Change Request | I Surrender Dear (Cityscape)

Change Request | Theoretical Certainty LP “The Mainstay Chicago House DJ/Producer Has Put Together an Exquisite LP of Introspective Abstract Musical Ambience on 2x12” Double Pack”   Releasing October 22nd, 2020 on leftfield Minneapolis' imprint, Abstrakt Xpressions, the LP is a comprehensive collection of diversely interesting music from a modern avant-garde musician and contemporary music producer who is at the top of his game, both creatively & technically. This seventeen track album by the mainstay Chicago House DJ/Producer Andrew Emil, under his Change Request moniker, spans an eclectic voyage of musical abstraction through explorative spatial designs, experimental dissonant harmonic schemes, and lucid song structures, featuring a group of global guest artists, from Belgium, San Francisco, and Chicago.     Long time Chicago House Music DJ/Producer Andrew Emil has been a respected fixture and familiar face in his vibrant local and the global music scenes for over two decades. A preeminent figure in Chicago’s 3rd wave of house music artists, his musical background begins with being a concert-trained percussionist since age 11. Originally from KCMO, he earned a chair in the Kansas City Symphony before moving to Chicago in the late nineties to attend Columbia College Chicago.     In 2012, taking a step back from strictly releasing dancefloor-oriented singles—combining up-tempo, mid-tempo, downtempo, and cinematic ambient musical offerings into a new project—Emil debuted the Change Request project and production moniker. After the release of this project’s first EP, the Change Theory on four play music, came the project’s debut single on Seasons Recordings with “After All”, then another single featuring house music icon, Chez Damier, “I Wanna Go Back”—which included a remarkable rework from Glenn Underground—on Glenview Records.    Still continuing to work as a keyboard session player, music arranger, and orchestrator—on projects ranging from concert works to film and TV—Andrew began to write a large number of e