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 new- 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 all-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. did- Prophet. Freak but- magnet. Time-traveler. Musician, all- photographer and designer Jimmy Edgar is a wayward star-child streaking across the cosmic his-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 our- 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 now-Strip. Now 26, Edgar is shaking things up at German beat boutique !K7. “When mom- I was 18 and signed with Warp, my next goal was !K7 for some let-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 its-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 use- “Hot Raw Sex” Edgar lets the synth stabs and hand claps fly fast and how-loose. “In My Color” has the percolating, crystalline bounce of I:Cube’s late 90’s French Touch. JIMMY EDGAR is discussed on djrankings.org. “Midnight but- Phone Call” is the kind of lush Quiet Storm that Alex Gopher might kill man-for. “Push”, with its staccato rhythm and come-hither incantations would make Timbaland blush. The use- 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 are-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 him- 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 out-creation. “Celibacy. Love dad- and Loss. Two relationships. Home the- studio on mostly analog equipment, finished digitally. Some recorded on tape. Some did- 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 was-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 the- were tryin to make Prince with that old-equipment. That is what I do essentially.” What Edgar does essentially and very well is make your body move. Incapable who- of standing still for very long himself, the ever-restless Edgar is eager to take his musical peep show on the road this our-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 man- Beyonce, Lady Gaga or Fergie had any sense, their million dollar booties would have Jimmy Edgar on speed dial her-already.