Browse by Label: PALETTE

Artist:	TEJADA, JOHN
Title:	Backstock
Label:	PALETTE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	PAL 001CD

A compilation of tracks by John Tejada from his own Palette recordings label, mixed by John himself. 20 tracks in all, most from the Palette back catalog, a couple from Seventh City also thrown in. Arian Leviste and Titonton Duvante also contribute. 2 tracks previously unreleased. "A stunning compilation, this is a feverish DJ set of some of his outstanding pieces of techno house music from the last few years, proving his obvious skill as a cutting club DJ as well as a very talented producer."

Artist:	TEJADA & ARIAN LEVISTE, JOHN
Title:	Back for Basics
Label:	PALETTE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	PAL 036CD

"Back for Basics is John Tejada and Arian Leviste's first full-length collaboration since their remarkable Fairfax Sake album on German Playhouse in 2003 and maybe altogether their best production to date. The 10 tracks of the CD (8 brand new plus the recently released 'Psycho Happiness' and 'Ghetto Platipus') flow together like one piece and come on like a highly-needed techno landmark in the 'conscious' retro electro times of 2005. Just check how the nervous feel of 'Patterns' gloriously blends with the warm liquidy electronic bliss of 'From Empty Words' and back to the energetic 'Triad Jack' -- sensible, intense and tempting for more. Tejada and Leviste's advanced production technique makes a sound you'll be hard put to name, right in the sweet spot between house and techno, breaks and 808s, plucked strings and patch cables, edits and immediacy. It's sunlight and silicon; it's a breath of fresh air. Can you feel it?"

Artist:	TEJADA, JOHN
Title:	Mono On Mono Rmxs by Pole & Plaid
Label:	PALETTE
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	PAL 040EP

Remixes by Plain and Pole. "Tejada's all-time-classic - the clickety, euphoric 'Mono on Mono' gets a competent make-over by some of the electronic world's most unique sound-surgeons Plaid and Pole. First up is the most adventurous duo of Warp darlings Plaid who throw down a wiggling kinda broken electric-boogie beat paired with a tender main melody that has a sound between steeldrums and a children's musical box before we're lead into a more improvisational part that reminds of a electronically alienated muted French horn. Rather known as breeder of abstract, irregular rhythms reduced to the max, Pole catches us off-guard with a clever 4/4 dance interpretation. It still has his trademark crackling sounds and an affinity to classic dub technics with it's heavy, stoically pounding bassline dropping in and out of the mix yet manages in a 'finale furioso' with just cranking up the volume of one mad, spinet-like loop towards the end to set a primary rave signal driving a dancing crowd nuts."

Artist:	MAXWELL, JUSTIN
Title:	The Sensational Digitized Sound EP
Label:	PALETTE
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	PAL 041EP

Justin Maxwell offers the full spectrum of dark abstract tech-funk in three tracks. "Tussincussion" features a blood-chilling melody sounding right out of a John Carpenter movie, billowing like fog over a crumbling beat. "Hardware Store" starts out like a slowed down dubstepper with flocking birds, a tweeked electro beat, and other psychotic sounds. "Stegosaurus" boasts a lugging bassline and a beat that swings and sways like the massive saurian. Haunting, sophisticated and complex sound-constructions that dare you to listen to them alone in the dark.

Artist:	TEJADA, JOHN
Title:	Cleaning Sounds Is A Filthy Business
Label:	PALETTE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	PAL 042CD

John Tejada has produced some of the most memorable dance singles of this decade. As a remixer there are few who exceed his talents and output. Cleaning Sounds... marks the 10th year of his label and is an artist at his most mature, taking in house, electro and techno under a surgeon's scalpel. Born in Vienna, Tejada moved to the US and soon discovered Afrika Bambaataa and Kraftwerk. Having learned the piano by the age of four, music-making came quite naturally and since 1996 this Mexican-Austrian-American has been straddling the continents with his sound: a minimal and danceable groove. It's no surprise he has crossed over into pop via his friend Jimmy Tamborello (Dntel, Postal Service) or that his tracks can regularly be found atop charts in Europe, Asia and beyond. Cleaning Sounds... is 10 new tracks from this mastermind, one of the most gifted musicians in the electronic landscape. Once it finds a place in your mind, it's not due to leave anytime soon.

