Nice.. I forgot about this and it stayed draft for several months!

When you think of bustling cities for electronica, you think of the capitals in Europe. Outside of isolated incidents, L.A. has never been especially hospitable to thoughtful dance music, and by and large it still isn’t. But John Tejada has bucked that conventional wisdom for almost two decades.

The now-Van Nuys-based producer and DJ just released his 11th full-length album, “Where”, on his own Palette Recordings, and it’s an inviting, handmade musing on how a few finely honed moving parts can make idiosyncratic Detroit space-funk. We talked about the pleasures of a room full of tangled cables, the future of minimalism and the chance that L.A. can ever find its techno niche.

Here’s the full interview with John Tejada in the Los Angeles Times, featuring photography by yours truly.