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Jamie xx Didn’t Ruin Club Music
No, but that hasn’t stopped the producer from worrying about his impact. Two new projects are a chance to make things right.
In 2020, Matthew Thornhill, managing director of his label Young, said a new record was in progress without revealing how far along it was or what it might sound like; in January 2023, nearly two years before the album’s eventual release date, Jamie said he was “finishing mixing.” All the while, Reddit pages and Stereogum comment threads pondered over what, exactly, had been taking him so long. The Floor was designed to be the club of Jamie’s dreams: arenovated space with state-of-the-art equipment, each night featuring sets from all his friends and heroes — including his bandmate Romy Madley Croft, Swedish house DJ Axel Boman, and pop “It” couple Charli XCX and the 1975’s George Daniel. The Floor set after Jamie’s In Waves celebration in London is a marathon: Around midnight, he takes to the booth for what will end up being a nearly six-hour performance, pulling out records and mixing them with tracks from friends and songs from his new album as he puffs on a watermelon-ice-flavored vape.
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