Missed that SF show. Scalpers wanted to charge 60. No Thanks.
That being said, when I read it I was at the Fillmore I was underwhelmed. The sound there is hit/miss plus the concert crowd vibe for a Jaar show was not what I wanted. Looks like my instinct was correct.
I have been watching his live shows on youtube and I am convinced Darkside is getting BETTER in a short amount of time of touring.
My main beef with Darkside has been the overuse of Dave's guitar and at times Jaar's vocals.
I watched this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPRQBSitPOQ
Paper Trails has always been the song that exhibits those two qualities to a larger effect. However, in just a few months Dave has toned down on the guitar solo side of things and is more restrained, more focused on sonic ambience and melody. He still tweaks out solos but its in service of the groove. This may seem like a subtle thing but it has made me like Darkside much more. Also, Nico is becoming even more adept at switching from minimal/maximal when it comes to the midi controller and the beats. His vocals also seem more confident and natural. I always sensed a hint of affect in his vocals on the Darkside project (really all of his vocals) but i think he's getting more comfortable. Overall, I am super pleased with where they are going and I have to catch them next time around.
― oscar, Friday, 31 January 2014 21:33 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8_ref358zQ
Darkside cover Black Sabbath's Planet Caravan at the end of their Boiler Room set.
Never heard the original before, it's beautiful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSWsLADAYSw
― Plasmon, Sunday, 2 February 2014 18:34 (ten years ago) link
Darkside. The End.
https://soundcloud.com/otherpeoplerecords/07-gone-too-soon
"Hello.
DARKSIDE is coming to an end, for now. On September 12th, we will be playing our last show at Brooklyn Masonic Temple. (tickets : http://bit.ly/1p6XtRR)
Here are two songs that we made while working on "Psychic" but that didn't make the album. "
― groovypanda, Sunday, 17 August 2014 20:10 (ten years ago) link
Did I see something on twitter about a new solo album?
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 09:34 (nine years ago) link
yes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGeNUgizTaM
― nose, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 14:55 (nine years ago) link
we never mentioned his soundtrack for The Color of Pomegranates, worth listening to
― the most painstaking, humorless people in the world (lukas), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 15:58 (nine years ago) link
woah what
― all my hatians if u play they make u (gr8080), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 17:44 (nine years ago) link
Nymphs II is rather good.
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 18:26 (nine years ago) link
Vimeo had a full-length Color of Pomegranates video with the new soundtrack synced, but it got taken down.
― Plasmon, Thursday, 14 May 2015 03:19 (nine years ago) link
damn, i'm dying to see/hear it now
― all my hatians if u play they make u (gr8080), Thursday, 14 May 2015 13:24 (nine years ago) link
Free download!
@nicolas___jaarIf you're at a computer, here's a DL for my album "Pomegranates" http://bit.ly/1e45wwv
― groovypanda, Thursday, 25 June 2015 11:40 (nine years ago) link
I'm at work. Has anyone listened to this yet?
― Nico, Thursday, 25 June 2015 13:34 (nine years ago) link
Also at work. Have downloaded but this will be a treat for tonight. You get lots of bonus material with the tracks (all .m4a format btw): photos, PDFs, etc.
― Jeff W, Thursday, 25 June 2015 13:48 (nine years ago) link
i think i still have a .AVI of pomegrantes somewhere
― gr8080, Thursday, 25 June 2015 18:51 (nine years ago) link
Apparently this is an alternate soundtrack that Jaar made for the movie 'The Colour of Pomegranates' from 1969. It's a film with some breath-taking imagery and it's among my favorite films from the decade. Don't know if this is commissioned work or just a fan hommage by Jaar but makes me happy this exists.
I still haven't listened to the album. Anyone knows if there's a version that pairs the original movie with this alt. soundtrack?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 29 June 2015 23:21 (nine years ago) link
Oh hey! I found it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=2462&v=WHZGDDE8n4E
Ok, 10 minutes in and this is great! The original film is one of my favorite movies from the 60's and Jaar is one of my favorite artists of the past decade! Seeing/hearing the two together is amazing. It would be so good if he started doing alt. soundtracks of 60's/70's trippy arthouse films for fun as a series. Other films which would be great if soundtracked by Jaar:
Sedmikrasky (1966)Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971)The Devils (1971)Zabriskie Point (1970)Diabel (1972)The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)The Holy Mountain (1973)Hausu (1977)3 women (1977)Suspiria (1976)
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 29 June 2015 23:38 (nine years ago) link
yeah but color of pomegranates has no dialogue
― gr8080, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 16:46 (nine years ago) link
cf. Hawk and a Hacksaw's You Have Already Gone to the Other World
― juggulo for the complete klvtz (bendy), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 20:10 (nine years ago) link
i tried downloading this and there were no files in the zip, i don't know if my dl kept getting interrupted or what (i tried three times). :(
― lil urbane (Jordan), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 20:17 (nine years ago) link
Took me a while to find then tbh but they are in there. When I decompressed it I got a chess knight icon, clicked on that and the music files are in an icon that looks like the mac terminal window, if you know what tHat looks like. Or maybe it didn't download properly indeed.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 22:13 (nine years ago) link
if you open the zip in Windows Explorer it looks empty, but if you extract it with an expander tool it works.
