The Bass Bin No.3: Super Collider – It Won’t Be Long
June 30, 2010
Those with purely balearic ears cover them now. We haven’t done one of these for a while so time for a new one for the bass bins. Previously we posted Mantronix ‘Get Stupid Fresh Part III’ and Original Concept’s ‘Knowledge Me Chant’ (as used by Masta Ace). This one comes from 1999 and is taken from the Super Collider album on Loaded Records. Super Collider were techno producer Christian Vogel and vocalist Jamie Lidell. It was a shame they didn’t do more together as this track (and the album as a whole) still sounds twisted. Play loud.
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i-D Magazine: Club Listings (January 1988)
June 30, 2010
Classic cover and great club listings from i-D January 1988 with a fine Swindells photo to boot.
Thanks to Matthew J.
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This weeks Jon Savage show arrives one day late (World Cup sidetrack) so sorry about that. This week the great Savage brings us the first part of a two parter on songs about dreams. Good good.
Tune in weekly to ByteFM for the Savage Music shows.
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Mix: Chris Berg – Acid
June 25, 2010
Chris Berg is a bit of an unsung hero. He has quietly got on with producing some of the finest sounding music out there – half the Fever Ray album, mixing The Knife and remixing Massive Attack (under his Flash pseudonym) to name a few. We have a lot of time for Chris at Test Pressing so we asked him to pick his favourite acid records as we know he has a love of the genre. So here it is, starting with ‘Acid Eiffel’ by Choice it goes from there…
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Tokyo Tracks 007: Joe Hisaishi – Play On The Sands
June 22, 2010
Joe Hisaishi – Play On The Sands
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I got up to work on a radio show, but “Sonatine” (ソナチネ) is on Channel Neco. It`s one of my favourite Kitano films. There’s no need for language or sub-titles since its practically a silent movie. Simple in its violent beauty. A small group of hoods in hiding in Okinawa attempt to entertain themselves while they wait to die. An allegory for life. Or at least that’s how it seemed to me when I first saw it. “Beat” looks so young. His eyes these days are cold and animal.
Joe Hisaishi’s Reich-ian score plays while gentle humour endeavours to mask the inevitable. It takes some courage to play and laugh at practical jokes, relive childhood games while you pass what’s left of your time. Too easy to sit and worry your nails to the quick.
As it was with all the books and films, the sentimentality, I took my code from, revenge is swift and with no quarter. But like the final scenes of “The Wild Bunch”, ultimately in vain. Pointless bar honour.
The last shinkansen rattles the house.
Sunflowers dance on a beach.
Kitano’s new film “Outrage” opened in Japan on June 12. Not seen it yet but it doesn`t look like an easy ride.
[Dr Rob]
Here’s this weeks Jon Savage installment. This week the subject of psychedelic instrumentals is covered in fine style. Lovely.
Tune in weekly to ByteFM for the Savage Music shows.
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Mix: Roual Galloway – What’s It All About Mix?
June 21, 2010
Second part of our Faith take over for you today with Roual Galloway stepping up to the fray following Terry Farley’s mix last week. Last up will be Jimmy P in the next week or so. So here we go with 90 minutes of quality house music…
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Producers Series #6: William Orbit
June 18, 2010
William Orbit is someone both myself and Phil Mison had the pleasure of working with in the mid-90s. William didn’t really know what to do so it was off to Fat Cat (London record store) with a wad of his money and a load of new records were bought. It was an exciting and eclectic time with loads of slow instrumental stuff coming out. 4/4 had been around for a while so this all seemed fresh to jaded ears. One of the record I remember getting was that first Kruder & Dorfmeister twelve with them parodying Simon & Garfunkel on the sleeve. We later got them to mix ‘Million Town’. I also remember having the great pleasure of listening to him record the mournful ‘Adagio For Strings’, (later tranced up) which after eight hours turned into one of the most depressing days of my life.
