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Jimmy Edgar's latest for Innovative Leisure, LIQUIDS HEAVEN, is a psychedelic canvas of future R&B, euphoric bass, mutant tear-the-club-up rap, foundation-splintering noise, and gossamer soul. On a surface level, it is a starburst of avant-garde fusion, collecting a diverse cast of eccentric geniuses and re-configured into an anthology of nü-musique concrete. As with all of his work, there is a deeper and subversive intent. Do not mistakenly believe that LIQUIDS HEAVEN is merely a technicolor dream of ethereal abstractions. It bangs as hard as anything to ever bump from a subwoofer. Over a polychromatic blast of crunk, 10KCaash and Zelooperz bounce on InchEverybodyInch like a rap rave inside a 31st century space station. InchBite That 2Inch finds Trinidad James spitting flames over booty-shaking, wall-crumbling bass. On InchYa,Inch 645AR chirps over a metallic chassis of booming industrial funk. For all the high energy propulsion, there is a counter-balance of melancholic beauty. The albums opener, InchEuphoriaInch features a Liz Y2K vocal that levitates with plaintive longing. The Milk-aided InchDreams 1000000Inch sounds like the chimerical soundtrack to a manga utopia that needs to be imagined. Milk also appears on the finale, InchNever Leave,Inch which captures a bittersweet sadness, the wistful emotion of the tide slipping away. Jimmys career has been a series of fascinating left-turns. Signed to Warp Records as a teenage electronic music prodigy, his work needs a scholarly bibliography to properly assess. He's recorded for the worlds most respected imprints (Warp, K7, Hotflush, Innovative Leisure and his own New Reality Now). Raised in Detroit, there have been stints soaking up inspiration in Berlin, Atlanta, LA, and New York. His list of close collaborators includes the most innovative musicians of the millennium, including Hudson Mohawke, Danny Brown, SOPHIE,
