After over a decade behind the decks at one of the UKs hippest clubs, JD Twitch and JG Wilkes, aka Optimo, know a thing or two about stringing together a mix good and proper. Yet unlike the usual floor-fillers, shakers and straight-up bangers theyd spin on a typical Saturday night, the pair are switching it up on their forthcoming mix for Domino. Titled Sleepwalk, the 19-track comp is a mix "for your minds eye, as Domino puts it, translating to mean Optimo are getting on heady on us with this release, due out in the UK on October 27.
In the words of the press release: "Just as genre defying as the tracks youd hear on the dance floor, Sleepwalk comes across like a beautiful blur. Not so much soft focus as a misted up lens. Drifting across the mix is Damons Gypsy psyche, bucolic analogue ennui from mid-70s Germany, Lee Hazelwood at his most dissolute and intoxicated, Duke Ellington played straight, Arthur Russell and Karen Dalton juxtaposed as spectral songwriters, and a whole lot of fragments of considered musical beauty.
Also on the mix, you can find everything from the dark-synth-fuelled Tuxedomoon and Nurse With Wound to the sonic shapeshifting Glaswegian Future Pilot AKA to, um, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
There is no word yet on any possible North American release, but the mix can still be ordered from Dominos UK shop.
To see exactly what your getting into with Optimos Sleepwalk, here is the tracklisting:
1. Chris Watson: "No Man's Land (Extract)"
2. Nurse With Wound: "Funeral Music for Perez Prado"
3. Coil: "A Cold Cell in Bangkok (Exclusive mix by Peter Christopherson)"
4. Tuxedomoon: "In a Manner of Speaking"
5. Eden Ahbez: "La Mer"
6. Raymond Scott: "Sleepy Time"
7. Cluster: "Sowiesoso"
8. Eno, Moebius and Roedelius: "Broken Head"
9. Arthur Russell: "This Is How We Walk on the Moon"
10. Damon: "Don't You Feel Me?"
11. Karen Dalton: "Something on Your Mind"
12. Duke Ellington: "Moonbow"
13. Future Pilot AKA: "Terry Bina"
14. Mulatu Astatke: "Yègellé Tezeta"
15. Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: "Nashville Blues"
16. Lee Hazlewood: "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going on"
17. Wall of Voodoo: "Ring of Fire"
18. Chris and Cosey: "Sweet Surprise"
19. The Lady Vanishes: "Sleepwalk"
Tuxedomoon "In a Manner of Speaking
In the words of the press release: "Just as genre defying as the tracks youd hear on the dance floor, Sleepwalk comes across like a beautiful blur. Not so much soft focus as a misted up lens. Drifting across the mix is Damons Gypsy psyche, bucolic analogue ennui from mid-70s Germany, Lee Hazelwood at his most dissolute and intoxicated, Duke Ellington played straight, Arthur Russell and Karen Dalton juxtaposed as spectral songwriters, and a whole lot of fragments of considered musical beauty.
Also on the mix, you can find everything from the dark-synth-fuelled Tuxedomoon and Nurse With Wound to the sonic shapeshifting Glaswegian Future Pilot AKA to, um, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
There is no word yet on any possible North American release, but the mix can still be ordered from Dominos UK shop.
To see exactly what your getting into with Optimos Sleepwalk, here is the tracklisting:
1. Chris Watson: "No Man's Land (Extract)"
2. Nurse With Wound: "Funeral Music for Perez Prado"
3. Coil: "A Cold Cell in Bangkok (Exclusive mix by Peter Christopherson)"
4. Tuxedomoon: "In a Manner of Speaking"
5. Eden Ahbez: "La Mer"
6. Raymond Scott: "Sleepy Time"
7. Cluster: "Sowiesoso"
8. Eno, Moebius and Roedelius: "Broken Head"
9. Arthur Russell: "This Is How We Walk on the Moon"
10. Damon: "Don't You Feel Me?"
11. Karen Dalton: "Something on Your Mind"
12. Duke Ellington: "Moonbow"
13. Future Pilot AKA: "Terry Bina"
14. Mulatu Astatke: "Yègellé Tezeta"
15. Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: "Nashville Blues"
16. Lee Hazlewood: "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going on"
17. Wall of Voodoo: "Ring of Fire"
18. Chris and Cosey: "Sweet Surprise"
19. The Lady Vanishes: "Sleepwalk"
Tuxedomoon "In a Manner of Speaking
