…I’ll put on how to Kill the dj [part two] as mixed by Optimo - to demonstrate my amazingly eclectic taste in music and general all round post club coolness.
It’s one of those mix-cds where someone with too much time on their hands, too many records in their collection and frankly too much good taste for their own good has to let the world know about it and so chucks together a seamless mix of everything under the sun. Indie? check. Edgy guitars? check. Funky bits? check. Banging techno? check. Strange women warbling? well of course. School choir doing the Beach Boys? abso-fucking-lutely.
And that’s just the first CD. The second CD is unmixed and goes everywhere from The Modettes to a string quartet doing Kraftwerk.
If not done well, this can all sound a bit Stars On 45 - however, it is done well and is much recommended.
I won’t bother to do anything like a review - just look at the full tracklisting and you’ll see what I’m talking about. Yes, they’re just showing off - but by buying it, you can show off too. There’s nothing wrong with reflected glory.
Originally got five stars in the Guardian.
However - I worry about exactly how much I’m going to listen to this as the chances of me seeing any ‘back-to-mine’ action in the forseeable future is slight to say the least. Might be quite good in the gym - except a)I’d have to do that thing where you rip it all as one mp3 and b) I don’t go to the gym.
Update have discovered that you can rip it as individual tracks and play it random in iTunes with a cross fade, and you can’t really tell the difference. Which is useful to know.