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jaar

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Soul Keita & Jaar

Sophie

Nicolas Jaar

trippin

Ten Walls – Gotham

olas Jaar has graduated-- at least from the trappings of any young electronic music producer (his graduation from Brown University is 18 months away). Four years after his debut on the Brooklyn label Wolf + Lamb, and the much lauded follow up 'Time for Us', whose glacial slow-jam take on house sent journalists scrambling for adjectives, the 20 year old New Yorker by way of Chile returns to Circus Company with Space is Only Noise, an uncompromising manifesto on traces of the past, love lost, and specters of the future. 

Having previously contributed to the catalog twice with his 'Marks and Angels' EP as well as the sublime 'Your Waltz' on the Snuggle and Slap compilation, we are delighted to present his first foray into the realm of the long player. 

Jaar has made it quite apparent over the course of his nascent catalog and increasingly sought after live sets that challenge is an intrinsic part of his creative discourse. Few are the producers of any age with the cohones to ride a sub-100-bpm tempo at peak time in the techno Mecca of Berlin, and fewer still are those who receive an ecstatic hands-in-the-air response for their precocious efforts. It is precisely this sense of risk which elevates Space is Only Noise beyond the realm of valiant first effort or crossover dance music oddity. Those looking to wade through the sea of Jaar’s potential influences will quickly find themselves in the deep waters of golden age Factory records, home spun digitalism of Mille Plateaux, Endtroducing era DJ Shadow and Eric Satie.

Jaar gently coaxes his listener into the experience from the opening sounds of rolling waves on 'Être', but quickly transitions into the sophisticated percussion and meandering melodies that characterise his sound. Jaar seeks, and often finds, beauty in melancholy on the first few tracks of the album. As the album begins to accelerate with 'Too Many Kids Finding Rain In The Dust', Jaar confronts us with the often forgotten reality that our sadness is not mutually exclusive from the dance floor.

Suddenly, on 'Keep Me There', Jaar’s voice appears over the delicious, rumbling melody. "We're in a really bad bed, right?" he remarks. "Mm-- it's not really a bed. It's like a balloon" responds a sultry female voice as they both crumble away in laughter. Though your hips stir to the relentless bassline and the sexiness of the voices, your heart is jolted out of its luxurious malaise when horns erupts seconds later. 

"How can you talk about a landscape without showing the sky and the earth?" a voice asks, translating from the French on 'Être'. So Jaar concludes, revisiting the same track to end the album. Complete landscapes such as these are only realised in contrast- the indulgent against the reserved, the sky against the earth; lightness and darkness. 

Space Is Only Noise is a tour de force with few modern equals, and a great sign of things to come from one of electronic music’s most exciting producers. 


Nicolas Jaar -  Balance Her In Between Your Eyes

Mano Le Tough - Primative People (Tale Of Us Remix)

Gui Boratto - Arquipelago

Butterfly

More goodness from the Spring!  Here's Andre Lodemann taking it deep and sexy in NYC, Robot Heart, Spring 2014.  

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1. Frankey & Sandrino - Save - Innervisions
2. Robinn - The Game Is Now Over (Cocolores Remix) - Compost
3. Fabian Dikof - Pure Lovers - Best Works Records
4. Few Nolder x Kurak - Houly Pouly (Dave DK Remix) - Silence
5. Chopstick & Johnjon - Run Slowly (Andre Lodemann Remix) - Suol
6. Phil Weeks - Live At Palladium - Robsoul
7. DJ Fudge & Hallex M featuring Omar - Simpatico (Atjazz) - Yoruba
8. Mano Le Tough - Tempus - Maeve
9. Fabian Dikof - X - Best Works Records
10. Boddhi Satva Feat. Athenai & C.Robert Walker - Who Am I (Carl Craig Remix) - BBE
11. Tapesh & Maximiljan - Virtues - Mobilee
12. Andre Lodemann - Coming Your Way - DFTD
13. Kramnik - Harmuk (Alexi Delano Remix) - Kram
14. La Fleur - Nightflow (Kenny Larkin Remix) - Watergate Records
15. Adnan Sharif - Sky Toucher (Safeword Remix) - Smoke N'Mirrors
16. Andre Lodemann - Where Are You Now? - Best Works Records
17. Andre Lodemann feat. Nathalie Claude - Going To The Core (Daniel Bortz Remix) - Best Works Records
18. Michael Gracioppo - Creep (Tale Of Us & Vaal Remix) - Innervisions
19. Qbeck Feat. Nick Maurer - Don't Let It Fall (Johannes Brecht) - AEON
20. Guy Gerber & Dixon - No Distance - Rumors
21. Cuebur - I See You (Andre Lodemann Remix) - Soul Heaven

