I cleaned up my test pressing of Talking Heads’ genre-busting classic Fear Of Music this weekend. I don’t play it often for obvious reasons (I actually have a regular first pressing that I typically put on instead), but I wanted to enjoy it, pulled it out and yeah, it was kind of dirty—so I fixed that. On the upper left, you can see the grubby LP; to its right, I went at it with a Hunt brush, which did 70-80% of the work, getting dust out of the grooves, as you can see. Next, it took a bath in a HumminGuru ultrasonic record cleaning machine with a touch of Groovewasher G2 fluid in it, and Bam—you can see the decided improvement on the lower right. The record sounded amazing, particularly on (of all tracks) “Paper”—the ricocheting guitar echos were electrifying and Chris Frantz’s drums were right in the room. Totally worth the effort to clean this one up; it now is in a MoFi sleeve to keep it that way.
Six years ago ---> it was a first test press and final audio quality check of 'Don't Postpone The Future' album 🤝📀💾🎶📣👍💪 🥰😻
https://open.spotify.com/album/0p2kFHo8A8A3MYQFo92Y71
https://tidal.com/browse/album/78626567
today we received the testpressing of "Time Passages TP24" incl. Andrew Red Hand - "In The Cemetery" (Hardfloor Remix) -- should be out in September -- 👌
A-T-3 076 Quando Quango - Love Tempo (Mark Kamins Mix)
Scan from The Face originally posted in 2010 to TestPressing's Wordpress site. Mike is Mike Pickering and the breakdancers are almost certainly Broken Glass
Manchester's answer to Konk (A-T-2 157) or Pigbag (A-T-2 360), formed in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. After relocating to Manchester the band settled as Factory Records and Hacienda A&R Mike Pickering, Hillegonda Rietveld, Simon Topping, and Barry Johnson
Love Tempo was the bands biggest hit, it got to number 4 on the US Dance Chart and number 32 on the UK Indie Chart
Island Records A&R and Danceteria resident dj Mark Kamins (A-T-2 050) was asked to remix Love Tempo, here's the story
"Away from New York and whilst touring with Madonna in the UK he met Mike Pickering at Manchester institution The Hacienda. Mike approached Mark in remixing the ‘Love Tempo’ track that his group Quando Quango had produced – Factory Records boss Tony Wilson loved the proto-house styling of his mix and commissioned Mark to produce the group’s later ‘Pigs and Battleships’ LP."
funkscapes is on bandcamp now! Get funkscapes 004: Harri Stojka Express - What A Funky Night 12" and previous releases as rare testpressings. Follow for upcoming records and tapes.
New EP on @blknoise records coming this fall. More details soon. :-) #testpressing #acid #blknoise https://www.instagram.com/p/CD6q1sFnCcW/?igshid=1lurqzt612b1