Ah Brix. sigh
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Used to see her most mornings when they had Start, always smiled or said hi, nice lady.
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Finally set up my international online t-shirt store. Manufacturing and shipping set from USA/UK/EU, so that now eliminates the ridiculous shipping cost from Australia.
I will be populating it regularly, as I have hundreds of designs - stay tuned!
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Brilliant these.
Will you be offering colours on the 808/pacific tee ?
B/W on the lookout for another “got any chris rea” peanuts tee if anyone has a lead ?
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Can offer different colours - what colour were you after?
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Navy (a la acid jazz tee).
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Little plug for my bootleg store (shhh!) Thought the Sun Ra tee might be of interest to some folk in here. https://lowprofiletees.bigcartel.com/ All screen printed with love in the UK in very limited runs
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Quite an eclectic selection there. I do like the Spacemen 3 one- was listening to them this afternoon, somewhat strangely as I haven’t in years (apart from the Succession party episode of course)
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Just knocked up one of these for myself as I was struggling to find a good one online - thought it might come in handy when the @lovehandles edit comes out …
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Hiya @Balearic_Clapton you still doing some of your Balearic designs from a few years back on the forum to sell?
Hey Glen - yes mate - all are still available at your request!
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PM you B thx for the quick reply.
Started a label, only done merch, it’s all food based, called the collection “I don’t understand” for obvious reasons! https://mash101-3.bandcamp.com/
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One of the best places on the internet - diy projects and tutorials of every description, from renovating a 1950’s atom smasher, to making your own custom midi controller, a how-to for washing dishes by hand, a bespoke Ottoman chair with built in sub woofer
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Plenty of updates and additions to my tee store - no more international shipping costs as manufacture/shipping is handled in each country/region.
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Hi folks.
I’ve started a new zine and I’m hoping it’ll appeal to the Testpressing community. It’s A4, B&W, 40 pages. I wanted to make it in proper punk DIY spirit, photocopier and staples at home, but I was shocked to find out it’s actually cheaper to get it printed than to do it that way. Going with print means I can put it out at £3 a copy, which feels like a decent price point in 2026. I won’t be breaking even, but that was never really the plan (don’t tell my wife).
It’s a mix of vintage features pulled from Record Mirror, if you’re friends with me on Insta or Facebook you’ll know I’ve been posting vintage clippings for years after I picked up a job lot of old Record Mirrors. There’s new articles and interviews too, and going forward that’s the idea, keep it a mix of old and new. Soon to start work on Issue Two, hopefully bigger and better.
Issue One is out now.
Then. Now. Always. Music & Culture.
40 Pages A4.
From Hip Hop to House, the influences and everything in between.
UK Electro — vintage piece plus modern retrospective.
Crates Is High — record store profile.
Digging talk with Pete Isaac (Jelly Jazz / 45 Live).
A look at François Parker’s favourite remixes 1988–90.
Record related chat with Darrel (Funk Overlords / Second To None).
The Hidden History of Danish Hip Hop with Nyboe.
Steve Strange’s clubbing guide — vintage piece.
James Hamilton and his BPMs — vintage piece.
Lords of Lounge — Vinyl Vulture.
Malcolm McLaren — vintage piece.
Charts New and Vintage.
K-Otix — vintage piece.
Acid Daze — vintage piece.
Limited to 100 copies.
£3.00 per issue
- postage
UK £2.50 ·
Europe £6.00
Rest of World £8.00
DM to order.
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Not me, but a good friend who makes some lovely nature-related wares. Hope this is OK to share!
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Did some new merch for our little label. Commissioned this amazing drawing by our pal Sayan and stuck it on a bunch of things. Not strictly a Balearic label by any stretch but put out a few things people have liked on here (Joe Harvey-Whyte, Hooson & Johnson, Mali-I etc). Anyway hope ok to share!
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really nice
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