he's distractingly smashable
― the tune is space, Sunday, 31 July 2011 17:00 (thirteen years ago) link
omg dont get me started
― ℗⎣▲✘ (ico), Sunday, 31 July 2011 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link
he's a total ride.
― jed_, Sunday, 31 July 2011 22:19 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― ℗⎣▲✘ (ico), Monday, 1 August 2011 04:41 (thirteen years ago) link
http://soundcloud.com/nicolas-jaar/sets/nicos-bluewave-edits/
― just sayin, Monday, 8 August 2011 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
― the tune is space, Sunday, July 31, 2011 5:00 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
omg even more so in person
― lex pretend, Monday, 8 August 2011 17:08 (thirteen years ago) link
you bastard.
― jed_, Monday, 8 August 2011 18:29 (thirteen years ago) link
and omg that Hey Boy bluewave edit is amazing.
― jed_, Monday, 8 August 2011 18:31 (thirteen years ago) link
really liking this!
― just sayin, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 22:41 (thirteen years ago) link
I like his edit of The Beach. Nothin special, just slowed down and less jerky.
― lol is not enough (blank), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 22:43 (thirteen years ago) link
i have a question about his production (and i know nothing about production so please humour me).
the records that he puts out have a very idiosyncratic sound, it seems to me. appropriately, perhaps(given the album title) i'll describe it in spatial terms because i think that way. each sound sounds very separated from all the others, it's almost like each sound is a sphere of sound within a room and that sphere is travelling forward but not colliding with the other parts of the mix. that individual (spherical) sound is very separated from the other sounds within the mix and those other sounds occupy a similar separated space - each sound had a field around it which prevents it from touching the other sounds in the mix, does that make sense? amazingly he does make those separated sound make a whole
i love this effect but, at the same time, i find it wearing to listen to at a stretch. i can't listen to "space is only noise" from beginning to end, it's too taxing.
so the question is, does he have a unique talent here? or are other producers capable of achieving this effect but realise that used, over a long stretch, it can have a negative effect and so hold back from using it too much?
or possibly you just disagree with me or don't get that sonic overload effect that i do.
or maybe you just think i'm talking nonsense!
― jed_, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 23:00 (thirteen years ago) link
(that is really garbled, sorry, but i don't really have the language to discuss these things)
― jed_, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't know, but you're making me want to listen to this stuff again!
maybe i'm just jaded and hard to thrill these days but a lot of his stuff sounds really interesting and beautiful but doesn't give me the sort of kick i look for in this sort of music. maybe it's a phase.
― Dark Noises from the Eurozone (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 11 August 2011 10:08 (thirteen years ago) link
jed's description is why "Space Is Only Noise" is making me think I need a new home system
― Elderflower Gimcrax Flores (admrl), Thursday, 11 August 2011 17:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Are there any good Jaar sets floating around online anywhere?
― Elderflower Gimcrax Flores (admrl), Thursday, 11 August 2011 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
the xlr8r one is good but it's basically one long jaar track/series of reedits.
― jed_, Thursday, 11 August 2011 17:35 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.xlr8r.com/podcast/2011/02/nicolas-jaar#
still available.
― jed_, Thursday, 11 August 2011 17:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Got it, thanks!
― Elderflower Gimcrax Flores (admrl), Thursday, 11 August 2011 17:37 (thirteen years ago) link
listening to him is a severely visual experience for me too but i couldnt really do an accurate description.
― ℗⎣▲✘ (ico), Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:55 (thirteen years ago) link
So much amazing material this year, mostly not on his actual album of course...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LiGRSsC33k&feature=related
― Tim F, Sunday, 28 August 2011 10:43 (thirteen years ago) link
why do you say "of course"?
any idea what hey boy is an edit of?
― jed_, Sunday, 28 August 2011 10:45 (thirteen years ago) link
More that's it's kinda typical for dance producers to slightly underwhelm with their actual albums as compared to the other stuff they put out.
― Tim F, Sunday, 28 August 2011 10:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Also been listening heaps to "Deleuze's Will" which I can't believe is 2 years old.
The original of "Hey Boy" is by The Blow.
― Tim F, Sunday, 28 August 2011 10:55 (thirteen years ago) link
thanks, Tim. do you know the orig of "what my last girl put me through"?
― jed_, Sunday, 28 August 2011 11:02 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozFvQcyQ4y8
― Tim F, Sunday, 28 August 2011 11:07 (thirteen years ago) link
That entire compilation is amazing actually - see also The Manhattans' "If My Heart Could Speak", The Temprees' "Love Can Be So Wonderful"...
Everything sounds like Jaar sample sources actually haha.
