Optimo Music Archiv is a new offshoot label by JD Twitch exploring and revisiting favourite and often forgotten releases from the past.

First up - Force Dimension.

Released in full picture sleeve on marbled vinyl. Sleeve design by Andrew Beltran.

This was Belgium. 1989. First wave EBM duo, but also so much more.
This first release takes 5 Force Dimension favourites and reconfigures them as an extended EP / mini album.

The songs are untouched but have been power remastered for 21st Century ears.

“Tension” comes in two versions, one from each version of their debut album. Oddly they put out an original version (Blue), they decided they didn’t like it and re-recorded it. Both versions of Tension rule.
200 FA is an end of the night anthem. A perfect piece of E Music that crossed over into the early 90s Rave era and still much sought after to this day.

Aqua 2000 and All Systems Out are two Belgian bombs that still slay dancefloors today.

Vinyl and digital released July 9th 2021. Distro by Kompakt

OM Archiv 01 - Force Dimension - Feel The Tension (mini album)

The Machine Stops

Ongoing project mixing field recordings of the South Mersey shoreline with modular synthesis.

Abandoned piles of dolomite road base take the shape of burial mounds, the doughnut marks of illegal scrambler bikes carve ring markings into the earth. Viewed from behind towards the sun the silhouetted outline of Liverpool Sailing club resembles a cairn or pyramid. The wind pushes the aluminium spars of the boats together, a slow hypnotic chime punctuated by the flapping of tarpaulin.

Approach To The Pyramid At Speke (2022)

Ongoing project mixing field recordings of the South Mersey shoreline with modular synthesis.  

In parish records, Helen Macfarlane is listed as the head of the household at Sutton Grange Farm in 1881 living with Mary Ann Ball, an adult woman of no occupation. Was she the radical feminist writer Helen Macfarlane who translated the Communist Manifesto into English? An associate of Marx and Engels and a leading light of the Chartist movement?

The Ghost of the Communist Manifesto at Sutton Grange  (2022)

The 4th Annual #creativeHE Jam - Quiet Creativity

This audio piece is a compilation of the recordings created by participants at the event.

Related to a discussion and activity around possibilities of music to create a different, more positive atmosphere. Participants were, in the vain of John Cage’s piece 4’33” (four minutes, thirty-three seconds or just four thirty-three) asked to use their phone to record a piece of sound. The only stipulation was that it had to be 33 seconds (in homage to John Cage). The wonderful sounds recorded can be found on this Padlet (that also contains participants reflections on quietness): https://padlet.com/sabegglen1/je58ke2tommi985x

The 4th Annual #creativeHE Jam - Quiet Creativity

Love 7

Alextronic "Dingle at 2am" mix for Sculpture Remixed at Tate Liverpool

http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/eventseducation/musicperform/20590.htm

Arnold Dreyblatt and the excited strings - high life

Chris Watson - Low Pressure Glen Cannich

Charlemagne Palestine - Jamaica Heinekens in Brooklyn Part 2

Philip Jeck - Vienna Faults

Zoviet France - Mudbast Boys

Marcia Blaine School for Girls - We

S - Express - Coma

Zoviet France - Decriminalisation of Country Music

JD Twitch - Drone 3

Throbbing Gristle - Hamburger Lady (Carter Tutti mix) 

Alextronic "Dingle at 2am" mix for Sculpture Remixed at Tate Liverpool

Žmogus-raketa yra Sean Johnston. Scenos veteraną ir pačios įvariausios muzikos žinovą šokėjai puikiai pažįsta kaip Hardway Bros ir ½ A Love From Outer Space. Pastarąjį lėto tempo projektą jis dešimtmetį įgarsino kartu su šviesaus atminimo Andrew Weatherall. Šis Ant Bangos miksų serijos epizodas irgi skamba kaip niekur neskubanti kelionė nuo vieno kranto iki kito ir mums su juo labai pakeliui.  

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The man, the myth, the legend. Sean Johnston is an acid house veteran, techno survivor, and freelance disco consultant. He’s best known for two projects: Hardway Bros and A Love From Outer Space. The latter originally began ten years ago as a nocturnal experiment with the much missed legend Andrew Weatherall. The vibe is still alive and you can feel it in this episode. Enjoy a truly spiritual slo mo journey coast to coast.  

www.antbangosfest.com

Aperol Mix 012: Sean Johnston

Slightly edited NTS Show from 30/06/20. Available to download.

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JD Twitch - NTS Live 30/06/20 Black Lives Matter Solidarity

Sean Michael Morris, Sara Camacho Felix, Dustin Hosseini, and Lee-Ann Sequeira further explore the uncertainties faced by staff and students in the shift towards online learning and assessment

The Common Room | More Than A Pivot

and we love anew (for zach And john)

DJ @melodicdistractionuk| Ex - Noise/Texture @BonnaconsofDoom | Founder @hivecoll3ctive | Member of Bill Drummond #the17 | Salford Speed of Light #NVA

The 4th Annual #creativeHE Jam - Quiet Creativity

alextronic

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