'Some twats: pictured here yesterday.'
The Style Council * Promised Land (Lefside Wobble Edit)
Thursday, 21 January 2010
Wednesday, 20 January 2010
RE-UP!! JD Twitch 8 Mutant Disco Mix.
Absoultely cracking mix that we posted on our sister blog 'Tourist' a few months back and thought it would benefit from an airing over here. A blistering, bitesize 40 minutes of New Yoik disco and funk from one half of Glasgows 'Optimo' duo. Mixing up some classic material with his own re-edits. This has been on blast today!!
Pulsallama - Oui Oui
Loose Joints - Tell You Today (new shoes pt2)
Material - Bustin' Out
Bobby O - I'm So Hot For You
Liquid Liquid - Flextone (JD Twitch re edit)
Fun Boy Three - The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum (Twitch & Roland's 1999 Optimo mix)
Slick - Space Bass (JD Twitch re edit)
Don Armando's 2nd Avenue Rhumba Band - I Am An indian Too
Aural Exciters - Spooks In Space (JD Twitch re edit)
JD Twitch * Mutant Disco Mix.
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Primal Scream * Uptown (Weatherall Mix)
Nice Little bonus rarity from the 'Beautiful Future' vinyl promo set. A nine and a bit minute, dark and dubby excursion into the sleaziest corner of the discotheque as Andrew Weatherall turns the bongos up and sets the cellos and phasers to Faze Action!
Criminally good.
Primal Scream * Uptown (Long After The Disco Is Over Mix)
Monday, 18 January 2010
DJ Harvey remixes 'House Of House'.
"Hew, where's the CD decks like kidda eh?"
The Godlike genius of Harvey sprinkles jis disco magic on one of the best house records of recent times.
Result: Not to shabby at all innit.
House Of House * Rushing To Paradise (Original & DJ Harvey Mixes)
Sunday, 17 January 2010
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
Junior Byron * Dance To The Music.
Proper solid gold classic Italo disco material. Smoother than Peter Tosh's bong.
Quando Quango * Love Tempo
Probably best remembered for this 1983 ‘Disco-Not-Disco’ classic ‘Love Tempo’, Quando Quango released unique and influential records throughout the early eighties on Factory Records. The musical brain child of Mike Pickering and Hillegonda Rietveld, the band were formed in 1981 and quickly became one of label’s most trailblazing bands.
With their abstract mix of disco, punk, new wave, world, jazz, reggae, they were dismissed by the UK music press for being too eclectic and weird. As with the yesterday’s SOTD, they first garnered attention from New York by none other than Larry Levan. The band was even invited to play at the Paradise Garage in 1983 (which they duly did but got a lukewarm reception).
They released their only album ‘Pigs & Battleships’ in 1985 to some critical acclaim. With the tracks perfectly complimenting the forthcoming explosion of house music, as well as providing anthems for the Hacienda, for whom Pickering would later become synonymous with (we’ll gloss over the whole M People thing). The band’s influence across the board really cannot be underestimated.
Quando Quango * Love Tempo.
Monday, 11 January 2010
Twitchy Music
Cheeky little re-edit of 'Lost In Music' from the 'G4 Faggot' album of edits that dropped about 3 years back now by half of Glasgow's mighty Optimo, JD Twitch.
Betty Botox * Music Is Music
Friday, 8 January 2010
Sunday, 3 January 2010
Pete Shelly * I Don't Know What It Is. (Instrumental Version)
Actual solid gold slice of Balearic class from the unlikely form of ex-Buzzcocks frontman Pete Shelly. Every person of 'a certain age' who frequented half decent clubs in the late 80's and early 90's will have at least one end of the night 'hands in the air' memory of this.
Brilliant.
Pete Shelly * I Don't Know What It Is (Instrumental)
Saturday, 2 January 2010
Roxy Music Get Extra Disko Dust!!
Classic bit of pop-disco sprinkled with some extra disco dust.
Roxy Music * Angel Eyes (Frank Tope & Dean Rutland Disco Edit)
Friday, 1 January 2010
'All the critics in New York love you!!'
Right then, another re-up from the 'Tourist' blog as we thought we'd bring you something a bit special to mark New Years Day. As such, we bring you the thoroughly bloody excellent 'Psyche Out' mix from 'Optimo'. A free roaming mixtape that brilliantly alternates between acid house, sleazy funk & psychedelic rock. The mix was released on the equally bloody wonderful 'Eskimo' label back in 2005. The surprise was that hardly any time had passed since the critically acclaimed 'Kill The DJ' mix had come out, in fact it was a matter of a few months. Now without being cynical and accusing the chaps of trying to flood the market in a way not seen since Sasha & Digweed in the late 90's this seemed a rather strange move. That is until we find out that there was actually meant to be a nine month gap between the two mixes coming out but due to various problems holding up the release of 'Kill The DJ' they ended up coming out far closer together than anyone intended.Anyway, with 'Psyche Out' they wanted to do something very different from the 'Kill The DJ' mix and came up with the idea of doing something vaguely psychedelic in flavour. They also wanted to let the tracks play a little longer which is why this mix has half the number of songs that 'Kill The DJ' did. Apart from a couple of tracks, almost everything on this mix is at least ten years old with a couple of songs dating back to the 1960's. The trade mark quality control that the Optimo lads are known for dictated that even with the 'Kill The DJ' album still warm on the shelves it would have been far easier for them to put together a bunch of what were then current 'killer' tracks and bang it out to make a quick buck, but as ever they wanted to ensure that everything on it was something they genuinely loved ensuring that it wouldn't date quickly.Coming only a few months after their How to Kill the DJ 2 mix, Psyche Out is indeed heavy. HTKTDJ was impossibly flashy and virtuosic - all jump cuts between scene, sound, and mood. Psyche Out is less manic, more rolling, brooding, cosmic. If anything unites the 40 years of music here, it's the compulsive, hypnotic power of repetition. From psyche rock to krautrock to disco to acid house, the tribe vibe of dancing your arse off in a dark, smoky room (or zoning out) though that takes us dangerously close to Lazer Floyd territory so best to keep moving). Still, that definitely does trump doing coke in the toilets and 'networking' all night long.
1. Vapourspace - Gravitational arch of 10
2. Hawkwind - Hash cake '77
3. Silver Apples - Oscillations
4. Delia Gonzales and Gavin Russome - Rise (DFA mix)
5. Dorau / Kohncke - Durch die nacht (Geiger mix)
6. Fast Eddie - Acid Thunder
7. Sinnamon - He's gonna take you home to his house (instrumental)
8. Herbie Hancock - Raindance
9. Sweet Exorcist - Mad Jack
10. Damien Donato - Life Support System
11. Throbbing Gristle - Hot on the heels of love (Carl Craig reversion)
12. Hole In One - Game from the planet onchet
13. The Stranglers - Bear cage
14. Mr. Fingers - Washing machine
15. Chris and Cosey - Walking through heaven
16. Skatt Bros - Walk the night
17. Acid Test - Test one / Simple Minds - Theme for great cities
18. The Step - Yeah you (Robert's mix)
19. Systeme Imaginique - The Sublime moment
20. The Temptations - Papa was a rollin' stone
21. Koenig Cylinders - Carousel
22. Dinosaur - Kiss me again
23. Chamber Bros. - Time has come today
24. Sons and Daughters - Johnny Cash
Optimo Present: Psyche Out.
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