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title: "The GSpot: HipGnosis- Eric Young"
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# The GSpot: HipGnosis- Eric Young

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[Joseph Matheny](http://jmatheny.wordpress.com) in conversation with [Eric Young of HipGnosis](http://hipgnosis.us), talking about life as an independent musician and more. Also, an episode of **In Your Ear,**Reviewing The Leviathan Chronicles – an Audio Adventure ([http://www.leviathanchronicles.com/rss/podcasts.xml](http://www.leviathanchronicles.com/rss/podcasts.xml) or [http://www.theleviathanchronicles.com/](http://www.theleviathanchronicles.com/) for high bandwidth – lots of animation, etc. Includes cast of characters, episode summaries, blog and all that kind of stuff)**.**Also, a blurb from **FoolishPeople**about **[The Abattoir Pages.](https://web.archive.org/web/20100601012803/http://www.foolishpeople.com/foolishpeople/2009/09/abattoirpagestickets.html)**

Music in this episode provided by [HipGnosis](http://hipgnosis.us): Glitch 303 Rendered, Underground Loom Hight to Fly, DOC

**[Listen to or download the show here](https://archive.org/details/gspot_hipgnosis)**

**Links**:

- [http://glitch.fm](http://glitch.fm)
- [http://thereisnotwo.tk](http://hipgnosis.us)
- [http://hipgnosis.us](http://hipgnosis.us)

**BIO**: Eric Young, born November 13, 1976, in Jacksonville, Illinois, USA.
 Encouraged to have a wide variety of musical taste from a young age, Eric Young began collecting
 influences and records from age 6, after hearing Kraftwerk and a lot of early hip hop. Growing up in
 the Midwestern United States, Eric had plenty of time to focus on musical studies.
 Beginning trumpet at age 9, Eric continued with private lessons in composition and performance and
 participated in both school and extracurricular bands throughout elementary, middle, and high school.
 Graduating in 1995, he gave up playing trumpet to focus on learning to play tribal hand drums and
 singing. During this time, Eric was introduced to the electronic music scene and illegal raves in St.
 Louis.

Eric attended college at Mac Murray College in Jacksonville, IL, studying comparative religion and
 philosophy, with a focus on pre-christian pagan traditions and philosophies of the far east, in particular
 the mystic and mystery religions. That line of study has continued after leaving college, into the present
 day, as well as an interest in higher consciousness, energy work, and alternative healing methods.
 After relocating to Champaign-Urbana, Illinois in 1998, he began DJing bleepy acid house and IDM at
 house parties and local clubs, eventually going on to host and DJ two separate radio shows on stations
 90.1 WEFT and 104.5 WRFU. After several more years of independent study into subjects such as
 brain change technology ( binaural tones, cymatics, and psychoacoustics) and still composing music, it
 was a natural step to move on to production and studio engineering. That became Eric’s primary focus
 from that point.

Since 2001, Eric Young has produced and released 9 albums through independent channels, featuring
 other talented artists collaborating on many of the projects, most recently his instrumental release
 “Scientific Illuminism (Is For Sissies)” on Lab Beat, in the UK. In addition to that, he is DJing,
 producing, mixing, and mastering for artists and labels worldwide. He is currently living in Des
 Moines, Iowa, and working on 3 new releases as well as putting out progressive, quality DJ mixes
 regularly.

In July 2009, HipGnosis began hosting a 2-hour weekly show on [http://glitch.fm](http://glitch.fm) . “Between Zero and
 One” airs Wednesday nights 10 pm – 12 am CST, streamed live, with archives and setlists at
 [http://thereisnotwo.tk](http://thereisnotwo.tk) . More information on HipGnosis and links to his complete discography can be
 found at [http://hipgnosis.us](http://hipgnosis.us) .