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Her String - Clown N Sunset Collective. ‪Nicolas Jaar - Hey Boy‬‏ Does Nicolas Jaar's music defy description? What do you call Nicolas Jaar's music? The 20 year-old American may be closely associated with New York's Wolf + Lamb label, but the music he makes has only a tangential relationship with house or techno. For his debut release, The Student (you can listen to his music here), Wolf + Lamb had to request Jaar underscore this crumbling meditative piano piece with a beat, to give it dancefloor traction.

Meanwhile, the man himself often takes his live club sets down to a jarringly slow 70bpm, interested, as he is, in creating atmosphere and emotional resonance, rather than physically moving the crowd. "I never really made club music until I started playing in clubs," explains Jaar (pronounced "jar"). Jaar talks of dance music accelerating and shrinking through the 1990s; increasing in speed but narrowing its emotional range, in the process becoming a one-dimensional, escapist soundtrack. As befits the son of Chilean visual artist Alfredo Jaar, he explores clubbing at a conceptual level. Nicolas Jaar - Playing With Tempo - Features - Music / Electronic Beats by Telekom.

Clown and Sunset - Nicolas Jaar Discography. Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise by CircusCompany. Snippet: Sneaky Sound System: Big (Always By Your Side) - Nico Jaar Big Version (Modular) Nicolas Jaar interview: 'I’m interested in the ghosts that appear inside the silence.' | Dummy » Features. Nicolas Jaar is tired. It’s just past 9pm on a Sunday night and he’s got back to London not so long ago from playing a show at the Sub Club in Glasgow. The next morning he’s got a Gilles Peterson session to record. He shifts position and gaze, asks to move to a different table because he’s cold at the one opposite the door of the hotel lobby we start off at. His conversation starts off sharp, clipped, to the point and no more. Nicolas Jaar – The Student (Wolf + Lamb 2008) by Clown and Sunset Listening to his music, it’s perhaps unsurprising that Jaar should have his guard up.

WOUH /// Nicolas Jaar (Double Standard Records) by Clown and Sunset Currently he’s touring heavily following the album’s release. What made you decide to move into making music in the first place? Other music. You grew up for a bit in Chile. A little. Yeah, so when you moved back to New York were there any particular sounds or music that interested you? You’ve been involved with Wolf + Lamb for quite a few years now.