Change Request | Theoretical Certainty LP

“The Mainstay Chicago House DJ/Producer Has Put Together an Exquisite LP of Introspective Abstract Musical Ambience on 2x12” Double Pack”

 

Releasing October 22nd, 2020 on leftfield Minneapolis' imprint, Abstrakt Xpressions, the LP is a comprehensive collection of diversely interesting music from a modern avant-garde musician and contemporary music producer who is at the top of his game, both creatively & technically. This seventeen track album by the mainstay Chicago House DJ/Producer Andrew Emil, under his Change Request moniker, spans an eclectic voyage of musical abstraction through explorative spatial designs, experimental dissonant harmonic schemes, and lucid song structures, featuring a group of global guest artists, from Belgium, San Francisco, and Chicago.    

Long time Chicago House Music DJ/Producer Andrew Emil has been a respected fixture and familiar face in his vibrant local and the global music scenes for over two decades. A preeminent figure in Chicago’s 3rd wave of house music artists, his musical background begins with being a concert-trained percussionist since age 11. Originally from KCMO, he earned a chair in the Kansas City Symphony before moving to Chicago in the late nineties to attend Columbia College Chicago.  

 

In 2012, taking a step back from strictly releasing dancefloor-oriented singles—combining up-tempo, mid-tempo, downtempo, and cinematic ambient musical offerings into a new project—Emil debuted the Change Request project and production moniker. After the release of this project’s first EP, the Change Theory on four play music, came the project’s debut single on Seasons Recordings with “After All”, then another single featuring house music icon, Chez Damier, “I Wanna Go Back”—which included a remarkable rework from Glenn Underground—on Glenview Records. 

 

Still continuing to work as a keyboard session player, music arranger, and orchestrator—on projects ranging from concert works to film and TV—Andrew began to write a large number of experimental tracks, compositional etudes, and abstract productions which he archived for yet unknown future releases. Eventually, he created a home for these extracurricular pieces by birthing an electronic-orchestral imprint—in partnership with celebrated media composer, Nathaniel Smith—AstraVox Music.  

 

This effort saw Emil exploring what he refers to as “incidental dramatic music” with a string of releases that have come to define this unique type of tone poem. Beginning with the Light Years EP, then crafting more atmospheric sound designs with the Long Distance EP,  as well as exploring longer format sonic spaces with the Kinetic Propulsion EP, his ideas on abstract musical presentation and sonic painting became much more poignant and vivid. 

A culmination of this on-going explorative artistic development led to the next logical step in this creative process: the creation of a conceptual long-play for the Change Request project, formatted in this style of musical storytelling. And this is where the idea behind the Theoretical Certainty LP on the Minneapolis record label, Abstrakt Xpressions, was initially conceived from.

____________

 

Artist: Change Request aka Andrew Emil

Album: Theoretical Certainty LP

Label: Abstrakt Xpressions

Formats: 2x12" LP + Digital

Release Date: Oct 22nd

Catalog Number: AX008

Artwork: Olivia Arthur

Design: Chris Nalbandian

Streaming Playlist: https://bit.ly/3jijX1D

Purchase LP/Digital: https://bit.ly/3l8t4U4

Change Request | Theoretical Certainty LP

“The Mainstay Chicago House DJ/Producer Has Put Together an Exquisite LP of Introspective Abstract Musical Ambience on 2x12” Double Pack”

 

Releasing October 22nd, 2020 on leftfield Minneapolis' imprint, Abstrakt Xpressions, the LP is a comprehensive collection of diversely interesting music from a modern avant-garde musician and contemporary music producer who is at the top of his game, both creatively & technically. This seventeen track album by the mainstay Chicago House DJ/Producer Andrew Emil, under his Change Request moniker, spans an eclectic voyage of musical abstraction through explorative spatial designs, experimental dissonant harmonic schemes, and lucid song structures, featuring a group of global guest artists, from Belgium, San Francisco, and Chicago.    

