James Pants heralds from a small, isolated hometown in Spokane, Washington, where he locks himself up in his garage and makes some of the funkiest music you’ll hear this year.
On his debut album "Welcome" he moves from Funk to Electro to Indie and marries punky, lo-fi production aesthetics with electronic riffs and swinging beats. His self-produced sound remembers me of James Murphy and his LCD Soundsystem.
In a recent interview with XLR8 he says: "I take this music seriously but humor is the way I like to get ideas across. Because who's going to take some white kid from Spokane doing '80s boogie seriously?"
I do and you should too because James Pants is a producer we'll hear a lot of in the future.
Checkout his My Space.
Download his single "Kash" here.
Update: Jamie Strong from Stones Throw Records just sent me a mail saying that this summer James Pants will be on the road opening up for Jamie Lidell:
May 25: Vancouver – Jamie Lidell Tour @ Richards
May 27:
May 28: SF – Jamie Lidell Tour @ Bimbo’s
May 29: LA – Jamie Lidell Tour @ El Rey
May 30: LA – Jamie Lidell Tour @ El Rey
May 31: Tuscon – Jamie Lidell Tour @ Rialto
June 2:
You can also catch him DJing or playing his stuff live:
May 8: LA – Dance Right @ La Cita
May 9: SF – I Can’t Feel My Face @ Amnesia
June 13th:
June 14th:
Album drops on May 27th on Stones Throw Records
Checkout the video for "Do a couple of things":
3 Comments:
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April 29, 2008 at 9:05 PM
no wonder he's touring with jamie lidell, surely good stuff. looking forward to hear the album.April 30, 2008 at 1:33 PMThx for the info about pants touring with jamie lidell. Come back frequently as I continually add new post.April 30, 2008 at 4:55 PMGet up and put on your dancing shoes... Great music-James Pants ! Thanks !
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