this was the point the shots started kicking in. LOL

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. 

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


*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)

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Phonica Records with Rolo - 15 June 2025

Takaya Nagase invites Kei_Nakahara from my hometown in Japan 

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00:00:00  1 Massive Attack - Karmacoma (U.N.K.L.E. Situation)
00:05:28  2 DJ Shadow - What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 2)
00:18:51  3 DJ Shadow - Napalm Brain / Scatter Brain
00:27:42  4 UNKLE - Unkle (Main Title Theme)
00:30:30  5 DJ Shadow - Influx
00:42:04  6 Zimbabwe Legit - Doin' Damage In My Native Language (Shadow's Legitimate Mix)
00:47:43  7 DJ Shadow - What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1, Blue Sky Revisit, Transmission 3)
00:54:49  8 DJ Shadow - Midnight In a Perfect World (Extended Vision)
01:03:07  9 UNKLE feat. Alice Temple - Bloodstain
01:09:03 10 Dr. Octagon - Waiting List (DJ Shadow & Automator Mix)
01:13:25 11 DJ Shadow - Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt
01:19:49 12 Latyrx - Latyrx
01:25:34 13 DJ Shadow - Red Bus Needs To Leave
01:27:53 14 Latyrx & El-P - Looking Over A City (Extended Instrumental)
01:34:21 15 Lateef The Truth Speaker - The Wreckoning
01:39:00 16 DJ Shadow - Changeling (Transmission 1)
01:46:34 17 DJ Shadow - 89.9 Megamix
01:55:09 18 DJ Shadow - Hardcore (Instrumental) Hip Hop
01:59:20 19 Blackalicious - 40oz. For Breakfast
02:06:58 20 DJ Shadow - Last Stop - Groove Robbers Feat. DJ Shadow
02:08:45 21 UNKLE feat. Richard Ashcroft - Lonely Soul
02:18:15 22 DJ Krush - Duality Mo Wax, FFRR
02:27:38 23 UNKLE feat. Kool G Rap & Latyrx - Guns Blazing (Drums of Death, Part 1)
02:30:10 24 UNKLE feat. Mike D - The Knock (Drums of Death, Part 2)
02:33:58 25 Lateef The Truth Speaker - The Quickening
02:38:08 26 Blackalicious - Rhymes For The Deaf, Dumb And Blind (Instrumental)
02:39:45 27 DJ Shadow - Hindsight
02:46:14 28 DJ Shadow - Lost And Found (S.F.L.)
02:55:23 29 DJ Krush - Meiso (Instrumental Mix - DJ Shadow)
02:59:05 30 Blackalicious - Swan Lake (Instrumental)
03:03:37 31 Depeche Mode - Painkiller (Kill The Pain - DJ Shadow vs. Depeche Mode)
03:09:19 32 DJ Shadow - Mutual Slump
03:12:33 33 Handsome Boy Modeling School - Holy Calamity (Bear Witness II)
03:16:37 34 DJ Shadow - What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 3)
03:21:40 35 DJ Shadow - The Number Song
03:26:23 36 DJ Shadow feat. Divine Styler - Divine Intervention Quannum Projects
03:30:13 37 Lifers Group - Real Deal (Shadow Remix)
03:35:04 38 UNKLE - Unreal
03:39:50 39 UNKLE feat. Ian Brown - Be There
03:44:35 40 DJ Shadow - Stem - Long Stem (Transmission 2)
03:53:47 41 DJ Shadow - Organ Donor (Extended Overhaul)
03:57:44 42 The Folk Implosion - Natural One (Unkle Instrumental)

Go Check The Survey Vol. 4 (DJ Shadow)

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LIVE @ Westfest Afterparty - Five Star Bar Chicago

Big tunes with the DNBID crew! Big thanks for having me.

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