SKETCHES FOR SUMMER mixtape by JD Twitch

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What I enjoy listening to often changes with the seasons and on a hot summer's day (on the occasions when we are blessed to have one in Scotland) I have a lot of go to records I have amassed over the years that get dug out.

What are summer sounds? What makes music “summery”? This has long fascinated me and is of course a personal and subjective thing. Some music is intrinsically “summery”, particularly if it originates from tropical climes but this mix while including some tropical sounds is an attempt to put many disparate forms together that perhaps conjure up the mood of a lazy and sultry summer evening.

These 90 minutes span the 1950s right up to the present day taking in music from the Peru to Port Glasgow. There is Hard Salsa from Colombia, English Psyche Pop, early 2000s Glitch, Hazy Motorik Rhythms, Understated guitar heroes from Manchester and Nigeria, a super prolific pseudonymous British music collective plus, plus, plus.....

I hope you get to enjoy this on a glorious day but even if it is the depths of winter where you are, maybe it will brighten your day?

The next tape will be "Caverns Of Dub", again a fairly self-explanatory title. Full info next month. It will be available from the next Bandcamp Friday on August 6th and copies will go out to subscribers around then too.

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released July 7, 2021

Tape comes with a riso printed j-card & OBI-style banderole, with artwork designed by Musheto Fernandez www.instagram.com/mushetofernandez/ and printed by Sunday's sundays-print-service.co.uk

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Optimo Music is a record label based in Glasgow, Scotland and run by Optimo's JD Twitch. This page includes releases from the various Optimo Music affiliated sub-labels: Optimo Music Digital Danceforce, Optimo Trax, So Low, and Against Fascism Trax. For CEASE & DESIST releases, follow the link below ↓ ... more

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