"Each place in the known world has a soundscape of its own. But what about the places once known and now forgotten? While it’s interesting to ask what did they sound like before, it’s far more compelling to ask how do they sound now.

What will multiple layers of erosion, abandonment, aging, ghost-invasion and myth do to a place? What rests now in these wastelands? Which bells do they ring within us?

Well, you already know Roger Plexico has been around the world. But what he’s been keeping to himself is how fascinated by these forsaken corners he’s always been. 

Remember how you used to dare your friends to go wander the cemetery at midnight? Roger Plexico does that to himself and keeps a way broader definition of “cemetery”. 

“No Man’s Land” is an EP collecting tracks inspired by theses ungodly, unkept, unstable pieces of land. Capturing the crackle of its bones, the drumming of its phantoms and the thumping of its demons, he composed odes to these monuments of banished memory.
Take a deep listen. Maybe just not in the dark."

2015, Monster Jinx

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No Man's Land

"Where the Sidewalk Ends" is Slimcutz and Taseh's new journey between spaces abandoned over time. This past-present relation turns Roger Plexico's new album into a kind of Library Music from nowadays: an evocative soundtrack where hip hop is always the starting point, but the journey's coordinates include jazz and easy listening, yacht rock and AOR that would resound in those places when they were still alive.
And who knows, maybe if you look closely to pictures from then, you can find Roger Plexico absorbing the past to present it right now.

2017, Monster Jinx

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Roger Plexico - Where The Sidewalk Ends

"Roger Plexico is a mysterious character and his exact biography is unknown: his nationality or age are mere guesses, because there is no certainty in any of it.

However, throughout the years, some clues started to enforce the mythos and began to relate him to the world of Man. "

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Who is Roger Plexico?

"Roger Plexico is a mysterious character and his exact biography is unknown: his nationality or age are mere guesses, because there is no certainty in any of it.

However, throughout the years, some clues started to enforce the mythos and began to relate him to the world of Man. "

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"Each place in the known world has a soundscape of its own. But what about the places once known and now forgotten? While it’s interesting to ask what did they sound like before, it’s far more compelling to ask how do they sound now.

What will multiple layers of erosion, abandonment, aging, ghost-invasion and myth do to a place? What rests now in these wastelands? Which bells do they ring within us?

Well, you already know Roger Plexico has been around the world. But what he’s been keeping to himself is how fascinated by these forsaken corners he’s always been. 

Remember how you used to dare your friends to go wander the cemetery at midnight? Roger Plexico does that to himself and keeps a way broader definition of “cemetery”. 

“No Man’s Land” is an EP collecting tracks inspired by theses ungodly, unkept, unstable pieces of land. Capturing the crackle of its bones, the drumming of its phantoms and the thumping of its demons, he composed odes to these monuments of banished memory.
Take a deep listen. Maybe just not in the dark."

2015, Monster Jinx

Hartford Drive - In

Acme Coke

The Enchanted Forest

Church Of The Transfiguration

Mounsell Forts

Imber

Thames Town

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Sanzhi UFO City

Drake - Hotline Bling (Roger Plexico [no Signal] Remix)

Drake - Hotline Bling (Roger Plexico [no signal] Remix)

Chateau de Noisy

Aniva Rock Lighthouse

Valle de la Luna

Jetstar Rollercoaster

Guliver's Travel Park

Grossinger's Catskill Resort

"Roger Plexico is a mysterious character and his exact biography is unknown: his nationality or age are mere guesses, because there is no certainty in any of it.
However, throughout the years, some clues started to enforce the mythos and began to relate him to the world of Man" 

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"Roger Plexico é uma figura misteriosa e os seus exactos contornos biográficos são desconhecidos: a sua nacionalidade ou idade são motivo de especulação há muitos anos, mas certezas não existem. Ao longo dos anos, no entanto, algumas pistas dispersas foram dando espessura ao mito e aproximando-o do mundo dos homens. No universo do diggin' circulam histórias extraordinárias, mas que os mais respeitados dealers e coleccionadores garantem ser verdadeiras. Há relatos de armazéns carregados com as maiores preciosidades impressas em vinil, holy grails de que só se conhecem meia dúzia de cópias e que trocam de mãos por somas avantajadas estão na sua posse, normalmente em duplicado.

Como é que se constrói uma colecção assim? Estando no lugar certo, no momento exacto. Nem um minuto antes, nem um minuto depois... Sabe-se que Roger Plexico esteve em Nova Iorque na viragem da década de 70 para a de 80 onde assistiu de perto ao nascimento do Hip Hop. Roger era a figura discreta no parque quando Afrika Bambaataa tocava para os amigos, o tipo num canto do Roxy quando Kool Herc experimentava os primeiros breaks de funk. Por volta da mesma altura, Roger andou pelo Paradise Garage onde ouviu Larry Levan a inventar o futuro com o melhor sistema de som da cidade, cruzando disco, new wave e sons electrónicos da Europa como ninguém.

Irrequieto, Roger foi viajando por outras cidades americanas. Passou por Chicago e presenciou de perto a transformação do disco em House pelas mãos de Frankie Knuckles. Comprou discos da Trax e da DJ International na Imports e depois viajou até Detroit onde acrescentou à colecção toneladas de sobras de clássicos da Motown. Também passou pelo The Institute onde viu Juan Atkins a imaginar o futuro à custa de caixas de ritmos fabricadas pelos mesmos japoneses cujos carros estavam a deixar a principal indústria da cidade à beira do abismo.

Em meados dos anos 80, a curiosidade de Roger Plexico levou-o a atravessar o Atlântico. Por terras de Sua Majestade, Roger assistiu ao nascimento subterrâneo da cultura rave e envolveu-se na troca de passos às autoridades com desinformação sobre os endereços das festas onde alguns DJs pegaram nas ideias americanas fermentadas em Chicago e Detroit e as começaram a transportar em direcção ao futuro. Passou pelo Haçienda e pelo Shoom, viu a música ganhar corpo e velocidade nos sound systems que amplificavam as raves e percebeu as mudanças no som, numa evolução contínua: hardcore primeiro, jungle e drum n'bass depois, two step, grime e dubstep mais tarde. Muitas dessas mudanças ecoaram a partir das antenas montadas nos telhados de Londres. E Roger esteve sempre por perto, ao lado das Pirate Radios Até ao dia em que percebeu que o som que o entusiasmou no Plastic People estava a perder o norte e resolveu trocar de cidade. Depois de Londres, perdemos-lhe o rasto... O mais incrível é que há quem garanta que já o viu nas imediações dos Clérigos e até a abanar a cabeça numa noite especialmente agitada no Passos Manuel... Delírios, provavelmente."

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