DJ Olive (also known as The Audio Janitor; born Gregor Asch) is an American disc jockey and turntablist active in free improvisation, jazz and illbient music.
DJ Olive is a member of We, Lunchbox and Liminal. He has collaborated with William Hooker, Kim Gordon, Zeena Parkins, Uri Caine, Medeski Martin and Wood, Dave Douglas, and others.
Uri Caine personifies the postmodern musical impulse; he's recorded straight-ahead and not so straightahead jazz, funk, klezmer, Brazilian pop, turn-of-20th-century Tin Pan Alley songs and breathtakingly novel and diverse arrangements of 18th and 19th Century classics. Depending on the setting, he'll play grand piano, electric piano, their ancestor the pianoforte (as when wittily improvising on Beethoven's Diabelli Variations), harpsichord, organ, synthesizers - pretty much anything involving black and white keys. Most anyone else trying all… more »
