DJNOTADJ’s Deep Roots reissues groundbreaking LP using FMS Recording Studio
Twenty years ago, Lawrence’s jam-tronic band DJNOTADJ released their heretofore only album, Deep Roots in Shallow Ground. Crafted with delayed guitars, rhodes, flutes, synths, pads, drum n’ bass, house, and trip-hop beats, the 12 mostly instrumental tracks flow into one another as a nearly-seamless mix of grooves interspersed with brilliant guest features from the likes of Jesse Jackson (the Lawrence musician, not the politician), Konsept, Johnny Quest, and Leonard Dstroy, among others.
Though the band has been silent since 2006, DJNOTADJ surprise dropped a 20th anniversary double vinyl reissue of their album and the notice that they’d be heading into the studio to record new music for the first time in decades. The band’s frontman and namesake, David Jerett Fulton, reached out via email, and we hopped on the phone with him and bandmate Nate Holt ahead of the reissue this Thursday, March 16.