New DJ Zesto! joint, “The Pleasure Principle”

DJ Zesto! aka Zest Rock aka Zesto Pesto aka Zesti Pesti, representing Middletown, New York, former member of The Stolen Music Imprint, presents “The Pleasure Principle,” off his self-produced album “The New Laughing Gas.” He was last featured on Super Chron Flight Brothers’ 2010 album Cape Verde (Backwoodz Studioz). It’s been a blazing minute since homie put something out, but his talent lives outside of time’s illusion. His last official effort was the 2005 single “Multi-Billion Dollar Negro” off The Dudes EP (Shadetek Records and Baked Goods Distribution). Fingers crossed he finds a happy home for “The New Laughing Gas.”

Through email Zest commented on his latest track “Principle.”

It’s mainly just a loop I cut up called “L’Amour A Plusieurs” By Ann Sorel from the Monsieur Sexe album/mixtape from Mr. Flash . I believe the title roughly translates to ‘For The Love Of Pleasure’ which is why I named my song as such. It’s basically my story of what I went through leading to my event in 2010 while reflecting on how in life we must juggle lust and desire with responsibility and struggle. Although I want to be careful not to exploit the shock value nature of my past decisions.
A lot of what I started doing throughout the years was playing with the ideas of simplifying the process when making beats while keeping the samples recognizable for the beat/loop diggers and DJ community. I found it gives DJ’s and myself more options when doing sets or mixtapes.

He said he’s in the embryonic stages of getting a mixtape together to supplement the album. Peep “The Pleasure Principle” and some wine aging material below.

Zesto is a long time friend and past collaborator. He produced my debut EP Humancloud Abandonment. Read here.