William was enjoying the studio. Running a mix down, and using a mixing desk, seems to be something that seems to have been lost in these days of automated music but William ran it like crazy. I like to think Adrian Sherwood does the same on a mix. Watching him work that was one of the greatest things I have seen in a studio. Running delays, dropping tracks in and out, and bouncing it all down to decide later which parts to use.
He’s done his thing now producing Madonna’s ‘Ray Of Light’ but there was a time when William had a habit of making ridiculous music by accident. His mix of ‘Zobi La Mouche’ (borrowed by Oakenfold for his mix of Happy Mondays ‘W.F.L’) was a killer with a hard bottom end whilst ‘Via Caliente’ shows Orbit in full balearic mode. He is, on top of it all, a great musician and guitarist. William Orbit was class. I hope he picks up the acoustic guitar and hits record soon.
Thanks to Dr Rob for compiling a nice broad selection from the acoustic to the tough. Tim – time for some Carl Craig.
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Party: World Unknown
June 17, 2010
Heads up on World Unknown happening this Friday in Brixton with Joe Hart, Duncan Clark, Andy Blake and a wicked old reggae system. If you are interested head over to the World Unknown website and if you fancy the party email them here and they’ll sort you with the location.
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Heads up on a new release from the Tokyo-based Jansen Jardin label. It’s the first available outside of Japan and is produced by Max Essa. The artist is Yuki Suzuki with the track being produced by Max Essa of Bear Funk fame. The remix comes courtesy of New York disco genius, Lee Douglas (Rong, TBD, Stallions). Coming on with something of a Sueno Latino feel it’s a good one.
Yuki Suzuki ‘Need Your Love’ is out in July on Jansen Jardin Music.
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The Face: Steve Proctor Interview (October 1982)
June 17, 2010
This one comes from The Face in October 1982 and showcases a – one would assume – fresh faced Steve Proctor waxing lyrical about getting battered for the princely sum of £2.50 and dancing to the Clash and Grandmaster Flash. Stanleying coppers and having sex with your socks on also make brief appearances in this illuminating little time capsule.
[Andy Blake]
Under The Radar No.13: Hildenbeutal – Inner Peace
June 15, 2010
The football’s on so it’s got a bit slow round these parts but here’s a mellow mellow moment from Eye Q’s sub-label Recycle Or Die. Well hippy.
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Radio: Jon Savage – Savage Music 002 / Caroline True
June 13, 2010
Here’s the second installment of our Jon Savage radio shows covering post-punk. Enjoy.
Tune in weekly to ByteFM for the Savage Music shows.
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Photos: Balearic London
June 10, 2010
If you were wondering what the people behind the mixes looked like now you know. All the balearic people were in town last week for a charity special… Nice day chaps.
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Freediving (balearic since Le Big Blue was on the screens) could be one of the most mellow sports to watch and here’s a great film of world champion Guillaume Nery diving at Dean’s Blue Hole, the deepest blue hole in the world. The film was shot entirely on breath hold by the french champion Julie Gautier. Mute the music on the video, put on a record and watch away.
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Radio: Jon Savage – Savage Music 001 / Meridian 1970
June 3, 2010
Image: Aubrey Mayer
Jon Savage is one of the UK’s most respected music journalists, authors and social historians. Many of you will know his classic book on punk, ‘England’s Dreaming’ and it’s recently released companion, ‘The England’s Dreaming Tapes’, which consists of many of the source interviews for the book including all four original Sex Pistols, Joe Strummer, Chrissie Hynde, Jordan, Siouxsie Sioux, Viv Albertine, Pete Shelley, Debbie Wilson, Tony Wilson, Jah Wobble and more.
He also wrote ‘Time Travel: From the Sex Pistols to Nirvana – Pop, Media and Sexuality, 1977-96’, the highly recommended book on youth, Teenage, and edited the Factory focused The Hacienda Must Be Built.
We were doing some work with Mr Savage recently in the office and were given some of his radio shows which I was totally unaware of. Jon records the shows for Germany’s ByteFM, the Savage Music shows appearing here. They are, as he says in the first show, ‘just a way of putting a lot of great music together’. To be honest they are a bit more than that. They are a treasure trove of music and knowledge with the character, stories and honesty of Savage at the helm.
