5.19 Jimmy Edgar

Jimmy Edgar拥有超越他年龄的才华，想法和风格。这位长居柏林的29岁底特律大男孩非常多产，他已经把他绚丽人生中三分之二的时间投入到音乐和艺术创作中。

Jimmy Edgar懂得用各种腔调的音乐语言影响不同的听众群，从“软件音乐”和故障处理后的地下嘻哈，到他个人签名式的厚重性感的机械放克。同时，他也是一名炙手可热的导演，摄影师，多媒体艺术家，他的名字常常出现在一系列引人注目的视频，展览，和杂志上。

生于1983年8月的Jimmy Edgar练过架子鼓，键盘和萨克斯，在青少年时期甚至尝试做过声控实验。为了追求技术的完美，他还学了钢琴，甚至去底特律的浸礼会教堂去“感受音乐”。15岁那年，在一个派对发起人的帮助下，Jimmy得以和底特律老家的传奇人物Atkins, May和Saunderson一起在脱衣舞俱乐部和锐舞派对上同台演出。他在年少时期接受的来自音乐，技术和精神层面上的滋养和浸染从根本上塑造了他对创造本身的极度渴望，也形成了他作品中的精髓。

临近20岁的时候，创造力和里程碑式的事件就已经席卷了他的人生。2002年，德国的Poker Flat厂牌发行了他的单曲“We Like You”。 在当时还是Merck唱片员工的Travis Stewart，也就是著名的音乐人Machinedrum的建议下，Merck唱片用Jimmy Edgar的化名“Kristuit Salu vs Morris Nightingale”发行了“My Mines I”，这张专辑被XLR8R盛赞为“向浩瀚太空传送的Hiphop”。在Michaux的化名下，Jimmy把他的音乐实验推向了新的高度。2003年，荷兰的Audio.nl厂牌发行了他的“音乐病毒” 实验智能舞曲专辑“%20”。该专辑的名字在超文本标记语言中的意思是“空格”，它强调了音乐中的寂静给人带来的影响。因为专辑中声音的频率过高，Audio.nl未能成功把这张专辑灌录到黑胶唱片中，因此“%20”也成了该厂牌的第一次也是唯一的一次发行的CD。

Jimmy Edgar18岁便风光的签约了著名的Warp唱片，20岁出头就开始忙于录音和巡演，他用他动感的台风和极具个人风格的视觉表演赢得了无数的掌声。在他底特律电子音乐节的首秀上，现场的保安也加入了疯狂舞动的人群，这场演出后来也成为他成功路上一个至关重要的时刻。在和Warp签约的时期，Edgar发行了2004年含4首单曲的EP Access Rhythm, 曲风隐忍前卫，2005年的EP Bounce Make Model则是含6首单曲的脏兮兮的Electro 。Jimmy的影响力和技术在2006年发行的LP Color Strip中达到了突破点。Jimmy自制音乐器材，用模拟和电子的乐器创作出了融合Minneapolis funk，加州嘻哈和欧陆Electro的令人惊叹的声音。Color Strip一面世就虏获了粉丝和乐评人的心。

接下来的几年里，Jimmy经历了搬家到纽约，情感的动荡和精神的苏醒，以及他用化名Her Bad Habit, Plus Device, 和Creepy Autograph做的一些小项目。2007年，他化名X District和Laura Clarke合作发行了“Color Correction”，这首单曲源于两人晦涩的信件交往，也显露出Jimmy对深奥的哲学和黑暗艺术强烈的迷恋。2008年，Jimmy和The Beta Band的Steve Mason一起为The Black Affair的专辑“Pleasure Pressure Point”做音乐工程，混缩，制作，设计以及摄影。

2010年，Jimmy暂别了Warp唱片，搬到了柏林，并在!K7唱片发行了专辑“XXX”。在这张专辑中，Jimmy把他的变种Electro-funk提炼成最适合在电台播放的声音，单曲"Hot, Raw, Sex" 和 "Turn You Inside Out"成了舞池经典。在与Machinedrum（他与Braille组成Sepalcure）的友谊的鼓励下，Jimmy于2012年在Scuba的厂牌Hotflush发行了LP Majenta。

Jimmy与他近期的合作者，也是精神层面上相似的艺术家Pilar Zeta共同创作了Majenta，这是一个经过修饰过的80年代未来主义和超凡脱俗的感官体验的融合。Majenta从视觉上体现了Jimmy对灵性，科技以及其他神秘事物的痴迷。在秘鲁马丘比丘的旅行中受到触动后，这个痴迷于一生超凡的艺术家希望能在他的新观众中也点燃和他一样对超自然的热情。

有了这样的抱负，Jimmy于2013年和Machinedrum一起成立了Ultramajic，这是一个厂牌，也是他们俩一系列活动的名字。除了以DJ duo JETS的名义DJ以外，Stewart（machinedrum）负责挖掘和训练厂牌的新的音乐人，他们的第一次发行是六月Jimmy含三首单曲的EP Hot inside out。随后，Jimmy和Zeta一起创作发行了魔法牌般的专辑。Jimmy整个夏天也以个人名义和JETS名义作了巡演。

在别的艺术家们还在试图形成自己的风格的时候，Jimmy Edgar已经在艺术的道路上到达了一个别人不能轻易企及的高度。最重要的是，在多年来不断在变化中寻求突破的过程中，Jimmy已经掌控了自己的艺术人生。

Jimmy Edgar is a renaissance man of talent, ideas, and style beyond his years. At 29, the Berlin-based Detroit native with a mischievous mystique has been a prolific artist and musician for two thirds of his enchanted life.

