JD Twitch - SMI²LE (Optimo Music Tape 003 - originally released May 2021) by JD Twitch published on 2023-03-27T22:56:49Z During 2021, to help get through the ongoing lockdown I made a series of 90 minute cassette tapes, one a month for ten months. I thought there would be a small demand but was blown away by the response. People really embraced them and copies went to every corner of the planet. They became a huge part of my year and really helped me through a tough time. A little later I made them available digitally for a short period and all the proceeds raised went to Glasgow NW Foodbank. I was again blown away as thousands of pounds were raised. I have decided to put the series on Soundcloud. I'll upload them sporadically over the coming months. I'm skipping the 2nd one as it has the same title as a compilation I put out recently and I don't want the two getting confused, but I may come back to it later. This is the 3rd one titled “SMI²LE - Space Migration, Intelligence Increase, Life Extension". Smi²le was Timothy Leary’s mid 70s vision of the future of humanity. It's Utopian & in hindsight wildly optimistic. He believed we would have colonised space & have cloned ourselves by around the year 2000. He envisaged millions of us would be living in “High orbital mini Earths” in our own small Utopian communities. I have a long time fascination with (unrealisable) Utopian communities and Smi²le has always been one I particularly liked as it was so fully thought out & even by Utopian standards wildly hopeful & unrealistic. It's also relevant to our times as contentious/ awful figures like Peter Thiel & Elon Musk have adopted the worst parts of these ideas without any public scrutiny. Free market space migration may not be a positive thing, particularly if we are exporting this planet’s problems into outer space. Anyway, that’s an aside and it’s basically a 90 minute space themed mix of music. Understanding / knowing about the Smi²le concept is not essential to its enjoyment. :) Tape released May 7, 2021 Artwork – Musheto Fernandez. Genre Space Comment by AJC AW 2023-08-07T21:51:58Z Comment by Matthew Foord yes 2023-07-17T13:49:52Z Comment by Matthew Foord Tim Blake...fair play 2023-07-17T13:47:57Z Comment by vanounne 🖤🩶🖤💦 2023-06-27T23:39:37Z Comment by frausarahmegan thank you for putting these online so so wonderful 2023-04-30T16:43:04Z Comment by HIHATDANCER loving this tune! 2023-04-27T18:14:41Z Comment by bigapplebear Sweet tune here...thanks JD 2023-04-21T18:55:23Z Comment by tekano yea Ha! 2023-04-07T15:42:15Z Comment by The Pope of Chilitown That was a trip! 2023-03-29T22:30:20Z