Andrew Hogge is from Los Angeles. He went to CalArts, picked up DJing there alongside Ariel Pink and Tim Koh, and spent years doing weekly record runs up and down the California coast before anyone outside his immediate circle knew his name. In 2006 he started lovefingers.org, a site that posted one track a day with no commentary, no genre tags, no explanation. Just the music. It ran until December 31, 2009, stopped at exactly 999 tracks, and at its peak was drawing 100,000 visitors a day. That's how he became Lovefingers.
The morning after the blog ended, he announced ESP Institute. The label has been running since January 1, 2010, almost entirely on vinyl, with over 120 releases in its catalog. It put out early records by Young Marco, Tornado Wallace, and Powder, and its releases have found their way into the bags of DJ Harvey, Andrew Weatherall, and David Mancuso. Lovefingers has been running it mostly by himself, in the red since day one, and he writes the press release for every single record.
As a DJ he'll play cosmic and balearic and psychedelic and whatever else fits, moving across genres without treating any of them as a home base. He's played Berghain, Fabric, Lux Fragil, Yellow in Tokyo, and has a long-running relationship with Beats In Space in New York going back to 2006. Saturday night he's playing b2b with Tornado Wallace, an artist he gave one of his earliest platforms to.