Hej Jimmy Edgar!

Den som tror att fredagsnatten på Yaki-Da helt ska tillägnas Nöjesguidens Göteborgspris, är faktiskt lite fel ute. Trunkfunk passar nämligen på att samköra festligheterna med sitt2-årsjubileum, och det är definitivt också värt att firas! Under kvällen återfinns den Berlin-boende amerikanska musikern, dj:n och konstnärernJimmy Edgarbakom skivspelarna, så Djungeltrumman passade på att ställa några frågor till honom. Grattis på födelsedagen, Trunkfunk!

2013-02-28 14:30 2013-02-28 14:30
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Hey Jimmy, how are you?

– Excellent, I feel great. And how are you?

I'm all good, thanks! So you're coming to Gothenburg this weekend. Will it be your first gig here?

– Yes, it will be the first time, I'm very excited and anxious. I don't really know what to expect so it's gonna be a fresh experience. I've always been adoring gothenburgs style from what i read in the magazines. I've never been to Sweden at all.

So, what are you hoping that the swedes will bring to the table?

– Enthusiasm for something new and pretty smiling faces.

… and what can we expect from your set?

– Lots of unreleased material no one has ever heard from friends and label mates. New music from myself. Most of my recent dj sets have been very energetic, with the edits I am doing to classic tracks.

The club organisers are calling you the most talented artist that has risen on the electronic dancemusic scene the last few years. How does hearing stuff like that feel? And more importantly: do you agree with them?

– That's brilliant! Like a white light coming from the ether, where knowledge exists in darkness! I have worked so hard the past few years to finally hear that, and yes it does still surprise me when I hear that. I think to myself "people actually know who i am?". I don't think I will ever get used to it.

Yet, there is a side to me that loves what I do creatively and I feel both sides influence each other and it's a large circle of creativity. I can only hope to inspire other people to use their minds to create their own reality.

Tell us a little bit about what's going on with the american scene for your kind of music. What or who is/are the next big thing?

– I'm so busy with my own thing that I don't really think about who is the next best thing. I can only support my friends who are making good music. People who know me and about me know who those people are that I speak of. Since I don't live in America I'm not the foremost authority on these matters anyways. I'm so out of the loop on American stuff. I always felt there were great artists coming out of NYC, Detroit, LA and it's great to see, as an american myself. Detroit is sort of an enigma but I will be supporting new Detroit musicians even more with my big announcement this year… Maybe you can guess what it is.

Sounds exciting! I read that you've got a background playing jazz and motown on the piano. How has that affected the music you write today?

– Motown and jazz from Detroit is essentially gospel music, which today we call r'n'b. My music has a thick r'n'b influence from my piano playing, something that I still study. House music is all this combined into dance music, I just have my own style of voicings and chord progressions, but essentially its all of this rolled into one.

What's the best city to go to if you wanna experience electronic dancemusic right now?

– I think some of the best times were going to the off parties of some festivals. For instance, Movement in Detroit is great for outside parties during the actual festival. Sonar is great for that too, WMC as well. Outside of that the obvious answer is to say Berlin, but honestly when I am home I don't go out so much… Mainly because I'm already traveling on the weekends and its been winter here for years haha. Summer in Berlin is probably where you can see amazing dj:s every weekend, its still going strong here.

Karin Londré

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