Nicolas Jaar: I was a Teenage Villalobos

early next year - http://www.datatransmission.co.uk/viewnews/6069/

+ like lex said there's also a label comp out in a week or two that he has a few songs on

Tim Sweeney's just confirmed he is on the show tomorrow night so I obviously wasn't dreaming.

Woah - WOUH is incredible, some kind of Studio/techno hybrid I didn't know I needed to hear.

find a lot of his stuff a little meh but el bandido and time for us are both pretty great.

I dunno, it feels a bit soon for everyone to get carried away but it seems like a bandwagon has started rolling around this dude very quickly indeed. Then again, he's working withing a style where people are predisposed to throw around words like 'genius' very easily.

I like WUOH and Time For Us and what he does to Flashy Flashy, but I listened to the Marks & Angles EP and it just sounded dreary rather than hypnotic. I kinda feel like post-Villalobos there's almost no element or style that feels too weird to throw into this kind of framework, and it has a kind of dulling effect. Materials is pretty good though. We'll see.

really like a lot of what i've heard, particularly el bandido, but the vocals on Marks & Angles EP are so flaccid and lazy sounding bleh

the new album sounds a lot like dOP, but less house-y and more jazzy.

mostly agree with matt xp. time for us is the best thing he's done by a mile i think. i would really really like to hear him work with a good vocalist. think i read an interview where he said as much also. maybe he does on some of the forthcoming stuff? not that the slo-mo treated thing can't work too... like marks/angles isn't amazing overall, but it seems like he's starting to get the vocals to mesh with the production in interesting ways.

and will he further explore marksist politics in dance music?

I think he sounds like Matias Aguayo, even thought it was him at first. He has some better ideas than him from time to time but I'll agree with karl: he should abstain from vocal duties.

Just listened to his Live At The Bunker podcast (WLP087) in the gym - more propulsive than the RA one; doing lots of the same layering and building tricks but not quite as show-offily (or maybe just in a less developed way, since it's so much older)

Album dropping in February:

http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=12795

I am listening to it now (NB I have basically learned everything about him from this thread!), so far it's great and completely unconcerned by ~the dancefloor~ - there are a lot of moody pianos and a track that was like idk Barry Adamson crossed with microhouse or somesuch - I'm not really one for overstating the weather-appropriateness of music but 8am in a REALLY cold December is kind of where this is at I think

his beats in space is now up

completely unconcerned by ~the dancefloor~

I dunno, some people might consider this not necessarily a plus in house music.

oh clearly! NB a good chunk of it I would probly not describe as 'house music', also this is based on one listen on computer speakers lol

might have the chance to interview this fella soon. anyone got any questions for him?

you can stream his album here : http://maouris.co.uk/music-detail.php?c=cccd009-space-is-only-noise

can any jazz heads tell me what his edit "mini calcutta" is an edit of?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ_X9uTLHxo

Think it's dave Brubeck - Calcutta blues

Pro tip: the Ines compilation on his label is like a much superior version of his album, on the same micro-downbeat tip. Really beautiful stuff.

just sayin' thanks! x

O really? Love that comp but disappointed to hear the album's not as good xpost
No prob jed_!

another sample req (and this one has been driving me crazy) there's a kind of vocal whoop + crowd noise/talking in the background of "Time for Us" which i recognise. initially i thought it was from Marvin Gaye's "got to give it up" but no. anyone know the source of the "whoop!"?

http://soundcloud.com/nicolas-jaar/nicolas-jaar-time-for-us

O really? Love that comp but disappointed to hear the album's not as good xpost

The album's even more supine and feels flabbier, less consistently interesting sample choices too.

Anybody listen to the mix he did for Time Out New York? Quite possibly one of the sexiest mixes ever.

http://soundcloud.com/timeoutnewyork/nicolas-jaar-mix

(You guys know how to download "undownloadable" Soundcloud files, right?)

no

offliberty.com

view source, a do a find for

streamUrl":"http://media.soundcloud.com/stream/

then copy and paste everything inside the double quotes starting with http://media.soundcloud.com/stream/

in this case that's http://media.soundcloud.com/stream/iMHd65pdtNPy?stream_token=ktNzd

thanks. that mix is great!

think i'll go hear and *look at* him in glasgow at the end of this month.

ta Tracer!

absolutely <3 this. stunner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th33wxpla5s

Yes! That's my favourite Jaar moment i think. When the horns come in!

