Optimo

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.

*marks calendar*

comps for all your beloved ilxor pals to playground weekender! :D

Will Sleepwalk be getting a US release?

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.

Listening to this mix right now. Very excited about Sleepwalk.

Okay "Witch Hunt" is just awesome. Is this an act I should be embarrassed for never having heard of?

patiently waiting for my copy of that to arrive from RVNG.

^what he said

Mine came today! I forgot to check if I got the red vinyl. It's a very sweet looking package.

i got a copy coming any day now too

The tracklist for the mix is on discogs btw.

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

Optimo nicely falls on my birthday this year. Bring on the 28th!

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)

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?)

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.

wtf portland + la but no san francisco? please stirmonster come here soon!

Wait, how had I missed that Stirmonster was part of Optimo this whole time? Good lord do I miss things sometimes.

oh, ned!

(wilkes is i thought DJing the 24th somewhere?)

in new york at the ESG show at le poisson rouge

Haver just ordered the 60 Minutes of Fear set, hooray! Hope I'll still get the full package...

so what's happening not tonight but next week?

What happened to Ian SPACK?

ateve shasta, are you going to be in glasgow?!

ateve?

what's happening is normal optimo w/ no guests and that's about as good as it gets in my book.

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!

jed, i'm trying. My friends want to drive but I'm like .... "eh?"

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.

steve, if you're going to be about then email me on colinohara at gmail. be good to have a drink!

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.

hope you can make it steve! if you are going to, email me.

I think ian is around lurking as usual. Last name i saw him using was Niche Ian.
Also lol @ ned

i def will stirry.

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

wouldn't it be fun, if we could all be at optimo together?

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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.

den haan and optimo are at disco bloodbath with todd terje on april 9 and i cant bloody wait! easter apocalypso

is todd terje playing at that also? daaaaaaamn

i know, unbelievable. i might be stuck doing visuals at a bloody infadels gig till 1

http://www.optimo.co.uk/cramp1.jpg

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

I wonder how The Archers took to that; R4 listeners must be expanding their musical consciousness!

You can guess which bandmember typed that:

http://whothehell.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/sneakywhite.jpg

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!

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

ps - NI, checked my myspace but you weren't there.

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...

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!

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.

http://acuterecords.com/optimo.jpg