Tagged: Nicolas Jaar
Nicolas Jaar’s Prism: The Digital Edition
When Nicolas Jaar’s publicist handed me Don’t Break My Love, a compilation featuring Nicolas Jaar and his Clown & Sunset labelmates, I didn’t know what to do with it. It came in the form of … read more »
Download an Uninterrupted Version of Nicolas Jaar’s Essential Mix
Back in May, Nicolas Jaar released his Essential Mix. It was weird and beautiful and pretty much jumped all over the map genre-wise. It even began with Angelo Badalamenti talking about making the Twin Peaks … read more »
Live: FYF Fest
Since Sean Carlson launched the Fuck Yeah Fest (since tastefully neutered to its current acronym, FYF) as a one-night hardcore showcase at the Echo in 2004, the event has reached full bloom, relocating to LA … read more »
Cat Power, “Cherokee” (Nicolas Jaar Remix) MP3
Nicolas Jaar has remixed “Cherokee,” the nimble opening track of Cat Power’s upcoming album Sun, out September 4th via Matador. Jaar rounds the track’s crisp percussion at its edges, floating Chan Marshall’s wailed If I … read more »
Download Nicolas Jaar’s Essential Mix
It seems pretty fitting that Nicolas Jaar’s Essential Mix begins not with Angelo Badalamenti’s Twin Peaks score, but with Badalamenti talking about the score, while the key dramatic bit plays in the background. It feels … read more »
Video: Darkside, “A1″
Darkside (Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington), give their dread-inducing-then-quietly-ecstatic “A1″ a cinematic treatment from Pomp & Clout, with a bunch of post-apocalyptic bedouins roaming the desert digging for crystals. For anyone raised on Star Wars … read more »
The FADER #79 Podcast
Philip Glass is an icon of the avant-garde, which more or less means the star of FADER #79 is a weirdo of mythic proportions. In that spirit, and in his honor, we’ve crafted one of … read more »
World Premiere! The FADER #79 Featuring Philip Glass
The most famous, absurd anecdote about Philip Glass, the subject of our annual Icon Issue this year, is that around the time Einstein on the Beach was performed at the Metropolitan Opera in 1976, he … read more »
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Recently, I watched Xavier Beauvois’ very good movie, Of Gods and Men. It’s a narrative film based on a true story about nine Trappist monks living in Tibhirine, Algeria during the mid-’90s, when radical Islamists … read more »
GEN F: Nicolas Jaar
Preview: This story will appear in FADER #79, on stands soon. Recently, Nicolas Jaar was in a coffee shop in Canada when his 2011 album, Space is Only Noise, came on the stereo. It’s a … read more »
