Jitwam - The Get Down
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Jitwam - "The Get Down" from the 2022 album Third on Roya Records.
As KEXP\'s DJ Alex mentioned in 2018 when Jitwam contributed a Midnight in a Perfect World mix to us, "Jitwam is a bit of an enigma. He was born in Northeast India, he\'s currently based in Brooklyn, he spent his formative years in New Zealand and Australia, and has lived in monasteries in Thailand, orphanages in South Africa, and washed out apartments in London."
On his third album \\u2014 helpfully titled Third \\u2014 Jitwam focuses on nights in London and New York, specifically, while still infusing a lifetime of global influences into his rich tapestry of disco-funk. Today\'s Song of the Day is such a fast-paced dance delight, you can almost picture the Soul Train dancers doing one of their infamous line dances to it.\\xa0
As he told Mixmag, "Being a diaspora kid, Third, for me, also has a lot of references to third culture. I\\u2019m trying to blur the lines between what we think of as different cultures, rhythms, and genres, and show that despite how different these genres are \\u2014 or how different we are as people \\u2014 we\\u2019re all grounded in the same drumbeat really."
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