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...
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...
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.
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.
Paul’s Review Corner
Going for a minimal slant. Pretty pictures and web links. All good. Buy and please your ears.
Nick The Record / LN-CC Pop-Up Store
One of the best record dealers out there is Nick The Record. Am sure many of you know him and have bought records from him. Long known for selling rare disco, cosmic and loft-style rock records he is hosting a pop-up shop at LN-CC in Dalston until Thursday, after which the chosen stock will go...
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...
DJ Dicci Cicci & Roman Caffe / Il Mentalo / Noise In My Head
Lovely things I have received in the post part 2 this one courtesy of the Noise In My Head crew in Australia who we talk of often at Test Pressing with their always good radio show.
Pacific Horizons / Beaches Of The Black Sea / Stealing The Fire From Heaven
Playing catch up here as the site was down and have been meaning to write about this one for a bit. Got it in the post from the States. It’s a lovely bit of modern balearic from the Pacific Horizons crew.
And We’re Back…
I’m away for a few days working on something I’ll start chatting about soon but when I’m back there will be new mixes and things from all the usual suspects and more.
Aegean Sea (Non, Nº.1)
This is the first release from our friends at Nonvollective who kindly helped with the overhaul of Test Pressing from a visual level and as you can see its not only sounding good it’s a beautiful looking record.
Matthew Styles / Sample & Hold EP / Running Back
Just got the new Running Back through and rather than try and describe it (as its kind of hard) if you like your Running Back go check it. Out and about any day I think and sounding as good as ever.
Dreams Of San Antonio / Brutal Music
We missed this one (as its been out for a month or so) but it looks and sounds pretty good (nice to see artwork that doesn’t contain a pyramid for once) so I thought I’d write a quick piece.