Nicolas Jaar Space Is Only Noise 180g 45rpm Import 2LP

It has been ten years since Nicolas Jaar released his celebrated debut album, Space Is Only Noise, on Circus Company (2011). With countless accolades, forays, and dips into other waters both preceding its arrival one decade ago and since, with many musical ventures, this LP still stands as not only a unique and verified-classic release in the artist's own expansive catalog (as well as the label's), but also amongst the general pantheon of electronic music of the 21st century on the whole.

What better way to celebrate this milestone than with an immaculate must-have re-release package, with the music now spread out over double discs and cut at 45rpm on 180 gram black vinyl to let the glacial top-end soar as originally intended, and the air of the general proceedings expand, once again, into the ears and consciousness of electronic music lovers the world over. Along with this technical upgrade recut, the distinct artwork has also received a facelift fit for the occasion, and will now be found adorning a full gatefold cover, inked lovingly in reverse on inside-out heavyweight paper including printed inner sleeves for a total collector's gem front-to-back.

While Nicolas Jaar's own recent online musings of the origin of the album title and lead track has us imagining playful plexiglass-letterings and a fresh sense of abstract calm before soon-to-be career storms, the music itself feels to have not aged a day past its prime of creation. From the unanimous crowd pleaser "Colomb" to "Keep Me There" indeed doing just that, with Jaar keeping us right where he left us last go-round, to the luminous titular track "Space Is Only Noise If You Can See" and omni-prophesy of "Specters Of The Future" - please join in a warm welcoming return to this universally acclaimed classic LP, which garnered coveted spots in both RA's Album Of The Year and Pitchfork's Top 20 in 2011, now in its unmissable pristine new vinyl form, sounding as fresh as ever, a solid 10 years later.

This music is spiritual, psychedelic at times, and always rooted in a strong core concept that goes beyond 'intelligent dance music' toward the idea that electronics are merely a tool, and do not themselves demand loyalty to any particular aesthetic.