Optimo Music Showcase w/ Optimo 6hr DJ set & MR TC Live
(Saturday) March 04, 2017 - 22:00
FAT OUT'S BURROW - Islington mill (Map)
74 people attended
DESCRIPTION
After the success of the Optimo Music showcase at A-Bound festival, we had to make it all happen again. 6 hours of back to back Optimo magic with a live performance by MR TC thrown in to make it a real tropical party.
Optimo Music is the label run by Keith McIver (AKA JD Twitch) and is the musical outlet of Optimo the club. Based in Glasgow, Optimo Music supports and exposes the plethora of local talent lighting up thier lives and exciting their ears, as well as those shaking things up far from their city. There is no genre, no dogma, just music they love and want to share.
Optimo (Espacio) (6 hour DJ set)
Optimo is DJ duo JD Twitch and Jonnie Wilkes, whose legendary Optimo night in Glasgow (and around the world) mixes up techno, electro, rock and other assorted records out of leftfield.
Optimo started in 1997, though Twitch and Jonnie Wilkes had each been DJing separately for ten years. Both had started out playing different music - Twitch - electro, noisy rock and the eighties New York punk funk of Liquid Liquid and Wilkes reggae, funk and jazz. Then techno came along and Twitch co founded Scotland's first techno club, Pure, which ran for ten years, became legendary, was the first club in Europe to book Jeff Mills, Green Velvet and Richie Hawtin. •
In 1997 they founded the clubnight Optimo as a reaction to 4/4 techno all night long. Anything goes was the philosophy and the club night proved to be a hit. I didn't care whether it would work or not, or whether anyone would go, it was just something I had to do, says Twitch. I love DJing with all my heart but at this point I was so bored with seamless mixing - it was all just too obvious, too predictable and too easy - that I had to do something to preserve my (in)sanity.
MR TC (live)
Mr TC, aka Glasgow DJ and musician Thomas Clarke, who currently resides over the prospering Art School monthly Night of the Jaguar. Both Twitch and Optimo’s J.G. Wilkes have played the night, along with the likes of Sofrito, Christian S. of Cómeme, and Mister Saturday Night.
Recently he’s been championed internationally by the likes of Red Axes and Jennifer Cardini with his own brand of raw and fearless analogue dance music. His first two EP’s ’Soundtrack for Strangers’ and ’Surf and Destroy’ found a home on JD Twitch’s Optimo Music imprint with further edits and remixes coming out on Huntley’s and Palmers, La Belle and Rotten City Records. His 'sound’ is one that hops between Left-field Disco, Tropical Oddity, Psychedelic Krautrock, House and Techno.
Live he plays with a 4 piece band, mixing organic elements with electronic instrumentation: guitar and live percussion meeting drum machines and synths, soaked in space echo and spring reverb.
