Eskmo - Touring Europe October
Littlebig welcomes ESKMO. Brendan Angelides is a San Francisco based electronic music producer who, in the past five years has released over a dozen singles and EPs whilst touring throughout North America and Europe. Hailed by Amon Tobin as "Some of the best production I've heard in recent times." Eskmo is hitting the UK & Europe in October 2010, more details on that soon!
In the past two years his multi-genre compositions have been featured on influential labels like Warp Records and Planet Mu. He's also remixed works by diverse artists such as Bibio, Spor, STS9, and Bar9, to name a few. While Angelides' tracks encompass a wide range of electronic styles, he avoids classifications. Bleep described his tracks as "Masterfully produced... sophisticated, post-Dilla hip-hop funk". His last single of 2009 entitled "Let Them Sing" on Mu was met with equal praise and described by sites like Boomkat as "[Putting] Eskmo on his own electronic plateau."
In 2009, Angelides found support and praise from a variety of outlets. In February “Agnus Dei” track was featured on the front page of Diplo’s Maddecent.com. “Hypercolor” was soon making rotation on Mary Anne Hobbs' BBC Radio 1 show and was presented by Bleep as one of the top 100 tracks of 2009 in their catalog. Soon after his remix of Warp's Bibio appeared in Pitchfork, he was asked by Flying Lotus to perform at the Brainfeeder Sessions in LA alongside Nosaj Thing. Angelides has since joined forces with Amon Tobin in a collaborative music project called "ESKAMON" that highlights their love of field recoding and unique take on sound manipulation. His first single on Warp entitled "Lands and Bones" featuring Swan was released as a split 12” single with his good friend EPROM.
Eskmo always performs live. His innovative, emotive on-stage performances utilize Ableton Live software with various MIDI controllers to manipulate keyboard work, effects, field recordings and synth tones.
Contact > marcus{at}littlebig.org.uk
Scion Radio 17: Eskmo Interview from Scion A/V on Vimeo.
Eskmo on Myspace
Eskmo Website
Download the Eskmo “Colorbrain Mix” here. (Recorded exclusively for Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder site)
Eskamon Website
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Review from Boomkat
“Eskmo [is] on his own electronic plateau.”
Review from DJMAG
“Dark, moody and quite magnificent."
Review from XLR8R
“Science fiction-like … worthy of being a soundtrack to Ninja Scroll ... Spine tingling stu.”
Review from Pitchfork
“Eskmo turns (Bibio's) "Dwrcan"into a lurching, primordial thing, amplifying a faint oozy quality already latent in it."
Review from Knowledge Magazine
“Raw ... winding subs ... melodic intrigue ... recommended.”
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