Global Party People

Biography

Mexican-American Joakin Eskasan founded Global Party People in Boston, Massachusetts in mid 2000s, during his college years at Berklee, with the mission to keep people dancing while also promoting “PLUR” (peace, love, unity and respect) through culturally rich Electronic Dance Music. During these early years Joakin was a resident and featured percussionist at RISE Afterhours (Boston) playing with incredible artists like Craig Mitchell (The Orange Factory), DJ Chus (Stereo Productions), Pablo Ceballos, Soul Clap, Mark Knight (Toolroom Records) at Underbar (Boston), DJ Boris (Transmit Recordings), Elliot DeHoyos (Global 305) at Avalon and LOVE (NYC), Lance Jordan at Crobar (NYC), D:Fuse and Steve Porter (Porterhouse) in Miami WMC. Around this time Joakin also got in the studio to lay down some drums and produced with Jose Moser their first single “So Alive (I am Feeling) featuring Craig Mitchell” released on Kult Records in 2007, and in 2009 his collaboration with Eddie Cumana, “Plastic Dreams vs Plastic Drums”, later made it to Beatport’s Top 10.

After touring in the Dominican Republic, performing in Monaco (Sea Lounge) and Mexico as Global Party People, Joakin moved to Los Angeles in 2009 to complete his degree from Berklee College of Music with an internship at Live Nation for a semester. Having this passion to keep people dancing Joakin met and performed with the EC Twins (Twin Turbo Records) at Guys & Dolls, Supperclub, XIV and Hakkasan in Las Vegas. While based in Los Angeles Joakin met the popular singer song-writer Sri Keshava (Baby Gopal and Shelter - Punk Rock Bands) in 2012. Their musical hearts harmonized and soon after Joakin and Sri started producing and performing dance tracks together including “Rise Up”, “Beautiful”, “Feel It” and “Radio Rio” later released on Global Party People Records.

Sri Keshava’s background is steeped in classical Indian music and dance, House, Techno, Psy-Trance and Punk Rock. Previous projects include co-director of Taal Dance, a modern progressive classical Indian Dance company with performances at Walt Disney Concert Hall and Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles alongside South Asian artists Cheb i Sabbah, Karsh Kale and MidIval Punditz. Prior to this Sri was rhythm guitarist in hardcore punk band Shelter, and guitarist/singer of razor pop punk band Baby Gopal. Sri owes continued gratitude to music guru Sanjukta Das Gupta (Benares gharana); and dance gurus Nandita Behera (Odissi) and Radha Carmen (Mohiniyattam) whose teachings heavily influence her current electronic music and story-telling dance performance in Global Party People.

In 2015 Joakin Eskasan and Sri Keshava joined forces to take Global Party People and Global Party People Records to the next level by throwing a monthly party at First Fridays in Venice Beach, California and playing their original productions. In late 2016, GPP started touring as a duo and now they have performed all around the world at renown festivals in Australasia, Europe and America including St Kilda Festival in Melbourne, Esoteric Festival in Donald, Ratha Yatra Festivals in Barcelona and Los Angeles, Jai Thep Festival in Chiang Mai (Thailand) and Festival of Colours in Auckland, New Zealand. Global Party People live shows are euphoric, captivating festival-goers with their genre-bending mix of Neo Rave, Techno, Drivin’ House, Psy-Tech, Psy-Trance, powerful live percussion influenced by rock and African rhythms and Neo Classical Indian Dance. GPP crowds experience something extraordinary and unifying, leaving them always shouting for “One more song!” 

Main music genres: House, Tech House, Techno, Bass Club, Neo Rave, Trance and Psy-Trance.

Performance Duration:

• Average Performance Duration: 90 minutes / 1.5 hrs 
• Maximum Daily Performance Duration: 3 hrs. 

• music@globalpartypeople.com or visit our Booking page.

Accompanying their performance Joakin Eskasan plays live percussions including agogo bells, bongos, floor tom, mrdanga, karatalas and tambourine.  Sri Keshava adds melodic teasers with live vocals, blowing the conch shell and featuring neo Classical Indian Dance choreography.  This instrumentation makes Global Party People embrace a rich organic sound within the electronic genres. Click play below to enjoy some of their performances:

Global Party People live playing "Govinda Mero Hai" original mix featuring Sri Keshava and Vijay Krsna on vocals and Nandini and Gayatri Classical Indian Dance at Krishna Holi Festival in Auckland, New Zealand

 

Global Party People live playing “Vois Sur Ton Chemin” (Techno Mix by Bennett @listentobennett / Original by Bruno Coulais & Les Petits Chanteurs de Saint-Marc) at St Kilda Festival in Melbourne, Australia

 

Global Party People live playing “Timballe” by Hertz at Krishna Holi Festival in Auckland, New Zealand

 

Global Party People playing “Fading to Black” by Eli Brown (Bart Skils Remix) at Esoteric Festival at the Hammock Temple Stage in Donald, Australia

 

Global Party People live playing "Qualia" by Zimmz at Masala Theory during Sydney Streets festival vibes in Surry Hills, Australia

Let's Keep On Dancing!

Global Party People