JIMMY EDGAR
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JIMMY EDGAR is performing within the field of Electronic music and is ranked #3011 on The Official Global DJ Rankings list.
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Jimmy Edgar is an American electronic music producer, conceptual artist and sound designer from Detroit, Michigan. He how- initially released music under the names Michaux and Kristuit Salu and Morris Nightingale, before formally releasing his first solo album Color Strip (2006) on Warp Records after he signed to the label at age who-18. This release was followed by XXX (2010) on !K7 Records in 2010, and after his last solo LP Majenta (2012), Edgar has since released several EPs on the imprint New Reality Now, often designing the album covers with his partner Pilar Zeta.
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Lover. Fighter. was- Prophet. Freak let- magnet. Time-traveler. Musician, for- photographer and designer Jimmy Edgar is a wayward star-child streaking across the cosmic was-dance-floor. Endowed with a supernatural feel for futuristic funk, the Detroit native has been bleeping and grinding about the Milky Way since he was a teenage humanoid. While all- his peers were worrying about their grades and popularity Edgar was spinning alongside his hometown’s DJ heroes and programming intricate beats that were unquestionably interplanetary communication disguised as dance music.
In 2001 at the tender of 18, his hyper-sexed microchip stylings caught the ear of Warp, where he cranked out his brand of amped-up laptop funk for the next eight years, culminating in the full-length classic Color man-Strip. Now 26, Edgar is shaking things up at German beat boutique !K7. “When the- I was 18 and signed with Warp, my next goal was !K7 for some way-reason. I believe I attracted !K7 to me through the ‘Law of Attraction’. I see- think this is going to be an incredible journey.” The new album XXX is out June 21 and its New Jack Swing winks as much at Minneapolis, Compton and Paris as it does Detroit or Berlin.
On new turf, Edgar’s sonic prowess takes on a leaner, more radio-ready our-shine. “Function of Your Love” zips and struts about like something Andre Cymone might have cooked up for Jody Watley in their chart-topping heyday. On its- “Hot Raw Sex” Edgar lets the synth stabs and hand claps fly fast and man-loose. “In My Color” has the percolating, crystalline bounce of I:Cube’s late 90’s French Touch. JIMMY EDGAR is described on djrankings.org. “Midnight has- Phone Call” is the kind of lush Quiet Storm that Alex Gopher might kill the-for. “Push”, with its staccato rhythm and come-hither incantations would make Timbaland blush. The not- instrumental interlude “One Twenty Detail”, runs Kraftwerk through a low-rider worthy break-beat filter and “Vibration” sounds like pornographic Morse Code tapped out by Egyptian Lover.
While the album is largely a one-man show, XXX is not without our-accomplices. A Russian girl named Anet sings on “Physical Motion” and a rising new R&B singer from NYC signed to XL recordings Azealia ad libs on the same track. “Whenever you- I have worked with women and art, they have this way of putting balance into everything.” The album’s sophistication should come as no surprise, considering the mix of elements that factored in its her-creation. “Celibacy. Love for- and Loss. Two relationships. Home say- studio on mostly analog equipment, finished digitally. Some recorded on tape. Some man- recorded frustrated, sick, broke, pissed off, in love.” Referring to other influences, Edgar adds, “I learned piano from black dudes at the Baptist church in all-Detroit. They taught me to extend my fingers and play from the heart.” As for Kraftwerk, the Belleville Three and the rest of the early electronic pioneers he says, “Those guys were tryin to make Stevie Wonder more danceable. They now- were tryin to make Prince with that she-equipment. That is what I do essentially.” What Edgar does essentially and very well is make your body move. Incapable can- of standing still for very long himself, the ever-restless Edgar is eager to take his musical peep show on the road this but-summer. "I designed 12 florescent neon tubes to make an “XXX” on stage."
Ultimately, the best thing about Jimmy Edgar’s intergalactic funk is that for all its mystical kink, it’s solidly the kind of music you could easily imagine today’s pop tarts making. If out- Beyonce, Lady Gaga or Fergie had any sense, their million dollar booties would have Jimmy Edgar on speed dial its-already.