RA Poll – Top albums of 2011 : Nicolas Jaar’s Space Is Only Noise hits #1
I made most of Space Is Only Noise at 5 PM, right after I came home from school, probably the most boring time of the day. I made most of the stuff during the summer, when I had nothing to do all day. Just having a nice meal in the morning, maybe reading a nice book and then making some music. It’s music that I made from the ages from 17 – 20, so it spans a lot of different time. It wasn’t like I sat down for two months and wrote it: it was a three year process.
For a while I thought I was going to write my thesis on Henri Bergson, the French philosopher, because I really fell in love with his ideas of time. So I curated the album with those thoughts in mind. But then the album became way too ethereal and I was not OK with that. I wanted it to be grounded in something much dirtier and more disgusting. I wanted it to have something bad inside of it, maybe something evil. When I made the track “Space Is Only Noise If You Can See” the album became more complete. I knew that it needed something like that.
I had a deadline with Circus Company of a Thursday, I think, and on that Wednesday night I wrote “Balance Her In Between Your Eyes,” which is one of my favorite songs off the album. I wrote it with my computer speakers because my other speakers weren’t working. But I guess what I realized this year is that the writing of the album wasn’t the writing of the songs. It was the three months I took to turn it into some sort of weird bastard DJ set of the songs I really like. That’s something I realized lately more than ever: Just how much of a DJ set I actually saw it as.
– Nicolas Jaar
CCPodcast.008 – Wareika
Walter Carlos, Sonic Seasonings, Summer
Herbie Hancock, Rain Dance
Wareika, 1st Floor
Seidensticker & Salour, Sue is Blue
6th Boruogh Project, Let yourself go
Moodymanc, Black Point (Larry Heard’s After Dark Mix)
Holmby Hulls, At the Bohemia
Daniel Bortz, Summertime
Morgan Geist, Sleaze
Daniel Stefanik, Four
Wareika, Scene7
John Tejada, Big City Music
Genius of Time, Same old Place
Willie Graff & Tuccillo, Sextacy
Walter Carlos, Sonic Seasonings, Spring
Aufgang, Barock (Wareika Remix)
Marc Schneider & Aera
Wareika
Dave Aju
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