmo / Spring Affair | Spring is here and here's a mix to sum up the season from DJ Cosmo. Cosmo has, for a long time now, been involved with good good things for the right reasons - from the Loft through to her record label, mixes and productions. Then there's the record collection to die for. On the subject of her productions it's worth noting that Mancuso played her remix of Mavis 'Revolution' twice at the Loft on Sunday. That one will be coming out on Bitches Brew on limited 10-inch vinyl with hand printed sleeves and hand stamped labels - artwork courtesy of James Morrison. You can get a taster here. Also, if you have a minute check the Cosmodelica Facebook group. Anyway over to Cosmo to give you a heads up on what this is all about... It has been a long cold winter but alas! London has rays “yellow sunshine” and it is “un dia bonito”. Let’s celebrate a “festival of the sun” by shedding some layers, letting our hair down and shaking our hips. Enjoy this “spring affair”. Cosmo Download | 24 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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058 / Jolyon Green / Songs For Neuromantics | Jolyon's back with 'Songs for Neuromantics'. In a balearic fashion of course... Download | 21 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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057 / Postcards from Jamaica #2 / What Did You Do For Reggae This Weekend? | Happy to welcome Andy M back with more stories on island life and a mix of favourite dub sounds. Saturday night – ‘Soup and sound’ with Dexter Campbell (below), the Ska Professor. Now, as multi-sensory concepts go, soup and sound leaves Jean-Michel Jarre’s son et lumiere trailing in its wake. A low-key downtown bar in Kingston with tables outside, full of characters with stories written all over their faces. Groups of old guys playing dominoes. An old woman in the corner sits on her own all night listening and meditating (or is that sleeping?) to the music. Dexter runs the Echo Vibration soundsystem and at 70 he’s still going strong and regularly tours Europe and Japan. He played an amazing selection of rare-as-hen’s-teeth ska, rocksteady, early roots and jazz all night. The first time in my almost three years in Jamaica that I’ve heard vinyl being played out and a welcome change from the usual diet of dancehall and the canon of 20 reggae classics that gets rinsed out in 30 second/tune doses at most dances. A great night, although I woke up in the morning feeling slightly cheated. The rum had been flowing so freely that we forgot to sample the soup... Sunday morning – beach cricket with Luciano. The best thing to do when the kids wake you up with a sore head on Sunday is to head half an hour out of town to Fort Clarence beach. A beautiful stretch of white sand, fringed by almond trees and with a little shack that sells the freshest fish. Mid-morning and the beach cricket was in full swing when the bowler’s head was turned by a fragrant aroma and greeted by the sight of Luciano (‘Jah Messenger’, not the minimal DJ) striding through the covers resplendent in a HIM style solar topee, drawing on his pipe. Sunday night – Beres Hammond in concert. I’m still amazed that there’s not more live music in Jamaica. A lot of the great old artists are more in demand and make more money touring Europe and the US these days. When they do play it’s normally at ‘stage shows’ with 10-20 artists on the bill sharing an unfamiliar backing band. The show always starts late, only leaving time for two or three songs per singer before the next act is rushed on. Thankfully someone has spotted the gap in the market and Pulse have started hosting regular full-length concerts – John Holt and Freddie McGregor in recent weeks were followed by Beres Hammond on Sunday. He put on a great show and had the 500-strong crowd on their feet singing along with every word. Jamaican crowds don’t hold back which I like. My personal highlight was Ken Boothe walking through the crowd, blessing everybody and shaking hands with one hand whilst carrying a burning joss stick in the other. And finally, I've been listening to a lot of dub recently. Sadly it's disappeared from the music scene here but dub is the foundation... Andy's Hi-Fi: Dub Is The Foundation Tappa Zukie: MPLA Dub Augustus Pablo: Pablo In The Dance The Mighty Light Of Saba: Lambs Bread Collie Wareika Hill Sounds: Tears In Exile King Tubby And The Aggrovators: Ruffer Version The Skatalites: Herbsman Dub Russ D: Spiritual Dub Jah Shaka Meets Aswad: Aswad Special Dennis Bovell: Rowing (12" Version) Rhythm And Sound With Cornel Campbell: King In My Empire 3 Generations Walking: Midnight Bustling (Midnight Rockers Mix) Musical Youth: Pass the Dutchie (Special Dub Mix) Download | 19 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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056 / Phil Mison / Days By The Sea | Following the lovely 'On A Clear Day' mix from Moonboots here's his long term cohort Phil Mison with