Optimo

cheers :-)

You, sir, are a prince among men.

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"?

you can pretend you were at the last of their four gigs with three mp3s from this page (about four hours in total)

oh god, the hangover

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.

YAYYAYAYAYAY

December = playing in the bush outside of Melbourne again?

thanks for the link, & OH MY GOD YES! plz give enough warning for new zealanders to finally pick up & move to melbourne, etc.

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.

thanks stirmonster! the astronauts report it feels good.

the sub club mix is really good! so's the other disc, actually.

that sub club mix in full

Anyone heard the Sleepwalk mix yet?

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

Okay, will be getting this forthwith then!

Ooh, better pick that up.

Anyone know any details on possible Aus/NZ dates in December? The website's info ends in Nov.

australia dates in february. sadly nz dates fell apart.

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.

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.

Will Sleepwalk be getting a US release?

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)

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.