It's nothing new that the realization of a collapsing music industry is going to set new standards. One of such is the gift of free music. Giving equals positivity and if you know anything about the Law of Attraction, you must give at least half of what you expect in return. Yes, meaning buying music too if you deem worthy.

With that, we present a new remix by Jimmy Edgar. Aux88, one of the pioneers of Detroit Electro has asked Jimmy Edgar to create a version of their new single "Mad Scientist". Paying homage to a list of inspirations including Patrice Rushen, Dopplereffekt, Derrick May, Prince, Adonis, Glass, and Kleeer on the Jimmy Edgar palette, this is the future of music from the urban roots of Detroit, and many more. Jimmy has now reserved his Detroit influences to be displayed through only certain projects, since his multifaceted work in media is always expanding.

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In various news of April 2009, Jimmy Edgar returns from a short stint of new live shows in Los Angeles. Boobytrap, a local lesbian party, was a hit which heard Jimmy droppin homemade mixes of Posatronix/Michael Jackson, Technotronic/808 beats, Mtume and Cassie pitched up electro speed, and Prince over early DBX/Plastikman loops.

Jimmy is back in Detroit working diligently on new music, film, and a series of digital artwork to be released soon (see above sample.)

For some interested reason, 'Jimmy Edgar Interview' is one of the more popular searches on Youtube for users looking for Jimmy. Two mysterious interviews are to be released soon for the blogs EVB & IHateU<3BB. Links to be released when the editors have finalized the stories.

Myspace features two new Jimmy Edgar trax. "Want2Doit(Edit)" released on Detroit Underground and available on Itunes (as "Wanna Do It") and "Late Night Operation featuring Theophilus London" a reinterpretation of Machinedrum which will be available for free mp3 very soon.

Here we go with another anonymous type release from the megalabel Rush Hour (Netherlands). Their new sub-label, Night Moves, has decided to release a rare Jimmy Edgar track called "Lips Sealed" under the autograph NOIR FRICTION. This single, MOVE1, will be released April 12th 2009. Here is what Rush Hour had to say about it:

"Jimmy Edgar is back, this time under his Noir Friction alter ego to deliver a raw warehouse styled cut. A very basic, yet catchy track that sticks after the first play. Comes in vocal and instrumental mix. House at its purest."

...and without a doubt we love bad reviews just as much as good ones, here is one from Spoonfed. It's about time they hand out a review that isn't simply mediocre:

"I'm down with almost any sexual fetish you care to name so the prospect of some Dominatrix House from Warp's Jimmy Edgar, operating under his guise of Noir Friction, might seem just the nipple clamp I need.

However this minimalist, insipid, sub-house track, that seems to sample the guy from Saw recorded through a fully zipped gimp suit, is about as aurally arousing as a Pat Butcher sex tape.

Truly music to make you want to crawl down the nearest K hole and never return."

1.5/5 Jonathan Sebire, who says music taste "is important" while calling himself an intellectual pervert

Regretfully we are announcing the end of Matthew Declerck, who some of you recognize from his work as Softcore. Matthew took his life on Friday the 13th of March 2009. Best friend of Jimmy, Matt's talents were uniquely unparalleled and always looming with thick emotion and clawmarks on his closet door. Days before his suicide, he uploaded a few new trax, a few of which featured Jimmy Edgar beats and production.

Jimmy has no official comments at the moment but can recall his first day of highschool in which he met Matthew. That day blossomed a strange, yet tight, friendship that would end in tears and too many questions. Matt Declerck will be sorely missed.

This is even more tragic when you consider the loss of Charlie Cooper (Telefon Tel Aviv) who was also a good friend of Jimmy Edgar. Charlie's cause of death is still undetermined, yet many believe suicide. Our hearts go out to the friends and family.

In lighter news, the above photo is one of few press photos ever to be released of Matthew Declerck, taken by Jimmy Edgar. Jimmy Edgar Photography has recently seen its first international cover on H Magazines 10 Anniversary issue. In addition, Spains H Mag has published Jimmy Edgar's full fashion story entitled 'Adaptable Color.' More info here.

New release "Nothing is Better" song featured on XLR8R.com :

"Jimmy Edgar is one of those artists you imagine doesn't like to sit still for more than a few minutes at a time. Besides fashioning dark, driving electronic music under his own name, he also heads up house- and funk-influenced project Her Bad Habit, serves as executive producer for X District, and is rumored to be one-half of electro duo Plus Device. Add to that his work as a fashion photographer (and the fact that he looks hotter in eyeliner than most women), and, well, it all makes him the type of guy you'd like to sit down and have a coffee with.

His latest project finds the Detroit native once again working with brooding beats and unsettling rhythms that hint at something sinister waiting just around the corner (or in the case of the track's video, something sensual). Fans of this one should also check the flipside, a remix by Hefty Records founder John Hughes. The single will be offered as a donation-only release this month, free to download, with 100% of the proceeds going back to the artist. A digital copy will be available via retailers in November." -XLR8R

Jimmy Edgar has released a new song called "Nothing is Better" with Moodgadget records. This new track is an ominous prequel that accompanies a video also directed by Jimmy. This is the first installment of all encompassing multimedia releases that will be exhibited online.

Press release from Moodgadget :

"Jimmy Edgar's exclusive Moodgadget single "Nothing is Better" is both heavy and seductive; like a heart attack induced by sex. John Hughes' slow burning remix alluringly pulls you into his fantasy world more with each passing beat.

The title "Nothing is Better" is left open to interpretation by Jimmy. For example, it could mean "nothing else could be better" or, "nothing is definitely better than what we have here now." Listen and we think you'll agree, it doesn't get much better than this."