Long time Chicago House Music DJ/Producer Andrew Emil has been a respected fixture and familiar face in his vibrant local and the global music scenes for over two decades. A preeminent figure in Chicago’s 3rd wave of house music artists, his musical background begins with being a concert-trained percussionist since age 11. Originally from KCMO, he earned a chair in the Kansas City Symphony before moving to Chicago in the late nineties to attend Columbia College Chicago.  

 

In 2012, taking a step back from strictly releasing dancefloor-oriented singles—combining up-tempo, mid-tempo, downtempo, and cinematic ambient musical offerings into a new project—Emil debuted the Change Request project and production moniker. After the release of this project’s first EP, the Change Theory on four play music, came the project’s debut single on Seasons Recordings with “After All”, then another single featuring house music icon, Chez Damier, “I Wanna Go Back”—which included a remarkable rework from Glenn Underground—on Glenview Records. 

 

Still continuing to work as a keyboard session player, music arranger, and orchestrator—on projects ranging from concert works to film and TV—Andrew began to write a large number of experimental tracks, compositional etudes, and abstract productions which he archived for yet unknown future releases. Eventually, he created a home for these extracurricular pieces by birthing an electronic-orchestral imprint—in partnership with celebrated media composer, Nathaniel Smith—AstraVox Music.  

 

This effort saw Emil exploring what he refers to as “incidental dramatic music” with a string of releases that have come to define this unique type of tone poem. Beginning with the Light Years EP, then crafting more atmospheric sound designs with the Long Distance EP,  as well as exploring longer format sonic spaces with the Kinetic Propulsion EP, his ideas on abstract musical presentation and sonic painting became much more poignant and vivid. 

A culmination of this on-going explorative artistic development led to the next logical step in this creative process: the creation of a conceptual long-play for the Change Request project, formatted in this style of musical storytelling. And this is where the idea behind the Theoretical Certainty LP on the Minneapolis record label, Abstrakt Xpressions, was initially conceived from.

____________

 

Artist: Change Request aka Andrew Emil

Album: Theoretical Certainty LP

Label: Abstrakt Xpressions

Formats: 2x12" LP + Digital

Release Date: Oct 22nd

Catalog Number: AX008

Artwork: Olivia Arthur

Design: Chris Nalbandian

Streaming Playlist: https://bit.ly/3jijX1D

Purchase LP/Digital: https://bit.ly/3l8t4U4

Change Request | Theoretical Certainty LP

“The Mainstay Chicago House DJ/Producer Has Put Together an Exquisite LP of Introspective Abstract Musical Ambience on 2x12” Double Pack”

 

Releasing October 22nd, 2020 on leftfield Minneapolis' imprint, Abstrakt Xpressions, the LP is a comprehensive collection of diversely interesting music from a modern avant-garde musician and contemporary music producer who is at the top of his game, both creatively & technically. This seventeen track album by the mainstay Chicago House DJ/Producer Andrew Emil, under his Change Request moniker, spans an eclectic voyage of musical abstraction through explorative spatial designs, experimental dissonant harmonic schemes, and lucid song structures, featuring a group of global guest artists, from Belgium, San Francisco, and Chicago.    

Long time Chicago House Music DJ/Producer Andrew Emil has been a respected fixture and familiar face in his vibrant local and the global music scenes for over two decades. A preeminent figure in Chicago’s 3rd wave of house music artists, his musical background begins with being a concert-trained percussionist since age 11. Originally from KCMO, he earned a chair in the Kansas City Symphony before moving to Chicago in the late nineties to attend Columbia College Chicago.  

 

In 2012, taking a step back from strictly releasing dancefloor-oriented singles—combining up-tempo, mid-tempo, downtempo, and cinematic ambient musical offerings into a new project—Emil debuted the Change Request project and production moniker. After the release of this project’s first EP, the Change Theory on four play music, came the project’s debut single on Seasons Recordings with “After All”, then another single featuring house music icon, Chez Damier, “I Wanna Go Back”—which included a remarkable rework from Glenn Underground—on Glenview Records. 

