Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcjvY_iQgFE
New Facebook: https://facebook.com/EscherBeat

Hey Y'all.

After a long hiatus, I've come back with new music, under my new project @EscherBeat. This page will now be the focus of any of my sub projects (more to come in time). I'm still the person known as "23", but no more music will be released directly under this moniker.

This song was made in part with the idea of the video (linked above). My Girlfriend and I shot this pirate shibari footage in Costa Rica, and I set out to use sample material I collected there (the ocean, animal sounds, streams) to add to a song which we wanted to set the video to. I used a traditional Irish Reel to set the pirate vibe (Congress Reel, Followed by Cooley's Reel in the latter half, which you'll get to hear in the final release). I hope you enjoy this song, and the video!

I have a whole new album coming out! This is just one of 6 tracks on the album. Please follow along, and like my new FB page for info on the forthcoming album!

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Escher Beat- The Pirate Song (Preview) | WATCH VIDEO INSIDE! FREE DOWNLOAD!

Thursday night at midnight, I had the opportunity to play on one of the biggest and best sound systems I've been on to date! A massive Funktion One, with replica stacks on either side of the booth to provide a full monitoring experience similar to the people out in front.... The booth was shaking and it was such an awesome way to get to experience my own music!
 
Shout outs to Mitch GrymeTyme and Encanti for booking, and a huge thanks to Jeff, who built the system, and was an extremely accommodating host!
 
I had recorded a couple other sets similar to this one, but I decided to go with this one because, save a couple mistakes, this one the smoothest mix. It is all my original music, except for the last 2 tracks!
 
Tracklist:
Escher Beat - WIP Secret Remix
Escher Beat - Alien Ethereal WIP
Escher Beat - Inter-Universal Transmission No. 2
Escher Beat - The Pirate Song
Escher Beat - James Brown Was A Gift Given By Aliens From The Sirius Star System
Escher Beat - I Want To Wake Up Where You Are WIP
Escher Beat - Bread Boots
Escher Beat - Sleepwalker
Escher Beat - Dusty Breakbeat WIP
Tron Sepia - Salamander (@tron-sepia)
Halley Labs Associates - Pull Yourself Together

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Escher Beat - Burning Man 2015 - Live @ Sleazy Beaches (Bass Set)

This sunrise set is probably the best set I have ever played to date, and I was truly lucky to get to play my favorite music during such a crucial moment in peoples burns. I've had so many amazing sunrises at Burning Man over the years, it feels good knowing that I have now contributed to a lovely sunrise for many others as well.

This recording starts with a track that was not played at the set, but rather was recorded earlier that week, as an improvised jam out in deep playa, organized and recorded by Mr. Blink (who also plays the hand-pan drum), with my campmate Ganavya singing, and a man named Caleb and myself throat singing. I thought it was a good way to introduce the set and set the tone. Ganavya met Mr. Blink during a greeter shift, and h told her to meet him at the temple round midnight. She brought me, a throat singer, and we went to the temple, almost didn't find them, and they had ANOTHER throat singer join. What are the chances? I apologize if the introductory voice bothers you, a solo version will be available soon.

To set the stage, the set started around 5:45, with a sunrise set to be 6-6:30 depending on when you count sunrise. I entered the dome at Automatic Subconscious, and had to figure out how to turn all the amps, etc, worrying I wouldn't be able to do this set I was looking forward to doing all week. Fortunately I figured it out. My friends and campmates gathered inside the dome, which had a number of pillows along the perimeter. People laid down, some people brought blankets, others cuddled under their coats as they awaited the sun.

Atop the dome, which is one of the tallest on playa, there is a row of hammock netting material. Many people climbed the ladder to get to the top of the dome, where they could see across the entirety of the festival, including an amazing vantage point of the sunset. My girlfriend chilled up there with a number of people who told her this was the best sunrise of their lives. I only wish I could DJ from such a viewpoint!

In this sense, I recommend listening on headphones or a nice stereo setup somehwere comfy where you can just relax and unwind (perhaps from a long night of dancing like everyone there!)

