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Last month on the 13th of October, we invited house music hero & all round good guy Derrick Carter to bring his 'Derrick Does Disco' party to the Sub Club helping to celebrate GLASGAY! 20th Anniversary.

The source of many a man-crush (particularly from our local DJ geeks and record freaks) our sexy affair with Derrick has spanned a good couple of decades. Perhaps it’s his desirable physique, that intense beaded brow around 2am or his disarmingly charming manliness from the moment we met him off the plane.

Either way we’re always hot for him and so was everyone in the crowd who joined us as we got down and dirty in a darkened room and showed each other some serious loving, with no strings attached till 3am.

With Derrick in control for the full four hours we had to get the roadblocks out. Here is an hour of this amazing set specially picked out by the one man block party himself.

NEXT STOP IS A LONDON REUNION WHERE HE JOINS HARRI & DOMENIC IN THE SUB CLUB POD FOR RED BULL'S REVOLUTIONS IN SOUND WHICH WILL BE BROADCAST LIVE ON CHANNEL 4OD. TURN ON, TUNE IN & DROP OUT X

 


'Derrick Does Disco' [Recorded LIVE at Sub Club 13/10/13]

Boiler Room x Sub Club - 20 years of Subculture w/ Harri & Domenic x Optimo.

Broadcasted January 22nd 2014

Video & Tracklist : boilerroom.tv/

Optimo b2b Harri & Domenic Boiler Room x Sub Club mix

Circa 2010 collab with Thunder Disco Club. 
Location: A certain Kersland St. Kitchen

"Born from the detritus of the fallen galactic autocracy, Captain Jaffa scours the benthic depths of what is left of humanity. His self serving mission is to exploit this ruined kingdom, absorbing what little good he finds through soulless manipulation. Jaffa's only remaining entertainment is destruction and disco.

Scarred inside and out, Jaffa presides over the demented perversion that is the Thunder Disco Club. A mecca for the twisted and nefarious, this club is host to a star studded cast of the nubile and naive. Contorting their bodies and dressed to impress, if they can't make it here, they won't make it anywhere. The sultan of sin rules with an iron fist, destroying those who dare to displease. Friendships are false, fame is fickle, and failure is fatal. Moves are everything and if you can't strut, you're in a rut. The time has come for Jaffa to complete his roster of supple sex students: who will make the grade…."

THUNDER DISCO CLUB VS. JOYBOX :: CAPTAIN JAFFA'S SUPER SEX ASSIGNMENT

Quite simply one of the great Sub Club greats and a well-loved luminary of ours to boot. If we had cause to build our own Hall Of Fame, Mark would find pride of place in its halls as one of the finest figures to ship-shape our sound and help cement a solid musical reputation.

Ahead of his return to the Sub Club this Sunday the 1st of June Mark Farina recorded this exclusive Mix for your listening pleasure. This is a slower disco-y deep type mix around 118bpms. Hope ya like! 

"Whether you're planning to take your submarine for a shallow cruise at your local reef or fathoms below on the bottom of the ocean…this is a lovely soundtrack for your submarine festivities. Deep dubby disco techy goodness for the Depths."


Mark Farina - The Depths [Exclusive Sub Club Mix]

Something special to fill your stocking from Glasgow's own jolly disco saint David Barbarossa (alongside ex Body & Soul resident  and fellow sound hound Andi Hanley.)  

After a busy year of bringing pan global pandemonium and disco devastation to dance floors across the land, David says he's looking forward to spending the festive season in a cheese and Oude Gueze induced haze surrounded by his loved ones.

Expect more from the Hanarossa dream team on DB's own record label,  Simple Food in 2016.


