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HUMAN ERROR CLUB is keyboardists Diego Gaeta and Jesse Justice and drummer Mekala Session. Gaeta is a jazz-trained pianist with a restless harmonic imagination. Justice honed his chops making beats before trading his MPC for a Fender Rhodes, always maintaining a producer’s ear for texture and detail. Session, raised in Los Angeles’ Leimert Park, studied under the legendary drummer Billy Higgins, and also leads the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra. All hailing from different corners of LA, these longtime musician friends came together in 2019 as a solution to a recurring dilemma: good bassists are hard to find. What was originally meant to be a one-off for the underground series BackbeatLA turned into a regular thing, and soon the trio was in the studio recording what would become their debut album.

“Human Error Club is an experimental jazz trio hailing from sunny Los Angeles, California and whose members consist of jazz drummer Mekala Session along with keyboardists Jesse Justice and Diego Gaeta. With each of the members rising as staples within Los Angeles’s burgeoning DIY music community, this group’s conception is an epiphany within the scene. Their debut self-titled, 8 track EP is a result from a two-hour jam session late last year and is a deep dive into the collective’s expansive taste, as the project pulls from parts of krautrock, classical soul, psychedelic funk, and of course jazz. Tracks like “Before” and “Street Food” showcase the trio’s intricate skill paired with their off-kilter inclinations. The improvisational jam nature of the EP leads to very seamless transition between the different “tracks” of the project, which highly encourages listeners to explore in sequence to get the full effect. It is refreshing debut release from the group and their newly founded Preference Records labels that shows a lot of promise for future releases in the near future.” — Earmilk (September 2020)