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)

Part 1. A Fundraiser for JD Twitch / Optimo, 2010 in NYC (featuring Sal P from Liquid Liquid)

Difficult to recover rap song from the artists of Souls of Mischief. Digitally remastered by yours truly for all to enjoy again. 

If you have a low-quality song you want remastered send me a message and let's sync up!

Souls of Mischief - Cab Fare (Remastered by Trevor Balthrop)

This week, we hit replay on last year's stopover in Japan as part of our World Tour.

Supported by Budweiser.

TRACKLIST

¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U | Boiler Room: Tokyo

Freeride Millenium #60 w/ Paris Böhm & Jorkes (15/04/2025)

3 hours of me spinning 100% vinyl ~ some pop, some club, Italo, easy blends,

Captured on the 22.03.25 at Doka (Amstersdam), which has a very DJ comfortable booth. Play time was from around 3am-6ish.

This live recording is my first in at least 5 years - I’ve always struggled with the concept of DJing without a crowd/dance-floor so for my usual mix output I “record” in Ableton. I also enjoy “mixing” on the sofa as horizontal as possible so go figure.

H.A.N.D. MIX 073 : Bell Towers

Overmono - Glastonbury Live set 2025

I opened up for Kuniyuki (live) and Toshiya Kawasaki @ Good Room for a Mule Musiq showcase a few nights ago.

Like I sometimes do, I pressed record on my iPhone to listen back later soooo here's my set - what you hear is what they got!

tracklist:
1 Dr. Togo “Be Free” [Derby]
2 T.B. Funk “Free Blow (Dub Version G&D Edit))” [BBE]
3 Skyy “Here’s To You (Dr. Packer’s Multi Track Mix)” [Salsoul]
4 Chris Rea “Josephine (Chris Coco Edit)” [MB Edits]
5 France Joli “Gonna Get Over You (Pete Herbert & Dicky Trisco Edit)” [Disco Deviance]
6 Sam-Jam “Dance N Chant (Todd Terje Edit)” [Supreme]
7 Mory Kante “Yeke Yeke (Edit)” [It’s Not A Feeling, It’s A Genre Vol 3]
8 Mildlife “Zwango Zop (Artwork Edit)”
9 Sound Stream “Make It Right” [Sound Stream]
10 Ajattar “On The Edges” [Night Parade]
11 Prince Palmer “Serious Play” [Bobby Donny]
12 JohNick “Play The World” [Henry]
13 Limit Blau “Mi Yoyo” [Klasse Wrecks]
14 Inner Sense “MoTP” [My Love Is Underground]
15 Jacques Renault “Never Saw Never (Gerd Janson Tool 2)” [Let’s Play House]
16 The Jump Street Man “B-Cause (Jacques Renault Edit)” [Let’s Get Lost Vol 26]
17 Loleatta Holloway / Nightlife Unlimited “Love Sensation / Peaches & Prunes (Edit)” [Eros03]
18 Sound Stream “Let’s Break” [Sound Stream]
19 Rainbow Brown “Till You Surrender (Gerd Janson & Shan Version)” [Regraded]
20 Hugh Masekela ‎”Don't Go Lose It Baby (I Lost My Shoes On Acid (Neville Watson & Nick Woolfson Version))” [Red 7]

Good Room July 3, 2025 Mule Musiq Showcase

my closing set at the achtertuin stage during this year’s edition of wildeburg festival in the netherlands.

1. dj rain - club kids (demuir & light skin ric special)
2. salute - double luxury (demo version) (unreleased)
3. dam swindle - touch me again
4. huxley, javi bora - you’re everything (rogue d remix)
5. holybones - everywhere break (stresshead remix)
6. fat tony x kda - right & exact
7. poté - bubblegum (poté’s let’s go raving remix)
8. andre zimmer - the funk
9. dannyghost - ecstasy
10. shee - good love
11. william kiss - sticky
12. salute & disclosure - lift off!
13. scrappa - count dis
14. karma kid vs salute - controller vs reason
15. idemi - someday
16. salute & sammy virji - peach
17. laurence guy - hey baby (salute remix)
18. william kiss - x rated
19. zero idea - dub 1
20. salute - love has come again (unreleased)
21. ben sims - dubs 3
22. salute - move faster
23. ben sims - dollar bill y’all (version)
24. calvin harris - i’m not alone (mph remix)
25. salute - system
26. dj melvin - set u free
27. oxia - domino
28. dismantle - tomorrow will be different
29. airwolf paradise - strings of life (remix)
30. the trip - trip life xtra
31. salute - perfect (with leilah)
32. soul mass transit system - up in da club
33. club angel - trust me!
34. 1morning - rotation
35. ewan mcvicar - heather park (salute version)
36. kink & raredub - time to change (special request vip)
37. underworld - two months off

