thanks. that mix is great!
― jed_, Sunday, 9 January 2011 03:25 (thirteen years ago) link
think i'll go hear and *look at* him in glasgow at the end of this month.
― jed_, Sunday, 9 January 2011 03:26 (thirteen years ago) link
ta Tracer!
― basically just a 2/47 freak out (sic), Sunday, 9 January 2011 11:07 (thirteen years ago) link
absolutely <3 this. stunner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th33wxpla5s
― jed_, Monday, 10 January 2011 13:38 (thirteen years ago) link
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).
― Tim F, Monday, 10 January 2011 13:41 (thirteen years ago) link
i really liked his resident advisor podcast
― plax (ico), Monday, 10 January 2011 13:42 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Bernard V. O'Hare (dog latin), Monday, 10 January 2011 14:17 (thirteen years ago) link
im into that
― plax (ico), Monday, 10 January 2011 14:26 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― plax (ico), Monday, 10 January 2011 14:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Ines comp is a better version of it though.
― Tim F, Monday, 10 January 2011 14:28 (thirteen years ago) link
what is that?
― plax (ico), Monday, 10 January 2011 14:29 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Tim F, Monday, 10 January 2011 14:33 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Bernard V. O'Hare (dog latin), Monday, 10 January 2011 14:35 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― jed_, Monday, 10 January 2011 14:45 (thirteen years ago) link
there are only three artists on the label iirc? but yes, both are younger than Jaar.
― jed_, Monday, 10 January 2011 14:47 (thirteen years ago) link
okay im into this
― plax (ico), Monday, 10 January 2011 22:14 (thirteen years ago) link
lol wtf is phillip sherburnes deal in this RA interview my god
― plax (ico), Monday, 10 January 2011 22:16 (thirteen years ago) link
what's a good representative track from this dude?
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Monday, 10 January 2011 22:23 (thirteen years ago) link
idk if its representative but Wouh is the one slaying me atm
― plax (ico), Monday, 10 January 2011 22:24 (thirteen years ago) link
the one that first blew me away was "marks"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64pJZyC-r_k
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Monday, 10 January 2011 22:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I guess Time For Us is a good representative track, if not his most popular? It also manages to capture both his up and downtempo sounds in the same song. That's and it's just really great.
― EDB, Monday, 10 January 2011 23:08 (thirteen years ago) link
it is! feeling the love you gotta lose ep the most in gen. tho
― plax (ico), Monday, 10 January 2011 23:13 (thirteen years ago) link
I remain resolutely un-blown away by most of this. It all feels a bit bloodless, museum-y.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 10:05 (thirteen years ago) link
I think my favourite thing he's done (other than El Bandido) is Shakedown, which isn't really anything like his more recent output, but great fun disco-edity stuff.
― Bernard V. O'Hare (dog latin), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 10:30 (thirteen years ago) link
yah i mean i wouldnt say im "blown away" by any of it (also i had listened to his disco edits a few months ago and found them really unfun for disco edits) but i do really like his sound a lot while getting that it might be a little "subtle" for some ppl.
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 13:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Matt's had his nerves shredded by years of bangin bass; it's understandable
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 13:21 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm not really a fan of the disco edits at all
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 13:25 (thirteen years ago) link
i like them now, but not as "disco edits" bc in that context they seem a bit uh pale
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 13:27 (thirteen years ago) link
I thought they were cool. There seems to be a little more going on in them than the average cut-n-shut edit. What's the original of "Shakedown"?
― Bernard V. O'Hare (dog latin), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 14:30 (thirteen years ago) link
http://charliegower.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/08/09/bob.jpg
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 14:39 (thirteen years ago) link
i wish
i don't think this stuff is for me...i like his sound palette a lot, but there's just not enough there to hold my interest (and the noodly piano interludes are kind of grating). maybe it would work at a club or party, but i wouldn't know.
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 16:43 (thirteen years ago) link
huh surprised by that tbh
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 16:44 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd have troubel imagining the new album working in a club setting, but then I say that about a lot of things and end up being surprised when they do. He's getting a band together so he can perform the tracks live, so I hear.
― Bernard V. O'Hare (dog latin), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 16:53 (thirteen years ago) link
that said i checked out his soundcloud and i do like some of that stuff better, like this: http://soundcloud.com/nicolas-jaar/b1-o-angles
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 16:58 (thirteen years ago) link
thanks for the link to that Time Out New York mix, what a great listen.
― skip, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 21:41 (thirteen years ago) link
"WOUH" is jaw-dropping.
― rihanna rennavated my dick (rennavate), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Space Is Only Noise leaked.
― rihanna rennavated my dick (rennavate), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 21:57 (thirteen years ago) link
i saw nico at the wolf and lamb xmas party at Sankeys in manchester. It was quite possibly one of best atmospheres i have ever experienced in a club. He started of at 70bpm and the crowd lapped it up , it made the changes throughout the set epic and his music on a good quality sound system was incredible. The man was like an artist and the whole crowd responded. he even SANG the vocal parts on his tracks - NO JOKE! i love my tech house/ deep house / minimal nights where the dancing is relentless however seeing Jaar is something different and something special - dont judge until you see his live act in a club setting - its surprising how well it works. He is the 2nd best live act in the Resident advisor polls for a reason.
― leon, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 23:05 (thirteen years ago) link
i would really love to see him live yeah
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 23:06 (thirteen years ago) link
it's him singing on the recordings, right?
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 23:07 (thirteen years ago) link
come to glasgow on the 29th of jan then!
xpost
― jed_, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 23:08 (thirteen years ago) link
yh on the Chilean American vocals - this is his best mix in my opinion and gives you an idea of what to expect seeing him live - http://www.wolflambmusic.com/mp3/WLP087-nico-bunker-showcase.mp3
― leon, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 23:17 (thirteen years ago) link
did anyone end up going to the shoreditch gig?
― just sayin, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 23:38 (thirteen years ago) link
He started of at 70bpm and the crowd lapped it up , it made the changes throughout the set epic and his music on a good quality sound system was incredible. The man was like an artist and the whole crowd responded. he even SANG the vocal parts on his tracks -
boner
― basically just a 2/47 freak out (sic), Thursday, 13 January 2011 00:50 (thirteen years ago) link
"Boner" - mature respone but yh he was that good , check out motor city drum ensemble aswell his stuff is great
― leon, Thursday, 13 January 2011 10:35 (thirteen years ago) link
no ;_;
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Thursday, 13 January 2011 10:36 (thirteen years ago) link