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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 & 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 & ARIAN LEVISTE, JOHN
Title:	Fairfax Sake
Label:	PLAYHOUSE (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	PLAY 006CD

"Tejada and Leviste might be California's best-kept secret. For over a decade, the two have been turning out some of the state's -- and, yeah, the nation's, or even the world's -- deepest, most inspired dance music, with records on Playhouse, Pornflake, Moods and Grooves, and Tejada's own Palette imprint. Collaborators for 11 years, their joint productions date back to the late 90s; Tejada himself has proven one of electronic music's most prolific artists, with records on Palette, R&S, Multiplex, Organized Noise, Seventh City, deFocus, Mosaic, and many more. But Tejada and Leviste have come up with a sound that doesn't really belong to geography: it might be rooted in Detroit techno, but it's scattered with Chicago jack tracks, SoCal G-Funk, Cologne microhouse, New York disco, even a smattering of East Bay Hip Hop, reconfigured for a four-to-the-floor vision of musical inclusiveness. Tejada and Leviste's style 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 & ARIAN LEVISTE, JOHN
Title:	Syntax Free
Label:	PLAYHOUSE (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	PLAY 052EP

"John Tejada (here in cooperation with his friend Arian Leviste) from California USA, can definitely be called one of thee artists of the year so far. After his big hit 'Western Starland' on his own Pallette Recordings imprint and numerous releases on different labels, for example Dan Bell's 7th City, we are proud and happy to finally present him on Playhouse. Really self confident he musically moves over a cut-up like Funk technique, in a way not unlike to Matthew Herbert's style, into an extremely elastic grooving sound."

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