Glasgow's Optimo have been packing them into their Sunday night
sessions since 1997. I've never been, but in an era of shrinking
club attendance (at least in the English-speaking world), the
fact that they seem to be growing means they must be doing
something right. That "something" is probably appealing to an
utterly devoted yet wide audience. Optimo's founders and
residents, JD Twitch and JG Wilkes, play everything from moldy
old funk tracks to modern indie to hardcore acid to ragga
dancehall.  But before you recoil in horror at the thought of
even more post-2 Many DJ's whimsy: they don't do mashups, they
aren't into incongruous blends for their own sake (Ciara +
Rednex...wheeee!), and they don't front like crossing genre and
decade borders is reinventing the wheel. They just know what
good DJs have known since Francis Grasso started blending funk
and rock as a cruising soundtrack. Like the sampled Primal
Scream preacher dude said, they know music is music. And if
you're really good, you can blend it all an