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Before he was old enough to attend clubs as a punter, Detroitâs Jimmy Edgar was cupping headphones to his ears behind the decks, DJing shoulder to shoulder with hometown heroes like Juan Atkins. In the 17 years since he signed to Warp as a teenager, his style has grown alongside his voracious tastes, encompassing IDM, mutated synth funk, and, most recently, hip-hop. Edgar channels that lifetime of songwriting and sound manipulation into his fourth album,
Cheetah Bend. The veteran electronic producerâs take on the genre-clashing freneticism of hyperpop, it doubles as a celebration of SOPHIE, his late friend and collaborator, to whom the album is dedicated and whose influence abounds.
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SOPHIE Shattered The Boundaries Of Pop Music, And It Will Take Us Years To Catch Up
SOPHIE created bold, artistic worlds from scratch - and by doing so, changed the way we thought about music forever.
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Infinite Pop is a Music Junkee column about the past, present, and possibilities of pop music.
SOPHIE, the Grammy-nominated Scottish pop and avant-garde electronic producer, died on at 4am January 30, in Athens, Greece, where the artist resided. According to Transgressive Records, SOPHIE had climbed up to see the full moon, and accidentally fell. SOPHIE was 34.
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