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Jimmy Edgar
Background information
Origin	Detroit, USA
Genre(s)	Techno/Electronica
Instrument(s)	Drums
Years active	2002–present
Label(s)	Warp Records
Website	http://www.jimmyedgar.com/

Jimmy Edgar is a Detroit-based electronic music artist, signed to Warp Records. 22-year old Edgar has been stitching beats since he was 10, when he started producing sounds electronically and fashioned his first analogue pieces. Influenced mostly by Jazz, funk, street beat and r&b in these early years, he began his musical pursuit by playing the drums in experimental bands and by making tape recordings. Most of these recordings, consisting mainly of pitch bended tape loops, cut edits, field recordings, and noise tracks, were the beginning of his experimentations with the technical aspects of production.

Jimmy's intense passion for music also propelled him at a young age to learn to play any instrument he could get his hands on, including string instruments, saxophone, and mostly percussion/drum set. This is more obvious in recent releases in which he shows off his talent by playing funk and jazz keyboard solos. By the time he was 15, he started performing at Detroit raves with contemporaries and techno pioneers such as Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson and Derrick May.

He is rumoured to be high part of several secret societies, that which have similar qualities of freemasonry and satanism.^{[citation needed]} Jimmy is a skilled fashion designer, fashion photographer, oil painter, video installation artist, and graphic designer in his own self taught styles. Amongst these qualities and multi-instruments, he works closely with his "highly guarded partners" for strict creative purposes. Jimmy is to have been called a modern renaissance artist, with his Leo rising Scorpio traits they display a fusion of dark, charming, enticing, mysterious, and very sexual.

In early 1999 Edgar signed his first record deal with NYC based Isophlux Records, following a release of a techno track called "We Like You" on the German label Poker Flat. Then, after only hearing one of his tracks, Miami based Merck Records immediately signed him and released his first full length album "My Mines I" [merck009] by the "dual alter ego" kristuit salu vs. morris nightingale. After the release of "My Mines I" in February of 2002, Edgar started getting some attention which lead to touring cities in the US, including New York City, performing at the infamous experimental music fest the Miami Infiltrate, Vancouver and selected cities in Japan. Touring he got a good response from his live performances as he carried a distinctive energy on to stage and incorporates visuals such as synchronized projections. He was also asked to perform at the Detroit Electronic Music Festival 2003 which was his debut as a Warp Records artist, and in which Detroit witnessed a legend in formation as even the security got down with the local break dancing squad. His first release on Warp was a 4-track EP, titled Access Rhythm in 2004. In 2005 he followed up a second 6-track EP Bounce Make Model, and then his full-length album Color Strip in February 2006. He is rumoured to be half of the anonymous Plus Device.

• Color Strip (20/05/2006)
• My Mines I (as Kristuit Salu and Morris Nightingale, 02/2002)
• %20 (as Michaux, 2003)

• My Beats (02/22/06)
• Bounce, Make, Model (04/02/05)
• Access Rhythm (12/01/04)

• Jimmy Edgar homepage
• Warp Records
• Merck Records
• Audio.nl record label