Ready to lay a little class on all those who watch wrestling in their undershirts. Consisting of Don Kazek and A La Fu, We Yo Nee have been together sharing views, ideas and music for years, they have seen their first work hailed as a future classic and have thus far been active individually in their chosen fields...here’s the lowdown...
DON KAZEK
Originally from Polska but born in a castle in Stirling, the Don studied Classical and Jazz guitar from the age of eight, forced to study formal composition and orchestration by his mad opera singing grandmother from ten onwards. After escaping the clutches of his Grandmother, who felt he should be a classical concert guitarist, he was side tracked into academia where he specialized in Musical Acoustics, Psychoacoustics and the study of Quantum weirdness (which may explain why he is never observed anywhere) .
On returning to his first love, the study of music, he taught guitar for a number of years and is felt by some eco warriors to be responsible for the current Indie landfill problem after he betrayed the elder gods of guitar and taught hundreds of disciples the three chord trick, of course he denies all responsibility.
He can now be found working in his underground lab on Music Recognition, Information retrieval and next generation semantic web technologies, as well as teaching a web based course on NEW PARADIGMS IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS (or why futurists should never be trusted). He is currently working on a number of solo projects as well as threatening to get back into the studio with A La Fu under their We Yo Nee guise...
A LA FU
Reaching and learning his trade in such diverse places and spaces as Scotland, California, London, Australia, N.Y.C. Israel, and the Middle East A La Fu has performed, recorded and released material since '96, solo as well as with friends and artists worldwide. A La Fu, was inspired early on by the culture of hip hop, especially dj’ing and quickly found himself touring, supporting and sharing the stage with the likes of Gil Scott Heron, De La Soul, Afrika Bambatta and Blackalicious.
Soon after, A La Fu found himself involved in numerous projects and featuring as a guest on radio shows such as Ninja Tune’s Solid Steel, 1 Extra and BBC’S Selector/World Service show. He also appeared on television with DJ Kool Herc illustrating the art of DJ’ing, filming for MTV alongside Roots Manuva and GZA (Wu Tang Clan), competed against the Scratch Perverts at the first ever DMC Team Finals and later performing at the request from the Perverts at Glastonbury 2002 which also lead to a performance in front of 10, 000 hip hop fans in the Middle East…
A La Fu has released various projects, the most recent is the well received worldwide Radio Skool series which features among others Maseo (De La Soul), Juice Aleem (New Flesh), Mike Ladd (!K7) and Infinite Livez (Big Dada). As well as being a top five seller on New York 's Turntable Lab alongside DJ Shadow and Coldcut, Radio Skool now finds A La Fu taking the show on stage broadcasting live and entertaining special guests such as Dr Alimantado, Prince Paul, Erol Alkan, The Sugarhill Gang to name a few.
More recently A La Fu has worked with Big Dada/Ninja Tune record labels and has done remix work for Coldcut and Saul Williams, recorded for the Big Dada compilation ‘Extra Yard', DeeJayed for Roots Manuva, New Flesh, Infinite Livez, Lo Tek Hi Fi and Rob Sonic (Def Jux), he has also been a permanent fixture touring worldwide with New York's Mike Ladd and has completed his first works ‘Themes’ which will be the debut release on the VaVa label.
