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Jimmy Edgar in the mix

Duration:: 2 hours

First broadcast:: Friday 13 July 2012

Jimmy Edgar, a rising star of Detroit techno, takes over the 6 Mix for two hours of bleeps and beeps from the past three decades.

A native of Detroit, Michigan but now living in Berlin, Jimmy grew up on a diet of jazz, funk, and R&B before discovering electronic music in his teens. By the age of 15 he was performing at raves in the city, and put out his debut single a year later. Since then he's released several albums of intelligent techno with a funky edge as well as winning awards as an in-demand fashion photographer.

His new album Magenta - the first to be released on Scuba's Hot Flush Recordings - sees him mixing the label's signature bass sound into his heady brew of electro funk, techno and house. In his first 6 Mix, Jimmy plays a cocktail of eclectic selections which have influenced his sound, including music by Motor City Drum Ensemble, Plastikman, Aphex Twin and The Time.

Jimmy Edgar Let Yrself Be
Majenta, Hotflush Recordings
Plastikman Kink
Nostalgik.2, Minus
Hardrive Deep Inside
Strictly Rhythm Records
The Time Get It Up
Warner Bros. Records
Citizen Deep End
MadTech
Jimmy Edgar This One's For The Children
Hotflush Recordings
Motor City Drum Ensemble Raw Cuts #4
Faces Records
Paul Johnson Groove Melody
Dance Mania
Mosca Dom Perignon
DOM PERIGNON EP, 3024
Ed DMX Ray Tracing
Hardrive Sindae (Masters At Work Dub) (feat. L.G.)
Strictly Rhythm Records
Sound Stream Tease Me
Groove
Mike dunn Gherkin Aftermath 909
CHICAGO DANCE TRACKS VOLUME 1, Rush Hour
Robert Owens Bring Down The Walls
Trax Records
Aphex Twin Elephant Song
Analogue Bubblebath 4, Rephlex
Mr. Fingers Finger F**
Gene Hunt _Presents Chicago Dance Tracks, Rush Hour Recordings
Kris Wadsworth Present State
A Sexual Position, Morris/Audio
Jimmy Edgar Black Neon Dance Floor
Items and Things
Sketch Milicia (feat. Joyce Muniz)
COPYRIGHT IN THE HOUSE HONG KONG '11, Defected
Lunice I See U (Girl Unit Remix)
LuckyMe
Agoria Speechless (Gesaffelstein Remix) (feat. Carl Craig & La Scalars)
Infine
Jimmy Edgar Let Yrself Be
Majenta, Hotflush Recordings
Plastikman Kink
Nostalgik.2, Minus
Hardrive Deep Inside
Strictly Rhythm Records
The Time Get It Up
Warner Bros. Records
Citizen Deep End
MadTech
Jimmy Edgar This One's For The Children
Hotflush Recordings
Motor City Drum Ensemble Raw Cuts #4
Faces Records
Paul Johnson Groove Melody
Dance Mania
Mosca Dom Perignon
DOM PERIGNON EP, 3024
Ed DMX Ray Tracing
Hardrive Sindae (Masters At Work Dub) (feat. L.G.)
Strictly Rhythm Records
Sound Stream Tease Me
Groove
Mike dunn Gherkin Aftermath 909
CHICAGO DANCE TRACKS VOLUME 1, Rush Hour
Robert Owens Bring Down The Walls
Trax Records
Aphex Twin Elephant Song
Analogue Bubblebath 4, Rephlex
Mr. Fingers Finger F**
Gene Hunt _Presents Chicago Dance Tracks, Rush Hour Recordings
Kris Wadsworth Present State
A Sexual Position, Morris/Audio
Jimmy Edgar Black Neon Dance Floor
Items and Things
Sketch Milicia (feat. Joyce Muniz)
COPYRIGHT IN THE HOUSE HONG KONG '11, Defected
Lunice I See U (Girl Unit Remix)
LuckyMe
Agoria Speechless (Gesaffelstein Remix) (feat. Carl Craig & La Scalars)
Infine