PRODUCER PROFILE: JLIN

Jlin, born Jerrilynn Patton, is an electronic musician and music producer from Gary, Indiana. She is signed to Planet Mu and has expanded her discography under the Planet Mu label(see her released music here).

Black Origami album artwork.

Following the release of her second album, Black Origami, FADER released an interview with Jlin wherein they discuss her album. Interviewer, Ann-Derrick Gaillot describes the album as having “tracks like “Holy Child” and “Nandi” [which] convey spirituality through complexity, their rhythms shifting and morphing as elements like drum beats, bells, and stray vocal samples fold into each other with mathematical precision. Other tracks, like “Hatshepsut” and the album’s closer “Challenge (To Be Continued),” layer disparate elements — like whistles and percussion samples from Africa, Japan, India, and HBCU drum lines — to evoke a sort of power that is at once unencumbered, but controlled.”

Photo via Lucy Hewett

In the same interview Jlin explains her creative process, “I love having to create from nothing. When it sounds completely impossible or there’s one of those how-the-hell-am-I-gonna-do-this moments, I think those are my best creative moments.” Read the full interview here.

Take a look at Jlin’s lecture at the Red Bull Music Academy Berlin in 2018: