It astounds me that a club playing no wave, girl group, classical, punk, soul, krautrock, etc etc etc etc etc can be a huge success but by all accounts it is. Could this happen in Manchester/Liverpool/Kent/Cardiff or is is a Scot thang? Mr Optimo should franchise out the Optimo brandname and become a 21st century Zilkha, or all clubnight-running guys should just rip him off wholesale (I know I intend to).
If Stirmonster is reading, how did you set the whole thing up? Was it a blazing success from the off or did you have to build it up?
Also, if anyone has the mix cd as teasingly described on http://www.optimo.co.uk/download.htm then please please let me get a copy of it somehow (soulseek? cd-r tradey stuff?)
― Ian SPACK (Ian SPACK), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 17:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
it does sound great, i wonder if i can obtain a copy from the chaps - will investigate
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 19:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 20:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 20:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
I can't believe that a club with *that* music policy is so popular, how on earth has it worked so well? Lauren, what's their secret? And why haven't clubs all over Britain followed suit?
The first I heard of it was in the business pages of The Sun (!) where they mentioned how the djs hung a mic over the crowd dancing, sampled them, made a song out of the noise and played it back out minutes later. Unreal.
Also, is it always on a Sunday? I thought it was a Friday night thing.
― Ian SPACK (Ian SPACK), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 20:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
Had that impression the 2 years i spent in Glasgow. The rest of scotland was full of hardcore rave/gabber kids.
― Billy, Wednesday, 5 February 2003 20:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
then one week three hundred people turned up which we thought was a fluke, but the next week even more turned up and it continued to grow from there. our home, the sub club burned down and we were in temporary homes for three years but returned back 'home' a few months ago. since then it has gone even more ballistic. last sunday there was a blizzard going on outside and we expected it to be really quiet but we had the biggest crowd we have ever had and had to turn a couple of hundred away. it's insane, i tell ya!
the really strange thing for me is that we have a really young crowd who will freak to records they don't know from before they were born! i guess people are bored and want more from their night out. people in scotland also party like their lives depend on it!
we have been lumped in with electroc(l)a$h, post punk, bootlegs, too many djs etc but really, we are none of these things. i follow music, not what anyone else does and doing this in relative isolation up in scotland has been great for us. it means we don't belong to any scene and will always operate outside what is happening in the media. as fads come and go, we will still be here just playing music.
one of the reasons it might have worked is that after ten years of being techno djs, myself and my partner really know how to work a crowd so even though we play all types of music, we put it together in quite an energetic way and mix records that should never work together. i mean who'd have thought mo tucker kept such good time but it's possible to mix live the whole of 'waiting for my man' over some slamming techno track . likewise johnny cash's 'personal jesus' or a whole multitude of other songs. also, using a powerbook live lets me do things that leave people wondering 'how did he do that?'. but most importantly, it's fun - i might play reallly obscure records from the sun city girls, billy childish, the ze or 99 label or whatever but i always know when it is time to give the crowd a dose of fun.
i hope i don't come across all arrogant here. i'm not but i truly love what i do and it is the most enjoyable thing i have ever done in my whole life.
and finally, it CAN work elsewhere - we have taken optimo to new york, paris, helsinki, belfast, munich and stockholm and it worked every time.
if any ILM'ers ever come and don't enjoy themselves i will personally refund their costs for getting here.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 5 February 2003 21:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 22:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
presumptuous? never
― mosurock (mosurock), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 22:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
What is it about this song? Erol Alkan (of Trash) namechecks it in this month's Jockey Slut. I really must try to make it sometime. I missed thema at Auto too, despite being there. I was probably stuck in the murderous beer queue. Unfortunately whenever I'm up in Glasgow I'm usually travelling back down south on a Sunday. I will get there though.
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 22:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
that's what really struck me about the night. the crowd went mad whether they knew a track or not. there is no way to manufacture that kind of enthusiasm, and it's really exciting to see.
― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 6 February 2003 15:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― robin (robin), Thursday, 6 February 2003 16:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 6 February 2003 18:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 01:47 (twenty years ago) link
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 26 November 2003 01:53 (twenty years ago) link
― jed (jed_e_3), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 01:58 (twenty years ago) link
gygax, how's the old fmbb doing?
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 26 November 2003 02:16 (twenty years ago) link
i was in thinking today of crazy things: optimo global tastemaker early 2000s nostalgia. but in a very chris marker exotica way. crazy things.
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 02:27 (twenty years ago) link
― jed (jed_e_3), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 02:34 (twenty years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 05:29 (twenty years ago) link
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 26 November 2003 11:11 (twenty years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 12:24 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 12:47 (twenty years ago) link
― raphael diligent (Cozen), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 12:58 (twenty years ago) link
yes it is.
― jed (jed_e_3), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 13:18 (twenty years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 22:28 (twenty years ago) link
― jed (jed_e_3), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 22:45 (twenty years ago) link
― nebbesh (nebbesh), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 11:30 (twenty years ago) link
― jed (jed_e_3), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 12:53 (twenty years ago) link
(i thk i know wht she looks like, really pretty, bowl cut, i thk i saw her at the latest 'mars hotel' gig.)
― raphael diligent (Cozen), Thursday, 4 December 2003 22:38 (twenty years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 04:13 (nineteen years ago) link
Next Optimo for me: The Go! Team one, I think. Would like to do Clinic too but don't think I will.
New Year too.
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 09:02 (nineteen years ago) link
So, when they confirm I have to find somewhere to live and move. And do NYE Optimo. I am sure it is possible somehow...
― 3underscore (___), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 09:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 09:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― 3underscore (___), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 09:39 (nineteen years ago) link
take the megabus, ronan.
― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 10:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 11:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 12:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― *@*.* (gareth), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 12:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― *@*.* (gareth), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 12:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 12:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 12:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 12:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― MattR (MattR), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 13:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:23 (nineteen years ago) link
i attended the 1999/2000 hogmanay optimo at the art school..... i don't remember a single thing except a friend of mine stealing an entire case of mini tonic bottles.
― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:25 (nineteen years ago) link
(they do play Limp Bizkit at Optimo right?)
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Temple Of The Dog, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 21:57 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.optimo.co.uk/killthedj.htm
― stew, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 22:29 (nineteen years ago) link
bah, forget it then.
― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 22:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 22:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 22:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 23:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― haitch haitch haitch (or any three repetitive sounds) (haitch), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 23:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 00:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 00:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 00:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― angus-macdonald (Audiophonics), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― MattR (MattR), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:29 (nineteen years ago) link
i think that is hilarious.
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:35 (nineteen years ago) link
Who are the 2 cover stars?
And Is kill the dj records just going to be for mix cds?
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:39 (nineteen years ago) link
i would find it hilarious if i didn't get about ten emails a day asking me these questions.
michael - the cover stars are two incredibly shady guys from glasgow. kill the dj was initially only a mix / re edit series but will also i believe release original material too.
The licensing process must have been insane...
you CANNOT imagine. it took 18 months!
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 20:55 (nineteen years ago) link
Ha ha - I'm such a liar. I just ordered it from cdquest.com, along with the So Young But So Cold comp and a couple of other things that were much cheaper than in the UK. That $:£ rate is just too seductive.
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 21:27 (nineteen years ago) link
xmas optimo isn't going to happen for me. i'm thinking new year's eve..
― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 18 November 2004 10:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Thursday, 18 November 2004 10:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― TOTD, Friday, 19 November 2004 05:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 22 November 2004 09:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jedmond (Jedmond), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 14:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 14:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 14:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― msp (msp), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jedmond (Jedmond), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 18:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dee Dee, Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:52 (nineteen years ago) link
(cdquest.com)
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jedmond (Jedmond), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 16:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 17:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jedmond (Jedmond), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 17:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Sunday, 9 January 2005 01:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― rm265, Sunday, 9 January 2005 19:16 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm with it, hep cat.
― Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Monday, 10 January 2005 00:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Seth Is Never Enough, Monday, 10 January 2005 16:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 10 January 2005 16:50 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.tigersushi.com/site/frameset.jsp?page=shop/new_shop.htm
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 10 January 2005 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Seth Is Never Enough, Monday, 10 January 2005 16:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 14:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― stew, Wednesday, 12 January 2005 14:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 14:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 14:43 (nineteen years ago) link
ha Does this mean a "Muzik" dance type section will return to the NME?
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 14:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 15:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― erol, Wednesday, 12 January 2005 15:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:00 (nineteen years ago) link
"COngratulations. The best club in Glasgow has now turned into Shack"
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:07 (nineteen years ago) link
i think the press we're getting 'cos of the mix cd will actually really fuck the club up for the worse. it happened before with a club i did called 'pure' and within 6 months of being in various magazines the club was full of idiots. oh well. i suppose we can always get whitehouse in to be the resident band for a few months.
and who needs fit indie sluts when you can have fit gay jeds?
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:15 (nineteen years ago) link
optimo = trash without the crap deejays (jus kiddin, e)
― nick.K (nick.K), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:18 (nineteen years ago) link
every week, my big norwegian mate kristian would go. every week, he would dance like a six-foot-four, shaven-headed, bug-eyed loon for several hours. every week, at four o'clock in the morning, he would bang on my door (i'd just be back from the mission or somewhere, heheheh) and yell how it had been the best night of his life.
happy days.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 13 January 2005 16:12 (nineteen years ago) link
I see Michael Mayer and Justus Koehncke are now confirmed for the special at the Arches on the 22nd April.
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 21 February 2005 22:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 00:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 00:29 (nineteen years ago) link
I wonder what will happen, on the 22nd.
hopefully a good time will be had.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 22 February 2005 00:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 11:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 11:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 11:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 11:32 (nineteen years ago) link
Stirmonster, the club Pure had some connection to the band The Honeymooners, didn't it? Or am I getting muddled?
― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 13:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 14:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 14:06 (nineteen years ago) link
ronan - still no word on the vinyl. the delay is doing my head in.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 22 February 2005 16:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 19:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 22 February 2005 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link
I was at the meeting where we discussed who to book, just not actually in the office or there when the bookings are made!
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 19:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― jack cole (jackcole), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 19:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 19:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 22 February 2005 20:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 20:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 20:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 22 February 2005 20:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 20:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― rm265, Tuesday, 22 February 2005 20:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 20:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 20:50 (nineteen years ago) link
you should see an Irish off licence with a half an hour till closing time on the Thursday, it's like a scene from a shopping centre in an armageddon movie.
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 20:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 22:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 22:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 10 March 2005 14:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Thursday, 10 March 2005 16:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 17 March 2005 03:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 17 March 2005 03:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 17 March 2005 09:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 17 March 2005 09:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sasquatch, Thursday, 17 March 2005 12:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 17 March 2005 12:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sven Bastard (blueski), Thursday, 17 March 2005 12:56 (nineteen years ago) link
dr. nut & the night of joy says: (1:09:34 am) j'agrer
dr. nut & the night of joy says: (1:09:38 am) agree!
cozen says: (1:11:06 am) you should
dr. nut & the night of joy says: (1:11:15 am) yeah man i mean those people i dont like on ilx i just know id like irl cos i dont give a shit what people like irl
dr. nut & the night of joy says: (1:11:21 am) i just like people
dr. nut & the night of joy says: (1:11:26 am) i love ronan!
cozen says: (1:11:31 am) he is a dude!
cozen says: (1:11:35 am) did you meet him?
cozen says: (1:11:40 am) I bet he is awesome irl
cozen says: (1:11:47 am) fun?
dr. nut & the night of joy says: (1:11:49 am) yeah he was the best thing about dublin!
cozen says: (1:11:54 am) : )
cozen says: (1:12:01 am) I really like ronan
dr. nut & the night of joy says: (1:12:01 am) so warm, lovely
cozen says: (1:12:07 am) I think he is coming over fr mayer
cozen says: (1:12:10 am) I can't wait
dr. nut & the night of joy says: (1:12:26 am) he should come over for acdc
cozen says: (1:12:34 am) he shd come over every weekend
cozen says: (1:12:36 am) megabus
dr. nut & the night of joy says: (1:12:51 am) andrew was good too
cozen says: (1:13:00 am) you know I am posting all this shit to ilx
cozen says: (1:13:10 am) let's start raving
dr. nut & the night of joy says: (1:13:14 am) all what shit?
cozen says: (1:13:20 am) I love ronan too
cozen says: (1:13:28 am) each night I dream abt ronan
dr. nut & the night of joy says: (1:13:33 am) lol
dr. nut & the night of joy says: (1:14:09 am) i love adam i want to have his babies
cozen says: (1:14:12 am) in my dreams, I go looking fr advice and andrew and ronan are there, they say, 'don't worry, go forward, the tiefschwarz remix of the events that transpire will eventually justify everything you do'
dr. nut & the night of joy says: (1:14:26 am) lol
cozen says: (1:14:31 am) and then I laugh, cry and wake up
cozen says: (1:14:35 am) ok posting now
cozen says: (1:14:43 am) now tht I made the funny haha : )
cozen says: (1:14:49 am) god saké is bad fr me
dr. nut & the night of joy says: (1:15:03 am) ur posting where? what thread u?
― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 19 March 2005 01:15 (nineteen years ago) link
he will never talk to me again now.
― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 19 March 2005 01:16 (nineteen years ago) link
sweet regret, court me now.
― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 19 March 2005 01:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 19 March 2005 01:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― dr. nut & the night of joy (jed), Saturday, 19 March 2005 01:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 19 March 2005 01:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 19 March 2005 01:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― dr. nut & the night of joy (jed), Saturday, 19 March 2005 01:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 19 March 2005 21:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 19 March 2005 21:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 20 March 2005 00:37 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.urbanized-records.com/e/search/vinyl_detail.cgi?vinyl_id=1729
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 20 March 2005 01:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― stirmonster, Sunday, 20 March 2005 19:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Deerninja B4rim4, Plus-Tech Whizz Kid (Barima), Sunday, 20 March 2005 20:45 (nineteen years ago) link
I met you in BKLYN. I play in Kid's band. Did he ever give you a copy of our stuff?
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Sunday, 20 March 2005 21:09 (nineteen years ago) link
jay vee - he didn't give me any of yr stuff but then i only saw him really briefly. i meant to hang out with him more but i was really ill while i was there. i really, really, really want to get you guys to play the club. kid knows that you have an open invitation to play. i don't need to hear it, i know i'm going to love it. tell kid i said hi and that next time we'll hook up properly.
― stirmonster, Sunday, 20 March 2005 21:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Sunday, 20 March 2005 21:41 (nineteen years ago) link
I think I heard these:
ada, "maps" (some drawn out remix?)ada, "eve"closer musik, "1 2 3 no gravity (ewan pearson mix)"frei / köhncke, "hot love (dj koze rmx.)"
... and then blank.
― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 30 April 2005 13:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 30 April 2005 13:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 30 April 2005 13:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 30 April 2005 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 30 April 2005 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 30 April 2005 14:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 30 April 2005 14:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 30 April 2005 14:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 30 April 2005 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 30 April 2005 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 1 May 2005 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 1 May 2005 16:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 2 May 2005 13:02 (eighteen years ago) link
What a fine thing to christen my new CD player with.
Mr Optimo, you should consider coming to the West Coast with your concern, and when I say the West Coast I mean "San Francisco".
― the blackest hand, Monday, 23 May 2005 17:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― the blackest hand, Monday, 23 May 2005 17:13 (eighteen years ago) link
-- Jedmond (jedmon...), January 4th, 2005 11:56 AM. (Jedmond)
yup, 4999 other people. it seems the first batch of 5000 have this manufacturing flaw which wasn't discovered until after they had been shipped to the shops. tigersushi will replace any of the ofeending copies if they are sent back to them direct (which i can appreciate is probably more effort than anyone is going to be bothered with).
-- stirmonster (jd_twitc...), January 4th, 2005 12:24 PM.
crazy!! i just got this like 2 weeks ago and i guess i'm one of the 5000. i thought it was intentional.
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 03:04 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Monday, 1 August 2005 10:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Telephonething (Telephonething), Saturday, 10 September 2005 20:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 10 September 2005 20:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Saturday, 10 September 2005 21:36 (eighteen years ago) link
God, I feel silly about this. But those POPs (found another one, in the "Dexter" segment) will haunt me to my dying day otherwise. I'm totally compulsive about this kind of thing...
― Telephonething (Telephonething), Saturday, 10 September 2005 21:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― stirmonster (stirmonster), Saturday, 10 September 2005 23:48 (eighteen years ago) link
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― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Sunday, 11 September 2005 11:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 11 September 2005 12:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― stirmonster (stirmonster), Sunday, 11 September 2005 12:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 11 September 2005 17:29 (eighteen years ago) link
: )
― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 11 September 2005 17:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 11 September 2005 18:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― stirmonster (stirmonster), Monday, 12 September 2005 04:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:18 (eighteen years ago) link
when optimo visited montreal unfortunately i had a work-related dj gig the same night :(
― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 8 January 2006 21:52 (eighteen years ago) link
the optimo site explicitly says not to email you about this.. rather than bother Tigersushi, can I ask here?
Any insight on any remaining record shops still stocking Kill the DJ Part 2 on 3x12"? or was it a limited friends pressing and i should just give up?
many thx
― titty sanskrit (sanskrit), Thursday, 12 January 2006 01:30 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 12 January 2006 08:35 (eighteen years ago) link
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― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 12 January 2006 12:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 12 January 2006 12:14 (eighteen years ago) link
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― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 12 January 2006 12:22 (eighteen years ago) link
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― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 12 January 2006 13:24 (eighteen years ago) link
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― stirmonster (stirmonster), Thursday, 12 January 2006 13:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Why So?, Thursday, 12 January 2006 13:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 12 January 2006 13:49 (eighteen years ago) link
we'll be ten years old then (if we last that long!). seems a good age to bow out on.
― stirmonster (stirmonster), Thursday, 12 January 2006 13:52 (eighteen years ago) link
i assume you've already booked a fat lady to sing at the very final night?
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 12 January 2006 14:07 (eighteen years ago) link
thanks for the info, now i can stop looking. quite a rare edition then.. har har. i am quite enamored by the psyche out picture disc, it is a treat.
― titty sanskrit (sanskrit), Thursday, 12 January 2006 14:08 (eighteen years ago) link
xp
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 12 January 2006 14:09 (eighteen years ago) link
we have actually talked about this! now if only divine were still alive.
― stirmonster (stirmonster), Thursday, 12 January 2006 14:12 (eighteen years ago) link
heheh HEHEH. i would expect no less.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 12 January 2006 14:25 (eighteen years ago) link
And have a (gigantic) falafel at the shop around the corner for me.
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Thursday, 12 January 2006 14:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Renard (Renard), Thursday, 12 January 2006 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 12 January 2006 17:56 (eighteen years ago) link
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― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 12 January 2006 20:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― terry lennox. (gareth), Thursday, 12 January 2006 20:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― etc, Thursday, 12 January 2006 20:41 (eighteen years ago) link
my heart seized up a little bit when i read this
― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 12 January 2006 20:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― fez, Saturday, 8 April 2006 12:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― stirmonster (stirmonster), Saturday, 8 April 2006 13:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 8 April 2006 13:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― stirmonster (stirmonster), Saturday, 8 April 2006 13:58 (seventeen years ago) link
oh no. i better try harder to make it out to glasgow
― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 8 April 2006 16:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 8 May 2006 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link
what ws that track with horse screeching noises you played near the end of the BRWH this w/end?!
― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 26 June 2006 20:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― jed_, Sunday, 13 May 2007 22:10 (sixteen years ago) link
― s1ocki, Sunday, 13 May 2007 22:20 (sixteen years ago) link
― The Macallan 18 Year, Sunday, 13 May 2007 22:40 (sixteen years ago) link
― haitch, Sunday, 13 May 2007 23:46 (sixteen years ago) link
― tricky, Monday, 14 May 2007 03:41 (sixteen years ago) link
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― Neil S, Monday, 14 May 2007 10:04 (sixteen years ago) link
the space odyssey mix is an amazing hilarious delight.
― s1ocki, Saturday, 10 May 2008 18:54 (fifteen years ago) link
glad you enjoyed it. the night we did based around "2001 : a space odyssey" was completely hilarious. they don't show up too clearly in this photo but we had a load of HALs custom made. also note monolith hanging from the roof. :-)
http://www.optimo.co.uk/monolith.jpg
http://www.optimo.co.uk/spaceman.jpg
― stirmonster, Saturday, 10 May 2008 19:21 (fifteen years ago) link
omg wish i coulda been there.
i love the way the space odyssey mix just keeps going... the first time i listened to it i kept thinking "ah what a perfect way for this to end" (like the close encounters music, thus sprach zarathustra etc)... but when telstar came on it warmed my heart.
― s1ocki, Saturday, 10 May 2008 19:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Mix? Hrm?
― Telephone thing, Saturday, 10 May 2008 20:15 (fifteen years ago) link
I have some pictures from the night too, will look them out... though they're a bit blurry
― czn, Saturday, 10 May 2008 20:34 (fifteen years ago) link
http://img.skitch.com/20080510-drbcn3pfdd3j8ai3rg7y8qch7i.jpg http://img.skitch.com/20080510-muw74ki2fwxum4u8pqip2xqmyn.jpg http://img.skitch.com/20080510-p7y7yihu35anjsxksapg6eyqr1.jpg
^gf's hat
― czn, Saturday, 10 May 2008 20:44 (fifteen years ago) link
http://img.skitch.com/20080510-84g953jy5bnme5kw22734xf3yu.jpg
― czn, Saturday, 10 May 2008 20:45 (fifteen years ago) link
http://img.skitch.com/20080510-e8fai6ig8cnhn23qncfa7u3ykd.jpg
http://img.skitch.com/20080510-psrtkat2id2duq1ixsegm971di.jpg
― czn, Saturday, 10 May 2008 20:46 (fifteen years ago) link
YSI YSI YSI
― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 10 May 2008 21:35 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm sorry, she's very fond of it
― czn, Saturday, 10 May 2008 21:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Lift off
― stirmonster, Sunday, 11 May 2008 19:01 (fifteen years ago) link
cheers :-)
― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 11 May 2008 19:49 (fifteen years ago) link
You, sir, are a prince among men.
― Telephone thing, Sunday, 11 May 2008 19:50 (fifteen years ago) link
i love the way the space odyssey mix just keeps going... the first time i listened to it i kept thinking "ah what a perfect way for this to end" (like the close encounters music, thus sprach zarathustra etc)... but when telstar came on it warmed my heart. ^^^^^^^^^^^
can't believe I didn't hear optimo was playing australia until a few days out; not enough time to organise a trans-tasman trip.
anyone heard the optimo mix of the lottergirls cover of "the day the world turned dayglo"?
― etc, Sunday, 11 May 2008 21:58 (fifteen years ago) link
you can pretend you were at the last of their four gigs with three mp3s from this page (about four hours in total)
― energy flash gordon, Monday, 12 May 2008 03:07 (fifteen years ago) link
oh god, the hangover
― haitch, Monday, 12 May 2008 03:39 (fifteen years ago) link
hopefully we'll be coming back to australia in december. we were both completely and utterly smitten with the place - definitely our favourite dj trip of the last few years.
― stirmonster, Monday, 12 May 2008 03:54 (fifteen years ago) link
YAYYAYAYAYAY
― energy flash gordon, Monday, 12 May 2008 04:34 (fifteen years ago) link
December = playing in the bush outside of Melbourne again?
― energy flash gordon, Monday, 12 May 2008 04:51 (fifteen years ago) link
thanks for the link, & OH MY GOD YES! plz give enough warning for new zealanders to finally pick up & move to melbourne, etc.
― etc, Monday, 12 May 2008 07:11 (fifteen years ago) link
hopefully i'm going to do a few solo dates in new zealand in december before meeting up with my partner in crime in australia. i'm trying to work out the logistics of it at the moment but will keep you informed if it comes together.
― stirmonster, Monday, 12 May 2008 15:03 (fifteen years ago) link
thanks stirmonster! the astronauts report it feels good.
― tricky, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 15:40 (fifteen years ago) link
the sub club mix is really good! so's the other disc, actually.
― haitch, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 06:10 (fifteen years ago) link
that sub club mix in full
― haitch, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 06:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyone heard the Sleepwalk mix yet?
― Neil S, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 13:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes. It's great! Starts off with three minutes of sea noises (Chris Watson) and then gets crazy fun. Introduced me to Wall Of Voodoo's 'Ring Of Fire' cover - I made brief reference to this on here a couple of weeks ago
― The Slash My Father Wrote (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 14:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Okay, will be getting this forthwith then!
― Neil S, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 14:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Ooh, better pick that up.
Anyone know any details on possible Aus/NZ dates in December? The website's info ends in Nov.
― etc, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 14:31 (fifteen years ago) link
australia dates in february. sadly nz dates fell apart.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 14:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Eh, we're used to it. Know whether it'll be early or late Feb for Aussie? Tempted to go over for the Primitive Calculators reunion + Afrirampo at ATP 09 in Jan .. could make a holiday out've it.
― etc, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 14:48 (fifteen years ago) link
it is looking like the weekends of feb 6/7 (canberra / playground festival), 13/14 (melbourne / perth) and the 20th (sydney). this all has to be 100% confirmed though.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 14:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Will Sleepwalk be getting a US release?
― Telephone thing, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 16:20 (fifteen years ago) link
tracklisting looks great on that one, i'll have to grab it on itunes once i get home.
anyone like that naum gabo release on dissident? http://www.flexx.be/item/gabo001
i like it quite a bit. and that betty botox stuff is killer (i assume you all know this, though)
― psychgawsple, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 19:59 (fifteen years ago) link
*marks calendar*
― jabba hands, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 23:03 (fifteen years ago) link
comps for all your beloved ilxor pals to playground weekender! :D
― i fire doughnuts from a HOOSteen to paralyse my enemies (sic), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 08:43 (fifteen years ago) link
they are hoping for a US release but licensing the arthur russell track for the US is proving incredibly difficult so it will either be held up for some time or come out without that track.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Listening to this mix right now. Very excited about Sleepwalk.
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 22:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Okay "Witch Hunt" is just awesome. Is this an act I should be embarrassed for never having heard of?
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 23:07 (fifteen years ago) link
patiently waiting for my copy of that to arrive from RVNG.
― fela cooties (haitch), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 23:15 (fifteen years ago) link
^what he said
― mizzell, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 23:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Mine came today! I forgot to check if I got the red vinyl. It's a very sweet looking package.
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 23:18 (fifteen years ago) link
i got a copy coming any day now too
― psychgawsple, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 23:52 (fifteen years ago) link
The tracklist for the mix is on discogs btw.
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 23:57 (fifteen years ago) link
60 Minute Of Fear is really rocking my world at the moment. I can't pick a favorite track on it, I've been listening to practically nothing else this week.
Sleepwalk is quite exquisite too, I've been playing it fairly soft volume late at night and it's giving me Lynchian dreams.
Thank you Optimo
― mmmm, Friday, 19 December 2008 22:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Optimo nicely falls on my birthday this year. Bring on the 28th!
― Gukbe, Friday, 19 December 2008 23:36 (fifteen years ago) link
north america/ mexico tour dates:
Thursday January 15th - Toronto Drake Hotel (Twitch)
Friday January 16th - Philadelphia Barbary (Twitch)
Saturday January 17th - New York Santos (Twitch)
Tuesday January 20th - Portland Holocene (Twitch)
Wednesday January 21st - Los Angeles The Echo (Twitch)
Friday January 23rd - Mexico City Pasjae America (Twitch)
― jaime, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 04:58 (fifteen years ago) link
the 60 minutes of fear mix makes me feel like i'm seventeen again (in the best way possible)
i'm likely going to the first nyc date (wilkes is i thought DJing the 24th somewhere?)
― i am in the kitchen with the ghost dad blues (donna rouge), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 05:03 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah i just pulled those off the website and i think the 24th is still tba ... so refer back to http://www.optimo.co.uk/ontour2009.htm for further info.
― jaime, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 05:08 (fifteen years ago) link
wtf portland + la but no san francisco? please stirmonster come here soon!
― all-seeing eye of horus (psychgawsple), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 05:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Wait, how had I missed that Stirmonster was part of Optimo this whole time? Good lord do I miss things sometimes.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 05:29 (fifteen years ago) link
oh, ned!
― GERMANY-world leader manufacturer of humans clones (haitch), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 05:41 (fifteen years ago) link
(wilkes is i thought DJing the 24th somewhere?)
in new york at the ESG show at le poisson rouge
― dmr, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 05:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Haver just ordered the 60 Minutes of Fear set, hooray! Hope I'll still get the full package...
― Beloved lightbulb (Neil S), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 10:29 (fifteen years ago) link
so what's happening not tonight but next week?
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 1 March 2009 21:17 (fifteen years ago) link
What happened to Ian SPACK?
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 2 March 2009 00:04 (fifteen years ago) link
ateve shasta, are you going to be in glasgow?!
― jed_, Monday, 2 March 2009 02:29 (fifteen years ago) link
ateve?
― jed_, Monday, 2 March 2009 02:30 (fifteen years ago) link
what's happening is normal optimo w/ no guests and that's about as good as it gets in my book.
― jed_, Monday, 2 March 2009 02:31 (fifteen years ago) link
i have an excellent mp3 of the optimo show from a couple weeks ago in melbourne... would upload but i think it's coming as a podcast through other means, will link it when it does. it's two and a half hours and it's still only half the set!
― resident advice whore (haitch), Monday, 2 March 2009 02:57 (fifteen years ago) link
jed, i'm trying. My friends want to drive but I'm like .... "eh?"
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Monday, 2 March 2009 04:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Seeing this thread bumped again reminded me- thanks for doing the Ten Tracks thing, Stirmonster (and Wilkes/Naum, who as far as I know doesn't post here so you'll just have to take his thanks and like it). I'm about halfway through the selection from October and you've already convinced me to check out the rest of the Den Haan EP ("Metamorphosis" is fucking great) and give the Black Affair album a shot.
― Telephone thing, Monday, 2 March 2009 05:25 (fifteen years ago) link
steve, if you're going to be about then email me on colinohara at gmail. be good to have a drink!
― jed_, Monday, 2 March 2009 09:53 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1909&Itemid=26
Interesting to see newer stuff getting the edit treatment.
― Treblekicker, Monday, 2 March 2009 14:41 (fifteen years ago) link
hope you can make it steve! if you are going to, email me.
― stirmonster, Monday, 2 March 2009 16:47 (fifteen years ago) link
I think ian is around lurking as usual. Last name i saw him using was Niche Ian. Also lol @ ned
― Pfunkboy in blood drenched rabbit suit jamming in the woods (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 2 March 2009 16:59 (fifteen years ago) link
i def will stirry.
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Monday, 2 March 2009 18:00 (fifteen years ago) link
new sonic assassins is killer! id heard there was throbbing gristle on it so i couldnt stop thinking 'something came over me' was going to feature in 'fumble in the bungle' for some reason
― straightola, Friday, 13 March 2009 12:18 (fifteen years ago) link
wouldn't it be fun, if we could all be at optimo together?
― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, November 16, 2004 12:30 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 13 March 2009 13:08 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't know if I can say it here but the Den Haan ep is something fabolous.Best new music I heard in this 3 months of 2009.
― kaiser, Friday, 13 March 2009 13:12 (fifteen years ago) link
den haan and optimo are at disco bloodbath with todd terje on april 9 and i cant bloody wait! easter apocalypso
― straightola, Friday, 13 March 2009 13:17 (fifteen years ago) link
is todd terje playing at that also? daaaaaaamn
― just sayin, Friday, 13 March 2009 14:24 (fifteen years ago) link
i know, unbelievable. i might be stuck doing visuals at a bloody infadels gig till 1
― straightola, Friday, 13 March 2009 14:35 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.optimo.co.uk/cramp1.jpg
― stirmonster, Friday, 13 March 2009 18:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Australian top-5-charting, self-released pop group Sneaky S0und Sy5tem have evidently been touring the UK, and their showpony frontman wrote a tour diary for the weekly clubber's newspaper back home in Sydney:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/kitbrash/sneakydiary1.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/kitbrash/sneakydiary2.jpg
― Bostin' Legal (sic), Sunday, 12 April 2009 06:55 (fourteen years ago) link
I wonder how The Archers took to that; R4 listeners must be expanding their musical consciousness!
― krakow, Sunday, 12 April 2009 07:20 (fourteen years ago) link
You can guess which bandmember typed that:
http://whothehell.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/sneakywhite.jpg
― Bostin' Legal (sic), Sunday, 12 April 2009 07:38 (fourteen years ago) link
which member? does optimo's venue not have any lights at all?
really really liking the florence & machine remix but i don't dj with vinyl and can't find an mp3 of it - says here that "Optimo take on one of the hottest bands around - florence & the machine. supplying two remixes which will never be released on any other format" booooo. twitch, if you're around, check your myspace!
― NI, Sunday, 12 April 2009 19:58 (fourteen years ago) link
that feature is odd as i met those guys on the night and they seemed to know what the club was. they were telling me they have been doing a sunday night club in sydney for ten years. is that right?
also, i should point out, we have lots of lights. in fact, we are ALL about the lights. i guess he was going for dramatic effect there.
NI - here's the vocal remix of florence and the machine -
https://download.yousendit.com/WnBUeW41bWc5RlozZUE9PQ
― stirmonster, Monday, 13 April 2009 07:32 (fourteen years ago) link
ps - NI, checked my myspace but you weren't there.
― stirmonster, Monday, 13 April 2009 07:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Short hair in suit is the one that started and ran the Sunday night, topless blond Prince Valiant ostensibly wrote the piece, if that makes any difference re who you spoke to...
― Bostin' Legal (sic), Monday, 13 April 2009 07:52 (fourteen years ago) link
just seen these replies now and missed the YSI file before it got nixed, doh. i've messaged you (at the optimo espacio myspace) again twitch, i think there's been some crossed wires?
would love to see footage or photos of the optimo lights btw, or even a description of them. saying optimo is 'ALL about the lights' has piqued my interest!
― NI, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 12:03 (fourteen years ago) link
have replied - i think there was some confusion as a few people check and reply to the myspace messages. it perhaps isn't "all about the lights" but we have some custom made light boxes and neon signs. i don't have any photos to hand i'm afraid.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 14:51 (fourteen years ago) link
http://acuterecords.com/optimo.jpg
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 14:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Wilkes is spinning tonight in Chicago at Sonotheque, anyone going?? What can I expect?
― stingy, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 16:59 (fourteen years ago) link
radness
― t_g, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link
you can expect to get down.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 22:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Do you know what time you might be on this Friday at T bar, stirmonster?
I'd love to go but can't stay out super late
― Jamie T Smith, Thursday, 25 June 2009 09:30 (fourteen years ago) link
they have been a tad slack in giving me any info. i will post back when i find out. i'm hoping not super late either as i have an intense weekend and could do with fitting in some sleep at some point.
― stirmonster, Thursday, 25 June 2009 10:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks. Hope to see you there!
― Jamie T Smith, Thursday, 25 June 2009 10:55 (fourteen years ago) link
12.30 - 02.30
― stirmonster, Thursday, 25 June 2009 19:36 (fourteen years ago) link
what was that amazing Q Lazarus edit/remix?
― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Monday, 27 July 2009 02:25 (fourteen years ago) link
soooo is this place still as cool as six years ago when the thread was started?
― samosa gibreel, Monday, 27 July 2009 03:00 (fourteen years ago) link
it was cool when I went last summer.
― dan selzer, Monday, 27 July 2009 03:01 (fourteen years ago) link
ditto
― hallmark race cards (donna rouge), Monday, 27 July 2009 03:16 (fourteen years ago) link
still the shit
― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Monday, 27 July 2009 03:20 (fourteen years ago) link
I can't answer for the Optimo guys obviously but could it be the Krikor edit ("Goodbye Horses" without the chorus, just keeps building up?)
― Telephone thing, Monday, 27 July 2009 03:22 (fourteen years ago) link
it was the krikor edit with a loop of this insanely heavy felix da housecat drum track mixed over it.
i dunno if it is, or ever was cool, but it's still immensely good fun. tonight - amazing crowd + amazing atmosphere + gavin russom live analogue intensity = my perfect club night.
― stirmonster, Monday, 27 July 2009 05:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyone heard this yet?http://www.amazon.co.uk/Order-Edit-Optimo-Presents/dp/B001U7FWQ4
― Neil S, Thursday, 6 August 2009 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
not yet but it's coming.so glad twitch is playing re-bar in seattle! it's going to be fun. the place is a silly dive, it should work really well. i'm recruiting a group to go
― jergins, Thursday, 6 August 2009 18:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Reynolds has: blissblog
― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Thursday, 6 August 2009 18:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Okay definitely getting this, Reynolds makes it sound great.
