Short description
Electronic musician Jlin began producing music in 2008. A former steel mill worker from Gary, Indiana, she is credited with bringing a unique sound to the Chicago-born footwork genre. Her track Erotic Heat featured on the 2011 Planet Mu compilation Bangs and Works Vol. 2., and was later used to accompany a 2014 Rick Owens fashion show. In 2015, her genre-defying debut album Dark Energy was released to critical acclaim, placing her in her own musical zone of hyper rhythmic cuts that display a tension between anger and colourful euphoria. During the world tour after the release, Jlin grew a reputation as a formidable live act, and the album ended up in the top 10s and 20s of album lists for 2015 for a number of music publications. Her long-awaited second album, Black Origami, was released in May 2017 and received the Best Difficult Second Album award at the AIM Music Awards 2017. In 2017 she was commissioned by Wayne McGregor to compose the music for his dance work Autobiography.
Biography
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Electronic musician Jlin began producing music in 2008. A former steel mill worker from Gary, Indiana, she is credited with bringing a unique sound to the Chicago-born footwork genre. Her track Erotic Heat featured on the 2011 Planet Mu compilation Bangs and Works Vol. 2., and was later used to accompany a 2014 Rick Owens fashion show. In 2015, her genre-defying debut album Dark Energy was released to critical acclaim, placing her in her own musical zone of hyper rhythmic cuts that display a tension between anger and colourful euphoria. During the world tour after the release, Jlin grew a reputation as a formidable live act, and the album ended up in the top 10s and 20s of album lists for 2015 for a number of music publications. Her long-awaited second album, Black Origami, was released in May 2017 and received the Best Difficult Second Album award at the AIM Music Awards 2017. In 2017 she was commissioned by Wayne McGregor to compose the music for his dance work Autobiography.
