Migas & Say Yes Present

DiscoTech featuring Jimmy Edgar (Detroit/Berlin)

Just take out the Disco and focus on the Tech, as you enter the DiscoTech, expect some serious Techno, Deep House and Tech House beats with the groove and warmth that has become synonymous with Migas, not the monotonous boom boom that you may unfairly associate with Techno. This edition of DiscoTech will also be Bite-Size Buddha’s final Beijing appearance behind the decks, and he’s joined by Boflex as they support none other than Techno mystic Jimmy Edgar, so get ready for some serious heat in the DiscoTech!

Jimmy Edgar

Jimmy Edgar is a renaissance man of talent, ideas, and style beyond his years. At 32, the Berlin-based Detroit native with a mischievous mystique has been a prolific artist and musician for two thirds of his enchanted life.

Born in August of 1983, Edgar was playing drums, keyboards, and saxophone, as well as experimenting with sound manipulation by the time he was an adolescent. To complement to his technical prowess, Edgar learned to play piano and "feel the music" in Detroit's Baptist churches. By the time he was 15, with help from a promoter friend, Edgar was spinning alongside hometown legends Atkins, May, and Saunderson in local strip clubs and raves. His early exposure to music, technology, spirituality, and seduction informed Edgar's creative impulses profoundly, and their confluence has become a recurrent motif in his work.

Edgar famously signed with influential Warp records at 18, and spent his early 20's recording and touring, winning audiences over with his dynamic stage presence and customized visual show. A pivotal point came during his debut at Detroit's Electronic Music Festival where security guards raved with the crowd. While at Warp, Edgar released 2004's Access Rhythm, a 4-track EP of blunted, left-field beats, and 2005's 6- track electro-sleaze EP Bounce Make Model. Jimmy's influences and techniques reached a breakthrough synthesis on 2006's LP Color Strip. Using a mix of custom- built gear, and analog and digital instruments, Edgar created a scene-stealing sound that fused Minneapolis funk, California Hip Hop, and Euro Electro. Color Strip became an instant favorite with fans and critics alike.

2013 was a breakout year highlighted by two EPs and an exhaustive global tour, the most significant shift in techno wizard Jimmy Edgar’s life was the launch of his new enterprise, Ultramajic. Part record label, design house, and metaphysical portal, Ultramajic (created and managed by Edgar and creative partner Pilar Zeta), alchemically melds music, design, objects, and installations into a holistic multi-sensory experience.

Ultramajic marks a milestone in Edgar’s independence as an artist and his emergence as an impresario. “Ultramajic is simply our venture to solidify what we do. The art of collaboration has been lost. In the ‘Age of the Internet,’ we have seen artists become pioneers unto themselves due to lack of communication, and I intend to bridge a bit of that gap with Ultramajic.”

Other labels Edgar has called home include Warp, Poker Flat, who released his 2002 single “We Like You”; K7! who released 2010’s XXX EP, featuring floor-fillers “Hot Raw Sex” and “Turn You Inside Out”; and Scuba’s Hotflush imprint who released 2012’s Majenta EP that included the “Art of Noise meets Timbaland” track “In Deep”, and the “Prince meets Frankie Knuckles” burner “This One’s for the Children”.

This will surely be a party of epic proportions, so get yourself up to the rooftop DiscoTech, and be ready to get freaky on the dance floor!

Entry: 70 RMB

From 22:00 (till Late)