HAHA turns 8 - a milestone for all the feet and ears featuring OPTIMO (Twitch & Wilkes) Sub Club, Glasgow.

For all the faces smiling in sheer bliss, for all the clothes drenched in sweat, the lost wallets, phones, jackets, and even pants (on a few occasions) for each and every single dancer who's ever joined us on the floor to partake in receiving a total and utter battering of sounds. 

We salute you. We thank you. 

We celebrate with you, together, because quite frankly your support is what's kept our wheels of steel in motion this whole time.

What better a way to celebrate than to invite back our favourite duo OPTIMO aka JD Twitch & JG Wilkes - Sub Club, Glasgow.

All night long.

Supported by D&D.

This is sound tuned to your feet.
This is HAHA.

OPTIMO (JD Twith & JG Wilkes) Sub Club, Glasgow

Optimo are the duo JD Twitch and JG Wilkes. They each have over 20 years DJ-ing experience and in the last decade have become both renowned and highly respected for their memorable and ecstatic deejay sets. Twitch and Wilkes exhibit a unique disregard for genres and musical restrictions in their craft, creating a nightclub experience that strikes out into territories far beyond the accepted boundaries of club music.

The duo are responsible for the nightclub Optimo (Espacio) which ran from November 1997 until April 2010. Optimo sat at the very epicentre of the Scottish Clubbing consciousness in its weekly residency in the Sub Club and is widely regarded as one of the most important and ground-breaking clubs of the past 10 years (at one point earning them the prestigious title of Mixmag "Club of the Year").

Optimo first came to international recognition with the release of How to Kill The Dj (part 2) in 2004. This mix, and the critical acclaim that followed, would catapult the duo onto the international gigging circuit. The next few years would see them travel across the world taking the Optimo party aesthetic to England, Ireland, Iceland, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania, Portugal, France, Spain, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Italy, Russia, Greece, Bratislava, Czech Republic, Serbia, Croatia, USA, Canada, Brazil, South Africa, Japan and Australia.

Subsequent mix releases illustrated their exceptional maverick determination, raising the benchmark for what is expected from a dj mix and what musical ingredients could be used to create it. These titles include - Psyche-Out (Eskimo Recordings), 20 Years Underground (Soma), Walkabout (Endless Flight), In Order To Edit (R&S), Sleepwalk (Domino Recordings) and culminated most recently with a tour-de-force mix for the Fabric Series with Fabric 52 - Optimo (Espacio).

The Fabric 52 compilation underlines Optimo's reputation as taste-makers, achieved through their shared passion for clubbing and their encyclopedic knowledge of music. However it also illustrates their skill in assembling sounds from the past and present to create an experience that is definitively futuristic in spirit. 

The final essential ingredient to the Optimo success is of course the people. Each Optimo set is different, teased out of the dynamics of a singular group of people - whither it be a tiny basement sweat-box, the main room of a super club or a thousand people in a field - and everything they do springs from the spirit of the crowd and the rhythm of the moment. It is the unique enthusiasm of each crowd, where ever they go, that gives them inspiration - and feeds the joy in what they do. 

These are the reasons Optimo have become two of the UK's busiest and best loved DJ's.