
Team ShadeTek - Percussion Lab Mix - Jul 2004
Submitted By:
Severence
Genre: Electronic
Date of Set: 2004
Filesize: 76.60 MB
Total Downloads: 4
Biography of Team ShadeTek
Team SHADETEk (SOZE.SHT and Zach Zizmore) grew up in the same neighborhood in downtown manhattan and started producing tracks together in 1999. Their early releases on their own SHADETEk label along with recent releases on Kid606's Tigerbeat family of labels have been extremely well received around the world and have been featured on a wide range of discriminating DJs playlists including those of the Optimo crew, The Bug's Razor X Sound, 4Tet, Graham Massey, DJ /Rupture, Kid606 and Maryanne Hobbs on the BBC's Breeze Block show. These combined with their high energy live appearances at venues including Berlin's Döner Lounge and Labland, WMF, Tonic, Joe's Pub and Pianos in NYC, London's Wheels Instead of Hooves parties, Glasgow's Optimo and the Panoptica festival in Belgium among many others have contributed to their reputations as one of the most exciting up and coming crews in the current electronica landscape. Their Mini LP 'Burnerism' will be released on Warp Records on May 3rd.
DJ /Rupture describes their style as 'outernational' spanning a range of influences from the hiphop and dancehall of their upbringing in NYC, ragga jungle, experimental electronica from Warp artists like Autechre and Aphex along with a strong dose of urban youth culture aesthetics including punk rock 'destroy it yourself' means of production, rave culture and the competitive battle aesthetics of grafitti and hiphop. These colliding worlds, combined with their discovery of the plasticity of digital art production at a young age lead TEAM SHADETEk to their current technological urban aesthetic.
The cover art for Burnerism is a collage by NYC street artist Swoon who has been creating a stir in the international art world with her unique and beautiful approach to graffiti in the form of intricate and delicate paper cutouts, glued up in cities around the world. Swoon, along with TEAM SHADETEk is a founding member of the Change Agent art gang, a group of young artists with common aesthetics arising from many aspects of youth street culture. This is not the first time they have collaborated, Swoon having made 300 hand made covers for SHADETEk's SHT004: Swoon EP along with collaborating with Soze on a pair of home made videos for two tracks from the same record. These videos, along with more work from Swoon, SHADETEk and the rest of the Change Agent gang can be seen at www.WeAreChangeAgent.com.
Shadetek Discography:
Shadetek Label:
SHT001: Stephen Hawking Vs. DMX : Rough Riders RMX / Innovate 7'
SHT002: Impstim / Stats 7'
SHT003: Products of Environment Live CD
SHT004: Swoon EP 12'
Other Labels:
NR3.04? : Natural Selection: MD Sessions 6.01 - 9.01 3' CD (Nonresponse label)
SHOCK02: Dem Nuh Know Mi feat. Wayne Lonesome, split 12' w/ DJ /Rupture (Shockout Label)
TURD10: WSHT RadioMix (MixCD)
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Nov 23, 2004