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The Beauty Room
The Memory Band
Findlay Brown
Marissa Nadler
Ellis Island Sound
Klima
Aril Brikha
Little Dragon
David Alvarado
Dan Bell
Norma Jean Bell
John Beltran
Chris Brann (Wamdue Kids)
Max Brennan
Recloose
Dan Curtin
Roy Davis Jr.
Detroit Escalator Company
Gemini
JosČ Gonz·lez
Marc Hellner
Robert Hood
Jello
Paul Johnson
Neil Landstrumm
Kenny Larkin
Joe Lewis
Alton Miller
Moodymann
Anthony Nicholson
Lucien - N - Luciano
Ian O'Brien
Theo Parrish
Marco Passarani
Luke Slater
Stasis
Suburban Knight
Ron Trent
Glenn Underground
Underground Evolution
Nouvelle Vague
Readymade FC
Charles Webster

Remix Series

Herbert
Plaid
Playgroup


Albums

Release Date
Black Buildings 05/11/02
Excerpts 2000


Singles / EPs

Release Date
Black Buildings EP 2000
Twilight Finding 00/00/00
Neil Ollivierra is a Detroit-born multi-disciplinary artist who composes electronic music as The Detroit Escalator Co. He first appeared in the early Detroit techno scene as the promoter of The Music Institute (1988-89); the legendary underground after-hours club that served as the pre-release audio testing grounds for the Transmat, KMS and Metroplex record labels. A growing acquaintance with resident dj Derrick May led to his employ as the Transmat label manager during the label's most prolific years (1988-1992), wherein legendary artists such as Carl Craig, James Pennington, and Stacey Pullen first exploded onto the global scene.

The first album by The Detroit Escalator Co., entitled 'soundtrack (313),' was released in 1996 on London-based Ferox records. The album, now out of print and rare to be found, is considered a cult-classic. The 2nd album by The Detroit Escalator Co., entitled 'Black Buildings,' was Neil's first recording for Peacefrog. Concurrent with the album production, he completed a long-planned series of acrylic oil paintings as part and parcel of the Black Buildings album project. The paintings abstract, monochromatic geometric landscapes were the subject of a solo exhibition at Detroit's Cpop Gallery. Today these paintings hang in homes and corporate environments in Detroit, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Paris and London. In 2001, Peacefrog released a collection of early-era recordings and previously unreleased tracks by The Detroit Escalator Co., entitled "Excerpts."

Ollivierra is currently on creative sabbatical in San Francisco, where he is conducting experimentation with microphone technology and live percussion recordings as a means of introducing an organic thread to his synthesised production process.