Jonnie Wilkes Optimo Paris offered one of his best mixes. It was February 11th last, at Point FMR, the release party for the debut album Discodeine. That's not proselytizing Alainfinkielkrautrock , it's just the simple truth. Is it so special, a beautiful night? it is certainly possible, at least if people open, intense and intelligent care of your emotions during a whole evening (and these people do not fail this time from Tim Sweeney, Superpitcher Sadness and contemporary, Indeed, Discodeine). But it became something + in + rare: there is always a fool to put the bad drive at the wrong time (is not that Ryan Crosson, who yesterday evening, a ping pong disaster, has just demolished by his crass vulgarity, Seth Troxler every attempt to arrive at a club run on water). Intelligence is rare but it can be everywhere, starting with where it is not supposed to be. Good music is rare, but not necessarily THAT in the discs. The literature is scarce, but it fits where it wants. We never thought nothing else here. As was also the credo of Loops, a literary journal launched by Faber & Faber and Domino. "Writting Music. It seems that the adventure is hard to move beyond the second number. We'll see. Precisely, in the first Loops, released in fall 2009, JD Twitch & JG Wilkes returned to interview the epic Optimo Espacio , ten years into the most beautiful residences (resistance?) Every Sunday evening Glasgow. Moreover, this interview may be talking also about something else - the age of dignity, we, you.
Extracts.
" -What was the thinking behind the Sunday night ?
JD Twitch We could do whatever we liked, so this concept has just always been there… I like all this other music. Everyone knows me as this techno dj. I’m pretty bored with this and, more to the top, maybe i’ll stop djing – here’s an opportunity to do something that’s completely self-indulgent, doesn’t really matter whether it’s successful or not.
JG Wilkes You know, there wasn’t people going. We loved it, you know, but there wasn’t enough people there and to be fair the owner was like, « There’s something good about this night, i think we should persevere. » It just blew up then. The first generation of people that came were basically our mates and an handful of people that happened to wander in… But all at once, it was literally an overnight change fron one week to the next. For months, it had been like 50, 60 maybe a 100 people on a good night. Literally one week there were 400 and it stayed like that.
What do you put that down to ?
JD Twitch Maybe just people’s curiosity. It seemed like people hadn’t got it before.People would come down, a few people loved it but everyone else would be like « Ooah fuck ! and they’d get really angry ‘cos i wasn’t playing techno. I was supposed to be this local techno hero and i’d betrayed… which i kind of always. I hate purism. »(…)
You must be playing now to people in their 20s and teens. Do you ever think, « Fuck we’re an institution now… » ?
JD Twitch It’s kind of interesting i mean…
JG Wilkes Fuck, we’re a pair of old spunkers.
JD Twitch I think it bothers us a lot more than it bothers… no one ever seems to, like, mention it that comes to the club. Sometimes, you’re thinking, « Jeez, we’re pretty old. »
JG Wilkes Bona fide old spunkers yeah. We try and deal with it with as much dignity as possible.
JD Twitch At The Moment I Spend My Whole Life wondering what I'm gonna do next. "
Loops, after One, Autumn 2009, Faber & Faber / Domino, UK.
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