Deep Club Podcast #39: Andrew Emil

Deep Club / Jewel

ANDREW EMIL (aka Change Request / Midnight Riot, Viva Recordings, Apollow Music Group / Chicago) A preeminent artist of Chicago’s 3rd wave, Andrew Emil has been a respected fixture and familiar face in it's vibrant and diverse music scene for over two decades. A concert-trained percussionist since age 11, Emil earned a chair in his native Kansas City Symphony but eventually moved to Chicago in the late nineties. As a traditional musician, he has worked as a keyboardist, arranger, and an orchestrator on hundreds of recording sessions and productions. Cutting his teeth at the former Chicago Trax Recording Studios, after a life in live music performance in orchestras to punk rock ensembles, he crafted a reputation for House Music productions in Chicago under his own name, as well as Broadway & Wilson, and Uptown Tones. Emil's composition and studio productions range from concert works, sound design, and film scores to hundreds of releases of electronic music productions spanning over seventy international music labels. 2012 saw the emergence of his epithet, Change Request, with the Change Theory EP on four play music. This new persona allowed the freedom to explore hybrids of mid-tempo live instrument focused jazz-dance-fusion. Following this first Change Request release was “After All” on Los Angeles-based Seasons Recordings, with another single directly thereafter featuring House Music icon, Chez Damier, “I Wanna Go Back”, including a remarkable rework from Glenn Underground, on Glenview Records. Remixing artists along the way from Common, Kanye West, Little Louie Vega, Jamie Principle, Steve “Silk” Hurley, Iz & Diz, Fast Eddie, Shalamar, Roland Clark, David Morales, Colette, Amp Fiddler, JT Donaldson, and Gene Farris—to name a few—Emil created AstraVox Music with the award-winning Los Angeles-based composer, Mr. Nathaniel, as a home for his increasing catalog of ambient and incidental dramatic musical compositions. 2019 has seen Andrew become even more relentless with long-form and conceptual musical output, including the release of his first Change Request full-length LP, "RiteOnRed" in Dufflebag Recordings, the second full-length LP—forthcoming—"Theoretical Certainty" on Minneapolis imprint Abstrakt Xpressions, as well as a compilation album—The Andrew Emil S&S Sessions—celebrating Emils’ decade-long relationship with the GRAMMY® nominated producer Steve “Silk” Hurley and his S&S Records brand. This mix from Andrew Emil / Change Request has a decided preponderance on his own production—recent works. Showcasing his wide musical dialect, sonic palette, and groove leanings, this set illustrates Emil’s aptitude for creating original music productions, useful edits, masterful rewrites/covers—or what he refers to as “Change Request ReVisions”—and he even bookends this with two ambient abstract pieces of musical noir. Stream / download all Deep Club Podcasts here: soundcloud.com/deepclubus/sets/deep-club-podcasts Follow Andrew Emil / Change Request: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/andrewemilchicago/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/changerequest/ SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/andrewemil Website: http://www.andrewemil.com