Listen: Optimo’s JD Twitch Shares ‘So Low’ Mix

Rare cold wave cuts...

Optimo selector JD Twitch has shared a new 'So Low' mix.

The mix acts as a preview of the new 'So Low' compilation, that gathers together oddball synth pop, proto techno, warped industrial and more.

Essentially a cold wave compilation, the new mix features some of the album's real high points and was pieced together by JD Twitch / Keith McIvor himself.

“So Low is an occasional night at The Poetry Club in Glasgow where I play some of the music I played when I first started DJing back in 1987,” McIvor explains. “At that time the audience I played to mostly loathed what I was playing and rarely danced but then shortly after, when House music arrived I found a different audience who actually liked to dance.”

“In response to my wife’s deep love of this music and requests from some friends who were too young to hear it in a club at the time, or indeed were not even born when most of this music was made, I was persuaded to revisit a lot of records I still loved but rarely played out, and So Low was born. It has an extremely enthusiastic audience, a joyous atmosphere and is the antithesis of what a club in Scotland playing this music nearly 30 years ago would have been like.”

Check it out now.

'So Low' will be released on February 19th. Tracklisting:

1. John Bender – ‘Victims of Victimless Crimes’
2. Hunting Lodge – ‘Tribal Warning Shot’
3. Throbbing Gristle – ‘Discipline (Berlin)’
4. Front 242 – ‘Kampfbereit’
5. The Klinik – ‘Moving Hands’
6. P1/E – ’49 Second Romance’
7. Colin Potter – ‘Power’
8. Eric Random – ‘Fade In’
9. Conrad Schnitzler & Wolfgang Seidel Meissner – ‘Fabrik’
10. Gerry & The Holograms – ‘Gerry & The Holograms’
11. Chris & Cosey – ‘Passion’
12. Hard Corps – ‘Porte Bonheur (Remix)’
13. Holger Hiller – ‘Das Feuer’
14. Siglo XX – ‘Dreams of Pleasure’
15. Clair Obscur – ‘Toundra’
16. Tuxedomoon – ‘No Tears’

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