Label: Optimo Music - All

Blotter Trax

Superconductor

While rooted in electro and acid, ''Superconductor'' is impressively low-slung, stylish and funky, with nods towards Blotter Trax' mutual love of Arth... more...

• 01 Tramp
• 02 Machine Sky
• 03 Level Control
• 04 Super Conductor

De Ambassade

The Fool

‘The Fool’ is destined to be another Cold Wave, Synth, New Industrial, Experimental …whatever you want to call it …classic. We asked Ambassade to tell... more...

• 01 verderfelijke
• 02 de elitetheorie
• 03 brand in de straten
• 04 bag of gold words by john cage

Pleasure Pool

Love Without Illusion

Pleasure Pool are Finn O'Hare, Andrew Robertson and a rolling cast of Glasgow-based musicians, exploring the territory between live performance and cl... more...

• 01 Pure Touch
• 02 Love Without Illusion
• 03 Sell Your Stuff (Dub)
• 04 Zero Hours

Bergsonist

Middle Ouest

Bergsonist aka Selwa Abd is a New York–based artist and musician originally from Morocco. ''Middle Ouest is an ode to my history, present and future s... more...

• 01 Middle Ouest
• 02 Amazon Snake Charming
• 03 Gaza Border Violence
• 04 Magnesium

Various Artists

Weaponise Your Sound

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• 01 Hanna Jones - Super Pit
• 02 Fantastic Twins - Frozen Dreams in Candy Paradise
• 03 Sue Zuki - didufindher
• 04 Maral - Ey Nazanin

Solitary Dancer

In the Name of the Mother

Optimo Trax reaches no. 33, the final number in the series (although reserving the right to return at some point). The last release is a 3 track EP fr... more...

• 01 Heroine Dub
• 02 La Donna
• 03 Lady Pimp

The Golden Filter

End Of Times

• 1 End Of Times
• 2 Serenity
• 3 Heart Control
• 4 Darkness Falls

Mathias Schober

Certainties

Optimo Trax presents a 4-track EP from Germany’s Mathias Schober, head honcho of Berlin’s Lossless label.

• 1 In A Certain Way
• 2 But What Rules Are Made For
• 3 Is To Break Them
• 4 Is To Break Them (Ambient Version)

Iona Fortune

Tao Of I

Recommended by: Vladimir Ivkovic | Oceanic

Iona Fortune is a composer and producer from Glasgow and presents the “Tao of I” album as her debut release. Inspired by Eastern Philosophy and slated... more...

• 1 Qian
• 2 Kun
• 3 Zhun
• 4 Meng

Penelope Trappes

One

“In 2016. I rented out a small piano studio in East London for nearly the whole year and set out to write an introspective, trendless, and mostly beat... more...

• 01 Puppets
• 02 Gravel Mouth
• 03 Untitled 1
• 04 Gone

Man Power

Sonic Pressure

Newcastle-born, Mexico-based Man Power debuts on Optimo Trax with two psychasonic missives cut extra loud for optimum sound system performance.

• 1 Sonic Pressure
• 2 HDS

Lo Kindre

Plant UP

Debut EP 'Plant Up' presents a cosmic blend of swirling synth and low-slung bass offering Magee's own version of dub to the public for the very firs... more...

• 1 Torment Of One
• 2 Mardi Ennui
• 3 Wisdom Teeth Dub
• 4 Distant Dreams

Hiroshi Watanabe

Acid Japan

It is hard to do anything with a 303 that is interesting these days but both the tracks on this 12'' are 100% club classic. Originally released in Jap... more...

• 1 Infinity Sign
• 2 Acid Air

Various Artists

Miracle Steps (Music from the Fourth World 1983 - 2017)

'What we have attempted to gather across this compilation is a body of work which we feel directly resonates with both the literal definition of ‘Four... more...

• 01 Plight
• 02 Mille Voix
• 03 White Tigress
• 04 Cloud Cover

Bali Ha'i

Disconnection

Originally released on the mighty Y Records in 1982, this one-off single by Disconnection was a mutant disco cover version of a song from Rodgers and... more...

• 1 Radio mix
• 2 US Discomix
• 3 UK Discomix
• 4 Aaaah

The Golden Filter

Still / Alone

Recommended by: Danny Daze

Separated into two distinct sides, record one, STILL, is a hypnotic meditation for the nightclub. Wavy patterns of sound and light bounce off of Penel... more...

• 1 We Are The Music
• 2 Vibrational
• 3 Now We Get Lost
• 4 Nine

Underspreche

Invito Alla Danza Part 1

Super-advanced, organic sampling, inspired vocalisations, acute psychedelic modular sequences and forward- thinking drum programming. There are severa... more...

• 1 The Lady Of The Knight
• 2 Vincino A Te
• 3 Enchanting Lure
• 4 In Turbine

Boot & Trax

Baia del Ritmo

Boot & Tax are back. Four tracks of spangled, idiosyncratic, woozily spacious and slightly off kilter music that could only have been made by these... more...

• 1 Baia Del Ritmo
• 2 Sintessi Bassa
• 3 La Ruota
• 4 Maranzana

Jose Manuel

Safari

Recommended by: 030303

4 unique exotic, fourth world tribal slabs of ritual music.

• 1 The Great Beast In Outer Space
• 2 Folklore
• 3 Ritual
• 4 Sisi

Pussy Mothers

The Number 1 EP

Pussy Mothers is the behaviour of a cross-continental two piece from Scotland and Down Under: formed by waving not drowning. Chasing percussions, voc... more...

• 1 Skirt
• 2 Echo Party
• 3 Get From In Front Of Me
• 4 When I Get It Right

Kiwi

Throw Down

London’s Alex Warren, AKA Kiwi presents “ThrowDown”, a cover version of Carmen’s cult and in demand 1986 Electro Funk hit. It comes in two versions, a... more...

• 1 Original Mix
• 2 Latin Freestyle Remix

Dennis Bovell

Heaven

'Heaven' is a disco dub afro-sound dance floor bomb that somehow manages to sound more current today than it did 35 years ago. Also included is a slig... more...

• 1 Smouche
• 2 Heaven
• 3 Heaven
• 4 Escape Goat Dub

Fred und Luna

Gluck Auf

Fred und Luna play their self described Elektrokraut (Krautrock mixed with electronic elements) by using its characteristics like repetition and beaut... more...

• 1 Gluck Auf
• 2 Geh Nie Zuruck
• 3 Im Modehaus
• 4 Monotonikum

Subterrenus

Underspreche

After the success of their debut split EP with Muslimgauze which sold out in record time, the southern Italian male/female duo Underspreche return to... more...

• 1 Jefe
• 2 Liason
• 3 Mikea

Luke Solomon & Nick Maurer

Powerdance M.S.P EP

• 1 Mysterious Space Plane
• 2 Mysterious Space Plane (Reprise)
• 3 More Fire
• 4 Fire Beat