So Low will be released in collaboration with The Vinyl Factory on 19 February
JD Twitch, one half of Glagow’s Optimo, has announced that he will be using his vast knowledge to curate a new compilation for The Vinyl Factory‘s VF Editions label. The compilation is titled So Low and will focus on underground synth, cold wave and industrial music from the 80s, Twitch has elaborated on the title, “So Low is an occasional night at The Poetry Club in Glasgow where I play some of the music I played when I first started DJing back in 1987,” He explains, “At that time the audience I played to mostly loathed what I was playing and rarely danced but then shortly after, when House music arrived I found a different audience who actually liked to dance.”
The album will feature cult classics like Throbbing Gristle’s pounding Discipline (Berlin) alongside more obscure electronic cuts from the likes of Eric Random and Holger Hiller.
JD Twitch and The Vinyl Factory have also enlisted the help of Diagonal Records boss Powell and Golden Pudel resident Helena Hauff to provide remixes for some of the tracks on the record while London, Berlin and Glasgow launch parties are set to take place in early 2016.
So Low will be released on double vinyl and CD on 19 February. Check out the tracklist and artwork for So Low below.
01. John Bender – Victims of a Victimless Crime
02. Hunting Lodge – Tribal Warning Shot
03. Throbbing Gristle – Discipline (Berlin)
04. Front 242 – Kampfbereit
05. The Klinik – Moving Hands
06. P1/E – 49 Second Romance
07. Colin Potter – Power
08. Eric Random – Fade In
09. Conrad Schnitzler & Wolfgang Seidel Meissner – Fabrik
10. Gerry & The Holograms – Gerry & The Holograms
11. Chris & Cosey – Passion
12. Hard Corps – Porte Bonheur (Remix)
13. Holger Hiller – Das Feuer
14. Siglo XX – Dreams of Pleasure
15. Clair Obscur – Toundra
16. Tuxedomoon – No Tears
