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Just Friends – Avalanche 12″ (remixes by Julia Holter + Shlohmo)
Just Friends – Avalanche 12″ (remixes by Julia Holter + Shlohmo)
Our second Record Store Day-related Nicolas Jaar post of the weekend: Jaar + Sasha Spielberg's collaborative covers project Just Friends quietly dropped a RSD-exclusive, possibly Germany-only 12" for one of our favorite songs of 2012 -- their ghostly cover of Leonard Cohen's "Avalanche" -- backed with remixes by Julia Holter and Shlohmo...
Nicolas Jaar’s Don’t Break My Love LP: virtual edition
Nicolas Jaar’s Don’t Break My Love LP: virtual edition
Nicolas Jaar's Don't Break My Love "prism" is one of our favorite releases of 2012, despite (or maybe partly because of) the fact that it was made available only as a tiny/limited/easily breakable $40 aluminum cube. That changes today, though, as Jaar's label Clown & Sunset has made the "virtual edition" of the record available digitally for only $7...
Nicolas Jaar’s Darkside
Nicolas Jaar’s Darkside
Listen to all 3 tracks (click "playlist" in the player above) from the new EP from Nicolas Jaar's latest project (with Dave Harrington), Darkside. Jaar calls the record "the closest thing to rock & roll I’ve ever done," but these cosmic jams sort of recall a more minimalist take on the slower-burning, hypnotic, almost Balearic-tinged '70s grooves of dudes like Studio and A