Essay Recordings is home to good music. The focus is on local and regional musical traditional styles that have an international approach. Wether it's Shantel's Bucovina Club sound, that includes gypsy music refering to a Jamaican dancehall tune, or OMFO, who produces village music from Eastern europe and the Balkans with a dubbed out freestyle electronica twist, or Daniel Haaksman who searched the legacy of Miami Bass in the streets of Rio: The music on Essay fuses the East with the West, the North with the South, bridging gaps, looking for progress and musical innovations.