#eric littmann

Whole With You by GABI from the album Empty Me - Directed by Kenna Hynes

Sleep by Gabi from the Double Double Whammy 2018 Fall Sampler

... It’s a cliche to say someone was loved by all but in this case I think it happens to be true. I knew him only a relatively short time, but my every single memory of Eric is a good one. The one that stand out goes like this. One day I must have been complaining about how I had no skater friends in NYC to film me doing my stupid little tricks. Eric volunteered and I was selfish enough to take him up on it. So even tho he didn’t skate. Even tho he had to take an hour train commute after a hard day at a real job. In the freezing cold. With a smile on his face he filmed me fail at some dorky trick until I felt so bad I went and bought him a burrito. On the train home he explained in detail the latest developments in the never-ending graffiti wars along the eyeline of the J train. I found it fascinating. The way he followed obscure graffiti writers like some people follow their favorite sports teams. That’s just the kind of guy he was. He was a friend of artists. Always down for the cause and never far from the action. As you get older you appreciate just how rare people like him really are. I was lucky enough to see him once this past year. He took a night off working on a record in LA and hung out with me and Wyatt on the porch, we drank beers and played guitar and talked about girls and music and whatever. Later he came back to my house. We watched a Nirvana concert film and mused about the curious alchemy of the “power trio” I said I’d see him in Chicago next time we came through. Guess it’ll be longer than that. But we’ll meet again. In that great DIY space in the sky. For those unfamiliar: Eric Littmann (phantom power/phantom posse/Steve Sobs) It goes without saying his memory will live on through the classic records he produced and made. (Forever Underground is the great unheralded chillwave record imo) If anyone out there has a picture of Eric performing with the Yohuna band during the TV Girl show at Elsewhere in may of 2019. It would be appreciated."

**Elissa went by Elissa Slater at the time

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New York, NY -- Phantom Posse (aka Eric Littmann) will be releasing his new album Forever Underground on March 20 via Orchid Tapes. The first peek into the record is “It’s All You,” featuring Laetitia (of Vagabon) and GABI. The track is just under 2 minutes long but it’s truly a burst of lushness that’ll have you feel like you’re floating. “It’s All You” still reminds me of the very first Phantom Posse track I heard - “Posse Posse Yeah” from PORTALS Mixtape #14. The production is definitely cleaner now but Littmann stays true to his layered synthy sound and I love the addition of the orchestral strings. 

*These are my PERSONAL opinions.*

His new track, "Ugh," is a nostalgic musing on coming back to a hometown that doesn’t quite feel the same anymore.