Optimo Podcast 7 - Creatures Of The Night

Optimo (Espacio) Podcasts

This is an "accidental" podcast. I was meant to play in London on Friday July 30th with the wonderful Factory Floor. Sadly, due to licensing problems at the venue it was cancelled. I had spent quite a lot of time that week looking out records that I thought would compliment Factory Floor and as it seemed a shame to waste all that effort I put this together during the time I would have been playing the gig. This podcast is called "Creatures of the Night" and can perhaps be seen as the last in a trilogy of mixes following the "Cold War" and "Electrobeat" ones that are still available from our website - www.optimo.co.uk/goodies/#coldwar AND www.optimo.co.uk/goodies/#electrobeat The music here ranges from the years 1976 to 2011, with the majority of the music being from the early to mid 1980s. It is a re-imagining of the music I played when I very first started djing (in 1987) that back then I called electrobeat or, to use the dreaded 'G" word, electrogoth. That is perhaps disingenuous to a lot of the music included here, but there is undoubtedly a certain crepuscular aura to a lot of the music on the mix that might also be called EBM, New Beat, Darkwave, Minimal Synth, or whatever the catch all phrase du jour is. It is music that before the dominance of house music, those creatures of the night seeking a Eurocentric electronic soundtrack used to cast shadows to on the dancefloor through the fog of the smoke machine and strobe light. Once again we aren't making a tracklisting available for the podcast but if you want to know what anything is, feel free to get in touch and we will let you know. All the music contained here is from vinyl records so any audio imperfections are a result of the age and wear of the records. The mix was recorded in real time with minimal editing afterwards so please excuse any technical flaws. The mix contains 23 tracks and lasts 84 minutes and the download is a 192kbps mp3 (114mb). Enjoy.