Lastly, this set is dedicated to Mark Last, who, when I landed in California on the way to the burn, I found out had passed away. Mark was a huge motivating force both in my music, and getting me involved in the burner community. Without him I'd likely not have gotten to do this set.

RIP Mark.


Tracklist:
0:00 - @david-blink, @ganavya-doraiswamy, Caleb Epstein, Escher Beat - Deep Playa Excursion #1 (Set Intro)
6:06 - Anahata (@mattegillard) - Moments
13:10 - @vnvnation - Secluded Spaces
18:40 - @invention - Bluffs
22:13 - @hotsugar - Trauma
25:20 - @andrea-music - Work The Middle (@kodaktograph Remix)
29:30 - @sorrowgarage - 21.12.2012 (@iamhajimari Bootleg)
32:20 - @tennysonmusic - Lay-By
36:37 - @xandg - 4am
39:34 - @olliemn - Tonight
43:00 - Escher Beat & 23 - Unfinished Live Bass Atmosphere Experiment
46:37 - Escher Beat & 23 - Psychedelic Saloon (Old Unfinished WIP)
51:00 - @evilneedleprod - Sunday Morning
53:45 - @dmnamusic - Fox
58:12 - @oneiro-music - Lumin
1:02:05 - @galimatias & @sorrowgarage - Subside
1:06:00 - Escher Beat - Dusty Breakbeat (WIP)
1:12:20 - Escher Beat - I Want To Wake Up Where You Are
1:18:14 - MisterMack (@chrismcclenney) - Blue In Green

Escher Beat - Sunrise Chillout Set @ Autosub - Burning Man 2015

I was sitting in my studio late one night, trying to decide what I wanted to work on, when I got a loop stuck in my head. "I want to wake up where you are..." like plenty of songs that get stuck in our heads, I didn't know the rest of the song, so it was stuck looping. I couldn't even remember the song.

So I googled it, and my immediate response was, "what the fuck is that doing looping in my head, over a decade later?" In that moment my brain snapped into a mental jam session, where the loop was used over a really sick futuristic club kinda beat. As soon as I heard this, I knew I had to write it down. From that moment, I spent 12+ hours straight on it, developing the general concept, then returning to the studio for more multi hour sessions on it, refining it, playing it at burning man, refining it some more, and then finally releasing it now.

Through this song, you are not only experiencing a song, but you are also experiencing what I felt when the song came to conception: that familiar-but-out-of-reach memory looping in your head, in completely unexpected ways.

There are a lot of ideas about what makes a song or sound "psychedelic", and there are a lot of elements in the track that reflect those traditional ideas, but I think even bigger than that is the ability for a body of work to tap in psychologically with a plan, and bring out feelings inside that are foreign or unfamiliar in normal life.

I hope you enjoy this track as much as I did making it!

EB

Free Download: http://get.tndn.io/l/8FOFgg-A05

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Escher Beat - I Want To Wake Up Where You Are (Free Download)

Watch the Film: https://vimeo.com/144383869

This track is created entirely with processed samples I recorded on site at a 100 year old 10-story gutted and abandoned hotel. I made it for a short film we made while doing a photoshoot there in collaboration with Jamie Roadkill of Bonedage. 

This isn't necessarily an Escher Beat thing, but I don't have any plans for an encompassing side project at the moment.

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BONEDAGE [Soundtrack for an Experimental Film]

Escher Beat - Formless Form No. 1 (How My Ghosts Sing Me To Sleep)

Credits:
Handpan Drum & Recording: Mr. Blink @david-blink
Vocals: Ganavya Doraiswamy @ganavya-doraiswamy
Throat Singing: Caleb Epstein (Left)& 23 (right)

Recorded just past midnight in the middle of the Black Rock Desert, this existence of this song is the culmination of a series of chance encounters:

It started 3 years ago, where I ran into @encanti at Burning Man out of sheer luck, and a good ear. The next year, I needed a new camp, and Encanti's Camp Cwality took me in with loving arms. At this camp, I also met Ganavya, a friend of Encanti, who is an amazing Indian singer. We and a few others did a drone performance at the temple, which was one of my highlights of burning man that year.