Get Down (Hanarossa's 'What do you want to get for Christmas? I want to get down' edit)

Late Nite Tuff Guy - The scandalous alter-ego of genuine techno legend HMC (known to his momma as Cam Bianchetti) returned to the Subbie for Viciöus Créatures back in July this year! L.N.T.G puts the acrimony in acronym, the oh in disco, the amp in camp and the dang in dangerous. There is magic in his fingertips, and we were there to witness the fitness! For Day 2 of our 12 days of Sub Club Xmas you lucky shiny shakers can listen back or download this exclusive recording of two inferno hours from his Summer Disco Set [RECORDED LIVE AT THE SUB CLUB ON 30/7/15]

Ahead of this return Late Nite Tuff Guy chatted about his love of #‎Glasgow and the Subbie…“ I Played at the Sub Club in 1999 as DJ HMC and that gig is still today, my favourite gig in 33 years of DJn' Glasgow is an incredible place…”

Late Nite Tuff Guy @ Viciöus Créatures [RECORDED LIVE AT SUB CLUB 30.7.15]

DIRTY GUYS DIRTY CORNERS

Pre-order limited edition tape + riso printed artwork: https://kitrecs.bandcamp.com/album/a-revolution-in-customer-service

Object Agency - The Bed is My Office [KR18]

Bit Part

Taken from the album 'Kiss & Tell' released April 28th 2017

Babe - Ecce Poque

Scooping Pints

Robotiko Rejekto - “Rejekto”

A1) Rejekto (Perfekto mix)

AA1) Rejekto (U.S. Dub)
AA2) Rejekto (Frenchbloke cover version)

Optimo Trax 30 celebrates a double 30 year anniversary; the original release date of “Rejekto” and 30 years since Twitch started dj’ing. In 1987, Twitch, who wasn’t known as Twitch yet, picked up a copy of “Rejekto” at Glasgow’s then numero uno import shop, 23rd Precinct. He was smitten.

Shortly after that he got his first ever dj gig and played “Rejekto” in his first ever dj set. Nobody danced to it. He kept playing it and still nobody danced to it. Eventually he gave up playing it, but never stopped loving it. 

A few years ago he felt the time was right to try playing it again and this time people danced to it. In fact, people loved it and would ask about it and shriek in delight when they heard it. There is often a lot of false nostalgia talked about in dance music and how it “was better back in the day?”. Well, in some ways it was but in many it wasn’t and 30 years later it feels as if perhaps ears are more open, or perhaps “Rejekto” was just ahead of its time?

From Germany, written and produced by Ra-Hen and Talla 2XLC, Robotiko Rejecto’s “Rejekto” was the inaugural release on the Techno Drome International label. With a powerful and seductive vocal sung in Romanian it has latterly been categorised as EBM / Techno but at the time didn’t really fit into any convenient genre. Twitch called it Electrobeat.

To celebrate this 30th release on Optimo Trax, the 12” comes in a  special sleeve designed by Katie Shambles and Andrew Beltran. As well as featuring the original classic “Perfekto” and “U.S. Dub” versions this reissue features a slo-mo cover version by long-time Twitch friend and ally, the mysterious Frenchbloke who was the only other person he knew back then who also loved this wonderful record. Robotiko!

Two track 12" (and digital) released on July 21st 2017. Distributed by Kompakt and Rub A Dub.

Optimo Trax 30 - Robotiko Rejekto - Rejekto! 12" (sampler)

A1. Magick! – 6.46
A2. I Killed My Boy – 5.09

B1 . Soft Hell – 4.31
B2. The Red Eyed Raven – 4.46

Another fierce and unique act from the depths of the Glasgow underground appear on Optimo Music with their debut Green Door studios recorded four track EP.

Keyboard player Jim McKinven was previously in Altered Images, worked for many years in Martin Rushent's Genetic Studios, was in One Dove and previously appeared on Optimo Music as one half of Organs Of Love. He is however but one component of this transgenerational band.

They describe their music far better than we could - "Seedy Electronica, consisting of 2 Basses, Electronic Drums, Synths and Dark Vocals. Inspired by the avant-garde that influenced the electronic music scene of the late '70's and early '80's.”

Released on vinyl (and digital) on May 4th 2018. Distributed by Kompakt.

THUNDER DISCO CLUB VS. JOYBOX :: CAPTAIN JAFFA'S SUPER SEX ASSIGNMENT

JOYBOX

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