Nicolas Jaar

Though he would prefer you to simply listen to his music instead of reading this, Nicolas Jaar would admit he was born in NY; but quickly relocated to Santiago de Chile in the 90s only to come back to his birth place as a teenager. Haunted by Mulatu Astatke, Erik Satie, Ezekiel Honig and Villalobos’ “Thé au Harem d’Archimède”; Nico started to make organic electronic music in 2004 at the age of 14. At 17, he debuted with “The Student EP” on Wolf and Lamb Music with remixes by Seth Troxler and Kasper. At 18, he continued producing and played live at Club Der Visionaire andArena in Berlin, at the Marcy in Brooklyn and at Mutek in Mexico City alongside Deadbeat,Flying Lotus and Guillaume Coutu-Dumont among others.Now at 19, studying at Brown University in Rhode Island, Nico has many releases coming up including some on Circus Company, Wolf + Lamb (with remixes by Ryan Crosson) and on his own label, Clown and Sunset of which he is the owner and founder.