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Events 20.07.17

Axel Boman, Modeselektor, Jackmaster and more added to Oasis Festival

…Skali and more have been added to the final line-up. They’ll be joined by the likes of former Crack cover star Nicolas Jaar, Solomun, Marcel Dettmann, Mancunian selector Willow, Daniel…

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Live Reviews 27.11.17

At Turin’s Club To Club, the avant-garde collides with the popular

…& Jesse Kanda, Yves Tumor, and Ben Frost, as well as more accessible performances from the likes of Nicolas Jaar and Mura Masa. The majority of the programming was centred…

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News 21.06.19

New Amsterdam art institute Het HEM opens with exhibition from Patta founders

…hope to give people a more active and inclusive understanding of our world.” Head to the Het HEM website for more information. Read our 2016 cover story with Nicolas Jaar….

News 17.10.13

DARKSIDE

…be right. Then again, when an artist as apparently un-mainstream as Nicolas Jaar can sell out a Europe-wide tour, with tickets being touted for over €60 outside the Berlin gig…

News 11.12.13

ALBUMS OF THE YEAR: 24-11

…Arrow   The beauty in Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington’s DARKSIDE project lay in the interplay between Harrington’s effects riddled guitar and Jaar’s wonderful turns of pace. A wonderfully unpredictable…

Album Reviews 22.07.21

Darkside – Spiral

In 2013, Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington performed with The Joshua Light Show, a live art show which originally served as a psychedelic backdrop for the likes of The Doors…

Albums Of The Year 2016

Here are the 100 greatest LPs of 2016, according to Crack Magazine. Visit 2016.crackmagazine.net for more end of year coverage over the coming weeks….

News 14.09.12

BLOC 2012

…was soon time to head over to the heaving RA Hub for the first time in order to catch the inimitable Nicolas Jaar, which also passed by smoothly. A few…

News 06.02.14

Vtgnike

The latest album forthcoming on Nicolas Jaar’s Other People label comes from Moscow’s unpronounceable producer Vtgnike. Vtgnike is part of Moscow’s ‘RAD’ movement, a likeminded collective of producers and DJs…

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Lists 27.06.18

My Life as a Mixtape: Buzzy Lee

Nicolas Jaar. Following previous Jaar collaboration Just Friends and her former band Wardell, Buzzy Lee finds Spielberg tip-toe gracefully into her own space as an artist. Here, she remembers the…

Lists 14.10.16

Staying In

Welcome to episode two of Staying In, your emotional zip-file of entertainment to see you through the weekend. Summer is over and winter is coming and you’ve realised that going…

Staff Lists 2016

You’ve seen the general consensus on Albums and Tracks but – in case you didn’t know – opinions are actually subjective! Here are a selection of albums, tracks, Tweets, covers…

Long Reads 21.05.19

The oral history of Crack Magazine

For 10 years, we’ve helped artists share their stories. To mark 100 issues, here we reflect on our own. Tracing our journey from a bedroom in Bristol to this milestone,…

The top 100 albums of the decade

Ruminations on death, loneliness, identity and hyperreality. The album didn’t die in the 2010s, it just got really, really weird

Long Reads 01.10.21

Rising: QOQEQA

…keys one might hear on a Nicolás Jaar track. Equal parts ceremony and an invitation to the dancefloor, these sound portals do more than transcend time and false borders; they…

Long Reads 13.09.12

BATHS

…I don’t have to dwell on something for too long. So yeah, I owe a lot to that.” What’s more, Will stands alongside the likes of Nicolas Jaar as a…

News 20.02.13

DARKSTAR

Changes of location and personnel have informed Darkstar’s intoxicating journey in sound. Space – not the final frontier variety, but the mundane physicality of the place where you are –…

Mixes 24.05.13

044 – Droog

…Avalon Hollywood. Collectively they’re known as Droog, which in Russian means ‘friend’, and friends they won’t be short of after hosting parties with the likes of Nicolas Jaar, Dixon, Jamie…

News 16.09.13

THESE NEW PURITANS

…me. – – – – – – – – – – These New Puritans play Bristol’s Simple Things festival October 12th alongside Modeselektor, Nicolas Jaar, No Age and many other…

Mixes 20.09.13

051 – Ital

…and The Island, Bristol, on October 12th. Ital appears alongside Nicolas Jaar, Modeselektor, Pantha Du Prince, These New Puritans, No Age and a host of other acts. [haiku url=”http://crackmagazine.net/wp-content/uploads/mp3/Crackcast051b.mp3″ title=”Crackcast…

News 29.10.13

ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER

…many of the key players within that nebulous house/techno/ bass scene poked their head above the parapet as the 00s were winding down. Only perhaps Nicolas Jaar could lay claim…

News 14.11.13

Crack’s Monthly Playlist

…our magazine’s music policy. Opening with High Water’s Railroad Song – a song created by Nicolas Jaar collaborator Will Epstein – and closing with a track courtesy of current Crack…

News 14.11.13

STUDIO 89: AXEL BOMAN

…pervasive warmth of Nicolas Jaar’s And I Say to a hugely well received airing for Doc Daneeka’s dusty disco number Walk On In. With the room quickly filling to the…

News 17.12.13

MIXES OF THE YEAR

…20. Mighty Wright British Chat Mix     19. Dixon Essential Mix     18. Nicolas Jaar NY Boiler Room     17. Skudge RA 364     16. Huerco…

News 17.07.14

Optimus Alive

…close the weekend, Nina Kraviz with her mesmeric, yearning techno and Nicolas Jaar with a solo show that once again is played out with more gusto and reverence to the…

News 06.08.14

Dekmantel

…mad percussive workouts from Jimmy Edgar in the mammoth XLR8R tent and Can U Dance fulfilling its no-chinstroking policy by playing Lumidee followed by Dizzee Rascal. Nicolas Jaar closed the…

Live Reviews 21.08.14

La Route Du Rock

…we arrived home ,was suited to the rainy conditions, all rise and fall and drama, subtlety and improvisation. Dave Harrington’s elongated guitar work and Nicolas Jaar’s slow burning drops and…

Playlists 05.01.15

December Playlist

…surprisingly poignant collaboration between filthy-minded ghetto house veteran DJ Slugo and, inexplicably, Nicolas Jaar. Enjoy.         Tracklist: 01. Shabazz Palaces – Ham Sandwich 02. Future Brown –…

21.05.15

Club to Club festival line-up announced

…Tutti Void and experimentalist Holly Herndon head up the bill alongside Jamie XX, Jeff Mills, Mumdance + Novelist featuring The Square, Nicolas Jaar, Nigga Fox, Omar Souleyman, QT, Shackleton, Sophi,…

Live Reviews 03.06.15

Lente Kabinet

…The jewel in the crown could have been a lively engaging set from Nicolas Jaar but unfortunately he did little to capture our attention. Perhaps earlier on his heady and…