As you descend the staircase into DARKSIDE's Brooklyn studio, the cement walls pulse slightly faster than your heartbeat.
Entering the converted apartment, the first thing you notice is the symmetry of Dave Harrington's appearance. In the low light, his matte-black shirt and jeans form negative space between the shine of his boots and his shock of red hair. He holds the guitar, which bisects his body, with equal parts tenderness and lust. When he plays, he whips the rhythm with soprano licks and a steady baritone.
Behind Dave, an opaque figure controls the percussion and the bass line. I watch them manipulate the reticent groove until the silhouette steps into the microphone's aura and delivers a falsetto. The atmospheric relief reveals Dave's accomplice to be Nicolas Jaar. Together, they are DARKSIDE.
During a break from the rehearsal, we sink into a crushed velvet loveseat and listen to their self-titled debut. The EP begins innocently enough. But as you progress into the tracks, entitled "A1," "A2," and "A3," it feels like searching for pleasure where you know you shouldn't. The beat in this clandestine affair has just enough restraint. By the time DARKSIDE concludes, you know the catharsis is worth the sin.
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Entering the converted apartment, the first thing you notice is the symmetry of Dave Harrington's appearance. In the low light, his matte-black shirt and jeans form negative space between the shine of his boots and his shock of red hair. He holds the guitar, which bisects his body, with equal parts tenderness and lust. When he plays, he whips the rhythm with soprano licks and a steady baritone.
Behind Dave, an opaque figure controls the percussion and the bass line. I watch them manipulate the reticent groove until the silhouette steps into the microphone's aura and delivers a falsetto. The atmospheric relief reveals Dave's accomplice to be Nicolas Jaar. Together, they are DARKSIDE.
During a break from the rehearsal, we sink into a crushed velvet loveseat and listen to their self-titled debut. The EP begins innocently enough. But as you progress into the tracks, entitled "A1," "A2," and "A3," it feels like searching for pleasure where you know you shouldn't. The beat in this clandestine affair has just enough restraint. By the time DARKSIDE concludes, you know the catharsis is worth the sin.
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More records from darkside
1
Darkside - SLAU
2
Darkside - S.N.C
3
Darkside - Are You Tired? (Keep On Singing)
4
Darkside - Graucha Max
5
Darkside - American References
6
Darkside - Heavy Is Good For This
7
Darkside - Hell Suite, Pt. I
8
Darkside - Hell Suite, Pt. II
9
Darkside - Sin El Sol No Hay Na
Nothing is the third album from DARKSIDE: nine transmissions of negative space, telepathic seance, and spectral improvisation. On their first two reinventions, Nicolás Jaar and Dave Harrington entered the studio with a clutch of scattered ideas to mold into what became the revered Psychic(2013) and Spiral (2021). But Nothing reflects a search for form borne out of spontaneous elliptical jams, acoustic riffing, and digital levitations. And in a fundamental shift from their first dozen years as a band, the duo recruited their longtime friend and collaborator, the drummer and instrument designer Tlacael Esparza, to become a full-time member. The outcome is magnetic and hieroglyphic. This album slips through the cracks of convention with serpentine guitars, extraterrestrial static, and cavernous drums. No band but DARKSIDE could have made Nothing, and in no moment but now.
Official Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKiS9DPARDg
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Official Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKiS9DPARDg
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1
Darkside - SLAU
2
Darkside - S.N.C
3
Darkside - Are You Tired? (Keep On Singing)
4
Darkside - Graucha Max
5
Darkside - American References
6
Darkside - Heavy Is Good For This
7
Darkside - Hell Suite, Pt. I
8
Darkside - Hell Suite, Pt. II
9
Darkside - Sin El Sol No Hay Na
Nothing is the third album from DARKSIDE: nine transmissions of negative space, telepathic seance, and spectral improvisation. On their first two reinventions, Nicolás Jaar and Dave Harrington entered the studio with a clutch of scattered ideas to mold into what became the revered Psychic(2013) and Spiral (2021). But Nothing reflects a search for form borne out of spontaneous elliptical jams, acoustic riffing, and digital levitations. And in a fundamental shift from their first dozen years as a band, the duo recruited their longtime friend and collaborator, the drummer and instrument designer Tlacael Esparza, to become a full-time member. The outcome is magnetic and hieroglyphic. This album slips through the cracks of convention with serpentine guitars, extraterrestrial static, and cavernous drums. No band but DARKSIDE could have made Nothing, and in no moment but now.
