Weekend Weapons…Nicolas Jaar

news | Jan 27th, 2011 | View Comments

‘Sophisticated’ isn’t something that is generally bestowed upon a 19-year-old’s shoulders, but the sounds of Wolf+Lamb’s golden boy Nicolas Jaar might well be described as such.

With roots deep in disco, funk, soul, and Chilean minimal (the country where he spent most of his childhood) Nicolas Jaar’s remarkably mature dancefloor sounds defy his lack of years.

How many teenaged producers could create beautiful French-flavoured disco waltzes such as ‘Marquises’, on his own label Clown & Sunset, or soft piano-led deep house grooves a la ‘Love Teacher’, on Circus Company?

Jaar isn’t even old enough to have a beer in a bar in Rhode Island, where he currently studies.

To find out more about his sound and his unique tastes, we asked Nicolas Jaar to guide us through his current crop of DJ favourites.