James Dewitt Yancey (February 7, 1974 – February 10, 2006), better known by the stage names J Dilla and Jay Dee, was an American record producer who emerged from the mid-1990s underground hip hop scene in Detroit, Michigan. According to his obituary at NPR.org, he “was one of the music industry’s most influential hip-hop artists, working for big-name acts like A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Busta Rhymes and Common.” Just as his music was becoming increasingly popular, Yancey died in 2006 of the blood disease TTP.
Renowned producer Pete Rock placed J Dilla on his list of the top five producers of all time, while the editors of About.com ranked him #15 on their list of the Top 50 Hip-Hop Producers. Andy Kellman of Allmusic stated that—by 2004, after being active for well over a decade as a producer—J Dilla had accomplished enough to be considered “an all-time great.”[5] J Dilla made the “Elite 8″ in the search for The Greatest Hip-Hop Producer of All Time by Vibe.Also, The Source placed him on its list of the 20 greatest producers in the magazine’s twenty-year history.
We want to help you start your Saturday night off right with a yoga session at one of your favorite Capitol Hill venues…the Electric Tea Garden! Lael will be instructing an hour and half session while Recess plays chill music on the decks. All levels welcome. $ donation. Bring a mat and make sure to drink lots of water.
1.6.12 Gene Hunt, Bryan Furious. Miss Shelrawka @ FAM FUNK: A House Music Monthly at Electric Tea Garden
**Gene Hunt**
Gene Hunt’s first release was on the infamous TRAX imprint and he swiftly followed it up with a string of tracks that were personified by a strong influence from Detroit. Deep strings mixed with intricate drum patterns were his trademark and his Melodies EP for Nepenta was one of the labels first hits. A Chicago house music pioneer, and World Class deejay, Gene has collaborated with a range of critically-acclaimed artists and producers, including Adam Beyer, Cari Lekebusch, Carl Cox, Paul Johnson, Farley Jackmaster Funk, Frankie Knuckles, and Ron Hardy. A key contributor who helped shape house and techno music worldwide, Gene is no doubt a true innovator of the Chicago house sound.
**Miss Shelrawka**
Dave Segal writes: “…[Miss Shelrawka] brings an East Coast energy and grittiness to her techno and house mixes. They’re also incredibly sexy, featuring much percolating hand percussion; swiveling, loin-engorging bass lines; cooing, groaning, and sighing vocals; and ass-smacking beats ….-a low-slung, funky, tribal strain of minimal techno-with excellent aesthetics and technique….” — DATA BREAKER 10/2009 – The Stranger, Seattle
**Bryan Furious**
Bryan is originally from Tacoma WA and currently resides in Seattle/Lynnwood. Bryan is been along time fan of EDM for about 10 years and enjoys the club/party scene. Bryan has also found himself enjoying DJing at local night clubs in the Seattle area.
1.7.12 Classcasia presentsBody Heat III featuring M A N I K, 214/J.Alverez, Pezzner, OFDM, Justice
The promoters for Classcadia brings style and class to underground dance music events; whether held in dirty warehouses, secret lofts, or sweaty clubs. The BODY HEAT events at Electric Tea Garden (first Saturdays of each month) invite you to “stick your pinky out” while trying our themed cocktail list, dressing your best, and dancing to the newest and sexiest sounds in electronic dance music.
***MANIK***
M A N I K is a young New York City born and bred music producer/DJ thats making huge waves. DJ Mag recently named him one of their official ‘Hot To Watch 2011.’ His youthful looks belie the serious and sophisticated musical talent that lies beneath. He is one of the cities few true musicians. The M A N I K discography boasts music releases on the worlds best underground imprints like Josh Wink’s Ovum, L.A based Culprit, Steve Bug’s highly praised Poker Flat, and an upcoming release on the almighty Hot Creations- run by Lee Foss and Jamie Jones.
You could throw around any number of “genre-locking terms” – House, Funk, Deep House, Disco, Acid, Electronica; however, you’d still fail to get to the meaning of M A N I K.
***214***
Seattle resident by way of Miami. “Audio mulcher” of the electro sound. With releases on Hypercolour, Fortified Audio, Frustrated Funk/Clone Records , Harbour City Sorrow/Clone Records, Touchin’ Bass , Car Crash Set, Outside Recordings, Mikrolux, Ai records and Digital Distortions record label.