a new mix for you all. We've also done an interview with Phil regarding his new Cantoma album (out at the end of April) so we'll post that soon... Download | 16 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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055 / Dr Rob / Toyko-to Kissa #4 | I watch Tokyo go by from the window of a Metro train. Mejiro, Takadanababa, Shinjuku. I wonder if I will miss any of these places. I am leaving. I have grown tired of Tokyo. Or rather, she has worn me out. This beautiful lady has a bounty to offer but only if you have an abundance of money and free time. Currently I have neither. Great place to visit. Hard place to live. I am guilty of only really appreciating things when looking back. In the moment, I am always questioning. Often my mind is on what's next. I should learn to live in 'The Now'. Neal Cassady without the crank. Instead I try to keep moving, afraid that if I stop, nostalgia will hit me like a wave. Las Vegas tango. Last tango in Paris. One last joyless f**k in an apartment in Bayswater. Angry and hurt, she grabs the headboard and forces her hair in my face. Some things are best forgotten, but I guess the old mental scrapbook doesn't work that way. Sketches Of Spain bring the myth of my conception. Supposedly in Stiges. On the honeymoon. But since I was a couple of months premature, I reckon that's the kind of truth people felt forced to tell in the early 60s. Sting sings a song about man's crimes against man. I try to remember being in another place, but I am lost in Tokyo. No one bothers to translate. I hear a lover on the phone. Just out of the bath. Wrapped in a towel. Propped up on pillows. Flirting. I'm trying to be clever. Funny even. Before long, she'll end up disappointed. There's a soft focus TV promise of what love should be. Slow. Gentle. Understanding. “Hey, we have all the time in the world. Relax.” Instead, stolen moments and lies. I watch days go by on lost roads. Clouds scream across a blue sky shot in time-lapse. I'll get my deck-chair out. Eagles rise on a warm swell in Nepal. Gangs of small children crowd a mountain path. Following me for the sweets I brought as gifts. Dahl for breakfast, Dahl for lunch. Dahl for tea. I ain't never been to New Orleans. The only voodoo I know is in the thunder of the London Underground and the sodium orange on deserted streets going east. The only healing chant, silence. “Come with me”, she sings. I`m in Ronnie Scott's. Two couples before the children, drinking champagne. (Another) one of those transient bubbles I questioned. I'll never question anything again. I promise. Pat dreams of Mexico but I'm in Reckless in Islington. Tara's letting me trade my boxes of Trance for a grounding in Funk and Rare Groove. I cut my hair, take the medication, and stop going out. For eight years. Sing me to sleep. Weatherall soundtracks a film in a chapel off Oxford Street. Days of Shoreditch, Small Fish, and Silas. Nights watching Sav collect glasses. Walking between Borough and Brick Lane when the snow stopped everything. Hendrix plays and I'm acting. Living out a role in 'Withnail & I'. Pulling on a tattered overcoat as I pull myself off a mattress on the floor. Pulling on a joint, for effect, and to keep out the cold. A room on (H) Ash Grove where the rent was a tenner a month. Working out Pence:Brain Damage ratios. Drinking Thunderbird all day. Pints of cider with ice. Playing at it. I thought I'd never miss that place either. I am leaving Tokyo, but I am not leaving Japan. I am heading for the hills. Half-way up an active volcano to build a mountain retreat. Friends worry that I might become isolated, but I am isolated now and I fear that to feel isolated in one of the busiest cities in the world may be harder than feeling isolated in the middle of nowhere with only the bears for company. I'm taking the easy way out. I worry that if I stay in Tokyo I will become a bigot. My patience and enthusiasm exhausted. Cursing the endless armies of school children as I pass on my bike. I have already retreated from Tokyo. Minimizing my trips out of the house. Metro journeys filling me with despair. One more carriage full of blank faces. Any conversation limited to pleasantries or apologies. | 10 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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054 / Moonboots / On A Clear Day | We've had a run of stunning mixes over the past year and here's another one. Moonboots is one of our favourite DJs, someone who along with a few others has always stayed true to the alternative balearic spirit. As a resident of Aficionado alongside Jason Boardman he has long given Manchester a mellow balearic focal point. Recently they came to London and showed the Lowlife crew how they do. Apparently they rocked it. Get in touch here if you want to get hold of him/them and we'll hook you up. Anyway, enjoy 'On A Clear Day'. Download | 6 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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053 / Tamas Jones / Hey Convict! / Thumb Tripping | Test Pressing is happy to welcome Tamas Jones to the fold. Tamas is half of Hey Convict! alongside Jason Evans. They formed through a series of high-spirited Sunday afternoon Melbourne rooftop parties held during the summer of 2006 which allowed them to develop their own specific take on party music. They are in their own words, 'equal parts hippie and disco diva, never the same thing twice, yet always a good time.' Next up for the duo will be a follow up to their 'Time To Noodle' mix CD for the always good Golf Channel and dates around Europe in May/June (more news on that as it comes). Until then, here's Tamas and the sound of Hey Convict! Download | 2 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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051 / Psychemagik / High On You | New mix for you from Psychemagik, two producer/DJs who cover all bases from balearic to folk, electro synth jams to heavy funk, lush orchestral soul through to psychedelic hip hop and beyond. Their next release is on the 'History Clock' label, an exotic cosmic disco floorfiller entitled 'Persian Rub' backed on the flip by a deep disco funk freakout 'Tokyo Takedown'. Also check out their obscure disco edits on the new 'Discotheque Wreckers' label if you wanna hear some deep undiscovered gems. Then there's their re-edit of 'Everywhere' by Fleetwood Mac that's currently doing the rounds with those in the know. You can take a listen to more of their work at their Soundcloud page. Check. Download | 25 2 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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049 / Jan Hammered / Wino Junko | Jan’s back and we are more than happy to have him. Download | 8 2 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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047 / Lexx / Symptoms Of Love | Lexx's Lovers Lane mix was many peoples favourite mix of 2009. He's back. Download | 4 2 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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045 / Dr Rob / Tokyo-to Kissa #3 | The pink balloons atop the four foot tall Altec 7 cinema speakers are deflated, spent and shriveled like ball bags in an outside privy on a winter's morning. The lists of cocktails that decorate the walls have long since been mixed. The night lit by fluorescent shots long since sunk. No more limes to slice. No more lemons to be squeezed. No more gaigen swearing at the overworked bar staff. The Lowrider posse. The samurai. The photographers. The dancing girls. Girls in tracksuits, see-through sheer dresses, and corn-rows. The Rosies. Have all gone. The couch beside the decks left vacant now the Metro is up and running. The gorgeous jazz-singer out of sight and out of mind. My eyes, long accustomed to the dark and the smoke, watch the dB-display attached to the vintage UREI. A flickering pulse amid the empty glasses and overflowing ashtrays. 6 AM in a basement bar in Ebsiu, that's fun but uncomfortable with more than thirty people. There's only five of us left. An irresistible force feeds Coldcut through infinite loops. Reflecting sadness off a thousand mirrors. I hammered this when it came out. I was living above an off-license at the wrong end of Upper Street. Naked to the top deck of the No. 19. If it's tonic water youze want, it's tonic water you'll get. Bandulu do Acid Jazz. One for the Land Of Oz regulars who swapped writing graffiti amid the violence and w***es of Streatham Hill for Thailand and a dragon's warm embrace. Electric counterpoint and a key change bring new horizons. A rare feeling of great optimism. (Little Fluffy) Clouds in a blue sky. Ships at a distance have all men's dreams on board. Voodoo echoes through an empty city at dawn. Rattling down the black line. Post-coital techno. Sexed with strangers on a lonely come-down grey journey home from North to South. My love she lives on the Tulse Hill Estate. Dresser strewn with make-up. Cold wooden floor strewn with fashion magazines and clothes. Silverfish in the loo. Woozy with cider. Sick for another drink. Nineteen years later sunshine betrays the cold on a lonely afternoon in Kohinata. I haven’t spoken to a soul all day. Waiting for the kids to come home. Thoughts move to the frozen snows of Karuizawa. A retreat from the world half-way up an active volcano. Home seems too long ago. Tokyo is too hard. I need a place to hide awhile. I am not Tereza, like Sabrina I'll disappear. Some strange cargo, back in another basement. This one on Seven Dials. Running with Fat Cat and GPR. Out-drinking Bjork and freaking out Scanner. Wandering the Mermaid Theatre in a haunted cowboy-shirt with mother-of-pearl buttons. Big apples and star dancers. The ghost of A Gravitational Arc Of Ten sings the blues. Rez over everything. White silence on Almeida Street, bar the ringing in my ears. Heavy skies give (fallen) angles sway. Airto swings into the theme to Roald Dahl's Tales Of