Anyone had any luck id this one ? Such a Dreamy banger!

Headhunter incoming YAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSS, Keith!!!

Deep-diving San Francisco-based selectors Mozhgan & Solar are our next guests, showcasing their most spaced-out, psychedelia-rooted records in this special mix for arch.

From android electronics to avant-garde fantasy soundtracks and electro-acoustic manifestations, there’s an audible thread of historian-like knowledge throughout. A window into an outernational post-everything twilight world, trainspotters beware!

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Mozhgan & Solar - Arch Selections 21

4 hours set recording from the RSN party at Barbarellas for Love International. The real deal. Next full Ds:  Opium Vilnius (2608), Corsica Studios (1309)

DRESDEN @ BARBARELLAS-LOVE INTERNATIONAL/RSN-140722

7 (seven) hours of Dresden aka Ivan Smagghe & Manfredas recorded at Corsica Studios in September 2022.

Dresden returns to Corsica Studios on March 10th

Tickets - https://ra.co/events/1632750

CORSICA STUDIOS

Small Talk Live 002: Dresden (Ivan Smagghe & Manfredas) All Night

LEATHERETTE #001 - Music by Phil Kieran 24/09/22

Lauer is back on Trush, his last appearance was back in 2013, so it's great to have another mix from the DJ and production machine and all around nice guy form Killianstädten. Mr Lauer gives us an 59:58 minute mix of balearic, house and electro sounds. Almost everything with Lauers distinct taste of the sound from the 80's with a modern twist! The drum programming, the synths and arpeggio, melodies and the sound. Italo influenced electro becoming house! Uplifting as always! A mix to enjoy from beginning till the end!

Music from the top! Enjoy!

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Trushmix 197-Lauer

https://soundcloud.com/marcpinol
Artwork: https://soundcloud.com/dusanlilic / https://soundcloud.com/banda-panda
🔊 https://youtu.be/3q3ZIFsTVl8

A music journalist since 1994 and DJ since ’97, Marc began playing records at the legendary Nitsa Club (Barcelona) in 1999, becoming a mainstay resident since then.

After more than two decades playing extra long sets and state of the art warm-ups for the biggest names in the game he eventually decided not to fit into any particular style and embraced a chameleonic way of DJing which enables him to swing comfortably between genres, ultimately being able to play almost any kind of music or venue without compromising the quality of his sets —a rare ability nowadays.

While being “simply” a resident DJ might seem not that cool today, this is how Marc learned to make smooth transitions between very different acts and able to maintain the energy of the dance floor while keeping the ego in check and focusing in the crowd. Marc believes that adapting to the environment while also taking the crowd by surprise is one of his biggest assets.

After many years focused solely on DJing and refining his technique and style to the highest standards, Marc stepped forward into production, becoming involved with John Talabot’s label Hivern Discs, where he releases his own productions. In addition, he’s been busy producing a wide array of remixes (The xx, Colder, Save! and many more) and with C.P.I., his project with Hugo Capablanca where he’s been able to explore in a more experimental direction fusing leftfield, trance, electro or new beat.

With his name finally getting the recognition it deserves outside his native Spain, Marc plays at some of the world’s top clubs, including Panorama Bar, Lux, Robert Johnson, Trouw, and Space Ibiza, to name just a few.

LAYER number three-o-five displays MArc's interest in the atmospheric side of clubbing, drifting from ambient via submissive melodies for the meek, all the way to harsher dom club sounds.

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LAYER #305 | Marc Piñol

Beating their own personal best, Dresden aka @Manfredas x Ivan Smagghe (@colonelgatito) smashed it again. With this 11 hour long recording of their previous b2b you can officially spend the whole day warming up before another solid dancing sesh this friday:  bit.ly/dresden1113

Live From Opium Club 003: Dresden

A section from my set at Magic Waves Summer Festival, Berlin, July 2015,  featuring the more accessible synth end of the kind of stuff I play at my occasional So Low night in Glasgow. So Low 2 x LP compilation in hand screen printed sleeve coming February 2016 via Vinyl Factory.

