Review / Richard King / How Soon Is Now / Faber
I’ve just finished reading Richard King’s ‘How Soon Is Now’ which as you can see is sub-titled ‘The Madmen And Mavericks Who Made Independent Music 1975-2005′ which pretty much sums it up in a nutshell. If you look at the back cover below you can see all the labels King has covered in the book...
194 / Seconds / Welcome To The Machine
Seconds is the alter ego of Markus Enochson and Luciano Leiva. Together with singer Linus Lutthi they release their first single for the Above Machine label, “Another Day” today (Monday), a folk-based balearic number.
Village Green / Emotional Rescue / Artwork
My day job involves being part of a design studio called Village Green. We basically work image making, branding and designing for companies such as Nike, Granta and Penguin Books. The work is pretty varied and we like to do the odd piece of music design as its where the roots lie (the studio in...
192 / Phil Mison / Live AT LN-CC
We were lucky enough to get down to LN-CC in Dalston the other week for a bit of a sit down session with Phil Mison in control of the music all night. Starting slow and building up it was a lovely night with the music as you’d expect being top notch. LN-CC postewd the first...
So & So Fanzine
Andy McColgan runs the Racket Racket Racket Racket website and is based in Glasgow. He recently produced the So & So Fanzine focusing on Glasgow musicians and creatives which we got a copy of and I have to say its really well put together and contains interview with the likes of Organs Of Love and...
188 / Finger Magazine / Come To Marina Del Rey II
Back once again comes Honey K from Finger Magazine with a mix for us. We wrote about them before but if you missed it they have a magazine full of lists of music to check and a great website so if you haven’t seen what it’s all about go here. Watch out for the first...
186 / Joe’s Bakery / Mix!
Happy to have Joe’s Bakery on board at Test Pressing with a mix to finish off Sunday and ease you into the week. Joe’s Bakery is a Leeds based party that have been quietly getting on with doing a good thing and is run by Craig Christon & Joe Gill. The idea behind the night...
Interview / Nick Logan / Publisher & Editor / The Face / Smash Hits
Any regular readers of Test Pressing will know I am a big fan of The Face. For me they covered youth culture in an intelligent way at a time when the culture itself was vibrant, colourful and exciting. The man behind The Face was Nick Logan, named the most innovative magazine man of his generation...
185 / Rune Lindbæk / Mariupol Mix
It’s always nice to get a mix from Rune Lindbæk and this one is as good as ever taking in the brand new, and pretty special, mix of Joakim by Todd Terje, an unreleased Idjut Boys mix of Keren Ann’s ‘My Name Is Trouble’, the Toby Tobias mix of Hardway Brothers and some Arthur Russell...
184 / Balearic Mike / Live At Vinyl Dream Launch Party
Alright. Here’s that rare thing – a balearic party mix. I love a mellow one, as we all do, but its nice to hear a DJ in party mode and here’s Balearic Mike live and direct (well not live live) from the Vinyl Dreams launch party, San Francisco on the 18th of June in 2011....
The NME / DJ Harvey Piece / New Hard Left
Sometimes I feel like the only old articles I post are DJ Harvey ones but maybe that has just been recently but we’re not running the fan club honestly. I don’t even get the guru thing as I said before. I just think he’s a good bloke who stuck to his guns, throws a great...
183 / Alexis Le-Tan / When Sound Becomes Colour
Alexis Le-Tan has been into ‘this’ music for a long time now. His mixes have appeared on Lovefingers, Noise In My Head and Beats In Space and he has also released the Space Oddities compilations and various other edits over the years. He also runs a very fine creative agency based in Paris by the...
Simon Jeffes Interview / Womad
This interview with Simon Jeffes of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra is from 1985 and comes from the Womad compilation Talking Book Volume One: An Introduction. Jeffes was a true great in our book and this is a lovely interview giving a little insight into the Penguin Cafe. (Please excuse the good doctors dodgy scanning ha.)...
182 / Hardway Bros / ALFOS Equinox Mix
Always good to welcome Sean Johnston / Hardway Bros back to the fold. Here he is with a great mix of lowdown, and sometimes dubby, house and disco business. Sean throws the A Love From Outer Space parties with Andrew Weatherall and they have a pretty big party coming up on Easter weekend at Corsica...