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Jimmy Edgar returns with “CLUMSY,” a glitch-hop collision of warped electronics, fractured rhythms, and off-kilter energy, featuring the unmistakable presence of Ripparachie. Built around twitchy production and a deliberately unpredictable groove, the track finds Edgar pushing hip-hop’s rhythmic vocabulary into stranger, more futuristic territory. Ripparachie’s vocals add another layer of personality to the track, matching its playful instability and giving “CLUMSY” a distinctly chaotic charm. It’s a sharp, weird, and infectious new cut from one of electronic music’s most consistently adventurous producers.
"Dreams 1000000 (angelfire remix) "infuses pulsating techno energy into the divine melancholy of the original. It highlights the natural progression of growth: pain < acceptance < strength.
"Dreams 1000000" is from JIMMY EDGAR's acclaimed 2022 release, LIQUIDS HEAVEN.
Jimmy Edgar has just shared his new album LIQUIDS HEAVEN. On a surface level, it is a starburst of avant-garde fusion, collecting a diverse cast of eccentric geniuses and re-configuring them into a psychedelic canvas of future R&B, euphoric bass, mutant tear-the-club-up rap, foundation-splintering noise, and gossamer soul. But as with all his work, there is a deeper and subversive intent.
LIQUIDS HEAVEN’s early gestation spawned from Edgar’s explorations of “material” in the digital world, and is part of his broader ambition to change belief and intention in the digital realm – a pseudo-invisible way to summon novel realities by infusing his ultra-sleek aesthetic into transformative conceptual art. LIQUIDS HEAVEN is the ultimate culmination of the idea of “phases of matter.”
LIQUIDS HEAVEN is not merely a technicolor dream of ethereal abstractions, however. It bangs as hard as anything to ever bump from a subwoofer. But for all the high energy propulsion, there is a counter-balance of melancholic beauty, and in a career of fascinating left-turns, it would be more surprising if LIQUIDS HEAVEN wasn’t surprising. The genius of it is that for all its cerebral intent, it remains replete with raw and visceral emotion. Out of sadness comes courage. Water, liquid, and light evaporate, become transparent, disappear peacefully. Nothing less than the sound and look of liquid are transmuted into powerful new sculptures – which are best experienced at a high volume on the far side of the sky.
Signed to Warp Records as a teenage electronic music prodigy, Edgar has recorded for the world’s most respected imprints (Warp, K7, Hotflush and his own New Reality Now). Raised in Detroit, with stints in Berlin, Atlanta, Los Angeles, and New York, his list of close collaborators includes Hudson Mohawke, Danny Brown, SOPHIE, DAWN, Mykki Blanco, Vince Staples, and Machinedrum (as one half of their duo J-E-T-S).
Read more about the project on FADER.
LIQUIDS HEAVEN Track Listing
1 - EUPHORIA (FT LIZY2K)
2 - EVERYBODY (FT 10KCAASH & ZELOOPERZ)
3 - DREAMS 1000000 (FT MILK)
4 - SLIP N SLIDE
5 - BITE THAT 2 (FT TRINIDAD JAMES)
6 - SIDEROOM
7 - BUNNY LAVA (FT VIRGEN MARIA)
8 - NO ANTIDOTE (FT RIPPARCHIE)
9 - STATIC (FT BANSHEE)
10 - YA! (FT 645AR)
11 - NEVER LEAVE (FT MILK)
Jimmy Edgar, the Detroit-raised electronic/hip hop producer whose collaborators range from Hudson Mohawke to DAWN to Vince Staples and beyond, has just shared “EUPHORIA,” a swirling stab of experimental electronic pop from his forthcoming LIQUIDS HEAVEN album (out via Innovative Leisure on November 11). “EUPHORIA” features vocals from LIZ, the underground pop princess whose trademark mix of future-kitsch and ’90s/00s R&B has rendered her the proclaimed “First Lady of Mad Decent.”
LIQUIDS HEAVEN is a psychedelic canvas of future R&B, euphoric bass, mutant tear-the-club-up rap, foundation-splintering noise, and gossamer soul, as previously previewed via a double drop of singles “SLIP N SLIDE” and “STATIC (FT BANSHEE).” The album is a starburst of avant-garde fusion, collecting a diverse cast of eccentric geniuses and re-configuring them into an anthology of nü musique concrete. But as with all his work, there is a deeper and subversive intent: LIQUIDS HEAVEN’s gestation spawned from Edgar’s explorations of “material” in the digital world, and is part of his broader ambition to change belief and intention in the digital realm – a pseudo-invisible way to summon novel realities by infusing his ultra-sleek aesthetic into transformative conceptual art. But just as importantly it bangs as hard as anything to ever bump from a subwoofer.