Nicolas Jaar: I was a Teenage Villalobos

phh. can't

Yeah it's great. I love the melody of the title track but I keep sitting listening to it thinking - is this what I think is great? then the last minute or so kills me every time.

God. No - I'm wrong. The whole thing is awesome.

Here're my thoughts on the live show: http://thequietus.com/articles/06139-nicolas-jaar-fabric-live-review

nice

That was a great article. Thanks for posting.

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

!!!!

he did an amazing cover of this for the gilles peterson show the other week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9asAVWUArg

heard that missy remix the other week on BiS and yeh, wow

that missy rmx is amazing

Love that missy rmx. Any idea where can I purchase?

yeaaaaaaaah heard that missy remix out the other week and have been desperate to know what it was - so good

man abdullah ibrahim is dope, cant wait to hear his rmx

live in the studio version, pretty nice:

http://soundcloud.com/nicolas-jaar/ishmael-abdullah-ibrahim-cover

(no vocals though, just a jam on the bassline)

saw ibrahim live once, one of the greatest shows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNu-Jtp_M1Y&feature=related

Nicolas Jaar / Live

Wednesday July 27th & Thursday July 28th
Details

* Date: Wed 27th Jul, 2011
* Time: 8pm - 1am
* Location: Fabric, 77A Charterhouse St City of London EC1M 3HN
* Price: £10-12.50

really liked your review of the last one btw DL, I don't think I said at the time

hey, thanks! I think that was my first official live review so it means a lot :-)

What's his pre-album stuff like then, and does anyone fancy helping me hear it?

See the list at the top of the thread Mouthy. It's kind of similar, but more house-based. Worth looking at. Think you might like Mi Mujer, and El Bandido.

Or get the Inès comp

What's his pre-album stuff like then, and does anyone fancy helping me hear it?

omg nick the answers to these questions are only in the VERY FIRST POST of this thread

lol i made the same mistake upthread

listened to the album for the first time today while relaxing outside with my head leaned back it was lightly raining & i felt like i was getting my hair washed at the hairdressers when that sample came on so nice

would listen to an album of the sound of rushing water

http://www.whatpeopleplay.com/?redirect=/albumdetails/null/id/40689

Gyah! Aju & Bradock & Jaar.

Ah, two of my favourite acts from this year coming together:

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

i'm fully convinced that this guy is a genius now.

he finished his set at fabric the other day:
http://www.divshare.com/download/15416345-739
does anyone know what it is?

didn't he say it was brand new?

he's distractingly smashable

omg dont get me started

he's a total ride.

lol

http://soundcloud.com/nicolas-jaar/sets/nicos-bluewave-edits/

he's distractingly smashable

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omg even more so in person

you bastard.

and omg that Hey Boy bluewave edit is amazing.

really liking this!

I like his edit of The Beach. Nothin special, just slowed down and less jerky.

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!

(that is really garbled, sorry, but i don't really have the language to discuss these things)

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.

jed's description is why "Space Is Only Noise" is making me think I need a new home system

Are there any good Jaar sets floating around online anywhere?

the xlr8r one is good but it's basically one long jaar track/series of reedits.

http://www.xlr8r.com/podcast/2011/02/nicolas-jaar#

still available.

Got it, thanks!

listening to him is a severely visual experience for me too but i couldnt really do an accurate description.