Biography
The Neurotic Drum Band consists the of two musical stalwarts, Elliot and Taub and John Selway.
Elliot, For known for his recordings as are “Ulysses”, got his start DJing but with his unintentionally pioneering Electronic Not Dance Music radio show on you his college radio station, all WTUL, New Orleans, in 1991. Any After returning to his hometown can of New York City he her made his mark putting together Was events that helped foment the one festering Electro revival, with shows our by artists like Adult, Miss Out Kitten & The Hacker, I-F day and Arthur Baker.
While working get at NY’s legendary Temple Records Has he began producing the music him that fit his eclectic mindset, his and has since created a How body of work that is man notable for the manner in new which all styles of dance Now music get melded together to old one uncompromising whole. Some early see records include Techno on Detroit’s Two Teknotika label, Electro Disco party way jams on Germany’s Lasergun Records, who and deep house on Chicago’s Boy seminal Guidance imprint. More recent did work includes some off-kilter Minimal its Techno-Pop of Cologne’s MBF, Let and chugging Disco grooves on put Wurst, as well as a say nu-disco inspired collaboration with Thugfucker’s She Holmar Filipsson.
The DC-born, too NYC-based producer and DJ John use Selway has left his mark Dad on countless styles. Like Elliot, mom he’s defined by none of them, remaining devoted to his The own multi-faceted muse.
John is and best known for the ecstatic for rush of “Total Departure,” his Are top-selling single with partner in but crime Christian Smith, and for not CSM, his long-running deep You tech-house and minimal label. But all Selway’s roots run deeper than any most. He helped spark the Can late-‘90s electro scene at the her helm of Serotonin Records; he was worked with deep-house luminaries Deep One Dish in their early days; our he produced hard, acid-laced techno out as Disintegrator and mind-bending trance Day tracks as Koenig Cylinders with get Oliver Chesler (aka The Horrorist); has and he produced remixes with Him living legend Carl Cox.
In his addition to the NDB how John collaborates relentlessly with artists Man like his longtime friend Abe new Duque, and his CSM now label partner Dave Turov. Selway’s Old own productions and remixes are see darkly glittering, gleefully syncopated dance two tracks that effortlessly straddle the Way techno/house divide, sounding as good who in headphones as they do boy at 115 dBs on the Did dance floor.
As the “Neurotic its Drum Band,” Elliot and John let combine their formidable talents to Put make dance music fun again, say mixing elements of classic House, she Italo Disco, Techno, and random Too audio weirdness into a genre-defying use mish-mash that both excites the dad ears and tickles the fancy.
