With 20 years under their turntable belts, Optimo’s JG Wilkes and JD Twitch make one of the most enduring partnerships in global dance music. It’s a partnership that has seen the esteemed Scotsmen ...

Optimo Music will release an ambient and new age compilation compiled by Optimo’s JD Twitch and Scottish DJ Fergus Clark this May. Entitled Miracle Steps – Music From The Fourth World (1983-2017), the ...

Keith McIvor and Jonnie Wilkes ran Optimo in Glasgow for well over a decade and influenced dance music experimentation way beyond the city The 2010 general election ended 13 years of Labour government ...

Iconic club Optimo was born in Glasgow 20 years ago. Ahead of an anniversary celebration, JD Twitch and JG Wilkes talk to Fiona Shepherd about the anything-goes ethos which they now recreate around ...

"It's important to stress how advanced, inoperable and untreatable this particular tumor is," the Crowdfunder page notes. By Katie Bain A fundraiser has been launched for JD Twitch, one half of the ...

This month, the Glasgow-based label Optimo Music were set to release Now That's What I Call DIY! (Cult Classics From the Post-Punk Era 1978-82). As Resident Advisor points out, the label reportedly ...

Certain DJs have the uncanny ability to reflect your musical taste almost exactly while also expanding your knowledge and appreciation of styles that you've yet to explore. For me, and many others, ...

Sub Club in Glasgow has long been regarded as one of the UK's premier underground music rave dens, largely thanks to its long running Saturday house night Subculture, helmed by Harri and Domenic ...

Glasgow-based Optimo Music imprint has announced the forthcoming closure of one of its sublabels, but will soon be launching a brand new, politically-charged replacement. Optimo Trax, was originally ...

This Friday past at London’s ICA there was a connection of the generations as Factory Floor played a set in support of Chris & Cosey. It was, as ever from one of our favourite groups, a terrific ...

JD Twitch is one half of acclaimed DJ/Remix duo Optimo. They've released a number of fantastic compilations and remixed tracks by Peter, Bjorn, & John, Florence & the Machine, and Liquid Liquid.

Helmed by DJs Twitch and Jonnie Wilkes, the Optimo powerhouse has revealed its latest project. Against Fascism Trax – or AF Trax – is a protest against the increasingly populist climate across the ...