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I’ve been gone for a while but this Sunday I’ll be back! Catch me here at 2pm on Sunday the 15th!

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[T]he mix that has come up the most on my feed since Twitch’s passing is this one, without question—and it’s the one I reached for immediately, as well.

It's also the one I played last, because it reaches such an insanely heavy peak late in its run that everything else, in a sense, was building toward it. It’s intense from jump—and its titular focus really gives it an edge. It’s one thing to line everything up brilliantly regardless of genre—to also illustrate the broad musical idea of “psychedelic” with the same enormous palette, and also genuinely offer nearly as many types of trippiness as there are songs, is a rare gift. Silvery-metallic machines and stompy live funk, prog and postpunk-verging-on-gamelan and acieeeed, it all builds up to Temptations/Koening Cylinders/Dinosaur/Chambers Brothers climax that stomps like a demon. Honestly, this CD is the reason I never got around to cut-by-cutting How to Kill the DJ—this was out mere months later and rang my chimes so hard it obviated its predecessor, and much of what was around it. Still does.

BC138 - Five Mixes: Optimo (Espacio)/JD Twitch, 2004-23

R.I.P. Keith McIvor, a.k.a. Twitch

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Eva Hurychova & Jan Neckar - To Chce Mit Svuj System (JD Twitch edit)

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JD Twitch presents Kreaturen Der Nacht

Strut present an exclusive new compilation curated by Optimo’s JD Twitch, ‘Kreaturen Der Nacht’, bringing together classics, rarities and oddities from Germany’s original post-punk and independent scene from 1979 to 1985. This was an era of particular artistic upheaval in Germany; emphasis was placed on expression rather than technical perfection, artistic impact rather than skill. Bands consciously abandoned the English-speaking mainstream with German band names and lyrics. “Although we had a small underground scene, it was very vibrant,” explains Gudrun Gut of Malaria! “Bands like Die Haut, our first band Mania D., Malaria!... we organised gigs ourselves, hung around together in a handful of clubs like Risiko or Dschungel and went to gigs at SO36. West Germany had other regional scenes too: Düsseldorf and Köln around Der Plan and the Ata Tak label and there was the Hamburg side with Abwärts. Germany didn’t have a real music industry like the US or UK back then.” This new collection is a personal selection from JD Twitch: “The compilation is not designed to tell a definitive story of what was going on in Germany in this era; it is more an arbitrary collection of records I adore from a specific era with a specific attitude that hopefully together sum up some of the musical undercurrents in Germany at that time.” The package features a host of rare and unseen photos from the period along with extensive interviews with artists including Beate Bartel (Mania D.), Gudrun Gut (Malaria!, Mania D.) Christoph Dreher (Die Haut), Michael Hirsch (P1/E, ExKurs) and Thomas Voburka (Weltklang). 

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(JD Twitch (Optimo))

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Gartic phone stream because magma always runs long! This Sunday 4/27 at 2:00pm on Twitch!

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Sorry for the hiatus but this Saturday I’m trying something new and I’m gonna play Minecraft. It’s important to note this is one of my crash out games lol I’ll probably switch around to other stuff, every time I die I’ll take a dare from a viewer which is a terrible idea on my part. Anyway, come hang out tomorrow at 2pm est I hope to see you there :)

Oh also, I’m definitely going to be talking abt all the JD stuff that’s been going on. So if you wanna shit talk with me, be there ;)

Find me right here

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Magma Boards from Saturday’s stream! We have so many talented and funny people in this fandom it was so much fun!

Catch me on Twitch