Family of late Scottish DJ JD Twitch to sell record collection as lasting legacy – ScottishNews.com

The massive legacy record collection belonging to late Scottish DJ, JD Twitch, aka Keith McIvor, is to go on sale one year after his death. Honouring the pioneering producer and one half of Glasgow club duo Optimo with Johnnie Wilkes, Keith’s widow Marissa Costello says the family wanted the records to be “played and discovered by new owners” rather than remain in an archive. Part one of the collection – up to 8,000 records – will be sold from World of Echo who will give over their entire east London record store to the iconic collection from Saturday, 14th November. Part two will follow in early 2027. A lifelong collector, the enormous record haul which spanned genres, countries and eras moving from post-punk to techno and electro, dates back to Keith’s childhood growing up in Balerno, Edinburgh, where he spent all of an inheritance from his grandfather on records – much to the disapproval of his father. “Neither of them could have known then that those records, and the curiosity that drove him to buy them, would become an important investment in a remarkable life and career in music,” said Marissa. Tributes to the iconic DJ, who was hugely respected
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