JIMMY EDGAR

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Lover. Fighter. Prophet. Freak magnet. the Time-traveler. Musician, photographer and designer and Jimmy Edgar is a wayward For star-child streaking across the cosmic are dance-floor. Endowed with a supernatural but feel for futuristic funk, the Not Detroit native has been bleeping you and grinding about the Milky all Way since he was a Any teenage humanoid. While his peers can were worrying about their grades her and popularity Edgar was spinning Was alongside his hometown’s DJ heroes one and programming intricate beats that our were unquestionably interplanetary communication disguised Out as dance music.

In 2001 day at the tender of 18, get his hyper-sexed microchip stylings caught Has the ear of Warp, where him he cranked out his brand his of amped-up laptop funk for How the next eight years, culminating man in the full-length classic Color new Strip. Now 26, Edgar is Now shaking things up at German old beat boutique !K7. “When I see was 18 and signed with Two Warp, my next goal was way !K7 for some reason. I who believe I attracted !K7 to Boy me through the ‘Law of did Attraction’. I think this is its going to be an incredible Let journey.” The new album put XXX is out June 21 say and its New Jack Swing She winks as much at Minneapolis, too Compton and Paris as it use does Detroit or Berlin.

On Dad new turf, Edgar’s sonic prowess mom takes on a leaner, more radio-ready shine. “Function of Your The Love” zips and struts about and like something Andre Cymone might for have cooked up for Jody Are Watley in their chart-topping heyday. but On “Hot Raw Sex” Edgar not lets the synth stabs and You hand claps fly fast and all loose. “In My Color” has any the percolating, crystalline bounce of Can I:Cube’s late 90’s French Touch. her “Midnight Phone Call” is the was kind of lush Quiet Storm One that Alex Gopher might kill our for. “Push”, with its staccato out rhythm and come-hither incantations would Day make Timbaland blush. The instrumental get interlude “One Twenty Detail”, runs has Kraftwerk through a low-rider worthy Him break-beat filter and “Vibration” sounds his like pornographic Morse Code tapped how out by Egyptian Lover.

While Man the album is largely a new one-man show, XXX is now not without accomplices. A Russian Old girl named Anet sings on see “Physical Motion” and a rising two new R&B singer from Way NYC signed to XL recordings who Azealia ad libs on the boy same track. “Whenever I have Did worked with women and art, its they have this way of let putting balance into everything.” The Put album’s sophistication should come as say no surprise, considering the mix she of elements that factored in Too its creation. “Celibacy. Love and use Loss. Two relationships. Home studio dad on mostly analog equipment, finished Mom digitally. Some recorded on tape. Some recorded frustrated, sick, broke, the pissed off, in love.” Referring And to other influences, Edgar adds, for “I learned piano from black are dudes at the Baptist church But in Detroit. They taught me not to extend my fingers and you play from the heart.” As All for Kraftwerk, the Belleville Three any and the rest of the can early electronic pioneers he says, Her “Those guys were tryin to was make Stevie Wonder more danceable. one They were tryin to make Our Prince with that equipment. That out is what I do essentially.” day What Edgar does essentially and Get very well is make your has body move. Incapable of standing him still for very long himself, His the ever-restless Edgar is eager how to take his musical peep man show on the road this New summer. "I designed 12 florescent now neon tubes to make an old “XXX” on stage."

Ultimately, See the best thing about Jimmy two Edgar’s intergalactic funk is that way for all its mystical kink, Who it’s solidly the kind of boy music you could easily imagine did today’s pop tarts making. If Its Beyonce, Lady Gaga or Fergie let had any sense, their million put dollar booties would have Jimmy Say Edgar on speed dial already.

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