― Tim F, Sunday, 28 August 2011 11:10 (thirteen years ago) link
i have a hunch btw that soul keita and nikita quasim don't actually exist so
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_95WB4Bxio
― plax (ico), Sunday, 28 August 2011 11:11 (thirteen years ago) link
thanks again Tim. i wasn't being lazy, I have genuinely searched several times for answers to those questions.
also wtf at 18 or so making tracks that reference Deleuze, if only by title.
― jed_, Sunday, 28 August 2011 13:38 (thirteen years ago) link
"hey boy" is a The Blow remix i think
― sean gramophone, Sunday, 28 August 2011 16:34 (thirteen years ago) link
space is only noise was p underwhelming in the end, coulomb is the only song that i love as much as his singles and remixes. i mean i still like it, disappointment is p relative to its context in this case.
― plax (ico), Sunday, 28 August 2011 16:56 (thirteen years ago) link
oh my god i love hey boy
― back in a .gif ;) (flopson), Sunday, 28 August 2011 17:48 (thirteen years ago) link
why you didn't call me?
me too, big love for that.
― jed_, Sunday, 28 August 2011 20:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Okay can dude release "Encore" and the Iva Gocheva tunes already.
― Tim F, Sunday, 23 October 2011 10:05 (twelve years ago) link
Possibly too busy having Space is Only Noise recalled. But yes.
― Jedmond, Sunday, 23 October 2011 11:05 (twelve years ago) link
i've no idea what the tracks tim mentions are but his next single is don't break my love/why didn't you save me, and they're both very pretty
― lex pretend, Sunday, 23 October 2011 11:07 (twelve years ago) link
Who's that with? Also while we're asking, can he finally get round to releasing the Kalabrese 12" he's been promising for Clown and Sunset? You know, the one he played on the RA mix over a year ago.
― Jedmond, Sunday, 23 October 2011 11:15 (twelve years ago) link
Iva Gocheva is a Jaar pseudonym - Bring the Fire/The Pink Veil.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jGLE5nCCcg
― Jedmond, Sunday, 23 October 2011 11:18 (twelve years ago) link
Encore:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GX_4PgUhYo
― Tim F, Sunday, 23 October 2011 11:23 (twelve years ago) link
― Jedmond, Sunday, October 23, 2011 1:05 AM (2 hours ago)
is there a story behind this?
― ⚓ (gr8080), Sunday, 23 October 2011 13:20 (twelve years ago) link
Uncleared sample situation;http://www.thisisfakediy.co.uk/articles/news/nicolas-jaar-album-recalled-due-to-uncleared-sample
It's a Ray Charles sample that wasn't cleared as far as I can work out.
― mmmm, Sunday, 23 October 2011 13:43 (twelve years ago) link
Kind of the world's most obvious Ray Charles sample!
― avant-garde heterosexuals (mh), Sunday, 23 October 2011 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
Kanye's Late Registration recalled for uncleared Ray Charles sample
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 23 October 2011 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
Jamie Foxx recalled for uncleared Ray Charles impersonations
― avant-garde heterosexuals (mh), Sunday, 23 October 2011 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
each sound sounds very separated from all the others, it's almost like each sound is a sphere of sound within a room and that sphere is travelling forward but not colliding with the other parts of the mix. that individual (spherical) sound is very separated from the other sounds within the mix and those other sounds occupy a similar separated space - each sound had a field around it which prevents it from touching the other sounds in the mix, does that make sense? amazingly he does make those separated sound make a whole.
I had a defining moment with this album, when I played the CD through a hi-fi that had also been set up for TV surround-sound, in a large, tall, split-level space with a great acoustic. As there was a speaker in each corner, I found myself walking slowly round the room and experiencing each sonic element if it were a separate spatial entity. It was, um, pretty amazing really.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 09:14 (twelve years ago) link
^^ Jealous, I always had the creeping feeling that when I listen to this on headphones or my cheap monitors or the lousy stereo downstairs, that I'm not doing this album justice. Sound design is getting so good these days, but unless you have a decent space and system, it's largely lost.
― dog latin, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 09:32 (twelve years ago) link
I dug this out again. It struck me that this is less a house/slow house record than a jazz/blues record made on electronic instruments.
― dog latin, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 09:33 (twelve years ago) link
totally agree... been listening to this and the Mark Hollis solo album recently and they both arrive at a jazz destination from wildly different starting points.
I think NJs links with the Wolf & Lamb crew has played up the slow house aspect of the album.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 12:06 (twelve years ago) link
yes, the best song is the dave brubeck one
― elan, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
oh it's not on the album buthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ_X9uTLHxo
― elan, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Tuesday, October 25, 2011 12:06 PM (5 hours ago)
that and the majority of his output aside from this album
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link