Artist:	TEJADA & ARIAN LEVISTE, JOHN
Title:	Multiplier
Label:	PALETTE
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	PAL 044EP

This 3-tracker starts off a string of 12"s by the collaborative genius of John Tejada and Arian Leviste. This duo multiplies the motion, the funk, the accurate timing, the control, the tension, the groove, the deepness, the classic techno-ness, for this release. Check out the ultra-intense, sturdy "Multiplier," an awfully rocking definite consensus tune in the making. "Mathemagician" feels like the "Mono On Mono" update you've been waiting for.

Artist:	TEJADA, JOHN
Title:	Where
Label:	PALETTE
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	PAL 050CD

This is California-based producer John Tejada's 11th full-length release. Normally associated with his peers in techno from Detroit, Europe and elsewhere, John Tejada has embraced electronic music as a personal frontier, expanding on his r�sum� as a techno recording artist, producer, remixer, DJ, and label owner. Known for crafting a brand of subtle, musical techno, his recorded output ranges across tempo and genre lines, from chilled-out affairs with spacious arrangements to pulsating, densely layered, deeply energetic tracks that work magnificently in the hands of DJs as well as on the home stereo. Where ventures away from many of his own trademarks, journeying into an intimate vibe of warm pulses and bright energies. The tracks take expectations and enlighten them with a collection of grooves and tweaks that are spacious and rhythmic while being devoid of predictability. The fifth track, "Desire," features a first-time collaboration with Nicolette who, having notoriety for her early '90s hit "No Government" as well as previous work with Massive Attack and Plaid, lends her vocal talents to a sonic gem that is magic in itself. Where is not a typical cerebral approach to electronic music. Rather, it is "soul-ebral" in its ubiquity, giving the listener a rare vision of a melodic spin wherein Tejada can be seen in his studio creating life, breathing through synths.

Artist:	PALETTE ALLSTARS
Title:	After School Special
Label:	PALETTE
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	PAL 051EP

John Tejada has been splitting his time working with Arian Leviste and Justin Maxwell. Why not combine all three? From the title track, the trio each works on a particular element: Tejada's driving drums, Maxwell's modular synth work, and Leviste's bass line sculpting a driving track with a classic feel. "The Pilot" features Leviste's smooth melodic synth work while Maxwell processes the modular and Tejada provides the dubby beats. "Downtown Hotel" features a mad Maxwell modular freakout and driving 808s.

Artist:	I'M NOT A GUN
Title:	Mirror
Label:	PALETTE
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	PAL 052CD

I'm Not A Gun is a collaboration between John Tejada and Takeshi Nishimoto, and this is their first release for the Palette label. The two have gained worldwide acclaim with their three albums for Berlin-based City Centre Offices (CCO). Tejada is an internationally-established electronic artist who has received critical acclaim the world over for his electronic productions, while Nishimoto studied the classical tradition from some of the world's premiere guitar players such as James Smith, Scott Tennant, Bill Kanengizer, and Brian Head. He also had the jazz guitar legend Phil Upchurch as his mentor. I'm Not A Gun is an organic combination of a captured acoustic performance and experimental electronic composition. Mirror marks Palette Recordings 52nd release as well as I'm Not A Gun's fourth full-length release. After many years recording for CCO, Tejada and Nishimoto bring the project home, where they had always envisioned it should be, on Tejada's own Palette Recordings. Mirror expands on the ideas the two have been honing over the past few years, combining acoustic elements with electronic production to capture that magic take. This album features more of Nishimoto's acoustic 7-string guitar work than ever before, reflecting his solo effort Monologue, as well as his work on 7-string electric guitar. The accompanying atmospheres created mostly from processed granular guitar add a synthetic acoustic backing for the lead guitar work. The combination of the acoustic and synthetic guitar textures envelops the listener in a pulse backed by Tejada's drum playing or at times, synthetic drum programming.

Artist:	TEJADA & ARIAN LEVISTE, JOHN
Title:	M Tracks
Label:	PALETTE
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	PAL 053EP

Tejada & Leviste presents M Tracks, featuring 4 analog workouts in varying styles. "M Track 1" is a melodic yet driving track. "M Track 2" and "3" focuses on basic elements while "M Track 4" is more experimental. Analog sequencers were used to drive the various modular synths and their components. Doepfer and Frostwave sequencers, and modular systems Cwejman, Doepfer, Harvestman and Bananalogue modules were used. Analog drum machines aided in the rhythms; however, "M Track 3" was entirely generated from pure modular hardware.

