Nico Jaar reenacts the video for Tom Petty’s “Free Fallin.” Or a scene from Alice in Wonderland. Or he “journeys into the abyss to ponder the complexities of making music today” with the Avant/Garde Diaries. You can read their illuminating interview here. I’m pretty sure that quote is from a Method Man song, but I […]

I spent about two hours last night skimming through music. Maybe Jay-Z is right and I’m a fool. Or maybe I was just bored. I can’t stress the postal office insanity incited by writing about music for a living –especially when you’re interested in discovering something unheard and excellent. I wake up to 120 e-mails […]

I’m taking a break from a Sunday revisit of Masta Ace’s Sittin’ on Chrome to rewind this reggae patois-laced tune from Nic Jaar and someone named Theatre Roosevelt. Presumably, this is just like a new Diplo alias or something. Or some celebrity’s daughter who is getting Jaared. Who knows? All I know is that “The […]

Jonah Bromwich speaks English, Spanish, and Packer. The branch of musical acts whom I consider to be great is split into two mental tiers. Either I listen to an act and really respect it, for musicianship, or songwriting, or some other relatively technical factor (John Maus, De La Soul, half of Bowie’s output) or I […]

America lacks an institution on par with the BBC1 Essential Mix. Sometimes bands of bearders pop up on Morning Becomes Eclectic, but they usually only play a few songs to soundtrack 9 a.m. binges on craisin scones. We stick to the pastries, they create their own tradition in which every notable artist (and the Swedish […]

This is what it sounds like when dubs cry. Nico Jaar jackknifing Henry Laufer’s original into a work of skeletal, hand-carved beauty. If these two aren’t the best IDM producers of their generation, they’re among of the closest ones. From Shlohmo’s Vacation Remixes

Pictures via Pitchfork, shot by Will Deitz. Hank Erins studied house at Brown with Nicolas Jaar. Nicolas Jaar at MoMA PS1. With live movement art and real time video processing. In a geodesic dome. For five hours. On Super Bowl Sunday. Too good to be true? Too true to be good? For those of you […]

Nicolas Jaar has the unique ability to make the mundane appear marvelous. His remix for When Saints Go Machine glows with negative spaces and smoke vapors. His music aspires to the mild splendor derived from organic miracles–falling snow, abstruse connections, the invention of the Clapper. Shlohmo also understands the importance of keeping the lights low. […]

Nicolas Jaar has the sort of precocity that inspires immediate envy. Check the resume: he’s 21, a Brown University literature student, and spent a significant amount of time in Chile, affording him the ability to seduce significant others with a few significant clauses in his Romantic language of choice. Que Buen suerte. He boasts all […]