Bit of background on the station these were originally recorded for. ByteFM was founded in January 2008 and covers many different genres, from alternative rock to country, techno to dubstep, reggae, French chansons and many other styles. The shows are presented by around 80 radio music journalists from all over Germany, many well known within their fields and they have won many awards. I think it may be a bit of an untapped source.
Everyone I shared the Savage Music shows with has thoroughly enjoyed so we spoke to Jon, as well as Klaus and Ruben at ByteFM, to ask for permission to use the shows on Test Pressing. Kindly the chaps have all said yes so here we go with the first show. By way of introduction here’s a brief Q&A with Jon.
How did this series come about? What was the original thinking behind it? How did you meet the ByteFM guys?
I was asked to do it by Klaus Walter after I did a long interview with him in Hamburg to promote the German language England’s Dreaming. Klaus is a friend of my translator Conny Losch.
We hear you have an amazing record collection at home, have you kept most of the music you have been sent over the years?
Well yes and bought music I like as well. I still buy records. I’ve been reviewing records since 1977. Mmm, quite a long time.
How do you catalogue? By artist? Genre?
Periods, artists and genres.
When it comes to prized pieces of vinyl or cassettes please could you list your top three.
First Velvet Underground Album mono promo.
Acetate of Byrds’ Eight Miles High.
White label of Sex Pistols “Never Mind The Bollocks” US – formerly the Ramones’ copy. They hated the Sex Pistols so it is barely played.
What’s next for you?
Script for feature documentary of ‘Teenage’ book and starting plans for new book. Working on exhibition of Joy Division materials this summer. And on Punk Graphics book for Rizzoli.
I think one of your most underrated compilations to date has been the Dreams Come True – First Wave Of Electro on Domino. What were the first records you heard form this scene and how did you come to it. Was it through the electronic/industrial side of things or more the disco side?
Big cross over between black American dance music and white avant-garde in the early 80s. I DJ’ed at the Hacienda in 1982 and so was exposed to a lot of early Electro/Rap thanks to Hewan Clarke and Mike Pickering. But I was going that way anyway. Then a bit later Vince Aletti showed me the true delights of Disco, which of course you were not allowed to like during the punk period (although I Feel Love and Magic Fly escaped the fatwa).
Favourite record of last year?
Oh something on Kompakt. Anything on Kompakt.
Back to the shows, I understand it is to be a series of 100 shows? Why?
Not necessarily 100. Maybe yes, maybe no.
Tune in weekly to ByteFM for the Savage Music shows or stay tuned for the next update. Forthcoming shows include Queer Noise, Songs About The Sun, Moon Songs, Motorik and more.
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Party: Balearic Mystique
June 3, 2010
Terrible name for a party but this one needs a heads up as half of our mates are playing at it. Check the Sunday below. You probably won’t get such a nice line up in town for a while (Phil Mison, Moonboots, Balearic Mike, Ross Allen etc…). If the suns out I strongly suggest heading over, grabbing a beer and getting down. [Update] Saying that I just re-read the Saturday night and thinking about it that looks like loads of fun as well. Sheffield’s Chris Duckenfield and Winston Hazel worth the admission alone. Then you have Alfredo, Nancy Noise etc all doing their thing as well. Nice work DJ booker man.
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Mix: Terry Farley – Terry’s Chocolate Orange Mix
June 2, 2010
Terry Farley needs no introductions to most of you, someone long respected and still getting it right. From Boy’s Own to Junior Boy’s Own and now as one of the key players in the Faith crew Terry has been keeping the house flag burning for years now. If you Google Faith fanzine here’s what you get. Kind of sums it up really.
Anyway, Terry has done the first of three mixes from the Faith crew with Raoul and Jimmy P to follow soon. Perfect summer HOUSE music. Looking forward to the other two mixes. Enjoy while the sun shines.
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