Dave Aju AKA The Unorthodoctor, appeared on the DJ scene in 1995. Disgruntled with industry standards, he set out on a long-term mission to ‘rescue dance music from the blahs.’ In his hometown of San Francisco, Dave Aju infiltrates various genre-strict circles and exposes unsuspecting heads to his sound with results varying from frustration to salivation. Sometimes minimal, sometimes vegetarian, his music is equally concerned with head scratching and ass shaking.
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Nov 26 2012View or add your comments
Accidental Records are excited to facilitate your listening pleasure of never before released musical nuggets from the Herbert treasure trove on “Early Herbert”. It’s a collection of tracks that were released on small independent 90’s dance labels that have mostly long since folded and cease to exist. A lot of these tracks are very rarehave been completely unavailable for over a decade. The iTunes box set format will include photos, credits, video links and visuals alongside the full audio. A feast for ears, eyes, feet and head. And everywhere between, naturally. Accidental Records will release “Herbert Complete” on Monday 4th March.
For starters, eleven years after it’s original release, Accidental Records are proudly reissuing label boss Matthew Herbert’s celebrated classic album”Bodily Functions”. Widely considered to be a house music classic having featured in various Album of the Decade lists (including Pitchfork and Resident Adviser), for many it was the first Herbert album they fell in love with.
“Bodily Functions so effectively destroys every house music cliché, from which ever school, that my Romantic self wishes just to call this album “high art.”… I don’t think what Herbert and his collaborators have achieved can soon be bested.”
Paul Cooper; June 5, 2001, Pitchfork
There have of course been many brilliant house albums since Bodily Functions, many of them influenced by it, but there is a distinctive, timeless quality in the sounds and words these songs were made from. Those sounds include the distinctive voice of Matthew’s former wife Dani Siciliano, human blood flow, bones, teeth and laser eye surgery. Indeed, Matthew’s now legendary Personal Contract for the Composition of Music (PCCOM) for which is he now famed, was considered radical at the time.
Featuring the seminal singles ‘The Audience’ (featuring Shingai Shoniwa, now of the Noisettes), ‘Foreign Bodies’, ‘Suddenly’ and ‘Leave Me Now’, the reissued double CD will also include remixes by Matmos, Plaid, Mr.Oizo, Jamie Lidell, DJ Koze, Perry Farrel, Dave Aju, Richard Devine, Recloose and more. The vinyl 12” will feature brand new remixes by DJ Koze and Dave Aju. -
Sep 17 2012
View or add your commentsDave Aju’s new EP “Listen To Your Heartbeat” is out today [iTunes link].
The San Francisco based producer who has released multiple EPs and albums on cult dance label Circus Company has remixed some of the most sought after tracks of the last few years including Nicolas Jaar’s ‘Space Is Only Noise’. For over a decade the US west coast innovator has been producing and performing his unique brand of electronic dance music.
He seasons the rhythms of house and techno with an array of outside musical influences - notably jazz and p-funk, a low-slung aesthetic clearly rooted in hip-hop, and a sonic approach akin to Music concrete. The result is a fresh and expressive sound that varies from raw and percussive to deep and melodic and is favored by an ever-increasing number of listeners, dancers and DJs around the world.