Andre Lodemann - Robot Heart - Spring - NYC -2014

nicolas jaar - process part 083 (deleuzes will)

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Resident Advisor Review

  The promo video made for Sunset of a Clown Volume II is the opening shot to a Godard film soundtracked by Nicolas Jaar's "Marquises." It's either the height of pretension, or pretty brilliant. That I can't work out which probably makes it the latter. Music that actually puts you in a position where you're required to think about how it makes you feel is often among the finest. "Marquises" and the tracks that surround it on this second release from Jaar's imprint aren't necessarily the greatest things in the world, but each of them occupy a space that is hard to quantify—and that's exactly the point.

  Nikita Quasim's "Framboises" is bustling with microsound while a piano plays quickly over top in a superior mood piece, while Jaar's biting of French folkie is a nice twist on the prevailing trend towards South American protest songs. (He overlays it with a lazy breakbeat rather than a pounding house beat too, which seems to fulfill his stated goal of "taking the beats even slower.") Soul Keita, meanwhile, brings the only track that veers close enough to a dance floor. It builds and it builds, as an acoustic guitar and kick drum while away as a hazy sample gradually comes into view. Typically, the climax isn't the sort of thing that will have Amnesia crowds in ecstasy, but when you're dealing with music as intimate as this, you tend to want to have it for yourself anyway.


  Words /
  Terry Fonseca

CS002 ∆ Soul Keita - Monjitas

Released Music 2007-2010 on Wolf + Lamb, Clown & Sunset and Circus Company

Nicolas Jaar - The Student (Wolf + Lamb 2008)

Canada

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The Fool

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LLUVIA BLANCA

CS005 ∆ WOUH - Nicolas Jaar

Nico Jaar turns in an exclusive set of all unreleased original productions and re-edits for theflawlessSound 38, made especially for Time Out NY and flawless in anticipation of his live set at the Rivington Penthouse this Sunday. The talented young producer has made a a splash with popular releases on Wolf+Lamb, Circus Company and his own imprint Clown & Sunset, incorporating such diverse influences as old school hip-hop and world music. Often pushing the boundaries of what we consider "dance music," Nico's music shows a maturity well beyond his years.

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The flawlessSound 38 with Nicolas Jaar

CS004 ∆ Nicolas Jaar - Tribute to my mother

CS004 ∆ Nikita Quasim - Freshman year

Nicolas Jaar -  Dubliners

God Loves You When You’re Dancing EP on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/glywyd  

God Loves You When You're Dancing

Riptide

Modyfier is an Artist’s platform: it’s an idea acting as energy, it’s an experiment in accrual (as a collection), it’s an attitude that rides creativity and freedom. The Process Series relies on referral as people who participate each suggest someone else, creating its form, shifting in directions I would not be able to steer alone. Matthew Barney once said this about his early ‘Drawing Restraint’ work that really struck me: “I was thinking about how the body functions in training – how the muscle breaks down under resistance and then heals larger and stronger. I was trying to use that process of resistance to create form.”

nicolas jaar - process part 083 (deleuzes will)

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