ESA - Sounds For Your Happiness

J. Blacker, architect of ESA, offers his new album “Sounds for your Happiness” as the much anticipated follow up to “Designer Carnage,” released in 2022.

Two singles have already been released from the album during 2024. Those being the mid-paced Dark Techno power of “Join Our Hands” and the Industrial Metal Gabber insanity of “Rats Come Together.”

“Sounds for your Happiness” is yet another milestone in the creative universe of ESA. Striking and thought provoking visuals, enormous electronics and powerful messages is always expected from an ESA release...

“Sounds for your Happiness” does not disappoint with any of these ingredients.

With this album, J Blacker paints ESA as a sinister technology company, with the musical structures from the album, utilised to create an emotional response from its listeners, which is transferred as energy to run the simulation we all live in. Its a nod to shows and films such as ‘Severance’ and ‘Soylent Green’.

Musically, “Sounds for your Happiness” is a bleak and furious slab of electronic meat. With little respite in its 75minute run time. A journey of EBM / Industrial / Black Metal / Dark Ambient / Powernoise / Punk / Techno and Goa, the album is as ambitious as it is exhilarating and genres merge seamlessly into an energetic free-fall of sonic chaos.
Get plugged in and let the happiness wash over you.

ESA Biography

Since Inception in 2004, British born ESA (aka J Blacker) has been
treading its own ground.

A fusion of hard electronic rhythms and powerful sonic hooks. ESA’s heavy, rhythmic style has since become rooted at the forefront of the Harsh Industrial / Power Electronics / EBM scene, predominantly owing to slews of powerful and engaging live shows spanning Russia / Japan / America and the majority of Europe, alongside 12 hard hitting and critically acclaimed albums.

The tone of ESA is harsh and oppressive, dripping with destructive and corroded grooves and the infamous energetic live show has been welcomed at both Metal and Industrial / Techno festivals alike.

ESA’s compositions are undoubtedly pummelling floor stomping club tunes but also twist and churn enough entice universal listeners, wandering into various musical genres and experimenting with sound production in a way that sets ESA completely apart from its peers.

With 9 high production music videos that double as short cinematic narratives. J Blacker has created a visual universe for ESA that acts as a conduit for the messages and stories in the music.

ESA’s music has been featured on Netflix Series ‘The OA’ as well as ‘CSI Vegas’ more recently.

ESA is Electronic Substance Abuse...