― back once again with the panel behaviour (sic), Thursday, 2 July 2015 02:21 (nine years ago) link
i found pomegranates rather underwhelming. will he ever make music as incredible as the run of remixes and singles before his debut album again?
― lex pretend, Thursday, 2 July 2015 09:28 (nine years ago) link
Its not supposed to be listened as an album I think.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 2 July 2015 09:49 (nine years ago) link
how convenient
― Number None, Thursday, 2 July 2015 10:35 (nine years ago) link
he says he hopes to release it on vinyl, so i suppose he does reckon it should be listened to as an album.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Friday, 3 July 2015 17:38 (nine years ago) link
So, does he plan to release all of those remixes and songs in vinyl or whatever format other than mp3 at any point?
The StudentRussian DollsWith just one glance you (and the brilliant 'And I say' remix by xinobi)No Regular Play - Owe Me rmxEllen Allien - Flashy Flashy rmxThe Bees - Winter Rose rmxThe Hellen Hollins Singers - Consolation edit
I don't think any of those have an official physical release and they're all great.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 20 July 2015 17:29 (nine years ago) link
Also this which I suppose it's an alias and which is also amazing:
Iva Gocheva - Bring The Firehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jGLE5nCCcg
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 20 July 2015 17:48 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT2RPAKwNkc
well its a great sample
― niels, Thursday, 5 November 2015 16:54 (eight years ago) link
his mixes are the best. the reharmonized Lashun Pace thing, the Reich blend/edit...http://ra5.residentadvisor.net/RA500_151228_Nicolas-Jaar-x-residentadvisor.net.mp3
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Tuesday, 5 January 2016 16:14 (eight years ago) link
gonna give the mix a listen but i felt like he reealllllly fell off last year, was completely underwhelmed (and in fact bored) by all the nymphs releases. his debut album was already a bit of step down from the singles and remixes that preceded it (feel like floating points' album has a similar relationship to his previous singles) and he just seems to be heading further and further in that direction.
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Tuesday, 5 January 2016 16:30 (eight years ago) link
i wasn't really into the Floating Points album, but it seemed pretty clear that he was trying to do something totally different from the dance singles.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Tuesday, 5 January 2016 16:34 (eight years ago) link
well duh, ditto jaar's album vs singles, i just think it's a worse thing
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Tuesday, 5 January 2016 16:38 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CbZHH0iW0AAZdR9.jpg
― Plasmon, Thursday, 18 February 2016 05:09 (eight years ago) link
OTM with his solo stuff, but I still really love his Darkside work the most. But yeah, it feels like he's already lost the energy and vitality that his early teenage tracks had and has self indulged bit too heavily these days. His RA 500 mix was okay.
― octobeard, Thursday, 18 February 2016 06:57 (eight years ago) link
Fights was the best thing I've heard from him, but the supposed genius of those early singles has never been readily apparent to me.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 18 February 2016 07:47 (eight years ago) link
The debut album was gorgeous on a phenomenological level - I could listen to it just for the richness of the sound - but it was more than a little lacking in tunes. I've heard most of the early singles now and they're OK; prefer the Floating Points stuff.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 18 February 2016 10:34 (eight years ago) link
The title track of the debut album had enough tunes - and a drop - to fill the whole record for me. I loved the album and still listen to that title track all the time.
― kraudive, Thursday, 18 February 2016 18:07 (eight years ago) link
http://other-people.network/#/channels/333?_k=zn9crg
― groovypanda, Monday, 26 September 2016 21:23 (eight years ago) link
now that's a confusing player if I ever did see one
sounds good though!
― niels, Tuesday, 27 September 2016 07:57 (eight years ago) link
couldn't tell if it wasn't working for me or if i was just dumb.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 September 2016 14:51 (eight years ago) link
I'm finding the new one pretty boring and I feel pretty stupid about it
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 13 October 2016 10:30 (seven years ago) link
i hate this album
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 13 October 2016 12:04 (seven years ago) link
this guy sounds way better on paper than in real life
― KitevsPill, Thursday, 13 October 2016 20:37 (seven years ago) link
here I'll ruin Nicolas jaar for you:
Moby_Play.jpg
― coffee table, "serious" noodling (brimstead), Friday, 14 October 2016 00:10 (seven years ago) link
Nah, I'm hearing much more Suicide than Moby
― doug watson, Friday, 14 October 2016 02:12 (seven years ago) link
classic sequence of inspired dance(-ey) singles -> tepid non-dancey albums -> undue critical adulation for artsy album twaddle -> reinforcing cycle
― flopson, Friday, 14 October 2016 02:20 (seven years ago) link
Haven't heard the new album, Jaar did a bunch of dance stuff with sampled old blues vocals, hence bad joke
― coffee table, "serious" noodling (brimstead), Friday, 14 October 2016 05:09 (seven years ago) link
His records just sound fabulous; it's very easy to soak into them on a sensual level. There are a handful of extended grooves on the new one where he's doing very lush things - The Governor, Three Sides of Nazareth - but there's also a bunch of stuff that makes me wonder wtf he's playing at.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 14 November 2016 14:43 (seven years ago) link
otm. "sirens" on three sides of nazareth rules
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 14:53 (seven years ago) link