Biography
Dutch electronic pair Juju & Jordash, made up of Gal Aner and Jordan Czamanski, generate improvised dance tracks solely via hardware instruments while avoiding computers and pre-recorded loops, channeling jazz's spontaneous energy into their atmospheric house and techno soundscapes. The musicians have performed together in assorted jazz and experimental configurations since the 1990s, although their first material under the Juju & Jordash name arrived with the 2005 EP The Hush on Detroit imprint Psychostasia Recordings. Two more EPs followed on London's Real Soon label in 2007, at a time when the duo began expanding their live itinerary. Ropeadope issued the digital-only Major Mishap in 2008, yet the artists' initial full-length statement came with the self-titled album of 2009, among the earliest releases on Dutch label Dekmantel. Detroit techno pioneer Robert Hood subsequently reworked the single "Deep Blue Meanies," and the pair placed further recordings on Philpot, Rush Hour, and Golf Channel. Their next albums, Techno Primitivism in 2012 and Clean-Cut in 2014, earned widespread acclaim within the dance-music press. Extensive collaboration with David Moufang, aka Move D, produced several EPs plus a full-length issued as Magic Mountain High. Moufang and Czamanski also documented one of their characteristically exploratory performances on the sprawling double-CD Live in Seattle, which Further Records released in 2015. The same three musicians joined ambient techno veteran Jonah Sharp, known as Spacetime Continuum, to form Mulholland Free Clinic and issued a self-titled album on Away Music in 2017. Juju & Jordash's fourth Dekmantel album, Sis-Boom-Bah!, likewise appeared that year.
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