🔥This Week’s Hot Wax🔥
Artist: Natural Magic
Release: II
Label / Year: Optimo Music, 2026

Last week I had an AF Trax record here. Now we move on to the latest release from Optimo Music, krauty, spacey, trippy, uplifting, fresh in, selected track 'Galaxy Builder': https://naturalmagic.bandcamp.com/track/galaxy-builder

Read the release notes on Bandcamp yourself, I can't describe it any better than that, JD Twitch, to quote Rilke: '..und hört im Herzen auf zu sein.'

#ThisWeeksHotWax #Vinyl #NaturalMagic #OptimoMusic #JDTwitch

The last album that #JDTwitch helped put into production before his death is announced via #Optimo Music. "Having been a long time lover of everything krautrock, space rock, experimental and psychedelic it seems more than fitting that he leaves us this LP as his parting gift." #music https://naturalmagic.bandcamp.com/album/ii
II, by Natural Magic

8 track album

Natural Magic

I have found what words I can about the 'great pal' -- stirmonster, #JDTwitch, Keith McIvor.

My usual weekly music thoughts on Patreon, open to all. #music https://www.patreon.com/posts/some-weekly-163-139585080

“120 minute post-punk special. Thanks JD Twitch, this one's heavy. Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS” / “SoundCloud - Hear the world’s sounds” (1 user) https://htn.to/3udW8w8QDT #JDtwitch #optimo

RIP #JDTwitch. This whole set is great, and this is what I always thought Balearic should be like - a lot of variety in the set but with no fear of the dark.

Perhaps the most surprising and poignant part is the very end with what sounds like Absolute Body Control mixed into The Jesus and Mary Chain's "Just Like Honey" and ending with "Hurt" by Johnny Cash.

I put a timestamped link into the YouTube URL so that you can jump to that spot. Goodbye you legend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRCdwVIsUuY&t=3140s

JD Twitch (Optimo) @TheLotRadio 10-23-2022

YouTube
Is It All Over The Place?, by JD Twitch

from the album CARE4LIFE

Above Board Projects

Very sad to hear the news about the passing of JD Twitch.

#music #JDTwitch

https://youtu.be/VIVnhJi1Dj8?si=0u-fnDGH9fNoxw0b

You Are The Space Invader (An Optimo (Espacio) Mix)

YouTube

R.I.P. JD Twitch a.k.a. Martin Keith S. McIvor (1968-2025) of Optimo Music, Scotland. He also appears in Sähkö the Movie (1995), the Sähkö Recordings documentary film. Via Jimi Tenor:

#JDTwitch #MartinMcIvor #OptimoMusic #Optimo #SähköTheMovie #SähköRecordings #Sahko #JimiTenor #Scotland #Finland

Over on ILX, another #JDTwitch story was shared, namely this 2016 piece on his love for Arthur Russell, celebrating his life and music, and saying "You are the best friend I ever had whom I never got to meet." Keith's work with Optimo and beyond will do that for others in turn, yet to come. #music https://www.insomniac.com/magazine/dear-arthur-russell-your-music-changed-my-life/
Dear Arthur Russell: Your Music Changed My Life

JD Twitch of Optimo fame pens a letter to the late, great American cellist, composer, singer and musician Arthur Russell.

Insomniac
An amazing #JDTwitch anecdote has surfaced via ILX; in the thread where we're remembering him someone recalled that he had told an incredible story on the site about "losing it on mushrooms." Another poster found it, and it would be utterly wrong not to share it here. #music https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?showall=true&bookmarkedmessageid=9122533&boardid=41&threadid=116152
One More Tune: ILX and Friends Celebrate JD Twitch