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BACKLASH Present Optimo DJ's(Kill The DJ/Sub Club, Glasgow)
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18-03-2005 11:59pm#1
Following our sell out show with Black Strobe our next international guests will be...
BACKLASH // Optimo DJ's(Glasgow) // Thursday 07 April // Wax
“I hate it when that age old line 'it's not as good as it used to be' raises its ugly head. But, having lived
and played through the crazed days of the early 90's rave era, I truly thought I had seen the wildest nights
and best atmosphere I would ever witness. I was wrong - some of our Optimo nights have been......
beyond anything I have ever known . Jonnie and I would be powerless to do anything but look at the
dancefloor in awe and just burst out laughing at this monster we had created that truly had a life of its own”
OPTIMO is Jonnie Wilkes & Keith McIvor (JG Wilkes and JD Twitch) and was started in back in
November 1997 at The Sub Club, Glasgow.
"At that point, I'd been playing house and techno for 10 years or so and the last thing I felt Glasgow needed
was yet another club ploughing that furrow. I didn't care whether it would work or not, or whether anyone
would go, it was just something I had to do.*I love dj'ing with all my heart but I was so bored with seamless
mixing - it was all just too obvious, too predictable and too easy - I had to do something to preserve my
(in)sanity."
Twitch asked Belfast playboy Jonnie Wilkes to do the night with him, and Optimo was born. And it was great!
It was liberating. It was the most fun behind the decks either of them had ever had. Most weeks it lost money
but the 80 or so people who came were so passionate about it that it didn't matter.
Each week the music would get wilder and wilder as Twitch and Johnny delved into their collections. Sleazy
funk, post punk, electro, 50's swing, torch songs, disco classics, percussion workouts, sublime house, raging
techno, 80's pop. All played with no seeming regard to continuity but somehow working together into this
deranged hybrid.
The word spread like wildfire, across Europe and around the world. People heard stories of how employers
in Glasgow were making employees sign waivers promising not to go to Optimo on Sunday nights. Glaswegians
told their friends in London and Dublin and New York about the twisted ****ed up magic of Optimo but those
who hadn’t been couldn’t pigeonhole Optimo anymore than those who had.
But 2005’s How to Kill The DJ mix has given non Glaswegians just a taste of what Optimo is like. Obscure disco
sits next to industrial, the Rapture segue into screaming techno, Gang of Four are mixed with a choir of
schoolchildren singing the Beach Boys. It’s all part of the Optimo experience, which promises to be one of the
highlights of the year at Backlash!
Their 'Kill The DJ' Mix tracklisting http://www.killthedj.com/recordsoptimo.html
More details & some mixes will be added to this post over the coming days.
More info: www.optimo.co.uk
www.backlash.ie0
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Check out tracklisting here: http://www.optimo.co.uk/killthedj.htm
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