18/08/2023
JIMI JULES & AME

JIMI JULES (INNERVISIONS)

Set on being a musician from a very young age, the Zürich-based DJ and multi-instrumentalist Jimi Jules has dedicated his career to shaking up the electronic music scene for nearly a decade. Following the completion of Jimi’s master’s degree in music combined with his Caribbean heritage, having grown up with a family of voodoo-sorcerers, jazz musicians and classical composers, Jules is recognised for his collaborative and multidisciplinary approach. The result? Carefully crafted productions with a deep understanding of arrangements and musical balance. Well-known for elegantly playing and singing along to his own tracks, Jimi Jules takes the House and Techno scene on a journey in search for fresh sounds.

As a producer, Jimi Jules is unassuming. Most notably on his latest album “+”, on Innervisions, the DJ effortlessly blends nocturnal novels and dance floor romance with his idea of the future of electronic music – collaborating with renowned artists like Dixon or Trevor Jackson to push the boundaries even further. Having previously released music on notable labels such as Watergate, Zukunft, Rumpelmuisik, most recently Jules was awarded a silver disk marking 200,000 sold copies of the track “Pushin On” released on Defected.

It’s hard to pin Jimi Jules’ DJ sets down to just one genre. Whilst playing (to a large extent) his own craft, Jules takes both his sound and listeners on a personal journey – from globally acclaimed stages to the most intimate dance floors of New York and Paris. With one goal in mind, Jimi’s one wish is to see people dance and share an energy of togetherness.

Better Together Forever

Ame

Two friends meet outside Karlsruhe, in Schwarzwald. One is an explorer of galaxies far away, the other a
composer of fragments. Together they create a joie de vivre, arranging and deconstructing their creations,
their own formations.

Beneath their feet, a stone world rests against the living world, touching rivers, mountains, forest floors and
the first foot trails between Schwarzwald, Vosges Mountains and Naturpark Pfälzerwald.
This stone world is made of smooth subterranean rock that swirls and folds. Altered from its original
igneous by pressures a hundred thousand years strong. What was once sharp is now smooth. Lines become
curves, reversals. If you were to try read its origin, its strata, you would not tell which direction the past
flowed or the future began.

Âme’s singularity is derived from their strata – a catacomb of Frank Wiedemann and Kristian Beyer’s
symbiotic relationship. The inception of their 15+ year collaboration impossible to pinpoint, woven among
chance meetings, seminal introductions and unbridled curiosity. They are not so much defined from their
past but by what is to come.

In partnership, their dual counterparts are identified as part of their artistry: Frank the composer or creative
engine behind the live act and Kristian, the explorer as DJ – each of his marathon sets a voyage and vision.
Together their output is a synthesis in melodies, rhythms and arrangements that only an honest, working
kinship can cultivate.

Their label Innervisions is metamorphic of their expression and powers combined. Kristian’s quest for the
new and Frank’s dense production turned tangible in 2005. From influence to influential, shared interests
became a label, to publishing house, to the mythological Lost in A Moment parties, to a shop and
distribution company in Berlin under Muting the Noise and booking agency, Temporary Secretary.
Like atoms repeating an ancient structure, each entity shares Frank and Kristian’s defining characteristics.
Each new foray into the industry is beleaguered by the same attention to detail and continual exploration of
the music universe in that it is also revered.

Intentionally, every venture knows no bounds. Their musical quest existing as long as the opportunity for
new work does. Every composition, output and live performance a culmination of experience and
experiments, infinite.

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