Erik Blood

Erik Blood is a musician, studio engineer, composer, and record producer from Seattle, Washington. He has released two solo albums: Touch Screens (2014) and Lost in Slow Motion (2016). He is also known for his work with, among other artists, the Seattle-based hip hop groups Shabazz Palaces and THEESatisfaction. He has often cited his friend Arlo's expansive collection of music for inspiring him. He has worked with Shabazz Palaces since they were formed in 2009.[1] He also produced the Seattle punk rock band Tacocat's third album Lost Time. In 2014, he was nominated for a Stranger Genius Award in music.[1][2]

Selected discography

For a complete discography, see Blood's official website.

As solo artist
  • Touch Screens (self-released, 2014)
  • Transom (No Genre Tapes EP, 2016)
  • Lost in Slow Motion (HomeSkillet Records, 2016)

As producer

As engineer
  • Featured on the title track of EarthEE by THEESatisfaction (Sub Pop, 2015)[5]
gollark: Did you know that there are actually three independent XTMF writer programs, and three reader ones (two for ingame use, one for playing back tapes on the desktop for some bizarre reason)?
gollark: You are *really* repetitive, qez.
gollark: If I were to redesign it, it would probably use CBOR in place of JSON, possibly apply some sort of minimal compression library, and include a "track type" field of some kind.
gollark: XTMF is admittedly not the best-designed standard, in retrospect.
gollark: See, thanks to it loading standardized XTMF tapes, instead of... having me hardcode the tracks on the computer or something... I can just put in tapes and it'll handle them fine.

References
  1. Mudede, Charles (2014-06-11). "Erik Blood: 2014 Genius Award Nominee in Music". The Stranger.
  2. Mudede, Charles (2016-03-02). "Erik Blood's Transom EP Sounds Like the Northwest Feels". The Stranger.
  3. Uitti, Jake (2016-04-27). "New blood: Polymath Erik Blood releases an optimistic 'breakup record'". Seattle Times.
  4. MacInnis, Allan (July 26, 2017). "Seattle's Pickwick dodges neo-soul tag on discofied LoveJoys". The Georgia Straight. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
  5. Exposito, Suzy (2015-02-06). ""EarthEE" [ft. Shabazz Palaces, Porter Ray and Erik Blood]". Pitchfork Media.
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