Manchester, England’s Jega returns with a confident, striking second album that moves from fidgety electro beatitudes to moody atmospheric introspection. With increased mastery of his equipment, and perhaps less of a need to assert so many ideas at once, ‘Geometry’ is a much deeper, more thematic record than his 1998 debut Spectrum. [...]

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04/14/00 — Well after his triumphant... ah, hell nevermind. Yeah, Jega flew over to perform at the Winter Music Conference last month only to have his performance short circuited before it even began by a testy sound system and an even testier club manager who had yours truly thrown out of the nightclub, virtually unprovoked. Apparently, those $10 sodas didn’t keep the vibe as chilled as planned.

That’s okay, Dylan was glad to be able to hang Brendan from Ectomorph and Paul from Push Button Objects and the weather was as stunning as South Beach was repulsive, in that Sunset-Strip-on-Spring-Break kind of way. And we got our first listen to the new Jega album, ‘Geometry,’ in a boomin’ car stereo... an experience so rarely achieved living on the cheap in dreary old Manhattan. Anyhow, the new album sounds, in the immortal words of Jega, “wick-ked!”

08/06/99 — Two new releases from Jega to report: One a clear-vinyl split 12" with Kid Spatula (aka Mike Paradinas) on Planet µ; the other a split 7" with 808 State on the Slut Smalls singles club (Jockey Slut in-house label). [...]