Optimo

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.

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 :)

Love that Silly Games version! Thanks again.

Thanks Stirmonster, you are a genuine legend

yr all welcome and cheers sleeve!

d/l numbers are an interesting insight into no. of lurkers here.

Guilty as charged.

likewise

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?

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

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.

man I had no idea, these sound cool. and I get your Bandcamp updates!

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.

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 ?

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

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.

here's the audio if anyone wants it - https://spaces.hightail.com/receive/RGpeDPx2wE

shhhh!

;-)

Oh God <3

Off to change into all black clothing

Oh God <3

Off to change into all black clothing

bloody hell, did not expect that sir stirmonster.
love-n-hugs.
xx

Oh god thank you s(t)ir!

Trying to figure out how to make this all a bit more egalitarian.