During 2021, to help get through the ongoing lockdown I made a series of 90 minute cassette tapes, one a month for ten months. I thought there would be a small demand but was blown away by the response. People really embraced them and copies went to every corner of the planet. They became a huge part of my year and really helped me through a tough time.

A little later I made them available digitally for a short period and all the proceeds raised went to Glasgow NW Foodbank. I was again blown away as thousands of pounds were raised.

I have decided to put the series on Soundcloud. I'll upload them sporadically over the coming months. I'm skipping the 2nd one as it has the same title as a compilation I put out recently and I don't want the two getting confused, but I may come back to it later. This is the 3rd one titled “SMI²LE - Space Migration, Intelligence Increase, Life Extension".

Smi²le was Timothy Leary’s mid 70s vision of the future of humanity. It's Utopian & in hindsight wildly optimistic. He believed we would have colonised space & have cloned ourselves by around the year 2000. He envisaged millions of us would be living in “High orbital mini Earths” in our own small Utopian communities. I have a long time fascination with (unrealisable) Utopian communities and Smi²le has always been one I particularly liked as it was so fully thought out & even by Utopian standards wildly hopeful & unrealistic. It's also relevant to our times as contentious/ awful figures like Peter Thiel & Elon Musk have adopted the worst parts of these ideas without any public scrutiny. Free market space migration may not be a positive thing, particularly if we are exporting this planet’s problems into outer space.

Anyway, that’s an aside and it’s basically a 90 minute space themed mix of music. Understanding / knowing about the Smi²le concept is not essential to its enjoyment. :)

Tape released May 7, 2021

Artwork – Musheto Fernandez.

JD Twitch - SMI²LE (Optimo Music Tape 003 - originally released May 2021)

On May 25th 2024, to accompany the launch of his Arthur Russell book "Travels Over Feeling" Richard King put together an event at London's Barbican celebrating Arthur's life with an all star musical cast recreating and reimagining his music.

I was thrilled to be invited to play a DJ set in the foyer afterwards. I have been an Arthur Russell devotee for 30 years and decided to play an all Arthur Russell DJ set*. The atmosphere was very special with lots of love transmitting back and forth from the DJ booth to the dancefloor. I really felt a freedom to slowly build it up playing so many of my favourite AR tracks and it was one of my very favourite DJ gis of 2024 so far.


*Full disclosure - there was an additional 30 minutes finale of this set that didn't record where I played non Arthur Russell, disco / disco adjacent records.

JD Twitch - All Arthur Russell DJ set, live at The Barbican, London 25/05/24

Promo mix for our Landing Stage takeover at Kelburn Festival

LEZZER QUEST - Kelburn 25

Pen Weapon

Pen Weapon (feat. Mel E. Logan)

On this weeks episode of the FMB mixtape, we welcome John Loveless, a DJ, producer and writer from the North West of the UK. He runs his own Hot Concept imprint and party series, and works with Palms Trax on CWPT. His radio residencies on Refuge Worldwide and Cashmere Radio allow him to explore electronic and alternative music. Let catch up with John Loveless..

"I’ve been trying to evade my allergies and enjoy the sensory pleasures of spring’s arrival in Berlin. Listening to music, reading in the sun and of course, trying to play it cool about recording this mix…

The mix was recorded live, in one hot take, on CDJs and a Pioneer mixer at my friend Charlie’s.

As alluded to above, I’d check the original Feel My Bicep blog for new downloads pretty obsessively, circa 2010. I even made it to the first ever Bicep DJ gig in Manchester, which I recall was cut heartbreakingly short by a fire alarm (without a subsequent fire). The music featured was a much-appreciated introduction to a particular strain of dance music, especially house and Italo, driven by charisma and odd hooks. I’m still drawn to those kinds of records and that admittedly nebulous attitude, regardless of era or genre, so I used those instincts to record something with the sort of progression and pace that my daft 21 year-old self might have enjoyed.

