An inside look at how ELIEZER is utilizing electronic music to build a whole new culture and community of independent artistry.
Over the past few decades, the popularity of electronic music has ebbed and flowed among general audiences. While the early 2010s saw an influx of electronically-based tunes hitting the top of the charts, in more recent years, there has been a shift away from such sensibilities, as more tactile approaches have taken center stage. While many within the electronic music community might bemoan the current state of things, ELIEZERis doing the opposite; he loves that such commercial instincts have been removed from the equation.
ELIEZER has spent more than twenty years working as an electronic musician across underground club scenes in Europe, North America, Latin America, and the Middle East. He was with the electronic music scene before it exploded in popularity in the early 2010s in the US, and he has been with it ever since. This affords him a unique and holistic perspective, one in which he has made the active choice to prioritize the building of culture, independently, rather than focusing on anything like chart success.
Building Culture, Not Just Music
In ELIEZER’s experience, independent culture is built through communities, spaces and ideas rather than simply music releases. To this end, he views music as a starting point for creating environments where people connect, discover one another and participate in culture together.
In an age shaped increasingly by streaming platforms and algorithm-driven discovery, ELIEZER strives to create artistic works that can help fuel the fire of real-life experiences. He sees his work as not just music, but also spanning the spectrum of nightlife, food, and community. He sees each of these elements as different expressions of the same philosophy: culture is something people build together, rather than something they simply consume.
An Innovative Founder
In addition to his work as a musician, ELIEZER also serves as the founder of multiple music and culture-based companies, such as Chicken Town Records, New Day Everyday, Radio EPGB, and several other influential nightlife concepts.
Though others might see his diversified portfolio as a business move, ELIEZER is quick to point out that, to him, these are all interconnected endeavors. “I’ve always been more interested in building scenes than chasing them. Whether it’s through a record label, a nightclub, a radio station, a restaurant, or a party, I’m obsessed with creating places where people connect in real life.”
For him, music is simply the starting point. This is how Chicken Town Records became a home for outsiders, misfits, and people who believe culture should feel dangerous, emotional, and unpredictable again. As ELIEZER surmises, “If there’s one thing I’ve learned after twenty years in underground music, it’s that the most interesting stories happen outside the algorithm.”
Making Waves in the Music Industry
ELIEZER releases music through Eskimo Recordings, Internasjonal, Nein Records, La Dame Noir, Play Pal Music, and others, all while remaining a steadfastly independent artist. He has performed at Sisyphos in Berlin, House of Yes in New York, and MN Roy in Mexico City, as well as across Ibiza, London, Paris, Lisbon, and beyond. Furthermore, he has shared line-ups with WhoMadeWho, Adana Twins, Ivan Smagghe, Marcus Worgull and Jimi Jules.
More recently, his work through Chicken Town Records has offered another window into this philosophy, with a series of releases that underline his instinct for collaboration and his willingness to operate outside of conventional electronic music formulas. Tracks such as “Hips,” created in collaboration with Corrie Nova, and “Marrakech After Midnight” have helped further establish the label as a space where different influences, personalities, and perspectives can collide naturally.
That approach continues with “Je Ne Sais Pas,” a collaboration with Lola & Lou, which has also received remixes from Sara Zinger and AckerMan. Rather than treating these releases as isolated pieces of music, ELIEZER uses them as extensions of the wider world he is building around Chicken Town Records — one where artists can cross paths, experiment with different sounds, and contribute to something larger than a traditional label catalog.
The result is a body of work that feels less concerned with fitting into a particular scene than with creating its own. Across these releases, ELIEZER continues to blur the boundaries between artist, curator, label founder, and cultural connector, reinforcing the idea that independent music can still function as a meeting point for people, ideas, and unexpected collaborations.
Through it all, his philosophy has remained the same: staying independent and resisting repetition within the music industry.
ELIEZER is no longer thinking about building a career through his music; he is focusing on building an interconnected cultural universe through it.
Moving forward, he aspires for his work to evolve into a platform where music, nightlife, food, design, fashion and storytelling naturally coexist. He believes that independent culture thrives through collaboration, community, and risk-taking, and he is living his life by those mantras, artistically and personally.