Buzz on September 20th, 2012

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His reputation amongst the EDM elite has preceded him for a while, so naturally any John Tejada release is bound to be met by countless anxious eardrums. A year ago the Viennese producer began a fruitful partnership with Kompakt records, which released Tejada’s albu, “Parabolas.” The alliance was renewed this month when Kompakt dropped the L.A.-based artist’s latest full length, “The Predicting Machine.” A stark contrast to “Parabolas,” which was firmly rooted in tech house, “The Predicting Machine” flaunts Tejada’s wide range of capabilities as a creator of electronic music. On the LP, Tejada fearlessly flirts with different genres. Adventurous, if at times aimless, sounds range from the soothingly sluggish, ambient melodies of Boards of Canada (“When All Around Is Madness” and “Radio Channel”), to the searing single “Stabilizer,” a  piece of Tejada’s chirpy, Detroit tech house, with the slow and steady pulse of an Italo-disco pounder, think Justin Faust at his darkest hour. Perhaps Tejada’s greatest talent as a producer is his ability to consistently churn out stand-alone tracks – concise, meticulously constructed mini-epics that never feel formulaic.

||| Stream: “The Function and the Form” and “Radio Channel”:

||| Live: John Tejada does a live in-store performance at Amoeba at 7 p.m. on Sept. 27.

Photo from a performance in Tokyo by Ryu Kasai