The final track here – a Leftside Wobble bootleg of an exciting little band called The Beatles – even initially came to me via FMB, but I don’t think I’ve ever used it in a mix or even on the radio, so this felt like as good of an opportunity as any to exorcise it after all these years. Some other tracks in here are ‘personal classic’ trax that I know like the back of my hand, while others, like Peach’s remix of Cromby, landed in my inbox a couple of hours before I recorded and just felt right for the flow.


I’m currently in the process of finishing up some new tracks and remixes with my production partner Gramrcy, one of which features here for the first time here. These should arrive later in 2025. I have a remix with Palms Trax on the horizon, and I’m soon to reach the 100th edition of my show ‘Display Resolution’ on Cashmere Radio, after which I’ll put the show on ice or an irregular schedule for some time. I’m hoping to record a mixed compilation of sorts to celebrate, so have progressed to agonising over the track list for that one instead. I have some exciting gigs upcoming this summer, such as a nice long stretch outdoors at ELSE in Berlin for the CWPT party, and Pikes in Ibiza for the first time.

I’ve also written a full-length feature screenplay with my mate Rich, AKA, DJ Enchanted Rhythms, which we’re still chipping away on, draft after draft. I have been involved in music for a long time now, but film is a similar passion, and this has felt like the most exciting and fulfilling work I’ve undertaken lately. While I wait for A24 to call, I’ve decided to more frequently update my substack, No Fun At The Fair, and have an essay to publish soon on a strawberry theme park, and another on outdoor swimming pools, if that’s your sort of thing. Hold tight!"


Tracklist:

Infamix – A Walk In The Park
  2. Sax – Don’t Turn Your Back On Me (Tech Support Edit)

  3.  Joe Lewis – Separate Ways

  4. Luca Dell’orso – Dear Rosie

  5. Ghost Assembly – I Keep On Making The Same Mistake

  6. KDA – Rising (Vocal Trip)

  7. The Hacker & Endrik Schroeder – The Voyagers

  8. Robert Drewek – Acidiction

  9. Cromby – House Flava (Peach Remix)

  10. Drua – Nightfire

  11. Desert Sound Colony – Defaminator

  12. Self Preservation Society – Chinless Acid

  13. Gramrcy & John Loveless – Feel So

  14. I:Cube – Transpiration

  15. The Beatles – Tomorrow Never Knows (Leftside Wobble Edit) "

FMB MIXTAPE 261 - JOHN LOVELESS

New release by Dominican artist Thaddeus X comes with very strong remixes by Terr, Ivan Smoka and Kurt Kjergaard

Thaddeus X - Night Rider (Terr Remix)

Libido

Ripped In Glasgow - Radio Buena Vida 16.07.25

releasing this track is to the aether 

RIP JD Twitch, you are deeply missed

listen to the full tribute here:
https://thedarkoutside.bandcamp.com/album/ilx-and-friends-celebrate-jd-twitch-one-more-tune

Meditation for JD Twitch

Buy/stream: https://kompakt.fm/releases/call_coco

Our favourite Cologne newcomers, 9OASES are back with a bang! "Call Coco" is pure, undiluted, infectious fun for summer dancefloors of all sizes and colours. Think Mory Kante's immortal "Yeke Yeke" clashing with Tyree Cooper hip house in a 2025 stylee. Feeling blue? Call Coco!

Call Coco

9OASES - Call Coco

Extrawelt & Dominik Eulberg - A Little Further (Not On A Map)
Captain Mustache - Pen Weapon feat. Mel E. Logan (Electrosexual Remix)
Jon May - Dream Catcher
9OASES - Call Coco (Extended Version)(Edit)
Legowelt - Disco Rout (Younger Rebinds Remix 1)
Calystarr - New Horizons
Woo York - The Red Room
Mundo D - Game Over (Undo Insert Coin Remix)
Captain Mustache / Third Culture - Vertigo
Man2.0 & Precious Blood - CTRL ALT DEL (Tronik Youth Remix)
Todd Terje - Ragysh
JD Twitch - Maya
New York Endless - Double 9 Heart (Song for Twitch)
Ten Benson - Rock Cottage
The Undertones - Teenage Kicks
JD Twitch - The Lark Ascending [excerpt]

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