The new release on Optimo Music is a 12″ by Naum Gabo that pays homage to the city they dwell in: Glasgow.

Songs From A Great City finds the duo of James Savage and JG Wilkes (one half of Optimo) reinterpreting classic songs by two Scottish acts. The first is a dancefloor-aimed update of Simple Minds‘ epic ‘Theme For Great Cities’. The original was released in 1981; as Optimo put it, it’s “an electro-trance-funk classic, pre-dating the rave scene by about 10 years”, and it’s long been a favoured weapon in the arsenals of proto-techno, Balearic and disco DJs. On the B-side, they tackle Fingerprintz‘ 1979 track ‘Wet Job’, refashioning it as “a dark disco futuristic grooveride into doom”.

Savage and Wilkes have been making music together for many years now, originally releasing simply as Naum on Kompakt’s Speicher series. Further 12″s have come on Mule, Eskimo, Dissident and This Is Not An Exit, and they’ve also remied the likes of Hot Chip, Franz Ferdinand and Simian Mobile Disco.

Due out on February 14, Songs From A Great City will be Optimo Music’s first release of 2011, with another vinyl edition of music by Chris Carter – following last year’s essential The Spaces In Between – promised for the not too distant future.

Tracklist:
A1. Theme For Great Cities
B1. Wetjob