Optimo - Sleepwalk

· ‘Sleepwalk’ is a listening collection. Where you might
choose to listen to it is half the fun. A psychedelic
meadow, a hot air balloon or an autumnally damp West
End flat in Glasgow all come to mind. Just as genre
defying as the tracks you’d hear on the dance floor,
‘Sleepwalk’ comes across like a beautiful blur. Not
so much soft focus as a misted up lens.
· If the club specialises in getting you to move your body
and shake a fist then ‘Sleepwalk’ is head music.
Forget the square version of downtempo, late night chill
out, ‘Sleepwalk’ reconnects home listening to its lineage
at its abstract best, Discreet Music, the Artificial
Intelligence series, A Rainbow In Curved Air – this
is a mixtape put together your for your mind’s eye.
· The album contains an exclusive mix of the Coil song ‘A
Cold Cell’ by Peter Christopherson. Unavailable
anywhere else.

· ‘Sleepwalk’ is a listening collection. Where you might
choose to listen to it is half the fun. A psychedelic
meadow, a hot air balloon or an autumnally damp West
End flat in Glasgow all come to mind. Just as genre
defying as the tracks you’d hear on the dance floor,
‘Sleepwalk’ comes across like a beautiful blur. Not
so much soft focus as a misted up lens.
· If the club specialises in getting you to move your body
and shake a fist then ‘Sleepwalk’ is head music.
Forget the square version of downtempo, late night chill
out, ‘Sleepwalk’ reconnects home listening to its lineage
at its abstract best, Discreet Music, the Artificial
Intelligence series, A Rainbow In Curved Air – this
is a mixtape put together your for your mind’s eye.
· The album contains an exclusive mix of the Coil song ‘A
Cold Cell’ by Peter Christopherson. Unavailable
anywhere else.

Chris Watson ‘No Man's Land’ (Extract) *
Nurse With Wound ‘Funeral Music For Perez Prado’ *
Coil ‘A Cold Cell In Bangkok’ (Exclusive Mix By Peter Christopherson) *
Tuxedomoon ‘In A Manner Of Speaking’ * Eden Ahbez ‘La Mer’ *
Raymond Scott ‘Sleepy Time’ * Cluster ‘Sowiesoso’ *
Eno, Moebius and Roedelius ‘Broken Head’ *
Arthur Russell ‘This Is How We Walk On The Moon’ * Damon ‘Don't You Feel Me?’ *
Karen Dalton ‘Something On Your Mind’ * Duke Ellington ‘Moonbow’ *
Future Pilot AKA ‘Terry Bina’ * Mulatu Astatke ‘Yègellé Tezeta’ *
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band ‘Nashville Blues’ *
Lee Hazlewood ‘Whole Lotta’ Shakin’ Goin’ On’ * Wall Of Voodoo ‘Ring Of Fire’ *
Chris And Cosey ‘Sweet Surprise’ * The Lady Vanishes ‘Sleepwalk’

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