"Nothing is Better" video featured on XLR8R.com :

"Jimmy Edgar is a dark, dark dude. Of course, we've always known that about the Detroit-area native, who's been making sinister beats for a number of years now and was once praised for being one of the few men to make wearing eyeliner look cool. His latest video, for the single "Nothing is Better," features the producer's bristly electronic beats and a very skinny young lady getting rather hot and bothered under a flashing red light. It's a visually stimulating watch, though anyone with epileptic tendencies should proceed with caution." -XLR8R

Jimmy Edgar and Stephen Mason (Beta Band) have teamed up for his project Black Affair. Stephen sought out Jimmy for a strict collaboration with his debut on V2 Records, "Pleasure Pressure Point." Upon their connexion gave flame to a magical musical exhibition. Along with mixing and filling in the album in NYC, Jimmy coproduced the intro track "PPP."

Continuing this collaboration, along with having Jimmy design the graphics and packaging for the debut and all three singles, Stephen asked him to direct a video for "Its Real," in which they shot in a fashion photography studio depicting the two sides of a significant other. While they were at it, Jimmy also photographed Stephen for all of his press.

DROWNED IN SOUND
"Black Affair is the dark side of the Mason moon, one of mordant ‘80s electro, soulless metronomy and dark industrialism. Pleasure Pressure Point is stark in its make up and eschews the classic. It veers towards the sinister soundscaping of Depeche Mode and the synth-addled tendencies of The Human League with Mason’s monotone vocal continuing to shed any emotional attachment to the music"

THE SUNDAY TIMES (UK)
"Steve Mason, the former Beta Band and King Biscuit Time main man, re-emerges here as Black Affair, with a battery of 1980s electro sonic signatures as his new calling card. One man's creativity-led reinvention can be another's opportunistic trolley dash through the sound archives, but Mason belongs firmly in the former camp. Here, his wonderfully terse and deadpan voice proves a perfect fit with menacing, lethally economic late-night-club tracks such as It's Real, Japanese Happening and Will She Come."

THE GUARDIAN (UK)
"Mason's self-confessed "darker side" is spun around - like a record, obviously - by keyboard melodies that could have graced Dead or Alive or Depeche Mode at their peak."

THE GUARDIAN (UK)
"Black Affair is the new venture from two established sonic explorers with a history of playful invention and recording under aliases: Steve Mason of late, lamented pastoral space-pop crew the Beta Band and Jimmy Edgar, a Detroit-based electronic musician who records for Warp. It's Real, the latest single from Black Affair, taken from the duo's forthcoming debut album "Pleasure Pressure Point", is the finest example of 80s electro-referencing funk clatter since, ooh, last year's Fancy Footwork by US Cameo/Kleer-ish nostalgic futurists Chromeo at the very least."

FAME MAGAZINE
"Like a magical trip round the best 80s underground clubs… retro yet modern, dark yet euphoric, sexy and sophisticated… like the finest electronic soul."

ANGRY APE.COM
"In collaboration with Detroit beatsmith Jimmy Edgar, 'Pleasure Pressure Point' is a dark electro album competently injected with various doses of industrial beats and 80s pop sensibility, managing to chill and uplift in equal measure….Repeated encounters with 'Pleasure Pressure Point' make it clear that Mason and Edgar have crafted a record of great depth here…."

R-T-C.BLOGSPOT.COM
"Shaping such a radically different sound needed some help. Step up Warp records wunder-kid, Jimmy Edgar. The result of this collaboration is Black Affair's debut album, Pleasure Pressure Point. Its heart is true Detroit techno – synthetic yet soulful. A heady mash up of playfulness and melancholy. "This album is about a break up and the hurt and bitterness that goes with it. It's also about sex. From now on, it's all about sex. Devious sex. And looking good." That makes sense. With track titles like Subfuged and the very name, Black Affair, this is as far removed from sterile, white boy guitar slop as you'd expect from a maverick like Mason. Who, it must be said, looks hotter than ever before in recent press shots, courtesy of Jimmy Edgar. Looking modern and sounding modern. Pleasure Pressure Point is resolutely now in an 80s way but it has much more depth than anything out at the present aping that decade."

Coming soon is the new one-off project from Jimmy Edgar called XDistrict.

To be announced release date on Playhouse Records, Germany. The single "Color Correction" will be 12" & digital only, featuring the Jimmy Edgar LTNT remix and special rendition by Losoul.

Citinite, the freshest new label out of the UK has released Jimmy Edgars latest side project Her Bad Habit “I Don’t Know (What You’re Doing To Me).” Her Bad Habit is available as mp3 download or 12” vinyl.

WARPMART:

Really fantastic five track ep from Jimmy Edgar with Sara DaSilvia on vocals on a couple of tracks here. Following the Citinite ethos, this is top notch electro funk, music that infuses electro and techno, early house, Prince and Parliament influences in equal doses all with a healthy and sophisticated futuristic sheen.

On some of the tracks here there is more 'real' instrumentation than on his album for Warp, a touch of slap bass that doesn't feel out of place, lots of keyboard sounds that remind of early Prince or Dr Dre's G-Funk productions, but brought up to date in a very tidy fashion.

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Jimmy Edgar DJ Playlist from XFM Radio

Miss Tina "Miss Tina Dub"
Kenny Jammin Jason "Can U Dance"
Starpoint "Object Of My Desire"
DTRAIN "You're The One For Me"
MKII "Used By DJ"
Jimmy Edgar "Hot Raw Sex"
Creepy Autograph "Outside Normalities"
Electric Soul "X2"
Inner City "Big Fun"
Raw Silk "Do It To The Music"
Kraftwerk "Robots"
Tyree "I Fear the Night"
Noir Friction "Creative Sexuality"
Oizo "Halfanedit"
Chunkabud "Taxicab"
Elastic Reality "Cassa de X feat. BT - Dubfire's Deep Vocal Mix"

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