Ill-esha explained

ill-esha
Birth Date:31 October 1982
Birth Name:Elysha Zaide
Origin:Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Genre:Future bass, bass, dubstep, wonky, glitch hop, trap, hip hop, drum n' bass
Instrument:Vocals, piano, keyboard, flute, vocal percussion, synthesizer, vocoder
Years Active:1997–present
Label:Dub Police
Subway
Muti Music
Simplify
Gravitas Recordings

Elysha Zaide, known professionally by her artist name ill-esha, is a Canadian electronic music artist, producer, singer, and DJ. She is known for her work in bass music, as well as for her performance style of singing and DJing simultaneously.

Early life

Zaide began her career as a vocalist, MC, and drum and bass DJ in the late 1990s. She was the first female D&B performer to mix records, sing, and MC simultaneously. She developed a diverse style by doing so, blending electronic music genres such as broken beats, hip hop, breaks with D&B during her sets.[1]

Career

In 2001, Zaide's first 12" single "Social Skillz", made with producer Datcyde, was released on New York label Breakbeat Science.[2] By 2007, she had played across North America, Asia and Europe, was featured on CBC Television, CTV, and MTV Canada, had built her own production studio, and had performed vocals on numerous releases with other D&B producers.[1]

The year 2007 marked Zaide's advance into the professional world of electronic music production, as she completed her debut album Perfect Circuit.[1] After having successful D&B releases, the full-length album was independently released under her own label, Elysha Zaide Music.[3] A deviation from D&B, it encompassed an eclectic mix of electronica and pop inspired by Zaide's "myriad of music tastes, and love for technology and nature".[4] Performed with a five-piece live band, Zaide fronted the group with vocals and live electronics using a laptop and synthesizers. The same year, the band debuted at the New Music West, Soundwave, and Victoria Electronic Music Festivals. Perfect Circuit was well received by the electronic music community, and the album's single "Broken Windows" was a finalist in the 2007 John Lennon Songwriting Contest.[5]

Increasingly inspired by dubstep and glitch hop, Zaide began producing music more synonymous with the glitch genre in 2008, and founded the Glitch Hop Forum with collaborator Dewey db.[6] They co-produced the track "H.A.A.R.P", which was released in 2009 on Muti Music.[1] It hit No. 3 on Beatport electronica downloads, and stayed in the top 10 for several months.[7]

Exploring her love of 2-step and future garage, Zaide diversified further. In 2010, she was signed to Haunted Audio and Daly City Records.[8] She has several single releases on Haunted Audio,[9] and her second album Circadian Rhythms was released on Daly City Records the same year.[8] The album held a spot in the top 10 monthly downloads on Addictech for December 2010. Sampling Daft Punk's soundtrack for the movie , she released a bootleg "Purple Legacy", which went to No. 1 on SoundCloud and garnered almost 15,000 plays in four days, before being removed due to a copyright conflict with Disney.[10]

Collaborating for years with Bay Area Dubstep pioneer Antiserum, their mix of purple and hard dubstep reached the international market, with two vinyl releases "Zephyr" and "Lightning/Overflow" released on European labels Dub Police and Subway.[11]

Zaide subsequently released several glitch/dubstep EPs on San Francisco-based Muti Music,[1] and Austin-based label Gravitas Recordings., as well as being featured on acclaimed producer Starkey's boutique label Seclusiasis. More recently, she has released independently with the support of collectives and blogs such as Hebinomichi, Run the Trap, NEST HQ, Earmilk, and Phuture Collective.

Scoring

Games

In 2011, Zaide worked with indie game developers VectorBloom to produce an original electronica dubstep music score titled "Kaleidoscope", composed for Big Top Ballet, a stylized art game for iOS, Android, OS X and Chrome. Zaide has also provided the music for the game "Hack Run".

Film

In 2018, Zaide scored the documentary "Beauty", directed by Christina Willings, for the National Film Board of Canada Documentary.[12] She also scored "Sandra Oh: Inspiration", an NFB tribute to the actress directed by Karen Lam, released in 2019.[13]

Discography

Albums

Remixes

"By Night" (ill-esha remix) (Jumpsuit Records, 2015)

Singles

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Muti Music Artist Page . 2011-01-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101128234231/http://www.mutimusic.com/index.php/artist/ill_esha . 2010-11-28 . dead .
  2. Web site: Discogs release page. Discogs.
  3. Web site: iTunes Release. iTunes.
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  5. Web site: John Lennon Songwriting Contest Winners 2007 .
  6. Web site: Glitch Hop Forum Facebook Page . Facebook .
  7. Web site: Shambhala Bio . 2011-01-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101130004254/http://shambhalamusicfestival.com/artist_profile.php?i=562 . 2010-11-30 . dead .
  8. Web site: Daly City ill-esha releases .
  9. Web site: Haunted Audio ill-esha Releases . 2012-07-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111203023240/http://hauntedaudio.com/category/artists/ill-esha/ . 2011-12-03 . dead .
  10. Web site: Purple Legacy SoundCloud page cache .
  11. Web site: Dubstep Forum Thread on ill-esha .
  12. Web site: Beauty.
  13. Web site: Sandra Oh Inspiration.
  14. Web site: Simplify Recordings – ill-esha . 2012-07-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120506103619/http://simplifyrecordings.com/tag/ill-esha/ . 2012-05-06 . dead .
  15. Web site: Gravitas Recordings .
  16. Web site: Bandcamp – ill-esha.
  17. Web site: Seclusiasis – ill-esha .
  18. Web site: Antarctica – ill-esha .
  19. Web site: Illusions – ill-esha .
  20. Web site: Sweat Shed – ill-esha .
  21. Web site: Unleashed – ill-esha .
  22. Web site: The Living Atlantis – ill-esha .
  23. Web site: Simplications.
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  27. Web site: Social Skillz Remix . .
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  29. Web site: Gemini Soul . 2011-03-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110713125128/http://www.junodownload.com/products/gemini-soul/1247293-02/ . 2011-07-13 . dead .
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  42. Web site: Zephyr. 2011-05-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20110427095541/http://boomkat.com/vinyl/396325-antiserum-ill-esha-12th-planet-zephyr-purple-gold. 2011-04-27. dead.
  43. Web site: Overflow / Lightning – Antiserum & Ill-Esha – Subway Music.
  44. Web site: Blazed. Beatport.
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  56. Web site: PhutureSun. January 2018.
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  60. Web site: Endless.
  61. Web site: Isolation.
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