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the original plan was to never actually bring the main riff in but i am weak and finally crumbled.

jealous.

You probably could have got away with that and just cut the sound off and let the crowd sing it for you.

Jed may well have a list of things that could have been improved. ;-)

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!

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?

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

Paolo and Andy M, sorry I didn't see you!

That's OK I'll probably run into you at some point

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.

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?

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?

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

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

no problem, NMQP is my choice cut from that album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRt2Ir6JsBQ

at the risk of a thread-derail - stirmonster, have you ever seen this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_qwupwh40w

i have!

haha, is it because i already asked you? i had a feeling i had!

you have!

:-)

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Anyone going to So Low at The Poetry Club tomorrow? Everything on that label so far has been AWESOME

Low chances on Jed being there. In fact, if he is there I'll buy the whole club a drink. ;-)

absolutely LOVE Miracle Steps, btw.

https://optimomusic.bandcamp.com/track/miracle-steps

sorry you all lost out on a drink in November!

Live for the next 3 and a half hours - https://www.clydebuiltradio.com

excellent! :)

enjoying this, thanks!

(although I really ought to go to bed soon so I will be delighted if a recording gets put up somewhere)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vVBB9cZAAQ&ab_channel=KeshiWipertus

https://youtu.be/-vVBB9cZAAQ

loving this. I've posse of friends on facebook talking through it too. quite lovely.

quite a lovely experience, I mean.

Hoping for a recording too.

https://soundcloud.com/clydebuiltradio/optimo-house-party-3420

Thank you!

Nice list of Optimo-friendly records on Bandcamp here:

https://buymusic.club/list/ajb-a-few-bandcamp-picks-peace-from-optimo-music

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

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/

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.

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 ^)

https://spaces.hightail.com/receive/xhU8j8v0sC

top work mister!

Thanks, Keith! Gonna listen now.

owwww this is lovely

thx stirry

This is killer - thanks for the download!

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?

Yesss! What a joy.

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

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.

ooops : my post was re the silly games edit, not the on-u mixtape.