Red Rack'Em has always occupied something of a space of his own in the music world - hovering around broken beat, techno, UKG and beatdown house, despite being pigeon-holed in with the 'nu disco'. And always just on the cusp of the big time with his Gilles P championed rub of the Joubert Singers, Four Tet comped ‘How I Program’ and inescapable party starter ‘Wonky Bassline Disco Banger’. He’s an incredibly accomplished producer with undoubted DJ chops to boot, for which I think he deserves a little more credit. Whilst he is generally championing new and unreleased music on his Rinse FM radio shows, he's done something a little different here for this mix.

THOUGHTS ON THE MIX

I have been a huge Test Pressing fan for years and I always wanted to contribute something and it's quite funny timing as my whole record collection and DJ set up is currently in storage in Berlin. I had literally a handful of records which I recently found to do the mix with and I just played 1 track from each record. I recorded each track into my laptop individually on single turntable which was (fortunately) in the airbnb my wife and I were staying in for the last 2 months in Neukolln. It was quite easy to choose the tracks as I had literally no choice so please excuse the slightly incoherent structure! I enjoyed the constrictions.