Nicolas Jaar

just very beautiful music from 19 years old american-chilean Nicolas Jaar (wolf + lamb, circus company)

Nicolas Jaar – Live @ Club Der Visionaire

Nicolas Jaar – Live Fall 08

“I don’t mean to make a big thing of it, but Nicolas Jaar, the New York-based producer affiliated with the Wolf + Lamb label, is only 19 years old. In any number of different contexts, that might be unremarkable. In indie rock, you’re expected to be young. Same goes for hip-hop. Surely there’s no shortage of under-20s manning the barricades of nu-electro’s fluo revolution. But house and techno? I’m sorry, but aside from the Martinez Brothers, we’re generally a generation aging rapidly.” Philip Sherburne

“”I think it was the summer of 2004,” recalls Jaar. “I was at this photographer’s studio in Chile, and the photographer was blasting Tiga’s DJ Kicks mix. Being 14, I was like, ‘This is incredible!'” He promptly and volubly declared a newfound love for electronic music—”even though I had heard nothing, just Tiga. So at Christmas, my dad goes to this record shop and says, ‘Give me the most forward-thinking electronic music album right now.'” You can almost see the punchline coming: the CD the clerk handed over the counter was Ricardo Villalobos’ Thé Au Harem D’Archimède. The guy wasn’t like, ‘Oh, I’m gonna give you the best Chilean artist’,” stresses Jaar. “We were in Santiago, but my dad just said, ‘Give me the most forward-thinking thing you’ve got.’ [Villalobos] just happened to be Chilean. He gives me that for Christmas, along with a Luomo CD, Vocalcity. When I’m 14. This is all thanks to my dad being pretty good at doing this type of shit. So I listened to Villalobos at 14, and this is definitely a little bizarre, almost maybe a little sad, but it was the sexiest music I’d ever heard in my whole life. But it was also so complicated, there was so much stuff going on—even though I didn’t really purely enjoy it like I enjoyed jazz or African music. There was this weird love for the techno aspect, even though I had no direct experience of that until then.” Philip Sherburne interview on RA

Nicolas Jaar – Dubliners

Get The Curse Podacst 084 by Nicolas Jaar

Posted in de-dans, sets on February 3rd, 2010 by de-dans | 11 Comments