salute, Wildeburg 2025

Andrew Weatherall's first official posthumous mix. The only b2b DJ Harvey ever agreed to. Six hours at Trouw. This one's special.

When mulling which direction to go in for RA's 1000th mix celebrations, many options came to mind. Some shadowy character 2-stepping around the fringe of our collective consciousness? An impossible-level IDM icon?

All tempting. But, ultimately, we are a DJ-forward publication and this is a DJ mix series. It felt truer to the history of the RA Podcast to release deep vault material from a time when the world of niche records felt different, tighter, more discrete.

The fourth-longest mix in the series' history is an unrepeatable marathon set recorded in 2012 at a superclub that no longer exists. 2012, incidentally, is farther away from 2025 than 2012 was from 2000... if we have to clock it, so do you.

It's the coming together of one British icon who passed away in 2020, and another whose time on the road has scaled back considerably as of late. DJ Harvey agreed to exactly one b2b set in his life: this one, with Andrew Weatherall.

The night took place at Trouw, an Amsterdam club already considered legendary before it shuttered its doors in the opening hours of 2015, as part of an RA series anchored around start-to-close combinations. Harvey was at the peak of an irresistible career second act, which dovetailed with a disco revival that dominated clubs for years. Weatherall, with infinite brownie points stockpiled from the '90s, remained everyone's favourite debonair psychonaut. 

What follows is 385 scintillating minutes of arpeggiated chug and slow-cresting climaxes: a moment when the resting heart rate of dance floors plunged lower than any comparable point in the 21st century. A masterclass, entirely self-contained in audio form.

If you've got time to spare, a fun side game is sussing out who plays what. A disco-dub cover of Echo & the Bunnymen? Smart money's on Weatherall. Exuberant EQ'ing of The Isley Brothers? Gotta be Harvey. As for the low 'n slow, lightly spangled house that was all the rage in the early 2010s (think Maxxi Soundsystem, Disco Bloodbath, Rub & Tug, C.O.M.B.I. and Full Pupp), it's anyone's guess. 127 BPM feels practically like an F1 car.

When we kicked off our RA.1000 campaign, we outlined a few goals: tick off a handful of long-awaited dream guests, honour architects who shaped the world around us and deliver recordings you truly can't hear anywhere else. Full send.

DJing and the mythmaking around it has undergone a quantum leap since 2012, let alone 2006, 1996 or 1989. For those of us who were kicking around in the former, there's a creeping melancholy that our prime is fast becoming a matter of historical record. The killing moon really did come too soon. 

Where will electronic music, DJ sets or any of this be in 2044? Hard to say. Best not to overthink that one. Instead, we want to say thanks to all contributors on the series so far. Now enjoy luxuriating in the company of two of the greatest to ever do it, together, for the first and last time.⁠ – Gabriel Szatan (Editor, RA)

@andrew-weatherall

Read the interview with DJ Harvey and Andrew Weatherall's family at https://ra.co/podcast/1016. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 DJ Harvey & Andrew Weatherall

King So So - Satisfaction
Spectral Display - It Takes A Muscle To Fall In Love (Crucial Three Edit)
Brian Eno and John Cale - Spinning Away
Erlend Krauser - Gliding Across the Water
SAULT - Wildfires
Jon and Vangelis - State of Independence
Jenny Hval - High Alice
Ofra Hazra - Im Nin'Alu (Played In Full)
Lewis Taylor - Lovelight
Lord Echo - Thinking Of You
LKJ - Against All Logic

CHILL MIX Dec 2020

MichaelJRoxx

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