The Unexpected. Bar-owner Batch gives his last thumbs-up. Marbo, who was feigning sleep, gives me a round of applause, but I can't tell if it's in jest. A standing ovation before stumbling up the stairs and out towards the cold morning and the station. Skipping breakfast from the restaurant opposite that specializes in horse meat sashimi. The streets of Ebisu empty save clean-up squads washing the roads and picking up drunks. Guys in tight black Beatles suits. Girls in floral mini-dresses and cowboy boots. So much is different. But so much remains the same. Coldcut: Autumn Leaves (Irresistible Force) Koh Tao: Sun Down Steve Reich: Electric Counterpoint Primitive Painter: Levitation James Yorkston: Woozy With Cider Mark Isham: Mrs Soffel In The Nursery: Incidental Guilt Stange Cargo: Million Town (Kruder & Dorfmeister) Detroit Grand Pubahs: Skydive From Venus Craig Leon: Nommos Ellis Island Sound: Angels Way Airto: Bebe Download | 31 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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044 / Pavel Plastikk / School Of Dolphins | Happy to welcome on board Pavel Plastikk. Enjoy this lovely mellow mix taking in some rare Soviet/baltic tracks. Download | 29 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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043 / Pete Reilly / Drop The Sides / A Jazz Mix | I've been listening to a lot of jazz at home recently. Specifically, Kenny Burrell's 'Blue Lights' and a John Jenkins LP, both on Blue Note. I can see myself listening to more and more in the coming months. Point is we need more jazz round here. I was chatting to Pete Reilly from the Soul Jazz sound and asked him if he'd do a mix to coincide with their rather nice 'Freedom Rhythm Sound - Revolutionary Jazz Cover Art 1960-78' which has been compiled by Stuart from Soul Jazz and Giles Peterson and here it is. Download | 15 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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041 / Jose Padilla / Cafe Del Mar / Numero 27 | Download | 30 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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040 / Dr Rob / Toyko-to Kissa #2 | Catching my reflection in the mirror, I look like an old prospector. I’m in red long-johns to keep out the cold. Lee Marvin in “Paint Your Wagon”. My star has wandered. I’m either getting softer or Tokyo is getting colder. I bought the long johns, or A... | 19 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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039 / Apiento / Deck The Halls | Here’s a Christmas mix for the end of the year. It’s full of songs I’ve been listening to over the past few months. It’s not balearic, nor disco, just a collection of lovely songwriting that starts with Ian Matthews ‘Seven Bridges Road’ (Fleet Foxes owe you a pint sir) and then moves along a folky rock lineage from there. Nice. Download | 12 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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038 / Phil Mison / On The Dancefloor | Another one from the Phil Mison vaults. This one is from years back and came via Balearic Mike (thanks!). Download Side One Download Side One | 4 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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037 / Dan Keeling (Bubble Club) / Behind The Wheel | Nice acid mix from Dan Keeling. Look out for his Hidden & Unfamiliar releases soon. Download | 4 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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036 / Pete Reilly / Can You Get To That | Happy to welcome Pete Reilly of the Soul Jazz Soundsystem back with a mix of his favourite soul and funk records. Quality stuff. Download | 9 11 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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035 / Dr Rob / Toyko-to Kissa #1 | Test Pressing is happy to welcome to the fold Robert Harris a.k.a Dr. Rob who used to live on these shores but is now in Tokyo with family. Rob is going to be posting the mixes from his Tokyo-to Kissa series as well as writing whatever tales he feels like sharing and covering the Japanese scene. And while here - if you are ever trying to track down some rare Japanese vinyl Rob's your man. Tokyo to kissa #1 Things were changing as I left the UK three years ago. I figured as a family we had nothing to lose in moving to Japan. But I still found myself, that first year, doing the odd late night solo with a two litre carton of cheap sake. Not missing people or places, but missing times long passed. This mix was made one of those odd nights. I'm listening to it again as I go to pick up my Mum up from Narita. Out over Disneyland. Out over Chiba. Twenty minutes from Tokyo, after the ferris wheel, after the race track, I have no landmarks. Save the music. Popol Vuh weeps into the world, accompanying Werner Herzog`s wrath of God and pre-dating Eno and Lanois' “Apollo” and Jack Nitzsche`s “Starman”, both either blatant rip-offs or remarkable coincidences. B.J. Cole's langid pedal steel sings the lonely song of the humpback whale. A dive into the blue. Bowie and Eno (again) sing the Popol Vuh, a sax betraying their Rock n` Roll roots. I`m not sure if Bowie was referencing Kerouac or those that keep strange hours. Inhabit the night. Outside of the day. I guess the only Beat who still had any currency back then was Burroughs. Bob James stumbles about in a very un-Ireland cod-reggae lilt. Still, the strings hold pictures of green hills. Tokyo is many things but green it ain't. A breeze blows shiny bird scares in a field of rape scorched by sun. A view once taken for granted. The other side to “Tinsel Town In The Rain”'s disco melancholy. Some songs should be listened to sparingly for fear of getting lost in regret. Upwards and onwards we go. Dr Nishimura told the guy at Flower about The Soft Machine who then passed it on to me. Land of cockayne. Generation of swine. Hugh Hopper RIP. Thomas Dolby sings of obsession. The things we blame love for. A dark mirror holds a secret. Lead soldiers and the scar I wear above my heart. One ballerina too many. Music box wistfulness plays for the lovely but barmy in-and-outta rehab would-be Catwoman Sean Young. Somebody blows a “Betty Blue” line but the “Betty Blue” stories will have to wait for a more appropriate time. A book, maybe. F**k attack ships on fire. Bladerunners's dirty `50's noir of a future isn't so far from Tokyo`s neon, where red beating robot hearts cover the high rise and all the action takes place in small underground holes. Parties in basements. All night noodle bars set in railway arches. Unmarked hotels. “Bara Willie”`s crazy synths fill my ears as I come into Narita's security check. It's been over two years since I got on a plane. Three years since I`ve been home. Dave Sylvian's brother and the other guy from YMO, the one with the drip dry eyes, try hard not to sound wounded. And end up resigned. Betsu-ni translates roughly as “not necessarily”. A Big Hard Excellent Fish hits me with the early 90s. A box room in a shared house. Baked potatoes and beans for tea again. Weekends from Thursday night to Monday morning. A bag of pills to sell. The escape from Thatcher's Britain provided by Acid House about to go pear-shaped. There would be casualties. And we hadn’t managed to change anything. “Where were you?” This last line transforms a list into a poem of wrongs and disappointments. The drugs f****d everyone up. I once went by the nickname of “Bobby Love”, generally, for the love I sold. In tighter circles it was a reference to a failed Rik Mayall sitcom. An E-listed celeb. Davro said “I'd be nowhere without the fans”. “Bobby love, you are nowhere.” PCO do the soundtrack to a thousand building society and bank ads. Arto Lindsay`s | 1 11 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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034 / Apiento / Joux Joux Mix | Here’s a mix I did for my good friends at Joux Joux Le Shoe who have just launched a new ladies shoe company based around the motto of ‘shoes for girls that don’t go home’. The mix is for the morning after the night before and goes from the obvious to the unknown and includes a lovely unreleased track from Phil Mison under his Cantoma guise. Anyway, if you need a present for your good wife have a look at their site as it’s all about to go for Joux Joux. Download | 26 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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033 / Jan Hammered / Mystery Man | I am happy to welcome Jan Hammered to Test Pressing as his Dragonfly mix has been a favourite for some time now. Jan is one of the most exciting new DJs on the scene with his recent Airport Airport mix going down as something of an underground classic. This mix dates from September 2004 and was inspired by all the sounds inspiring Jan at the time - from cosmic tapes, to the schooling of Balearic Mike and Moonboots. A new mix will follow soon. Download | 24 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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032 / Phil Mison / Cafe Del Mar / 1994 | Download Side One Download Side Two | 18 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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031 / Toby Tobias / Bits ‘N’ Bobs | Test Pressing is happy to welcome Toby Tobias to the mix table. Toby is just completing his second album for Rekids, as well as another Cabin Fever release. He's also releasing a double A side on Under the Shade, and has been working with Yam Who on some new projects. Also, look out for his remixes of Kenneth Bager, Mario Basanov and Vidis which are about to drop any day. Latenightaudio have been preparing their second release, by Toby himself, with a remix by the Motorcity Drum Ensemble. This mix was recorded on two decks and a CDJ with extra fx added afterwards. It incorporates a tribal sound, from disco flavours to dub, house