CLS - Can You Feel It? Must have heard this 10000 times in the 90s! Amazing.

MK Burning, getting chills haven't heard it in ages.

I was here...I know because I never missed a Pure night in 1991 :)

Something came over us both!  TDK = ALL THE WAY!!!

Special Guest Mix from Mike Servito

Mike Servito is a  NYC based DJ originally from Detroit. Mike was one of the first 5 followers of this account and he put together a blazin hour mix of 90’s & Contemporary Chicago, Detroit, & New York tracks. Jackin & Acid madness on this one.🤯

Mike came up in the 90’s Detroit Rave scene, and moved to NYC in the late 00’s and quickly became a resident at the Bunker(@thebunkerny), and continues to be a fixture at Detroit’s No Way Back (@ithqdetroit) parties.. To date Mike plays at all the fab clubs &  parties in nyc and is highly featured globally.  During the lockdown in NYC, he played marathon live streaming sets from his living room and turned out one of my favorite techno mixes of 2020(Community Bread).

Sometimes she’s giving house, the fiercest acid & techno sets, and sometimes 90’s R&B & Hip-Hop.. whatever it is it’s always ovahness!!

There Is No Planet Earth Mix

Episode 4 W/ Mike Servito 7.15.21

Here'z a classic mix by Mr. Spencer Kincy aka Gemini. Amazing DJ, Producer out of tha Windy-City... Where else?? I wuz happy when I found this tape!! It brings a lot of great memories hanging out with my infamous cousin hitting tha Clubs in Chicago. Around this time I believe we were hitting Shelter's. Anyhow, this tape is about thee 1 & only Spencer Kincy. 
Enjoy!! I Am!!

Manny Cuevas
aka
DJ M-TRAXXX
aka
Thee Professor Of House & Techno Muzik!!!

Psalms 150 <My Truth!!!

Spencer Kincy - Dark & Light - Chicago Fall, 93' (Manny'z Tapez)

We are proud to present this month's InnerDisc Radio by one of our long-time french local hero, 𝗚𝗶𝗹𝗯'𝗿 from 𝗩𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀! The man of excellent taste needs no further introduction, his name should be familiar to electronic music lovers all around. The way in which he has built up his career as dj, producer and label head twenty plus years is truly admirable and unique. He has sent us a fantastic mix of 100 minutes of eclectic brilliance and obscure crossroads as we like it. Expect the unexpected, enjoy the trip and as Gilb'r says to us:

"𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘮𝘪𝘹 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘦. 𝘐 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘱𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘣𝘺 𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵, 𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘧 𝘣𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵. 𝘖𝘭𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘧𝘢𝘷𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘪𝘹 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮 𝘪𝘯 𝘈𝘮𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘥𝘢𝘮. 𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘗𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘔𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘭𝘦 𝘌𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘢..."

𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁:
Ssabæ -Tous les murs sont des portes
Steve Tibbetts - Aerial view
Salamanda- Drink wisdom
Photek - Knitevision
Turbo Sonidero- ¿Si Amo?
Ennio Morricone - Epiciclo
Dot Allison - Love died in your arms (Lee Scratch Perry remix)
Fafa De Belem-Indauê-Tupa
Mangal Singh, Turbotito, Ragz - Masti Bhara Sama Hai (Rework)
Diamanda Galas-The litanies of Satan
Spontaneous Overflow - All about money
Kombit - Tchouk Tchouk
Unknown Mix - Django
Omar S - Can’t explain
Macromassa - Sopresa
Tammo Hesselink - Finlet
In Synch - Sahara
Roldatshit - Dos Flakos remix
Tumbac and friends - Chunga Funk
Stream B73 - Cygnies (Gilb’R Ornamental Monster mix)
17 Pigmies - Tropical Grasslands
Hallways - Bayat Re
Shackleton with Anika (in 45)
I:Cube-0/0/01/48

InnerDisc Radio 003: Gilb'r (Versatile Records)

As some people seem to have problems accessing our podcasts, i'm going to put this up here too. A shorter version of this podcast is here - http://soundcloud.com/warmhq/jd-twitch-optimo-bass-and-bleeps

