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
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
freakish coincidence: i googled upon your club's website today (while i was searching for info about vitalic). looked like fun :)
hee hee - very good point and i was just waiting for someone to pull me up about that. basically, a few years ago when i was computer illiterate my then girlfriend set it up for me without consulting me. my main email is actually a different .twitch address but i use the dj. one for when i have to leave an email addy on the internet.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Mr Noodles, Thursday, 28 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Cameron Potter, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stirmonster, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nate Patrin, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link