{"id":1115,"date":"2009-01-26T15:47:03","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T14:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2009-01-26T15:49:07","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T14:49:07","slug":"john-tejada-where","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1115","title":{"rendered":"john tejada &#8211; where"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51QOMdiHGuL._SS400_.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>well i never. today i got lucky.<\/p>\n<p>browsing through the glut of crap in the current <u>zavvi<\/u> clearout, i spotted a cd with very minimalist artwork. <\/p>\n<p>having no idea as to what it was, and therefore becoming intrigued i looked closer.<\/p>\n<p>a lot closer.<\/p>\n<p>there was a sticker covering up all the detail, but then i spotted this in the corner of the back cover : <u>palette recordings<\/u>.<\/p>\n<p>then i realised that in the mess of lines that make the art, were the words, <font color=\"#008080\">&#8216;john tejada where&#8217;<\/font><\/p>\n<p>needless to say, that since <a href=\"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1080\">fabric 44<\/a> has been one mix that&#8217;s had a chink of love from yours truly, i decided to take the plunge and see if the excellence continues.<\/p>\n<p>two listens in and i can categorically state, it does.<\/p>\n<p>straight forward stripped back techno. with some acid sqiggles here, some thin beats there, and a lot of melody.<\/p>\n<p>not to mention the unexpected appearance of <strong>massive attack&#8217;s<\/strong> friend and collaborator, <strong>nicolette<\/strong> on <font color=\"#008080\">desire, <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">thereby adding an extra layer of human warmth to the clinical proceedings.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>admittedly this is not an album that will change anyone&#8217;s life, but as a soundtrack to a stressful paymaster period of computer aided chaos, things don&#8217;t really come much more enjoyable than this. <\/p>\n<p>so, should you spot this low profile release amongst the mountains of <strong>kooks<\/strong> styled crap, then you now know what you&#8217;ve been lucky enough to chance upon.<\/p>\n<p><u>more detail<\/u> : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paletterecordings.com\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>well i never. today i got lucky. browsing through the glut of crap in the current zavvi clearout, i spotted a cd with very minimalist artwork. having no idea as to what it was, and therefore becoming intrigued i looked closer. a lot closer. there was a sticker covering up all the detail, but then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}