Jah Wobble / Influences / Work
This was an experiment. Something I planned to do last January after reading Jah Wobble’s “Memoirs Of A Geezer”. Then the events of last year took over, and it lost its place in the “To Do” list, but with the “Metal Box In Dub” gig coming closer I thought it might be good time resurrect...
Reviews / PROMO’d / 12/01/2012
Dr Rob in the reviews corner with new releases from Scenario, Golf Channel, Andy Blake’s new In Plain Sight imprint, Jansen Jardin, Beard Science, Rogue Cat Sounds, Emotional Rescue (more on them to follow) and Claremont 56.
The Hardway Brothers / A Diabolical Liberty / I`m A Cliché / 2011
A Balearic Version Excursion, at their Satanic Majesties’ request. J.B.C – We Love You (Creation) 1990 Steven Proctor being boiled. An Andy Blake favourite. Ryuichi Sakamoto – We Love You (Virgin) 1990 Robert Wyatt on vocals and highlife guitars. West India Company – O Je Suis Seul (Editions EG) 1989 Dr Patterson & Mr Weatherall...
Dawdle & Hustle 004 / Dream / Sunny Spot
Dawdle & Hustle is the new label from Jun Kitamura, an ever-present smiling face on the Tokyo club scene. The man behind Capricious records Capricious Records and the currently dormant Outergaze, sometime drinking partner of Paul Murphy and Chris Duckenfield, and one of the hosts, alongside Max Essa, of the Higher Ground events at Club...
Rob’s Review Corner
We get sent quite a few amazing records and are pretty crap about reviewing them (see previous post) if truth be told so Rob took it on the chin and got down to listening and writing some words.
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,...
Review / Kham Lingstang Band / Solan
I met Kham Lingstang about a month ago. He had been up for 48 hours (in the same shirt) and I had been drinking the fruit punch, so our conversation was a tad cyclical, but I distinctly remember Kham telling me that he hadn`t made any music recently. His “HR” responsibilities at LN-CC keeping him...
Review / KA§PAR / Ode To The Ancients EP
‘Ode To The Ancients’ comes across a little like C2 when he was still only 69. Or a paperclip person. That can only be a compliment. ‘Twin Sparkle’ is late night jam in a Chicago bedroom. Getting severely stoned with Larry Thompson and Rick Lenoir. House Jam on modern drugs. ‘Able To Find’ moves forwards...
Tokyo Tracks 011 / あけぼの印 – 夜ノ街ヲ駈ケル
Mori Art Museum / Metabolism / The City Of The Future / 17092011 – 15012012 (click on poster for link to the Mori web site)
010 / Far East Family Band / Nippon-Jin
To explain for the newer readers, Dr Rob is the other key contributor to Test Pressing alongside myself. He lives in Japan and here writes about living in the country post-earthquake. If you didn’t know the good doctor has a radio show and you can stream it here. When the Tohoku earthquake hit I was...
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...
009 / Seigen Ono / World Collision
I’m back in Tokyo for the weekend. DJing on the Friday at Right Right Right. About to enter its 5th year. Goodness knows how we’ve made it this far. Sleep is scarce but done in a small hotel in Hibiya, called R.E.M. The more I stay here the more I love it. The rooms are...
008 / Haruomi Hosono / Hotel Malabar Upper Floor, Moving Triangle
A hirsute Jonny Nash wrote a short essay on his favourite Tokyo record shops. Handed it to me as he left Japan. Both a blessing and a curse. This was back when I only had two kids and I made it my mission, once a week to head into central Tokyo and find these places....
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...