***OFDM***
A founder of Classcadia, OFDM has been playing music and throwing parties for over a decade. He’s recently been making some tracks which he’ll probably inflict on you at some point during his swaggering NU-Disko DJ sets.
*great tracks…several Traktor box upsets on this recording…sorry.
Everything Electric is a night of electronic music every Thursday @ The Electric Tea Garden. Hosted by some of Seattle’s hottest DJ’s and Producers. Covering genres from House to Drum & Bass, Techno to Dubstep and most things in between.
JIMPSTER – BIO:
Jamie Odell aka Jimpster and Audiomontage has been producing, remixing and DJing for the last 17 years and co-running his Freerange Records (voted Best British Label 2007) label for the last 13 of those. His musical upbringing and early introduction to production and DJing have helped him forge a sound that is at once warm and deep as well as being innovative and club friendly.
His seminal Jimpster LP Messages From The Hub (1997), as well as his more dancefloor oriented Audiomontage 12”s really helped establish Jamie as an artist of some merit and he quickly became in regular demand as a remixer (over 75 at the last count!) and co producer on a wide range of underground projects. His third Jimpster LP Amour was released 3 years ago on Freerange to excellent critical acclaim and appeared in numerous published Top 20 LP’s of the year charts. In recent years he has released his first original track for another label, choosing Ben Watt’s Buzzin’ Fly for Square Up which became a big underground house track sitting in the top 5 of DJ Mag’s Hype Chart for 2 months. His last 12” for Freerange was Dangly Panther, another deep house anthem which has just been nominated for Best Dance Single 2008 in the coveted DJ Mag Best Of British Awards. Recent artists to get the Jimpster midas touch in the form of a remix include Osunlade, Bob Marley, Joris Voorn, Seal, Mark Knight & Funkagenda, Marc Romboy, Solomun…. The list goes on.
Over the past 5 or 6 years Jamie has built up a reputation as a highly regarded dj in the UK and around the world, having played over 100 gigs last year alone. With an emphasis on the deeper end of electronic house music, but not afraid to stray from the path, he retains an old school approach that has seen him booked for gigs as diverse as Fabric and Matter (London), Panarama Bar and Watergate (Berlin), Cielo (NYC), Warehouse 702 (Tokyo), Zoo Project (Ibiza), D-Edge (Sau Paulo), GOA @ Fabrik (Madrid).
Record Label:
Freerange Records / Delusions Of Grandeur / Buzzin’ Fly…
During the very first year of Decibel Festival (2003), Shameless presented back to back afterparties (both Friday and Saturday nights) at the Oseao loft space which has now become ETG. This year we’re proud to return to the same venue for this year’s Friday night Decibel Festival Afterparty.
Tickets only available at the door. Limited space so be sure to get there early to guarantee entry.
LINE UP:
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MAX COOPER
(Traum Schallplatten/Bedrock/Veryverywrongindeed)
London, UK http://www.maxcooper.net/
After 4 days, 22 showcases, a handful of afterhours, and more trash thrown into your body than humanly thought possible, sleep is clearly not an option.
On Sunday morning Oct. 2nd, 2011
Sweatbox Presents: Still Going (Decibel Edition)
Featuring…
Dead Seal feat. Zoe (Live)
Auralism / Crosstown Rebels / My Favorite Robot : San Francisco, US
Derek Plaslaiko
Spectral / Perc Trax / From 0-1 : Berlin, DE
E. Spleece
G.O.D. / Exchange Bureau : Detroit, US
The Perfect Cyn
Alga rhythms : Portland, US
Eugene Fauntleroy
Night Pigeon : Seattle, US
Ctrl_Alt_Dlt v. Roddimus
Sweatbox : Seattle, US
+ Special Guests.
Electric Tea Garden 1402 E. Pike, Seattle
5am – ?? // 21+ // $10 at the Door
Free late-morning BBQ.
Alexander East is among the ever growing list of talent that continues to take the electronic community by storm here in the U.S. and abroad internationally. If you’re not quite familiar with his name, then most assuredly you would recognize his voice from either his featured appearances on tracks from Jake Childs, Jay J, or Derrick Carter just to name a few, but on his own releases that have been bumping dance floors for more than a decade now.
