Nevergreen: Emancipator

To most folks, it must seem like this young electronic producer came out of the blue (wherever that location is, I've been looking for it most of my life). Emancipator, also called Douglas Appling, played his first live show in July of 2009, opening for Bonobo at the Roseland Theater. Since then, he's toured with Bassnectar,  and drawn crowds at festivals like Trinumeral and Symbiosis, in addition to closing out Sound Tribe Sector 9’s late-night parties in Denver at the request of the band. Emancipator has also landed a Puma sponsorship, given an interview to Rolling Stone Japan, discovered that one of his songs was played at the Beijing Olympics (still trying to figure out how that happened) and his song “Shook,” a mash-up that perfectly mixes Mobb Deep's behemoth-y raps with a haunting-as-ever track from the Icelandic band Sigur Ros, became the highest-rated song on Hype Machine’s “Best 50 Songs of 2007,” and has appeared on Hype Machine as the #2 most popular song in April 2009. Meanwhile, we his fans wait hungrily for the next piece of work.