Sunday, April 09, 2006

JIMMY EDGAR


ARTIST / BAND: JIMMY EDGAR
SONG (MP3): I WANNA BE YOUR STD
ALBUM: Access Rhythm
FILE UNDER: Electronica
LABEL: warp
INFO: Self-taught and in the same school as old-time Detroit techno players Model 500/Juan Atkins, Carl Craig, and Dopplereffekt, Jimmy Edgar has a knack for melding mysteriously sexy downtempo rhythms with brainy experimental music--a combo many try but end up wandering into pretentious territory. Edgar's production is crisp, clear, and inhabits the same spectrum as his hard-techno Motor City compatriots, but just on opposite ends. Whereas Edgar's like a well-made dirty martini, his contemporaries are an overflowing shot of Jag: they both do the same job, just in markedly different ways.
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