Born in Brooklyn, New York Alexander knew he had a purpose beyond description when it came to his ever growing “hobby” of music. When he was young he taught himself how to play many different musical instruments and sing. While growing up, his family had moved to quite a number of places in the Midwest, including Ohio and Minneapolis where he currently resides. It was during these early years in the between places where he gained the opportunity to spend a significant time around many different recording studios, where he learned how to produce and engineer his own works for future release.
Although he was initially all about producing hip hop, it was during the early 1990’s where house music other forms of electronic began pulling him into the realm that he is known from today. In 1994, he began djing and working within the underground community, producing his own tracks on the side to start. By 1997, Alexander’s first track “Gold Dust Goodies v1” was released in a limited capacity through his very own label Planet East Recordings. It wasn’t until the releases of “Hazy Shade of Love” (in a collaborative effort w/Underground Construction) & the tracks “Deeper Shades” & “Jest For Me” (both released in 2000 & 2001 in a collaborative effort w/Afterhours Records) that gained the attention of Derrick Carter, who not only helped break these releases, but remixed “Hazy Shade of Love” & “Jest 4 Me” for re-releases as well.
Alexander’s tracks and efforts have been used on various compilation and mixed CDs through a multitude of Labels from the likes of Afterhours, NRK, Nordic Trax, DJ Magazine, Fabric, Promo Only, Aroma, Blockhead, Swank, Amenti, OM Records and recently Defected Music.
From 2001 to the present Alexander East has continued to blaze forth a path for himself within this industry, gaining notoriety though both his vocals on collaborative efforts and remixes with fellow producers Jimpster, Brett Johnson, JT Donaldson, Atnarko Rick Preston, Swirl People and Olivier Desmet. His current chart topper “Believe En Me” (with remixes from Lawnchair Generals) and his latest re-release “So Hi” (with remixes by Chuck Love & Bryan Gerrard) takes this talented musician to yet another level with a body of work that is nothing short of fantastic!
One thing is certain with a talent like Alexander East….you are just beginning to scratch the surface with his music!!!
Bob Hansen and Dave Pezzner were brought together by the unmistakable forces of The Universe in a period of time many of the World’s civilizations have agreed should be referred to as “1992″. The U.S. economy was looking up, and naturally Bob and Dave began to create relatively awful industrial compositions that they were not allowed to perform in their high-school’s student talent competition. Taking the rejection in stride, they continued on until exposure to rave mega-anthems such as L.A. Style’s “James Brown is Dead” and Church of Extacy’s “Ooowee I Am Ready” caught their interest and inspired them to begin creating lo-fi rave mega-anthems of their own that were slightly (and increasingly) less awful than what they had been doing up until that point.
For years they immersed themselves in refining their sound and performing live PA’s under a name that you don’t really need, or want, to know about. By the time important people were busy convincing the World’s population that it was “1998″, Bob and Dave had taken the opportunity to release their first record (“Hydrogenated Funk”) on Carlos DaSilva’s upstart eatHouse label, along with forging a new identity for themselves as Jacob London. This record garnered them a moderate amount of attention from DJ Sneak and others, which they proceeded to not capitalize on for another 3 years or so.
In “2001″ (for lack of a better term), the duo entered into a short-lived and well-respected business relationship with Jon Lemmon’s Viva Recordings and were foolishly given free reign over their own record label, which they dubbed squid:records. They released three Jacob London EP’s over the following two years and pulled in two of their long-time house music heroes, Carl Finlow (aka Random Factor) and Tony Senghore, for remix duties. The squid releases were well-received and the unique sense of humor and personality that Bob and Dave saturated each of their productions with caught on and led to releases on Free the Funk, Stay True, Doubledown, U-Freqs, and Derrick Carter & Luke Solomon’s enormously popular Classic label.
Recently, Jacob London have been neglecting important areas of their personal lives (hygiene not included) with a steady flow of remix offers and international gigging, including Toronto, Japan, the UK, Vancouver BC, and Cleveland.
LIVE @ ETG, JUNE 17TH with guest DJ Sky Ortiz (Uniting Souls SCM SEA) celebrating his Birthday!!!
James Dewitt Yancey (February 7, 1974 – February 10, 2006), better known by the stage names J Dilla and Jay Dee, was an American record producer who emerged from the mid-1990s underground hip hop scene in Detroit, Michigan. According to his obituary at NPR.org, he “was one of the music industry’s most influential hip-hop artists, working for big-name acts like A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Busta Rhymes and Common.” Just as his music was becoming increasingly popular, Yancey died in 2006 of the blood disease TTP.
