tejada gets fabric mix

Austrian-born, Los Angeles-bred techno auteur John Tejada has compiled and mixed the next edition of the famed Fabric mix-CD series, Fabric 44, due in the U.K. Jan. 12 (the U.S. release date is to-be-announced).

"I wanted the whole track selection to turn into one piece of music as if I was conducting a techno symphony," Tejada says of the compilation.

Tejada came to electronic dance music, as did many of us of his generation, through hip-hop acts such as Afrika Bambaataa and Egyptian Lover, and he emphasizes the link to black music in contemporarly club-land that many have forgotten. "The electronic sounds that now would be considered something else were part of hip-hop culture," he says. "It was those sounds that I latched onto when I first heard acid house and early Chicago stuff."

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Here's my profile of Tejada, published in LA Weekly earlier this year.