Optimo

(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?

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, November 16, 2004 12:30 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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

Wilkes is spinning tonight in Chicago at Sonotheque, anyone going?? What can I expect?

radness

you can expect to get down.

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

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.

Thanks. Hope to see you there!

12.30 - 02.30

what was that amazing Q Lazarus edit/remix?

soooo is this place still as cool as six years ago when the thread was started?

it was cool when I went last summer.

ditto

still the shit

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?)

what was that amazing Q Lazarus edit/remix?

it was the krikor edit with a loop of this insanely heavy felix da housecat drum track mixed over it.

soooo is this place still as cool as six years ago when the thread was started?

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.

Anyone heard this yet?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Order-Edit-Optimo-Presents/dp/B001U7FWQ4

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

Reynolds has: blissblog

Okay definitely getting this, Reynolds makes it sound great.