Jamie xx

Person / b. 1988 / United Kingdom

English DJ, record producer, and remixer

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Biography

James Thomas Smith, known professionally as Jamie xx, is an English musician, DJ, record producer, and remixer. He is known for both his solo work and as a member of the indie pop band the xx.

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Analysed songs (10)

All Under One Roof Raving

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A dance-floor chant built from a handful of vocal samples looped and rearranged rather than a lyric in any conventional sense.…

collective identity cultural pride/nationalism (subcultural) defiance

Baddy On the Floor

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This is a dance-floor incantation more than a lyric in the traditional sense: a single instruction repeated and mutated until it…

physical release collective ritual club as sanctuary

Far Nearer

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This is an instrumental-leaning dance track built almost entirely from a looped vocal sample expressing simple relief at…

companionship comfort repetition as meaning

Gosh

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Gosh is almost entirely instrumental, built around a handful of chopped vocal samples that function less as lyrics than as…

rave culture and nostalgia collective euphoria minimalism as expression

I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times)

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This Jamie xx track builds a euphoric, sample-driven dance anthem around a simple mantra of anticipated joy, then hands the mic…

anticipation and collective release hedonism and excess class and hustle

Idontknow

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Idontknow is an instrumental dance track built around rhythm, texture, and repetition rather than words, so its meaning has to…

ambiguity momentum club catharsis

It's So Good

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A single phrase repeated for the entire duration functions less as lyric than as texture, a vocal sample looped into a mantra of…

euphoria repetition as meaning dance-floor ecstasy

KILL DEM

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KILL DEM is less a song with a plot than a piece of dancehall-derived sound sculpture, built from a stuttering patois vocal…

violence as ritual/rhythm paranoia and evasion dancehall/soundsystem lineage

LET’S DO IT AGAIN

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This is a dance track built almost entirely from two chants, one about intoxicating love and one about repetition, that function…

ecstasy and repetition collective euphoria love as intoxication

Loud Places

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A dance-floor breakup song built around a single wounded question: how can the person you loved find transcendence with…

loss and jealousy nightlife as substitute intimacy memory attached to place