about this website

This is the website of Toby Shew, who produces as Optik, signed to Bonzai on the Camouflage label. Questions and comments to admin@optik.org.uk

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What I'm Doing...

  • (and about to have the same problem as @seantyas with data roaming... £3 per megabyte in spain! 5 days ago
  • about to set off for Ibiza - wohooo! 5 days ago
  • in ibiza from tuesday to tuesday - really looking forward to it, sister is in hospital on friday so my thoughts will be with her. 5 days ago
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yay I’m going to Ibiza

just about to leave for Ibiza! back in a week with tune news

Almost back

I’m still suffering the loss of my cat; he used to hang out with me at the studio whilst I produce. It’s difficult to go back to normal life without him but I’m getting there and have started to be able to listen and work on music. The problem with trance is that it tends [...]

Optik Vs Imogen Heap – Hide and Seek

A lot of people have been requesting an mp3 download of my old remix of Imogen Heap’s Hide and Seek (made famous by that episode of The O.C. I did the remix a long time ago – so the quality isn’t up to today’s standards and it was just for a little fun (I never [...]

website

Finally settled on a basic theme for this website which I’ll be customising over the next few days – hope you like the simplicity of it all. Podcast is doing well – if you haven’t had a listen check it out on itunes or google optik podcast

Toby

stay tuned for Bimonth 002

it’s almost ready – with tracks from Deadmau5, Optik (exclusive), Rank 1, Sander Van Dorm and many more!

New Tracks soon

I’m working hard on finishing a few tracks over the weekend – have finally had some time to work on music, and have fixed the problem I was having with my computer (needed a new motherboard!)

should have some optik tracks and some toby shark tracks out soon – so kep an ear out.

I’ll be in [...]

support from Graham Gold for pleasure Cruiser

image from alldj.org: http://alldj.org/

Graham Gold is still supporting Optik – Pleasuer Cruiser in his sets – many thanks to this bastion of the trance scene.  In yesterdays’ True to Trance he hammered the track once more . Tracklist can be found here:

http://www.playlists.hu/2009/03/04/true-to-trance-04-03-2009/

Youtube

I’ve got a little youtube page that has some videos that people have made for my tracks – you can have a listen to some of my stuff for free if you like at:

http://www.youtube.com/user/tobyshew

optik beatport player

here’s my little beatport player for optik. You can make your own by going here: http://www.beatportplayer.com

New Website

Hi, welcome to the (finally) updated Optik website. This page will be under construction for a little while, but check back often because I will be adding new features, down-loadable content and web exclusives regularly.

I’ve chosen to use a blogging engine as the main part of the site as it allows me to easily update [...]