Jaar at his most ethnodelic reminds me a lot of Lhasa's 'The Living Road' album (I think he also included a Lhasa track on his resident advisor podcast).

i really liked his resident advisor podcast

v. elegant

...almost too elegant though? (in the case of his album at least). I appreciate what he's doing, but the LP... There's a fair bit going on, but not a lot to get your teeth into. It's almost an ambient record, with few beats going much higher than 110bpm. Think I need to give it a few more listens.

im into that

like recently i almost started a thread asking for more things like this w/o having this as an eg.

i feel like its one of those records where the beats jack as hard as you want them to

Ines comp is a better version of it though.

what is that?

Compilation of tracks released on Jaar's Clown & Sunset label.

Has some other artists on there as well as Jaar but it's all in that slightly glitchy percussive ethnodelic style.

xposts Yes I'm all for it too - certainly not a bad thing. It's almost becoming the norm for hotly-tipped dance acts releasing very restrained and non-dancey debut LPs at the moment. James Blake, Darkstar and now this. Aeroplane's album kind of tried (and failed) at doing an album that deviated from expectations. That said, I guess it was a bit more predictable with Jaar, but I'd have liked an album of El Bandido-style stuff.

A lot of the acts on Clown & Sunset are younger than Jaar himself.

The Ines album is great and despite it being a comp it feels very much of a piece. Jaar's tracks are great but they don't even stand out as being the best things on the record.

A lot of the acts on Clown & Sunset are younger than Jaar himself.

there are only three artists on the label iirc? but yes, both are younger than Jaar.

okay im into this

lol wtf is phillip sherburnes deal in this RA interview my god

what's a good representative track from this dude?

I liked the "singles" better in context than on their own but I've only heard it once so far. Still hoping it grows on me since I really liked their last lp

Digging it, each Darkside album is more sinister than the last. I do miss some of the nü-Balearic vibes of the first record though.

I really need to listen to Psychic

you do! nothing comes close

caught them in 2014, one of the best shows I ever saw

I like this a lot. Not quite as good as the debut, but I like it more than Spiral. The "Hell Suite" is really good. The only thing that doesn't really work for me are the vocals on "Graucha Marx", otherwise I like all of it.

I'm the opposite - I find the first 2/3 pretty flawless but feel it closes a bit weakly with the Hell Suite and Sin el Sol. The two prev albums were pretty consistent start to finish so I'm now leaning on this one being a touch weaker purely because of this, otherwise the highs are as high as they've always had

Ok I’m obsessed with this record now

(I've heard Psychic in the meantime) Maybe it also appears slightly weaker because it's less of a statement by now, and more being playful with their sound and expanding the palette, without necessarily choosing a direction. It's a bit medleyish. I find it very satisfactory, while agreeing it's maybe a tad under the first two (very good) albums. This band scratches an itch.

i actually fucking love this darkside record, my favorite jaar thing in a minute. so playful

!!

Playful is right, so unexpectedly fun. Sure, you could say its a bit unfocused and messy, but I like the genre-jumping surprises (dub, funk, Harrington getting in some jam band moments, psychedelic folk). It flies by.

A little post-punk and industrial too, as a treat.

I've had this on repeat, it's been awhile since an album has gotten under my skin like that. Unexpected!

yeah, unexpected aoty for me. i was listening to a lot of early chem bros and basement jaxx before i heard this record and couldn't help but associate the fun jaar and harrington are having here with how fun those records are. no mood shift is off limits, but the effect is never, uh, jarring

cool remix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXTP3sReRYI

Yeah I adore this

on repeat

I love the drums on this new DARKSIDE album. "SLAU" > "S.N.C" gets me amped. The playfulness ivy mentioned reminds me of Avalanches...or James Brown...or something. Very funky record at times.