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NSAS002C – 6 x digital files

Her (Dub)
The Courts (12″ Mix)
How We Relate To The Body (12″ Mix)
Club Thanz (Dub)
The Nite Life (Instrumental)
…Now We Relate
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NSWL013 12″  - How We Relate To The Body b/w …Now We Relate
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12″ mixes, extended dubs, instrumentals and DJ-friendly versions of tracks from Jam City’s debut LP “Classical Curves”, including the brand new 9-minute ecstasy epic “… Now We Relate”.

Following the release of his exceptional debut LP “Classical Curves” earlier this year, Night Slugs present Jam City’s second single from the project, and arguably his boldest statement yet.

“How We Relate to the Body” marries Jersey Club’s gravity-defying kicks with jubilant, funk-inflected, dance hall-reverbed stabs that are both euphoric and giddying, narrowing the divide between the anthemic and the intimate. It’s both a mission statement and a demonstration that on Earth, this is how we relate to the body. A timely reminder of the visceral thrills of humans dancing next to humans, and a dancefloor anthem in the making.

Chasing the tail of side A, side B turns said floor upside-down. A snapshot of club ecstacy slowly turns into a meditation, a mantra, a prayer, suspended in infinity until the grooves run out. It’s Chez N Trent on infinite loop, Daft Punk with the pause button, a hymn to The Loop. It’s also a goodbye to the world of Classical Curves, but, in classic Jam City-style it leaving more questions than answers.

Read it here!

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This is a record about elegance, violence, electricity, water, marble, plants, trenchcoats, oily black jeep windows, crashed motorbikes, parks at twilight, clubs in the dark, broken DX7s and missed phone calls, written and recorded over a hot summer in a cramped flat with neighbours having sex through the walls.

“Classical Curves” comes from a teenhood spent obsessively listening to both Prince and Youngstar, a tumultuous period as a performance artist-cum-designer marketing ‘chrome body extensions’ to the fashion world, and a brief and bizarre spell as a corporate spy for a well known athletics brand. This is a record unique in its scope and vision, from a life that could only paint a world of romance and danger as vividly as this.

It’s a record that owes equal parts to Philly Club as it does to Laurie Anderson, The Neptunes as it does to Einsturzende Neubauten, Steve Poindexter as it does to the soft jazz leads of Pat Metheny. A record conceived out of (but not confined to) the legacy of the great rhythm trak muziks: Chicago House, Detroit Techno, Grime and Club. Classical Curves deconstructs, then reconfigures these blueprints as skeletal, emotionally charged pop songs. Or perhaps it’s the other way around: We are engulfed in booming, monolithic kick drums/We are floating on a pink cloud. We are thrashed and contorted by sheets of metal/We are suspended in breathy quiet of sighing voices and raindrops kissing the windowpane – and then it erupts again.

Classical Curves debuts its creators voice for the first time on record, taking on the roles of brazen alien catwalk commentator, crooning synth-pop pinup and whispering informant. And all the while the drums continue to snap, crunch, jerk and bump. There are also guitar synths, tape hiss, clouds of static, saxophones, lamenting fairlight choirs and slap bass. Listen carefully and you will hear a phone ringing (pick it up).

Art direction by Jam City & Sushon.org
Art Production by Bowyer - bowyerworldwide.com
Mixed by Bok Bok & Jam City at the Night Slugs Silo

Jam City – Classical Genesis Mix 256 [right click save]

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The album “Classical Curves” is out 28th May 2012.

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04 May – The Wire, Leeds (Night Slugs Leeds) – UK
10 May – Great Escape Festival, Brighton – UK
11 May – Thekla, Bristol (Night Slugs Bristol) – UK
12 May – Razzmatazz, Barcelona – Spain
18 May – Crucifix Lane, London (Night Slugs All Night: 4th Birhtday party) – UK
19 May – Sound Control, Manchester (Night Slugs Manchester) – UK
25 May – Ekko, Utrecht – NL
27 May – Sneaky Petes, Edinburgh – UK
07 June – The Twisted Pepper, Dublin – Ireland
09 June – 150m2, Warsaw – Poland
27 July – Turrbotax, New York City – USA
28 July – Icee Hot, San Francisco – USA
03 August – Fade To Mind, Los Angeles – USA

The record will be played in its entirety

A chance to hear the LP in full scale, on the soundsystem Night Slugs call home

Afterwards Jam City and others will DJ til late.

Entry is free and only with RSVP.