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 22.11. - WARP@Mensa - FlucMensa - Wien
ABSTRACT HIP HOP LIVE ACTION@FlucMensa
live:
JIMMY EDGAR (Warp/Detroit)
http://jimmyedgar.com
http://warprecords.com
support:
DJ Amtrak (Widerstand/Tiefparterre/Wien)
http://amtrak.tiefparterre.net
http://tiefparterre.net
http://widerstand.org
wann: 22.11
wo: FlucMensa
start:22.00
VVK 5 / AK 7
Reviews:
Jimmy Edgar
Access Rhythm
(Warp) January 14 2003
Warp Records have had a good year; they released some of the best albums of the year from the likes of Aphex Twin, Prefuse 73 and Broadcast. They really have hit the nail on the head and they couldn't start 2004 any better than with Access Rhythm , from new signing Jimmy Edgar.
At a mere 19 years old Edgar has a seemingly infinite knowledge and understanding of how to produce a great tune. The term ëblip-hop' has been thrown around over the last few years, and here an artist the description may fit. Too light and optimistic to be trip-hop, too Detroit house driven to be hip-hop, it could be electro-soul, who knows? Like Prefuse 73, Edgar is going to confound the musical establishment.
Fusing the musical legacies of his hometown Detroit; all Motown rhythms and sexy seductive Detroit House, dragged kicking and into the new millennium with the addition of funky, ball breaking electronica. Throw in the additional progressive hip-hop vocal sample and he has what is the most promising debut 2004 and it's still only 2003.
Access Rhythm is where soul music should be going; if Edgar gets any more funky he may just raise the dead and force them to have a little boogie. This is as fresh as new music gets.
Jimmy Edgar
Bounce, Make, Model
(Warp) November 1 2004
When it comes to Detroit, forget garage-rock it’s soooooo, like over. If you want fashion, cutting-edge cool and truly exciting sounds, Jimmy Edgar is your man.
Matching January’s Access Rhythm, an insanely brilliant take on hip-hop that made Edgar a critical favourite, should be near impossible. On paper, it seems that new EP, Bounce, Make, Model would fall well short of the mark being Edgar’s take on 80s style r&b electro rubbish.
As opener ‘I Wanna Be Your STD’s dirty rhythms pound all doubts are beaten into submission. This EP is Herbie Hancock’s ‘Rockit’ being laid into by skinheads when it emerges you know it’s there but it’s almost unrecognisable.
Experimental, annoyingly cool, but still able to work as a dance-floor filler - every track drags electro into a deeper, darker dimension where Timbaland is a sleazy stalker, who also works as charity worker. Disturbing, yet likeable - just the way electronic music should be.
As closer ‘Inner City Color Reprise’ is blown apart in a Merzbow style mashout you’re left questioning ‘what the f**k was that’ - that was Jimmy Edgar, techno’s new master.
Kristuit Salu vs. Morris Nightingale
"My Mines I"
M3RCK records 2002
There was a time not so long ago when hiphop references in IDM were usually filed under either "youthful inspiration" (see Autechre/Plaid) or "irony" (see Kid606, etc.) Thankfully, along came a line of producers - Funkstorung, Push Button Objects, and Prefuse 73 among them - who saw that cutting up hip-hop didn't mean you had to cut it down. Now, with the release of My Mines I on Merck Records - located in American expiremental label hotbed Miami - you can add Detroit producer Jimmy Edgar to the list. Edgar - under the name Kristuit Salu vs. Morris Nightingale - layers clipped clicks, chopped vocals, and brittle high frequency sweeps over SETI pulses and random-access rhythms. This is hip-hop beamed in to deep space, where the sounds fragment in a sunspot before returning, riding bareback on slowly weaving radio waves. Warm and crackled jazz chords roll slowly like clouds as beats tickthrough random static. Time will come, not so far from now, when folks will reference My Mines I in the file marked "Future of HipHop."
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