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Escalators refers to at least two different bands: 1. Escalators was a short lived Japanese R&B/funk band, active from 1993 through 1998. 2. Escalators was a rock band from England. .

Neil Ollivierra is the Detroit Escalator Co., whose cosmic down-tempo landscapes paint detailed audio pictures of his native Detroit. From his role in the first wave in Detroit and taking part in Transmat, Derrick May's label, Ollivierra saw techno evolve from its earliest stages. Ollivierra's novel -Reality Slap focused on his early days in the scene and adventures as a young socialite and part of Transmat. Though demand for the book was high, it was never legally published, as Ollivierra never sought to make money off his efforts. (The only way to get a copy of the thick book was...

There are actually two bands under the name Escalator 1) Escalator is a hungarian oldschool EBM band started in 1988. They were really succesful in the early nineties' hungarian underground, they have released five albums from 1989-1994, also on the EMI-Quint record label and Nagy Feró Produkció. After some years of silence they have released two compilations with older recordings in 2001 and 2009 and they are stil active and famous especially in the german EBM scene. 2) Escalator was a Connecticut hardcore band, featuring two former members of Ripshit. They released a 4-song demo (2009), the "Performance Anxiety" cassette...

Although he knew the word "Piazzolla" and "Tango" would be forever bonded, he decided to played jazz. In spite of being his grandfather a "bandoneon" icon, he chose drums. Beyond family traditions, Daniel "Pipi" Piazzolla created Escalandrum in 1999 to celebrate music among friends. The group's name is a neologism that came out of mixing escalandrun (an argentine kind of shark whom "Pipi" used to fish with father Daniel and grandfather Astor) and drum. Along with the first gigs, in 2000 Escalandrum edited its first record, Bar Los Amigos (Friend's Bar). Two years later, the group changed to an acoustic...