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
just dropped a surprise album as Against All Logic
it's on Spotify
― Number None, Saturday, 24 February 2018 08:52 (six years ago) link
There are some really fun tracks here, I dig the low-stakes dancefloor approach (kinda like Four Tet's Percussions alias, which I like more than any recent Four Tet record).
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 1 March 2018 20:00 (six years ago) link
Reminds me of Daphni too
Really enjoyable record
― Number None, Thursday, 1 March 2018 20:06 (six years ago) link
this is great
― na (NA), Thursday, 1 March 2018 20:10 (six years ago) link
so little discussion about this, is it good or like wallpaper good
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 23:09 (six years ago) link
or maybe the discussion is elsewhere??
personally couldn't get into it, a bit too dissonant and meandering to my taste iirc
it's getting really good reviews tho
― niels, Thursday, 29 March 2018 10:18 (six years ago) link
Here's a bad review if that's what you're looking for:https://www.residentadvisor.net/reviews/22216
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 29 March 2018 12:24 (six years ago) link
haha. just a lil more traction on why ppl like it. it kinda floated by me, but sounded pleasant.
really im curious what Lamp is listening to these days
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 29 March 2018 17:39 (six years ago) link
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40)
I'm enjoying it a lot, there are too many odd little rhythmic and textural flourishes for it to fit too snugly into the realm of the coffee table. Yet it is often very pleasant, and I'm fine with that.
― chap, Monday, 13 August 2018 16:12 (six years ago) link
i really like it. not as much as the Darkside record which is my favorite Jaar project by an order of magnitude but this is probably my 2nd favorite
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 04:59 (six years ago) link
mans on a tear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hPfc02Q1qA
'Fantasy' is from Against all Logic's new album '2017 - 2019' out now on Other People: https://against-all-logic.bandcamp.com/album/2017-2019
― Papa Triste (Thee Macallan 18 Year), Friday, 7 February 2020 22:10 (four years ago) link
I actively hated Sirens, and the first AAL didn't grab me, but this is cutting through the ADHD. He turns unpredictability into hooks somehow.
he sort of withdrew from the spotlight trained on "Nicolas Jaar", huh?
― lukas, Saturday, 8 February 2020 00:05 (four years ago) link
I’m a total dilettante when it comes to this guy, liked Darkside a lot, but was playing a bunch of AAL today. It’s pretty fucking good.
― circa1916, Saturday, 8 February 2020 04:01 (four years ago) link
Like the Lydia Lunch cut-up on the new album. “If you can’t do it good, do it hard” is a good mantra tbh.
― circa1916, Saturday, 8 February 2020 04:03 (four years ago) link
I love the new one but I pretty much adore all of his records, no matter the moniker and style. Space, Sirens, Darkside, AAL, the Pomegranates re-scoring... He's just brilliant.
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Saturday, 8 February 2020 14:51 (four years ago) link
Love 2017-2019. There's also a 12" with more sampled Lydia Lunch.
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 20:17 (four years ago) link
yeah this one is in line with the previous one i.e. very good
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 15:02 (four years ago) link
This single/album really are just incredible.
― toby, Thursday, 12 March 2020 14:06 (four years ago) link
And there's a new Jaar LP out next week.
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Thursday, 12 March 2020 14:17 (four years ago) link
!
― toby, Thursday, 12 March 2020 14:22 (four years ago) link
https://nicolasjaar.bandcamp.com/album/cenizas
― willem, Thursday, 12 March 2020 14:26 (four years ago) link
New album “Cenizas” is out.
At this point, I don’t think he is capable of releasing a bad album.
“Mud” is my favorite on first listen but the whole thing is great as usual.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 27 March 2020 06:43 (four years ago) link
I'm like three minutes into this album and ready to declare it great.
― lukas, Saturday, 28 March 2020 02:27 (four years ago) link
A lot of contrasts here. Can't say I like all of it but some parts I love. The closing track is a nice pop reward for listening patiently to the rest.
― Jeff W, Saturday, 28 March 2020 18:18 (four years ago) link
Just getting to this album. It's great and is a perfect fit for my current self-isolation. Sort of a drunk ambient record, stumbling from track to track, never settling into a single zone yet still adding up to a coherent mood. If that makes sense.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 3 April 2020 18:08 (four years ago) link
makes perfect sense, pgwp
cheers to NJ
― Papa Triste (Thee Macallan 18 Year), Friday, 3 April 2020 20:00 (four years ago) link
His third album of the year, Telas, was released on Friday. “Cenizas was the ashes of a destruction. Telas is the fabrics of a construction.” Haven't had the chance to listen yet but apparently it's 4 ambient-ish tracks, each around 15 minutes.
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Monday, 20 July 2020 17:04 (four years ago) link