Name: Henry Chow at The Great Beyond 2025 by Henry Chow
Duration: 1 h 41 min 6 s
Description: Set recorded from the Meta Ta Physica stage at The Great Beyond 2025

oh my peneal glands love this right here!

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/love2jdtwitch

This is a mix that long ago lived on the internet, then ended up properly mastered as one of the cassettes in our 15th anniversary box set. We're releasing it again now to bring attention to our friend, Keith McIvor aka JD Twitch, who's been diagnosed with a brain tumor. The liner notes for the cassette, below, lay out how formative our experiences of Optimo (Espacio) were as we built our thing. Keith played the very first Mister Saturday Night, and we went on to develop a long friendship with both him and Jonnie. We are forever grateful to them and hope you will support Keith and his family now as they deal with one of the most difficult moments of life. Love live Keith McIvor. Long live Optimo. 

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*Original Liner Notes*

Optimo were huge inspirations when Justin and I threw our first Mister Saturday Night parties in 2009. Justin had seen them play at the Motherfucker party at Limelight sometime in 2004, while I spent time at the weekly Sunday night parties that JD Twitch (Keith McIvor) and Jonnie Wilkes’ threw in Glasgow during my college days. We were both taken by Keith and Jonnie’s ability to incorporate just about any music into their sets while still pleasing everyone in the room, record diggers and punters alike.

This particular set is from the summer of 2010, a party we hosted in a Bushwick back alley, and it encapsulates Optimo's knack for party-rocking in the most unconventional way. Classic house gives way to afrobeat, builds up into a high energy Italo track that drips to a halt, before revving into a sequence that includes an off-kilter Comeme record, “Pump Up The Jam,” ‘80s electro, lo-fi techno and Jesse Jackson’s “I Am Somebody” speech, before Liquid Liquid's Sal Principato grabs the mic and sings “Optimo,” the track for which Keith and Jonnie named their project. To hear is to believe.

— Eamon Harkin

MSN Tape 1510 - Optimo

Part 2. A Fundraiser for JD Twitch / Optimo, 2010 in NYC (featuring Sal P from Liquid Liquid)

I got the crazy idea to take the vibe I experienced at the SF/Bay Area's legendary full moon parties and transport it to Detroit. At the time, there was a perfect space for it; so I went for it. The rest is history. Lincoln Street Art Park was never the same again.

Monty Luke - Full Moon Party 17 SEP 2017, Detroit

Season 9 Episode 10 - 07.02.25

It’s peak summer and our very own Private Guy takes us on a deep and dubby vinyl excursion. Let the warm reflections embrace your mind and move your body. 

@privateguy

Kajunga Program SE.9 EP.10 - Private Guy

Berlin-based Producer/DJs and Tresor residents, LNS & DJ Sotofett, bring the warehouse vibes with a 3 hour x 3 turntable all vinyl set recorded on June 7th 2025 at the release party of their latest EP on Tresor Records "Globus Trax"

Stream/purchase Globus Trax: https://album.link/globustrax

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Photo credit: Marie Staggat: https://www.marie-staggat.com/
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About Tresor Berlin
At midnight, on March 13th 1991, a basement door opened at Leipziger Strasse 126, Berlin. Through this door, many passed, on their way to defining new terrains in electronic music. There they found a dance floor in the vaults of a closed-down department store, with a unique sound bound to dense fog, building night after night a history that was also a vision of the future.

This history has seen in Jeff Mills’ first sets on three turntables, Underground Resistance's first live appearances in Europe, grandiose Tresor Park parties, to various chapters of the Loveparade with Sven Väth in the 90s and since then countless generation-spanning parties. These moments represent the highlights of infinite personal clubbing experiences. It is the manifestation of the Berlin spirit, emerging from its considerable strife. This history is not without its complications - from temporary closure by the authorities and several raids in the early years to closure and demolition of the old location in 2005. What followed was years of wandering in exile and, finally, resurrection in the new home in Kraftwerk Berlin.

These stories, conversations and shared experiences within our walls forge a resilience that drives towards a shared ideal, the Tresor sound: community, resistance, and the world to come. This was observed in the newly re-unified German youth, who danced and celebrated together from the club’s inception, and into the present day through ongoing community work in Detroit.

To those that have danced before, and to those that will dance in the future: the light at the end of the long Tresor tunnel is a signal. A flicker amidst the fog. This is our future. This is our place.

LNS & DJ Sotofett | Live At Tresor - June 7 2025

vinyl set:
mr raoul k - winds of goree
concept 1 - 96:12
monolake - melting
emmett perlman -zeks in revolt
santiago salazar - la minoria
stefan goldmann - lunatic fringe
santiago salazar - arcade(stefan goldmann remix)
stacey pullen - alive
mazepa - anathema


digital set:
fanon flowers - maschinenhaus pt2
mark broom - z beats(mix 2)
gerald Mitchell - de las cenzias
fbk - rotation pallets
laurent garnier - back to my roots(original afrodiziac mix)
roland klinkenberg - kindred spirits(dub mix)
rick wade - ride home
laurent garnier - gnanmankoudji(andreas saag jazz lesson remix)
fabrice lig - violet cases
carl craig - no more words

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August 2025 Santuario

Set recorded from the Meta Ta Physica stage at The Great Beyond 2025

Henry Chow at The Great Beyond 2025

SABE EU

Back at The Lot Radio with a two-hour show featuring new and unreleased music. 

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Interstellar Funk @ The Lot Radio 08-30-2025

This album is a visual journey into the heart of fashion. It is a tribute to the artistry, the drama, and the sheer creativity that unfolds on the runway. We explore not just the clothes, but the moments—the silent preparation backstage, the electric energy of the catwalk, and the stories told in every stitch and silhouette. Each photograph captures the essence of style as a living, breathing art form, celebrating the diverse designers, models, and visionaries who shape the industry. This is a look behind the curtain, a celebration of fashion in its most powerful and beautiful form.

Neon Pulse

Free Download via Bandcamp.
Mix & Master: PLNTDDY
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Khial

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Khial [Free Download]

A transatlantic trip through house and techno.

RA.275 DJ Deep

Henry Chow's productions lie at the musical intersection of a fine souffle and the most thorough enhanced TSA security groping. Always known for timeless funky bass lines and outer space melodies, Henry started the DJ voyage in 1996.

With his b-boy roots, his music interests started with hip hop, funk, and rare grooves, and expanded to include house, drum 'n bass, and eventually techno. He began buying techno music for Chemistry Records, where record store employee Tim Xavier would sneak Chow records to listen to.

By the turn of the millennium, he had started playing on the MKULTRA radio show on Rice University's KTRU 91.7 FM on a regular basis, and then moved on to throwing a string of warehouse parties featuring his raw, percussion-driven techno sound. Along the way, Henry released records on, among other labels, Marco Carola's Zenit imprint, that brought him gigs through out the States and overseas.

With his mind blown by one fateful visit to the Robert Johnson club during a tour through Germany, Henry came back to Houston to set the stage for what would eventually become a new musical direction in the studio, and a new series of events under the name Crossroads along with his friend Sasha Braverman. Together they have hosted one of Texas' longest running monthly parties, bringing to town some of the best talent from around the world.

Constantly reuniting new and classic sounds, Henry's DJ sets keep dance floors captivated and moved all night long.
  

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