Live Set From The Plug Research DATs
05.28.17
Take a mental vacation with this intriguing live set of wild, nearly undefinable future jazz, hip-hop and experimental electronics by early Plug Research, Sublime Records and Mille Plateaux artist Danny Zelonky aka Low Res, likely recorded between ’98 and ’00 in LA. Like so many of these DATs, this set is a lost treasure by an artist crucial to the ’90s electronic scene in LA that included Allen Avenessian, Joe Babylon, Dimitri Fergadis aka Pthalocyanine, Danny Zelonky, and others who would all release music on Plug Research prior to second-generation artists like Daedelus and Flying Lotus (who came to define the label for some time).
Listen below and become unraveled by Low Res, and remember to listen back through the first three DAT mixes. It turns out most of the music on these tapes came from unreleased jams by Allen, Joe, Dimitri, and others in that first generation of artists, likely recorded straight to DAT simply by necessity.
FROM THE VAULTS is an ongoing curation project produced by Ben Sinclair, resurfacing rare live performances and DJ sets recorded during dublab’s first ten years.
