James Harmon Stack, (born January 21, 1992) known professionally as Jim-E Stack, is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and DJ born in San Francisco, CA,[1] and based in Los Angeles, CA.[2] His solo releases have featured Bon Iver, Empress Of, Charli XCX, Ant Clemons, Jana Hunter of Lower Dens, and the Range.[3] As a songwriter and record producer, Stack has collaborated with Dominic Fike,[4] Kacy Hill,[5] Octavian,[6] Bon Iver,[7] Joji, Caroline Polachek,[8] Haim,[9] Diplo,[10] Empress Of,[11] and more. He has remixed Wet, Anna of the North, Rostam, Active Child, and Lower Dens, as well as other artists.[3][12]
Jim-E Stack | |
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| Birth name | James Harmon Stack |
| Born | January 21, 1992 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
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| Years active | 2012–present |
Career
edit2011-2016: Early years, Tell Me I Belong
editBorn James Harmon Stack, Jim-E Stack grew up in San Francisco's Inner Richmond,[1] where his passion for music evolved from playing in garage rock bands and jazz bands to making beats inspired by Daft Punk, Burial, J Dilla, Timbaland, and The Neptunes.[13] While Jim-E lived in New Orleans and Brooklyn, his original releases and EPs, in addition to remixes for Sky Ferreira and ASAP Rocky,[12] garnered critical acclaim and interest. It would lead to his debut 2014 album, Tell Me I Belong,[14] accompanied by touring with Shlohmo and Bonobo.[12]
2016–present: Collaborations, EPHEMERA
editReturning to California in 2016, Stack continued to release new solo material,[3] including collaborations with fellow electronic artist The Range,[15] as well as solo releases featuring Noonie Bao, Rostam, Charli XCX, and more.[3] Between then and early 2019, he collaborated with Empress Of, Diplo, and Caroline Polachek for their own music, in addition to contributing on songs for Haim.
Stack contributed heavily to his then-partner Kacy Hill's second studio album Is It Selfish If We Talk About Me Again, released July 2020.[16] Hill states Stack acted as inspiration for much of the album's lyrical content in the liner notes of the record.[17]
From late 2019 through 2020, Stack released new singles featuring Ant Clemons,[18] Empress Of,[11] Dijon and Bon Iver,[19] along with an announcement for a new album titled EPHEMERA. It features the aforementioned singles, with other collaborations with Octavian, Bearface of Brockhampton and Kacy Hill.[20] Stack also released a CD exclusive EP in October 2021, sold for free only at one store in New York and London.[21]
Stack was again a primary collaborator in the creation of Kacy Hill's Simple, Sweet, and Smiling album, which released October 2021.[22]
in 2023, Stack served as a principal producer, songwriter, and instrumentalist with Dominic Fike, collaborating on his album Sunburn.
Discography
editStudio albums
edit| Title | Details |
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| Tell Me I Belong |
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| EPHEMERA |
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EPs
edit| Title | Details |
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| Come Between |
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| It's Jim-ee |
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| Promotional Only |
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Singles
edit| Title | Year | Label | Album |
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| "Bubble Boy" | 2012 | Body High | Non-album single |
| "Deadstream" | 2016 | Self-released | It's Jim-ee |
| "Hyperballad" (featuring Jana Hunter) |
Non-album single | ||
| "You are Not Alone" | |||
| "Forgotten" | |||
| "Dreamt" | It's Jim-ee | ||
| "Deadstream" (Rostam Version featuring Charli XCX) | |||
| "Forgiven" | 2017 | ||
| "Moments Noticed" | |||
| "With You" (with The Range) |
Domino | Non-album single | |
| ''Somebody" (featuring Noonie Bao) |
2018 | Self-released | |
| "A Man Can't Know What It's Like To Be A Mother" | 2019 | ||
| "Good Enough" (featuring Ant Clemons) |
