Optimo

Any chance of a full track listing?

when the series is done, there will be full tracklists, is my understanding

love this new one - is that some kind of earlier slower version of Althea & Donna's "Uptown Top Ranking"?

yup, tracklisting at the end of the series.

That's the original version of "Uptown Top Ranking" by The Rolets and is called "Top Ranking Girls". It came out early 1977. Later in 1977 they ad libbed an "answer record" to "Three Piece Suit" by Trinity on the instrumental version, changed their name to Althea &

yup, tracklisting at the end of the series.

That's the original version of "Uptown Top Ranking" by The Rolets and is called "Top Ranking Girls". It came out early 1977. Later in 1977 they ad libbed an "answer record" to "Three Piece Suit" by Trinity on the instrumental version, changed their name to Althea & Donna and *boom* early in 1978 they got a UK no. 1.

oops.

Well I'll be darned, you learn something new every day. 'Three Piece Suit' is ace.

xxxxxxp thanks for the IDs! No need to apologise, it's not your fault they went super quick

cheers stir, just snagged the last US copy of that Rolets 7" on Discogs

not often that i feel compelled to pay $9 for a digital mix but this one is well worth it, super sick.

i feel like i'm going crazy. during lockdown sometime in 2020 stirmonster you put out a mix of purely rock n roll. it started with very early stuff and then got into rockabilly etc. do you remember this? i listened to it a lot and now i can't find it or remember what it was called! there's an absolutely sensational song on it from a on-hit wonder singer about whom little is known (and of course i can't remember her name or the song) but it's basically a blues about a man who treat her bad but she still misses him.. any help appreciated!

it's this corker I assume
https://soundcloud.com/twitch/jd-twitch-its-only-rock-n-roll-but-i-like-it-vol-1

hallelujah!

The Sketches For Winter tape is wonderful.

I agree! These tapes have been some of my favourite lockdown listens

same

Finally saw you play in Dublin. It was great! Patrick Cowley ❤️

Who else is going to the 25th birthday party at the end of the month?

Just got tickets for the Watching Trees festival. Line-up announced next week. Who else is in?

Awesome name for a festival by the way, what a tune :)

tickets should been Eleven Pound though

Maybe drinks will be Eleven Pounds instead? ;-)

Nice one Chewshabadoo!

just got my ticket too stirmonster, fully paid-up cvlt member now

yay!!

Haha, it’s not going to be long before drinks will be 11 pounds in a lot of places that‘s for sure.

I was listening to an interview with Surgeon the other day, and Optimo got a nice shout out

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

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

ooh thanks, this is nice

sounding incredible so far, like can, jon hassell, the happy mondays and the shamen all trying to make a cosmic disco record together

fucking hell, so good

getting some Lissvek/Studio vibes as well

yeah indeed, that was very much a flavour when I saw them live

Really good album, my body chose a particularily bad time to demand a disco nap at Watching Trees and I missed the magic.

whoa Cease & Resist vinyl sold out already?!? dang, good on y'all.

de ambassade album is fantastic

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.

:-)

No SF date... :(((

they were in SF literally last month

well... i was in fukken' LA gah.

if i can stay awake i may attempt the LA gig on friday

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.

yes great album

Gonna catch the show in Miami thurs B-)

loving this

https://soundcloud.com/loveintfestival/live-from-the-adriatic-2023-optimo

This is 100000000000% more interesting than Tycho's annual burning man dawn mix as posted around the internet.

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.

posted mostly for humour content, someone's been monkeying around with your tune, stirm:

https://bleachingagent.bandcamp.com/track/limbtimo

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.

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

(would say more, but don't want to spoil the surprise)