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.

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