Feel my Bicep

After having this one on repeat for the past couple of days, I have to say, I forgot how brilliant it was. With some of my all time favourite tracks, this was out at the stage where I went to see Ivan Smagghe on a pretty much monthly basis so it also brings back loads of good vibes. The mix sounds like it was recorded live on the old “1’s and 2’s”(sorry), this gives it more edge and a feel of Smagghe’s impromtue live mixing- which often helps give his mixes a massive energy boost other “DJ’s” lack. Combining this with his and Arnaud Rebotini’s faultless selections makes for a wonderfull “mix”, in every sense of the word. Look at the labels as you go down, and at a time of this mix some of these were relatively unheard of, NOW they are all pretty fucking Huge. I would sum this up as elegant techno twisted in acid.

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Rene Breibarth – ‘Bob – Joss’ (Treibstoff)
Dextro – ‘Can I Help’ [The Mfa Remix] (Border Community)
Unique 3 – ‘S/T’ (Warp)
Test One – ‘Test Four’ (Warp)
Metro Area – ‘Miura’ (Environ)
Blackstrobe Fx 1
Chateau Flight – ‘Les Antipodes’ [Joakim Remix] (Versatile)
Agent 86 – ‘Spezial’ (Freudinnen)
Musk – ‘Extra Stop’ (Musk)
Depeche Mode – ‘World In My Eyes’ (Mute)
Sisters Of Mercy – ‘Lucretia’ (Warner)
Killing Joke – ‘Primitive’ (EMI)
Miss Kittin And The Hacker – ‘Life On MTV’ (Gigolo)
Playgroup – ‘Number One’ [Black Strobe Remix] (Output)
Joey Beltram – ‘Mentasm’ (R&S)
Blackstrobe Fx 2
Anthony Rother – ‘Space’ (Datapop)
Wolfskull – ‘Unknown’ (Wolfskull 005)
Rocco Branco – ‘Kapital’ (Platzirsch)
Gigi Galaxy – ‘Lips So Sweet’ (White)
Blackstrobe – ‘Italian Fireflies’ [Special Decks And Fx Version] (White)
Anthony Rother – ‘Back In Time’ (Datapop)
Nylon – ‘The Mouse’ (Rebel)
Fixmer And Mc Carthy – ‘Freefall’ [The Hacker Remix] (Planete Rouge)
Ministry – ‘Mystery Of Love’ (WEA)
Ricardo Villalolobos – ‘Easy Lee’ [Soundhack Mix] (Playhouse)
Purpose Maker – ‘The Bells’ (Axis)
Garbage Queen – ‘S/T’ (White)
Phuture – ‘Cocaine’ (Strictly Rhythm)
Dirtcrew – ‘Unknown’ (Mood Music)
Front 242 – ‘Operating Track’ (Wax Trax)

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I first went to Optimo about 4 years ago with some of my friends up in glasgow and was really surprised to find a night that had such diverse obscure music on offer (with lots of fit birds there as well!!!), from punk to disco to realllly weird stuff to krautrock to full on stomping techno……Optimo halloween parties have always been a firm favourite of mine, always a little different to the normal fancy dress, always a little sicker.
Anyway, Twitch and Wilkes set up Optimo back in 1997 and have built up a strong following across the globe and here is their boardline legendary essential mix from back in ‘06

1.Jesse Jackson ‘Intro’
2.The Jellies ‘Jive Baby on a Saturday Night’ (Marathon)
3.Prinzhorn Dance School ‘You Are the Space Invader’ (DFA)
4.The Bar Kays ‘Holy Ghost’ (Stax)
5.The Staple Singers ‘Slippery People’ (Epic)
6.Chic ‘Good Times’ (Atlantic Records)
7.Troublefunk ‘Drop The Bomb’ (Sugarhill Records)
8.Prince ‘Sign ‘O’ The Times’ (WEA/Paisley Park)
9.LCD Soundsytem ‘45.33 part 1′ (DFA)
10.Altz ‘Max Motion’ (Zi-Koo)
11.UnknownmiX ‘The Siren (Lo Soul’s Hot Edit)’ (Playhouse)
12.Dondolo ‘Dragon (Shit Robot Firebreathing Remix)’ (Tiny Sticks Records)
13.The Gossip ‘Standing In The Way of Control (Playgroup Dub)’ (Back Yard)
14.Depeche Mode The Sinner in Me (Ricardo Villalobos Conclace Remix)’ (Mute)
15.Ricardo Villalobos ‘Fizheuer Zieheuer’ (Playhouse)
16.Hansepferd ‘BismarkE’ (Nobistor)
17.Saint Ibot ‘White Night’ (Tendenzen Freier Entfaltung)
18.Marc Houle ‘Bay of Figs’ (M nus)
19.Paul Johnson ‘Rubber Band’ (Dust Traxx)
20.Sparks ‘Beat the Clock’ (12 Inch Stars)
21.Kenlou ‘Sensational Beats’ (MAW)
22.Bumblebee Unlimited ‘Lady Bug’ (Red Greg/Unidisc)
23.Lindstrom ‘The Contemporary Fix’ (Feedelity)
24.Hot Chip ‘No Fit State’ (EMI)
25.The Rapture ‘Get Myself Into It’ (Vertigo)
26.X Vectors ‘Your Love’
27.Love Is All ‘Busy Doing Nothing (An Optimo (Espacio) Remix)’ (Parlophone)
28.Divine ‘Shake It Up’ (Break Records)
29.Bobby O ‘She Has a Way (Glimmers Edit)’ (O Records)
30.Yello ‘Bostich (Reese Uptempo Mix)’ (Mercury)
31.Mala ‘Left Leg Out’ (DMZ)
32.Neu! ‘Hallogallo (Mary Hill Rework)’ (Brain)
33.Grauzone ‘Eisbar’ (Welt-Rekord)
34.Crass ‘Bloody Revolutions’ (Crass Records)
35.The Celestial Choir ‘Stand on the Word’ (Larry)

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Ultra cool edit from ”Trailmix” here, appeared on Prins Thomas and Lindstrom’s essential mix (one of our favourites). Mixes in really nice, great party tune and maintains the best elements of the original.

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