Sonically, he's fluent in a myriad of vernaculars, from "software as music" and glitchy underground Hip Hop to his signature glossy, erotically charged robot funk. Visually, he's established himself as an in-demand director, photographer, and multimedia artist with an impressive roster of videos, exhibits, and magazine work to his credit.

Born in August of 1983, Edgar was playing drums, keyboards, and saxophone, as well as experimenting with sound manipulation by the time he was an adolescent. To complement to his technical prowess, Edgar learned to play piano and "feel the music" in Detroit's Baptist churches. By the time he was 15, with help from a promoter friend, Edgar was spinning alongside hometown legends Atkins, May, and Saunderson in local strip clubs and raves. His early exposure to music, technology, spirituality, and seduction informed Edgar's creative impulses profoundly, and their confluence has become a recurrent motif in his work.

The tail end of his teen years was a whirlwind of creativity and milestones. In 2002, Germany's Poker Flat released Edgar's single "We Like You.” On the advice of then employee Travis "Machinedrum" Stewart, Merck released Edgar's My Mines I under one of Edgar's many personas, Kristuit Salu vs Morris Nightingale. My Mines I was hailed by XLR8R as "hip-hop beamed in to deep space." Under the alias Michaux, Edgar dabbled deeper in musical alchemy, releasing 2003's experimental IDM "virus as music" album, %20 on the Dutch label Audio.nl. Referring to the HTML code for an empty space, its title emphasized the impact of silence in music. The resulting frequencies were so intense that the label technically couldn't press it to vinyl, and it became their first and only CD release.

Edgar famously signed with influential Warp records at 18, and spent his early 20's recording and touring, winning audiences over with his dynamic stage presence and customized visual show. A pivotal point came during his debut at Detroit's Electronic Music Festival where security guards raved with the crowd. While at Warp, Edgar released 2004's Access Rhythm, a 4-track EP of blunted, left-field beats, and 2005's 6- track electro-sleaze EP Bounce Make Model. Jimmy's influences and techniques reached a breakthrough synthesis on 2006's LP Color Strip. Using a mix of custom- built gear, and analog and digital instruments, Edgar created a scene-stealing sound that fused Minneapolis funk, California Hip Hop, and Euro Electro. Color Strip became an instant favorite with fans and critics alike.

The next few years were marked by a move to New York, emotional turmoil, psychic reawakening, and more side projects including Her Bad Habit, Plus Device, and Creepy Autograph. As X District with Laura Clarke, Edgar released 2007's "Color Correction", a single that originated as a cryptic correspondence between them, revealing more of Edgar's intense fascination with esoteric philosophy and the dark arts. In 2008 Jimmy teamed with The Beta Band's Steve Mason for the Black Affair album "Pleasure Pressure Point", providing engineering, mixing, production, design, and videography work to the project.

Returning to his solo persona, parting ways with Warp, and relocating to Berlin, Edgar released his next album XXX on !K7 records in 2010. On XXX, Edgar refined his mutant electro-funk into its most radio-friendly form, and the singles "Hot, Raw, Sex" and "Turn You Inside Out" became essential dance cuts. Encouraged by his friendship with Machinedrum (part of Sepalcure with Braille), in 2012 Jimmy released the LP Majenta on Scuba's Hotflush label.

Majenta’s blend of airbrushed 80s futurism and otherwordly sensuality, co-created with recent collaborator and kindred spirit Pilar Zeta, visually expresses Edgar's obsession with spirituality, technology, and the occult. Moved by a transformative trip to Peru’s fabled Machu Picchu, the lifelong transcendence fetishist hopes to rekindle a similar passion for the supernatural in newer audiences.

As part of that mission, In 2013 Edgar and Machinedrum co-founded Ultramajic, a label and collective for their various projects. In addition to their work as DJ duo JETS, Stewart will provide A&R to the label; their first release will be Edgar's 3-track EP Hot Inside out in June. A complimentary deck of magical cards created by Zeta and Edgar will be released shortly after the album. Edgar is touring independently and with JETS all summer.

At an age when many artists are just coming into their own, Edgar is more secure in his artistic vision than ever. Most importantly, after years of shape-shifting into others' molds, Jimmy Edgar is now in full control.

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