Optimo 2nd April 2016

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Charlie Dark w/ Alfie Panaiotis

DJ, Run Dem Crew Founder, and community builder Charlie Dark MBE spins gems from his record collection once a month.

NTS GUIDE TO: JAZZ IN MURAKAMI NOVELS

'Somewhere along the line Coltrane’s soprano sax runs out of steam. Now it’s McCoy Tyner’s piano solo I hear, the left hand carving out a repetitious rhythm and the right layering on thick, forbidding chords. Like some mythic scene, the music portrays somebody’s - a nameless, faceless somebody’s - dim past, all the details laid out as clearly as entrails being dragged out of the darkness. Or at least that’s how it sounds to me. The patient, repeating music ever so slowly breaks apart the real, rearranging the pieces. It has a hypnotic, menacing smell, just like the forest' - Kafka On The Shore Music, and specifically jazz, has always featured heavily in the literary imagination of Haruki Murakami. In this radio special, NTS lays down two hours of jazz records as featured throughout Murakami's corpus.

Acid Ambient Jazz Rock Dub Techno Minimal Synth

Optimo is JG Wilkes & JD Twitch; record label, and longstanding Glaswegian party. You can expect a lot from their new monthly slot, sure to dig up some obscurities from post-punk, new wave, EBM, house and techno. Bags of unreleased stuff, too.

Tracklist

TetsuoTetsuo
Body Hammer 2
Death In VegasDeath In Vegas
Metal Box
Yula KaspYula Kasp (PilooskiPilooski mix)
Conscious (Pilooski Remix)

Edit ServiceEdit Service
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The Orpheus ChoirThe Orpheus Choir
You Have Always Been A Dissapointment To Me
Fabrizio RatFabrizio Rat
Index
Jared WilsonJared Wilson
It's The Message
Charles DodgeCharles Dodge
When I Am With You
Bossy LoveBossy Love (NightwaveNightwave mix)
Want Some (Nightwave Remix)
Frederic GallianoFrederic Galliano
Le Vent
Death In VegasDeath In Vegas
Transwave
Jon HassellJon Hassell
Nature Boy
Eden Ahbez "Nature Boy"Eden Ahbez "Nature Boy"
Island Girl
Robert Maxwell, His Harp And OrchestraRobert Maxwell, His Harp And Orchestra
Nature Boy
Burt Blanca, Burt Blanca, The King CreolesThe King Creoles
Taboo '69
RexyRexy
Running Out Of Time
Vibration Black FingerVibration Black Finger
Black Pearl
Danielle DaxDanielle Dax
Hammerheads
Arthur Brown, Arthur Brown, Craig LeonCraig Leon
Not Fade Away
The UpsettersThe Upsetters
Big Bird Skank
Strecker DeckerStrecker Decker
Girl You Have Left Me
Big RoyBig Roy
In The Desert
Nairobi SistersNairobi Sisters
Promised Land Dub
King Sporty/SupertonesKing Sporty/Supertones
DJ Special
Jennifer Lara, Jennifer Lara, Joe CruzJoe Cruz
Black Widow
Hot PepperHot Pepper
Going Places
Magdy El HossainyMagdy El Hossainy
Music De Carnival