EPHEMERA | ||
| "Note To Self" (featuring Empress Of) |
2020 | ||
| "Sweet Summer Sweat" (featuring Dijon) | |||
| "Jeanie" (featuring Bon Iver) | |||
| "Can We" (featuring Kacy Hill) | |||
| "Sweet & Spice" (Deb Never & Jim-E Stack) |
2021 | Where Have All the Flowers Gone? | |
| "2nd Round" | Promotional Only | ||
| "FFBH" | |||
| "Next to Me" (featuring Lucky Daye) |
2022 | Non-album single |
Remixes
edit| Title | Year | Remixed Artist(s) |
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| "Lovers (Jim-E Stack Remix)" | 2017 | Anna of the North |
| "Real Thing (Jim-E Stack Remix)" | Lower Dens | |
| "Warning Intruders (Jim-E Stack Remix)" | 2018 | Rostam |
| "When I'm With Him (Perfume Genius Cover)"[23] | 2019 | Empress Of |
| "Old Bone (Jim-E Stack Remix)" | Wet | |
| "Cruel World (Jim-E Stack Remix)" | 2020 | Active Child |
| "Without You (Jim-E Stack Remix)" | Perfume Genius |
Songwriting and production discography
edit| Title | Year | Lead artist | Album | Credit(s) | |||
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| Writing | Production | Instrumentation | Engineering | ||||
| "Want You Back" | 2017 | HAIM | Something to Tell You | Keyboards | |||
| "New Moon" | Cold Specks | Fool's Paradise | Yes | ||||
| "What the Hell" | Bridge | Wreck | Yes | Yes | |||
| "Be A Man (Get In the Cold Shower)" | 2018 | Kidepo | Non-album single | Yes | |||
| "Flacko" | Cosha | R.I.P Bonzai | Yes | Co | Programming, synths | Yes | |
| "Shoulda" | RL Grime | NOVA | Yes | ||||
| "When I'm with Him" | Empress Of | Us | Yes | Co | |||
| "Esta Noche" | Dillon Francis | WUT WUT | Yes | Co | |||
| "No Pare" | Yes | Co | |||||
| "New Shapes" (featuring Octavian) |
2019 | Diplo | Europa | Yes | Co | ||
| "Galapagos" | Lower Dens | The Competition | Additional | ||||
| "I Give Up" | Caroline Polachek | Pang | Yes | Co | |||
| "Door" | Yes | Co | |||||
| "U Give It Up" | 2020 | Empress Of | I'm Your Empress Of | Co | |||
| "PDLIF" | Bon Iver | Non-album single | Yes | Co | Drum programming | ||
| "enemy" | Charli XCX | how i'm feeling now | Keyboards | ||||
| "FUBT" | HAIM | Women in Music Pt. III | Drum programming | ||||
| "To Someone Else" | Kacy Hill | Is It Selfish If We Talk About Me Again | Yes | Co | |||
| "Much Higher" | Yes | Co | |||||
| "Just to Say" | Co | ||||||
| "Porsche" | Co | ||||||
| "Unkind" | Yes | Co | |||||
| "Six" | Co | ||||||
| "Dinner" | Yes | Yes | |||||
| "Friend" | Gracie Abrams | minor | Yes | Co | Drum programming | ||
| "tehe" | Yes | Co | Drum programming, bass programming | ||||
| "Chapter 1" | Octavian | ALPHA | Yes | Yes | |||
| "Rari" (featuring Future) |
Yes | Yes | |||||
| "Double Negative (Skeleton Milkshake)" | Dominic Fike | What Could Possibly Go Wrong | Yes | Co | |||
| "AUATC" | Bon Iver | Non-album single | Yes | Co | Drums, percussion | ||
| "Your Man" | Joji | Nectar | Yes | Yes | |||
| "Lazy" | Lupin | Lupin | Drum programming | ||||
| "Bored Again!" (featuring Gabriel Delicious) |
Buddy Ross | Non-album single | Yes | ||||
| "Starface*" | Jean Dawson | Pixel Bath | Yes | Co | |||
| "Roots" | 2021 | Cautious Clay | Deadpan Love | Yes | Co | ||
| "Escalator" | Ritt Momney | Non-album single | Yes | Yes | Bass, keyboards, programming | ||
| "Sweet & Spice" | Deb Never & Jim-E Stack | Where Have All the Flowers Gone? | Yes | Co | Programming | ||
| "I Couldn't Wait" | Kacy Hill | Simple, Sweet, and Smiling | Yes | Co | |||
| "Seasons Bloom" | Yes | Co | |||||
| "The Right Time" | Co | ||||||
| "Simple, Sweet, and Smiling" | Co | ||||||
| "Walking at Midnight" | Co | ||||||
| "So Loud" | Co | ||||||
| "Caterpillars" | Co | ||||||
| "Mochi's Interlude" | Co | ||||||
| "Easy Going" | Yes | Co | |||||
| "The Stars" | Yes | Co | |||||
| "Another You" | Co | ||||||
| "Milk Me" | 2022 | Sudan Archives | Natural Brown Prom Queen | Yes | Co | ||
| "Welcome To My Island" | 2023 | Caroline Polachek | Desire, I Want to Turn Into You | Yes | Co | ||
| "Chalk 1.3.3 [2017 Export Wav]" | Flume | Arrived Anxious, Left Bored | Yes | Co | |||
