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Empire
State Human formed in 1999 (current line-up: Aidan Casserly ,
Lar Kiernan, Seán Barron & Warren Kiernan) and ESH
create contemporary song and instrumental based electronic music,
with a retro-electro edge. Their music is a combination of analogue
and digital synthesized sound, mixed with powerful rhythms and
overlaid with strong pop vocal melodies.
ESH have already
released 2 albums (‘Pop Robot’ & ‘Alpha
& Omega’on Ninthwave Records), an EP (‘Music For
Humans’)and recently released a brand new 8-track single
(‘Liquid Blue’). In 2001 ESH composed music for a
Sony Playstation 2 advert ‘Anything Can Happen’, which
was shown both in Ireland & the UK on both TV and in the Cinema.
ESH made their live US debut performance in New York, on October
5th 2002, at the legendary Albion Batcave and have even played
special guest spots the Temple Bar Music Centre, here in Dublin,
3 times since November 2002.
In 2004 Empire
State Human composed the soundtrack to an Irish film called ‘Screw
Back’ (Red Rage Films/Independent). ESH have an large international
reputation and following, and have been remixed and collaborated
with: Wave In Head (Germany), Count To Infinity (USA), Freezepop
(USA), Tycho Brahe (Australia), One Lazy Ear Studios (Ireland),
Giallo (USA), No Comment (Germany), DJ Durden (Mexico), Ganymede
(USA), Macondo (UK), Xero/G (USA),Nexus 8 (Mexico) and Synthetik
FM (USA). They recently launched their own recording studio called
Electric Eye.
Their current
album 'Cycles' was released in August of 2005.
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