Question: Where did the American hotelier and philanthropist, who was part of Thievery Corporation, found his record label, ESL Music?
Context: Dubbed Out in DC is a compilation album featuring various lounge, hip hop, and acid jazz artists from Washington, D.C. It contained early work from Thievery Corporation, Thunderball, and Peace Bureau.  It was released on 7 June 1997 on ESL Music.  Since the album features six different artists it explores several subgenres. Eighteenth Street Lounge Music (ESL Music) is an independent record label based in Washington, D.C. founded by Rob Garza and Eric Hilton in 1996.  The duo, as Thievery Corporation, heads the label's roster of artists. Saudade (Portuguese for "Longing") is the seventh studio album by Washington DC electronica duo Thievery Corporation released in 2014 via their Eighteenth Street Lounge Music label. DJ-Kicks: Thievery Corporation is a DJ mix album, mixed by Thievery Corporation.  It was released on May 10, 1999 on the Studio ! K7 independent record label as part of the DJ-Kicks series. Hugpatch Records is a record label based out of Brooklyn, New York.  It was founded in 2006 by Maxwell Williams.  It was originally a 7" single only record label, which gives it the reputation as "the world's tiniest record label."  Its releases are limited to 500 copies of each record.  Releases include singles by Brooklyn-based indie-pop band The Besties (HP01), Barcelona-based pop group Nosoträsh (HP02) and Austin, Texas-based minimal pop trio Yellow Fever (HP03).  In 2007, Hugpatch was one of the organizers of the pop music festival, NYC Popfest.  Later on, the label began releasing full-length albums, beginning with The Besties' Home Free (HP08), originally released on CD, and later as a vinyl LP.  The label also produces an internet radio show for the American Apparel radio station, Viva-Radio. com. Culture of Fear is the sixth studio album by electronica band Thievery Corporation, released through Eighteenth Street Lounge Music record label. The Richest Man in Babylon is the third studio album by Thievery Corporation, it was released in 2002 on their Eighteenth Street Lounge label.  Like Thievery Corporation's previous albums, "The Richest Man in Babylon" is electronic music with a downtempo aesthetic. Eric Michael Hilton (July 1, 1933 – December 10, 2016) was an American heir, hotelier, and philanthropist. RCA Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.  It is one of SME's three flagship record labels, alongside Columbia Records and Epic Records.  The label has released multiple genres of music, including pop, rock, hip hop, electronic, R&B, blues, jazz, and country.  The company's name is derived from the initials of the label's former parent company, the Radio Corporation of America (RCA).  It is the second oldest recording company in US history, after sister label Columbia Records.  RCA's Canadian unit (formerly Berliner Gramophone Canada) is Sony's oldest label in Canada.  It was one of only two Canadian record companies to survive the Great Depression. The Karminsky Experience is a DJ and recording artist duo consisting of James Munns and Martin Dingle.  Munns and Dingle began spinning together in small London nightlife locales during the early 1990s, and had a long running, successful circuit of performances, in various night clubs throughout England.  Their full-length debut, "The Power of Suggestion", was released by the Eighteenth Street Lounge Music label in 2003.  They are best known for their LP releases of "The Power of Suggestion" and "Snapshot," both of which were put out under the ESL Music label, which was founded by Rob Garza and Eric Hilton of Thievery Corporation.  Their newest album, "Beat!" , was released under a new label, Patterns of Behavior.
Answer: Washington, D.C.