Burnerism is the debut release of TEAM SHADETEk on Warp records. The title refers to both the pyrotechnically abstract aesthetics of wild-style graffiti and the artists’ practice of allowing no tracks to escape their SHTBox studio unless they are tested and confirmed burning hot. Soze.sht and Zach Zizmore One grew up in the same neighborhood in downtown Manhattan and started producing tracks together in 1999. Their early releases on their own SHADETEk label along with recent releases on Kid606's Tigerbeat family of labels have been extremely well received around the world and have been featured on a wide range of discriminating DJs playlists including those of the Optimo crew, The Bug's Razor X Sound, 4Tet, Graham Massey, DJ /Rupture, Kid606 and Mary Ann Hobbes on the BBC's Breeze Block show. This combined with their high energy live appearances at venues including Berlin's Döner Lounge and Labland, WMF, NYC at Tonic, Joe's Pub and Pianos, London's Wheels Instead of Hooves parties, Glasgow's Optimo and the Panoptica festival in Belgium among many, many others have contributed to their reputations as one of the most exciting up and coming crews in the current electronica landscape.
DJ /Rupture describes their style as 'outernational' spanning a range of influences from the hiphop and dancehall of their upbringing in NYC, raga jungle, experimental electronica from Warp artists like Autechre and Aphex along with a strong dose of urban youth culture aesthetics including punk rock 'destroy it yourself' means of production, rave culture and the competitive battle aesthetics of graffiti and hiphop. These colliding worlds, combined with their discovery of the plasticity of digital art production at a young age lead TEAM SHADETEk to their current technological urban aesthetic.
DJ /Rupture describes their style as 'outernational' spanning a range of influences from the hiphop and dancehall of their upbringing in NYC, raga jungle, experimental electronica from Warp artists like Autechre and Aphex along with a strong dose of urban youth culture aesthetics including punk rock 'destroy it yourself' means of production, rave culture and the competitive battle aesthetics of graffiti and hiphop. These colliding worlds, combined with their discovery of the plasticity of digital art production at a young age lead TEAM SHADETEk to their current technological urban aesthetic.
