Digital preview of the new single from Nick Jaguar on BigDirtyEngine Record,  release September 2011. 

RUN and HIDE - NICK JAGUAR

unfinished - umastered track from 2011 with probabay too much reverb - but WTF enjoy 


THIS FIGHT

Unreleased B-side from 1990's under the appropriately teenage and depressing aka 'Prisoner'. 
Moving house and just found a CD with this track and a few others from 1994-5.

Prisoner - Prisoner Of Love (Ode To Carrie Fisher)1995

Released on vinyl 12 inch, 1995 on Carbon Industries under the suitably EMO moniker, Prisoner. 
Attack Formation was built with 100% samples + vocals. 
I moved house and found a cd with it on and felt that sadly, the depressing lyric and dark sound could not be more relevant in the current post-trust epoch wherein we all appear destined to become Disney Prisoners, so to speak...

2004 remaster by Robert Harder - Harder Productions

Prisoner - Attack Formation 1995 release

Ride On is a menacing gothic western that evokes images of expansive and dangerous desert plains. This beautiful melding of fifties style double bass and rhythm guitar with rockabilly and 60’s garage-band takes those references and slows them down to forge a shuffling, edgy, cinematically cool sidearm. 

The first offering from Nick Jaguar will just as likely attract fans of Tarantino movies as it will Pixies, Beck, Last Shadow Puppets or Portishead lovers. Sharing similar derivatives; twangy reverb, Dick Dale surf guitar, abstract image-heavy lyrics, it successfully draws these influences together into a well rounded timeless blanket. 

Originally intended as a b-side and recorded primarily in a garage, the resulting production has a warm, ballsy, lo-fi appeal and the lyrics conjure noir screenplays, bank robbers, rail-roads cowboys, blood-suckers and Mexican bare knuckle fist fights. Ride On drags you on a journey into darkest Americana. 

Nick Jaguar - 
'Ride On was engineered by Manuel Mera and mastered with Andy Baldwin, an engineer who has just mastered a live music archive for 'The Who'. It has taken at least 3 years to get around to recording and I was totally obsessive about the sounds I wanted to achieve and some of the parts got recorded at least three times because that analogue quality just wasn’t right. In the end I had to go out and track down the instruments, which took yet more time. I originally intended to use a Fender Jaguar with the Vox Jaguar organ but it was a gorgeous 63’ Jazzmaster that x- Placebo drummer Robert Schultzberg very kindly sold to me, that finally cut it alongside my original 60’s Fender precision. We re-recorded all my programmed drums with ‘Louis The Drummer’ who played on Adele’s debut album and Danny Newell who plays for Muse was kind enough to come in and provide his magic on trumpet. I’m pretty pleased with the end result.’ 

RIDE ON - NICK JAGUAR

RIDE ON - CAMP FIRE - NICK JAGUAR

Single- Nick Jaguar – Ride On - 

Press Release- 
Music to watch Vampires by... ‘Ride On drags you on a journey into darkest Americana.’ 

Ride On is a menacing gothic western that evokes images of expansive and dangerous desert plains. This beautiful melding of fifties style double bass and rhythm guitar with rockabilly and 60’s garage-band takes those references and slows them down to forge a shuffling, edgy, cinematically cool sidearm. 

The first offering from Nick Jaguar will just as likely attract fans of Tarantino movies as it will Pixies, Beck, Last Shadow Puppets or Portishead lovers. Sharing similar derivatives; twangy reverb, Dick Dale surf guitar, abstract image-heavy lyrics, it successfully draws these influences together into a well rounded timeless blanket. 

Originally intended as a b-side and recorded primarily in a garage, the resulting production has a warm, ballsy, lo-fi appeal and the lyrics conjure noir screenplays, bank robbers, rail-roads cowboys, blood-suckers and Mexican bare knuckle fist fights. Ride On drags you on a journey into darkest Americana. 


RIDE ON - INSTRUMENTAL - NICK JAGUAR

BIG DIRTY ENGINE EXTENDED MIX

Single- Nick Jaguar – Ride On - 

Press Release- 
Music to watch Vampires by... ‘Ride On drags you on a journey into darkest Americana.’ 

Ride On is a menacing gothic western that evokes images of expansive and dangerous desert plains. This beautiful melding of fifties style double bass and rhythm guitar with rockabilly and 60’s garage-band takes those references and slows them down to forge a shuffling, edgy, cinematically cool sidearm. 

The first offering from Nick Jaguar will just as likely attract fans of Tarantino movies as it will Pixies, Beck, Last Shadow Puppets or Portishead lovers. Sharing similar derivatives; twangy reverb, Dick Dale surf guitar, abstract image-heavy lyrics, it successfully draws these influences together into a well rounded timeless blanket. 

Originally intended as a b-side and recorded primarily in a garage, the resulting production has a warm, ballsy, lo-fi appeal and the lyrics conjure noir screenplays, bank robbers, rail-roads cowboys, blood-suckers and Mexican bare knuckle fist fights. Ride On drags you on a journey into darkest Americana. 


