The producer and DJ, real name Keith McIvor, had been diagnosed with an untreatable brain tumour earlier this year
JD Twitch, the Scottish DJ and producer celebrated as one half of the duo Optimo, has died aged 57.
The artist, whose real name was Keith McIvor, had been diagnosed with an untreatable brain tumour, which he announced in July. He died on Friday in Glasgow’s Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice, his DJ partner Jonnie Wilkes (AKA JG Wilkes) announced.
“In a 28 year partnership he changed my life immeasurably and together we took our work in directions and to places few people are lucky enough to explore,” Wilkes said. “I am forever grateful for everything he bestowed on me, both as a partner in music and as a friend.”
McIvor grew up in Edinburgh in a family who “had the most middle of the road, blandest music taste imaginable”, he later said, but after moving to Glasgow to go to university in 1986 he became involved in club culture across both cities.