and dubstep. Nice. Download | 16 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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030 / Lexx / Lovers Lane | Another lovely mix from Lexx. Perfect for Sunday mornings. Download | 11 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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028 / The Bridge / Ross Allen / Jon Marsh | In October ’98 Phil Mison and I were bored so decided to throw our own little loft party in Camden. Friends helped, dirty walls were covered with white fabric (thanks Ange!), balloons blown and a few hundred people filled the space, got high and danced. The DJs on the night were Ross Allen and Jon Marsh. We asked them to give us a mix of some of the records they’d be playing on the night so we could give everyone cassettes on the way out and they could hear the music again. Here’s the mixes, both Jon and Ross on firing form. Download Ross Allen Download Jon Marsh | 27 9 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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027 / Hampus Gunnarsson / Death Is The Dancer | Glad to have got a mix from London-based Swedish born Hampus Gunnarsson. Hampus is part of the Top Nice London/Stockholm axis alongside Guy Gormley and DJ Alonzo, throwing parties for beautiful people in different venues around Stockholm and London. Always a good vibe wherever they are. Hampus is normally hitting it on more of an Italo tip but here we are with an eclectic mix of white soul through to afro and disco. Harvey fans will enjoy. Download | 23 9 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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026 / Cedric Woo / Dangerous Voyage | Cedric Woo of the Voices Collective, has good taste across the board. If you like this then track down his ‘Mind World’ mix. Deep. Download Part One Download Part One | 22 9 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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025 / Alfredo / Amnesia / 1989 | Download Part One Download Part Two Thank to Phil Mison. | 6 9 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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024 / DJ Pippi / Ibiza / 1985 | A rare tape from Ibiza 1985, DJ Pippi of Pacha fame. Download Thanks to Phil Mison. | 1 9 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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023 / Alfredo / Amnesia / 1985 | Here’s a live one, Alfredo DJing at Amnesia in Ibiza, 1985. Enjoy. Download Download | 15 8 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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022 / Apiento / Flat Earth | Download | 2 8 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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021 / Balearic Mike / Whirlpool | This mix was done by Balearic Mike to be given out at a party that Steve Terry was hosting with Mike and Moonboots DJing back in 2004. Rumour has it that there is a Moonboots Whirlpool mix so we'll see if we can track that one down at some point, but until then here's some classic Mike business. Download | 1 8 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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020 / Jolyon Green / Return Of The Secret Garden | Back before Test Pressing got all serious on itself Jolyon Green did one of the first mixes for the site. We are happy to welcome him back with a new mix for us which starts with the Durutti Column (as Jolyon says 'never has a Manc accent sounded so balearic') and goes from there. Download | 29 7 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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019 / Moonboots / Live At Afternoon Sessions / Cafe 1001 | Moonboots will hate me for saying this but as well as being a top bloke he’s a bit of a Manchester legend and along with Phil Mison, Baleric Mike and Jason Boardman has been flying the balearic flag for many a year. From supplying the Dust Brothers with the records that created their sound from behind the counter at Eastern Bloc for Naked Under Leather with Phil South (now Golf Channel in NYC) through to his lovely “Originals” with Mike on Mudd’s Claremont 56 imprint he’s always had an ear for the alternative, good and well very, very balearic. This is the first in a series of mixes we will be posting from London’s aforementioned Afternoon Sessions. Afternoon Sessions started as Phil Mison and Steve Terry wanted to put on a party as DJ Hugh Herrera was visiting. From there, well, they just carried on really. For an afternoon of mellow music with lovely people it’s a great place to visit. This mix is from a few years back and hasn’t dated a jot. Hopefully Moon will be coming through with a new mix at some point but until then here’s something to keep us going. Download | 27 6 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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018 / DJ Alex / The Flyer As Art | In November 