Odessey & Oracle and The Casiotone Orchestra
(first LP on CARTON REcords)

Odessey & Oracle and The Casiotone Orchestra

https://soundcloud.com/twitch
https://soundcloud.com/optimo-music
Artwork: https://soundcloud.com/greta-motif
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JD Twitch began his journey into music and djing in 1987, just in time for the arrival of Acid House and Rave. He started two legendary Scottish clubs - Pure and Optimo, the latter a duo with Jonnie Wilkes which recently celebrated 25 years of global touring, outrageous parties, and communitarian activism. He produces, remixes, promotes, presents radio shows, music supervises for films and runs the hard to pigeonhole Optimo Music label.

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LAYER #335 | JD Twitch (Optimo Music)

Guillaume Médioni : vocals, guitar, banjo, casiotone keyboards, pianet M, percussions ; Ariane Cohen-Adad : violin ; Aëla Gourvennec : cello ; Andrew Dymond : shaker

composed & arranged by Guillaume Médioni


Esprit Du Ciel

Fanny L’Héritier : vocals ; Vanessa Virot : recorders ; Francesco Pastacaldi : tamburello ; Ariane Cohen-Adad : violin ; Guillaume Médioni : guitar, viola da gamba, ms-20

composed & arranged by Guillaume Médioni

The Unicorn

Invention #2

Anaïs Blondet : vocals & lyrics ; Alice Baudoin : pianet M ; Fanny Rivollier : flute ; Ariane Cohen-Adad : violin ; Aëla Gourvennec : cello ; Guillaume Médioni : banjo, ms-20

composed & arranged by Guillaume Médioni

2016

Guillaume Médioni : electric guitars & composition

Invention #1

Fanny L’Héritier : vocals ; Guillaume Médioni : guitar, ms-20, percussions, programming

composed & arranged by Guillaume Médioni

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Ripped in Glasgow - Radio Buena Vida 19.06.25

New mix comes from https://soundcloud.com/spacedimensioncontroller !

Jak Hamill aka SDC is a long time established british producer.
He's responsible for an impressive array of releases on prestigious labels such as R&S, Clone Royal Oak, Ninja Tune, Dekmantel, Running Back, Aus or Hypercolour and just released last month another great one on Testpressings.

A pleasure to host him on LYO, and if you're in Lyon, don't miss him LIVE at Le Sucre this sunday  !

LYO#257 / Space Dimension Controller

Live recorded on 3 turntables, vinyl only.

B2B with Helena Hauff Live at Trädgården, Stockholm

Optimo is JG Wilkes & JD Twitch; record label, and longstanding Glaswegian party. You can expect a lot from their new monthly slot, sure to dig up some obscurities from post-punk, new wave, EBM, house and techno. Bags of unreleased stuff, too. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/optimo/episodes/optimo-5th-august-2025

Optimo 050825

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

Gabriel Szatan, Editor (RA): 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, chronicling a moment when the resting heart rate of dance floors plunged lower than potentially any comparable point in the 21st century. A masterclass, and 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 a racecar.

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. We sought to render an accurate picture of DJ culture in 2025 for the longhaul.

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.⁠

@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 1000.ra.co

RA.1000 DJ Harvey & Andrew Weatherall

Where Dreams Take Flight

The Holy Pictures

I Heard Wonders

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"Before Jon became the world-famous and respected composer he is today I had the privilege of doing some sessions with him. This is something that we started 8 or 9 years ago and the original idea was less than 90 seconds long. I always loved the feeling it gave me so I decided to develop it for this album as I felt it fitted into what I was trying to say. The words came last. This extract was shown to me by my friend (and one of Belfast’s finest actors), Lalor Roddy because he thought it had a lot in common with a short film I directed called ‘I AM HERE‘, which deals with family and reconnection in the afterworld. It comes from a book called AENEID VI, which was the last work Seamus Heaney translated before he passed; which made it even more special as I consider this to be a very Northern Irish-themed album. When I first read it I was stunned by the similarities and wrote a letter to Mick Heaney (Seamus Heaney’s son) asking for permission. The Heaney family gave me permission (which I am forever grateful for) and the next step was securing the voice of another Northern Irish great, Stephen Rea. A huge thank you to Stephen and the Heaney family for helping me make this happen. It was a perfect way to finish this album." - David Holmes

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90 mins of Lord Sabre on his fantastic radio show from the summer of 1994. Enjoy x

Andrew Weatherall on Kiss 100 - Sabresonic Wireless Extravaganza - another one, summer 1994

NEW LP & CD "ODESSEY & ORACLE - SPECULATIO" NOVEMBER 2017 ON BONGO JOE RECORDS

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