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

Jamie Tiller's wife Tasya and Lewie Day re-introduce Jamie's very first NTS show, as a tribute to his memory on his birthday today, 16th April. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/jamie-tiller/episodes/jamie-tiller-16th-april-2024

Jamie Tiller Birthday Tribute 160424

Disco Diva & undefeated Grand Champ Love Gamer, Lauren Murada is next up in the mix! This is a perfectly playful, infectiously fun, chug-tastic romp through a glittering selection of signature sounds from New York's favorite Good Time Gal. Our cheeks ache from smiling so much after listening!

sc: @lauren-murada
ig: @ lauren_murada

GABRIELA MIX #16 ~ LAUREN MURADA

A (vinyl only) recording from a night fueled by semlor, cheese, wine, beer (and brand new Studio Barnhus merch) to celebrate the new offices of Every Night Studios - sweden's (and the world's) best print shop. Just good disco, reggae, new wave and house (and too much dub siren) as it's supposed to be on a bleak Stockholm Tuesday in March. Big love // Axel

@ Every Night Studios

Phona 20.04.25 - Arthur Lastmann

Rhythm Section Radio was founded in 2009 and moved to NTS in 2012, and has since pulled out the stops breaking new music, promoting independent labels and paying homage to the greatest music from the past, through a perhaps unhealthy obsession with record digging. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/rhythmsection/episodes/rhythmsection-28th-may-2025

Rhythm Section Radio - Bradley Zero b2b Erol Alkan Live at Peckham Audio 280525

unearthed an old mix from the Italians Do It Better days, 15 years ago.  All vinyl obviously

Mike Simonetti - Dazed Mix from 2010 (all vinyl obviously)

🔒From the vaults🔒

Since we’re too excited for our summer bash this Saturday[7.6.25], we’ve decided to treat the community with a recording from our last Sameheads encounter with the super Poly-Ritmo 🪇🪭🤸‍♂️

ID Requests –> @poly-ritmo

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Banana Dance @ Sameheads w/ Poly-Ritmo

New radio business. Nice eclectic selection, new & old. Enjoy x 

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[MIX] Lovefingers - Live inna LA Warehouse (Forget The Future - February 9th, 2025)

Tyrants World (Bootleg Mashup) made from a deep, long 8 minute mix of 

Omar-S - Strider's World 
https://soundcloud.com/omars-scmusic/striders-world        --VS--

Gys - Tyrants (Ruoho Ruotsi Reshape)
https://soundcloud.com/ruoho/gys-tyrants-ruoho-ruotsi-reshape

For this project, I created a music video using an nvinkpunk-style diffusion model, based on the public domain film Jason and the Argonauts (1963).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfgdNVWhFsM

Mike Simonetti - Dazed Mix from 2010 (all vinyl obviously)

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