 

Still continuing to work as a keyboard session player, music arranger, and orchestrator—on projects ranging from concert works to film and TV—Andrew began to write a large number of experimental tracks, compositional etudes, and abstract productions which he archived for yet unknown future releases. Eventually, he created a home for these extracurricular pieces by birthing an electronic-orchestral imprint—in partnership with celebrated media composer, Nathaniel Smith—AstraVox Music.  

 

This effort saw Emil exploring what he refers to as “incidental dramatic music” with a string of releases that have come to define this unique type of tone poem. Beginning with the Light Years EP, then crafting more atmospheric sound designs with the Long Distance EP,  as well as exploring longer format sonic spaces with the Kinetic Propulsion EP, his ideas on abstract musical presentation and sonic painting became much more poignant and vivid. 

A culmination of this on-going explorative artistic development led to the next logical step in this creative process: the creation of a conceptual long-play for the Change Request project, formatted in this style of musical storytelling. And this is where the idea behind the Theoretical Certainty LP on the Minneapolis record label, Abstrakt Xpressions, was initially conceived from.

____________

 

Artist: Change Request aka Andrew Emil

Album: Theoretical Certainty LP

Label: Abstrakt Xpressions

Formats: 2x12" LP + Digital

Release Date: Oct 22nd

Catalog Number: AX008

Artwork: Olivia Arthur

Design: Chris Nalbandian

Streaming Playlist: https://bit.ly/3jijX1D

Purchase LP/Digital: https://bit.ly/3l8t4U4

Change Request | Theoretical Certainty LP

“The Mainstay Chicago House DJ/Producer Has Put Together an Exquisite LP of Introspective Abstract Musical Ambience on 2x12” Double Pack”

 

Releasing October 22nd, 2020 on leftfield Minneapolis' imprint, Abstrakt Xpressions, the LP is a comprehensive collection of diversely interesting music from a modern avant-garde musician and contemporary music producer who is at the top of his game, both creatively & technically. This seventeen track album by the mainstay Chicago House DJ/Producer Andrew Emil, under his Change Request moniker, spans an eclectic voyage of musical abstraction through explorative spatial designs, experimental dissonant harmonic schemes, and lucid song structures, featuring a group of global guest artists, from Belgium, San Francisco, and Chicago.    

Long time Chicago House Music DJ/Producer Andrew Emil has been a respected fixture and familiar face in his vibrant local and the global music scenes for over two decades. A preeminent figure in Chicago’s 3rd wave of house music artists, his musical background begins with being a concert-trained percussionist since age 11. Originally from KCMO, he earned a chair in the Kansas City Symphony before moving to Chicago in the late nineties to attend Columbia College Chicago.  

 

In 2012, taking a step back from strictly releasing dancefloor-oriented singles—combining up-tempo, mid-tempo, downtempo, and cinematic ambient musical offerings into a new project—Emil debuted the Change Request project and production moniker. After the release of this project’s first EP, the Change Theory on four play music, came the project’s debut single on Seasons Recordings with “After All”, then another single featuring house music icon, Chez Damier, “I Wanna Go Back”—which included a remarkable rework from Glenn Underground—on Glenview Records. 

 

Still continuing to work as a keyboard session player, music arranger, and orchestrator—on projects ranging from concert works to film and TV—Andrew began to write a large number of experimental tracks, compositional etudes, and abstract productions which he archived for yet unknown future releases. Eventually, he created a home for these extracurricular pieces by birthing an electronic-orchestral imprint—in partnership with celebrated media composer, Nathaniel Smith—AstraVox Music.  

 

This effort saw Emil exploring what he refers to as “incidental dramatic music” with a string of releases that have come to define this unique type of tone poem. Beginning with the Light Years EP, then crafting more atmospheric sound designs with the Long Distance EP,  as well as exploring longer format sonic spaces with the Kinetic Propulsion EP, his ideas on abstract musical presentation and sonic painting became much more poignant and vivid. 

