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Jimmy Edgar wants to stir your cauldron

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

Kids, it’s totally happening this Saturday. Thanks to the boys at Learning Secrets who’ve brought you artists from Classixx and Holy Ghost! to Annie Mac and Hot Chip, Learning Secrets Presents: Jimmy Edgar! Edgar’s new album “XXX” is a raunchy experiment in foreplay, whip cream, and toyzzz. There is no other place to experiment with each others bodies than at Beauty Bar this Saturday. RSVP right here for $7. VIP tickets are only $20 and you drink Deep Eddy Sweet Tea Vodka all night.

If you’re thinking, “that’s all well and good, I like music, but why would I want to make a baby to/with Jimmy Edgar?” Sit down while we talk to the Detroit techno legend himself. Catch some downloads after the jump. When you see the the Rhythm Sektion crew Saturday night, touch us. First one to spot Some Man without his shirt gets a prize.

RS: You are based out of Detroit, and came of age in the mid-90s rave scene. How did those early days of DJing/performing with other Detroit legends shape your outlook in your teens?

JE: i sort of group those two phases as seperate entities but i suppose it was good experience. at 15 i didnt know what the fuck i was doing, i was just doing it and people danced. but now i have a new appreciation for my older contemporaries that shaped and paved the way for me

RS: How has Detroit reflected and/or reacted to the current economic times? Have you seen a lot of changes in the dance scene there?

JE: i think detroit is perceived differently than how i see it. i dont see much club action here, we make our own parties and thats the magic. i love the art scene, and just my friends in general. its so hard here, no jobs, everybody really struggling. but its so romantic in a way how i have all my friends living in my house with me coming and going as they please, so long as they are doing something good and creative for our community, its beautiful

RS: Where are you based out of now? What about that city do you find most inviting as far as the dance scene goes?

JE: im based out of an airplane now until december. i have a place in nyc, berlin and detroit.. berlin will be most frequented for the next few months excluding september when im living in hotels in US/Australia

RS: The new album is a hot pile of sex. This seems to be an underlying theme in a lot of your work. Why is this so?

JE: im not so much interested in sex as i am in mysteriousness and tension in relationship and interaction. that is sexy to me, and ive always been interested in this idea of ultra sleaze. but its ironic, funny in a way. i am scorpio rising and everybody who i have met with this same affliction understands completely. its a sort of strange sexual energy we carry. people mistake me for some slutty sleaze ball and they are surprised when they meet me, at first i am really shy. i can flip like a switch though depending on my environment. i also talk alot about this celibacy experiment i did in NYC for a few months. abstaining from anything physically sexual. it was like sex fasting, and i liked how it made me feel and how it inspired by photography, film and music work.

RS: How has your transition from a release on Warp records to K7 been? Anything special forming in the relationship with the newer label?

JE: i couldnt have asked for a better label to work with. i feel respected, in charge and working with people that are mature and really passionate about what they do. having a team like k7 behind you is amazing. i feel very fortunate right now about it. its also funny, on the note about astrology again. k7 at first was saying it wouldnt work out after some initial negotiating. i read my horoscope a few months ago and it said i would receive a contract the next day. and here we are now. came true.

RS: What are you most looking forward to about your upcoming show in Austin?

JE: seeing what the hell is going on there because i get so many fans from texas wondering why i havent been there yet. its my first time so i wanna see what its all about, really exciting to visit new places that maybe you have secret fans there like a cauldron of culture steaming up to the surface. lovely.

Lovely indeed. Here is Edgar’s new single “Hot Raw Sex”


Jimmy Edgar – HOT, RAW, SEX

And a downright naughty edit of Billie Jean, awesome.


Billie Jean (Jimmy Edgar Remix)

Don’t forget to RSVP to the pwattyyy babies.

Jimmy Edgar website
Jimmy Edgar Red Bull Radio

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an officer and a gentleman

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Austinite-soon-to-be-Yankee RiCHARD.GEAR released his first EP Starz a few weeks ago. It’s a hyper affair, filled with all the usual bumping and grinding you would expect from the dance floor aficionado. Using a razor cut samples from classic disco tracks, GEAR creates a collage of sound built around none other than crazy energies and bottom heavy bass.

Rhythm Sektion tossed a few questions to RiCHARD, and he kindly passed them back. Take a look below, and scroll to the bottom to sample my personal favorite from Starz “Everything I Got.” You can also catch GEAR at Beauty Bar this Friday evening for a special going away disco bash. See you kids out on the town.

So, this is an album of sampled disco tracks. What qualities in these songs stuck out that you chose them over some other rare disco cut?

well, i didn’t really have a formula, I just chose the bits I liked. my process for each of the tunes on the EP consisted of me finding a record that I liked and felt I could work with, recording the entire record into ableton and then skimming through and picking out pieces that sounded good. usually looping sections here or there and once I found a loop I liked, it would just developed naturally from there. I didn’t have any ideas like “i’ll sample this cuz no one knows what it is,” I just took what I thought sounded good.