― Neil S, Thursday, 6 August 2009 18:46 (fourteen years ago) link
also don't know much about this beyond the poster but am looking forward to it:
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a344/jackmaster1/carnivalA3.jpg
Plus Juan Maclean. Expensive month for an unemployed soul.
― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Thursday, 6 August 2009 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
gah. apologies for the size.
Nah that's cool, it's a great poster! Hmmm can I make it up to Glasgow that weekend?
― Neil S, Thursday, 6 August 2009 18:48 (fourteen years ago) link
OK, so about 1:44:00 into Optimo's incredible Essential Mix, they drop this jaw-dropping remix of "Hallogallo", labeled as the "Mary Hill Rework". I have been searching for this thing for well over a year and a half, and the only other mention I can find of it is on http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/5956. Has anyone ever come across this before?? Was it rereleased under a different moniker/title/etc? I would kind of sell my kidney to get a hold of this...
― claws of jungle red (Stevie D), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 06:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Is it Dingered & Rothered - Betty Botox?
off Betty's sublime kraut ep.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 10:04 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm afraid the remix of "hallogallo" was never released. it was done by jg wilkes and we did talk about putting it out but that idea fell by the wayside somewhere along the line.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 10:46 (fourteen years ago) link
http://s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/05/00/050001_4bf470ae.jpg
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 10:53 (fourteen years ago) link
In Order to Edit mix is great BTW.
― Neil S, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 12:46 (fourteen years ago) link
xxp is there any chance it might be released/"reissued" in the future? It's rock fucking solid
― claws of jungle red (Stevie D), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 17:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Is it from the Mount Florida/Mary Hill Krautrock split that was announced/unreleased?
― claws of jungle red (Stevie D), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 17:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Holy shit, this Betty Botox KRAUT EP is quite sublime, indeed!!
― claws of jungle red (Stevie D), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
it was indeed. the mount florida track ended up on betty's kraut ep.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 19:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Todd Terje lists the Optimo Remix of They Came From The Stars I Saw Them as his number 1 in his dj chart on juno this month (even though it came out nearly 3 years ago...!)
http://www.junodownload.com/charts/dj/674125-Todd_Terje/304648-Chart/
― Simon A. Carr, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 10:37 (fourteen years ago) link
i love that mix.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 12:01 (fourteen years ago) link
diggin In Order to Edit
― dmr, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 13:48 (fourteen years ago) link
I think I discovered your amazing label thanks to that amazing remix!
― Kaiser Size, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 14:47 (fourteen years ago) link
leonardo? krautep? in order to edit?
― andrew m., Wednesday, 26 August 2009 15:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Leonardo
YSI
Sendspace
zShare
Rapidshare
Uploads4U
― miss pamela and the gtfo's (sic), Thursday, 27 August 2009 00:20 (fourteen years ago) link
u got sicrolled
― Korg Boy Polysix (haitch), Thursday, 27 August 2009 12:59 (fourteen years ago) link
apparently
― andrew m., Thursday, 27 August 2009 14:07 (fourteen years ago) link
P.S. stirmonster I saw you at the Barbary in Philly back in January (and shook your hand and told you how much I loved "How to Kill the DJ, part 2") and it was one of the greatest things my friend and I ever saw. Do you remember the show well? How was it in relation to a typical night at Optimo?
― claws of jungle red (Stevie D), Thursday, 27 August 2009 14:49 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost
Damn, "In Order to Edit" kills, that Speedjack-into-The-Mover transition is astonishing- not to be all old skool bruv, but it brings me back to hearing The Mover DJ at VFM many many many years ago.
― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Thursday, 27 August 2009 15:06 (fourteen years ago) link
How was it in relation to a typical night at Optimo
i can't really remember what i was playing but i do remember shaking your hand and i also remember it being one of my favourite us gigs. i love philly! i'm back next month (not sure where yet).
― stirmonster, Friday, 28 August 2009 00:38 (fourteen years ago) link
i need to go to optimo again sometime, got a job that means i'm often off on Mondays now so no excuse.
― 123456789 (jim), Friday, 28 August 2009 00:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Aaah, let me know the date as soon as you find out so I can get off work! NYC's overblown; Philly rules :)
― claws of jungle red (Stevie D), Friday, 28 August 2009 02:33 (fourteen years ago) link
anybody else going to Alter Ego / Twitch / Fixed party at Knitting Factory Brooklyn tomorrow?
― dmr, Thursday, 24 September 2009 19:09 (fourteen years ago) link
been laid up due to illness all week so couldn't get into town, so does anyone know if there are tickets left for The Field, if so should I head into town and get some from somewhere if possible or should I get one on the door?
― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Saturday, 14 November 2009 00:04 (fourteen years ago) link
― dmr, Thursday, September 24, 2009 3:09 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark
this was fun btw
― dmr, Saturday, 14 November 2009 00:26 (fourteen years ago) link
are they pre-selling Field tickets? usually it's just on the door but when they do pre-sell some sub club gigs i think it's only half in advance so you should get in easily if you turn up just before the doors open.
― jed_, Saturday, 14 November 2009 00:31 (fourteen years ago) link
that's the other worry. I think I'm seeing the Flaming Lips with a friend that night, which means (depending on where that gig is) I won't be making to the Sub Club until gone 11. Would be pretty annoyed if I missed The Field in order to see the Flaming Lips.
― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Saturday, 14 November 2009 00:33 (fourteen years ago) link
And I quote:
We just got asked to do a Fabric mix cd (due May 2010). Exciting!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link
looking forward to seeing this handsome young man in a warehouse in Sydney come Saturday night:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/kitbrash/twitch_nme92.jpg
― you live in a space battle homo cave (sic), Monday, 1 March 2010 06:52 (fourteen years ago) link
anybody go to the turbo rave? if so i am jealous.
― Freddy 'The Wonder Chicken' (Gukbe), Monday, 1 March 2010 11:13 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^ where on earth did you dig that up from?
the turbo rave was the most fun ever.
― stirmonster, Monday, 1 March 2010 20:56 (fourteen years ago) link
a combination of moving house and SHEER GLORIOUS FLUKE
― you live in a space battle homo cave (sic), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 01:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Aw man, the turbo rave looked fantastic, but as I teach on Monday mornings it was a no go. Roll on the Easter holidays.
― Count Palmiro Vicarion (Stew), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 09:54 (fourteen years ago) link
;_;
THE END IS NIGH - LAST EVER OPTIMO
http://www.optimo.co.uk/echationew/viewtopic.php?t=2917
― jed_, Thursday, 11 March 2010 16:50 (fourteen years ago) link
should really go to one of these since i haven't been to optimo since 2002.
― DJ Get Up Kids (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 11 March 2010 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
stirmonster has been promising an end to Optimo for YEARS now
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 11 March 2010 17:06 (fourteen years ago) link
i think he just does it for attention ;)
― jed_, Thursday, 11 March 2010 17:09 (fourteen years ago) link
been lucky enough to see Twitch and Wilkes DJ in NYC several times but I always kinda had in the back of my mind that *one of these days* I'd try to see Optimo in Glasgow. didn't make it! bummer.
good luck on whatever you've got on deck stirmonster
― dmr, Thursday, 11 March 2010 17:48 (fourteen years ago) link
no 'hitler reacts to the end of optimo' vid, no credibility
― nmop apisdn (cozen), Sunday, 14 March 2010 18:24 (fourteen years ago) link
haha
― jed_, Sunday, 14 March 2010 18:45 (fourteen years ago) link
aw, man. glad i got to see you guys in glasgow!
― all-beef patty hearst (donna rouge), Sunday, 14 March 2010 19:05 (fourteen years ago) link
btw Betty Botox is now digital on junodownload.
― Kaiser Size, Monday, 15 March 2010 10:24 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.factmag.com/2010/03/25/optimo-do-fabric-52-tracklist-inside/
They're doing the next Fabric mix. And the tracklisting looks terrific:
01 Fad Gadget – Lady Shave – Mute02 Discodromo – Cosmorama (Prins Thomas Discomiks) – Internasjonal03 Basic Channel – Q1.1 – Basic Channel04 Spencer Parker – YOGOTO – Rekids05 Locussolus – Gunship – International Feel06 Rebolledo – Amigos Cómeme – Cómeme07 The Minister – Jack Your Bodey House Your Mind – Crème Organization08 Altz – Get It Down! – Altzmusica09 Thomas Brinkmann – Walk With Me – Curle10 Rheingold – Dreiklangsdimensionen – Welt Rekord11 Capablanca & T Keeler – La Konk Fiesta – Gomma12 Roska – Feeline – Roska Kicks & Snares13 Cumbia Moderna De Soledad – Shacalao – Sunflower14 The Tyrell Corporation – Together Alone – Clone15 Roni Griffith – Spys – Vanguard16 Levon Vincent – Love Technique – Ovum17 Oni Ayhun – OAR003-B – Oni Ayhun18 Desire – Don’t Call – Italians Do It Better19 Crazy Cousinz – Inflation – Defenders Ent Ltd20 Matias Aguayo – Walter Neff – Kompakt21 Nakion – Heartbit – Tigersushi22 Xex – Heartbeat – What’s That Music
― Matt DC, Thursday, 25 March 2010 12:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Looking forward to seeing how Inflation into Walter Neff works.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 25 March 2010 12:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah it looks good. They're expert mixers based on How to Kill The DJ pt 2, Sleepwalk and Psyche Out.
― Davek (davek_00), Thursday, 25 March 2010 13:16 (fourteen years ago) link
they're expert mixers based on them being optimo!
― cozen, Thursday, 25 March 2010 13:20 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
bit sad that i missed em when they swung thru melbs the other week due to being broke. come back soon stirry!
― *makeitplop* (haitch), Thursday, 25 March 2010 13:26 (fourteen years ago) link
hey haitch. had hoped i would see you (was fun times). you should have said you were broke and i'd have got you in and stood you a few drinks.
― stirmonster, Thursday, 25 March 2010 14:10 (fourteen years ago) link
An Optimo Oral History
Really desperate to go to the final one on Sunday, but a lot of balls up in the air. Think I'd cry though.
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Monday, 19 April 2010 10:24 (thirteen years ago) link
The Optimo mix is a killer, fyi
― A piping hot bra of tits (DJ Mencap), Monday, 19 April 2010 10:25 (thirteen years ago) link
250 optimo classics
http://www.optimo.co.uk/blog/index.php
― hotel califor.nia (r1o natsume), Saturday, 24 April 2010 11:53 (thirteen years ago) link
also on spotify
― salsa shark, Saturday, 24 April 2010 13:06 (thirteen years ago) link
OK the next thing to do is for someone to make a torrent out of these songs so that I can make the best itunes party playlist of all time.
― piping hot dish and a cup of chat (Stevie D), Saturday, 24 April 2010 13:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Because seriously, if I hear MGMT or Matt & Kim one more fucking time
― piping hot dish and a cup of chat (Stevie D), Saturday, 24 April 2010 13:40 (thirteen years ago) link
I had a dream I went to the last one, 2 nights ago..
it was awesome if the one in my dream was anything to go by.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Saturday, 24 April 2010 13:52 (thirteen years ago) link
given up on the notion of going. i'm finally kind of okay with that.
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Saturday, 24 April 2010 18:07 (thirteen years ago) link
what will be the final song at the final optimo??
― dmr, Sunday, 25 April 2010 00:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I hope it would Optimo. Or Optimo followed by some teary ballad, or some kick out the jams rager.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 25 April 2010 00:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Put on my recording of pi, leave.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 25 April 2010 00:58 (thirteen years ago) link
gotta be: Is that all there is? - Christina
an Optimo end of the night classic
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Sunday, 25 April 2010 10:31 (thirteen years ago) link
is that all there is? was the penultimate optimo's last song.
― stirmonster, Sunday, 25 April 2010 11:28 (thirteen years ago) link
good luck tonight!
― mdskltr (blueski), Sunday, 25 April 2010 11:42 (thirteen years ago) link
thanks. 8 hours until the doors open and there's already a queue!
― stirmonster, Sunday, 25 April 2010 11:47 (thirteen years ago) link
are you joking?
― jed_, Sunday, 25 April 2010 13:39 (thirteen years ago) link
have a great great night stir
― longer lasting, thicker electrons (sic), Sunday, 25 April 2010 13:39 (thirteen years ago) link
the long great night of the soul
― jed_, Sunday, 25 April 2010 13:40 (thirteen years ago) link
the queue went to the pub when it started raining! how glasgow.
night be streaming live. will report back if we can get it working.
― stirmonster, Sunday, 25 April 2010 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link
awesome
did you enjoy fuck buttons? (spotted you in the crowd :))
― cozen, Sunday, 25 April 2010 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Heads up:
http://www.awdio.com/#sources/87/Subclub
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 25 April 2010 20:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Song To The Siren, awesome...can't help wanting it to go thundering into Messiah 'Temple Of Dreams'
― mdskltr (blueski), Sunday, 25 April 2010 20:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Haha and instead we get Suicide. ("Ghostrider" would have been too obvious I guess!)
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 25 April 2010 20:33 (thirteen years ago) link
so i figure Mclaren stuff has been going off like never before at these last few ones
― mdskltr (blueski), Sunday, 25 April 2010 20:39 (thirteen years ago) link
what's this playing under TV On The Radio?
― mdskltr (blueski), Sunday, 25 April 2010 21:51 (thirteen years ago) link
timecode yassssss
― cozen, Sunday, 25 April 2010 22:06 (thirteen years ago) link
This is great but I have work tomorrow - will it be archived on the site? (I see they have some archives, so I'm hoping yes.)
― a subplot excised from Latawnya the Naughty Horse (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 25 April 2010 22:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Losing My Edge! I wonder what time it finishes?
― piscesx, Sunday, 25 April 2010 22:11 (thirteen years ago) link
3am I think, unless they managed to appeal the decision on their 4am license
― cozen, Sunday, 25 April 2010 22:12 (thirteen years ago) link
you'd think the city would just be like "you know what? go all night, let it spill out onto the street, you've paid your dues"
― dan selzer, Sunday, 25 April 2010 22:16 (thirteen years ago) link
4 am?? Jeepers i can't stay up that late ive only got one bottle of wine.
― piscesx, Sunday, 25 April 2010 22:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Anyone know what this Boney M style number is right now?
― piscesx, Sunday, 25 April 2010 22:25 (thirteen years ago) link
chilly's For Your Love? not sure of the timing..
― dan selzer, Sunday, 25 April 2010 22:35 (thirteen years ago) link
yep bang on. tune!
― piscesx, Sunday, 25 April 2010 23:11 (thirteen years ago) link
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=optimo
― cozen, Sunday, 25 April 2010 23:17 (thirteen years ago) link
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs439.snc3/25234_379072058869_747268869_4066637_2201971_n.jpg
― cozen, Sunday, 25 April 2010 23:19 (thirteen years ago) link
don't even want to know what time that was taken
lol, chronicles of ridic.
― Jolyon Swagg (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 25 April 2010 23:20 (thirteen years ago) link
discocampbell: @goncalop I'm at the Optimo set and the place is going mental! Crowd shouting, no room to move....simply amazing.
― cozen, Sunday, 25 April 2010 23:20 (thirteen years ago) link
not sure if it's good or bad that his punctuation and spelling in a crowded club at 12.20 am is better than mine on a laptop at the best of times
― nakhchivan, Sunday, 25 April 2010 23:23 (thirteen years ago) link
It's kinda like TRASH's end i guess.
― piscesx, Sunday, 25 April 2010 23:25 (thirteen years ago) link
got the world cup final 1982 on espn classic, drinking a wee whiskey, and listening to this. pretty good sunday night.
― Jolyon Swagg (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 25 April 2010 23:46 (thirteen years ago) link
― nakhchivan, Sunday, 25 April 2010 23:59 (thirteen years ago) link
(duelling banjos)
― nakhchivan, Monday, 26 April 2010 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
shit just got real
― Jolyon Swagg (jim in glasgow), Monday, 26 April 2010 00:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Boney M!
― piscesx, Monday, 26 April 2010 00:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Kennyboy13: Optimo queue at half12...the towel was thrown in after 3hrs of waiting http://yfrog.com/ei2czqj
― cozen, Monday, 26 April 2010 00:10 (thirteen years ago) link
oh this is my jam...Amin Peck-Coda. Some kind of edit/mix/something? Cover?
― dan selzer, Monday, 26 April 2010 00:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Well this one had to turn up, didn't it -- what mix of "I Feel Love" is it, though?
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 April 2010 00:25 (thirteen years ago) link
"ultimate warlord"!! man if i were there i would be LOSING MY SHIT right about now
― bieber benz or bentley (donna rouge), Monday, 26 April 2010 00:27 (thirteen years ago) link
That's for sure!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 April 2010 00:29 (thirteen years ago) link
It's a mental edit of some kind. They've played some famous edits tonight like greg Wilson's Talking Heads one. I guess it'll be on Soundcloud somewhere.
Never read the net going this nuts for a dj mix or anything of this kind ever before. Listening live and reading along with people's thoughts live on Twitter it feels like we're now hearing some kind of massive soon-to-be-legendary event happening RIGHT NOW!
― piscesx, Monday, 26 April 2010 00:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Think if people liveblogged/twitter most Optimos like this people would be losing their shit. Seriously this club was something else.
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Monday, 26 April 2010 00:32 (thirteen years ago) link
though they do seem to be hitting a lot of classics tonight.
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Monday, 26 April 2010 00:33 (thirteen years ago) link
i am tuned in and dancing around my kitchen
― The Macallan 18 Year, Monday, 26 April 2010 00:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Hahahah WOW that was an amazing switch.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 April 2010 00:39 (thirteen years ago) link
to the stooges?
― nakhchivan, Monday, 26 April 2010 00:39 (thirteen years ago) link
(xp)
Yup!
thought they were being serious here hawe've always thought that optimo is a forward looking music club. we think we should go out looking to the future, so expect to only hear the latest basstep and uk funky tracks all night. maybe we'll chuck "stand on the word" on at the end just for old time's sake?*
― mdskltr (blueski), Monday, 26 April 2010 00:41 (thirteen years ago) link
i know! it's like a greatest hits collection. in a good way.
