Optimo's JD Twitch oversees '80s synth, industrial & coldwave compilation

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  • It's titled So Low and it's coming out via The Vinyl Factory in February 2016.
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  • Optimo's JD Twitch has curated So Low, a compilation of '80s synth, industrial and coldwave for The Vinyl Factory. The compilation will come out in February of 2016. Explaining the collection's title, JD Twitch says: "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. 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." He adds: "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." Music from Throbbing Gristle, Front 242, Chris & Cosey and Hard Corps all features on So Low, which will be available on double vinyl, CD and digital formats. Launch parties are scheduled to take place in London, Glasgow and Berlin in early 2016, though details are still TBA. Powell and Helena Hauff haven been lined up to remix material from the the album. This year JD Twitch released a compilation called [Cease & Desist] DIY! (Cult Classics from the Post-Punk Era 1978-82) via his own Optimo Music label. (That one was subject to some major label stickiness.) Listen to So Low track "Porte Bonheure (Extended Mix)" by Hard Corps below.
    Tracklist 01. John Bender – Victims Of A Victimless Crime 02. Hunting Lodge – Tribal Warning Shot 03. Throbbing Gristle – Discipline (Berlin) 04. Front 242 – Kampfbereit 05. The Klinik – Moving Hands 06. P1/E – 49 Second Romance 07. Colin Potter – Power 08. Eric Random – Fade In 09. 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 The Vinyl Factory will release So Low on February 19th, 2016.
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