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Adam Deitch (Producer Set) featuring visuals from Diethylamide'Take Your Time' Album Release Party
with ETHNO and The Parrisian
April 8, 2023
8pm Doors | 9pm Show | 16+
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Adam Deitch (born April 26, 1976) is a Grammy-nominated American drummer, songwriter, composer, and producer. Among the most accomplished and prolific artists of his generation, Deitch was born and raised in Nyack, NY and currently residing in Denver Colorado, a founding member of future-funk band Lettuce, half of electro-soul duo Break Science, longtime foil to Grammy-winning jazz guitarist and Miles Davis alum John Scofield, leads groove-jazz explorations with his Adam Deitch Quartet. Deitch is also an in-demand electronic and hip-hop producer, working alongside titans like Pretty Lights and 50 Cent.
An only child born to talented Berklee College of Music drummers, Adam embarked on his musical odyssey in the womb; he began playing a full drum-set by age three, performing at local elementary schools at five, and found his way to the drum seat for area Baptist church bands before he was a teen. At the same time he began learning the drums, Adam started producing alongside father Bobby; mother Denise made sure her son was well acquainted with the likes of Quincy Jones. Enmeshed in his folks’ eclectic artist friends and contemporaries, Adam absorbed all that was being shared and passed on to him from this uniquely-cultured adolescent environment.
Yet hip-hop was one genre that spoke to him most profoundly, and he did not find it through his parent’s record collection. Adam Deitch’s trademark hip-hop ethos was initially sparked by his earliest production work with a hometown rap crew dubbed The Secret Service. In 1992-93, Deitch was frequenting The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, a seminal NYC live hip-hop Mecca where he sat in behind future superstars.
Also in 1992, as high-school students on a summer program at the Berklee School of Music, Deitch’s now-legendary funk collective Lettuce first came together,, serendipitously bonding through a shared love of funk and hip-hop. Accepted to the prestigious school in Boston, MA in 1994, Adam studied with the renowned Kenwood Dennard and was mentored by Gospel/R&B organist/vocalist Dennis Montgomery, and was inducted into the legendary Wally’s house band, a rite of passage where many of the Lettuce members first cut their teeth performing funk and groove music.
Soon, Deitch would join up with Fat Bag, a funk-rap hybrid that was briefly signed to Interscope. This experience was followed by seminal Boston hip-hop band The Formula, which also included members of Lettuce. After his third year at Berklee, at the age of 22 Deitch was drafted by soul legends the Average White Band, learning the ropes of the touring business and the intricacies of funk dynamics with a three-year stint on the AWB drum seat.
After an extended collaboration during a January 2001 Lettuce residency at the now-defunct NYC club The Wetlands, Deitch was invited to join John Scofield’s band for a series of groove-based tours and albums, including the celebrated Uberjam, 2003’s Up All Night, on which the drummer shared songwriting credit on five tunes, as well as Uberjam Deux over a decade later. Their partnership is alive and thriving as Scofield continues to guest with Lettuce around the country, and appears on Adam Deitch Quartet’s forthcoming debut LP Egyptian Secrets, due in Fall 2019.
Lettuce released their studio debut Outta Here in 2002, a year later Live in Tokyo was culled from a resulting run through Japan. The members then focused on other projects; Deitch toured with The Fugees, GZA (of Wu-Tang Clan), he worked with pop culture icons like Wyclef Jean, Justin Timberlake, as well as avant-garde artists like Meshell N’DegeOcello. Starting in 2008 with the wildly-popular and critically-acclaimed RAGE, Lettuce accelerated its output, issuing four studio albums in the following decade, several accompanying EPs, plus Witches Stew, a live record in tribute to Miles Davis recorded in 2014. Most recently, Lettuce unveiled their masterful fifth full-length LP Elevate, co-produced by the decorated Russ Elevado, who’s worked with D’angelo, The Roots, Erykah Badu, among others. Recently, the band has shared their stage with Bob Weir and John Mayer of Dead & Company at a high profile appearance at LOCK’N Festival 2018, and a historic engagement collaborating with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra in November 2018.
Around 2008, the embryonic Adam Deitch Project morphed into electronic duo Break Science, pairing Deitch with producer/keyboardist Borahm Lee, a veteran player who’s worked withThe Fugees, Kanye West, and Lee Perry. Deitch programs drums, chops samples, plays synths and produces tracks alongside the virtuosic Lee to create the Break Science elixir. The dynamic duo rode the Colorado electro-soul wave, patiently developing their own brand of bump; Break Science has since released four EPs and two full-length LPs, including 2018’s Grid of Souls. Members of Lettuce often collaborate with the duo under the guise of Break Science Live Band, a colossal combination of Adam’s two passion projects.
In the early 2000s Deitch teamed with Lettuce co-founder Eric Krasno to form hip-hop production crew Fyre Dept. Subsequently, Deitch has himself supplied beats for two generations of groundbreaking emcees such as Redman, 50 Cent, Talib Kweli, KRS-One, and Pharoahe Monch. In 2005, Deitch and other members of Lettuce backed up West Coast rap legend DJ Quik on Greatest Hits: Live at the House of Blues. As a drummer and a producer, Deitch also has his thumb on the pulse of the underground, and his work with SoCal turntablist Z-Trip and Bay Area producer/engineer Headnodic prove that Adam remains an equal opportunity beat conductor. In addition to these myriad collabs, Deitch has developed his own lane for solo electronic music production and DJ sets, releasing a series of original instrumental hip-hop and electronic full-length albums through his own imprint Golden Wolf Records.
Deitch has been nominated for Grammy awards for his work with the likes of Scofield’s Uberjam, and R&B chanteuse Ledesi’s Turn Me Loose, and Pretty Lights A Color Map of the Sun; he wrote for Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi’s Revelator, which won the award for Best Blues Album. Deitch has collaborated with dozens of others spread across several genres and generations. There are few - if any - artists with a resume reads that quite like his. Never satisfied or one to rest on his laurels, for Adam Deitch, the beat goes on.
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Convergence Station, 1338 1st St,Denver,CO,United States
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