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Blurb -


In the late 80s as house music exploded across the UK British producers started to take the new electronic strains coming out of the United States and added their own distinctive British twist to them. Artists such as Bang The Party, No Smoke, Baby Ford, Renegade Soundwave and A Guy Called Gerald amongst many others were releasing distinctive records that worked on the dance floor as effectively as anything coming out of Chicago, New York or Detroit. Then there was Unique 3. From Bradford, they were arguably the first UK act to really bring the BASS and in particular the sub bass to UK electronic music in a way that it hadn't featured before. Britain's deep affinity with reggae and the exposure of many to severely bass heavy reggae sound systems meant it was an inevitability that bass was going to become a distinctive factor and Unique 3's huge (and sadly somewhat forgotten) influence on what came out of the UK cannot be understated: hardcore, drum and bass, dubstep and current UK Bass variants all owe something to Unique 3's bassprints, several of which are included on this podcast. (The earliest, The Theme, dates back to 1989 and still sounds fresh 22 years later.)

In their wake, from the north of England came Warp records and the wave of Sheffield Bass, or Bass and Bleep records (or whatever you want to call them) that begat a thousand imitators.  Once again an often overlooked character is majorly responsible for so much of this music - the mighty Rob Gordon (co founder of Warp and remixer and producer extraordinaire), whom to me is as important a figure in dance music history as any legend one may care to mention. These records had a massive impact on myself and my then dj partner Brainstorm. We were obsessed with bleeps and bass and these futuristic sounds that sounded unlike anything else, especially when blasting out of a huge sound system. We were very fortunate that our club night UFO, which soon morphed into Pure, had possibly the most powerful system in the country. When the bass drop in LFO's "LFO" came in the whole building would quiver and the music would be drowned out by shrieks and screams of delight. Records by Nightmares On Wax, Sweet Exorcist, Juno, XON and a legion of others will be with me as long as I live, and should so many years of sonic abuse one day render my hearing kaput, it's slightly reassuring to know that I'll always be able to FEEL the power of them as they shift masses of air through speakers with their sub bass and low frequency oscillations.

Over the ensuing years I've followed all strains of UK dance music with varying degrees of interest. The last couple of years have been deeply satisfying as records that come from the same mould as that golden 1989 - 91 era (but with a sound inherently modern rather than trying to recreate the past - something so much modern dance music is guilty of) have become more prominent. Artist such as Ramadanman in his various guises, Julio Bashmore and a host of others have brought back the bass, syncopated rhythms and sometimes the bleeps at a manageably groovesome tempo that is sexier, sonically more interesting and more powerful, to my ears, than a zillion unimaginative and derivative deep house or minimal clones. They are pushing boundaries which for me is what electronic music was always meant to do and was one of thee main, but often long undelivered promises of techno.  This mix is 40 tracks of UK Bass music past, present and future (there are actually two non British tracks included. A prize to anyone who spots them) and is a distinctively British sound that in its original form didn't really translate outside the UK, though its mutant offspring have gone on to reverberate around the globe. Old and new sit side by side all (imo) sharing some dna, intentional or otherwise with those Unique 3 records that first lit up my ears 22 years ago. Here's to the next 22 years of UK dance hybrids!


Once again we aren't making a tracklisting available for the podcast but if you want to know what anything is, feel free to get in touch and we will let you know. Nearly all the music contained here is from vinyl records so any audio imperfections are a result of the age and wear of the records; many of the older 12"s on here received a LOT of club abuse. The mix is LONG, contains 40 tracks, lasts 130 minutes and the download is a 192kbps mp3 (188mb). Enjoy, and please, don't listen to it on crummy laptop speakers as yr going to miss the whole point.


Optimo Podcast 9 Bass and Bleepcast 1989 - 2011

this was a very special night

thanks to raf, rvds, & all of the very sweet pudel staff

share this mix far and wide, one of my favorite recordings to date! it needs to be heard!

plenty of js classics and plenty more first time plays.

dled enabled even though basically no one downloads it, it literally sounds more than twice as good lol.

Jay Simon - Live At Golden Pudel Hamburg 5 - 17 - 23

TASCAM DR-40

2018-10-02 Live At Washing Machine (Clé, Terrible, Finn Johannsen) Paloma, Berlin

Deep woods, river, friends of the mushroom
Gracious invite to play an open ended 4 am DJ set

A once in a lifetime experience to share my personal taste in trippy grooves and acid sounds.  Big thank you to the Believe You Me and Hold Music teams of Portland.  We were there together and dancing until the end - thinking back gives me chills.

