Jimmy Edgar is Detroit's new electronic music prodigy. With ease he continues to tinker with the engine that has been put into operation by Carl Craig, Juan Atkins, Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson. Don't expect standard Detroit techno from this guy, though. His influences lie too much in funk, jazz and hip hop for that. With very dry crackling beats, static, funky bass lines and many, many ingredients
… from Detroit techno, he develops a genre that can best be described as Detroit funk. The one time it delivers solid rolling, yet heavily hypothermic funk, the other time you imagine yourself as a listener in a sound experiment that got out of hand. In any case, Edgar does his utmost to bridge the gap between the experimental electronics of Aphex Twin and associates, and the mainstream genre. In that respect, Color Strip is a very successful first step. (AD)more
