Nicolas Jaar: I was a Teenage Villalobos

can any jazz heads tell me what his edit "mini calcutta" is an edit of?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ_X9uTLHxo

Think it's dave Brubeck - Calcutta blues

Pro tip: the Ines compilation on his label is like a much superior version of his album, on the same micro-downbeat tip. Really beautiful stuff.

just sayin' thanks! x

O really? Love that comp but disappointed to hear the album's not as good xpost
No prob jed_!

another sample req (and this one has been driving me crazy) there's a kind of vocal whoop + crowd noise/talking in the background of "Time for Us" which i recognise. initially i thought it was from Marvin Gaye's "got to give it up" but no. anyone know the source of the "whoop!"?

http://soundcloud.com/nicolas-jaar/nicolas-jaar-time-for-us

O really? Love that comp but disappointed to hear the album's not as good xpost

The album's even more supine and feels flabbier, less consistently interesting sample choices too.

Anybody listen to the mix he did for Time Out New York? Quite possibly one of the sexiest mixes ever.

http://soundcloud.com/timeoutnewyork/nicolas-jaar-mix

(You guys know how to download "undownloadable" Soundcloud files, right?)

no

offliberty.com

view source, a do a find for

streamUrl":"http://media.soundcloud.com/stream/

then copy and paste everything inside the double quotes starting with http://media.soundcloud.com/stream/

in this case that's http://media.soundcloud.com/stream/iMHd65pdtNPy?stream_token=ktNzd

thanks. that mix is great!

think i'll go hear and *look at* him in glasgow at the end of this month.

ta Tracer!

absolutely <3 this. stunner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th33wxpla5s

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).

i really liked his resident advisor podcast

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.

im into that

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

Ines comp is a better version of it though.

what is that?

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.

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.

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.

A lot of the acts on Clown & Sunset are younger than Jaar himself.

there are only three artists on the label iirc? but yes, both are younger than Jaar.

okay im into this

lol wtf is phillip sherburnes deal in this RA interview my god

what's a good representative track from this dude?

idk if its representative but Wouh is the one slaying me atm

the one that first blew me away was "marks"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64pJZyC-r_k

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.

it is! feeling the love you gotta lose ep the most in gen. tho

I remain resolutely un-blown away by most of this. It all feels a bit bloodless, museum-y.

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.

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.

Matt's had his nerves shredded by years of bangin bass; it's understandable

i'm not really a fan of the disco edits at all

i like them now, but not as "disco edits" bc in that context they seem a bit uh pale

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"?

http://charliegower.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/08/09/bob.jpg

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.

huh surprised by that tbh

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.

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

thanks for the link to that Time Out New York mix, what a great listen.