You recorded this all with Glasnost (Houston). How did you end up working together, and what do each of you bring to the table?

the glasnost boys have been close friends for about two years now. they played the first WILD LIFE party a few years back and just from doing shows we’ve developed a close relationship. the only member of glasnost that was involved with the project however, was Dan Le. and his role was purely post production, i.e. mastering all the tunes once I had completed them.

The EP does a great job at blurring the lines between samples, edits, and original music. I love that there is a kind of hyper, bassier touch to all these old tracks. What is the Richard.Gear signature you’d like to appear from listening to this EP?

I don’t know if I’ve found a signature sound yet, there is certainly a bit of emulation going on here from styles and producers of the past. sample based disco house was certainly not a revolutionary idea of mine! I’m influenced by lots of music, and I have several ideas on the drawing board for whats next, but using Disco was a natural choice. My parents used to own and operate several Discotheques in Austin and DJs and disco music was always around, so, like i said, it was just a natural choice. I certainly will continue to use Disco in the future, but I don’t want to pigeonhole myself.

So you’re off to New York. It seems that this is a typical trend, musicians leaving the sheltered Austin community to brave the Big Apple. What will you be up to there? Tell us what’s next for you?

Yep, leaving this saturday, July 31st. I plan to DJ, continue working on new music, enjoy the city and learn what it takes to survive there. I’m born and raised in Austin, and although I have traveled extensively, I’ve never really picked up and moved anywhere. Texas is my home, and although I’m very prideful of that fact and love living in Austin, if I’m gonna make something happen, I need to do it now. and, more importantly, I think I’m ready to do it now.

Head on over to GEAR’s bandcamp page where you can download the EP for FREE. Check out “Everything I Got” below.


RiCHARD.GEAR – Everything I Got

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Skit I Allt

Saturday, July 10th, 2010

Dungen announced US tour dates this week, stopping in Austin September 18 at The Mohawk. They also have a new album “Skit I Allt” (which translates into “fuck all”) due in August. The new album is reportedly to be filled “with a collection of gorgeous rippers and graceful jazz filled polyrhythms.”

God I love this band.


Dungen – Marken Låg Stilla

Above is a new track from the forthcoming album, and below, a video for “Familj” – one of the softer tracks from Tio Bitar, a hard rip your face off and wear it as a hat album. Directed by Jon Leone.

DUNGEN – FAMILJ from Jon Leone on Vimeo.

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Underground Disco

Thursday, May 27th, 2010


Shhhhhh.

There’s a disco party tonight at Cheer Up Charlie’s, which is apparently THE NEW PLACE in Austin. It’s featuring some of our favorite friends and DJs in Austin. It’s completely FREE. It’s Thursday, which is totally the new Friday.

Why the hell aren’t you convinced yet?

J Edgar Groover released some classified disco files for us to share. Sip this, dance there, we’re all on good terms now.


J Edgar Groover – Food, Drugs, Naked Women, and Irony Mixtape

Tensnake- Coma Cat
Caribou- Odessa
Desire- Don’t Call
Lifelike- L.O.V.E. Is What You Need
Azari and III- Reckless With Your Love
Osborne- Ruling
Woolfy- Oh Missy (extended)
Rigas- Helpless (Alf Tumble Remix)

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The Wurst Interview Ever + Ticket Giveaway

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

We are full speed ahead into the sweltering Summer months. After this cold dark winter, and a spring we don’t quite remember (April?), it’s all of a sudden swim season again. Time for hot nights and what happens to be my favorite summertime activity: pounding disco.

To help Austin ring in the new season, Learning Secrets is bringing in esteemed founder of the The Wurst Music Co. from New York, My Cousin Roy this Saturday, May 8th at Beauty Bar! Roy is a veritable King of the Edits amongst the thriving disco scene in New York. With a stack of funky 12″ cuts, a bulging roster of disco producers, and a young clothing line of classically tailored garments, Roy is leading us into what looks like a bright future for dance-o-philes.

Tickets are DIRT CHEAP. Why, with a simple trip to Learning Secrets’ RSVP page, you gain admission for $3 (tickets are $5 without). The sausage kings of Austin, Frank will be catering the event with FREE Dogs and Suds until they run out. This night is going to be filled with some of the wurst puns and the best disco in recent history.

Roy was kind enough to answer a few questions Rhythm Sektion had about him, his label, and the new clothing sector of the Wurst empire. Stay tuned at the end of the interview for your chance to WIN TWO FREE tickets to this Saturday’s show, plus a special Rhythm Sektion swag bag. And we’re off….

Are you from New York originally? If not, how’d you get there, and why do you stay?

