On The Floor! - Live at Joakim Milky Way Release Party, Nouveau Casino, Paris - Pt 1

Optimo

Kill The DJ, The Sub Club, Glasgow

Jonnie Wilkes and Keith McIvor (alias JG Wilkes and JD Twitch) are Optimo. Founded for a Sunday night in November 1997 at Glasgow's The Sub Club, these boys have risen to worldwide fame with a music policy and party attitude that crosses borders, religions and philosophies of all kinds. Prior to this, Twitch had been playing at The Sub on Sundays for a couple of years at the Aquaplanet night. This night was started by a guy called Mark Ryall who decided to move to Barcelona and so the night fell into Twitch's hands. "At that point, I'd been playing house and techno for 10 years or so and the last thing I felt Glasgow needed was yet another club ploughing that furrow. At Aquaplanet, I'd tried to push it forward but the crowd weren't too responsive, so I felt that this was a chance to go for it and play what I wanted to hear. Sunday nights seemed like the ideal night to try something different and really I didn't care whether it would work or not, or whether anyone would go, it was just something I had to do. I love DJ'ing with all my heart but at this point I was so bored with seamless mixing - it was all just too obvious, too predictable and too easy - that I had to do something to preserve my (in)sanity." Amen!