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Monday, 26 April 2010 00:42 (thirteen years ago) link
XD
― nakhchivan, Monday, 26 April 2010 00:45 (thirteen years ago) link
― cozen, Monday, 26 April 2010 00:45 (thirteen years ago) link
absurd
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Monday, 26 April 2010 00:46 (thirteen years ago) link
i wonder if everything they've played tonight comes from that crowdsourced list they compiled this week?
― bieber benz or bentley (donna rouge), Monday, 26 April 2010 00:47 (thirteen years ago) link
http://deeperwants.com/ratboys_anvil_2/IcanfeelJeebus.jpg
― The Macallan 18 Year, Monday, 26 April 2010 00:48 (thirteen years ago) link
has someone rapidshare'd that list yet anyway
― nakhchivan, Monday, 26 April 2010 00:50 (thirteen years ago) link
It's very weighted in favour of that 250 list but there's still lots getting played that's not on it.
― piscesx, Monday, 26 April 2010 00:52 (thirteen years ago) link
this is my favourite section
― mdskltr (blueski), Monday, 26 April 2010 00:56 (thirteen years ago) link
sean paul was so sick
― cozen, Monday, 26 April 2010 00:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Hahah and why am I not surprised to hear the old warhorse here...
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 April 2010 00:58 (thirteen years ago) link
they played "temperature" when i saw them
― bieber benz or bentley (donna rouge), Monday, 26 April 2010 00:58 (thirteen years ago) link
(So not a complaint of course!)
This is awesome. Haven't heard Sean Paul in ages. Having missed most of this I hope someone's recording it...
― toby, Monday, 26 April 2010 00:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, they played temperature the one time I went!
― dan selzer, Monday, 26 April 2010 01:01 (thirteen years ago) link
just waiting for brutalga square
― cozen, Monday, 26 April 2010 01:16 (thirteen years ago) link
if only i had a knife and some grapefruits rite now
― nakhchivan, Monday, 26 April 2010 01:28 (thirteen years ago) link
woooooo
― Jolyon Swagg (jim in glasgow), Monday, 26 April 2010 01:40 (thirteen years ago) link
niceeeee
― nakhchivan, Monday, 26 April 2010 01:40 (thirteen years ago) link
anyone know if this is goin on til 4 or 3?
― mdskltr (blueski), Monday, 26 April 2010 01:45 (thirteen years ago) link
last I heard they didn't get their 4am licence
this section has a real endgame feeling
― cozen, Monday, 26 April 2010 01:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Having missed most of this I hope someone's recording it...
― toby, Sunday, April 25, 2010 8:58 PM (54 minutes ago)
seconding this^^
i've been writing a paper all night :(
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, 26 April 2010 01:56 (thirteen years ago) link
sure they'll be hunners of people recording this tbh. will be all over the net by the end of tonight.
― Jolyon Swagg (jim in glasgow), Monday, 26 April 2010 01:57 (thirteen years ago) link
gf queued for a few hours for this before giving up and being dragged to sleazy's.
Stream is fkn immense, really wish i wsn't so much of a dick abt clubs and actually managed to go at least once.
― toastmodernist, Monday, 26 April 2010 02:00 (thirteen years ago) link
that track they mixed into 'hung up' was INSANE
― bieber benz or bentley (donna rouge), Monday, 26 April 2010 02:01 (thirteen years ago) link
one more hour! haaaaaaaaaaaa
― cozen, Monday, 26 April 2010 02:02 (thirteen years ago) link
― nakhchivan, Monday, 26 April 2010 02:02 (thirteen years ago) link
ONE MORE HOUR!
― piscesx, Monday, 26 April 2010 02:02 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah wth track was that they mixed into hung up?!
XD XD XD
― bieber benz or bentley (donna rouge), Monday, 26 April 2010 02:02 (thirteen years ago) link
haha wow (4th submit)
― mdskltr (blueski), Monday, 26 April 2010 02:02 (thirteen years ago) link
is this that langley schools thing from a few years back
yeah.
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Monday, 26 April 2010 02:03 (thirteen years ago) link
d'you reckon there's still a queue? #madnessbutthenightbusdoesrunpastmyflat
― cozen, Monday, 26 April 2010 02:03 (thirteen years ago) link
the tracklist will all be filled in by tomorrow like that autechre 12hr mix...
― nakhchivan, Monday, 26 April 2010 02:04 (thirteen years ago) link
3 am and listening to optimo i'm having a pavlovian desire for a chicken carbonara sandwich
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Monday, 26 April 2010 02:06 (thirteen years ago) link
i desire FLIRTATIONS
― mdskltr (blueski), Monday, 26 April 2010 02:07 (thirteen years ago) link
this analog synth thing sounds like luc ferrari or some ish
― nakhchivan, Monday, 26 April 2010 02:10 (thirteen years ago) link
SPARKS. going into this final hour was some devious shit.
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Monday, 26 April 2010 02:13 (thirteen years ago) link
oh shit westbam
― cozen, Monday, 26 April 2010 02:16 (thirteen years ago) link
lol i think sleazy is the only place in glasgow i've ever been?
― GREAT JOB Mushroom head (gbx), Monday, 26 April 2010 02:21 (thirteen years ago) link
aaaaaand 'atomic'!
― bieber benz or bentley (donna rouge), Monday, 26 April 2010 02:24 (thirteen years ago) link
what the hell was that version of wicked game? a terje type thing?
― piscesx, Monday, 26 April 2010 02:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Didn't hear it but sounds like it's probably the Soul Clap edit of Wicked Game.
― Tonight I Dine on Turtle Soup (EDB), Monday, 26 April 2010 02:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Wicked Game (Trentemoller Businessman Dubby Games Remix)
― cozen, Monday, 26 April 2010 02:27 (thirteen years ago) link
merzbow vs the doors?
― The Macallan 18 Year, Monday, 26 April 2010 02:34 (thirteen years ago) link
this is fkn great
― nakhchivan, Monday, 26 April 2010 02:35 (thirteen years ago) link
wall of noise. ♥
― Bow Before Zeezrom!!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 26 April 2010 02:36 (thirteen years ago) link
ARTHUR
― Bow Before Zeezrom!!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 26 April 2010 02:37 (thirteen years ago) link
My enduring memory of Sleazy's is of some dude telling all his friends he'd just finished his first lecture on Derrida and he'd bcz of it he'd suddenly realized how to sort out the whole Palestine situation. Cue fifteen minute of some of lol grade bullshit and me trying really hard not to fall off my seat laughing.
Try glasgow more.
― toastmodernist, Monday, 26 April 2010 02:44 (thirteen years ago) link
music is music.
― The Macallan 18 Year, Monday, 26 April 2010 02:59 (thirteen years ago) link
it just had to be
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Monday, 26 April 2010 03:02 (thirteen years ago) link
loooooooooooooooool porky pig
― bieber benz or bentley (donna rouge), Monday, 26 April 2010 03:03 (thirteen years ago) link
.
― Bow Before Zeezrom!!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 26 April 2010 03:04 (thirteen years ago) link
damncan hear the birds outside now
― nakhchivan, Monday, 26 April 2010 03:04 (thirteen years ago) link
has someone recorded this?
― micarl, Monday, 26 April 2010 03:07 (thirteen years ago) link
i sure hope so
― Bow Before Zeezrom!!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 26 April 2010 03:08 (thirteen years ago) link
― nakhchivan, Monday, 26 April 2010 03:08 (thirteen years ago) link
awesome from start till finish
― cozen, Monday, 26 April 2010 03:08 (thirteen years ago) link
need to hear this, I only caught the very end
― dmr, Monday, 26 April 2010 03:09 (thirteen years ago) link
kinda choked up during 'stand on the word'
― bieber benz or bentley (donna rouge), Monday, 26 April 2010 03:10 (thirteen years ago) link
haha still going!!
lol overtime
― dmr, Monday, 26 April 2010 03:14 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8tuTSi6Sck
― dmr, Monday, 26 April 2010 03:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I got the last 3 or so hours. Was listening until T Rex then went to catch up on some TV. Now I can listen to the rest in realtime, like it'll end around the time it ended for them!
― dan selzer, Monday, 26 April 2010 03:26 (thirteen years ago) link
who does the Suicide Commando cover?
― dan selzer, Monday, 26 April 2010 03:34 (thirteen years ago) link
DJ Hell? Echopark?
― a black white asian pine ghost who is fake (Telephone thing), Monday, 26 April 2010 04:21 (thirteen years ago) link
or Vitalic? Forgot he did one as well
― a black white asian pine ghost who is fake (Telephone thing), Monday, 26 April 2010 04:23 (thirteen years ago) link
is this available to DL anywhere yet.....
― just sayin, Monday, 26 April 2010 11:21 (thirteen years ago) link
give it a day or so, it'll be up in the usual place
― longer lasting, thicker electrons (sic), Monday, 26 April 2010 11:26 (thirteen years ago) link
usual place?
― toby, Monday, 26 April 2010 12:29 (thirteen years ago) link
the internet
they really carried on after 4am? i ended up not getting to sleep until around 6 :(
― mdskltr (blueski), Monday, 26 April 2010 12:40 (thirteen years ago) link
read something on twitter about the feed coming back up. i thought it ended at nina simone.
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Monday, 26 April 2010 12:50 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah it went on for a bit longer even after the stream died. last couple were The Chain by Fleetwood Mac and Seven Days by Chuck Wood.
― piscesx, Monday, 26 April 2010 12:51 (thirteen years ago) link
first post-Optimo night is Mati Aguayo on Sunday iirc. Colour me intrigued.
― Jolyon Swagg (jim in glasgow), Monday, 26 April 2010 14:45 (thirteen years ago) link
thanks to Simon on Thisisnotanexit blog, last 15min!
http://www.sendspace.com/file/y6f70y
― Kaiser Size, Monday, 26 April 2010 20:03 (thirteen years ago) link
if I get something a tenth (I had to think that figure through. Half? No that's still lots. Quarter? Still!) as good as this when they visit my lowly town next month, I'm going to die happy and such.
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Monday, 26 April 2010 20:18 (thirteen years ago) link
I have like the last 3 or so hours, but there's a few weird breaks due to streaming dropping out. I figured somebody will upload the whole thing shortly, but tif they don't, I can.
― dan selzer, Monday, 26 April 2010 20:28 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.gifbin.com/bin/1234525508_ben_stiller_-_do_it.gif
― GREAT JOB Mushroom head (gbx), Monday, 26 April 2010 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link
http://rippedinglasgow.blogspot.com/2010/04/optimogeddon-final-optimo-25-april-2010.html
― toby, Monday, 26 April 2010 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link
loved it, big thanks to stirmonster xxx got home at 10 am this morning have been recovering til now.
― jed_, Monday, 26 April 2010 21:16 (thirteen years ago) link
haha <3
http://vimeo.com/11245823
― jed_, Monday, 26 April 2010 22:25 (thirteen years ago) link
sweaty but excellent
― mdskltr (blueski), Monday, 26 April 2010 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link
looks like you knew it
― longer lasting, thicker electrons (sic), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:18 (thirteen years ago) link
wow! almost as blown away by the activity on this thread as i was by sunday night. :)
here's a few responses -
"ghostrider" was cueued up at one point!
"walking trough heaven" by chris and cosey
i had lots of new music and things i'd never managed to but always wanted to play with me. i also had the greatest hits of optimo. we could have played literally anything we wanted to but i think one of the things about the night was always picking up on the energy of the crowd, and sunday simply felt like the greatest party i've ever been to. it would have felt too self indulgent to have done anything else than to have played a party set (it would also have been a bit rough on the several hundred who didn't get in who went home to listen or remained outside and were listening on their phones).
we recorded the night with microphones placed around the club to capture the crowd noise. i haven't heard the awdio stream but i have a feeling you are only getting 50% of the story. the noise from the dancefloor was astonishing (there's quite a few points where we cut the music and they are singing along). we also had a secondary sound system in for the night and when we switched that on around midnight, the roar was deafening. the second pa also made mixing quite tricky so i'm going to blame any shoddy mixing on that. :)
i'll check how the recording came out next week and will then hopefully post up a link to the full recording with crowd noise.
d'you reckon there's still a queue?
there was still a queue at 2.30am. most people had given up by then but a few determined folks waited it out so we squeezed them in. we estimate that around 1500-2000 tried to get in. by opening so early, we thought a lot of people would come for a few hours and then leave so others could get in but it simply didn't happen. almost everyone wanted to stay until the end.
thanks! only ever had a white label and never knew who had done it.
last couple were The Chain by Fleetwood Mac and Seven Days by Chuck Wood.
it was meant to end with nina but then the club owner grabbed the mic and made a wee speech. i didn't want that to be the last thing ever heard at the club so played some more.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 12:42 (thirteen years ago) link
What was the track that led into Hung Up?
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 12:45 (thirteen years ago) link
thank you!
― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 13:16 (thirteen years ago) link
(there's quite a few points where we cut the music and they are singing along)
this would explain the occasional cuts lasting a few seconds then. thought it was just a buffering issue ha.
― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 13:18 (thirteen years ago) link
"walking trough heaven" - of course should read through, not trough.
track that led up to "hung up", i think was -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DY75Ylyu9U
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 13:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Can't wait! And thanks again for arranging the stream on the day!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 14:20 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah that was great
― dmr, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 14:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Holy shit, the capacity of the club is only a few hundred, right? What time did you guys start playing?
― Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm Ann Reinking! (Stevie D), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 14:48 (thirteen years ago) link
capacity is officially 400 but can actually fit 550+ in. we played 9pm - 4am.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 14:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow, I wonder how long you had to be in line to actually make it in
― Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm Ann Reinking! (Stevie D), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 15:00 (thirteen years ago) link
so did you have 400 people in from the start? sounded like there was a major switch to dancier stuff around 10.30-11 but i guess with so little room for dancing that wasn't really an issue anyway. xp
― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 15:02 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm assuming they did, did you see the picture of the line in broad daylight?
― Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm Ann Reinking! (Stevie D), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 15:07 (thirteen years ago) link
it was full within about 30 minutes of the doors opening (took a while to get people in). the start of the night was always our chance to play music not for dancing to although on sunday, people were dancing to even the most undanceable music at the start.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm trying to imagine people dancing to "Song of the Siren"...
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 15:37 (thirteen years ago) link
You roll around on the ground with someone while really bright headlights shine on you
― Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm Ann Reinking! (Stevie D), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 15:41 (thirteen years ago) link
You say this with the voice of experience.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Just reminiscing about that time I starred in Lost Highway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Laf8bhSeGNY
― Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm Ann Reinking! (Stevie D), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
http://vimeo.com/11277704
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 23:20 (thirteen years ago) link
!! <3 <3
― longer lasting, thicker electrons (sic), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 23:23 (thirteen years ago) link
oh man I'd love to see more of that clip when the Passenger comes in!
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 00:10 (thirteen years ago) link
i have fond memories of dancing at Optimo to "The Passenger", at Planet Peach, when about 30 people were there. the bouncers were horrible, it was a horrible venue, but so much fun nonetheless.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 12:27 (thirteen years ago) link
matias aguayo was wonderful tonight.
― Times New Excels At (jim in glasgow), Monday, 3 May 2010 03:32 (thirteen years ago) link
yes. he was the best thing ever!
― stirmonster, Monday, 3 May 2010 04:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Fabric mix is aces btw.
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:51 (thirteen years ago) link
The Tyrell Corporation - Together Alone to Roni Griffith - Spys to Levon Vincent - Love Technique! This is such a great choice of records. I really love this mix, if only for the first song, but it gets better. Where is that Fad Gaget song from??
― Jacob Sanders, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 07:02 (thirteen years ago) link
The sub club website says that tonight (8th of August) is Twitch and Wilkes. I don't believe that for some reason, but as it is my last Sunday night in Glasgow ever I'd like to know if I should make it down.
P.S. My friend wants to know if I can look after her dogs for the night so it's not a case of just not bothering to go down. I can either go or stay in.
― heterosexist matrix of desire (Gukbe), Sunday, 8 August 2010 04:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Optimo website says
Residents party this Sunday (8th), with some familiar faces making an appearance...all will be revealed on the night...
― ␆␆␆␆␆␆␆␆␆␆␆␆␆␆␆ you oughtta know by now (sic), Sunday, 8 August 2010 13:17 (thirteen years ago) link
So, has anyone been to Hung Up!, which is what the ex-Optimo Sunday night has evolved into?
I'm a sad loser who never went to Optimo, but am wondering now...
They have Ivan Smagghe on the 15th and James Murphy on the 22nd.
― krakow, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 22:26 (thirteen years ago) link
jealous of those going to James Murphy. always a good time.
― heterosexist matrix of desire (Gukbe), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 22:35 (thirteen years ago) link
After LCD earlier this year converting me to their cause I'm very tempted if I can find anyone to hold my hand into the proper clubbing world.
― krakow, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 22:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I'll probably be there on the 5th.
― Teddybears.SHTML (sic), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 23:44 (thirteen years ago) link
September? Who's playing that one?
― krakow, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 07:39 (thirteen years ago) link
No idea! But I'm planning to be in the same hemisphere/country/city, so
― Teddybears.SHTML (sic), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 09:55 (thirteen years ago) link
sic, was just saying to grimly f (on facebk) that we shld have another glasgow fap...
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm up for Sunday 5th September.
― krakow, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey Ward! I have had “try glasgow more” open in a tab for a week waiting for my travel plans to be vaguely finalised before I Suggest Fap. (I have a plane ticket for nine days away but haven’t had leave approved yet!) If real fappage wasn’t going to work out once I have times bashed into shape, I was going to mail you and grimly to see if we could lunch...
got yr ilxmail krakow btw
― Teddybears.SHTML (sic), Thursday, 12 August 2010 00:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I have been told that Optimo is, in some form, coming back to Philadelphia! such excitement!!
― En Moog (Stevie D), Thursday, 12 August 2010 03:56 (thirteen years ago) link
supposed to be in Brooklyn August 29
― mizzell, Thursday, 12 August 2010 13:43 (thirteen years ago) link
yup, we're both playing philly on both the 25th and 27th (25th is a bar gig where i will be playing rock n' roll), 27th is making time and then we're playing sunday best in brooklyn on the 29th.
i haven't decided who is playing the club in glasgow on the 5th yet but will probably be some of our local residents - we're both in croatia that day.
― stirmonster, Thursday, 12 August 2010 14:40 (thirteen years ago) link
WHOA!! stirmonster I am so so fucking excited :D Do you know what bar you'll be at the 25th?
― En Moog (Stevie D), Thursday, 12 August 2010 14:54 (thirteen years ago) link
the bar is the pope.
