About SHAPES FESTIVAL - Barrage Club party - On Decks Optimo, Timmy Regisford, CC:DISCO!, Leopold

We will be welcoming Optimo, Scotland’s most iconic clubbing DJ duo. After reaching a well-deserved cult status with their Optimo (Espacio) weekly Sunday-night parties at Sub Club, JD Twitch and JG Wilkes have continued to play, tour and release music under the Optimo name to keep the spirit of their hedonistic parties alive. Two of the best to ever do it.

Timmy Regisford is simply put, one of the great legends of dance music. The inception of his internationally acclaimed Club Shelter parties in NYC since 1991 helped pioneer the soulful house music sound that has shaped the face of house music today. The original Shelter located at #6 Hubert Street in downtown Manhattan with its custom built sound system and acoustically treated room helped Regisford earn the title of ‘The Maestro’ with his awe inspiring weekly 12-18 hour sets. 30 years later, Timmy and his Shelter parties are still going strong.

DJ, radio host, curator, label head and party promoter – CC:DISCO! is hopelessly lost in music and there’s no turning back. Playing disco, house and boogie cuts with her heart at the controls, CC triggers a joyous feedback loop that infects the dancefloor. There’s no pretension, only pure feeling.

Leopold is a DJ and radio host hailing from North London with a passion for music of all shapes and forms. His long-running and passionately curated radio show ‘The Natural Element’, currently monthly on Soho Radio, is a feel good journey into his expansive taste, blurring genre boundaries and merging the old with the new.

Leopold is a regular at the esteemed institutions Spiritland and Brilliant Corners, and in recent years has had festival appearances at Kala, El Dorado and We Out Here. With a new monthly residency under his belt at the intimate Servant Jazz Quarters and some exciting plans ahead, the future looks bright for this unique selector.