Various Artists | Optimo 25 (Part 1)
OPTIMO2501
Tracklist:
African Head Charge - No, Don't Follow Fashion
Keith Hudson - Nuh Skin Up Dub
Smokin' Cheeba - When I Was A Youth
Idjut Boys & Laj - Foolin' (Beatin on Dave)
A melting pot of different important musical influences… The first hour was always a time for them to play music they loved that often was far removed from the dance. Side 1, Volume 1 of this compilation is the kind of music one might hear at the very start of an Optimo night.
Optimo (Espacio) started life as a weekly club night. It was born at The Sub Club in Glasgow on a wet, windy, wintry November Sunday night in 1997. Run by JD Twitch and partner in crime Jonnie Wilkes. Optimo was a reaction against what felt like an increasingly conservative musical soundtrack in clubs here at that time. Clubland felt as if it had become very bland and a bit too serious; it was the era of the dawn of the Superstar DJ. Clubs often felt like bastions of male energy. It seemed dance music and culture was going somewhere far, far away from where it was meant to be. The notion of fun had got lost. It felt like the perfect opportunity to rip it all up and start again. So they did. Groups of people who had never been in the same room at the same time before came together. Soon 500 people trying to get it , the legendary night ran till 2010 .
Tags: 2x12", Above board projects, African head charge, Ambient, Bleep, Bleeps, Brainticket, Dub, House, Idjut boys & laj, Jbb et soprann, Keith hudson, Post-punk psychedelic, Reggae, Robert rental, Smokin' cheeba, T.j. lawrence, The wad, Ukg
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