― stirmonster, Thursday, 12 August 2010 15:01 (thirteen years ago) link
DOUBLE WHOA, that's the local watering hole for a bunch of my good friends! I didn't even know they did events like that.
― En Moog (Stevie D), Thursday, 12 August 2010 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Kinda rearranging our European trip to (finally) catch Optimo in Paris on Sept 23rd w/Danton Eeprom at Rex Club. I'm guessing NZ is still an unlikely destination, but are any Australian jaunts in the pipeline?
― etc, Sunday, 22 August 2010 22:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Waaay psyched for this Friday. So you're playing at POPE (the one on Passyunk East, I presume) on the 25th? What time are you on?
― Chanté Ackerman (Stevie D), Monday, 23 August 2010 00:47 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm afraid i don't know anything about the pope gig apart from what i've posted. i'll try to find out and post back.
etc - there is a very, very slight chance we'll be playing NZ in december as we're going to be playing in australia then.
― stirmonster, Monday, 23 August 2010 05:38 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.corsicastudios.com/index.php/september-2010/285-ekstravaganza-6-september-10th
http://www.corsicastudios.com/images/stories/eks6-web.jpg
― Citizen Smith (Jamie T Smith), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 11:49 (thirteen years ago) link
That's just a ridiculous line-up, wish I could go. Ekstravaganza is pretty much the best regular club night in London these days.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 8 September 2010 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey Jamie! I just heard Keith spelling out “...i-l-x-o-r” over the music and thought he was saying you were “(ilxor)”, not just an ILX0r – didn’t work out who you were until after 6am – sorry for thus being so confusing!
― Teddybears.SHTML (sic), Monday, 13 September 2010 04:24 (thirteen years ago) link
it was a confusing night all round!
― stirmonster, Monday, 13 September 2010 04:59 (thirteen years ago) link
:D
― Teddybears.SHTML (sic), Monday, 13 September 2010 06:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Stir. Can you expand on the Prins Thomas wee drinking scenario you hinted at in your tweet?
you cant just leave that stuff hanging.......
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Monday, 13 September 2010 08:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Prins doesn't do toilet tracks, would be my guess.
― Matt DC, Monday, 13 September 2010 08:47 (thirteen years ago) link
^ on the micturition
― Underground - Parking (2010) (sic), Monday, 13 September 2010 09:18 (thirteen years ago) link
what matt dc said.
― stirmonster, Monday, 13 September 2010 12:17 (thirteen years ago) link
indeed
― god of tosh (blueski), Monday, 13 September 2010 12:41 (thirteen years ago) link
I was very confused by the time I met you all! Sorry ...
― Citizen Smith (Jamie T Smith), Monday, 13 September 2010 13:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Travel problems nixed the Rex Club appearance (if my dodgy French serves me correctly). Anyone know more about the TBC gig in Metz on October 1st?
― etc, Friday, 24 September 2010 08:22 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i964.photobucket.com/albums/ae130/Optimo_Dept/bigger_bolder.jpg
― jed_, Friday, 24 September 2010 09:04 (thirteen years ago) link
french air traffic control strike prevented us getting to paris. the metz gig isn't happening but we are back in paris in november.
― stirmonster, Friday, 24 September 2010 09:16 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.factmag.com/2010/10/15/optimo-to-release-covers-album-by-10-year-old-ghanaian-twins/
OMG.
― Matt DC, Friday, 15 October 2010 10:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah!
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 October 2010 15:08 (thirteen years ago) link
absolutely love "moody". so cute to hear that hybrid african/glaswegian accent! the way she says "moody" is sooooo glasgow.
― jed_, Friday, 15 October 2010 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Betty Botox "Kraut EP" is fucking aaaawwweeessome
― Shallots Are As Good As Joyce Brothers (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 30 October 2010 03:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh damn, Making Time/snacks mailing list says Optimo is doing Philly again in January!! CAN IT BE TRUE!?
― cowboy bibimbap (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
they're playing NY on the 7th so it's highly likely.
― jed_, Friday, 31 December 2010 13:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Optimo DJ'd at Bowlie 2 the other week after the bands, first time I had any exposure to them tbh, it was brilliant. Best DJ set of the weekend.
― a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Friday, 31 December 2010 17:11 (thirteen years ago) link
they're in DC the first week of January so I presume all East Coast rumours are true.
― Gukbe, Friday, 31 December 2010 17:13 (thirteen years ago) link
99% certain we're doing philly. just waiting to hear for sure. it will go up here in the next day or two - http://www.optimo.co.uk/shows/
colonel poo - glad you enjoyed the bowlie set. i tried to play a different kind of set from usual that would maybe appeal to an indie(esque) audience without being indie.
― stirmonster, Friday, 31 December 2010 18:39 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/kitbrash/wdyll/twitchy.gif
― Urban Coochie Collective (sic), Saturday, 1 January 2011 08:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Really great tonight. Miss the days at the subclub.
― Gukbe, Friday, 7 January 2011 08:15 (thirteen years ago) link
did anybody link this? pretty fun -
http://drownedinsound.com/news/4139784-top-250-optimo-tracks-revealed-list-inside
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Friday, 7 January 2011 12:31 (thirteen years ago) link
There a link to the spotify playlist in the comments too.
― O Permaban (NickB), Friday, 7 January 2011 12:35 (thirteen years ago) link
they did yeah
― hotel califor.nia (r1o natsume), Saturday, 24 April 2010 21:53 (8 months ago)
― basically just a 2/47 freak out (sic), Friday, 7 January 2011 12:43 (thirteen years ago) link
whoops xpost - the spotify playlist was the next post in this thread too!
http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/2/27559/625504-ouroboros_lezard_tatou_super.jpg
― O Permaban (NickB), Friday, 7 January 2011 12:47 (thirteen years ago) link
I wish I could see their EIGHT HOUR set at the Bunker tonight.. Doors close at 5am so set your alarm New Yorkers.
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Friday, 7 January 2011 12:47 (thirteen years ago) link
they did one of those 8 hour sets @ plastic people recently + i didnt find out till the day after :(
― just sayin, Friday, 7 January 2011 12:57 (thirteen years ago) link
good weekend for dance music in NY...Bunker anniversary fri night incl. Optimo, and saturday at Santos Metro Area downstairs for Discovery party and Paradise Garage reunion upstairs (though the upstairs is $$$$)
― dan selzer, Friday, 7 January 2011 13:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Saturday at Triple Crown in SF was a highlight of my crummy life, thank you JD!
― The Macallan 18 Year, Monday, 10 January 2011 17:23 (thirteen years ago) link
New Optimo FACT mix!http://www.factmag.com/2011/01/17/fact-mix-214-optimo/
Sounds a bit Sleepwalk-esque from the blurb...
― Neil S, Monday, 17 January 2011 11:09 (thirteen years ago) link
tracklisting for FACT mix -
Odd Machine - Phase In (edit)Cindytalk - Our Shadow, RememberedAlvo Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - MorningThis Mortal Coil - Song To The Siren (JD Twitch Reversion)Zoviet France - The Decriminalisation Of Country MusicSun City Girls - Come MaddalenaForest Swords - The LightOneohtrix Point Never - Young BeidnahgaNo Man - Days In The TreesTomita - Clair De LuneConrad Schnitzler - Ballet StatiqueTimothy Leary - The Aim Of The GamePeter Baumann - This DayReichmann - WunderbarDuet Emmo - The First PersonCarol - So LowZoviet France - Vienna (extract)
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Just put this on my iPhone; cannot wait to listen to it on the bus today
― her hipster hair dude is making me pale ale (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 18:04 (thirteen years ago) link
absolutely beautiful.
stirmonster, i remember when you had that zoviet france track up on your now long-dead mac.com dropbox!
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 18:11 (thirteen years ago) link
last night's 'night of 45 cuts' was maybe the best night out I've had in Dundee, God bless yous.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 21 May 2011 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
did everyone hear this epic mix already?
JD Twitch - Bass and Bleeps 1990 - 2011
― jabba hands, Monday, 30 May 2011 14:03 (twelve years ago) link
sick
― corpse pose (missingNO), Monday, 30 May 2011 14:20 (twelve years ago) link
Anyone else listening to the Domino session at the mo? Far fuckin out...
― Neil S, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 23:56 (twelve years ago) link
Haha no - is it available retroactively?
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 09:44 (twelve years ago) link
Doesn't look like they're archiving shows online (yet), I'll try and find out more from their Twitter a/c...
― Neil S, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 12:04 (twelve years ago) link
Domino confirm they'll be archiving all the shows soon!
― Neil S, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 12:29 (twelve years ago) link
Whoo Philly in Sept! I always have the most fun on the dancefoor when you guys are spinning. Are there any other US dates in July/Aug? I'm traveling x-country and would love to double up on fun
― cheese wiz khalifa (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 9 June 2011 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
August 28th in NYC. I'll be at that one, for sure.
― geeta, Thursday, 9 June 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
New York on Aug. 28 for a Sunday afternoon party in Brooklyn. I am anticipating. - haha xpost
― dmr, Thursday, 9 June 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
no SoCal, alas :(
― creme de cassie (donna rouge), Thursday, 9 June 2011 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
does stirmonster still post on ilm? they might add some california dates. not sure about LA, but stir loves san francisco.
― geeta, Thursday, 9 June 2011 18:33 (twelve years ago) link
he's around now and again.
shamefully don't think i've ever seen the lads play in london despite them being down here every other week.
― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
the Brooklyn thing should be fun. outdoor party with a picnic vibe, people hangin out.
http://mistersaturdaynight.com/category/mister-sunday/
― dmr, Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
walking distance for me, def. planning on going
― dmr, Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
http://i964.photobucket.com/albums/ae130/Optimo_Dept/o25yearsplain.jpg
― jed_, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQMp4CXOFhNQ-WRhYFuBPUPkaBNOeXeyVWyNQg2L2FHf7PEdwl08w
― jed_, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
<3 @ "JD TWITCH, JG WILKES, TB 303"
― naked hdsl (sic), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 00:08 (twelve years ago) link
Ooft. Definitely a possibility,sounds good.
― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 01:21 (twelve years ago) link
<3 <3 <3
holy cow--i would give my firstborn to go to that party in glasgow this weekend
twitch's pure mix is one of my favorite acid mixes of all time, full stop (i love you, keith)
― geeta, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.melkweg.nl/mmbase/images/221770/EHNY.jpg
How was the acid house party? Just moved from NZ to Amsterdam in time to catch the above. Finally (French air traffic control permitting, etc).
― etc, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
what's the deal with this http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/products/VariousArtists-DiscofilDesperadosPresentsJDTwitch-Discofil-78403.html
― mizzell, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
Great fun in NY sunday night of labor day weekend. Actually glad they showed up late and we stuck around. Had they showed up as planned we probably would've left after an hour or two because we're lame, but the flight had them start at 2:30, and after staying that long we weren't going to miss the end. Don't know if it was the existence of Horse Meat Disco (who I saw the day before at ps1) in house, but Optimo got VERY menergetic.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
bummed I missed it. I was fired up to go to the Sunday daytime thing but after it got wiped out by the hurricane I couldn't do the late-night makeup date.
― dmr, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 21:56 (twelve years ago) link
what's the deal with this
looks like the equivalent of an edits 12 but with OGs not edits?
― robocop last year was a 'shop (sic), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 23:55 (twelve years ago) link
There are samples on Juno: http://www.juno.co.uk/products/discofil-desperados-presents/434014-01/
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 15 September 2011 01:33 (twelve years ago) link
It's got a song I've been hoping to reissue for years...
― dan selzer, Thursday, 15 September 2011 03:05 (twelve years ago) link
has anyone got the pure mix mp3 i can't find it :(
― Crackle Box, Thursday, 15 September 2011 11:59 (twelve years ago) link
it's a b**tl*g
it's tracks i had tried and failed to license and this swedish dude talked me into compiling them on a 12". which one had you been hoping to reissue dan?
Don't know if it was the existence of Horse Meat Disco
i didn't spot them until after it was over. i think it's 'cos i spotted you. :)
― stirmonster, Thursday, 15 September 2011 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
I'll just say jo3 f0st3r gave me approval back when I wanted to do my expanded wanna buy a bridge cd
― dan selzer, Thursday, 15 September 2011 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
well, if you're not fast you're last.
this is ice cold:
http://www.whitelightmixes.com/mixes/white-light-54-jd-twitch-optimo/
― jed_, Monday, 5 March 2012 23:37 (twelve years ago) link
Last weekend in Glasgow with Horse Meat Disco was so good, easily the most fun I've had dancing in a long time.
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 00:08 (twelve years ago) link
ach i was there too. it would have been nice to say hello. next time!
― jed_, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 00:14 (twelve years ago) link
Loving the mix.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
So there's the return, of sorts, to regularity in Glasgow this Friday. Hard not to not be pleased about it!
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 5 April 2012 22:33 (eleven years ago) link
a resurrection worthy of easter weekend.
"you won't like it, sugar"
― jed_, Thursday, 5 April 2012 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
guess i gotta move back to Glasgow
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Thursday, 5 April 2012 23:24 (eleven years ago) link
Playing at Trouw in Amsterdam on the Saturday, which'll be a bit easier to reach for me. Where's the Glasgow return at - Sub Club, or a different/new venue? Might have to make a pilgrimage before I have to return to Australasia, hmmn.
― etc, Friday, 6 April 2012 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
killed it at corsica studios last night (what a surprise)
― jabba hands, Friday, 6 April 2012 15:14 (eleven years ago) link
etc, sub on fridays but only once every two months.
― jed_, Friday, 6 April 2012 15:20 (eleven years ago) link
In all honesty I think I might actually go to Glasgow for one this summer.
― EDB, Friday, 6 April 2012 17:56 (eleven years ago) link
well, *shameless spam* alert. my friend, Guy, and I made a video for stirnonster's new track and i hope you all like it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltr33fkxkxM
― jed_, Thursday, 4 October 2012 00:08 (eleven years ago) link
yay!
― geeta, Thursday, 4 October 2012 00:12 (eleven years ago) link
i'm the one dancing in the video so please be kind!
― jed_, Thursday, 4 October 2012 00:14 (eleven years ago) link
in fact, don't be kind just enjoy it or be honest if you didn't .
― jed_, Thursday, 4 October 2012 00:22 (eleven years ago) link
I was going to post this here w/o yr permission but I didn't but I'm glad you did bcz it's p f rad
― bell biv devo (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 4 October 2012 00:23 (eleven years ago) link
<3 to you, stevie.
― jed_, Thursday, 4 October 2012 00:26 (eleven years ago) link
This is gorgeous.
― etc, Thursday, 4 October 2012 00:32 (eleven years ago) link
i love it. jed, you're a great dancer.
― THEE-AH-TER (Matt P), Thursday, 4 October 2012 00:34 (eleven years ago) link
thanks! that track was stirmonster's homage to arthur russell and that video was my homage to optimo.... it kinda flows like an optimo condensed into 4 minutes (with two people, obviously) although that's the director/editor's skill that it moves like that.
― jed_, Thursday, 4 October 2012 00:46 (eleven years ago) link
this is great!
― these wilburys taste like wilburys (donna rouge), Thursday, 4 October 2012 01:53 (eleven years ago) link
thanks donna, good times! x
― jed_, Thursday, 4 October 2012 12:17 (eleven years ago) link
(i mean that time we went to optimo together).
thanks jed. x
― stirmonster, Thursday, 4 October 2012 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
love it
― andrew m., Thursday, 4 October 2012 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
in the immortal words of george takeioh my
Move D B2B Optimo 180 Min Mix - BOILER ROOM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhNd1iSoBt4
― Thee Macallan 18 Year, Thursday, 3 January 2013 22:45 (eleven years ago) link
tim kay 23 hours ago
Respect for the 25+ years of djing. But you would of thought in this time they would learn how to mix on vinyl. Almost every mix drifts. Not really acceptable if u ask me ·
stirmonster23 16 hours ago
not really acceptable - what a dick thing to say. it's live. maybe the monitors aren't perfect? maybe flawless mixing isn't so important? maybe they are deaf? who cares? what do you do?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 4 January 2013 00:02 (eleven years ago) link
i forgot about that post on youtube. drunken scorn is never good. :-)
― stirmonster, Friday, 4 January 2013 00:09 (eleven years ago) link
naw dude, perfect response to such twattery.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 4 January 2013 00:15 (eleven years ago) link
That garage tune at 47 to 50 mins-ish is insane in that boiler room vid. Wish I knew what it was.
Optimo playin Fabric weekend after next too: http://www.fabriclondon.com/club/listing/665
Big night: Hessel, Optimo, MMM, Kuedo, DVA, Altered Natives, Peverelist, Joe, fuck.
If I've got the cash to get from up north I'm off.
― jimitheexploder, Friday, 4 January 2013 02:10 (eleven years ago) link
MMM Live
! ! !
― jed_, Friday, 4 January 2013 02:18 (eleven years ago) link
RE: that YT comment: Nothing worse than chinscratching arbiters of dj technique/taste. Those are probably the ones who don't dance and just stand around getting butthurt. Long Live Optimo!
― That elusive North American wood-ape (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 4 January 2013 03:11 (eleven years ago) link
― willem, Friday, 4 January 2013 10:46 (eleven years ago) link
"talking to the DJ when he's trying to mix / and you fuck it up good and proper"
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 4 January 2013 10:58 (eleven years ago) link
Track at 47 - 50 mins is 'Tunsten" by Barnt. Out soon on Comeme.
― stirmonster, Friday, 4 January 2013 14:35 (eleven years ago) link
Not long finished listening to this. It was great. Guy from YouTube moaning about the mixing sounds like a fud. Who cares if the mixing isn't perfect, to be perfectly honest I probably couldn't tell anyway, as long as the crowd are into it. Never got the chance to attend an Optimo live 'cause of the Sunday thing but this was a very nice second price.
― TheScienceLaw, Friday, 4 January 2013 15:12 (eleven years ago) link
most of these whingers who moan about dj mixing have prob never even played live, let alone recorded one of their own live sets.
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Friday, 4 January 2013 15:26 (eleven years ago) link
Listening to this now, it's just ridiculously great! It must have been fun to do.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 4 January 2013 16:22 (eleven years ago) link
02:21:00 St. Germain - Thank U Mum (4 Everything You Did)
everything about this track. yes.
― Thee Macallan 18 Year, Friday, 4 January 2013 17:56 (eleven years ago) link
does anyone have any ideas what the horny acid greatness is around the 1.07 mark? had a blast at the glue factory on hogmanay as well!
