John Tejada Live @ Fabric from Dominic Kocur on Vimeo.

John Tejada performing live in England is like your team reaching the Champions League final. It doesn't happen very often, and if it does, it will only happen once a year at most. So, when I discovered he was flying over from California to play at fabric (where else?), I naturally had to be there, although it hardly takes much of a push to get me to fabric any Saturday night.

In case you hadn't noticed from the title of this blog, we like John Tejada. Why do we like him? Because the guy makes such beautifully composed electronic music. He's the techno equivalent to Beethoven or Mozart. Every one of his tracks are wonderfully layered with intelligence, integrity, and a deep, shimmering complexity that makes you want to withdraw in thought as well as dance.

I recall once discussing with Chris what John Tejada would sound like in fabric's cave-like Room One. Now I've actually experienced exactly that, it was everything I expected. A vortex of synth-heavy bleeps, elegantly infused with clever basslines. It seems as if Tejada would fit no other environment better. He finished his tragically short set appropriately with his epic 'The End Of It All', which is nothing other than a masterpiece.

John Tejada - The End Of It All