Official Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKiS9DPARDg
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Official Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKiS9DPARDg
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Label:Matador/ Beggars Group
Cat-No:OLECD2115
Release-Date:28.02.2025
Genre:Alternative/Electronic
Configuration:CD
Label:Matador/ Beggars Group
Cat-No:OLECD2115
Release-Date:28.02.2025
Genre:Alternative/Electronic
Configuration:CD
1
Darkside - SLAU
2
Darkside - S.N.C
3
Darkside - Are You Tired? (Keep On Singing)
4
Darkside - Graucha Max
5
Darkside - American References
6
Darkside - Heavy Is Good For This
7
Darkside - Hell Suite, Pt. I
8
Darkside - Hell Suite, Pt. II
9
Darkside - Sin el Sol No Hay Na
Nothing is the third album from DARKSIDE: nine transmissions of negative space, telepathic seance, and spectral improvisation. On their first two reinventions, Nicolás Jaar and Dave Harrington entered the studio with a clutch of scattered ideas to mold into what became the revered Psychic(2013) and Spiral (2021). But Nothing reflects a search for form borne out of spontaneous elliptical jams, acoustic riffing, and digital levitations. And in a fundamental shift from their first dozen years as a band, the duo recruited their longtime friend and collaborator, the drummer and instrument designer Tlacael Esparza, to become a full-time member. The outcome is magnetic and hieroglyphic. This album slips through the cracks of convention with serpentine guitars, extraterrestrial static, and cavernous drums. No band but DARKSIDE could have made Nothing, and in no moment but now.
Official Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKiS9DPARDg
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Official Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKiS9DPARDg
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Tracklist
1.1Narrow Road
1.2The Limit
1.3The Question Is To See It All
1.4Lawmaker
1.5I'm The Echo
2.1Spiral
2.2Liberty Bell
2.3Inside Is Out There
2.4Only Young
Jaar&Harrington sind zurück mit einem großen Zweitwerk. DARKSIDE sind zurück! Die Band von Nicolás Jaar und Dave Harrington veröffentlicht fast acht Jahre nach ihrem Debüt endlich den Nachfolger zu ihrem hochgelobten Debütalbum. Pitchfork bezeichnete "Psychic" 2013 als Soundtrack zu einem David Lynch Science-Fiction-Film, den er nie gedreht hat. Jaar und Harrington gingen mit ihrem Band-Projekt auf Tour, begeisterten vor ausverkauften Hallen und auf großen Festivals und gingen anschließend wieder getrennte Wege. Nicolás Jaar veröffentlichte seitdem 5 Alben unter seinem eigenen Namen, sowie zwei Club-Compilations unter dem "Against All Logic"-Label. Harrington gründete die Dave Harrington Group, brachte 2 Alben heraus, spielte über 300 Shows und arbeitete für andere Künstler als Produzent und Arrangeur. Im Sommer 2018 mieteten sich Jaar und Harrington ein kleines Haus im indigenen Lenni-Lenape Territorium, welches im US-Bundestaat New Jersey liegt, um Ideen für Musik auszutauschen und um schließlich DARKSIDE wiederzubeleben. Es sollte weitere 1,5 Jahre dauern, bis ihr neues Album "Spiral" fertig geschrieben und aufgenommen war. Wie schön, dass die beiden zurück sind. Denn mit "Spiral" beweisen sie einmal mehr, dass auch zwei Solisten ein perfektes Team sein können.
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1.1Narrow Road
1.2The Limit
1.3The Question Is To See It All
1.4Lawmaker
1.5I'm The Echo
2.1Spiral
2.2Liberty Bell
2.3Inside Is Out There
2.4Only Young
Jaar&Harrington sind zurück mit einem großen Zweitwerk. DARKSIDE sind zurück! Die Band von Nicolás Jaar und Dave Harrington veröffentlicht fast acht Jahre nach ihrem Debüt endlich den Nachfolger zu ihrem hochgelobten Debütalbum. Pitchfork bezeichnete "Psychic" 2013 als Soundtrack zu einem David Lynch Science-Fiction-Film, den er nie gedreht hat. Jaar und Harrington gingen mit ihrem Band-Projekt auf Tour, begeisterten vor ausverkauften Hallen und auf großen Festivals und gingen anschließend wieder getrennte Wege. Nicolás Jaar veröffentlichte seitdem 5 Alben unter seinem eigenen Namen, sowie zwei Club-Compilations unter dem "Against All Logic"-Label. Harrington gründete die Dave Harrington Group, brachte 2 Alben heraus, spielte über 300 Shows und arbeitete für andere Künstler als Produzent und Arrangeur. Im Sommer 2018 mieteten sich Jaar und Harrington ein kleines Haus im indigenen Lenni-Lenape Territorium, welches im US-Bundestaat New Jersey liegt, um Ideen für Musik auszutauschen und um schließlich DARKSIDE wiederzubeleben. Es sollte weitere 1,5 Jahre dauern, bis ihr neues Album "Spiral" fertig geschrieben und aufgenommen war. Wie schön, dass die beiden zurück sind. Denn mit "Spiral" beweisen sie einmal mehr, dass auch zwei Solisten ein perfektes Team sein können.
