Nicolas Jaar: "Fight (Nymphs IV)"

Staying true to the expansive and freewheeling energy of his other brilliant 2015 singles, Nicolas Jaar’s latest one-off, “Fight (Nyphs IV)”, takes the producer’s precise hand and extends it all across the keyboard, sampler, Ableton, drum machine, whatever. Jaar’s M.O. has always been to find the space in between the Venn diagram of funky and sexy, and here he does it by experimenting with a mess of sounds that seem to take as much from J Dilla‘s quick collage aesthetic as they do from any music produced in the city of Berlin. That diversity gives the track a mini-mix feel, as though Jaar is giving a bird’s-eye view of what’s happening in all of electronic music within the confines of a single song. And if these eight and a half minutes are any indication, the genre is in a very fun place.

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