Ecid, mc/producer & fill in the breaks poster child is one of those rare artists that can rap, write, & produce in an arguably equal fashion. As a writer/mc Ecid crafts thoughtful, visual, honest & challenging songs. As a producer he is the definition of a record digger. His sample based/drum heavy beat-scapes can be colorful, abrasive, grungy, simple, beyond bizzy, soulful, sparse & or dark. As a fearless leader Ecid is aimed at building "Fill In The Breaks" into one of the premiere indie-hiphop labels in North America, all while leaving America as paranoid & afraid of themselves as ever.
“Biograffiti” was Ecid’s coming of age record, a personal glimpse at a twenty something just trying to figure it all out. “Economy Size goDD Costume” was his f--- you record, an awe-inspiring, jaw dropping, honest to goodness middle finger in the face of society’s time tested cliché’s. And “Red Beretta” his third official solo album is the career-defining album that people five years from now will associate him with.
Known for his intense, personable, & insanely energetic live shows. Ecid has shared stages with the likes of Eyedea (E&A), Awol One (Shapeshifters), Sole of Anticon, OMD, 2MEX, QWEL of Typical Cats, Blueprint, Glue, Hanger 18, Heiruspecs, POS, Cecil Otter, RA The Rugged Man, Killah Priest, Grayskul, Blowfly, & Count Bass D to name a few.
His new album Red Beretta, which is a “concept” album based on the bizarre events that turn a modern day hero into a monster is in heavy rotation on college radio stations across the US and has received praise from fans, peers & press alike. So check it out. Or else!
PRESS BLURBS:
"ESGC is some of the thickest, grittiest, most surreal-ass hip hop you are likely to ever have dropped on you like the proverbial cartoon piano." -INSOMNIAC MAGAZINE.com
"Ecid makes one think, he is David Koresh without the cult or religion. Or maybe Nike without the cyanide. Ecid makes people listen with wit -RIFT MAGAZINE.
"Yup, I did say poetic extremist, because Ecid absolutely goes off. Lyrics take the forefront on this album, and he has a powerful voice and imagination to bring it there. -UGS MAG (ugsmag.com)
"With a penchant for crafting sinister imagery and flipping American clichés into semiotic finger traps, Ecid shows a complex understanding of contemporary American identity" -SLUG Magazine (slugmag.com)
"The lyrics are so next level you wish everyone in the room would shut up so you don't miss a line." -MIDWESTUNDERGROUND.org
"Ecid's one of the few Twin Cities MCs to go as far as the almost confrontationally abrasive coastal underground rap mainstays on Anticon and Definitive Jux." -City Pages
DISCOGRAPHY :
2002 ECID "STANCE SUB-ABUSIVE" (good luck getting a copy of that one)
2003 Substance Abuse Leg Boots Vol.39 "Abnormal Portal Hiphop"
2003 ECID "Nineteen80Three"
2004 SECTOR 7G "Reaching Recognition" (Produced by Ecid)
2004 N-E-S "The Anarchy Smiles" (Ecid & nOmad collabo)
2005 ECID & IMPULSE "Living Stereo"
2005 Substance Abuse Leg Boots Vol. 38
2005 ECID "Bargain Junkie Classics Vol.1"
2006 FITB Label Sampler "Ya Can't Pay The Rent With Props"
2006 ECID "Biograffiti"
2006 Jordan Miché "Phantom Of The Operation" (Produced by Ecid)
2006 Saturday Morning Soundtrack (Ecid, Capaciti, Impulse, Kristoff Krane)
2007 ECID "Bargain Junkie Classics Vol.2"
2007 ECID "Economy Size goDD Costume"
2007 SECTOR 7G "Scrap Metal" (Produced By Ecid)
2008 Jordan Miché & David Mars "Prom King Stigmata" (Produced By Ecid)
2009 ECID "Red Beretta"
2009 David Mars "self titles" (Produced By Ecid)
Albums featured on:
2006 Arsenic's "Gonzo Jounalism" (Produced the beat for "Through the eye's of an old timer")
2006 Tqd "Not Yet" (Produced the beats for "Crates" & "Drip")
2006 Brain Stem Records "Junction Fam Xmas Vol.2" (Featured on "Tree Crusher")
2007 MPLS Cypher Mixtape VOL.1 (Featured on The FITB posse cut "Sunny Side Up")
2007 Citizen Sade "Pick Your Poison" (Featured on "Bring A Band-Aid")
2007 Capaciti & A-Scratch "Blind Cinema Sessions" (Featured on a song w/SMS "Survival Mechanism")
2007 Sinthesis "Movement 4:6" (Featured on "Dead Wallet's" w/EYEDEA)
2008 Arsenic "Famous When I'm Dead" (late night drunken phone commentary)
2008 Truth & Adapt "Love It Or Live It" (Featured on & Produced "Stale Fortune Cookie" also feat. Cadaver)
2008 Kristoff Krane "This Will Work For Now" (Featured on "Phoenix" with SMS)
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