― Baruffati, Friday, 4 January 2013 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.discogs.com/Like-A-Tim-Wonderline/release/583931
― stirmonster, Friday, 4 January 2013 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
JD, I tried to say hello outside Q but you were clearly pre-occupied. Glad you enjoyed the night there!
― ma ck ro ma ck ro (mackro mackro), Saturday, 5 January 2013 07:46 (eleven years ago) link
also someone needs to link the 6-hour set here!
― ma ck ro ma ck ro (mackro mackro), Saturday, 5 January 2013 07:47 (eleven years ago) link
pre-occupied?? maybe it was jet lag?
― stirmonster, Saturday, 5 January 2013 11:13 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.discogs.com/Like-A-Tim-Wonderline/release/583931― stirmonster, Friday, January 4, 2013 10:39 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― stirmonster, Friday, January 4, 2013 10:39 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
much appreciated!
― Baruffati, Saturday, 5 January 2013 13:58 (eleven years ago) link
xp stir, no you were talking with (i think) the folks who made Q and/or booked you(?), either way, it would have been rude to interrupt.
― ma ck ro ma ck ro (mackro mackro), Sunday, 6 January 2013 09:26 (eleven years ago) link
Boiler Room mix is a fun listen. hearing the way the Andres track sounds after an hour of other tunes gave me a better idea of why people like it so much. before I thought it was just ok, now I kinda get how you'd hear it in a mix and go "ahhhhhhh yeah." (never heard it out.)
agree with everyone that the Barnt track is crazy. loved the Bill Withers too.
― dmr, Monday, 7 January 2013 22:38 (eleven years ago) link
who gets invited to these Boiler Room things? crowd in this one seems pretty ok, at least people are dancing. in some of them it looks like mostly corny camera mugging and looking over the DJ's shoulders.
― dmr, Monday, 7 January 2013 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
Mix of friends and people who apply for tickets I believe. Usually looks like the kind of crowd I try to avoid at parties TBH.
― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 7 January 2013 22:45 (eleven years ago) link
'Track at 47 - 50 mins is 'Tunsten" by Barnt. Out soon on Comeme.
― stirmonster, Friday, 4 January 2013 14:35 (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink'
big will have to keep an eye for that one cheers.
― jimitheexploder, Thursday, 10 January 2013 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=129(thanks, Severed Heads thread!)
― etc, Friday, 25 January 2013 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
Monthly show starting on Rinse FM from February 11th
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
Nice.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 08:25 (eleven years ago) link
SR Mix #151: Doubleheart [High Sheen]
http://www.sonicrouter.com/2013/02/sr-mix-151-doubleheart-high-sheen/
JD Twitch and Neil Landstrumm's Doubleheart project.
― jimitheexploder, Friday, 8 February 2013 13:09 (eleven years ago) link
that barnt track is a monster
― I only get 7 per cent of display names (cozen), Sunday, 24 March 2013 21:29 (eleven years ago) link
up on spotify now
Liking this: http://nocturnetapes.com/post/47614176527/nt1-jd-twitch
Into the interzone with JD TwitchFirst in a series of mixes and compilations from various DJs, producers and taste-makers that have been inspired by, and made to be listened to in, the small hours of the night. Curated by Vitamins, the Tapes will allow listeners a glimpse into the personal nighttime listening habits and the lesser-heard regions of the record collections of their creators.Full interview and download:http://www.nocturnetapes.com
First in a series of mixes and compilations from various DJs, producers and taste-makers that have been inspired by, and made to be listened to in, the small hours of the night. Curated by Vitamins, the Tapes will allow listeners a glimpse into the personal nighttime listening habits and the lesser-heard regions of the record collections of their creators.
Full interview and download:http://www.nocturnetapes.com
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Thursday, 11 April 2013 22:16 (ten years ago) link
hot mix!http://www.clashmusic.com/features/clash-dj-mix-optimos-jg-wilkes
― I like to think I have learnt a thing or two about music (Neil S), Thursday, 28 November 2013 14:03 (ten years ago) link
nice!
― ✓B (Matt P), Saturday, 30 November 2013 18:58 (ten years ago) link
These are great!
I'd also completely missed The Underground Sound of Glasgow; stumbled across it via the EOY thread.
― etc, Saturday, 30 November 2013 21:49 (ten years ago) link
ty
― ✓B (Matt P), Sunday, 1 December 2013 03:57 (ten years ago) link
http://www.xlr8r.com/features/2014/08/hi-five-optimo-shares-five-its-f
― etc, Saturday, 6 September 2014 12:10 (nine years ago) link
That seems very similar to the Top 10 article from the last year, but then I guess it should!
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 7 September 2014 18:55 (nine years ago) link
http://www.thevinylfactory.com/vinyl-factory-films/the-10-best-scottish-records-with-jd-twitch/
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 7 September 2014 18:57 (nine years ago) link
Ah, thanks for that!
Also:http://www.theskinny.co.uk/clubs/skinned/309011-skinned_special_jd_twitchs_independent_scotland(good interview)
TRACKLISTBenjamin Zephaniah – IndependenceTest Dept. – Cha Till Sinn Tuille (We Shall Return No More)Robert Wyatt – ShipbuildingJonny Greenwood – OilPeter Westheimer – Renewable EnergyOliver Wallace – PoundSwarms – SterlingTelepathe – Devil's TridentWoody Guthrie – This Land Is Your LandSlim Lightfoot – Welfare State BluesRoy Harper – ReferendumThe The – HeartlandAdonis – No Way BackYello – You Gotta Say YesComrade Oleau – Tiny RevolutionsThe Residents – You YesYesYesDevo – Watch Us Work itThe Clash – Should I Stay Or Should I Go?Dub Syndicate – No AlternativeDonna Summer – State Of IndependenceString Driven Thing – Heartfeeder
― etc, Monday, 8 September 2014 22:41 (nine years ago) link
Jonny Greenwood – OilPeter Westheimer – Renewable Energy
oh I see what he did there
― FKA Twix (haitch), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 01:55 (nine years ago) link
WELLINGTON NEW ZEALAND SHOW!!!
― etc, Thursday, 9 October 2014 11:02 (nine years ago) link
Tonight!
~24min interview on National Radio:http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/nat-music/audio/20158168/optimo
― etc, Friday, 21 November 2014 05:14 (nine years ago) link
good stuff on wednesday night, especially since they started at 7pm!
― electric sack butt (haitch), Friday, 21 November 2014 05:38 (nine years ago) link
hoping to get to the encore performance next weekend for longer show at more traditional dancing hours...
― electric sack butt (haitch), Friday, 21 November 2014 05:39 (nine years ago) link
set times in Sydney tomorrow are outdoors in a posh pub courtyard during daylight:
16:30 > 18:30 Seth Troxler18:30 > 20:30 Optimo20:30 > 22:30 Pachanga Boys22:30 > 24:00 Ame
― the incredible string gland (sic), Friday, 21 November 2014 05:53 (nine years ago) link
Brilliant!http://i.imgur.com/doBZcof.jpg
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Friday, 10 July 2015 21:47 (eight years ago) link
pissing myself at that.
love the wee bottle of bucky
― Rave Van Donk (jim in glasgow), Friday, 10 July 2015 21:57 (eight years ago) link
their rinse show continues to be ezcellent
― transparent play for gifs (Tracer Hand), Friday, 10 July 2015 22:11 (eight years ago) link
Two great tracks on Optimo Music lately:
Sex Judas - Pope Naked The Firsthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un7x46RshDw
Boot & Tax - Dancinhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LictORmWZlM
― Michael F Gill, Friday, 10 July 2015 23:58 (eight years ago) link
LOVE that boot and tax track x
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Saturday, 11 July 2015 02:28 (eight years ago) link
Hadn't heard the sex judas but I'm really enjoying it !
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Saturday, 11 July 2015 02:29 (eight years ago) link
Optimo Music clashes with Sony over post-punk compilation
The major label took exception to the phrase "Now That's What I Call..." in the record's title.
The sleeves of Optimo Music's forthcoming post-punk compilation will be destroyed after the label received a cease and desist letter from Sony.
Sony's objection to the compilation's original title, Now That's What I Call DIY! (Cult Classics From The Post-Punk Era 1978-82), which it says infringed its copyrighted Now That's What I Call Music! series. Optimo Music head JD Twitch told RA: "I couldn't reach agreement with Sony to modify the existing sleeves that was either satisfactory to them or cost effective to me, so the original sleeves will be destroyed." He says the process cost "several thousand pounds," adding: "While the whole thing has been a nightmare and extremely annoying, really, the only person I am angry with is myself for not even considering it might be an issue. I totally appreciate that Sony are perfectly entitled to vigorously pursue copyright infringement." Sony is yet to respond to RA's request for comment.
The repackaged compilation, now titled [Cease & Desist] DIY! (Cult Classics From The Post-Punk Era 1978-82), will see release on October 30th. As previously reported, the compilation pulls together weird and rare post-punk music from the late '70s and early '80s. The 16-track double-vinyl version comes with detailed notes of each track written by JD Twitch, as well as an introduction by Dan Selzer.
http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=30703
― paolo, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 09:07 (eight years ago) link
Sony can kiss it
Getting a cease and desist label from a major label is punk as fuck tho
― paolo, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 09:09 (eight years ago) link
I mean cease and desist letter. Too much coffee this morning >>>
― paolo, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 09:10 (eight years ago) link
this sounds like an excellent companion to that Trevor Jackson Science Fiction Dancehall Classics compilation.
― Neil S, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 09:12 (eight years ago) link
this comp looks v interesting despite/because of me not knowing any of it aside from Fatal Microbes and The Prats
title is one of those things that feels so wholly embedded in the lexicon, it seems weird that it might actually be owned by a litigious multinational
― Hector Ringtone (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 09:57 (eight years ago) link
Now that's what I call a capitalist dystopia.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 10:07 (eight years ago) link
Well it's obv shitty that this is the world we live in but that's what copyright is for I guess, even Twitch says the only person he's annoyed with is himself. Looks a good comp regardless.
― ewar woowar (or something), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 11:08 (eight years ago) link
just clocked this, courtesy stirmonster!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03rymc8
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 15:51 (seven years ago) link
Who's on board for Optimo 20?!
It's next weekend kids!
ADULT.Apeiron CrewAurora HalalAvalon EmersonBen UFOBecky MarshallThe Black MadonnaCarla dal FornoEquiknoxxErrorsmithHappy MealsKing AyisobaK-X-PMidlandThe Bug ft Miss RedNurse With WoundOptimoSal PSofay
http://thequietus.com/articles/22925-optimo-20-mix-listen
― I'm make-believe. (jed_), Friday, 28 July 2017 00:00 (six years ago) link
is the whole thing not sold out by this point? I would love to see ADULT. again and I think Happy Meals are the greatest
― boxedjoy, Friday, 28 July 2017 08:05 (six years ago) link
I'm going and I'm really rather excited about it. I think there are still some tickets left
― paolo, Friday, 28 July 2017 08:42 (six years ago) link
Not being a dancer, wish there were separate tix for NWW. Happy 20th!
― Bernie Lugg (Ward Fowler), Friday, 28 July 2017 08:51 (six years ago) link
200 tix left. Just not possible to do separate tix but plenty of acts for non dancers. ;-)
― stirmonster, Friday, 28 July 2017 09:11 (six years ago) link
Yeah, can totally understand separate tix would be a bit of a nightmare (tho good old Counterflows eh)- anyway, went to the last NWW/Optimo show at the Tramway, which was jelly-being-pushed-through-the-walls awesome.
I will be dancing in my head.
― Bernie Lugg (Ward Fowler), Friday, 28 July 2017 09:18 (six years ago) link
stirmonster, that's a nice mini-essay in the Quietus.
― I'm make-believe. (jed_), Friday, 28 July 2017 21:13 (six years ago) link
i had a ticket but now i can't go! :(
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 29 July 2017 23:21 (six years ago) link
Oh no! That's a bummer TH, I would have loved to have met you.
― I'm make-believe. (jed_), Sunday, 30 July 2017 04:11 (six years ago) link
YES ME TOO! bvms
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 30 July 2017 09:48 (six years ago) link
I will be there. First "Optimo" I will have been to in Glasgow, not sure I'll have the stamina for the Sub Club after but let's see ;)
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 20:25 (six years ago) link
envious over here. have fun
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 20:35 (six years ago) link
Where are you headed from, Chew?
― I'm make-believe. (jed_), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 22:20 (six years ago) link
And will you have friends attending? If not (or even if so!) then send me a message on here and we can say hello! X
― I'm make-believe. (jed_), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 22:29 (six years ago) link
(That goes for Paolo too, it would be good to meet you)
― I'm make-believe. (jed_), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 22:34 (six years ago) link
I'm coming up from Brighton. This rather neatly coincided with my birthday and some friends who were already going.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 3 August 2017 07:33 (six years ago) link
Set times are up on facey b
― paolo, Thursday, 3 August 2017 08:23 (six years ago) link
And would be good to have an ILM meetup. Are you coming Boxedjoy?
― paolo, Thursday, 3 August 2017 08:24 (six years ago) link
Here's my Twitter which is probably as good a way as any of getting in touch: https://twitter.com/matthewbalaam
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 3 August 2017 09:45 (six years ago) link
Ward, you can see NWW adult. King Ayisoba and other things for a pretty small fee. Just come along. We can hang out!
― Cake hawn. (jed_), Friday, 4 August 2017 02:31 (six years ago) link
Thanks jed, love your enthusiasm on this thread. Couple of non-ilx pals are going and just last night were also encouraging me to come along, so will definitely look out for you down the front at NWW if I do make it.
― Bernie Lugg (Ward Fowler), Friday, 4 August 2017 09:38 (six years ago) link
loving the mix.
in 86/87 i used to go to Microwave in Rickys/Leeds every monday night, and this is exactly the stuff they used to play.
― mark e, Friday, 4 August 2017 10:50 (six years ago) link
Buzzing for this. Will be there with paolo, happy to meet up and have some awkward chat with anyone else on here who's about.
― off-site man days (Mr Andy M), Saturday, 5 August 2017 19:37 (six years ago) link
I'm gonna regret not going and hanging out with you all
― starving street dogs of punk rock (Odysseus), Saturday, 5 August 2017 19:48 (six years ago) link
feeling that post
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 5 August 2017 19:57 (six years ago) link
If anyone wants to find myself and my girlfriend, we look like this: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154605964567518&set=t.666387517&type=3&theater
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 6 August 2017 09:02 (six years ago) link
Will keep an eye out :) I'm going for a drink with Mr Andy M in the 78 beforehand if anyone wants to come and say hi
― paolo, Sunday, 6 August 2017 09:48 (six years ago) link
have a great time everyone!
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 6 August 2017 11:34 (six years ago) link
Well that was fun. Good to meet you Jed.
Despite making a pact to "have an early night" with my girlfriend and just do the daytime stuff, naturally we ended up still front and centre at 3:15am in the Subbie. First time visiting it - I can see it’s reputation is deserved.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 12:29 (six years ago) link
Thanks for coming! I'm still on the biggest natural high ever from this. It exceeded our wildest expectations and that was really down to the amazing people who came; in 30 years of doing this I have never felt so much love concentrated in one place before.
Jed may well have a list of things that could have been improved. ;-)
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 13:01 (six years ago) link
That was really something. NWW were probably the highlight, closely followed by The Bug and King Ayisoba. One of the best Sub Club experiences I've had afterwards as well
― paolo, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 16:54 (six years ago) link
You guys must be just about the only people on the planet who could play Duelling Banjos in the sub and get away with it
i hadn't played it for so many years and for about the first minute thought i wasn't going to get away with it this time but thankfully....
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 22:06 (six years ago) link
I should've figured out a way to get to Glasgow for this. Glad it went off!
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 22:37 (six years ago) link
i think i remember duelling banjos coming out quite late at T in the Park one night, possibly 2004...
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 09:11 (six years ago) link
that version of Zombie Nation played where it just kept teasing the main riff was spelndid
― electrobiscuit, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 16:08 (six years ago) link
the original plan was to never actually bring the main riff in but i am weak and finally crumbled.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 17:21 (six years ago) link
jealous.
― mark e, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 19:23 (six years ago) link
You probably could have got away with that and just cut the sound off and let the crowd sing it for you.
― electrobiscuit, Thursday, 10 August 2017 21:56 (six years ago) link
i do!
hold on, no, i don't... Optimo has enriched my life beyond measure. I barely saw any of the acts at the festival because I was too busy talking to all of the people I have met through Optimo over the years. If I could rewind it again and again I'd see all of the acts but Optimo is about connections, connections with people, so I'd do the same again. It has been a treat!
Thanks!
― Cake Hawn (jed_), Friday, 11 August 2017 01:17 (six years ago) link
that was a bit less elegant than intended but who cares? Optimo has made my life much much better. Immeasurably better.
what else can you say?
― Cake Hawn (jed_), Friday, 11 August 2017 01:24 (six years ago) link
this looked like a completely amazing event and makes me want to cross the atlantic should I have the opportunity to make it in the future
― mh, Friday, 11 August 2017 01:54 (six years ago) link
Paolo and Andy M, sorry I didn't see you!
― Cake Hawn (jed_), Saturday, 12 August 2017 01:54 (six years ago) link
That's OK I'll probably run into you at some point
― paolo, Saturday, 12 August 2017 17:50 (six years ago) link
Yeah no worries mate, we'll catch up another time no doubt. I had a total blast at this. Nurse With Wound & King Ayisoba were particularly impressive, but really everyone that I saw was good. After-party in the Sub was loads of fun too obv, so many classics.
― off-site man days (Mr Andy M), Saturday, 12 August 2017 21:41 (six years ago) link
can anyone ID the track on Optimo's Walkabout mix that is the phrase "Car Sick" repeated over and over again? Stirmonster, are you out there?
― Neil S, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 12:31 (six years ago) link
i'm afraid don't know as that mix was all jg wilkes' work and i don't have a copy to hand. is it not in the tracklisting?
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 21:48 (six years ago) link
it's not car sick it's "co" then "exic" which repeats then becomes "mex" "ic" "co"
It's Mexico by Thomas Brinkmann.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vixu-_dmL_A
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 21:55 (six years ago) link
thanks stirmonster and no worries, I was being lazy while at work. Turns out it was a Thomas Brinkmann number called Monomexico, very good it is too.
thanks Jed, that has BLOWN MY MIND
― Neil S, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 21:56 (six years ago) link
no problem, NMQP is my choice cut from that album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRt2Ir6JsBQ
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 22:01 (six years ago) link
at the risk of a thread-derail - stirmonster, have you ever seen this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_qwupwh40w
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 22:06 (six years ago) link
i have!
