Just got tickets for the Watching Trees festival. Line-up announced next week. Who else is in?
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 20:46 (two years ago) link
Awesome name for a festival by the way, what a tune :)
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 20:47 (two years ago) link
tickets should been Eleven Pound though
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 20:51 (two years ago) link
Maybe drinks will be Eleven Pounds instead? ;-)
Nice one Chewshabadoo!
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 21:34 (two years ago) link
just got my ticket too stirmonster, fully paid-up cvlt member now
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 21:50 (two years ago) link
yay!!
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 21:57 (two years ago) link
Haha, it’s not going to be long before drinks will be 11 pounds in a lot of places that‘s for sure.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 12 May 2022 04:35 (two years ago) link
I was listening to an interview with Surgeon the other day, and Optimo got a nice shout out
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Saturday, 14 May 2022 00:28 (two years ago) link
The new Pleasure Pool album on Optimo seems pretty good so far. Really interesting grooves and use of vocals.
https://pleasure-pool.bandcamp.com/album/love-without-illusion-lp
― Treblekicker, Friday, 9 December 2022 10:10 (one year ago) link
looking forward to hearing this! Watching Trees was an amazing festival and I gotta say that Pleasure Pool were the most amazing thing I saw there. Whole set was incredible, can't wait to see them live again one day
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Friday, 9 December 2022 12:41 (one year ago) link
ooh thanks, this is nice
― sleeve, Friday, 9 December 2022 14:57 (one year ago) link
sounding incredible so far, like can, jon hassell, the happy mondays and the shamen all trying to make a cosmic disco record together
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Friday, 9 December 2022 16:28 (one year ago) link
fucking hell, so good
getting some Lissvek/Studio vibes as well
― sleeve, Friday, 9 December 2022 16:29 (one year ago) link
yeah indeed, that was very much a flavour when I saw them live
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Friday, 9 December 2022 16:30 (one year ago) link
Really good album, my body chose a particularily bad time to demand a disco nap at Watching Trees and I missed the magic.
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 9 December 2022 16:56 (one year ago) link
whoa Cease & Resist vinyl sold out already?!? dang, good on y'all.
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Sunday, 9 April 2023 22:01 (one year ago) link
de ambassade album is fantastic
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Sunday, 9 April 2023 22:39 (one year ago) link
Cease & Resist copies on Friday were just some very limited pre-release copies. There will be more at the start of May and then it will be in all good record shops from mid May.
:-)
― stirmonster, Sunday, 9 April 2023 23:29 (one year ago) link
No SF date... :(((
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 31 May 2023 18:42 (one year ago) link
they were in SF literally last month
― serving bundt (sic), Wednesday, 31 May 2023 19:01 (one year ago) link
well... i was in fukken' LA gah.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 1 June 2023 04:37 (one year ago) link
if i can stay awake i may attempt the LA gig on friday
― donna rouge, Thursday, 1 June 2023 05:25 (one year ago) link
This one's a really great recent release: https://optimomusic.bandcamp.com/album/inside-the-sphere
Shades of the more contemplative work of Mika Vainio and Plastikman's Consumed, but not limited to those references.
― jvc, Monday, 26 June 2023 17:50 (one year ago) link
yes great album
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, 26 June 2023 18:01 (one year ago) link
Gonna catch the show in Miami thurs B-)
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 04:26 (one year ago) link
loving this
https://soundcloud.com/loveintfestival/live-from-the-adriatic-2023-optimo
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 17:42 (one year ago) link
This is 100000000000% more interesting than Tycho's annual burning man dawn mix as posted around the internet.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 23:11 (one year ago) link
Caught the closing “Watching Trees” takeover at Field Manouvers a few weeks back and it was full of brilliant moments - perfect end to the festival.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 21 September 2023 20:50 (one year ago) link
posted mostly for humour content, someone's been monkeying around with your tune, stirm:
https://bleachingagent.bandcamp.com/track/limbtimo
― blazin' squab (NickB), Monday, 23 October 2023 17:09 (eleven months ago) link
Some funny edits/mash-ups from that guy. New to me. Some pretty hip sources. Mass? A dance edit of Henry Badowski's Baby Sign Here With Me? Not sure how I feel about it all.
― dan selzer, Monday, 23 October 2023 17:33 (eleven months ago) link
he's done some great stuff, that one just made me laugh because of the place that booker t tune has in british (or should that be english?) culture
― blazin' squab (NickB), Monday, 23 October 2023 17:38 (eleven months ago) link
(would say more, but don't want to spoil the surprise)
― blazin' squab (NickB), Monday, 23 October 2023 17:40 (eleven months ago) link
(probably have already though)
― blazin' squab (NickB), Monday, 23 October 2023 17:41 (eleven months ago) link
ha ha! i'm surprised it took so long for anyone to do that. first few times i ever played the liquid liquid track several people asked "what was the track that sounded a bit like the cricket theme?". for non Brits, soul limbo is synonmyous with cricket here as it is / was the tv theme tune for a long time.
mr bleaching agent is a good pal of mine. he told me he had done a ton of edits but i hadn't got as far as hearing this one yet.
― stirmonster, Monday, 23 October 2023 18:43 (eleven months ago) link
listened to it again and it actually bangs, would totally lose my mind if I heard that out at just the right moment.
just clocked the lifetones sample on the 4th track on that release, bloody lovely that!
― blazin' squab (NickB), Monday, 23 October 2023 19:17 (eleven months ago) link
https://www.watchingtrees.com
^^ brighton crew are mobilising. anyone else?
― blazin' squab (NickB), Thursday, 25 January 2024 13:00 (seven months ago) link
Yes, but you knew that already.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 25 January 2024 17:44 (seven months ago) link
:)
― blazin' squab (NickB), Thursday, 25 January 2024 18:50 (seven months ago) link
almost sold out.
― stirmonster, Friday, 2 February 2024 21:31 (seven months ago) link
Yeah you must be delighted! and very relieved. congrats!
― blazin' squab (NickB), Friday, 2 February 2024 21:35 (seven months ago) link
yes to both!! thanks.
― stirmonster, Friday, 2 February 2024 21:52 (seven months ago) link
it was the chips that did it
― blazin' squab (NickB), Friday, 2 February 2024 22:02 (seven months ago) link
Got my Optimo package from monorail today. And only a dozen emails from the royal mail tracking its progress along the way!
― dan selzer, Friday, 2 February 2024 23:35 (seven months ago) link
v. happy you picked that up. royal mail have gone email mad in recent times - i am bombarded by their updates.
― stirmonster, Saturday, 3 February 2024 05:12 (seven months ago) link
Also looking forward to the chips.
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 3 February 2024 17:23 (seven months ago) link
Thought this might be the right place to ask, but is the Naum Gabo LP getting widely distributed in UK?
Bandcamp are charging international shipping, and I can see Phonica has vinyl copies (Juno out of stock already), but I have a local store I like to order from if its possible.
Sounding great from what I have heard.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 09:58 (six months ago) link
it deffo has UK distribution. i don't know who the distributor is though i'm afraid.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 16:49 (six months ago) link
Enjoyed listening back to this newly uploaded set from Field Maneuvers last year: https://soundcloud.com/resident-advisor/ra-live-optimo-field-maneuvers-uk
Unless my memory is playing tricks on me there was even more after this recording ends though?
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 29 March 2024 12:15 (five months ago) link
i think that was right near the end no? i have to confess i don't recall how the set ended.
― stirmonster, Saturday, 30 March 2024 00:20 (five months ago) link