A culmination of this on-going explorative artistic development led to the next logical step in this creative process: the creation of a conceptual long-play for the Change Request project, formatted in this style of musical storytelling. And this is where the idea behind the Theoretical Certainty LP on the Minneapolis record label, Abstrakt Xpressions, was initially conceived from.

____________

 

Artist: Change Request aka Andrew Emil

Album: Theoretical Certainty LP

Label: Abstrakt Xpressions

Formats: 2x12" LP + Digital

Release Date: Oct 22nd

Catalog Number: AX008

Artwork: Olivia Arthur

Design: Chris Nalbandian

Streaming Playlist: https://bit.ly/3jijX1D

Purchase LP/Digital: https://bit.ly/3l8t4U4

Change Request | Theoretical Certainty LP

“The Mainstay Chicago House DJ/Producer Has Put Together an Exquisite LP of Introspective Abstract Musical Ambience on 2x12” Double Pack”

 

Releasing October 22nd, 2020 on leftfield Minneapolis' imprint, Abstrakt Xpressions, the LP is a comprehensive collection of diversely interesting music from a modern avant-garde musician and contemporary music producer who is at the top of his game, both creatively & technically. This seventeen track album by the mainstay Chicago House DJ/Producer Andrew Emil, under his Change Request moniker, spans an eclectic voyage of musical abstraction through explorative spatial designs, experimental dissonant harmonic schemes, and lucid song structures, featuring a group of global guest artists, from Belgium, San Francisco, and Chicago.    

Long time Chicago House Music DJ/Producer Andrew Emil has been a respected fixture and familiar face in his vibrant local and the global music scenes for over two decades. A preeminent figure in Chicago’s 3rd wave of house music artists, his musical background begins with being a concert-trained percussionist since age 11. Originally from KCMO, he earned a chair in the Kansas City Symphony before moving to Chicago in the late nineties to attend Columbia College Chicago.  

 

In 2012, taking a step back from strictly releasing dancefloor-oriented singles—combining up-tempo, mid-tempo, downtempo, and cinematic ambient musical offerings into a new project—Emil debuted the Change Request project and production moniker. After the release of this project’s first EP, the Change Theory on four play music, came the project’s debut single on Seasons Recordings with “After All”, then another single featuring house music icon, Chez Damier, “I Wanna Go Back”—which included a remarkable rework from Glenn Underground—on Glenview Records. 

 

Still continuing to work as a keyboard session player, music arranger, and orchestrator—on projects ranging from concert works to film and TV—Andrew began to write a large number of experimental tracks, compositional etudes, and abstract productions which he archived for yet unknown future releases. Eventually, he created a home for these extracurricular pieces by birthing an electronic-orchestral imprint—in partnership with celebrated media composer, Nathaniel Smith—AstraVox Music.  

 

This effort saw Emil exploring what he refers to as “incidental dramatic music” with a string of releases that have come to define this unique type of tone poem. Beginning with the Light Years EP, then crafting more atmospheric sound designs with the Long Distance EP,  as well as exploring longer format sonic spaces with the Kinetic Propulsion EP, his ideas on abstract musical presentation and sonic painting became much more poignant and vivid. 

A culmination of this on-going explorative artistic development led to the next logical step in this creative process: the creation of a conceptual long-play for the Change Request project, formatted in this style of musical storytelling. And this is where the idea behind the Theoretical Certainty LP on the Minneapolis record label, Abstrakt Xpressions, was initially conceived from.

