News / All The Mixes / Bad Passion With The Idjuts
We had a bit of an issue with our hosting company telling us off for using too much bandwidth so had to archive loads of the mixes but we’ve moved to a new server (thanks Gareth, James and Neil) and we are all back live. They should all be on iTunes as podcasts as well...
Reviews / Promo’d / 19 / 02 / 2012
BLAKULA / BACK FROM MYSTERY CITY / BEAR FUNK Italian Horror with a post-punk funk edge. Metallic echoes of Levene. Wobble-like bass. Richard Sen’s Padded Cell with harpsichord flourishes, thigh-bone trumpets and the Jajouka’s rhiatas. Sharing Barry Adamson’s “Moss-Side Story”s obsession with the night and musicians in sharp suits, Cold War spy theme guitar riffs...
175 / Yozo / EAD Anniversary Mix
A while back we ran some anniversary mixes by DJ Yozo from Japan’s EAD record shop. We are happy to say he is back with a new one to celebrate this years anniversary. I get the feeling there might be some very expensive records on this mix. Download
What’s It All About? Balearic Beat In 2012.
I was asked to write a piece for a friend about something relating to the website, so I have taken the easy way out and opted to talk about the main musical genre we focus on and obsess about, Balearic Beat. Thought I’d share it here. It’s a musical scene that is both niche and...
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...
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...
Test Pressing – A Random Function #1 / Magazine
Here you go, the first edition of Test Pressing – A Random Function #1, our first round-up of the site. As the cover below tells you we have pulled together various articles from the site into a format that might give you something to read on your iPad on the bus. Enjoy. x. For those...
The Face / Electro
Classic classic cover of The Face here by Neville Brody from May 1984. Probably my favourite. I think its just the colours and huge brody type. It’s like the word ‘ELECTRO’ was made for him. So killer cover and a great piece. Their intro says it all really. “Rapid and solid, fast and frantic, the...
The Typefaces Of Neville Brody
These are all taken from the highly recommended book The Graphic Language Of Neville Brody. As we’ve said before we have always loved his work, including his layouts and work on small icons around the pieces in The Face. These are six typefaces he developed during the periods of 1979 and 1986. Typeface One /...
Todd Terje / 35 Tracks I Played To Death In 2011
Thanks to Todd for putting our tune in this list. I didn’t cut and paste it at the top honest guv. You can see the whole piece at the Smalltown Supersound website. 35 TRACKS I PLAYED TO DEATH IN 2011 BY TODD TERJE Apiento – The Orange Place Phreek Plus One – La Spirale (Justin...
David Rodigan / Interview
As Rodigan gets his well earned MBE for services to broadcasting I thought I’d run this little interview that I did for a website I was working on for Kiss a few years back. David Rodigan is an industry legend, period. For the last 30 years he’s spread good, good reggae and dancehall to the...
171 / PRODUCERS SERIES #15 / TREVOR HORN
A Trevor Horn record probably sits somewhere in your record collection or laptop so we decided he’d be the perfect producer to focus on in the first of our Producers Series for this year. Horn has had a very long career starting off working with disco acts Tina Charles and Biddu in his early days...
Test Pressing 2012 Round-Up
So here we go. We got in touch with some of our friends and asked for their round-up of the year.