#nico jaar

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At one point while making the record, I thought that I was starting to see a path but then I realized that it was very similar to my father’s path, and that in itself was an illusion.

Nicolas Jaar and the Politics of Dance Music, interview for Pitchfork

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Nicolas Jaar - No

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Nico Jaar is one of electronic music’s most mysterious producers. After his stunning 2011 debut Space Is Only Noise, he released a 2013 LP with the two-person band Darkside, an unofficial album soundtrack to a 1969 film, and his 2015 Nymphs EP series. He’s back for his 2nd formal solo Sirens, which is due out on Friday, September 30th, and is currently available for streaming here.

Jaar has said that this work is his most political yet, responding to the current state of affairs, and it also happens to be his most personal, too. Old sound bites feature Nico Jaar on tape as a child. The scratch off cover art of his vinyl cover reveals an art piece by his father. He resurrects the terrible history of his Chilean homeland and Pinochet’s dictatorship. But he manages to do so through haunting electronic music, lacing together noise and often times subliminal sounds to create a dense catalog of memory. The earlier pared down impulses of Space Is Only Noise are present, but the more melodic, haunting turns of his more recent work make Sirens all the more powerful.

It’s hard to know what Jaar will do next, but it is clear he’s one of the most dynamic electronic music producers, who imbues classic house influences, industrial noise, and heritage into something that speaks to our state of affairs in 2016.

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