i'm stirmonster but you can call me twitch if you like. i'm a dj but
please, please don't call me dj twitch - yuk. my real
name is keith and i'm 34 and live in glasgow. i've been playing
records for a living for 15 years and started scotland's first
techno club - pure. it was the first place in the uk ever to book
richie hawtin, jeff mills and a host of other techno legends. i also
ran a label that released the first music in the uk from panasonic
and jimi tenor. pure lasted for ten years but by then i'd had
enough of all night house and techno and wanted to do
something else - so i did.
so i started a club called optimo (espacio) where i could indulge
my love for all sorts of music from no wave to garage rock to
electro to dub to dub disco to.... just about anything really. it's the
joy of my life and is possibly the most deranged club out there.
no, really it is! you can check out what gets played and a whole
host of other stuff here. i've
also started another label called OSCarr which hopefully you will
be hearing more about in the coming year (although not from me
on ILM, i don't do spam!).
apart from that i spend far too much time on my powerbook
doing music, most of which i make just for djing purposes. i do
have a project with a friend called mount florida that released an
album on matador records last year.
i also spend far too much time on the internet too and for
musically related stuff, my spiritual home is the fmbb. i've been
hanging around ILM for a while but just 'got into it' recently. i find it
strangely theraputic that there are people out there who have it
worse than me on the music obsession front.
oops - messed the html up first time!
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00(twenty-two years ago)link