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Nicolas Jaar Is A Chilean-American Composer And Recording Artist Based In New York. Nicolas Jaar Was Born The 10th Of January 1990 In New York But Spent Most Of His Childhood In Santiago De Chile Only To Return To His Place Of Birth As A Teenager. Haunted By Mulatu Astatke Erik Satie Ezekiel Honig And Villalobos’ “Thé Au Harem D’Archimède” Nico Started To Make Organic Electronic Music In 2004 At The Age Of 14. At 17 He Debuted With "The Student EP" On Wolf Lamb Music With Remixes By Seth Troxler And Kasper. At 18 He Continued Producing And Played Live At Club Der Visionäre And Arena In Berlin At The Marcy In Brooklyn And At Mutek In Mexico City Alongside Deadbeat Flying Lotus And Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts Amongst Others. At 19 He Studied At Brown University In Rhode Island. Nico Has Many Releases Coming Up Including Some On Circus Company Wolf Lamb With Remixes By Ryan Crosson And On His Own Label Clown And Sunset Of Which He Is The Owner And Founder. Jaar Then Spent Four Years In Underground Dance Circles Crafting Rough Hip Hop Influenced House Music Examples Include "Love You Gotta Lose Again" "Angles" . Initially Made As Jokes To Make His Mother Laugh And Dance Jaar Made Two Songs Where He Sang In His Native Spanish "Mi Mujer" And "El Bandido" . Jaar Did Not Intend For Them To Come Out. He Changed His Mind In 2010 As He Felt The Songs Were His Way Of Answering To What He Deemed As Exploitative Sampling Of Latin American Culture By White European DJs. He Released His Debut Album Space Is Only Noise In January 2011 To Critical Acclaim Receiving A Score Of 8.4 And The Title Of Best New Music From Pitchfork 5 And Four Stars From The Guardian. 6 It Was Ranked #1 Album Of The Year By Resident Advisor Mixmag And Crack Mag. Jaar Toured The Album For Three Years With Guitarist Dave Harrington Later Of Darkside And Keyboardist Will Epstein. Jaar Was Voted # 1 Live Act On Resident Advisor For The 3 Years He Toured The Record. 7 In 2012 He Debuted A Live Concept Called From Scratch Where In Front Of A Live Audience He Samples Records He Bought That Day. The First Iteration Happened In Queens NY At MOMA PS1 It Was A 5-Hour Concert With Collaborator Will Epstein Videographer Ryan Staake Dancer Lizzie Feidelson And Singer Sasha Spielberg. He Has Also Performed From Scratch At The Museum Of Modern Art In Denver Colorado And Montreal. On May 18 2012 Nicolas Jaar Made His BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix' Debut 8 Which Was Voted Radio 1's Essential Mix Of The Year Of 2012. 9 On October 4 2013 The Debut Album From Darkside Jaar's Project With Longtime Collaborator Dave Harrington Was Released To Critical Acclaim And A 9.0 Score On Pitchfork. 10 The Band Toured The Record For The Entirety Of 2014. 11 In February 2015 Jaar Released A Largely Ambient Record Entitled Pomegranates Which He Intended As An Alternate Soundtrack To The Color Of Pomegranates. 12 13 Later That Year Jaar Scored The Soundtrack To Dheepan A Thriller By French Filmmaker Jacques Audiard About A Family Of Sri Lankan Refugees Living In The Suburbs Of Paris. It Was The Winner Of The Palme D'Or At Cannes 2015. 2 In 2019 Jaar Assembled A Group Of 12 Researchers Shock Forest Group In Order To Explore The History And Future Of A Military Complex-Turned Art Institution In The Netherlands. The Resulting Exhibition Entitled "No Camouflage' Het Hem 2019 Uncovered The Myriad Layers Of Accumulated Colonial Ecological And Institutional Violence That Interlink On The Site Through Archival Media Findings Data Gathering Performances And Sound Installations. Jaar Is Part Of The Team At Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir For Art And Research A Grass-Roots Independent Artist–run Initiative Founded In 2014 Located In Bethlehem Palestine. Jaar Transformed Dar Jacir’s Food Shack Into A Sound Studio Where He Has Held Sound Workshops With Kids From Aida And Dheisheh Refugee Camps. These Sound Workshops Introduced The Children To The Practice Of Electronic Music Creation Experimenting With Instruments And Recording Techniques Available In The New Studio. A Residency Program For International Artists Has Been Curated By Jaar Since 2019 With Sebastián Jatz Rawicz Chile And Rolando Hernández Mexico As Guests So Far. Jaar Has Also Held Workshops At RCA Architecture Program 2021 Werkplaats Typografie NL 2019 Alongside Research Group SFG 4x4 Festival Chiapas Sonar Barcelona 2012 And Berklee College Of Music US 2015 . From 2017-2019 Jaar Worked As Producer / Writer With FKA Twigs On Her Lauded Album 'Magdalene'. He Has Recently Collaborated With Artist Somnath Bhatt 2018-2020 Artist/designer/coder Abeera Kamran 2020-2021 Composer Patrick Higgins 2019-Ongoing Artist Lydia Ourahmane 2018 Installation Artist Vincent De Belleval 2016-Ongoing Saxophone Player Mette Henriette 2014-Ongoing And Fado Singer Carminho 2011 Among Others. As A Producer He's Been Comissioned Remixes By Brian Eno 2013 Cat Power 2012 Florence The Machine 2015 And More. His Song "Killing Time" Was Sampled On "Call Out My Name" A 2018 Song By The Weeknd. He Is Also A Current Member Of Performance Ensemble ¡miércoles! Alongside Dancer And Choreographer Stéphanie Janaina And Part Of The Band DARKSIDE Alongside Multi-Instrumentalist Dave Harrington. Jaar Is The Owner And Founder Of The New York-Based Imprint Other People. Notable Releases Include Works By Lydia Lunch DJ Slugo William Basinski Valentin Stip VTGNIKE Lucretia Dalt And 12z. Although The Label Predominantly Releases Vinyl It Also Offers A Membership Where Fans Can Download New Releases And Gain Access To The Entire Other People Archive For $4 A Month. Other People Only Publishes Creator-Owned Content And Splits All Profits Made From Records Sales 50/50 With Artists. read less