Optimo

but i will shell out the 7 lbs. for the cause <3

In stock at Boomkat right now if anyone needs

https://boomkat.com/products/raise-your-hands-if-you-understand

good looking out!

this e-music mix is absolutely incredible. my favourite mix in a long, long time. it sounds like the primordial soup that people like speedy j and sabres and david holmes etc all seem to have been spawned from. like tadpoles!

the tape arrived today, absolutely beautiful design/color/etc, just fantastic all around

i honestly hear some proto-chain reaction in there too, around the 12 minute mark on side 2

I’m loving this mix and I’ve had it on a loop now for days. Several of the tracks I already knew and liked but this is definitely greater than the sum of its parts. Feels like they were meant to be together.

That said, could I get a track ID for the song that starts about 5 mins in with the really sustained keyboard note that leads into Holy Ghost Inc? It’s beautiful

And when I say “greater than the sum of its parts” all the individual parts are also exceptional so that’s a double compliment

:-)

That track is "Enlightenment" by Andre "Phenix" Estrada (one of 3 tracks he is involved with on the mix). It's a bit of an outlier as it is from a couple of years later than anything else on there.

I’m loving this mix and I’ve had it on a loop now for days.

On a loop now for days weeks.

loving the newest "Caverns Of Dub" mix as well, the actual tape should arrive sometime soon

Me too, great timing for me because I've been listening to a lot of dub and reggae recently. Next one is another Jamaican music mix iirc.

That last one absolutely flew out. I was sat at my computer pressing refresh before it went up but it sold out between me adding it to my basket and confirming payment both times, madness.

It’s also on bandcamp as a download if you missed the digital

Er, missed the physical

I was able to get the download. Loving the original version of 'Dub Along' from Super Ape (I think the original's called 'Come Along') and the track on the Sleng Teng riddim, don't think I'd heard that vocal version before.

a few people reported the same issue; not sure what is up with that - apologies.

Yes, 'Come Along' is by Blue Bells. The Sleng Teng is "Know How Fe Chat" by Shinehead

Any chance of a full track listing?

when the series is done, there will be full tracklists, is my understanding

love this new one - is that some kind of earlier slower version of Althea & Donna's "Uptown Top Ranking"?

yup, tracklisting at the end of the series.

That's the original version of "Uptown Top Ranking" by The Rolets and is called "Top Ranking Girls". It came out early 1977. Later in 1977 they ad libbed an "answer record" to "Three Piece Suit" by Trinity on the instrumental version, changed their name to Althea &

yup, tracklisting at the end of the series.

That's the original version of "Uptown Top Ranking" by The Rolets and is called "Top Ranking Girls". It came out early 1977. Later in 1977 they ad libbed an "answer record" to "Three Piece Suit" by Trinity on the instrumental version, changed their name to Althea & Donna and *boom* early in 1978 they got a UK no. 1.

oops.

Well I'll be darned, you learn something new every day. 'Three Piece Suit' is ace.

xxxxxxp thanks for the IDs! No need to apologise, it's not your fault they went super quick

cheers stir, just snagged the last US copy of that Rolets 7" on Discogs

not often that i feel compelled to pay $9 for a digital mix but this one is well worth it, super sick.

i feel like i'm going crazy. during lockdown sometime in 2020 stirmonster you put out a mix of purely rock n roll. it started with very early stuff and then got into rockabilly etc. do you remember this? i listened to it a lot and now i can't find it or remember what it was called! there's an absolutely sensational song on it from a on-hit wonder singer about whom little is known (and of course i can't remember her name or the song) but it's basically a blues about a man who treat her bad but she still misses him.. any help appreciated!

it's this corker I assume
https://soundcloud.com/twitch/jd-twitch-its-only-rock-n-roll-but-i-like-it-vol-1

hallelujah!

The Sketches For Winter tape is wonderful.

I agree! These tapes have been some of my favourite lockdown listens

same

Finally saw you play in Dublin. It was great! Patrick Cowley ❤️

Who else is going to the 25th birthday party at the end of the month?

Just got tickets for the Watching Trees festival. Line-up announced next week. Who else is in?

Awesome name for a festival by the way, what a tune :)

tickets should been Eleven Pound though

Maybe drinks will be Eleven Pounds instead? ;-)

Nice one Chewshabadoo!

just got my ticket too stirmonster, fully paid-up cvlt member now

yay!!

Haha, it’s not going to be long before drinks will be 11 pounds in a lot of places that‘s for sure.

I was listening to an interview with Surgeon the other day, and Optimo got a nice shout out

The new Pleasure Pool album on Optimo seems pretty good so far. Really interesting grooves and use of vocals.

https://pleasure-pool.bandcamp.com/album/love-without-illusion-lp

looking forward to hearing this! Watching Trees was an amazing festival and I gotta say that Pleasure Pool were the most amazing thing I saw there. Whole set was incredible, can't wait to see them live again one day

ooh thanks, this is nice

sounding incredible so far, like can, jon hassell, the happy mondays and the shamen all trying to make a cosmic disco record together

fucking hell, so good

getting some Lissvek/Studio vibes as well

yeah indeed, that was very much a flavour when I saw them live