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More records from clown and sunset
Limited to 300! including Hugo Bocca Remix on B Side. Release: 6.05.2013
Tracklist: 1. Wit(z) 4:39 2. Hiathaikm 5:44 3. Angst 6:53 4. Nwia 6:14 5. Hiathaikm (Hugo Bocca Remix)
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Tracklist: 1. Wit(z) 4:39 2. Hiathaikm 5:44 3. Angst 6:53 4. Nwia 6:14 5. Hiathaikm (Hugo Bocca Remix)
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A: Open, A Clone Is A Clone, Palomitastep, Equation of Time, (La Voz) tan Tierna
B: Requiem for a Loop, Mutron Melody, Eulogy to Eunice, Close
The first time I met Acid Pauli, I didn't know it. I was in search of a lighter outside of the Salon Zur Wilden Renate, a bar in Berlin. It was quite late (or early, depending on how you look at it). I had been living in Germany for less than a week. I approached a man that had been moving some equipment nearby. He didn't smoke, he explained, but he produced a book of matches-- almost out of thin air. He had excited, Romanesque features that threatened to overwhelm his face as he spoke. He introduced himself as Martin.I moved to Berlin after quitting my job as a journalist covering culture for an inconsequential (albeit progressive) Middle Eastern magazine. Days after I left the region, the first protests began in Tunisia. I visited Renate that week because Nicolas Jaar recommended it when we met in London around Christmas time. When I mentioned that I might move to Germany, he brought up Acid Pauli-- which is how I first found out about his Johnny Cash interpretation, "I See a Darkness," and some of his other projects with The Notwist. A few nights later, I returned to Renate, observing from afar as Acid gently wrangled the dance floor. His set activated a space that was both free flowing and eclectic-- the opposite of what I had expected (however ignorantly) to find in Berlin.I tracked Acid down after he finished playing and introduced myself properly this time. Eventually, he explained that he had just completed an album for Clown & Sunset. He called it Mst. After pleading with him to let me listen, he handed over a miniature mirror that doubled as a USB drive.It was an appropriate medium for an album that acts reflexively. Each of the nine tracks coaxes your attention, and then plays with it like the hall of mirrors in a funhouse. Songs accelerate or breakdown without warning, before leaping right back into the rhythm or alternating into a new one. Acid Pauli's voice never appears, and so you substitute your own internal monologue-- whether you're waltzing to "(La voz) tan tierna" or weeping to "Eulogy to Eunice." I saw Acid Pauli a handful more times that spring before he began touring with Nico. And despite our conversations about the album, it was not until months later that I realized Acid isn't trying to tell stories with his work. His aim is more holistic than that. Mst extends the atmospherics past the dance floor, refracting the idiosyncrasies of our existence back into our everyday lives.
