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February: 18 albums you need to hear this month
Nightmares On Wax, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Nils Frahm and more
John Tejada 'Dead Start Program' (Kompakt)
Believe it or not, it’s almost 25 years since John Tejada released the first of what, with ‘Dead Start Program’, is now an 11-strong suite of albums. And there are few more experienced artists in techno than the LA-based producer: he’s as reliable as Swiss trains (which is ironic, because he was born in Austria). There’s an identifiable lineage in Tejada’s music that harks back to the rave era, particularly with its distinct hints of Orbital. You can hear it in the angular breakbeats that maraud through ‘Sleep Spindle’ and wander through the forlorn digital lament of ‘Loss’, but the similarity is most striking of all on ‘The Looping Generation’, which sounds like a lost refugee from ‘Orbital 2’. Stephen Worthy
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