Welcome to the first of our monthly podcasts from Optimo. The Sub Club’s legendary Sunday night party where you’ve gotta say yes to another excess and you probably wont like it sugar. Optimo, established on Sunday November 28th 1997, is undoubtedly one of the most forward thinking and respected club nights in the world and we are, quite frankly, over the moon to present Twitch and Wilkes’s monthly podcast on Radio Magnetic.
This podcast is called “Synth Summer” and is a selection of (guess what?) synth based music from around the planet. It covers a broad range of styles and a broad time span – from 1980 to some tracks that haven’t been released yet, and that may indeed never see the light of day.
It is a DJ mix but not a club mix. The flow is the way it is so as to be a listening experience rather than for the dancefloor, even though all the tracks are “dance” tracks. Wherever possible, as much of each track as possible has been included. There is no tracklist as we think in this day and age with the abundance of mixes available on the internet that people often judge something based on the tracklisting rather than actually listening to it. If anyone really wants to know what a particular track is, we will be happy to tell them.
The mix was recorded using two turntables and a laptop. Wherever possible the original vinyl was used but some of the tracks don’t exist on vinyl. Track one (which we would like to thank Mr. James Holden for providing us with after searching for it for many years) only exists on a cassette from the early 80s so please excuse the fidelity, although it actually sounds pretty fab considering.
A tiny bit of post mix editing was done as one of the tracks skipped during the recording and the levels were a little askew in a couple of places. The mix contains 17 tracks and lasts just over an hour. Enjoy.
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Welcome to the first of our monthly podcasts from Optimo. The Sub Club’s legendary Sunday night party where you’ve gotta say yes to another excess and you probably wont like it sugar. Optimo, established on Sunday November 28th 1997, is undoubtedly one of the most forward thinking and respected club nights in the world and we are, quite frankly, over the moon to present Twitch and Wilkes’s monthly podcast on Radio Magnetic.
This podcast, produced by JG Wilkes, is called “(All this talk of Disco…) The Jerking Back and Forth Mix”. The title (part-borrowed from a from a Devo song) is an indication of the type of involuntary body responses provoked whilst enjoying these songs as well as the sound itself.
The new stuff and the old stuff, the local stuff and the stuff from very far afield is united here through a kind of “loose is tight” jerking rhythm and DIY spirit we love. Although all tracks are at their original tempo and of course not “mixed” as such, there is however some kind of a flow (be it a “jerking” one) to the podcast. There is no tracklist but if anyone really wants to know what a particular track is, we will be happy to tell them.
Collected over the past 30 years or so, none of the music is (that) hard to find. The podcast was recorded using turntables, then the levels balanced here and there in Protools. The mix contains 20 tracks and lasts just under an hour.
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