2005, there was an exhibition of club art and flyers featuring work from James Joyce, Fred Deakin and Ali Augur amongst others. To go along with the exhibition DJ Alex from London’s Voices Collective donated a mix and here it is. The Voices Collective is made up of Cedric Woo, John Ramar and DJ Alex. They promote all night parties playing an open selection style with a balearic disco twist. Their next party is on the 3rd of July at London’s Plastic People. Cedric, if you’re reading, get in touch and hit us up with a mix. Good people doing it for the right reasons. Download | 26 6 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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017 / Phil Mison / Cafe Del Mar 1995 | Not much introduction needed on this one. More classic Mison action, this time from the Cafe in 95. Download Side A Download Side A | 19 6 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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016 / Gentleman Mixer / BBQ Special | Seeing as mid-summer is almost here I thought I'd post this mix I got sent from a good friend of Test Pressing - Adam Khan a.k.a Gentleman Mixer. It's got that low-down summer vibe all wrapped up. Tidy. Download | 17 6 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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014 / A Silent Flute / Cactus Especial | A few weeks ago I got an email from Nat Thompson of New York's A Silent Flute saying hello with some links to mixes that he'd done. I was really enjoying them so asked for a mix for Test Pressing and here it is. Great track listing, a lovely mix, and it's nice to see that the (new) balearic way isn't just a European thing. Nat has been writing about eclectic men's style and a broad range of music on A Silent Flute for a few years now, as well as writing about Baltimore's club scene for Wax Poetics. Check his other mixes here and enjoy. Download | 14 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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013 / Phil Mison / Live At The Café Del Mar / 20th April 1993 | Quick bit of history... The Café del Mar first opened on 20th June 1980 in Ibiza in the town of San Antonio de Portmany. It was designed by the well-known Catalán architect, Lluis Güell, who was in charge of the design, decoration and architecture of the building. People came from far and wide to visit the café and to contemplate the sunset, which in the words of the owners is, 'undoubtedly one of the most incredible and marvelous sunsets on the planet'. As we know the sunsets and their soundtrack are what the café is famous for, and Phil Mison was lucky enough to play there in 1993. Download | 9 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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012 / Joey Negro / Part Two | Part two of Dave Lee a.k.a Joey Negro's eclectic guest mix for you today. Keeping it strong and ending with Dave's declaration of love for the world, this is yet again quality stuff. Download | 7 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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011 / Joey Negro / Part One | Dave Lee a.k.a Joey Negro a.k.a Raven Maize a.k.a Akabu a.k.a The Sunburst Band a.k.a Doug Willis a.k.a Z Factor a.k.a Sessomato is a leg-end. In his own front room at least. Dave started Republic Records, released great compilations and wonderful twelves, closed Republic, started Z Records and did it all over again. He has safely kept the flame alive for true disco for nearly 25 years and is probably one of the only UK disco producers featured on Desert Island Discs on Radio 4 (as picked by that poisoning chef Heston Blumenthal). I asked David for a mix for Test Pressing and he gave me a cast off that he already has on a player on his site (worth a look) but as it’s Dave the quality is top drawer. Second part to follow soon. Respect is due. Download | 24 3 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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010 / Rocky, Diesel & Ashley Beedle / It’s Not How It Used To Be | I was looking through old tapes the other day and came across one with 'new house mix' written on it. I put it on and 'Odyssey' by 7th Movement came out of the speakers. And it sounded good. Really good. I was going to upload it but being honest, I can't find it. It's easy to forget how much they have done between them in the past twenty years, so time for a quick appraisal. It goes something like this. Sound system culture, Rocky and Diesel's balearic DJ sets, Sound Factory anthems with X-Press 2, Ashley's 'New Jersey Deep' (one of the best UK house 12's in our opinion), Black Science Orchestra keeping the disco light alive, Rocky's rapping, being on the front end of the down-tempo wave with the Ballistic Brothers, Diesel's nu-disco on Nuphonic and the continuing Moton, being the sole participants in the failed hip-house revival, making an old-school reggae record so authentic that David Rodigan couldn't