____________

 

Artist: Change Request aka Andrew Emil

Album: Theoretical Certainty LP

Label: Abstrakt Xpressions

Formats: 2x12" LP + Digital

Release Date: Oct 22nd

Catalog Number: AX008

Artwork: Olivia Arthur

Design: Chris Nalbandian

Streaming Playlist: https://bit.ly/3jijX1D

Purchase LP/Digital: https://bit.ly/3l8t4U4

Change Request | Theoretical Certainty LP

“The Mainstay Chicago House DJ/Producer Has Put Together an Exquisite LP of Introspective Abstract Musical Ambience on 2x12” Double Pack”

 

Releasing October 22nd, 2020 on leftfield Minneapolis' imprint, Abstrakt Xpressions, the LP is a comprehensive collection of diversely interesting music from a modern avant-garde musician and contemporary music producer who is at the top of his game, both creatively & technically. This seventeen track album by the mainstay Chicago House DJ/Producer Andrew Emil, under his Change Request moniker, spans an eclectic voyage of musical abstraction through explorative spatial designs, experimental dissonant harmonic schemes, and lucid song structures, featuring a group of global guest artists, from Belgium, San Francisco, and Chicago.    

Long time Chicago House Music DJ/Producer Andrew Emil has been a respected fixture and familiar face in his vibrant local and the global music scenes for over two decades. A preeminent figure in Chicago’s 3rd wave of house music artists, his musical background begins with being a concert-trained percussionist since age 11. Originally from KCMO, he earned a chair in the Kansas City Symphony before moving to Chicago in the late nineties to attend Columbia College Chicago.  

 

In 2012, taking a step back from strictly releasing dancefloor-oriented singles—combining up-tempo, mid-tempo, downtempo, and cinematic ambient musical offerings into a new project—Emil debuted the Change Request project and production moniker. After the release of this project’s first EP, the Change Theory on four play music, came the project’s debut single on Seasons Recordings with “After All”, then another single featuring house music icon, Chez Damier, “I Wanna Go Back”—which included a remarkable rework from Glenn Underground—on Glenview Records. 

 

Still continuing to work as a keyboard session player, music arranger, and orchestrator—on projects ranging from concert works to film and TV—Andrew began to write a large number of experimental tracks, compositional etudes, and abstract productions which he archived for yet unknown future releases. Eventually, he created a home for these extracurricular pieces by birthing an electronic-orchestral imprint—in partnership with celebrated media composer, Nathaniel Smith—AstraVox Music.  

 

This effort saw Emil exploring what he refers to as “incidental dramatic music” with a string of releases that have come to define this unique type of tone poem. Beginning with the Light Years EP, then crafting more atmospheric sound designs with the Long Distance EP,  as well as exploring longer format sonic spaces with the Kinetic Propulsion EP, his ideas on abstract musical presentation and sonic painting became much more poignant and vivid. 

A culmination of this on-going explorative artistic development led to the next logical step in this creative process: the creation of a conceptual long-play for the Change Request project, formatted in this style of musical storytelling. And this is where the idea behind the Theoretical Certainty LP on the Minneapolis record label, Abstrakt Xpressions, was initially conceived from.

____________

 

Artist: Change Request aka Andrew Emil

Album: Theoretical Certainty LP

Label: Abstrakt Xpressions

Formats: 2x12" LP + Digital

Release Date: Oct 22nd

Catalog Number: AX008

Artwork: Olivia Arthur

Design: Chris Nalbandian

Streaming Playlist: https://bit.ly/3jijX1D

Purchase LP/Digital: https://bit.ly/3l8t4U4

Change Request | Theoretical Certainty LP

“The Mainstay Chicago House DJ/Producer Has Put Together an Exquisite LP of Introspective Abstract Musical Ambience on 2x12” Double Pack”

 

Releasing October 22nd, 2020 on leftfield Minneapolis' imprint, Abstrakt Xpressions, the LP is a comprehensive collection of diversely interesting music from a modern avant-garde musician and contemporary music producer who is at the top of his game, both creatively & technically. This seventeen track album by the mainstay Chicago House DJ/Producer Andrew Emil, under his Change Request moniker, spans an eclectic voyage of musical abstraction through explorative spatial designs, experimental dissonant harmonic schemes, and lucid song structures, featuring a group of global guest artists, from Belgium, San Francisco, and Chicago.    

