Essgee began by financing and producing recording artists and recordings under licence to the Australian record company Festival Records.
Columbia Records | Sundance Film Festival | Guinness World Records | Atlantic Records | Decca Records | Mercury Records | Warner Bros. Records | Epic Records | RCA Records | Cannes Film Festival | Capitol Records | MCA Records | Toronto International Film Festival | Glastonbury Festival | Virgin Records | Edinburgh Festival | Royal Festival Hall | Venice Film Festival | Arista Records | Island Records | Elektra Records | festival | Universal Records | Stax Records | Geffen Records | A&M Records | Reprise Records | Naxos Records | Polydor Records | Tribeca Film Festival |
He has recorded two albums with Festival Records in Australia and produced A History of Standard Time, Joe Chindamo’s first solo recording and featuring Ray Brown.
Released by Deepgrooves Entertainment and distributed by Festival Records, it replayed the song "Dreadlock Holiday" by 10CC and went to number one for several weeks in 1994 and was also an Australian hit.