The World Unknown Label / Naum Gabo / Franz Underwear / Neville Watson / Apiento
World Unknown is a night run by Andy Blake of Cave Paintings/Dissident and Joe Hart of Bodyhammer and Bloc. It is now also a record label coming your way soon and we are on the second release
Just Because / 025
Why Chris Blackwell Is A Genius Part 312. This comes from an interview with Mott The Hoople’s Ian Hunter in today’s The New Review magazine (part of the Independent). The passage has been about Mott manager, and later producer of ‘London Calling’, Guy Stevens, and his cavalier attitude to life when they got onto the...
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...
Happy Mondays ‘Bummed’ / Making Of…
This one comes via Caught By The River, the smart culture site from the Heavenly Records gang. In the late 80s there was an educational Granada-produced TV show called Information Technology who happened to make an episode focusing on the run up to the release of ‘Bummed’ by the Happy Mondays. It covers all sides...
Golf Channel Mix On Resident Advisor
If you’re a fan of the Golf Channel label get over to Resident Advisor where head honcho Phil South is interviewed and delivers a mix of new and unreleased bits. If you have never heard his mixes for us at Test Pressing they are highly recommended and are here, here and here. Nice.
JPR Records Inc.
The year, going by the label, was ’92. My mind is all about fuzzy around those times as a lot was going on, but we were working in Ladbroke Grove and music was good. House music was alive and well and slowly other bits and pieces were appearing referencing further back than I’d gone before....
Claremont 56
For the second of our label round-ups/interviews we thought we’d get in touch with Mudd, owner and recording artist, for his very own Claremont 56 label. Claremont have been steadily flying the flag for quality music, across the realms of mellow balearic disco, in a forward thinking fashion for some time now, as well as...