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Jim-E Stack
Birth nameJames Harmon Stack
Born (1992-01-21) January 21, 1992 (age 32)
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Genres
Occupations
  • Record producer
  • songwriter
  • musician
  • DJ
Years active2012–present

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]

Career

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2011-2016: Early years, Tell Me I Belong

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Born 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

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Returning 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

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Studio albums

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Title Details
Tell Me I Belong
EPHEMERA
  • Released: October 30, 2020
  • Label: Self-released
  • Formats: LP, digital download, streaming

EPs

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Title Details
Come Between
  • Released: January 16, 2012
  • Label: Good Years Recordings
  • Formats: Digital download, streaming
It's Jim-ee
  • Released: August 4, 2017
  • Label: Self-released
  • Formats: LP, digital download, streaming
Promotional Only
  • Released: October 12, 2021
  • Label: Self-released
  • Formats: CD, digital download, streaming

Singles

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Title Year Label Album
"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

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Title Year Remixed Artist(s)
"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

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List of songs co-written, featuring production involvement, instrumentation and/or engineering for other artists, showing year released and album name
Title Year Lead artist Album Credit(s)
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

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  1. ^ a b "Things Have Changed: YG, Tinashe and Jim-E Stack on Growing Up in the '90s". The FADER. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
  2. ^ Barna, Ben. "Here's How Jim E-Stack Made His Super-Catchy Heartbreak Album". Nylon. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
  3. ^ a b c d "Jim-E Stack". Discogs. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ "Kacy Hill: Is It Selfish If We Talk About Me Again". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
  6. ^ Hussey, Allison. "Octavian and Future Share Video for New Song "Rari (Chapter 1)"". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
  7. ^ Blistein, Jon (2020-05-11). "Bon Iver Drop Kaleidoscopic Animated Video for 'PDLIF'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
  8. ^ "Caroline Polachek's Pang establishes her as a singular, indispensable voice". The Line of Best Fit. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
  9. ^ "Review: Haim Redefine Their Legacy On 'Women In Music Pt. III'". Stereogum. 2020-06-25. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
  10. ^ Diplo. "Jim-E Stack Is The Master Of Combining Sounds". Nylon. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
  11. ^ a b "Jim E-Stack - "Note To Self" (Feat. Empress Of)". Stereogum. 2020-07-14. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
  12. ^ a b c "Daily Discovery: NY Producer Jim-E Stack Makes Music That You Can Melt Into". Complex. Retrieved 2020-07-30.
  13. ^ "Discovery: Jim E Stack". Interview Magazine. 2012-05-02. Retrieved 2020-07-30.
  14. ^ "Jim-E Stack preps Tell Me I Belong". Resident Advisor. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
  15. ^ Listen to "With You" (Yaeji Remix) by The Range / Jim-E Stack, retrieved 2020-07-30
  16. ^ 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.
  17. ^ "Kacy Hill - Is It Selfish If We Talk About Me Again". Discogs. Retrieved 2020-12-28.
  18. ^ "Jim-E Stack excels on the passionate electro pop of "Good Enough"". The FADER. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
  19. ^ Yoo, Noah. "Bon Iver Joins Jim-E Stack on New Song "Jeanie"". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2020-10-02.
  20. ^ Subscribe. "Jim-E Stack announces new album 'Ephemera'". diymag.com. Retrieved 2020-12-28.
  21. ^ "Jim-E Stack on Twitter: "Promotional Only EP available now physical only free of charge"". Twitter. Retrieved 2021-10-12.
  22. ^ "Sacks & Co. /// Kacy Hill". sacksco.com. Retrieved 2021-10-12.
  23. ^ Yoo, Noah. "Perfume Genius and Empress Of Rework Her Song "When I'm With Him": Listen". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
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