Good question. My father was in the Marines so I grew up all over the world. Born in North Carolina, lived in Okinawa, Japan twice, London, England twice, Philadelphia, DC a couple of times, and in North Carolina a few times. Spent my childhood summers and winter breaks in Long Island with my grandparents so that was the closest thing to home growing up. Went to school upstate and have been in the city for 13 years now.

Love the city, its energy, the people, the architecture, the list goes on. I have family and amazing friends here. Nothing compares to New York really

Could you describe your personal music DNA for us? Is it mostly disco, or are there some eclectic left field jams that you identify with specifically?

I play dance music, period. Guess it’s mostly disco in the sense that “disco” is a blanket term for so much dance music. I play everything from disco to house to electro to 80s dance to no wave to industrial to techno, new and old. Lots of “eclectic left field jams”, I think, depending on your meaning. I think some people would call what I play all “eclectic left field jams”.

How did Wurst Edits come about? Was there a specific song or record that you can draw the whole process back to?

It all started with my edit of Ruts DC. I loved the original of “Push Yourself – Make It Work” but it seemed too short for me. While extending it, I decided to try out some looping and lo and behold, my first proper edit was born. Some friends had expressed interest in releasing this and my edit of Bob-A-Rella, but I figured “what the hell” and launched my own thing in the form of Wurst Edits.

And from the edits, Wurst evolved into releasing original music. What do you look for in a Wurst artist, what about their music do you just have to capture and release to the world?

Good question – it’s difficult to pin down exactly what I’m looking for because that’s not what I’m doing. There is no particular thing I’m looking for, but I am drawn to music with personality, character, and feeling. I think folks will be surprised to hear our upcoming releases.

I really love the aesthetic of the whole label. Even the logo itself communicates a clean American classic style to me. This leads me to ask about your clothing line. What’s the main idea behind it?

Why thank you. The Wurst Editions, our experiment in menswear, came from simply not finding what I wanted in the shops, and having the opportunity to produce it myself, right outside the city, and with amazing materials. I loved the idea of applying the Wurst brand to something outside of the record label, and to date, it’s been quite a wild ride.

So if you could name an underlying theme to cross from the music to the clothes, what would it be?

Timeless

What can we expect next from Wurst?

On The Wurst Music Co front, we’ve got remixes of Neurotic Drum Band’s “Robotic Hypnotic Adventure” by Abe Duque, Runaway, and newcomers Harkin & Raney due out next month. June sees the debut of Great Weekend on Wurst, with “It’s Now…That’s Where It’s @”. Nick Chacona makes his long-awaited Wurst debut in July, “Slice of Life”, backed with none other than Stockholm’s own Name in Lights on remix duties.

The next Edition is a collaboration with my old friends at Outlier, an amazing clothing company from Brooklyn whose slogan is “tailored performance”, meaning that their garments can stand up to anything the city can dish out. The fabrics are water resistant, breathable, wind resistant, and regulate temperature but looks like beautifully tailored pieces, rather than techy hippie wear. The Wurst Edition No. 3 is a pair of shorts, The Wurst Outlier Shorts. Due out in June.

Also wanted to mention that Nick Chacona and I have been producing together as Beg to Differ. We have a couple of remixes due out this summer – LoneLady’s “Nerve Up” on Warp, and The Hours “Ali in the Jungle” on Sony.

Well there you have it.

Rhythm Sektion is giving away TWO FREE TICKETS to this Saturday’s show. To enter to win, shoot an e-mail to yo@rhythmsektion.com with “My Cousin Roy” in the subject line. Give us your name and phone number. We’ll select by Thursday at 3 PM. Otherwise, don’t forget to RSVP for the cheap price.

Below is a recent podcast Roy did for XLR8R. It’s righteous if I do say so myself, check it out, and see y’all Saturday.


XLR8R Podcast with My Cousin Roy

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Zorch and Cartright

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

Going on this week is Austin’s Fusebox Festival, a veritable gang bang of fresh artistic fronts. Fusebox’s aim is to abolish all notions of what your typical art and music experience should be, and generate new avenues through which ideas can germinate. So what better bands to headline one of its event this Friday than Rhythm Sektion’s favorite Zorch.

Zorch and Austin band Cartright play at The United States Art Authority Friday, April 23, at 10 PM. Attendees can expect the unexpected (of course) from the raucous sounds of both bands, along with free beer (while it lasts) and projected chatroulette (while YOU last). This will be a truly unique event and a chance for all the crazies to come out and play.

This show is FREE, with FREE beer, so there is absolutely no excuse for missing it. You can RSVP at the Facebook and do512 pages to increase your social standing.

This track is from Zorch’s recent mixtape. You can listen while you work, while you rest, or while you make some sort of demon baby. “Clapping” carries with it the kind of hypnotic “hold-on-to-your-hat” tension. It’s all about the foreplay here folks, but when it does pay off, boy, what messy fun.


Zorch – Clapping

Enjoy and get to Art Authority Friday night.

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