Lola Marie-Saint
New York
December, 2011
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B: Requiem for a Loop, Mutron Melody, Eulogy to Eunice, Close
The first time I met Acid Pauli, I didn't know it. I was in search of a lighter outside of the Salon Zur Wilden Renate, a bar in Berlin. It was quite late (or early, depending on how you look at it). I had been living in Germany for less than a week. I approached a man that had been moving some equipment nearby. He didn't smoke, he explained, but he produced a book of matches-- almost out of thin air. He had excited, Romanesque features that threatened to overwhelm his face as he spoke. He introduced himself as Martin.I moved to Berlin after quitting my job as a journalist covering culture for an inconsequential (albeit progressive) Middle Eastern magazine. Days after I left the region, the first protests began in Tunisia. I visited Renate that week because Nicolas Jaar recommended it when we met in London around Christmas time. When I mentioned that I might move to Germany, he brought up Acid Pauli-- which is how I first found out about his Johnny Cash interpretation, "I See a Darkness," and some of his other projects with The Notwist. A few nights later, I returned to Renate, observing from afar as Acid gently wrangled the dance floor. His set activated a space that was both free flowing and eclectic-- the opposite of what I had expected (however ignorantly) to find in Berlin.I tracked Acid down after he finished playing and introduced myself properly this time. Eventually, he explained that he had just completed an album for Clown & Sunset. He called it Mst. After pleading with him to let me listen, he handed over a miniature mirror that doubled as a USB drive.It was an appropriate medium for an album that acts reflexively. Each of the nine tracks coaxes your attention, and then plays with it like the hall of mirrors in a funhouse. Songs accelerate or breakdown without warning, before leaping right back into the rhythm or alternating into a new one. Acid Pauli's voice never appears, and so you substitute your own internal monologue-- whether you're waltzing to "(La voz) tan tierna" or weeping to "Eulogy to Eunice." I saw Acid Pauli a handful more times that spring before he began touring with Nico. And despite our conversations about the album, it was not until months later that I realized Acid isn't trying to tell stories with his work. His aim is more holistic than that. Mst extends the atmospherics past the dance floor, refracting the idiosyncrasies of our existence back into our everyday lives.
Lola Marie-Saint
New York
December, 2011
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On Nicolas Jaar´s Clown and Sunset Label. Intriguing Coverversion of the Leonard Cohen Classic by Just Friends who are Nicolas Jaar and Sasha Spielberg. B Side features no less touching versions of said song by Julia Holter and Shlohmo. Epic.
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2014 ONE TIME repress/re-rerelease of CS007 in it´s original sleeve /art/ labeldesign!
In the dead of winter, I visited Nico in his apartment in Providence, Rhode Island. He had just finished composing "Don't Break My Love," the A-side of his new EP and his first song since Space is Only Noise. He seemed solemn, but I didn't ask why. The next night, I witnessed a rare occurrence: Nico DJ-ed a small party. We danced all night in a brick-walled loft as snow fell outside. Half a year later and a continent away, the B-side, "Why Didn't You Save Me," arrived. Nico wrote it one sleepless night after a show in Germany. He spent the rest of the tour developing the song, letting it grow.
The rhythms on the EP unravel slowly. As the songs progress, they fill up with rapid-fire hi-hats and mechanical percussion. The faster strikes meet slower beats and the songs seem to stretch; they feel pulled in both directions almost ad infinitum. After the tour, I re-listened to the EP, a ten inch vinyl, with Nico in his apartment in New York. He told me he had been singing more and more, and sampling less. The EP foreshadowed an evolving sound within Clown & Sunset, he explained, and previewed an upcoming compilation by the same name, replete with new talent.
When the B-side wound down, and the clavinet faded out, Nico placed his finger tip on the edge of the record, slowing it to a crawl. With the resonance of our feelings, we remained still for a while after, as silence enveloped us.
Tracklisting:
A: Don't Break My Love
B: Why Didn't You Save Me
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In the dead of winter, I visited Nico in his apartment in Providence, Rhode Island. He had just finished composing "Don't Break My Love," the A-side of his new EP and his first song since Space is Only Noise. He seemed solemn, but I didn't ask why. The next night, I witnessed a rare occurrence: Nico DJ-ed a small party. We danced all night in a brick-walled loft as snow fell outside. Half a year later and a continent away, the B-side, "Why Didn't You Save Me," arrived. Nico wrote it one sleepless night after a show in Germany. He spent the rest of the tour developing the song, letting it grow.
The rhythms on the EP unravel slowly. As the songs progress, they fill up with rapid-fire hi-hats and mechanical percussion. The faster strikes meet slower beats and the songs seem to stretch; they feel pulled in both directions almost ad infinitum. After the tour, I re-listened to the EP, a ten inch vinyl, with Nico in his apartment in New York. He told me he had been singing more and more, and sampling less. The EP foreshadowed an evolving sound within Clown & Sunset, he explained, and previewed an upcoming compilation by the same name, replete with new talent.
When the B-side wound down, and the clavinet faded out, Nico placed his finger tip on the edge of the record, slowing it to a crawl. With the resonance of our feelings, we remained still for a while after, as silence enveloped us.
Tracklisting:
A: Don't Break My Love
B: Why Didn't You Save Me
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