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Ali Herron & Graeme “The Revenge” Clark  have been DJing together for a few years now, with their shared love of mixing tracks from different genres (that shouldn’t fit but do), spurring them on to start the OOFT odyssey. Likewise this mix explores everything from funk to stripped down house, such a perfect mix to kick of the weekend!

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1. SOS Band – The Finest (Acapella) [Tabu]
2. Sleazy McQueen – Anna Due (Cole’s Vocal Mix) [Moodclub]
3. OOFT – Just Come To Me [CDR]
4. The It – Donnie (OOFT Edit) [CDR]
5. Mr Scruff – Get On Down [Ninja Tuna]
6. Taho – Energy Fields (Quince’s Dubbed Out Reconstruction) [Delsin]
7. Harri & The Revenge – Space Doubt (Dub Mix) [Timbre]
8. Ost & Kjex & Solomun – Federgewicht (Oslo Version) [Diynamic]
9. OOFT – Umbilical Chord (Dub Mix) [CDR]
10. Cassio Ware & The OGs – I Wanna See You Freak (Like This) [Black House]
11. Hercules – 7 Ways To Jack (Ashley Beedle Edit) [Harmless]
12. Tony Lionni – Found A Place [Ostgut Tonträger]
13. DHS – House Of God ($50 Mix) [Hangman]
14. Change – Don’t Wait Another Night (The Revenge Edit) [CDR]
15. James Ingram & Michael McDonald – Yah Mo Be There (OOFT Edit) [CDR]
16. Harmonic 313 – Quadrant 3 [Warp]

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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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Alex Smoke is a Scottish talent making electronic records that blur together European minimalism, pop structures and emotional strings and pads. He has released two full length albums, ‘Incommunicado’ and ‘Paradolia’ [Soma Records] and a slew of singles and remixes, many of which have arrived on Soma and German label Vakant.

His debut release ‘Random As’ came out in January 2002, but Smoke has always been immersed in music. In his youth he sang in a choir for four years (a far cry no doubt from the mournful tones on his ‘Don’t See the Point’ or ‘Never Want to See You Again’), his parents are involved in classical music, and he has classical training in cello and piano.

Alex makes minimal uncompareable to the stigma this genre has attracted over the last years. So step back a couple of years and to one of my favourite tunes by him, I would highly recomend checkin out his other stuff.

Alex Smoke – Don’t See the Point

Here is a well sculpted video by the guys at We Love… which features Mr.Smoke