get his head round the fact it was new, and generally being the opposite of 'Lazy' (sorry). Anyway, Rocky, Diesel and Ashley Beedle were behind 7th Movement, so I got in touch with Rocky, and asked him for something for Test Pressing. In the course of conversation I remembered the three of them had made some balearic mixes, long before the scene with no name made it's reappearance, and here they are. To me they sum up what this music should really be about. A mixture of tough edges, pop, ambient, disco, mellow, a bit of cheese and some odd electronics, all put together in a way that makes girls want to dance. These mixes go from Bowie to Teddy Pendergrass to Pink Floyd with lots in between. Heavily influenced by Alfredo, they make good listening. Download Part One Download Part Two | 13 3 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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009 / Jose Padilla / Café Del Mar / Volume 7 | Lovely old tape from the Café for you here. You know the coup by now. Here, Jose Padilla selects anything from classic electronic sounds through to a mellow version of 'Found Love' by Double Dee (yes really) and mixes them together in his inimitable naive fashion. Anyone got Tape 1? Get in touch if you do. Big thanks to Phil Mison for digging this one out. Download | 6 3 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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008 / Wild Bunch Vs Soul II Soul / New Years Eve 1987 | If you want to hear to the sound of West London on NYE in 1987 then it probably doesn't get much better than this for capturing the vibe (it's rough though). If anyone has the DJ Milo Wild Bunch compilation this is where the live segments came from. Nice to hear The Wild Bunch and Soul II Soul in full flow in a club setting, especially when Daddy G of Wild Bunch/Massive Attack fame can't remember the name of their new record ('it's so fresh I can't remember') and that record is their seminal cover of 'The Look of Love'. Bringing it back to the future, DJ Milo of the Wild Bunch isn't a man to shout, but I hope he won't mind me saying his website is here and it's well worth checking. Bristol legend still moving. Download | 21 2 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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007 / DJ Alonzo / Earl Grey Special | Here's a lovely mix just in from one our good friends in Stockholm, D.J. Alonzo. Alonzo runs the Stockholm arm of the always good Top Nice night (meet them here on Facebook). In his own words, 'I decided on the three first tracks, and from then on I hit the shelf'. Good style. Download | 6 2 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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006 / Lexx / Native Melodies / Lexx Edits | Following Phil Mison's guest spot at Test Pressing we have another gem of a mix from producer and DJ, Lexx. Lexx has been eeking out some lovely edits over the past year or so, most of which have appeared on Lovefingers. Lexx has kindly given us his favourite edits for anyone out there who doesn't have them yet. Enjoy. Download | 27 1 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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005 / Phil Mison / January 2009 | Slow start over at Test Pressing Towers this year but we are back in a fine style with a lovely Phil Mison mix. We have known Phil for many years now at Test Pressing. He, along with Moonboots and a few others, has always been about the sunset balearic sound - check the piece above from an old copy of Jockey Slut from 1994/95 for further proof. As many of you know Phil produces as Reverso 68 with Pete Herbert, and as Cantoma by himself, with this year seeing the release of a new Cantoma album which we are already hearing good things about. Anyway, on with the program. Press play and enjoy. Download | 16 1 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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004 / Apiento / Test Pressing Christmas Mix | Download | 23 12 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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003 / Jolyon Green / My Secret Garden | Download | 16 12 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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002 / Pete Reilly / Brasil 70 | Download Pete works with the Sounds Of The Universe label. I imagine most readers will know their compilations and shop but if not hit the link. | 28 10 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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001 / Apiento / Four In The Morning | Download | 4 10 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
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I particularly enjoy the more chill-out sets like the ibiza hippie mix...
Best with no competition is Andy's strange days mix though.
Lots a love for Apiento for putting it all together.
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