Long time Chicago House Music DJ/Producer Andrew Emil has been a respected fixture and familiar face in his vibrant local and the global music scenes for over two decades. A preeminent figure in Chicago’s 3rd wave of house music artists, his musical background begins with being a concert-trained percussionist since age 11. Originally from KCMO, he earned a chair in the Kansas City Symphony before moving to Chicago in the late nineties to attend Columbia College Chicago.  

 

In 2012, taking a step back from strictly releasing dancefloor-oriented singles—combining up-tempo, mid-tempo, downtempo, and cinematic ambient musical offerings into a new project—Emil debuted the Change Request project and production moniker. After the release of this project’s first EP, the Change Theory on four play music, came the project’s debut single on Seasons Recordings with “After All”, then another single featuring house music icon, Chez Damier, “I Wanna Go Back”—which included a remarkable rework from Glenn Underground—on Glenview Records. 

 

Still continuing to work as a keyboard session player, music arranger, and orchestrator—on projects ranging from concert works to film and TV—Andrew began to write a large number of experimental tracks, compositional etudes, and abstract productions which he archived for yet unknown future releases. Eventually, he created a home for these extracurricular pieces by birthing an electronic-orchestral imprint—in partnership with celebrated media composer, Nathaniel Smith—AstraVox Music.  

 

This effort saw Emil exploring what he refers to as “incidental dramatic music” with a string of releases that have come to define this unique type of tone poem. Beginning with the Light Years EP, then crafting more atmospheric sound designs with the Long Distance EP,  as well as exploring longer format sonic spaces with the Kinetic Propulsion EP, his ideas on abstract musical presentation and sonic painting became much more poignant and vivid. 

A culmination of this on-going explorative artistic development led to the next logical step in this creative process: the creation of a conceptual long-play for the Change Request project, formatted in this style of musical storytelling. And this is where the idea behind the Theoretical Certainty LP on the Minneapolis record label, Abstrakt Xpressions, was initially conceived from.

____________

 

Artist: Change Request aka Andrew Emil

Album: Theoretical Certainty LP

Label: Abstrakt Xpressions

Formats: 2x12" LP + Digital

Release Date: Oct 22nd

Catalog Number: AX008

Artwork: Olivia Arthur

Design: Chris Nalbandian

Streaming Playlist: https://bit.ly/3jijX1D

Purchase LP/Digital: https://bit.ly/3l8t4U4

Change Request | Theoretical Certainty LP

“The Mainstay Chicago House DJ/Producer Has Put Together an Exquisite LP of Introspective Abstract Musical Ambience on 2x12” Double Pack”

 

Releasing October 22nd, 2020 on leftfield Minneapolis' imprint, Abstrakt Xpressions, the LP is a comprehensive collection of diversely interesting music from a modern avant-garde musician and contemporary music producer who is at the top of his game, both creatively & technically. This seventeen track album by the mainstay Chicago House DJ/Producer Andrew Emil, under his Change Request moniker, spans an eclectic voyage of musical abstraction through explorative spatial designs, experimental dissonant harmonic schemes, and lucid song structures, featuring a group of global guest artists, from Belgium, San Francisco, and Chicago.    

Long time Chicago House Music DJ/Producer Andrew Emil has been a respected fixture and familiar face in his vibrant local and the global music scenes for over two decades. A preeminent figure in Chicago’s 3rd wave of house music artists, his musical background begins with being a concert-trained percussionist since age 11. Originally from KCMO, he earned a chair in the Kansas City Symphony before moving to Chicago in the late nineties to attend Columbia College Chicago.  

 

In 2012, taking a step back from strictly releasing dancefloor-oriented singles—combining up-tempo, mid-tempo, downtempo, and cinematic ambient musical offerings into a new project—Emil debuted the Change Request project and production moniker. After the release of this project’s first EP, the Change Theory on four play music, came the project’s debut single on Seasons Recordings with “After All”, then another single featuring house music icon, Chez Damier, “I Wanna Go Back”—which included a remarkable rework from Glenn Underground—on Glenview Records. 

