Eskmo
“Hypercolor” EP
Ancestor (ANC003)
Brendan Angelides is a San Francisco based electronic music producer who records and performs live as Eskmo. His multi-genre compositions have been featured on influential labels like Warp Records and Planet Mu. While Angelides' tracks encompass a wide range of electronic styles, he avoids classifications. Bleep.com 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 the past five years he’s released over a dozen singles and EPs while touring throughout North America and Europe. He's also remixed works by diverse artists such as Bibio, Spor, STS9, Bear In Heaven and Bar9, to name a few. Angelides also runs the Ancestor label, which issued his "Hypercolor" and "Angus Dei" singles in 2009 to positive reviews from numerous magazines, blogs and tastemakers. Ninja Tune recording artist and film composer Amon Tobin hailed his work as "some of the best production I've heard in recent times."
ANC003 is the 2nd Eskmo release on his newly formed label “Ancestor”. Following up from ANC002, “Agnus Dei” / Harmony”, Angelides continues to push genre walls with 4 tracks that are clearly on their own path. The main adjective here is “vibrant”. Rich, colorful melodies are sprinkled throughout, balanced off with large percussion, and thick, floor creaking bass. Blending dubstep, glitch, and potentially post shoegazer-inspired electronica; “Hypercolor” is a unique example of the bass-heavy kaleidoscopic sound emerging from the West Coast USA.
Past Press:
"I Dream I'm Flying and San Francisco are totally wicked. Really some of the best production I've heard in recent times" - Amon Tobin
"Groundbreaking work from the West Coast's most thoughtful bass producer." - Bigup Mag
"Artfully walks the line between experimental and dancefloor...refreshing...A must listen" - Dubstepped.net
“Gentle and docile, yet still maintains that key subaqueous and unruly bass.” – GetDarker
DJ MAG: “Dark, moody and quite magnificent, … Prepare to have your ears cranked open by Eskmo's innovative individualism."- (2008) ("Dubstep Release of the month")
Boomkat: “Won't be so easily pinned down by the conventions of genre…pseudo-classical sampling....something monstrous trying to squirm its way out of a tar pit. Good stuff."- (2008)
XLR8R: “Science fiction-like possibilities of sound…worthy of being a soundtrack to Ninja Scroll....Spine tingling stuff." (2008)
URB: "Eskmo drops a massive bass rolling workout..Simply destroys the sound system” (2008)
RELEASE DATE: April 2009 - ESKMO - “”Hypercolor” EP (ANC003) / 2009, ASCAP
© Copyright 2009, written and produced by B. Angelides
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