Nicolas Jaar: I was a Teenage Villalobos

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.

So much amazing material this year, mostly not on his actual album of course...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LiGRSsC33k&feature=related

why do you say "of course"?

any idea what hey boy is an edit of?

More that's it's kinda typical for dance producers to slightly underwhelm with their actual albums as compared to the other stuff they put out.

Also been listening heaps to "Deleuze's Will" which I can't believe is 2 years old.

The original of "Hey Boy" is by The Blow.

thanks, Tim. do you know the orig of "what my last girl put me through"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozFvQcyQ4y8

That entire compilation is amazing actually - see also The Manhattans' "If My Heart Could Speak", The Temprees' "Love Can Be So Wonderful"...

Everything sounds like Jaar sample sources actually haha.

i have a hunch btw that soul keita and nikita quasim don't actually exist so

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_95WB4Bxio

thanks again Tim. i wasn't being lazy, I have genuinely searched several times for answers to those questions.

also wtf at 18 or so making tracks that reference Deleuze, if only by title.

"hey boy" is a The Blow remix i think

space is only noise was p underwhelming in the end, coulomb is the only song that i love as much as his singles and remixes. i mean i still like it, disappointment is p relative to its context in this case.

oh my god i love hey boy

why you didn't call me?

me too, big love for that.

Okay can dude release "Encore" and the Iva Gocheva tunes already.

Possibly too busy having Space is Only Noise recalled. But yes.

i've no idea what the tracks tim mentions are but his next single is don't break my love/why didn't you save me, and they're both very pretty

Who's that with? Also while we're asking, can he finally get round to releasing the Kalabrese 12" he's been promising for Clown and Sunset? You know, the one he played on the RA mix over a year ago.

Iva Gocheva is a Jaar pseudonym - Bring the Fire/The Pink Veil.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jGLE5nCCcg

Encore:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GX_4PgUhYo