i-D / DJs Of The Month / Rocky & Diesel
This one comes from i-D magazine November 1990. Good chart from the boys.
The Face / Philip Sallon Interview
This one is taken from the July 1984 edition of The Face. Philip Sallon talks about the Mud Club. Love the journalist, Fiona Russell Powell’s description of the music at the club.
The Face / Prince Interview
Prince interview by Carol Cooper taken from The Face in June 1983. Great photo. Just watched the Omnibus program on him from ’91 and it’s pretty amazing stuff. Sheila E and a tour of his house. What more could you want. [Apiento]
The Face / Malcolm McLaren Interview
This one is taken from The Face in June 1983. Paul Rambali goes duck rock with the don Malcolm.
Dog Eat Dog
Soody Sisco, Martha Fiskin and Linda Pitt made up the core of Dog Eat Dog, an early 80s punk funk band out of NYC who were sassy, smart and fun. Think along the lines of Liquid Liquid or ESG and you are on the right lines. Claremont 56 have been lucky enough to get their...
Finger (Switzerland) / Wally Badarou Interview
I love the postman. Not literally, just when he delivers something you are not expecting. I was lucky enough to just get sent some back issues of the rather nice Finger magazine out of Zurich, Switzerland. There is a fair chance you haven’t seen it but basically it’s the dream magazine for a lot of...
NME / Acid The Phuture / Paul Oakenfold Interview
Looks like the NME got well acid house in October ’88. If you haven’t seen these they came courtesy of the Archived Music Press (via Legendary Children) and are a fine read. There’s more on the Archived Music Press site to have a dig through.
Trevor Jackson
Right, here’s the next of our pretty irregular Test Pressing interviews – this time with Trevor Jackson of Underdog/Output fame. Trevor has long been known for his music but is also a hugely respected graphic designer so we decided to use the sleeves discussed to illustrate the interview. It’s good to interview someone whose not...
i-D / DJ Of The Month / Nicky Holloway
This one comes from i-D – October ’88 edition. Nicky Holloway already has a bit of a CV by this point and clearly had an eye for taking it to the masses.
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...
DJ Harvey
Our friends in Australia, The Blackmail, got in touch to see if we wanted to run an interview that they had just done with Harvey for their site. We of course said yes. To be honest I don’t quite understand the cult that is developing around the man but you have to say he’s got...
Sound On Sound / Hugo Nicolson / Recording Primal Scream’s ‘Screamadelica’
In all of this talk surrounding ‘Screamadelica’ it would be easy to forget the pivotal role (happy) Hugo Nicolson played in those recordings. Our Tim H found this piece from Sound On Sound in November 2000 with Nicolson discussing how they did it. Sounds like limited equipment and big ideas. Time to bring back the...
Chris Carter
Andy Blake of Dissident/Cave Paintings recently interviewed Chris Carter around the re-release of his ‘The Spaces Between’ album on the Optimo Label. They got talking about drum machines, life in Throbbing Gristle and syths, synths and more synths. Over to Andy… Recently, I had the chance to run a few questions past Chris Carter, a...
Dave Dorrell / Part Two
Here’s the second part of our interview with Dave Dorrell moving from the RAW days up to acid house, major label deals with Polydor Records, ‘Pump Up The Volume’ and it’s lack of follow-up. Images by james McLintock. So going forwards, many of the Soul/Jazz Funk DJs took a while to adopt to the acid...
Hey! Convict Interview Dominik Von Senger / Unknown Cases
Hey! Convict are Tamas Jones and Jason Evans. Over the last few years they have been forging a relationship with Dominik Von Senger of the Phantom Band, Unknown Cases and a Can cohort (amongst many other things), that resulted in the ‘No Name’ 12 on Golf Channel a few months back. First up we have...