Ezekiel Honig
location . New York, US
personal website . anticipaterecordings.com

A New York City native, Ezekiel Honig concentrates on emotively warm and minimal music. Though based in techno, he strives to incorporate the ethos of the past with something new, striding that blurry line between occasional dance floor sensibility and intriguing, yet heart warming home listening.

Ambience, soft, colorful tones, found sounds, an occasional dub influence, 4/4 microsound, and an affinity for off kilter rhythm edits are all involved in this process, while paying constant attention to deceptively simple melodic structures, along with seemingly random percussive elements and textures, pairing the pure and beautiful with more clunky and dirty "mishaps."

Beginning his career as a drum and bass DJ, Ezekiel gradually moved away from that direction, beginning with the productions leading up to the release of his first album, Technology is Lonely, on his own Anticipate imprint. Using that as a starting point, he has since gone on to attain loads of critical acclaim with both his second CD, People Places & Things, and subsequent EP and remix work.

Though he still plays the occasional DJ set of heady, but fun minimal techno and microhouse, most outings are Live sets, using various loops and bits from material past, present, and future, put together in an improvised fashion to create on the fly songs from disparate pieces.