RIDE ON - NICK JAGUAR -BIGDIRTYENGINE EXTENDED

Co-founder - JaguarShoes Collective. DreamBagsJaguarShoes. SeventeenGallery. No-one. OldShoreditchStation. BigDirtyEngine Records. PosterPaper. FluffyToy-

Songwriter/ Producer/ Director/ Builder
I made music before JaguarShoes came along... in recent years I have tried to record some of my material properly and have also been co-producing and directing talented young band BLACK MANILA via my label BIGDIRTYENGINE. 

The songs were engineered by Manuel Mera and mastered at Metropolis & SARM studios London.  

I was obsessive about the sound and some of the parts got recorded at least three times because that analogue quality just wasn’t right. 
In the end I had to go out and track down the instruments, which took yet more time. 
I originally intended to use a Fender Jaguar with the Vox Jaguar organ but it was a gorgeous 63’ Jazzmaster that x- Placebo drummer Robert Schultzberg very kindly sold  me (thanks Rob), that finally cut it alongside my original 60’s Fender precision. 
We re-recorded all my programmed drums with ‘Louis The Drummer’ who played on Adele’s debut album and Alex Benwell and Daniel Newell who plays for Muse was also kind enough to come in and provide his magic on trumpet.

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In the past decade I have gutted and refurbished shops and warehouses in the Southern most part of Kingsland Rd creating galleries and bars that form JaguarShoes Collective and we have invited a vast portfolio of exhibitors...
These include now prolific artists like photographer Valarie Philips, DJShadow favourite Paul Insect, Pure Evil, Peepshow, THIS IS IT, Andrew Rea, Stuart Semple, Jon Burgerman, D*face, Chrissie Abbott, Jiro Bevis, Director Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko) as well comic book god Frank Miller and, with his ‘Stereo Agency’, skateboard legend turned actor Jason Lee....
As well as grass roots talent, I have also supported ground breaking fine art through our gallery, Seventeen, whose roster includes x- KLF front-man Bill Drummond and highly accomplished artist/ music-forensic-ologist Graham Dolphin.

Here I am 10 years later still trying to find the time and the money to record songs.
Here’s some of my best songs
Enjoy

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Press Release
Nick Jaguar – RUN &amp; HIDE -SINGLE
Official UK sinlge release date - 27/09/11
Imagine the line ‘You won’t like me when I’m angry’ delivered with the threatening cadence of a Vincent Price monologue. If Vincent could be resurrected to play David Banner in a noir Hulk re-boot, Run &amp; Hide would make the perfect soundtrack.
The second single release from Nick Jaguar on BIGDIRTYENGINE records blends his cinematic influences with jazz-pop. Fifties style double bass, smokey trumpets fuse with dirty distorted 60’s garage bass to forge a chorus that conjures, in scratchy black and white celluloid, the figure of an Italian gangster garbed Morricone, calmly but firmly asking Keith prodigy to leave town.
Nick Jaguar says that he is as likely to quote film and tv shows as an influence, as he is popular music.
 ‘Film noir presents a world of constantly suppressed anger, suppressed desire, of sex and violence bubbling under. I wanted to write a song that captured that.’ Nick Jaguar
As likely attract fans of Tarantino movies as it will Pixies, Beck, Last Shadow Puppets or Portishead lovers. Sharing similar derivatives; twangy reverb, Dick Dale surf guitar, abstract image-heavy lyrics, it successfully draws these influences together into a well rounded timeless blanket.
Nick Jaguar -
‘Run and Hide was engineered by Manuel Mera and mastered at SARM studios London. It has taken at least 3 years to get around to recording these songs I was totally obsessive about the sounds I wanted to achieve and some of the parts got recorded at least three times because that analogue quality just wasn’t right. In the end I had to go out and track down the instruments, which took yet more time. I originally intended to use a Fender Jaguar with the Vox Jaguar organ but it was a gorgeous 63’ Jazzmaster that x- Placebo drummer Robert Schultzberg very kindly sold to me, that finally cut it alongside my original 60’s Fender precision. We re-recorded all my programmed drums with ‘Louis The Drummer’ who played on Adele’s debut album and Alex Benwell &amp;Daniel Newell who plays for Muse was kind enough to come in and provide his magic on trumpet. I’m pleased with the end result.’
Press Release- Single-
Nick Jaguar – Ride On
Official UK sinle release date - 01/10/10
‘Ride On drags you on a journey into darkest Americana.’
Ride On is a menacing gothic western that evokes images of expansive and dangerous desert plains. This beautiful melding of fifties style double bass and rhythm guitar with rockabilly and 60’s garage-band takes those references and slows them down to forge a shuffling, edgy, cinematically cool sidearm.
The first offering from Nick Jaguar will just as likely attract fans of Tarantino movies as it will Pixies, Beck, Last Shadow Puppets or Portishead lovers. Sharing similar derivatives; twangy reverb, Dick Dale surf guitar, abstract image-heavy lyrics, it successfully draws these influences together into a well rounded timeless blanket.
Originally intended as a b-side and recorded primarily in a garage, the resulting production has a warm, ballsy, lo-fi appeal and the lyrics conjure noir screenplays, bank robbers, rail-roads cowboys, blood-suckers and Mexican bare knuckle fist fights. Ride On drags you on a journey into darkest Americana.


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