EROTIC HEAT /#\/\#/\/\/\/\/\/\/\#/\#/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/#\/#\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\#/\#/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\#/\# -Jlin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLUlTfc0Y4M

I really love her new album so much.

yes

"Erotic Heat" is amazing but I feel especially with her new album out, a thread about her deserves a better hook than a track that's been out for years.

Like I didn't even see her name in the title at first

love this! to my ears she is staking out a really good middle ground between basics and experimentalism

Shoutout to the mandarin and mortal kombat samples on Infrared (Bagua)

track-by-track breakdown

http://www.self-titledmag.com/2015/03/23/stream-jlins-dark-energy-album-and-read-the-stories-behind-her-restless-songs/

I have a really hard time listening to this :(

Most of the footwork I'm into is really melodically forgiving. Although, this could just be one of those kinds of albums I'll come to like more than anything else in the future, so who knows.

first four tracks of this album are stunning

(i find the rest pretty forgettable, but those first four tracks!)

Expand is a fave for me.

Is there nowhere else on ilm this is being talked about? It's fucking great - and awesome fun - and kinda beautiful. There's nothing else this year that's sounded quite as new as this LP. It's playful and menacing at the same time. It reminds me of year zero jungle a little bit in its use of samples, that work even though they really shouldn't. I've spent a lot of time jumping up and down in my flat to this.

Yeah, this is my favorite album of the year. "Playful and menacing at the same time" otm. It totally feels sui generis even among other footwork stuff.

There was also some discussion here: http://ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?showall=true&bookmarkedmessageid=5432681&boardid=41&threadid=83295

Also, I'm excited to see her next week!

I'll have to wait until she comes to the UK - please update with yr thoughts.

Yeah, this is my favourite record of the year. It's so, so, great.

Btw she was fucking great. she said it was only her second performance tho! Played a bunch of stuff from the album + some other amazing stuff that I'm assuming is hers (including one she said was a premier) + a few Traxman and RP Boo tracks, one of the latter she made us promise not to tell him she was playing. Sometimes she'd stop and talk between tracks a little bit but managed not to kill the energy in doing so. It was all super hard and banging and scary and awesome. Go see her if you have a chance.

v late but i love that track-by-track guide linked upthread

year zero jungle otm. also reminds me of the gabba I used to listen to as a teenager with the mishmash of incongruent samples which sound cooler than they make sense.

I am really loving the direction of her new EP (which you can listen to entirely, albeit track by track, on Bandcamp)

https://jlin.bandcamp.com/album/free-fall

She killed it at the Exchange in Bristol on Saturday http://thequietus.com/articles/19707-live-report-jlin-exchange-bristol-review

New album 'Black Origami' announced on Hyperdub. No date set yet, but I'm already pretty hyped.

just saw her win over a somewhat sleepy Thursday night Salford crowd w/ a blinding set that kept gaining velocity and ended up monstrous. ppl suddenly stopping still with huge grins on their faces mouthing "oh my god!", and some superb grimacing on her part as she leant in

I missed her a couple weeks ago bc I was already on the train home with groceries when I remembered she was playing :(

Ogmor described it perfect, same at her festival gig at Brussels last week.

Had the chance to chat to her for radio. She talked the upcoming Dark Lotus 12" (February 10), Black Origami album (May), on her mother sitting on her bed commenting on her tracks, on why water is her greatest influence, how she don't believes she reached her peak with Dark Energy yet. You can stream the thing, from the 40 minute mark on: https://www.mixcloud.com/Sterrenplaten/sterrenplaten-30-september-2016-jlin/

new single
https://jlin.bandcamp.com/album/dark-lotus

she could put on a mean strobe show & really get the seizures going

this is fantastic

nyakinyua rise!

I really like how the triplet-based rhythms are getting into deep West African drumming territory, not sure I love how it's made up of all these dry, pointillistic one-shot samples.

Btw can anyone ID the vocal whinny sample (like at 1:49 in Nyakinyua Rise) that's been popping up in a ton of club tracks lately? for example.

(i don't know why my links aren't working lately, but: https://nervoushorizon.bandcamp.com/track/tsvi-assams-children)

dry, pointillistic one-shot samples

lol this is basically what I want all dance music to be

this is fantastic

You're goddamn right. I'm hoping to hear more tracks like Nyakinyua Rise and Nandi on the new album

Sensational.

https://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=38449

The LP includes collaborations with Holly Herndon and William Basinski.

YES YES

Dark Lotus is incredible. Really looking forward to this album.

http://pitchfork.com/features/profile/10071-jlin-woman-of-steel/

great article

yea that was great

"holy child" is pretty neat

A heads up for any US ilxors- Amazon has Black Origami on vinyl listed for just $9. It's almost definitely an error, but maybe worth taking a crack at it?

https://www.amazon.com/Black-Origami-Jlin/dp/B06XQ413N5/ref=sr_1_1_twi_lp__1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1494882472&sr=1-1&keywords=jlin+black+origami

short but weighty
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/22/black-origami-jlins-moody-new-dance-album

Not sure if anyone saw these, but Jlin shared her sample source files last year for this record and the last one, and it's really fun listening to Black Origami and hearing lots of them. IMO one of the coolest, most generous things an artist has done for fellow musicians.

just picked this up and gave it the first listen ... amazingly good

can't wait to hear it!

It's up on Bandcamp.

"Kyanite" is a jam. Refreshing and inventive stuff

I'm 1 minute into this album and it's already a stonker

those spinal rattling sounds, the huge floor timpanis. hard to believe this is even footwork any more. it's just so complex. programming on a level with peak-era Aphex. can you imagine the work she must have put in to this?

