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!"

10/08/99
Gerard on the 10th Anniversary shows: So yeah, I'm not prepared for the meet & greet mania of night no.1, and from the looks of things, neither is Dylan Nathan. But it takes more than a handful of technical difficulties to stop Jega, a wizard of the gadgets and knobs who suitably rocks the house, or at least the portion that bothered to show up early enough.

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).

07/23/99
If this JSBX trouble and the recent misfourtunes of Sonic Youth weren't enough, Jega was recently forced to cancel his dates on the Flaming Lips "Music Against Brain Degeneration Revue" Tour when someone at the airline he was flying lost/stole his equipment en route from Grand Rapids to his gig at the Anchorage in NYC with Khan and DJ Ease from Nightmares on Wax. If we had the name of said carrier, we'd surely be cursing their name right now, but we don't so, "curses to you, red baron!" We are not making this up.

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