John Tejeda

   
Artist: John Tejeda

   Genre(s): 
New Age
   

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Discography:


   
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   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 2

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Born the logos of a Vienna composer/conservatory teacher and an opera-singer mother, John Tejada linked Cosmic Baby and BT as classically trained techno changelings. Unlike those producers however, Tejada's recordings for Plug Research and A13 underscore the rougher, more black bile aspects of techno elysian by Detroit icons like Juan Atkins and Derrick May. Raised on the West Coast, Tejada played piano and drums as a child, then began hearing to rap music and electro, starting time his DJ career by playing out in those styles. After hearing the Detroit techno blueprints courtesy of recordings by Atkins and May, Tejada began producing; during 1996 unique, he recorded deuce singles for A13 Records (as Lucid Dream) and an EP for Electric Ladyland (as Autodidact). Early the following year, his debut Lucid Dream album Consummate appeared, followed by a single for Plug Research as Mr. Hazeltine. After the 1997 Stopple Research & Development compilation earned kudos about the home-listening techno community, Tejada formed his possess label Palette Records, collaborated with Joe Babylon of Plug Research and Allen Avan as Frankie Carbone and recorded on his possess for Organised Noise, Ferox, and seventh City. His number 1 album Little Green Lights and Four Inch Faders appeared in 1999 on A13 Records. Backstock, a cover of his Palette mark recordings, was released in 2001, and his moment wide production LP (Daydreams in Cold Weather) followed one year later on Plug Research.





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