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 22:56 (six years ago) link
haha, is it because i already asked you? i had a feeling i had!
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 22:59 (six years ago) link
you have!
:-)
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 23:15 (six years ago) link
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 23:20 (six years ago) link
Anyone going to So Low at The Poetry Club tomorrow? Everything on that label so far has been AWESOME
― paolo, Thursday, 9 November 2017 09:13 (six years ago) link
Low chances on Jed being there. In fact, if he is there I'll buy the whole club a drink. ;-)
― stirmonster, Friday, 10 November 2017 17:51 (six years ago) link
absolutely LOVE Miracle Steps, btw.
https://optimomusic.bandcamp.com/track/miracle-steps
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 2 February 2018 00:04 (six years ago) link
sorry you all lost out on a drink in November!
Live for the next 3 and a half hours - https://www.clydebuiltradio.com
― stirmonster, Friday, 3 April 2020 22:32 (three years ago) link
excellent! :)
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 3 April 2020 23:10 (three years ago) link
enjoying this, thanks!
(although I really ought to go to bed soon so I will be delighted if a recording gets put up somewhere)
― a passing spacecadet, Saturday, 4 April 2020 00:10 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vVBB9cZAAQ&ab_channel=KeshiWipertus
― PaulTMA, Saturday, 4 April 2020 00:14 (three years ago) link
https://youtu.be/-vVBB9cZAAQ
― PaulTMA, Saturday, 4 April 2020 00:15 (three years ago) link
loving this. I've posse of friends on facebook talking through it too. quite lovely.
― current (jed_), Saturday, 4 April 2020 00:37 (three years ago) link
quite a lovely experience, I mean.
Hoping for a recording too.
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 4 April 2020 12:37 (three years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/clydebuiltradio/optimo-house-party-3420
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 4 April 2020 20:36 (three years ago) link
Thank you!
― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 6 April 2020 09:59 (three years ago) link
Nice list of Optimo-friendly records on Bandcamp here:
https://buymusic.club/list/ajb-a-few-bandcamp-picks-peace-from-optimo-music
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 18 September 2020 21:35 (three years ago) link
Loads of good things there but the Weird Weather EP, in particular, is really great.
Not on this list but on Optimo Music, I really love this ep:
https://optimomusic.bandcamp.com/album/pintxos-ep
― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Friday, 18 September 2020 23:21 (three years ago) link
The other location, a year later, in 1997/8 was a top floor flat on Park Circus, which Glasgow Uni must have owned. I think I only did one show from that location as I accidentally got locked in and despite making appeals on-air nobody came to let me out until late the next morning. I think that put me off continuing
https://scotlands-sounds.nls.uk/index.php/2020/10/27/tenement-tapes/
― @nightKarlMalone (✔️) (sic), Wednesday, 4 November 2020 09:08 (three years ago) link
Thanks for the link, great interview. <3 Optimo/stirmonster
It’s around when I think I found my first Neu! album in Glasgow. I was looking for one for over a decade. Neu! were this mythical band that I had no way of hearing; I used to imagine what they might actually be like.
This is so identifiable. I still vividly remember hearing “Hallogallo” for the first time online when Grönland reissued it in 2000. Having read about them for over a decade before actually being able to listen to them it was a combination of hearing exactly what I’d imagined them to be like and being surprised and overwhelmed by it at the same time.
― willem, Wednesday, 4 November 2020 09:58 (three years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/twitch/janet-kay-silly-games-jd-twitch-small-axe-version
I was blown away by Steve McQueen's recent Small Axe series of films on BBC1. One of them, Lovers Rock, featured a life affirming scene using Janet Kay's "Silly Games", to incredible effect. "Silly Games" is an all time favourite of mine (see below if interested) and one night recently I couldn't sleep so decided to take the A Cappella singing from the film and weld it to Dennis Bovell's dub mix of "Silly Games". (...)
ysi? ;) (or download button on ^)
― shivers me timber (sic), Friday, 15 January 2021 04:06 (three years ago) link
https://spaces.hightail.com/receive/xhU8j8v0sC
― stirmonster, Friday, 15 January 2021 11:55 (three years ago) link
top work mister!
― kieth chagrin (NickB), Friday, 15 January 2021 12:03 (three years ago) link
Thanks, Keith! Gonna listen now.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 15 January 2021 12:12 (three years ago) link
owwww this is lovely
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 15 January 2021 12:20 (three years ago) link
thx stirry
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 15 January 2021 17:14 (three years ago) link
This is killer - thanks for the download!
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 15 January 2021 17:27 (three years ago) link
I can't imagine a time or occasion when I wouldn't want to hear Silly Games.
Brilliant. Thanks Stirmonster!
While you're spoiling us, is Are People People? (On-U Sound Pt.1) available anywhere to stream?
― I am using your worlds, Friday, 15 January 2021 20:00 (three years ago) link
Yesss! What a joy.
― shivers me timber (sic), Friday, 15 January 2021 20:09 (three years ago) link
you are very welcome.
is Are People People? (On-U Sound Pt.1) available anywhere to stream?
ah, i see it is not online anymore. here you go - https://spaces.hightail.com/receive/NZG5bAWsNy
― stirmonster, Saturday, 16 January 2021 00:33 (three years ago) link
many thanks for this stirmonster.what's that ? oh, just some dust in my eye.i genuinely love that you can hear dennis loud and proud throughout.
― mark e, Saturday, 16 January 2021 21:44 (three years ago) link
ooops : my post was re the silly games edit, not the on-u mixtape.
― mark e, Saturday, 16 January 2021 21:45 (three years ago) link
just coming here to say how much I've been enjoying the Tafi & Green Door Allstars album, I am giving u official US radio plays via Spinitron :)
― Überschadenfreude (sleeve), Saturday, 16 January 2021 22:11 (three years ago) link
Love that Silly Games version! Thanks again.
― Pie face (jed_), Sunday, 17 January 2021 02:11 (three years ago) link
Thanks Stirmonster, you are a genuine legend
― I am using your worlds, Monday, 18 January 2021 15:42 (three years ago) link
yr all welcome and cheers sleeve!
d/l numbers are an interesting insight into no. of lurkers here.
― stirmonster, Monday, 18 January 2021 16:43 (three years ago) link
Guilty as charged.
― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 18 January 2021 17:03 (three years ago) link
likewise
― toby, Monday, 18 January 2021 17:46 (three years ago) link
Good news and bad news!
New Optimo monthly mixtape series!
https://optimomusic.bandcamp.com/album/ultragoth-mixtape-by-jd-twitch-2
First one is Ultragoth. Second is gonna be Japanese electronic music.
Collect all 12 and get a bonus zine.
The bad news - it just came out today and is sold out already so I’ve missed my chance :(
Don’t suppose there are any plans to make additional copies of the upcoming ones?
― I am using your worlds, Friday, 5 March 2021 16:09 (three years ago) link
Edit - because I can’t add up properly there’s only 10 mixtapes, one for each remaining month of 2021. Also Twitch sez on Bandcamp there will be some available at Boomkat - no sign of them on there yet
― I am using your worlds, Friday, 5 March 2021 16:14 (three years ago) link
Booomkat won't get them until next week so probably late next week or the week after before they have them on sale.
Trying to figure out how to make this all a bit more egalitarian.
― stirmonster, Friday, 5 March 2021 20:47 (three years ago) link
man I had no idea, these sound cool. and I get your Bandcamp updates!
― I like signing up to dead sites (sleeve), Friday, 5 March 2021 20:49 (three years ago) link
Sorry, didn’t mean to sound like I’m complaining, will keep checking back on Boomkat and hopefully snag some of the forthcoming ones. Still an unexpected treat to look forward to even if I don’t get Ultragothed out.
― I am using your worlds, Friday, 5 March 2021 20:52 (three years ago) link
stirmonster : i will never ever buy a cassette cos i hated the format even when it was a necessary evil, but i would love to see a tracklisting ?
― mark e, Friday, 5 March 2021 20:56 (three years ago) link
You get the track listing in the zine if you collect the set. I’d imagine that the listing might end up online at the end of the year
― I am using your worlds, Friday, 5 March 2021 21:05 (three years ago) link
Oh! No need to apologise, I am using your worlds,; you didn't sound like you were complaining! :)
cos i hated the format even when it was a necessary evil,
i loved the format, then hated it, and have fallen in love with it again after recently finding an old personal stereo in a drawer and taking up lockdown walking marathons.
tape comes without a tracklisting so i haven't typed it out yet but will give you a shout when i have.
a few folk said they didn't see the update, sleeve. odd.
― stirmonster, Friday, 5 March 2021 21:09 (three years ago) link
here's the audio if anyone wants it - https://spaces.hightail.com/receive/RGpeDPx2wE
shhhh!
;-)
― stirmonster, Friday, 5 March 2021 21:10 (three years ago) link
Oh God <3
Off to change into all black clothing
― I am using your worlds, Friday, 5 March 2021 21:13 (three years ago) link
bloody hell, did not expect that sir stirmonster.love-n-hugs.xx
― mark e, Friday, 5 March 2021 21:32 (three years ago) link
Oh god thank you s(t)ir!
― willem, Friday, 5 March 2021 21:52 (three years ago) link
🖤🖤
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Friday, 5 March 2021 21:53 (three years ago) link
Thanks for the download link, loving this
― paolo, Sunday, 7 March 2021 18:53 (three years ago) link
Especially happy to hear the cover of Final Solution that you played before the Martin Rev show at the ABC about five years ago. I've tried to hunt that down a few times without success.
― paolo, Sunday, 7 March 2021 18:55 (three years ago) link
I was about to say you must be mistaken as it's much more recent than that but it is indeed about 5 years old. Timewarp! It's by John Duncan.
Thanks for thre feedback willem. Definitely going to take it on board and passed that on to the cycling cap dept. too.
― stirmonster, Monday, 8 March 2021 00:01 (three years ago) link
💪 cap went on sale on Saturday morning and I capped one. Can't wait to test how it'll improve my rhythm uphill ;)
― willem, Monday, 8 March 2021 06:19 (three years ago) link
this (digital) tape! Thanks for sharing!
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 8 March 2021 07:54 (three years ago) link
Isn't it great how this crazy time we're living in has pushed you to reacquaint with old and overlooked joys like long walks and Walkmen? I've found increased pleasure in bike rides, an old Yamaha QY70 pocket workstation and drawing like a madman.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 8 March 2021 07:56 (three years ago) link
yes thanks very much for sharing Stirmonster, listening now, it's creepy!
― Sven Vath's scary carpet (Neil S), Monday, 8 March 2021 10:42 (three years ago) link
FFS I missed the Boomkat copies as well, their updates come at 2 AM my time
― I like signing up to dead sites (sleeve), Friday, 19 March 2021 19:19 (three years ago) link
ah, sorry about that. still contemplating doing another run.
― stirmonster, Friday, 19 March 2021 20:25 (three years ago) link
I’d been checking Boomkat every day and managed to miss their copies too!
― I am using your worlds, Friday, 19 March 2021 20:44 (three years ago) link
here's the audio if anyone wants it - shhhh!
I knew there was a reason I just checked back in to ILM. I don't have a tape player but I feel the urge to get a hard copy just because of the bespoke case design!
Hollow Hills is the ultimate goth song in my book, I'd be interested to find out what the song immediately after that is.
― locked in a death spiral of vindictive gatekeeping (viborg), Monday, 22 March 2021 20:54 (three years ago) link
I couldn't keep that display name for this thread...
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Monday, 22 March 2021 20:56 (three years ago) link
the one immdeiately after is this (which will possibly take on a different significance if the listener grew up in Britain).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCa2johwTDM
― stirmonster, Monday, 22 March 2021 23:24 (three years ago) link
― I like signing up to dead sites (sleeve), Monday, 22 March 2021 23:30 (three years ago) link
Much obliged. I'm still kicking myself that I didn't get to see you play when I was in Glasgow early last year. Definitely looking forward to more in this series though!
Wikipedia:
Rosa Mundi was the name of a very short-lived electronic music supergroup which consisted of Rose McDowall, John Balanceand possibly Peter Christopherson.[citation needed] The group is credited for "The Snow Man" which appeared on the compilations The Final Solstice and The Final Solstice II and the split 7" vinyl Grief. It is also credited on the song "Christmas Is Now Drawing Near" from the Coil single Winter Solstice: North, later released on Moons Milk (In Four Phases). Since both songs, "The Snow Man" and "Christmas Is Now Drawing Near", were both originally released in 1999, it can be said that this is the only year the group functioned.
However, the song "Rosa Decidua" from the 1998 Coil EP Autumn Equinox: Amethyst Deceivers, while not credited to Rosa Mundi, has exactly the same line-up.[citation needed]
Alternatively, some critics have inferred that "Rosa Mundi" is simply an alternative name for Rose McDowall, and not the name of a group at all.
This is like that time I tried to read Lanark.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 00:27 (three years ago) link
Great mixes, keeping me sane working from home. Love that track after Arabian Nights on the 2nd side.
― electrobiscuit, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 14:54 (three years ago) link
ohhh man I was feeling smart (and also warm and fuzzy) for pegging a bunch of these and then this fuckin "Lovecats" version comes on and it's like the first time I ever listened to the cool radio station all over again, love it. not even sure if I wanna know anything about this, save it for the zine :)
I swear I know that female voice from somewhere though
― I like signing up to dead sites (sleeve), Thursday, 25 March 2021 01:32 (three years ago) link
haha and then that's literally followed by one of the first tracks I ever heard on said "cool" radio station back in 1983 <3 <3 <3
― I like signing up to dead sites (sleeve), Thursday, 25 March 2021 01:34 (three years ago) link
It's the Tricky cover. I dunno who the female vocalist is though.
― Cocteau Twinks (jed_), Thursday, 25 March 2021 01:43 (three years ago) link
It's not Martina is someone called Costanza.
― Cocteau Twinks (jed_), Thursday, 25 March 2021 01:46 (three years ago) link
Really love this, btw. Thanks stirmonster.
― Cocteau Twinks (jed_), Thursday, 25 March 2021 01:47 (three years ago) link
yeah it's fab, I don't know very many of these later side B tracks
― I like signing up to dead sites (sleeve), Thursday, 25 March 2021 01:54 (three years ago) link
I know only 20% of it but this is amazing stuff.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 25 March 2021 04:58 (three years ago) link
What’s the song around 38 mins on side A. Voice sounds familiar but song is new to me and I’m loving that one in particular.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 25 March 2021 05:07 (three years ago) link
And that lovecats cover is also amazing
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 25 March 2021 05:08 (three years ago) link
It’s been years since I heard it and didn’t make much of an impression but when paired with the other songs in here it sounds better than I remembered.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 25 March 2021 05:11 (three years ago) link
love it. not even sure if I wanna know anything about this, save it for the zine :)---It's the Tricky cover. I dunno who the female vocalist is though.
Sorry about this, haha. I wanted to reply that I knew what it was before I'd even processed your post!
― Cocteau Twinks (jed_), Friday, 26 March 2021 01:14 (three years ago) link
lol no problem, I'm still gonna wait to find out more
― I like signing up to dead sites (sleeve), Friday, 26 March 2021 14:29 (three years ago) link
god damn it, I missed the second one too. It must have started at 9 AM East Coast time. FML.
― I like signing up to dead sites (sleeve), Friday, 2 April 2021 15:06 (two years ago) link
I set an alarm and everything :(
― I like signing up to dead sites (sleeve), Friday, 2 April 2021 15:07 (two years ago) link
If you're in the US you've still got a chance according to the Bandcamp message that was sent out:
'This month there are an extra 50 tapes. The first 120 will go on sale at 10.00 UK time. As there's quite a lot of USA demand 30 will be held back & will go on sale at 17.00 UK time which is 9am on the West Coast of the USA.'
― paolo, Friday, 2 April 2021 15:22 (two years ago) link
I was lucky enough to snag one
― paolo, Friday, 2 April 2021 15:23 (two years ago) link
Try again in 17 minutes, that’s what I’m doing!
― I am using your worlds, Friday, 2 April 2021 15:42 (two years ago) link
thanks, will check in a few
― I like signing up to dead sites (sleeve), Friday, 2 April 2021 15:49 (two years ago) link
more going up right about now.
― stirmonster, Friday, 2 April 2021 15:59 (two years ago) link
yep, got one!! thanks all.
― I like signing up to dead sites (sleeve), Friday, 2 April 2021 16:01 (two years ago) link
wow. they went in the blink of an eye.
glad you got one!
― stirmonster, Friday, 2 April 2021 16:05 (two years ago) link
lol better do 200 next time ;)
― I like signing up to dead sites (sleeve), Friday, 2 April 2021 16:05 (two years ago) link
Also successful (although was it ethical of me in the uk to swipe one imed at Americans?)
― I am using your worlds, Friday, 2 April 2021 16:08 (two years ago) link
it's ok. Most of them went to USA / Canada so i think that is fair enough. Lots to Oregon!
― stirmonster, Friday, 2 April 2021 16:12 (two years ago) link
Ha I bet a good chunk of America's cassette owners younger than 40 live in Portland.
― octobeard, Friday, 2 April 2021 17:23 (two years ago) link
Will you do a digital release of the mixtapes at some point? I realize it may defeat the purpose somehow but ,you know, a) some folks - like myself - have no way to play cassettes and b) love your mixes!
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 2 April 2021 17:31 (two years ago) link
psst - look up thread - 5th march post by stirmonster.
― mark e, Friday, 2 April 2021 18:05 (two years ago) link
Yes, thanks. I took advantage of Stirmonster’s generous move when he posted that in March. But I would like to have purchased digital files of the upcoming mixes. And now that I’ve read the info re: the mixtapes on the Bandcamp page I can see that. ain’t. never. gonna.happen...ah, well.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 2 April 2021 18:29 (two years ago) link
gotcha.but hey, who knows whats going to happen when it comes to this thread.we can but hope.