 

Still continuing to work as a keyboard session player, music arranger, and orchestrator—on projects ranging from concert works to film and TV—Andrew began to write a large number of experimental tracks, compositional etudes, and abstract productions which he archived for yet unknown future releases. Eventually, he created a home for these extracurricular pieces by birthing an electronic-orchestral imprint—in partnership with celebrated media composer, Nathaniel Smith—AstraVox Music.  

 

This effort saw Emil exploring what he refers to as “incidental dramatic music” with a string of releases that have come to define this unique type of tone poem. Beginning with the Light Years EP, then crafting more atmospheric sound designs with the Long Distance EP,  as well as exploring longer format sonic spaces with the Kinetic Propulsion EP, his ideas on abstract musical presentation and sonic painting became much more poignant and vivid. 

A culmination of this on-going explorative artistic development led to the next logical step in this creative process: the creation of a conceptual long-play for the Change Request project, formatted in this style of musical storytelling. And this is where the idea behind the Theoretical Certainty LP on the Minneapolis record label, Abstrakt Xpressions, was initially conceived from.

____________

 

Artist: Change Request aka Andrew Emil

Album: Theoretical Certainty LP

Label: Abstrakt Xpressions

Formats: 2x12" LP + Digital

Release Date: Oct 22nd

Catalog Number: AX008

Artwork: Olivia Arthur

Design: Chris Nalbandian

Streaming Playlist: https://bit.ly/3jijX1D

Purchase LP/Digital: https://bit.ly/3l8t4U4

Change Request | Theoretical Certainty LP

“The Mainstay Chicago House DJ/Producer Has Put Together an Exquisite LP of Introspective Abstract Musical Ambience on 2x12” Double Pack”

 

Releasing October 22nd, 2020 on leftfield Minneapolis' imprint, Abstrakt Xpressions, the LP is a comprehensive collection of diversely interesting music from a modern avant-garde musician and contemporary music producer who is at the top of his game, both creatively & technically. This seventeen track album by the mainstay Chicago House DJ/Producer Andrew Emil, under his Change Request moniker, spans an eclectic voyage of musical abstraction through explorative spatial designs, experimental dissonant harmonic schemes, and lucid song structures, featuring a group of global guest artists, from Belgium, San Francisco, and Chicago.    

Long time Chicago House Music DJ/Producer Andrew Emil has been a respected fixture and familiar face in his vibrant local and the global music scenes for over two decades. A preeminent figure in Chicago’s 3rd wave of house music artists, his musical background begins with being a concert-trained percussionist since age 11. Originally from KCMO, he earned a chair in the Kansas City Symphony before moving to Chicago in the late nineties to attend Columbia College Chicago.  

 

In 2012, taking a step back from strictly releasing dancefloor-oriented singles—combining up-tempo, mid-tempo, downtempo, and cinematic ambient musical offerings into a new project—Emil debuted the Change Request project and production moniker. After the release of this project’s first EP, the Change Theory on four play music, came the project’s debut single on Seasons Recordings with “After All”, then another single featuring house music icon, Chez Damier, “I Wanna Go Back”—which included a remarkable rework from Glenn Underground—on Glenview Records. 

 

Still continuing to work as a keyboard session player, music arranger, and orchestrator—on projects ranging from concert works to film and TV—Andrew began to write a large number of experimental tracks, compositional etudes, and abstract productions which he archived for yet unknown future releases. Eventually, he created a home for these extracurricular pieces by birthing an electronic-orchestral imprint—in partnership with celebrated media composer, Nathaniel Smith—AstraVox Music.  

 

This effort saw Emil exploring what he refers to as “incidental dramatic music” with a string of releases that have come to define this unique type of tone poem. Beginning with the Light Years EP, then crafting more atmospheric sound designs with the Long Distance EP,  as well as exploring longer format sonic spaces with the Kinetic Propulsion EP, his ideas on abstract musical presentation and sonic painting became much more poignant and vivid. 

