How did the Tesh Club parties come about?
In early to mid-2000, Ryan Crosson and I teamed up and started Tesh Club. I’d just moved in with Lee Curtiss, and we had this super huge basement with my Mackie studio monitors. Around this time we got really sick of going out because everything was getting quite boring, repetitive, kind of the same, you know? No one was really into the new music that we’d been fortunate to hear coming to Europe. There were a lot of us on the same wavelength so we ended up having this deep concept phase for about four months where we took lot of acid and did “research” about all the old records we really liked: all the old Perlon stuff, the old house records, basically a whole spectrum of music that we were really into. We did weird recording stuff like making samples with water and voices. What is the “Tesh” thing all about? Bruno Pronsato actually came up with this “tesh” thing after he came back to America. He was saying that in Germany they can’t say “techno”, they say “teshno”. So Bruno came up wi