| "Revolve Around You" | Lola Young | My Mind Wanders and Sometimes Leaves Completely | Yes | Co | Drum programming, synthesizer | ||
| "How Much Is Weed?" | Dominic Fike | Sunburn | Yes | Co | Drums, keyboards | Yes | |
| "Ant Pile" | Yes | Co | Drums, keyboards | ||||
| "Sick" | Yes | Co | Keyboards, bass guitar | ||||
| "7 Hours" | Yes | Co | Drums | ||||
| "Bodies" | Yes | Co | Drums | Yes | |||
| "Sunburn" | Yes | Co | Drums, keyboards, guitar | Yes | |||
| "Pasture Child" | Yes | Co | Drums | ||||
| "4x4" | Yes | Co | Keyboards | Yes | |||
| "Frisky" | Yes | Co | Keyboards | ||||
| "Mama's Boy" | Yes | Co | Keyboards | ||||
| "Dark" | Yes | Co | Programming | ||||
| "Someday" | Elmiene | Marking My Time | Yes | Co | Drums, keyboards, programming | ||
| "You" | The Kid LAROI | The First Time | Yes | Co | |||
| "Save Your Tears" | 2024 | Jess Glynne | Jess | Yes | Yes | ||
| "Dance Alone" | Sia & Kylie Minogue | Reasonable Woman | Co | Bass, drum programming, keyboards, percussion, synthesizer | |||
| "My Day Off" (featuring Nourished by Time) |
Kacy Hill | BUG | Yes | Co | |||
| "Take Me to the River" | Lorde | Everyone's Getting Involved: A Tribute to Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense | Co | Programming | |||
References
edit- ^ a b "Things Have Changed: YG, Tinashe and Jim-E Stack on Growing Up in the '90s". The FADER. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ^ Barna, Ben. "Here's How Jim E-Stack Made His Super-Catchy Heartbreak Album". Nylon. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ^ a b c d "Jim-E Stack". Discogs. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ^ Riddell, Rose (2020-07-31). "A Dominic Fike x 'What Could Possibly Go Wrong' album appreciation post". Coup De Main Magazine. Retrieved 2020-08-01.
- ^ "Kacy Hill: Is It Selfish If We Talk About Me Again". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ^ Hussey, Allison. "Octavian and Future Share Video for New Song "Rari (Chapter 1)"". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ^ Blistein, Jon (2020-05-11). "Bon Iver Drop Kaleidoscopic Animated Video for 'PDLIF'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ^ "Caroline Polachek's Pang establishes her as a singular, indispensable voice". The Line of Best Fit. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ^ "Review: Haim Redefine Their Legacy On 'Women In Music Pt. III'". Stereogum. 2020-06-25. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ^ Diplo. "Jim-E Stack Is The Master Of Combining Sounds". Nylon. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ^ a b "Jim E-Stack - "Note To Self" (Feat. Empress Of)". Stereogum. 2020-07-14. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ^ a b c "Daily Discovery: NY Producer Jim-E Stack Makes Music That You Can Melt Into". Complex. Retrieved 2020-07-30.
- ^ "Discovery: Jim E Stack". Interview Magazine. 2012-05-02. Retrieved 2020-07-30.
- ^ "Jim-E Stack preps Tell Me I Belong". Resident Advisor. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ^ Listen to "With You" (Yaeji Remix) by The Range / Jim-E Stack, retrieved 2020-07-30
- ^ Howard, Lindsay. "Listen to Kacy Hill's incredible new album 'Is It Selfish If We Talk About Me Again'". Variance Magazine. Retrieved 2020-12-28.
- ^ "Kacy Hill - Is It Selfish If We Talk About Me Again". Discogs. Retrieved 2020-12-28.
- ^ "Jim-E Stack excels on the passionate electro pop of "Good Enough"". The FADER. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
- ^ Yoo, Noah. "Bon Iver Joins Jim-E Stack on New Song "Jeanie"". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2020-10-02.
- ^ Subscribe. "Jim-E Stack announces new album 'Ephemera'". diymag.com. Retrieved 2020-12-28.
- ^ "Jim-E Stack on Twitter: "Promotional Only EP available now physical only free of charge"". Twitter. Retrieved 2021-10-12.
- ^ "Sacks & Co. /// Kacy Hill". sacksco.com. Retrieved 2021-10-12.
- ^ Yoo, Noah. "Perfume Genius and Empress Of Rework Her Song "When I'm With Him": Listen". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
External links
edit- Jim-E Stack discography at Discogs
- https://genius.com/artists/Jim-e-stack