A culmination of this on-going explorative artistic development led to the next logical step in this creative process: the creation of a conceptual long-play for the Change Request project, formatted in this style of musical storytelling. And this is where the idea behind the Theoretical Certainty LP on the Minneapolis record label, Abstrakt Xpressions, was initially conceived from.

____________

 

Artist: Change Request aka Andrew Emil

Album: Theoretical Certainty LP

Label: Abstrakt Xpressions

Formats: 2x12" LP + Digital

Release Date: Oct 22nd

Catalog Number: AX008

Artwork: Olivia Arthur

Design: Chris Nalbandian

Streaming Playlist: https://bit.ly/3jijX1D

Purchase LP/Digital: https://bit.ly/3l8t4U4

Change Request | Theoretical Certainty LP

“The Mainstay Chicago House DJ/Producer Has Put Together an Exquisite LP of Introspective Abstract Musical Ambience on 2x12” Double Pack”

 

Releasing October 22nd, 2020 on leftfield Minneapolis' imprint, Abstrakt Xpressions, the LP is a comprehensive collection of diversely interesting music from a modern avant-garde musician and contemporary music producer who is at the top of his game, both creatively & technically. This seventeen track album by the mainstay Chicago House DJ/Producer Andrew Emil, under his Change Request moniker, spans an eclectic voyage of musical abstraction through explorative spatial designs, experimental dissonant harmonic schemes, and lucid song structures, featuring a group of global guest artists, from Belgium, San Francisco, and Chicago.    

Long time Chicago House Music DJ/Producer Andrew Emil has been a respected fixture and familiar face in his vibrant local and the global music scenes for over two decades. A preeminent figure in Chicago’s 3rd wave of house music artists, his musical background begins with being a concert-trained percussionist since age 11. Originally from KCMO, he earned a chair in the Kansas City Symphony before moving to Chicago in the late nineties to attend Columbia College Chicago.  

 

In 2012, taking a step back from strictly releasing dancefloor-oriented singles—combining up-tempo, mid-tempo, downtempo, and cinematic ambient musical offerings into a new project—Emil debuted the Change Request project and production moniker. After the release of this project’s first EP, the Change Theory on four play music, came the project’s debut single on Seasons Recordings with “After All”, then another single featuring house music icon, Chez Damier, “I Wanna Go Back”—which included a remarkable rework from Glenn Underground—on Glenview Records. 

 

Still continuing to work as a keyboard session player, music arranger, and orchestrator—on projects ranging from concert works to film and TV—Andrew began to write a large number of experimental tracks, compositional etudes, and abstract productions which he archived for yet unknown future releases. Eventually, he created a home for these extracurricular pieces by birthing an electronic-orchestral imprint—in partnership with celebrated media composer, Nathaniel Smith—AstraVox Music.  

 

This effort saw Emil exploring what he refers to as “incidental dramatic music” with a string of releases that have come to define this unique type of tone poem. Beginning with the Light Years EP, then crafting more atmospheric sound designs with the Long Distance EP,  as well as exploring longer format sonic spaces with the Kinetic Propulsion EP, his ideas on abstract musical presentation and sonic painting became much more poignant and vivid. 

A culmination of this on-going explorative artistic development led to the next logical step in this creative process: the creation of a conceptual long-play for the Change Request project, formatted in this style of musical storytelling. And this is where the idea behind the Theoretical Certainty LP on the Minneapolis record label, Abstrakt Xpressions, was initially conceived from.

____________

 

Artist: Change Request aka Andrew Emil

Album: Theoretical Certainty LP

Label: Abstrakt Xpressions

Formats: 2x12" LP + Digital

Release Date: Oct 22nd

Catalog Number: AX008

Artwork: Olivia Arthur

Design: Chris Nalbandian

Streaming Playlist: https://bit.ly/3jijX1D

Purchase LP/Digital: https://bit.ly/3l8t4U4