Last night at the Basstown residency at Great Scott, which featured an all-female line-up of local talents Tree Fingers, SarahJoy and Pandai’a with new resident Volvox and NYC’s own Lauren Flax, we blew the power. At some point around 1:30am, with the dancefloor a fevered pitch, the incomparable Ms. Flax may have sent a subwoofer into the future and blamm-o. The lights went off. When the sold-out crowd started filtering out of the club, it became clear that not only was the club out of power, but an entire city block in the college-heavy Allston neighborhood had been blacked out.

Tomorrow night, the party that is one of the best in the city, Hearthrob, brings in the epic and well-informed Optimo crew, who we wrote about last summer.

If you go to the nearby colleges (M.I.T. folks, Harvard kids), I have one word of advice: save your work.

Update on Speaking in Code and Tim Haslett to follow shortly. But enjoy this mix from Optimo, a stunning collection of Acid House, European Techno and Hardcore from early in the 1990s. The “Pure Mix” was done in honor of the rave club where the Optimo duo (JG Wilkes and JD Twitch) played this stuff for hours on end.

Optimo - Pure Mix

Adonis - No Way Back (Chicago 1986)
Armando - Land Of Confusion (Chicago 1988)
F.U.S.E. - Substance Abuse (Detroit 1991)
Essit Muzique - Essit Muzique (Eindhoven 1994)
Up! - Spiritual High (Detroit 1992)
C’hantal - The Realm (acappella) (New York 1990)
Pergon - The Deliverer (Frankfurt 1993)
Speedy j - Pullover (Rotterdam 1991)
Holy Noise - Get Down Everybody (Parkzicht remix) (Rotterdam 1992)
Alec Empire - SuEcide (Berlin 1992)
Linea Alba - Space Travel (Ghent 1990)
Code 6 - C.O.D.E.S. (New York 1991)
Dimensional Holophonic Sound - House Of God (New York 1990)
Fierce Ruling Diva - Whipped Kream (Amsterdam 1990)
True Faith - Take Me Away (acappella) (Detroit 1989)
2 Bad Mice - Waremouse (London 1991)
Genaside II - Narra Mine pt. 2 (London 1991)

 

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