― mark e, Friday, 2 April 2021 18:35 (two years ago) link
Hey Capitaine Jay Vee. I was going to have the mix available digitally but just don't think it is possible unfortunately. i will report back if that changes down the line.
here's a download of tape 2. this will expire in 24 hours so gimme a shout if you miss it - https://spaces.hightail.com/receive/yHGTOLOiEA/amRfdHdpdGNoQG1hYy5jb20=
― stirmonster, Saturday, 3 April 2021 19:47 (two years ago) link
stirmonster : i am happy to use my little FTP site to host files for a limited time.i wont advertise them beyond the ILM boundaries, and will remove after a set period of time.just offering and all that.
― mark e, Saturday, 3 April 2021 20:01 (two years ago) link
Finally found the right time / mood to listen to ULTRAGOTH and let me tell you, it does the trick.
― lukas, Saturday, 3 April 2021 21:23 (two years ago) link
xpost Thanks Stir!! I d'l'ed it and also just made a purchase from the Optimo Bandcamp in exchange ( a gorgeous Fernando Falçao album ) :)
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 4 April 2021 06:26 (two years ago) link
Thanks Capitaine Jay Vee and thanks for the offer Mark E. I can actually keep that link going for a while longer.
if anyone feels like giving something in return plesase consider making a donation (even a very small one is greatly appreciated) to Positive Action In Housing, who are a Glasgow based independent, anti-racist homelessness and human rights charity dedicated to supporting women, children and men from refugee and migrant backgrounds to rebuild their lives.
https://www.paih.org/donate/
thanks!
― stirmonster, Sunday, 4 April 2021 16:04 (two years ago) link
thanks for the upload stirmonster, and for suggesting donating to the paih
― willem, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 19:55 (two years ago) link
Got my tape yesterday and it is sounding lush. Lovely springtime vibez.
― paolo, Wednesday, 14 April 2021 14:31 (two years ago) link
loving this whacked-out "We Travel The Spaceways" cover at around 13 minutes into side B of the new one
― sleeve, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 16:01 (two years ago) link
“Raise Your Hands If You Understand (Ambient House & E Musik from the early Rave era)"
At the start of the 1990s as the Rave scene exploded it was such a new thing for so many people that they often didn’t know what the music was, nor did they have the vocabulary to describe it. I was DJing every Friday night at Pure in Edinburgh and frequently had people come up and ask me to play some of that “E music” I always played. It took me a while to figure out what they were asking for and then I realised exactly what it was; it was a sound I played a lot as a counterpoint to the frenetic and hardcore sounds of the day. It was atmospheric, often tripped out and hypnotic, synth heavy, full of emotion, and yes, sometimes ecstatic. “E Musik” became MY genre and complements the new age, Utopian, proto trance, Ambient House sound, which was an actual thing at the time.
Many of the records these tracks are from were played so often in very intense and extreme club conditions that they are in less than pristine condition, so please forgive some of the less than perfect audio here (I actually spent many hours editing out a lot of the worst scratches). As the record says, “Come together in peace & harmony”
Tape comes in a hand-stickered opaque white case with riso printed OBI-style banderole, with artwork designed by Andrew J Beltran and printed by Sundays.
We now have a subscription operating so a smaller batch of tapes will be on sale, one batch @ 10.00 UK time & a 2nd smaller batch for US folks @ 17.00 UK time.
― sleeve, Friday, 18 June 2021 04:44 (two years ago) link
(incredible mix, possibly my fave so far)
― sleeve, Friday, 18 June 2021 04:48 (two years ago) link
(raises hands in prayer) Will there be a digital version of this?
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 18 June 2021 08:14 (two years ago) link
Last month's SMI2LE tape was the best one yet for me.
― paolo, Friday, 18 June 2021 08:30 (two years ago) link
Fuck me, had it in my shopping bag then received an error and then it was sold out
― willem, Friday, 18 June 2021 09:05 (two years ago) link
that description sounds amazing
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Friday, 18 June 2021 10:33 (two years ago) link
it is also available digitally just for today on bandcamp,with all proceeds going to Positive Action In Housing, a Glasgow Anti-racist refugee and migrant homelessness charity.
there is also another small physical batch going on sale at 17.00 uk time.
― stirmonster, Friday, 18 June 2021 11:13 (two years ago) link
grabbed it, cheers stirmonster!
― Neil S, Friday, 18 June 2021 11:25 (two years ago) link
― stirmonster, Friday, 18 June 2021 11:29 (two years ago) link
where's the link to the digital release? I don't see it here:
https://optimomusic.bandcamp.com/album/raise-your-hands-if-you-understand-mixtape-by-jd-twitch-2
― toby, Friday, 18 June 2021 13:24 (two years ago) link
https://optimomusic.bandcamp.com/album/raise-your-hands-if-you-understand-mixtape-by-jd-twitch
― crisp, Friday, 18 June 2021 13:31 (two years ago) link
Looking forward to listening! Cheers stirmonster, hope PAIH make a good few quid
― crisp, Friday, 18 June 2021 13:33 (two years ago) link
Brilliant, thanks! Just purchased, looking forward to listening.
― toby, Friday, 18 June 2021 14:12 (two years ago) link
Superb mix.
― toby, Monday, 21 June 2021 12:32 (two years ago) link
i would've liked a cassette :(((
― davey, Monday, 21 June 2021 14:56 (two years ago) link
but i will shell out the 7 lbs. for the cause <3
― davey, Monday, 21 June 2021 14:57 (two years ago) link
In stock at Boomkat right now if anyone needs
― I am using your worlds, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 19:00 (two years ago) link
https://boomkat.com/products/raise-your-hands-if-you-understand
― I am using your worlds, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 19:01 (two years ago) link
good looking out!
― sleeve, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 23:04 (two years ago) link
this e-music mix is absolutely incredible. my favourite mix in a long, long time. it sounds like the primordial soup that people like speedy j and sabres and david holmes etc all seem to have been spawned from. like tadpoles!
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 25 June 2021 23:40 (two years ago) link
the tape arrived today, absolutely beautiful design/color/etc, just fantastic all around
― sleeve, Saturday, 26 June 2021 01:19 (two years ago) link
i honestly hear some proto-chain reaction in there too, around the 12 minute mark on side 2
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 12:20 (two years ago) link
I’m loving this mix and I’ve had it on a loop now for days. Several of the tracks I already knew and liked but this is definitely greater than the sum of its parts. Feels like they were meant to be together.
That said, could I get a track ID for the song that starts about 5 mins in with the really sustained keyboard note that leads into Holy Ghost Inc? It’s beautiful
― I am using your worlds, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 19:05 (two years ago) link
And when I say “greater than the sum of its parts” all the individual parts are also exceptional so that’s a double compliment
― I am using your worlds, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 19:07 (two years ago) link
That track is "Enlightenment" by Andre "Phenix" Estrada (one of 3 tracks he is involved with on the mix). It's a bit of an outlier as it is from a couple of years later than anything else on there.
― stirmonster, Thursday, 8 July 2021 16:11 (two years ago) link
I’m loving this mix and I’ve had it on a loop now for days.
On a loop now for days weeks.
― jvc, Monday, 16 August 2021 10:11 (two years ago) link
loving the newest "Caverns Of Dub" mix as well, the actual tape should arrive sometime soon
― sleeve, Monday, 16 August 2021 16:27 (two years ago) link
Me too, great timing for me because I've been listening to a lot of dub and reggae recently. Next one is another Jamaican music mix iirc.
― paolo, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 07:33 (two years ago) link
That last one absolutely flew out. I was sat at my computer pressing refresh before it went up but it sold out between me adding it to my basket and confirming payment both times, madness.
― paolo, Saturday, 4 September 2021 11:08 (two years ago) link
It’s also on bandcamp as a download if you missed the digital
― I am using your worlds, Saturday, 4 September 2021 12:36 (two years ago) link
Er, missed the physical
― I am using your worlds, Saturday, 4 September 2021 12:53 (two years ago) link
I was able to get the download. Loving the original version of 'Dub Along' from Super Ape (I think the original's called 'Come Along') and the track on the Sleng Teng riddim, don't think I'd heard that vocal version before.
― paolo, Saturday, 4 September 2021 15:33 (two years ago) link
a few people reported the same issue; not sure what is up with that - apologies.
Yes, 'Come Along' is by Blue Bells. The Sleng Teng is "Know How Fe Chat" by Shinehead
― stirmonster, Saturday, 4 September 2021 16:28 (two years ago) link
Any chance of a full track listing?
― Position Position, Saturday, 4 September 2021 16:44 (two years ago) link
when the series is done, there will be full tracklists, is my understanding
love this new one - is that some kind of earlier slower version of Althea & Donna's "Uptown Top Ranking"?
― sleeve, Saturday, 4 September 2021 17:16 (two years ago) link
yup, tracklisting at the end of the series.
That's the original version of "Uptown Top Ranking" by The Rolets and is called "Top Ranking Girls". It came out early 1977. Later in 1977 they ad libbed an "answer record" to "Three Piece Suit" by Trinity on the instrumental version, changed their name to Althea &
― stirmonster, Saturday, 4 September 2021 17:32 (two years ago) link
That's the original version of "Uptown Top Ranking" by The Rolets and is called "Top Ranking Girls". It came out early 1977. Later in 1977 they ad libbed an "answer record" to "Three Piece Suit" by Trinity on the instrumental version, changed their name to Althea & Donna and *boom* early in 1978 they got a UK no. 1.
― stirmonster, Saturday, 4 September 2021 17:33 (two years ago) link
oops.
Well I'll be darned, you learn something new every day. 'Three Piece Suit' is ace.
― paolo, Saturday, 4 September 2021 17:55 (two years ago) link
xxxxxxp thanks for the IDs! No need to apologise, it's not your fault they went super quick
― paolo, Saturday, 4 September 2021 17:56 (two years ago) link
cheers stir, just snagged the last US copy of that Rolets 7" on Discogs
― sleeve, Saturday, 4 September 2021 20:45 (two years ago) link
not often that i feel compelled to pay $9 for a digital mix but this one is well worth it, super sick.
― oiocha, Friday, 17 September 2021 00:11 (two years ago) link
i feel like i'm going crazy. during lockdown sometime in 2020 stirmonster you put out a mix of purely rock n roll. it started with very early stuff and then got into rockabilly etc. do you remember this? i listened to it a lot and now i can't find it or remember what it was called! there's an absolutely sensational song on it from a on-hit wonder singer about whom little is known (and of course i can't remember her name or the song) but it's basically a blues about a man who treat her bad but she still misses him.. any help appreciated!
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 12 November 2021 13:17 (two years ago) link
it's this corker I assumehttps://soundcloud.com/twitch/jd-twitch-its-only-rock-n-roll-but-i-like-it-vol-1
― willem, Friday, 12 November 2021 13:48 (two years ago) link
hallelujah!
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 12 November 2021 13:52 (two years ago) link
The Sketches For Winter tape is wonderful.
― toby, Sunday, 23 January 2022 08:51 (two years ago) link
I agree! These tapes have been some of my favourite lockdown listens
― paolo, Sunday, 23 January 2022 11:43 (two years ago) link
same
― bad milk blood robot (sleeve), Sunday, 23 January 2022 15:54 (two years ago) link
Finally saw you play in Dublin. It was great! Patrick Cowley ❤️
― Volvo Twilight (p-dog), Monday, 18 April 2022 02:30 (one year ago) link
Who else is going to the 25th birthday party at the end of the month?
― paolo, Monday, 18 April 2022 09:31 (one year ago) link
Just got tickets for the Watching Trees festival. Line-up announced next week. Who else is in?
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 20:46 (one year ago) link
Awesome name for a festival by the way, what a tune :)
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 20:47 (one year ago) link
tickets should been Eleven Pound though
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 20:51 (one year ago) link
Maybe drinks will be Eleven Pounds instead? ;-)
Nice one Chewshabadoo!
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 21:34 (one year ago) link
just got my ticket too stirmonster, fully paid-up cvlt member now
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 21:50 (one year ago) link
yay!!
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 21:57 (one year ago) link
Haha, it’s not going to be long before drinks will be 11 pounds in a lot of places that‘s for sure.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 12 May 2022 04:35 (one year ago) link
I was listening to an interview with Surgeon the other day, and Optimo got a nice shout out
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Saturday, 14 May 2022 00:28 (one year ago) link
The new Pleasure Pool album on Optimo seems pretty good so far. Really interesting grooves and use of vocals.
https://pleasure-pool.bandcamp.com/album/love-without-illusion-lp
― Treblekicker, Friday, 9 December 2022 10:10 (one year ago) link
looking forward to hearing this! Watching Trees was an amazing festival and I gotta say that Pleasure Pool were the most amazing thing I saw there. Whole set was incredible, can't wait to see them live again one day
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Friday, 9 December 2022 12:41 (one year ago) link
ooh thanks, this is nice
― sleeve, Friday, 9 December 2022 14:57 (one year ago) link
sounding incredible so far, like can, jon hassell, the happy mondays and the shamen all trying to make a cosmic disco record together
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Friday, 9 December 2022 16:28 (one year ago) link
fucking hell, so good
getting some Lissvek/Studio vibes as well
― sleeve, Friday, 9 December 2022 16:29 (one year ago) link
yeah indeed, that was very much a flavour when I saw them live
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Friday, 9 December 2022 16:30 (one year ago) link
Really good album, my body chose a particularily bad time to demand a disco nap at Watching Trees and I missed the magic.
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 9 December 2022 16:56 (one year ago) link
whoa Cease & Resist vinyl sold out already?!? dang, good on y'all.
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Sunday, 9 April 2023 22:01 (eleven months ago) link
de ambassade album is fantastic
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Sunday, 9 April 2023 22:39 (eleven months ago) link
Cease & Resist copies on Friday were just some very limited pre-release copies. There will be more at the start of May and then it will be in all good record shops from mid May.
― stirmonster, Sunday, 9 April 2023 23:29 (eleven months ago) link
No SF date... :(((
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 31 May 2023 18:42 (nine months ago) link
they were in SF literally last month
― serving bundt (sic), Wednesday, 31 May 2023 19:01 (nine months ago) link
well... i was in fukken' LA gah.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 1 June 2023 04:37 (nine months ago) link
if i can stay awake i may attempt the LA gig on friday
― donna rouge, Thursday, 1 June 2023 05:25 (nine months ago) link
This one's a really great recent release: https://optimomusic.bandcamp.com/album/inside-the-sphere
Shades of the more contemplative work of Mika Vainio and Plastikman's Consumed, but not limited to those references.
― jvc, Monday, 26 June 2023 17:50 (nine months ago) link
yes great album
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, 26 June 2023 18:01 (nine months ago) link
Gonna catch the show in Miami thurs B-)
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 04:26 (six months ago) link
loving this
https://soundcloud.com/loveintfestival/live-from-the-adriatic-2023-optimo
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 17:42 (six months ago) link
This is 100000000000% more interesting than Tycho's annual burning man dawn mix as posted around the internet.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 23:11 (six months ago) link
Caught the closing “Watching Trees” takeover at Field Manouvers a few weeks back and it was full of brilliant moments - perfect end to the festival.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 21 September 2023 20:50 (six months ago) link
posted mostly for humour content, someone's been monkeying around with your tune, stirm:
https://bleachingagent.bandcamp.com/track/limbtimo
― blazin' squab (NickB), Monday, 23 October 2023 17:09 (five months ago) link
Some funny edits/mash-ups from that guy. New to me. Some pretty hip sources. Mass? A dance edit of Henry Badowski's Baby Sign Here With Me? Not sure how I feel about it all.
― dan selzer, Monday, 23 October 2023 17:33 (five months ago) link
he's done some great stuff, that one just made me laugh because of the place that booker t tune has in british (or should that be english?) culture
― blazin' squab (NickB), Monday, 23 October 2023 17:38 (five months ago) link
(would say more, but don't want to spoil the surprise)
― blazin' squab (NickB), Monday, 23 October 2023 17:40 (five months ago) link
(probably have already though)
― blazin' squab (NickB), Monday, 23 October 2023 17:41 (five months ago) link
ha ha! i'm surprised it took so long for anyone to do that. first few times i ever played the liquid liquid track several people asked "what was the track that sounded a bit like the cricket theme?". for non Brits, soul limbo is synonmyous with cricket here as it is / was the tv theme tune for a long time.
mr bleaching agent is a good pal of mine. he told me he had done a ton of edits but i hadn't got as far as hearing this one yet.
― stirmonster, Monday, 23 October 2023 18:43 (five months ago) link
listened to it again and it actually bangs, would totally lose my mind if I heard that out at just the right moment.
just clocked the lifetones sample on the 4th track on that release, bloody lovely that!
― blazin' squab (NickB), Monday, 23 October 2023 19:17 (five months ago) link
https://www.watchingtrees.com
^^ brighton crew are mobilising. anyone else?
― blazin' squab (NickB), Thursday, 25 January 2024 13:00 (two months ago) link
Yes, but you knew that already.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 25 January 2024 17:44 (two months ago) link
:)
― blazin' squab (NickB), Thursday, 25 January 2024 18:50 (two months ago) link
almost sold out.
― stirmonster, Friday, 2 February 2024 21:31 (one month ago) link
Yeah you must be delighted! and very relieved. congrats!
― blazin' squab (NickB), Friday, 2 February 2024 21:35 (one month ago) link
yes to both!! thanks.
― stirmonster, Friday, 2 February 2024 21:52 (one month ago) link
it was the chips that did it
― blazin' squab (NickB), Friday, 2 February 2024 22:02 (one month ago) link
Got my Optimo package from monorail today. And only a dozen emails from the royal mail tracking its progress along the way!
― dan selzer, Friday, 2 February 2024 23:35 (one month ago) link
v. happy you picked that up. royal mail have gone email mad in recent times - i am bombarded by their updates.
― stirmonster, Saturday, 3 February 2024 05:12 (one month ago) link
Also looking forward to the chips.
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 3 February 2024 17:23 (one month ago) link
Thought this might be the right place to ask, but is the Naum Gabo LP getting widely distributed in UK?
Bandcamp are charging international shipping, and I can see Phonica has vinyl copies (Juno out of stock already), but I have a local store I like to order from if its possible.
Sounding great from what I have heard.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 09:58 (two weeks ago) link
it deffo has UK distribution. i don't know who the distributor is though i'm afraid.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 16:49 (two weeks ago) link
Enjoyed listening back to this newly uploaded set from Field Maneuvers last year: https://soundcloud.com/resident-advisor/ra-live-optimo-field-maneuvers-uk
Unless my memory is playing tricks on me there was even more after this recording ends though?
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 29 March 2024 12:15 (two hours ago) link