176 / PRODUCERS SERIES #16 / HARRY HOSONO
Having been with Psyche rockers Apryl Fool and Folk rockers Happy End during the late 60s and early 70s, a then successful but still pretty conventional singer song-writer, Haroumi Hosono, famously put together the Yellow Magic Orchestra, recruiting session players Ryuichi Sakamoto and Yukihiro Takahashi, and in doing so changed the face of Japanese popular...
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
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...
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...
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...
170 / Joel Martin – Quiet Village / Velvet Vibrations
Joel Martin is a man of principles and probably one of the most knowledgable people I know in the world of synth-based soundtracks. He’s also part of underground heroes Quiet Village who, as their name suggests, like to slowly get on with things in their own particular way. He’s soon off to Berlin to finish...
169 / Peter Visti / Live At Qvist Grammofon Cafe
New mix from Peter Visti here, a DJ for over 20 years and producer of releases on Music For Dreams, Eskimo and Mindless Boogie as well as one of the men behind one of the underground hits of the last few years ‘Stars’ alongside Jakob Meyland. Early next year he’ll release his solo album ‘Illusions...
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,...
167 / Psychemagik / Sunrise
So here we are with a new mix from Psychemagik. These two have been on something of a roll when it comes to their own releases and the quality of their mixes which make highly rare music sound pretty accesible.
166 / COS/MES / Opera City
We are big fans of COS/MES at Test Pressing so happy that they’ve come through with a mix for us here. Their productions and remixes are always doing something interesting away from the traditional notion of what our “balearic” scene should be doing.
165 / Pavel Plastikk / Tree Line
Happy to welcome the man like Pavel back to the fold. A serious collector and mix. Go Pavel…
164 / Walk Music / The Low Life Elite
Brand new mix from Manchester-based James Walker for you here. A journalist and former music reviewer for BBC Manchester and the Manchester Evening News, James started producing mixes a few years back, and is a regular contributor to music websites including dirtyRadio.
163 / DJ Milo / Tribute To John Peel Mix
DJ Milo needs no introduction to most of you. From Wild Bunch days right up to now with the Nature productions. Here he is with a mix in tribute to John Peel. I’ll leave it to the music…
162 / Ali Renault / Mix
New mix from Ali Renault previously of Heartbreak fame here. His new self-titled album ‘Ali Renault’ has been described as sounding ‘like one of John Carpenter’s themes, at others like a ZTT away day in Warriors-era New York’ which sounds pretty good to us.