Test Pressing Podcast

Hi Sam! Thanks for the mix (You can scroll to the bottom of the page for this – Ed). Can you quickly let us know who you are, what you do and what you’re about, for any readers that might not be aware of you? I’ve been running a label called Blank Mind at a […]

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 […]

Note from Apiento before I pass you over to Piers. I started this series to highlight the work of producers that I thought deserved it. For years Dr Rob picked up the baton and ran with it inna fine style and it felt like one we shouldn’t let slip through the net as it always […]

Here we have a lovely mix from illustrator, compiler of lovely compilations and A&R in a mellow style at A Crushing Glow and master of the mellow fade – Matt Sewell. This mix runs from ambient spaced out sound to folk back through to mellow Balearic Indy sounds and out beyond into music for the […]

Double bubble on the mix front. Cooper Saver is an LA-based DJ and promoter. He plays great music and puts on parties like these… He also has a cassette-based label of mix tapes. The next one I think is by Floating Points. The tapes look like this and you can check them on Bandcamp though […]

As Toby Tobias releases another messed up party banger on the always reliable ESP Institute it felt time to hit him up for a mix. Toby is one rough and ready DJ. He’s got the tunes and he’s up for it and he puts it together in a party way. Sort of block party hip […]

Ahead of our party at The Glove That Fits (see the flyer below) this Saturday Phil has given us a beauty of a tape. This one is a recording of him playing to the sunset at The Café Del Mar in 1994. The tape is full of what are now classics but back then were […]

I couldn’t get up to the NTS studio on the weekend to do my radio show so I sent it in. It was basically a two hour mix (long I know) – a mix of new and old – so I thought I’d run it here as well. Go to the link at the bottom […]

Super glad to have this mix in from Jay Glass Dubs as I seem to be listening to tons of Dub at the minute – from spacey 70s numbers to 80s digi dubs to those amazing Rhythm & Sound releases and other new school business. Anyway, let’s go Discogs. Jay Glass Dubs has released music […]

Way back when I had the idea to create a mix a month of new stuff that we really liked at the site that I thought would be good on a shopping list. I sort of let it go and haven’t done it for a while but its such a nice idea that I’m bringing […]

Next up on the mix files we have Honey K with a little – as the title says – Street Soul Two Step. These sort of records never went away for many people. You know… That half of the Soul II Soul album that you really like that sounds amazing in your car with the […]

Heels & Souls are two young people who have got up and got out there and are doing great things. They’ve been running not-for-profit parties for charity over the last three years finding unusual spaces to throw them in. They had me and Lexx DJing for them at a party in a church in Bethnal […]

Test Pressing mix #456 (that’s correct) comes from Moscow based production duo Odopt, who first surfaced in 2016 on Born Free Records with a scuzzy set of box jams entitled Sickert Art Bartel. Staying with a plug for Stockholm’s Born Free for a moment, they were one of our picks from 2017, releasing all sorts of […]

I had Piers on my NTS show recently and it was a very enjoyable few hours. His music was exactly what I wanted. He’s one of those people that can talk to you backwards about Tony Humphries mixes and Zanzibar whilst having a deep passion for forward thinking UK bass-led house, the slower end of […]

D.K. says “« This mix is mostly a compilation of new music that influence me at the moment. It’s an exploratory range of ambient and experimental music by today’s innovators, from composers like Andrea Belfi, Bellows and Second Woman to R’n’B UK singer Klein.»” We say, sit back and let it wash over you in […]