Various - Fabric 52 - Optimo (Espacio)

Review by Noel Gardner

This mix CD, the first by the Optimo twosome of JD Twitch and JG Wilkes for the now-venerable Fabric series, drops one week after Optimo the club night retires for, apparently, ever. Active in Glasgow since 1997, the unusual tactic of operating on a Sunday night helped to forge their identity, to the point where it resulted in hundreds of Weegies calling in sick every Monday. Yet a greater factor in the near-unconditional love these cats enjoy (seriously, I can’t remember anyone having much bad to say about Optimo) is the records they play. »