WAJATTA

Wajatta is the musical duo of comedian/musician Reggie Watts and electronic music artist, DJ, and producer, John Tejada. Pronounced wa-HA-ta - it's a mash-up of the artists' last names. Brainfeeder released their second album Don't Let Get You Down in 2020 and their 2021 EP, Do You Even Care? The duo describe Wajatta's music very broadly as "electronic dance music with its roots in Detroit techno, Chicago house, '70s funk and New York hip hop." The pair has received love from The Guardian, Mixmag, Future Music, and DJ Mag among many others.

Reggie Watts was famously the bandleader for CBS's The Late Late Show With James Corden. He first burst into American audience's lives as the co-host of IFC's groundbreaking variety series Comedy Bang! Bang! As a solo performer, he's honed a unique style that blurs the lines between music and comedy, as is evident in his 9-minute TED Talk in 2012, as well as multiple comedy specials for both Comedy Central and Netflix, and at the invitation of Jack White, the record "Reggie Watts Live at Third Man Records." Reggie relies heavily on improvisation - most notably, the multi-layered music tracks he builds on the fly, looping his beat-boxed rhythms and soulful vocals into spontaneous musical inventions that are funky, hypnotic and often hilarious.

John Tejada has been at the vanguard of West Coast techno since 1994, releasing a succession of acclaimed albums, singles and EPs for such prestigious labels as Kompakt, Poker Flat, Cocoon, Plug Research, and his own long-running imprint, Palette Recordings (est. 1996).