esa

Bio:

ESA (Electronic Substance Abuse) is JamieB!

ESA was born at the beginning in 2002 in order to cross the threshold from one form of independent extreme music to another. JamieB up until this point had been writing music semi-professionally for years in various Black and Death Metal bands, working alongside and touring with acts throughout the UK.

Having decided to experiment in Dark Electronica in order to experience a different genre. ESA began to gain European and US notoriety for powerful live shows complete with live guitars, live beats and various surprise guest vocalist appearances. Coupled with a venomous and violent debut album 'Devotion Discipline and Denial' on premier American label 'Hive Records', slowly ESA had begun to claim it's own territory...

Two albums later ('How Pure would your Utopia be'? & 'The Sea & the Silence') and the flood of collaboration and remix requests began. Working alongside stellar acts sych as Manufactura, Displacer, Iszoloscope, Autoclav1.1, Unter Null, Stray, C-Drone Defect, Memmaker and many many more. JBlacker is a complete musician,providing countless vocales appearances both live and in-house, aswell as guitar sessions and general collaborative experiments to a long list of respected electronic artists. ESA has become a product, vital in it's integrity and aggressive charm and a major contributor to the dark alternative genre.

ESA 's sound is always a hard one to pin down. Taking influences initially from predominantly European Rhythmical noise acts, the overall structures have developed and integrated countless influences from the broad spectrum of alternative and extreme music. The tone of ESA is harsh and oppressive, dripping with destructive and corroded grooves whilst still emanating sub conscious melodies and a strong sense of Spirituality. ESA's compositions are undoubtedly threatening and offensive floor stomping club tunes but also twist and churn enough to warrant more attentive listening.

Now on Tympanik Audio based in Chicago, with the last release 'The Immaculate Manipulation still receiving generous airplay and critical acclaim, the fifth ESA installment is well under way and looks set to make it's way to the eager public in late 2011.

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Releases:

The Immaculate Manipulation (remix album) - Dec 2009

The Sea & the Silence - Dec 2008

How Pure would your Utopia be? - Jan 2008

Devotion Discipline and Denial - May 2006

Self Released:

Streams of Consciousness - October 2004

Remixes:

PixelPussy - Toxic Testicle Nectar (Cockblockin beats remix) - This is Meower Noise (June 2010)

ESA - Randomly selected drawbacks of the human condition pt2 (Waiting for the loss remix) - The Immaculate Manipulation (Dec 09)

C-Drone Defect - Aegri Somnia (Ageless remix) - Dystopia (Nov 09)

Ad.ver.sary : Waiting for Gira (Patience is a virtue remix) - A bright cut across a velvet sky (June 09)

Caustic : Tweak to this (Tweaking the Meek remix) - This is Jizzcore (April 09)

Cenotype : Save me (You cannot be saved remix) - Origins Unfold (Feb 09)

Displacer : Cagefighters Lullaby (Guided by gentle persuasion mix) - The witching Hour (Nov 08)

Autoclav1.1 : All Unwired and Behind you - Broken Beats for Broken Hearts - Jan 08

Modulate : Skullfuck - Skullfuck EP (Sept 07)

Dyspraxia : Absolute Zero (Release date TBC)

Autoclav1.1 : Daedulus - Indelible (August 05)

Compilation Appearances:

ElectroanSchlag 9 Festival Compilation (Released in April).

WeatherHead 3 Compilation - Dec 07

Das Bunker : Fear of a Distorted Planet Comilation - July 06

Infekted Sound Sampler : Rhythms for Decay - Dec 05

Fuck Compilation - Hive Records - Jan 05

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