TEA with Tornado Wallace

I recently caught up with the chuffy yet humble Tornado Wallace at his local Alley Tunes record store come coffee shop in Melbourne's inner east.

I spoke to the moustachioed maestro about his recent whirlwind trip through Europe, The Simpsons and his favourite tea to which the response was;

Chamomile with honey of course, maybe with a dash of cinnamon. Although there is something in tea which can lead to regurgitation if you are on a empty stomach, it happened to me recently. So on a empty stomach i can't have english breakfast and I love english beakfast, so look into that for me will you.

Read the rest of the interview I did with Tornado Wallace for Juno Plus here

Jay Shepheard & Tornado Wallace 20/11/10

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School's out and the sun was shining last Saturday the 20th of Nov. Landans Jay Shepheard & Melbournagain's Tornado Wallace help herd an excited Cuckoo Bar through a whirlwind of disco and house driven jams.

TEA's special Canberrian guest Rubicon kicked the night off with a solid 2 and half hours of adulterated and slo mo warmth, setting the tone to what was going to be a night full of mischief and tom foolery.

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Mr Wallace sporting a moustache to match the music had the young faithful and bar hangers on slowly making tracks to the dance floor thanks to some eloquent pre party jams. It wasn't until Cuckoo's transition from heave to ho did Lewie decide to drop what everyone had been waiting for. With the twirl of the index finger and smooth lean back everybody's TW favourite Paddlin was slammed back in to a response of overwrought squeals and giggles.

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137 Hindley street was then treated to some Jay Shepheard live. After some early technical hicups Jay had TEA's wooping boys and yelping girls dancing to the beat of the Jay drum on Cuckoo's impressive Funktion 1 soundsystem. Jay opted for rhythmic drum patterns and cleansed bleeps, an enjoyable contrast to the chugging fours and crackling textures of Tornado Wallace.

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With the night cruising along rather swimmingly and in it's final quarter, TEA resident Clyde Drexler brought the night home locking away a few final fist pumps for the Cuckoo faithful wanting more.

When the house lights did eventually come on it was evident that a wholesome night was had...and who can't resist belting out some Talking Heads anyway.

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Tornado Wallace - Hooker in Paris FREE DOWNLOAD by TEA Music

TEA is once again back in Adelaide and this time we are packing 2 sugars for Cuckoo Bar. 1 lump Jay Shepheard and 1 lump Tornado Wallace aka Lewie Day. To celebrate this Saturday night with TEA, Jay Shepheard and Tornado Wallace we have a free download of TW's Hooker In Paris. Appréciez!

Jay Shepheard's collab with Tad Willy has just dropped on Jays very own Retrofit imprint whilst Tornado Wallace has just released Delusions of Granduer latest with Always Twirlin succeeding his super successful Paddlin EP.

Keeping things hot and heavy between sets will of course be TEA resident Clyde Drexler and special guest from the ACT slash London, Rubicon.

Mr Shepheard recently chewed the fat with Juno Plus here

Mr Wallace did the same with In The Deep End here

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Party on Jay! Party on Garth!

TEA Presents Jay Shepheard & Tornado Wallace

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TEA's blossoming love affair with Adelaide's Cuckoo Bar and newly established friendship with Melbourne's Croft Institute hits first and third base with TEA's 4th Adelaide party and 1st Melbourne party. TEA presents UK's Jay Shepheard with Tornado Wallace (Adelaide show) JUG (Melbourne show) and Francis Inferno Orchestra (Melbourne show)

Jay Shepheard has seen his star rise in recent times, having found a nice little niche with Munich-based imprint Compost back in 2006 (and their Black Label series in particular). His early productions, which touched on the deeper fringes of house and tech house, drew plaudits from all directions and secured him remix work for the likes of Buzzin’ Fly and Dirt Crew.

Tornado Wallace - Always Twirling by Tornado Wallace

Tornado Walace aka Lewie Day is already known for some rhythmic impressions thanks to LD releases on Murmur, 8bit and Herzlich, but its Tornado Wallace and his Paddlin ep on Delusions of Grandeur that has been whipping up a storm amongst the house and disco purist world wide.

With a tantalising Linkwood remix to his name it's Tornado's sloe moe, compression sucking funk that makes for underpinning floor fillers championed by the likes of Jimpster, The Revenge, Ethyl, Mark E, Greg Wilson, Tony Lionni, Fudge Fingers and Eddie C.

Jay & Tornado will bringing some hot tub warmth to Cuckoo Bar Saturday November 20th with support from TEAs resident Clyde Drexler a special guest from the ACT (via London) Rubicon.

Melbournes Croft show on the 27th will see support from autoreply's JUG and building disco sensation Francis Inferno Orchestra.

TEA Books Tornado Wallace

What better way to celebrate TEA's 100th post then to announce TEA's 4th booking of Tornado Wallace!

TEA's blossoming love affair with Adelaide's Cuckoo Bar hits third base thanks to shows from Detroit's Omega Man Robert Hood, antipodean come London ex pat J U G and now Melbourne's Tornado Wallace!

Tornado Wallace aka Lewie Day is already known for some rhythmic impressions thanks to LD releases on Murmur, 8bit and Herzlich, but its Tornado Wallace and his Paddlin ep on Delusions of Grandeur that has been whipping up a storm amongst the house and disco purist world wide.

With a tantalising Linkwood remix to his name it's Tornado's sloe moe, compression sucking funk that makes for underpinning floor fillers championed by the likes of Jimpster, The Revenge, Ethyl, Mark E , Greg Wilson, Tony Lionni, Fudge Fingers and Eddie C.

Tornado Wallace will bringing some hot tub warmth to Cuckoo Bar Saturday November 20th with support from TEAs Clyde Drexler, The Carter Bros and special guest from the ACT Rubicon.

Read where it all began here