Not sure if anyone saw these, but Jlin shared her sample source files last year for this record and the last one, and it's really fun listening to Black Origami and hearing lots of them. IMO one of the coolest, most generous things an artist has done for fellow musicians.

― Dominique, Thursday, May 18, 2017 10:10 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ysi?

fuk this rulz

don't actually have URL anymore (if it's still up), but you can scroll way back into Jlin's fb page to see?

Jlin is a level above every other producer around right now

I think this might be a step up from Dark Energy, which is a pretty impressive feat

https://www.facebook.com/jlintheinnovator/posts/1194607940563579

tybg

paolo and moodles otm, this is truly Next Level Shit

just found out she was a math major, makes sense!!

my favorite track is hatshepsut (mentasms + 808s!!)

would not compare to aphex twin - more like shackleton imo

this is so fucking good

Looooooooooooooooove this

i don't think the aphex twin comparisons are off base: this is rhythmic virtuosity at play, the likes of which i haven't heard in anyone but the two. where afx is more straightforward with melody intertwined, jlin instead focuses on the dizzying footwerk polyrhythms

I agree with Vahid that Shackleton is the best (albeit still reductive) point of comparison. These grooves *work* as grooves in a way that I don't think is true of Aphex post oh 1994.

(Ironically, sounding a bit "off" is a quality that post 1994 Apjex shares with footwork but which Jlin herself lacks)

I'm also put in mind of what I guess I'd describe as "full kit neurofunk", like Source Direct's "Computer State", Sonar Circle's "Bass Flip", Maximum Style's "The Message (Arcon 2 Remix)", Can's "Tango Whiskeyman (A Guy Called Gerald Remix)", 4 Hero's "We Who Are Not As Others"...

this album actually reminds me a lot of drum corps charts -- some of the tracks even use marching snare samples

this album

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this album
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chair otm

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this is really interesting music

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haha
i meant that as a compliment!

In terms of sheer rhythmic invention neither Aphex nor Shackleton come close to Jlin. Shackleton shares some her mastery of space and depth, while Aphex has manu fantastic qualities but they aren't the same as Jlin's. A lot of these beats are next level - one of the reasons she's so distinctive is because by and large she doesn't work in 4/4.

I genuinely wish I found this as impressive and enjoyable as everyone else seems to :/

I agree with Matt that no single comparison is going to to be terribly reliable.

One reason why I tend to think complex but still dancefloor-friendly drum and bass is a better point of comparison is that the thing that really strikes me about Jlin's beats is the very careful, very intricate interplay between the various drum hits at her disposal - that stereopanning "ball ricocheting around an inverted drum kit" feel she goes for.

Shackleton ended up with some of the same sonic qualities but he was coming from quite a different angle - rhythms as the sacred music of a lost civilisation kind of thing.

Jlin's music feels much more irrepressible and almost happy as a result of its sheer rhythmic exuberance - "fierce, fierce, fierce joy" as Bjork once put it.

i love the sounds Jlin uses but I'm with Jordan here. I dunno, music that is essentially rhythmic without any melodic counterpart often doesn't work for me, regardless of how intricate or unique the sound palette is. I dunno, I find this strain of music a bit exhausting but I admire its innovative nature

http://www.talkhouse.com/william-basinski-talks-with-jlin-for-the-talkhouse-podcast

new track:

https://soundcloud.com/planetmurecords/the-abyss-of-doubt-1

(from “Autobiography,” the score for her collaboration with British choreographer Wayne McGregor, which will be released in full on 28 September)

New album is really good, surprised it hasn't received much attention. More melodic and atmospheric than the others, but still very clearly Jlin. "Carbon 12" is a standout.

I'm not feeling it as much as her earlier work I'm afraid, I think maybe because it was made for a ballet it's not great club music but not really designed for home listening either?

She's still one of the best producers around right now though. Jlin's weaker material is better than like 95% of all other electronic music right now

paolo ilu but Autobiography is wonderful in any context

Aw thanks. Has she put out anything since Autobiography? We must be due something soon.

Glad you asked!

https://soundcloud.com/jlin-narlei/lotus
https://soundcloud.com/jlin-narlei/3a-1

Jlin remixes a Marie Davidson track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAXkETlKVzo
Marie Davidson & L’Œil Nu • C’est parce que j’m’en fous (Jlin Remix)

That's mad, I love it

New album (Akoma) features bjork, Kronos quartet and philip glass:

https://jlin.bandcamp.com/album/akoma

new album is so fucking good

I think it's her best yet. Love the diversity of sounds on this.

Been returning to the new album off and on since it came out last week. Definitely her best.

Also last week I caught Third Coast Percussion in LA and they did a suite of pieces composed by JLin. Apparently she composed it in her studio and then they arranged it for live instrumentation. The pieces are all on their album Perspective

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wR4jy9NXM0

I like her mournful orchestral song with jazz poet Moor Mother called “V. We’ve Been Through So Much (Grief)” that's on the 2024 Red Hot compilation Transa

The Library of Congress has commissioner her to do a new 10 minute song as part of an hour or so set at a May 2025 appearance in DC at the Library. Hopefully Trump can't cancel it

Just catching up with Jlin

x-post- Jlin and Moor Mother “V. We’ve Been Through So Much (Grief)”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqtH3g2Va-c

JLin debuting new composition tonight at free gig at the Library of Congress in DC