Test Pressing Podcast

Lexx is back from travels to far off places – a time when you always come back inspired – so we are super happy to get a mix titled ‘Flight Mode’ from him. Lexx is one of our favourite selectors and Lexx being Lexx he is quietly getting on with lots of things following the […]

A while back we got in touch with Dazion to ask for a mix to further understand where his sound comes from as its a perfect melting pot for these mixed up times. We first heard about him through his ‘Don’t Get Me Wrong’ release on Second Circle which contained ‘Be A Man’ that we […]

New mix on TP time. Odd-ball, etherial and ambient vibes here in a perfect head music mix from Fantastic Man.

This mix arrived today from Lewie aka Tornado Wallace. We like Lewie at Test Pressing. He’s a dog owner (bonus points from the off), is very funny, makes great music as and when he chooses and is a cracking DJ who plays across the genres and has fun along the way. This mix, the title […]

I asked Sean for a trippy mix of stuff he’s into at the minute and here’s what came back. Two hours of nicely wigged out music that’ll sound perfect from your arm chair when you’re in relax mode or turned up loud on a weekend fun one. Two hours of dubbed up rolling goodness. Tidy.

The Pilotwings are Guillaume Lespinasse & Louis De La Gorce. They’ve been releasing music for around five years now (check Discogs here) and to me feel like they have a fun side to their super nice musical licks. Their tracks often twist and turn and embody a sense of playfulness sadly missing in lots of […]

Loads of great new and unreleased music this month and on the horizon so it was time for a new shopping list mix… Tracklist The Balek Band – Tometsi (Beauty and the Beat) Lexx featuring Asé – Eye 1-2 (Phantom Island) Wilson Tanner – All Hands Bury the Dead (Efficient Space) MØZAIKA – Crepuscule (Public […]

Ghost Vision are Danny McLewin and Thomas Gandey. Self-described as “two cosmic paradise seekers; a pairing of well documented children of psychedelia, a welcome presence occupying a space crafted by the likes of Vangelis, Jean-Pierre Massiera, Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Axelrod before them.” Sounds good right. You know Danny if you read Test Pressing. He […]

So we’ve got a compilation out this week. It’s compiled by Beautiful Swimmers and is flipping great. I think we’re ok to say that. It looks like this… It’s in the shops now on double shiny pieces of vinyl and sounds amazing. It goes from jazz to street soul to house and out the other […]

We received this email from reader Guy Foreman… “Bit random, but I was going through a load of old tapes the other day & came across one that I’d made of an old Gilles Peterson Vibrazone show on Kiss FM from 1992. It’s the last show he did on a Sunday afternoon before he was […]

And Part Two…

As the sound of the modern DJ spans more and more genres post punk is naturally rolled into the mix. Raw drum machines, delays and dub effects, far away vocals… Whats not to like? We asked DJ Leo Mas of Amnesia Ibiza to pull together two mixes of music that was played in the mid […]

Happy to share a special podcast with one of our favourite dudes, Jan Schulte (AKA Wölf Muller, AKA Bufiman) in conversation about a very special collaborative record he has made with some of the finest musicians of North East Africa. Some words from Jan on this fascinating project… “Time to share some very special music […]

Finally in our run of three mixes we got in touch with Geena as we are massive fans of his productions on both Antinote as Geena and as Worldwide Zen. If you don’t know them get on Discogs HERE and take a listen. It’s a fine body of work. Here’s a mix whereby you can […]

The Maghreban makes messed up dance records with a hip hop sensibility. He’s released on R&S (the big ‘Monster’) as well as self-releasing a 12″ this year that went down really well round these parts. This mix shows The Maghreban’s rave side. Full on dancefloor business for nighteries and festivals. Banging.

Francis Inferno Orchestra likes animal noises and house music of the finest kind. He’s also a mighty fine producer. We’ve had him on our NTS show and here he is with a mix… Welcome to the sound of animal house. Toppen.

And the final part. Nice.

Part 2 for you…

In October 1998 myself and Phil Mison arranged a party based on The Loft in a small space in Camden. As we said in a previous post many moons ago, “friends helped, dirty walls were covered with white fabric (thanks Ange!), balloons blown and a few hundred people filled the space, got high and danced.” […]

We’ve been hustling Gilb’R for a mix for quite. some. time. And suddenly! Here it is! Whilst not the much heralded Bar Mitzvah mix-up this is still SUPERB stuff. In the words of Gilbert himself, “the concept was home listening records I bought recently, and records I rediscovered. All dubbed out my my crazy delay/oscillator pedal…” […]