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First Listen: Wajatta, 'Casual High Technology'

Reggie Watts teams up with John Tejada, an elder statesman of West Coast dance music, to create soulful and abstract electro-pop.
Reggie Watts and John Tejada are Wajatta. The duo's album, <em>Casual High Technology</em>, is out May 11.<em></em>

It's hard to think of a more surprising and winning new collaboration than Wajatta, the electro-pop duo of , the consummate vocal improviser best-known as comedian and bandleader on CBS' , and John Tejada, an elder statesman of West Coast dance music. As befits a pairing this random, Wajatta's debut, is a wonderfully head-scrambling, beautifully simple and technologically tumultuous affair, making the question "how did they get here?" kind of inevitable.

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