Having a short attention span means getting bored quite easily. It also means that there is a fine line between frenetic productivity and incessant loafing. It means ignoring basic personal maintenances such as eating and sleeping for prolonged periods of time. It means spending several days in a row doing nothing but reading magazines, playing game cube, and looking for something intriguing to buy online. It means monosyllabic responses in a heady conversation because your mind has long wandered off elsewhere. It means that nights where one has a heavy workload are also considered the perfect nights to go out for pints.

And somewhere, in spite of or perhaps more accurately, because of these behavioral polarities, work gets done. Of course, it would be nice to see some more items get ticked off of the long imaginary checklist which Esca maintains, but the fact is that for every item that gets ticked off 8 are added. Be it for better or for worse.

Citing bicycles and pause tape mixes as influences, radel writes music that is not easily categorized. The immediate reaction would be to lump it into the hip hop box, because the tempo seems right, and the vocals imply it. Esca came up on a steady diet of golden era beats and rhymes, which have no doubt influenced him greatly, and so nods to native tongues and dig plans are pretty apparent. But then again, it just doesn't sound like that.

Electronic sensibilities and subtle indie rock influences also pepper his work, and lyrically he is far more introspective than your average hip hop junkie. Esca's music, and his art in general, is very much a reflection of himself as a person. His thoughts and emotions are made manifest through it, in such a way that it is difficult if not impossible to separate them from one another.

EPCS003: Echelon Technologies-Days of Future Present

Originally intended as a group collaboration, this cassette ep serves as a debut for Esca's solo work.

all songs written, produced, recorded, and performed by radel esca

mp3s
1. days of future present
2. orion & friends
3. post impressionism
4. la revolucion surrealista
5. foul play
6. Jupiter's 5th Moon

format: cassette
bonus: doctor's orders

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ICBCD004: Blake9 Mix CD Volume 3

Producer/DJ Blake9's (Dead Artists, 9:15) 3rd installment in his mix cd series, featuring classics by People Under the Stairs, Slum Village, Quasimoto, Emanon, Juggaknots, as well as stand out tracks by Irish Carbomb/ Candlewax recording artists, Pasha the Emcee, Defined Print, and a super hot collaboration between Comel_15 (Time Machine, 9:15) and Radel Esca on "The Day When Time Stood Still". Not one to be missed, this song appears exclusively on this mix.

MP3's

Blake9 featuring Comel_15 & Radel Esca: "The Day When Time Stood Still"

format: CD

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Yeah Yeah Yeah's: Our Time (Radelicious Remix)

A while back, after interviewing a certain Brooklyn band, it was recommended to Radel that he check out the yeah yeah yeahs, who had then recently released a self-titled ep. Quite enjoying what he heard, he decided to play around with the tunes and pull one out for a remix. So he grabs the anthemic ep closer, "Our Time", and completely deconstructs it. Karen O's vocals are stripped back to a ghost of what they once were, A huge drum break drives the track, with Nick Zinner's guitar stabbing at the rhythm. Pretty different than the original track that it came from, to be sure, but worth checking out as a wall of drums tumbles down upon YYY fans.

The band gave their seal of approval, and the track was at one point supposed to appear on a compilation a couple of years back, but still, this track has remained unreleased. Free for you to download now. Enjoy.

mp3

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah's: "Our Time" (Radelicious mix)

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Cabin Fever

One summer, a couple of years back, Radel found himself with most of his equipment on the fritz. All that is working is the MPC, and he's itching to get some work down. He comes close to recording onto the VCR, but even then, he doesn't even have a mixer to record the vocals and music at once. Alas, a friend stops by with a 4-track, and it would seem that the main problem is solved. Below, you can hear a couple of songs that came out of those 4-track sessions

mp3

1. untitled no. 1
2. untitled no. 2

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Work/Ethic
Echelon Productions proudly presents the latest release by Radel Esca, entitled "Work/Ethic." A collection of previously unreleased & soon to be underground gems taken from the period 2001-2004. Featuring a melange of collaborations, instrumentals, demos, mellow beats and bangers, Radel Esca truly shows his versatility on this fine set of tunes. Over the last several years, Radel has been working dilligently at putting a solid stamp on way underground hip hop, fully embracing it yet repeatedly asking it to question its boundaries. Coming through with the lo-fi beats, and the complex yet clear melodic rhyme style, Esca has long been one to watch. Hip Hop has always wondered what to do with Esca's unorthodox style.

Echelon Productions & Radel Esca release "Work/Ethic" free to the public for download. Thats right, FREE! Featuring appearances by Mad Squirrel from the Acorns, Comel_15 from Time Machine, some beats and cuts by DJ Blake9, Stamen & Pistils and more!

written and produced by radel esca

mp3s:

1. Leaving Home Without Exact Fare ft. Stamen & Pistils
2. On the Commodification of Time
3. Daydreams
4. Hyde Park
5. Wormwood
6. Once Precious
7. April Fool (Slight Return) ft. Blake9
8. Moving Pictures
9. The Day Time Stood Still ft. Comel_15
10. I'm All That ft. Mad Squirrel
11. The Luxury of Grit Pt. 1
12. The Luxury of Grit Pt. 2

Click here to download all tracks

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