Review: American techno legend John Tejada released the Big City Music EP back in 2006, where "Asanebo" appeared as a B-side track. It has since become a favourite to underground heads over the years, and as a part of Poker Flat's 20 year celebrations, the Hamburg label taps Retreat main man Quarion for a properly low slung and dubby rework. This fine rendition makes perfect tackle for the afterhours, while complimenting the slinky and hypnotic qualities of the original version, which appears for your pleasure also.
Review: Mr. Tejada returns to Kompakt with a solid two-tracker and one which will undoubtedly be rinsed heavily this summer. The man is capable of creating some seriously enticing house grooves, never afraid of trying something new and incorporating more commercial tones together with strange, psychotic melodies. "Somewhere" lies between the vast terrain between house and electro, where its progressive drum patterns merge effortlessly with fuzzy electro basslines and flickering background melodies. "Elsewhere" meanwhile is a more lo-fi jam, where Tejada really shines through and shows us what he's good at: memorable house excursions packed with enough funk to have us all lost in a whirlpool of bouncy synths and gnarly percussion shots.
Review: LA producer John Tejada has always been a consistent artist, but "Condition" is one of his most memorable releases in the past few years. Instead of focusing his efforts on intricate sound design, Tejada has decided this time to play solely to his greatest strength - his sense of melody. The title track is based on a purring melancholic bass that builds gently yet which contains a hint of menace, like "Snivilisation"-period Orbital in techno mode. However, it's "The Living Night" which really impresses: over a rolling yet more understated bass, its mournful, trancey hooks build and ebb in that effortless manner that only Tejada is capable of.
Review: 29 years since he made his debut, techno, deep house and ambient master John Tejada continues to deliver inspired music - much of it infused with plenty of machine soul and melodies to die for. This three-tracker for Kompakt is predictably impressive, with the Los Angeles-based veteran confidently striding between warm, hypnotic and jaunty tech-house haziness (the joyously rising and infectious 'Verior'), ultra-deep, saucer-eyed techno-tempo deep house (the blissful, unashamedly emotive 'Wild Ride') and glitchy, rolling, locked-in late-night excellence (the 'sunrise in Berlin' shuffle of 'Infinism'). In other words, it's another excellent EP from a producer who rarely puts a foot wrong.
Review: We're only halfway through the year, yet it's been a prolific one thus far for Los Angeles-based techno legend John Tejada. Only a few months after his riveting long player Sleepwalker, he returns on his very own Palette Recordings with his latest effort titled Nocturama. The three track EP features the playful and upbeat title track led by its infectious melodic bassline, followed by the strobe-lit acid frenzy of "Wave Acid Sun" that will have you reaching for the lasers in no time. Finally, there's another evocative number in the form of "Hadal Zone" a sublime exploration in high tech soul.
Review: "Ceol" is the Gaelic word for "music", and it's an apt name for a John Tejada release. Over the past 20 years, the LA resident has brought an individualistic, melodic flavour to techno and this record is no exception. The title track sees him bring together ringing bells and snappy percussion over a warm, squelchy bass. The addition of airy synths serves to further validate the name Tejada chose for the arrangement. "Prelude to Madness" sees him opt for a similar, albeit darker approach, as an elastic bass unravels against the backdrop of insistent hi hats and steely drums. However, Tejada never strays too far from melodic sounds and closing track "Aisling" is an understated affair, full of shiny hooks.
Review: Described by Kompakt as "a somnambulistic two-tracker that delivers more bang for the buck", John Tejada returns to the Cologne label with a new single primed for the dancefloor. We Can Pretend shows the LA-based Tejada might be looking to apply the new found interest in modular synthesis shown on his 2012 LP The Predicting Machine to the muscular techno he's founded his reputation on. Taking the form of two vocal tracks, one featuring former collaborator Kimi Recor and the other Morgan Alexander, the abiding feeling you get from the title track is 'perhaps this is what James Holden and John Talabot collaborating would sound like?'. There's a subtle poppishness to "We Can Pretend" that doesn't detract from the masterful sequencing, whilst "Now We're Here" is Tejada in classicist pumping US house mode.
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