Space Is Only Noise - Nicolas Jaar

 Jaar was born on the 10th of January 1990 and so missed out on being born in the eighties, which frankly disgusts Calvin Harris. Born in NY, Jaar spent most of his childhood in Santiago De Chile. He was interested in music from an early age and credits his movement into electronic music with his early days of tampering with a midi keyboard and Reason.

There is another anecdote about the web which tells of his conversion to electronic music. Apparently aged 14 he heard Tiga's DJ Kicks mix playing. He decided on the spot that he was going to like electronic music. His father around Christmas time obviously moved by his sons interest walked into a record shop and said 'Give me the most forward-thinking electronic music album right now.' He was given Ricardo Villalobos' 'The Au Harem D'Archimede'. He lists composer Erik Satie, the minimalist modernist  who is often tagged as the Godfather of ambient music as his primary influence along with Ethiopian jazz legend Mulatu Astake. 


With such a varied smorgasbord of influences it is perhaps easy to see why Jaar's music is as, well, Nicolas Jaar as it is. His album 'Space Is Only Noise' is almost unclassifiable genre-wise and I always struggle to compare them to anybody else when trying to explain what they are like. There are in my opinion two signatures to his music a very deep funky bassline and the percussion which takes slightly irregular beats and seems to skit around the basslines.


Below is the title track; Space Is Only Noise (If You Can See)

The album is available here on Nico's site; Open In New Tab

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