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blanket forts
12+ albums
about
blanket forts is Mike Esposito, a Chicago, IL based experimental/electronic musician. Esposito began his musical career as a classical pianist, but was bitten by the electronic music bug during the summer of 1995, which he spent in London. After soaking in the sounds of the jungle underground, as well as live performances by Autechre and other abstract techno pioneers, he returned to his hometown of Boston with a mission. Joining forces in 1996 with Boston's Toneburst Collective, he began a dual career as a jungle DJ and live electronica performer. By 1999 Esposito had adopted the solo moniker esp for production and performance, injecting his jungle and IDM-influenced beats with a sample-heavy and noisy production style. He also continued to DJ in the Boston area, honing his self-described "manic illbient" style in clubs and on the airwaves, until his 2004 move to Chicago. In 2007, after frustrations with a increasing downturn in musical output, Esposito stripped his studio down from a wide range of hardware and software to a setup comprised of two Clavia Nord Modular synthesizers and a 5-input mixer. This simplification was the beginning of blanket forts. blanket forts, as described by Esposito, is in part an attempt to research and develop new rules for composition and performance using modular synthesis. He uses no software other than the Modular Editor to create his music, and records every piece live to to one stereo channel, with no edits. With no outboard ef