JD Twitch Live at Magic Waves Summer Festival, Berlin 2015 (Part 1 - So Low Synth NRG set)

This Was Belgium 1987-89 - 2 hours of New Beat favourites

New Beat was born and initially exploded in 1987, went supernova (in Belgium) in 1988 and then the formula morphed a bit and was declared dead in 1989. It was slow and initially all about the atmosphere with industrial strength beats - the main form of rhythmic propulsion being the pounding kick and heavy snare. It was often mainly instrumental and when there was lyrical content it often became more about slogans and giving commands - "Move Your Ass And Feel The Beat!", "Let There Be Brightness!", "Shout Out Loud!". While not really New Beat, it's no surprise Technotronic's "Pump Up Jam" was produced by a crew who had produced a ton of New Beat gems.

In 1989 one of New Beat's founders, Marc Grouls said "New Beat is atmosphere, beats, no lyrics, and sure as hell not commercial!!!!!" But, it was already too late. A zillion bandwagon jumpers had diluted the music and flooded the market with too many sub standard 12" singles. New Beat temple, the legendary Boccaccio nightclub, in Destelbergen, near Ghent, had been closed down and it looked like it was all over, but really, it was just the beginning. New Beat morphed into Hard Beat (many of the tracks on this mix are from the Hard Beat era) which quickly morphed into Belgian Rave, which was huge and hugely influential in the UK and is an often overlooked part of the DNA of UK Hardcore, and all that came after. Then from Ghent, R&S Records established itself as thee European Techno label and a huge wave of incredible Techno records emanated from it and many other mighty Belgian labels, but that is another story. 

New Beat arrived just as I first started DJing and I played a lot of it in my DJ sets and built up connections with several of the leading Belgian labels who would send me 12" singles so I had records nobody else here had any idea even existed. I would compile New Beat charts for the music paper The NME which may have given the impression there was a thriving New Beat scene in Scotland. The reality was very different; people here, many of whom would embrace the rave just a little while later never really took to it in a big way.

This mix is comprised of many of my personal favourites that I have loved since they came out (and two I missed at the time and only heard later). I think the tracks have aged like a fine wine, often sounding as good if not better today as they did then. There is definitely a faint whiff of fromage and a big dollop of stoopid in several of these tracks. Of course, it is not all about the cheese and many of these adhere to the "atmosphere, beats, no lyrics, and sure as hell not commercial" rule mentioned above. Some of the best programmed 303 Acid basslines ever made can be heard here along with transcendental hypno synths and those Belgian beats going on and on....! Slow and low, from under 100bpm up to 116, New Beat doesn't chug, it swings in a very distinct way. If you get to see any videos of Belgian clubs of the era, the way people moved to this music is incredible and so different to any dancing we see today.

Many of these tracks are made by the same people under various aliases, which will perhaps be audibly evident. Most of the names have been forgotten, if they were ever even known outside their native Belgium at all, but all are legends to me. 

This mix isn't any kind of attempt to tell the story of New Beat but rather a mix 33 of my favourite 12" singles from that era showing many of the various strains of the New Beat and Hard Beat sound. A lot of love went into this and I hope someone somewhere discovers this music for the first time and falls in love with it as I did way back when. This was Belgium!

This Was Belgium 1987-89 - 2 hours of New Beat favourites

Ivan Smagghe has crafted a quintessentially “chill out” recording to open our third season of Moon Roq mixes. Beautiful piano and guitar-led tracks combine with eery electronic passages to cultivate the perfect ebb-and-flow required to be both at ease and fully aware. Slip peacefully into another consciousness but beware of surprises!

Moon Roq Mix 014 will drop in just four weeks.

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Moon Roq 013 | Ivan Smagghe

My recording for Fuck2020, NYE's streaming festival created by dave p and primavera sound. 
1hour 35 minute
aired for first time Jan 1 2021 00:30)

HolographicMix Fuck2020 Festival (1st Jan2021)

I started DJ'ing in 1987, am 50% of Optimo (Espacio) and I also run the Optimo Music record label.


“We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is.”
Mark Vonnegut

Email - kmcivor@me.com

Optimo Music Soundcloud here - https://soundcloud.com/optimo-music

DJ bookings (worldwide) - caroline@spunoutagency.com



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Discography - http://www.optimo.co.uk/discography/

JD Twitch Live at Magic Waves Summer Festival, Berlin 2015 (Part 1 - So Low Synth NRG set)

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