Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jlin’s second album Black Origami at times feels like an hermetic universe built on complex martial rhythms, with an intense ...

The Gary, Ind., electronic producer turns a Chicago footwork party into a global drum-machine circle. Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still ...

I love Third Coast Percussion—I ranked their 2018 release Paddle to the Sea number one on my list of the best Chicago albums of the 2010s—and I’m a big fan of Jlin. So when I heard that TCP had ...

If you’re ever feeling bored with new music, like you’ve heard it all before, don’t give up – just hit play on a Jlin track. The 30-year-old Gary, Indiana, electronic musician is evolving faster than ...

With its thumping soul music, eager salespeople, and flashing lights meant to simulate a dance party, the DJ and electronic music section of the Guitar Center in Merrillville, Indiana, is not exactly ...

Footwork lost its best-known proponent when DJ Rashad died last April. He did more than anyone to push and promote the juttering, rapidfire Chicagoan form of dance music, and along with the likes of ...

The footwork producer has taken influences from across the map to make dance music that sounds like nothing else. Is Jerrilynn Patton the future of electronica? Black Origami, the title of the new ...

The last we heard of Jlin on a studio record, she left with one final display of prowess for anyone who would rise to the challenge. The footwork barrage of “Challenge (To Be Continued)—the closer to ...

When Jlin released Black Origami in 2017, the Gary, Indiana producer must have known what she had on her hands. Her sophomore album's exhilarating, futuristic and entirely organic approach to ...

Jlin is set to release a new album through Planet Mu in March. Titled Akoma, the 11-track record is the US producer’s third studio full-length effort and follows on from last year’s Perspective ...

Jerrilynn Patton grew up in Gary, Ind., and after studying engineering and math, she landed a pretty good job at U.S. Steel. "Put it like this: my life was stable," she says. It wasn't until she ...