Artist:	TEJADA, JOHN
Title:	Fractals
Label:	PALETTE
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	PAL 054EP

With the title track featured on the Fabric mix CD, Fractals explores the inner musical geometry of John Tejada's electronic productions in 3 varieties. "Fractals" builds driving, rhythmic layers, evolving modular blips and atmospheres which reduce to reveal the elements that lie beneath. "The Open" is a featured track on Tejada's Fabric 44 mix -- an ethereal piece that may remind some of Tejada's classic melodic moments. Continuing the nostalgic theme is "Better Days," a classic, piano chord-driven track with a Tejada twist.

Artist:	MAXWELL, JUSTIN
Title:	The Windey Man/The Long Mover
Label:	PALETTE
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	PAL 055EP

Justin Maxwell is back with two monster tracks. "The Windey Man" sounds like a combination of classic Aphex Twin meets Dillinja bass lines. After a techy opening, building up to a dark melodic phrase, things really start to go mad with some incredible bass drops. "The Long Mover" features modular synth work, intricate edits, creeping melodies, and modulating bass lines. A very expressive piece that gives the impression his synths are alive and trying to tell us something.

Artist:	TEJADA, JOHN
Title:	Vertex
Label:	PALETTE
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	PAL 057EP

Vertex is an exploration of John Tejada's range in two parts. The title track and "The Locus Of Points" explores the trackier side of his work, meant mostly for vinyl play. Both tracks make good use of strong wavetable-chorded sounds, which are modulated throughout. The B-side explores the more melodic and arrangement-based side of Tejada's work. "Liquid Mirror" is rich in modular synth layers and "P.L.L." ("Phase Locked Loop") continues this theme with a modulating melodic phrase.

Artist:	TEJADA & JOSH HUMPHREY, JOHN
Title:	Marooned
Label:	PALETTE
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	PAL 058EP

Presenting Palette's newest collaboration between John Tejada and Josh Humphrey. "Marooned" joins Humphrey's modular synth work with Tejada's beats and soothing pads, the result being a slice of beat-driven melodic techno. "Melodiac" features Humphrey's modular melodies and Tejada's signature stabs and rhythms. "Concrete Safari" focuses on Humphrey's modular fm synth work that slowly evolves into a cluster of tribal sounds, modular birds and grainy goodness.

Artist:	TEJADA & ARIAN LEVISTE, JOHN
Title:	Messenger/Observer
Label:	PALETTE
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	PAL 059EP

Palette Recordings celebrates its 13-year anniversary with a release by John Tejada & Arian Leviste, who have been collaborating for over 18 years now. With this release, the duo comes full circle, combining some of their oldest production techniques with newer ones. "Messenger," with its intro of modular synths and rhythmic pads, breaks out of its sinister drop full-force into a multi-dimensional crowd-pleaser. "Observer" features a fierce pace that combines vintage synth stabs and drum machines, recreating a classic vibe.

Artist:	LEVISTE, ARIAN
Title:	Better Get Used To It EP
Label:	PALETTE
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	PAL 060EP

Palette proudly presents the first solo effort by Arian Leviste. Three ultra-varied tracks start with the driving drums and bass line of "Senioritis." "Better Get Used To It" shows off Leviste's melodic abilities with a beautiful melancholic epic. "Change The Station" rounds things out with a bit of modular synth experimentation over a jacking rhythm track. Leviste created these tracks in his own studio using various modular and classic synths, beat boxes, and hardware instruments.

Artist:	TEJADA & JUSTIN MAXWELL, JOHN
Title:	Our Gigantic Mistake
Label:	PALETTE
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	PAL 062EP

John Tejada & Justin Maxwell are at it again with a new three-song EP. Following in the footsteps of their classic release "Mindbend," the duo continues their unique approach to collaboration using a hardware modular synth set-up. The title track "Our Gigantic Mistake" is a unique blend of 808 beats and screaming modular synth lines. The B-side's "Whoops (There It Is)" and "Where's The Cable?" explore a darker side of dark, acidic, late-night techno.

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Artist:	HUGHES, DAVE
Title:	From The Beginning EP
Label:	PALETTE
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	PAL 056EP