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Jitwam - The Get Down

In Our Headphones

KEXP

Music, Music Commentary

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

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 — helpfully titled Third — 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.

As he told Mixmag, "Being a diaspora kid, Third, for me, also has a lot of references to third culture. I’m 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 — or how different we are as people — we’re all grounded in the same drumbeat really."

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You

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All we do down is break it down and you get down

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We're gonna change, we're gonna change

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We're gonna go to straight

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We're gonna go to straight

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We're gonna go to straight

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We're gonna go to straight

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We're gonna go to straight

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We're gonna go to straight

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We're gonna go to straight

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We're gonna go to straight

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We're gonna go to straight

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We're gonna go to straight

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We're gonna go to straight

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We're gonna go to straight

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We're gonna go to straight

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We're gonna go to straight

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We're gonna go to straight

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We're gonna go to straight

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We're gonna go to straight

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We're gonna go to straight

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We're gonna go to straight

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