Wajatta might seem like an odd musical couple: A fly-by-the-seat-of-his-pants improviser joins up with a meticulous electronic composer. But they make it work. 'Our sort of mantra is like: Art shouldn't be painful,' John Tejada says.
, a fly-by-the-seat-of-his-pants improviser, and John Tejada, a meticulous electronic composer. Despite seeming like a bit of an odd couple,It is hard to describe Reggie Watts exactly. Currently the bandleader for, he started his career as a comedian with a particular skill: a sort of absurd stream of consciousness. He created intricate improvised pieces of music by looping wordless vocals live, like in his 2012 TED talk."I just add drums, bass, rhythmic elements," Watts explains.
"I'd always wanted to make proper dance music, like techno/house kind of realm. I have always been trying to do [that with] my own electronic projects, but not quite getting the sounds right," he says."It was always a dream to be recognized by the scenes that I really dug.""one of the most important figures in LA dance music for a couple decades.
With Tejada's grounding in composition, Watts now had the missing element he needed to make the music he'd dreamed of.
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