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First Listen: Jlin, 'Black Origami'

The Gary, Ind., electronic producer turns a Chicago footwork party into a global drum-machine circle.
Jlin's new album, <em>Black Origami</em>, is out May 19.

The first hint of imminent new music from the Gary, Indiana-based electronic producer Jerilynn Patton, aka Jlin, came last December, during a rare. The British auteur's rabid fanbase unpacks and shares every last second of his rare appearances; and so it was that that the man born Richard James chopped up at his wonderfully schizoid performance. There, amid a mountain of rarities and rave bombs, they uncovered a pair Jlin records, one of which, "Hatshepsut," now sits at the center of .

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