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Eli Escobar
Once I Was Young + The Airplane Album LP 2x12"
Off Track Recordings (OFF010)
Release date: Apr 17, 2026
Once I Was Young and The Airplane Album find the producer taking yet another sonic right turn. "These records were made in the same year with a very similar creative process. I moved almost completely away from sampling, experimented more than ever with ambient and techno elements and used the album format as a way to tell a story about moments in my life." Once I Was Young is a storytelling work that journeys through analogue synth-pop, modulated techno and raw, dusty drums with otherworldly melodies. Moments of beauty come through escapist, naturalistic ambient tracks and fusions of Kraftwerkian sequencing with more classical piano, while stark, clubready grooves keep things moving. Airplane contrasts similar shades of light and dark, synthetic and organic, rough and smooth. Glitchy, imperfect analogue sounds, knackered drum machine grooves and eerie synth phrasing evoke a post-human world with icy atmospheres. Elsewhere, warmth comes from bittersweet melodies and loose, funky drums that ooze retro-future charm.
Once I Was Young and The Airplane Album show a diff erent side to Escobar, one that embraces introspection and experimentation while exploring a whole other world of meaningful machine soul
A1
Miami
A2
Lullaby
A3
Dryer
A4
Dazzle
A5
Green Eyes
B1
Born Again
B2
Did A Dj Ever Save Your Life
B3
It Stopped Raining
B4
The Walk
B5
Seq24
B6
Summers Almost Gone
C1
Intro
C2
St. Nazaire
C3
Open Window
C4
Cemetary
C5
Hot Day
C6
Rome
C7 5
Am
D1
Too Tired To Sleep (Awake)
D2 12
Hours
D3
Peace
D4
Wildly Oscillating
D5
Sugar Plums
D6
Still
D7
My Lovely