DJ Screendoor - Forest Friends Molalla River 2023 LIVE DJ Set

2 hours of music in all styles from The Level Party resident Andrew Devlin. 

https://www.instagram.com/thelevelparty
https://www.instagram.com/grill.talk.17

THE LEVEL PARTY with Andrew Devlin @ The Lot Radio 08-03-2023

A legend of the studio and DJ booth talks tech.

For more, visit Resident Advisor: http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=281

EX.281 François K

20 years later...

In recent times there has been a lot of looking back to the early 1990s in house music which made me curious about what my dj sets actually sounded like back then. As it's 20 years on I thought it might be fun to put one up as an Optimo podcast, but sadly I had no recordings of that time as I had long given away or lost any tapes i had from then (everything was on cheap C90 cassette tapes in those days). Then, last week a local producer sent me his album to peruse and mentioned that he had a couple of mix tapes of mine, both from 1991.

So, here is a genuine 1991 mix recorded in that year when I was co-resident at Pure in Edinburgh (which ran from 1990 - 2000) when i was known simply as Twitch rather than JD Twitch (the JD was added many years later to stop people billing me as DJ Twitch, which I loathed).

Although I started djing in 1987, I didn't start mixing records together until 1990 and couldn't afford turntables until the end of that year, so initially when i was djing at Pure I was literally learning on the job. Thankfully the euphoria of those times coupled with the fact it was all so new and exciting to so many meant that I got away with it as audiences were a lot more forgiving than they are today. Requests were fairly rare and usually a lot more oblique, often along the lines of "Can you play some "E" music?" Heckling or shouting "come on!', "harder!", "techno!" was non existent. it wasn't a better time, just different, but audiences in general were a bit politer and more patient.

This mix is two sides of two different C90 cassettes stuck together. The first half is from late 1991. It has a lot of that "E" music people were asking for on it. The mixing ranges from pretty good to the odd "ouch" moment but overall is not bad for a beginner. The second half is from earlier in 1991 and the mixing is a lot more, uh, "freeform" and gets through a high number of tracks in a short time. I think this section may have been recorded live at Pure although I can't be sure as despite running for ten years we only ever made a tiny number of live recordings. There are a couple of massively cheesy and seriously dated rave anthems on here and a couple of tracks I have absolutely no recollection of ever having heard in my life, but there is also a lot of music that I still play to this day and indeed have never stopped playing since, and some, such as MK's "Burning", Mike Perras and CLS that are enduring classics. To use the parlance of back in the day, the mix gets a little "mental" towards the end. The tape begins with a live recording of a bit of chat from the Ragga Twins live at Pure in early 1991 and ends with a particularly twisted take on David Lynch's "Lady In The Radiator Song" followed by a blast of Throbbing Gristle. Sometimes I'd drop in things like that at Pure which maybe helps explain why a few regulars ended up with mental health issues! Pure had a reputation for being a techno club and in the early days a temple to all things rave but it was always a lot more than that (as well as those things too of course) as this podcast demonstrates. Despite the sound (and mixing) limitations I think it's an interesting document of what was going on in my world 20 years ago. 


The audio fidelity of this podcast is not high, particularly in the second half. The original cassette tape was probably copied multiple times as it was passed around from person to person. Richard Chisolm who excavated the tapes has done some remastering to improve the sound but old multi generation tapes rarely sound good and it was probably quite lo fi to begin with. It was mixed live using a cheap mixer through a cheap amp. Back then the vast majority of dj mixers were very basic - no eq, no gain and no gizmos whatsoever; just a volume fader, a crossfader and phono / line switches which I used to flick to cut tracks in and out. The mix is 85 minutes long and is a 192kbps mp3 (118mb). 

Thanks to Richard aka Restless Native.
 

Optimo Podcast 11 - Twitch 1991 (recorded in 1991)

Proudly presenting one of Paris' long-going underdog-selectors: Trushmix 97 by I:Cube – Versatile Records corner stone and OG provider of fine French House. Those familiar with I:Cube’s output the last 20 years shouldn’t be surprised by the reminisce of 70/80’s production techniques and dreamy harmonies in this mix of Dub, Pop, Balearic, Obscure Electronics and beyond. All segued into 80 minutes plus, for your enjoyment!

www.trushmix.com

Trushmix 96: I:Cube

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


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Optimo Podcast 11 - Twitch 1991 (recorded in 1991)

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