ESPI is a totally original DJ, producer, and multi-instrumentalist, primarily creating with various African, Latin, & Indian percussion, sampling & beat-making with his MPC2000XL, and turntablist scratching.
ESPI's material draws from a lifetime spent creating wild styles beneath the radar, from playing guitar in a hardcore band as a youth, to tweaking knobs in Baltimore warehouses, to DJing events for mixed martial artists.
I say James is a most-powerful eternal spirit in the form of an incredibly passionate and truly overwhelming man. A lot of people throw around terms like 'creative monster' but James [ESPI] really is. I hope he puts out the material I've heard, but he is doing 100 things all the time, so you never know. He's been progressing into a new stage now and even talking of love and such things, so I hope he frees some "hedonistic and nihilistic viking music" before he's too happy or something. -Nick Clarke, August 2009
ESPI really lives this. His forthcoming 2010 independent release has motive: A seranade to the souls with hot blood and clenched fists, crushing gates beneath trampling feet, filling the night with the body's worthy programming. Do What You Were Made For.
Mozart, Howlin' Wolf, Sonic Youth, Airto Moreira, Public Enemy, Curved Air, David Bowie, Circle, Don Alias, Charles Mingus, Dr. Dre, The Cure, DJ Muggs, Beatnuts, Vangelis, Willie Hutch, Isis, Wu-Tang Clan, Large Pro, Chemical Brothers, Ray Barretto, Spiritualized, Alec Empire, Elliott Smith, Aphex Twin, DStyles, Al Green... I don't want to rattle off a huge list, it's just not fair, there are too many.
Akai MPC2000XL, Rane TTM-57SL, Technics SP1210s, Latin Percussion LP congas, LP bongos, tablas, doumbek, djembe, Kent classical nylon string acoustic guitars, strats and teles for guitars and bass...
