Electronica \ Downtempo \ IDM \ Experimental \ Ambient

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

Seahorse

Out now at http://editbeats.com

Celebrating 10 years of edIT's Crying Over Pros For No Reason with the release of the Deluxe Edition featuring 5 new original bonus tracks available digitally and on limited-edition double-pack splatter vinyl through Glass Air Records.



ABOUT edIT:

From humble beginnings on the Los Angeles underground to world tours of sold-out arenas, Edward Ma has seen it all in a career that now spans more than 15 years. Starting off as The Con Artist in the late 1990s, Ma produced for rappers such as Busdriver, P.E.A.C.E and Sole while holding a residency at Konkrete Jungle, where drum n bass and hip hop were spun side by side to hungry ears. In 2003, Ma reshaped himself as edIT. The next year he debuted with Crying Over Pros For No Reason on seminal UK label Planet Mu. The album melded together Ma's love of hip hop, drum n bass and experimental electronic music, a fusion that would presage hip hop's return to its electronic roots by the end of the decade. Crying Over Pros… sounded like nothing else at the time. It sounded like the future and it would put Ma on the path of his next evolution. In 2006 he co-founded The Glitch Mob, a project that would ultimately take over his solo work by 2010. Today the Mob inhabit a unique position in the dance music world, the roots of which go back to the sonic experiments of Crying Over Pros… Ten years on, the album is being reissued on limited edition vinyl and as a digital bundle with an extra five tracks from the original sessions. Its emotive power hasn't faded one bit and its relevance has only increased as the future it hinted at became the present we now live in.

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Crying over Pros for No Reason (Deluxe Edition)

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Excuses was the first taste of new Bibio music, from his forthcoming album Mind Bokeh.
Mind Bokeh is out on March 28th (US) / April 4th (ROW) digitally, on die-cut double vinyl and 'First Print' die-cut CD.

See pictures of the gorgeous artwork here: http://warp.net/records/bibio/mind-bokeh-t-shirts-first-print-cd-limited-vinyl-photos

Hear another new track, 'K is for Kelson', here: http://warp.net/records/bibio/listen-to-k-is-for-kelson-from-mind-bokeh

Pre-order 'Mind Bokeh' here: http://bleep.com/index.php?page=release_details&releaseid=27886

Mind Bokeh

Bibio - Excuses (taken from forthcoming album 'Mind Bokeh')

This track is released 4th April on Traum on vinyl and digital as part of the Metaphysical EP. It's quite heavy on the effects, with a long wierd noise intro just for the craic! I've been starting quite a few sets with it recently, but if you want to mix it I guess you just have to start a couple of minutes in.

Solace (Clip)

The First Thirteen Minutes Of Love- Arnaud Rebotini

KOMPAKT
supp: http://www.beatport.com/track/the-dream-original-mix/1980332

John Tejada - The Dream

10 minutes of ambient electronics from the Gas 0095 album. 
https://matjarvis.com

Gas 0095

Microscopic

Gas - Microscopic

Boards of Canada - Everything You do is a Balloon

Agoria - Under the River

Gui Boratto - The Verdict

Bedtime Stories (Austin Peralta Reinterpretation)

Moby - Porcelain

Aphex Twin - Nannou

The playlists were made a few years ago and aren't really representative of my actual taste. Check my favourites, Youtube and Discogs accounts for more recent stuff. I don't post music with my Facebook account often, but If you like the music and want to talk/share, send me a message. Languages : French, English and German. 

Musicalife 

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Electronica \ Downtempo \ IDM \ Experimental \ Ambient

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