Nicolas Jaar | Live at Sonar Labs (Barcelona)

If you didn’t manage to catch Nicolas Jaar over the summer, at one of the many festival and/or tour dates he played worldwide, here’s a little treat. His 54-minute set from Sonar Labs was uploaded to Soundcloud a few days back.

As Nico has mentioned in a number of interviews, there’s something removed when people talk over those signature quiet moments that have become a staple within his sets. In his own words, “emotion gets transferred into those tiny moments. But that doesn’t work, because people are talking, right? And this is not that it’s bad that people are talking. I don’t really care. It’s more that people are talking and it’s a reality and it’s not silent. And so the fact that it happens, makes those moments more seem like pauses than anything” (via Resident Advisor ) Those “pauses,” “lulls,” “transitions,” whatever you want to call them, are meaningful and thoughtfully woven into the narrative of his mixes. Hence, why Nico posted his own uninterrupted version of his BBC Essential Mix on the Clown & Sunset Soundcloud . Unfortunately, the same could not be done for this mix, so try not to mind the Sonar voiceovers.

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