We're teaming up again with our TX homies at LEVITATION to offer one more chance to win deluxe weekend passes for this year's fest, which takes place in just a few weeks down in Austin. Much has been made about this year's incredible lineup: Brian Wilson doing Pet Sounds, Slowdive, Animal Collective, Caribou, Shabazz Palaces/Oneohtrix Point Never/Nicolas Jaar/Flying Lotus all back-to-back-to-back-
Nicolas Jaar made an amazing/sprawling, 66-minute mix — "a strange and lovely bricolage" — for Resident Advisor, to commemorate the venerable electronic music site's 500th podcast. Recorded in December 2015, in Brooklyn, New York, and featuring Talk Talk, Terry Riley, a couple of Jaar's own tracks + more...
Houston's inaugural Day For Night festival goes down this weekend, and despite the fact that it boasts one of the more ambitious + adventurously-curated lineups of the year — featuring such massive names as Kendrick Lamar, New Order, Flying Lotus, Philip Glass, and Janelle Monae -- it's managed to fly mostly under the radar...
We were already pretty psyched for Austin's LEVITATION 2016, but this is unreal. In addition to the previously announced initial lineup, which included Flying Lotus, Animal Collective, and Brian Wilson performing Pet Sounds, the fest announced some pretty sweet additions this morning: Nicolas Jaar, Shabazz Palaces, Oneohtrix Point Never, Caribou, Slowdive, Dungen, and a whole lot more. Check the f
Nico Jaar follows up the release of Nymphs II + the generous free release of his early 2015 LP/film soundtrack Pomegranates with his new Nymphs III 12". Listen to both sides -- "Swim" + "Mistress" -- below or here.
Nicolas Jaar, presumably devastated after his home country's heartbreaking loss in the World Cup, shares an edit he made a couple years ago for free download: