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Unknown To The Unknown with Cyberdine Systems Corp. & Alex Jann   - 06 May 2021

Lauren Flax - 10 May 2021

Bristol-born DJ and producer Otik has mastered the art of capturing his audience, with mixes oscillating between two ends of a spectrum showcasing his range - from ethereal and euphoric synths to drum & bass-infused techno.

Catch Otik one 2nd Tuesday out of 2 every other month from 00h to 02h [CET] on rinse.fr

Rinse France Podcast

Otik avec Altrice - 11 Mai 2021

It’s been a long time coming, but Neighbourhood head woman Tasha jolts us into the weekend with her blend of Berlin fuelled Techno. Transporting us back in time, to a darkened Berlin dance floor in the 90’s. The perfect Genosys vibe!

Tasha - Genosys Session, Berlin 2021

Marital Aid with DJ Bus Replacement Service & Surgeon - 20 May 2021

Far up, deep down. All in, kicked out. Bright, dark, fast, and slow. What’s out there? Who the hell are you? Pierrot is sharing sounds collected over the years, recently dug up or ran into.

For this month’s episode, Pierrot invited Of Paradise - a UK-based record label run by Lauren Chalmers and Paul Patterson - taking care of the second hour with a collection of mostly new and old breaks and techno cuts they really love. There's some really deep and trippy tracks in here with a tribal and percussive flavour.

Tune in and keep it locked.

Unexpected Delight w/ Pierrot & Of Paradise - May 25 2021

Nightwave (27/5/21)

Man Like Morgan was joined by Theo Nasa this month, playing sounds from Cari Lekebusch, Oktobr, Mike Parker, and more. Heavyweight electro and sub-heavy techno for the full 120.

Man Like Morgan & Theo Nasa - May 2021

Rinse FM Podcast - Hessle Audio - 26th June 2014

JBox - Macarena (Hard House edit)

Future Relict

Future (Scott Artex Remix)

HYPNOTIC VOL 7 PART 1

The full version of the text below can be read here - thequietus.com/articles/22925-optimo-20-mix-listen

As well as 2017 being the 20th anniversary of Optimo it is also 30 years since I started DJ’ing, in Edinburgh in the summer of 1987.

It had never crossed my mind to be a DJ and I fell into it quite by accident. Myself and several friends were devoted attendees at a sub basement club in Edinburgh’s Cowgate called The Backroom that started in 1986. It was the first club where we truly felt at home musically and that was frequented by people we felt comfortable being around. The resident DJs, Bill & Bobby, had been playing around Edinburgh for years and had phenomenal taste and abilities to play exactly the right records in the right order at the right time. After a year or so of religiously attending, my good friend Macky noticed a poster announcing they were looking to audition people to play the first two hours of the night. Macky suggested we audition and initially I point blank refused, partly because the idea terrified me and partly because it held little appeal to me at that time. He persisted and eventually I agreed being fairly confident that our total lack of experience would be so apparent that we would never get the gig. Over the next few weeks they auditioned various people by letting them play the start of the night and somehow we were picked to be the new warm up DJs. Yikes!

So began an uninterrupted trend of being part of a DJ duo, and every Saturday night I would get the bus through from Glasgow where I had now moved to study and Macky and I would take turns to play a few records each to a generally completely disinterested audience. Our fee for playing was £25 and I would get £15 as I had to travel through from Glasgow and Macky took a tenner. Once I realised how much I was enjoying doing it I would have happily played for free.

So, what was I playing back then? Well, I kept quite a detailed diary in those days and would write down the records I played each week. From those diary entries I have put together a mix of what I might have played in my first ever set had I had the technical knowledge or ability to actually be a mixing DJ at that time. Though the music played was very diverse, we were all particularly into records with advanced production that sounded state of the art at the time and we used the term Electrobeat to describe the core sound that we were really into. The term didn’t catch on and neither did the music. The club was very popular but the people who came generally did not like weird records they did not know, were quite averse to drum machines and I’d often hear people grumbling about us playing “that drum machine crap”, a scenario which is of course in complete reversal 30 years on.

So, here are 30 tracks mixed together that were the sound of my late teenage years that I tried to turn people on to 30 years ago. Most of the records in this mix would lie dormant on my shelves for the next 20 years but in the last 10 years or so a surprising number have found their way back into my sets and finally found an appreciative audience and sound as good, if not better today than they did 30 years ago.

There is no tracklisting but I don’t think there is anything wildly obscure or rare in the mix. I could have pretended I was playing lots of lesser known records back then, but this is a 100% genuine round up of what I was actually playing in 1987. The two tracks without a drum machine are the only ones which were anything like bonafide dancefloor hits for me at The Backroom at the time. I have also included one (loop from a) track my then co-DJ, Macky used to play lots and also a Bill & Bobby classic. The mix is available to download as a 320 mp3. For a bit of bonus fun I have included one track that wasn’t released until 1988. If anyone can identify which one it is they will win a prize.

JD Twitch - 1987 reimagined (30 year anniversary mix)

Phil Kieran DJ set @ Le Garage in Paris on the 7th of October 2017

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Two and a half hours of rough-and-ready electro, techno, rave and everything in-between, recorded live at RA's Front Yard at Flow Festival 2018 in Helsinki.

RA Live - 2018.08.12 - Helena Hauff, Flow Festival, Helsinki

tracks from Plastikman, The Kooky Scientist, FUSE, 

Nightwave (27/5/21)

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