Fast forward to this year.

Ganavya had decided to do a volunteer greeter shift. During this shift, she met a man named Mr. Blink, who told her of an improvised recording project he had, out in deep playa. He told her to meet behind the temple at midnight.

When I arrived at my camp, Ganavya told me this, and said I should join, as I am a throat singer, and supposedly there would be another throat singer there (a rarity, though perhaps not at Burning Man).

We set out to the temple just before midnight. We biked around the temple once, but didn't see anything obvious. Ganavya had forgotten what Mr. Blink looked like, and was beginning to question her memory of events. We biked around a bit more and stopped, trying to figure out what we should do. Just before we considered leaving, I happened to remember a man while we were biking around who had a large trailer on his bike, and had a feeling that might be him.

We went over, and sure enough, it was them. We waited a bit longer for Caleb, the other thoat singer, and as he arrived, we set out into deep playa  (open desert) to find a spot to record. Eventually we happened upon a nice open area where the creator of the space was present, greeting us as he burned sage on the perimeters.

We sat down, and set up mics for everyone, in a circle. It was Ganavya singing, Caleb throat singing, Mr Blink on a beautiful hand-pan hangdrum, and me also throat singing.

This song is the very first thing that came out of us. It is completely improvised, and the recording reflects the 3D space in which we were arranged. You can check out the original more raw version at @david-blink, but I created this edit for my chillout mix, giving it a more ethereal quality with grand reverbs, swelling octave shifts and other more atmospheric effects. 

Please enjoy this rare treasure!

Deep Playa Wonderings - Incantation Breath feat. Ganavya (Escher Beat Ethereal Mix)

A little over 1 year ago, I started secretly working on a bootleg remix of one my girlfriends favorite songs since highschool, "Emergency" by In Strict Confidence, released in 2004. The track was to be surprise-revealed to her only as the opener for my first set at Burning Man 2015.

While working on it, I decided to message the band on facebook, on the off chance that they might provide the stems and/or might approve of a public bootleg release for free. With no response, I continued onward, and ended up recreating a number of the synths and using really crude vocal isolation techniques to make the track.

While away from home on my way to Burning Man, and with the track "completed" I finally got a response! They had the stems, but in a very old version of logic, when Macs were still on PowerPC. I showed them what I had made so far, and they liked it enough that if I could find a way to salvage the stems from the old project file, they would make it an official release as bonus content in the future.

And so not only did I get to tell her I remixed her favorite song from high school, but also that the band would be making it as an official remix!

1 Year later almost to the date, the song is now released in physical format at http://www.minuswelt.de/shop/product_info.php?products_id=277 and in digital format at http://instrictconfidence.bandcamp.com/album/everything-must-change

Unfortunately the master they've released does not satisfy me, so I've uploaded my personal master here. If you purchase the original and email me a receipt at escherbeat at gmail dot com, I will provide you with my version of the master if you'd like. Cheers and hope you enjoy!

In Strict Confidence - Emergency (Escher Beat Remix)

I finished this song 8 months ago, and at the time I considered it one of the best things I ever wrote. I sent it around to just about everyone I could think of in hopes I could get some help promoting my musical vision to a wider audience. Everywhere I turned I was rejected, with a generally unanimous "this is really cool, but it doesn't belong here". And so I sat on it until I forgot about it. In the interim, I haven't created a meaningful piece of music since. Considering this song a form of curse, I'm hoping its release can free me to continue making newer and even more imaginative music. Given distance from the song I now see where I need to improve. Regardless, I hope you can enjoy this sound journey I've created.

Paragon

Danceable Soundscapes.
Alien Club Music.
Abstract Textures.

I have so many followers due to an old music project that is now deleted: http://i.imgur.com/CRThoUX.png

I follow artists based on what I like and want in my SC feed, no more no less- no follow backs or promotional deals or any of that nonsense.

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