Jimmy Edgar

Picture the scene, you're at a festival and been on a staple diet of indie rock all day and night. You've lost your mates in the crowd and head for a more chilled vibe. You bump into someone you thought you knew, you didn't know them but it didn't matter. He offers you a drag on one of the popular Moroccan exports, and you drift. You stop for half a pear cider, guzzle it down, and with a renewed spring of step, you find a dance gazebo tucked away off the beaten path. On first glance only the beautiful and sexily co-ordinated are rocking and grinding to the grooves. On second look, they're everyday people, lost in the freedom and abandon. No better looking than you or I. You join in. The dj pumps out Jimmy Edgar – a combo of electronica and ultra danceable breakdance beats and hooks, all mysterious, dark R&B, sexy, and with vocals added in perfect places.

Jimmy Edgar has a growing reputation in the Detroit electronic scene as the pretender to the throne of Juan Atkins, Carl Craig, Dopplereffekt and the like. His melodic synth touches and sinister upbeat atmosphere on tracks such as Jefferson Interception, Semierottic, and Pret ‘a' Porter, to pick out three, are moments to get lost in. In Mr Edgar's own words, “I love to be loved, but hated too, anything that moves someone so intensely.” Colorstrip, his debut album is brimming with movement and intensity and may be loved and hated in equal measure, but will be hard to ignore.

Rob Barnett, Music News