Montreal producer Jacques Greene released Jacques Greene jg on October 16, 2026, his new album on LUCKYME.
The album arrived on October 16, 2026, and a second moment followed days later. On October 22, 2026, The FADER published his new FADER Mix and an interview, giving listeners two ways into the same creative period. One is the album itself, a focused set of tracks. The other is a mix recorded at his studio in Little Italy, Montreal, after he returned from club sets in Australia. Together, they present an artist thinking about control, energy and the room, whether that room is on record or in a club.
An Album Built With Close Collaborators
jg runs eleven tracks and forty minutes and twenty seven seconds. That length matters because it frames the album as a concise statement rather than a sprawling collection. Eleven tracks is enough space to build a world, develop ideas and bring in collaborators, while still holding a clear shape from start to finish. For a producer known for careful control, that tight running time feels intentional.
The album collaborators include fellow Montrealer CFCF, Brooklyn’s umru, and Los Angeles producer SEES00000. The names signal that this is not a solitary exercise, even for a producer who values control.
Montreal remains central to the story. Greene recorded the FADER Mix at his studio in Little Italy, Montreal, and his album collaborator CFCF is also a Montrealer. The city is not just a label attached to his name for convenience. It is where the work was made, where the studio sits, and where he returned to record after playing club sets in Australia. That return, from touring to the studio, helps explain the energy he brought to the mix and the timing of its release alongside the album.
“I loved music, parties and people. Love being in control even more.” Jacques Greene to The FADER, October 22, 2026
That quote, given to The FADER in the October 22, 2026 interview, is a useful key for listening to jg. Love of music, parties and people explains the social side of club music. Love of control explains the production side, the shaping of sound, pacing and space. Greene holds both ideas at once. The music is made for people together in a room, and it is also made by someone who cares deeply about exactly how that room feels and sounds at every moment.
The FADER Mix And A Sugar Rush Brief
The FADER Mix published on October 22, 2026 is his second FADER Mix. His first was in 2013, which gives this return a long arc. Returning to the same series after that much time lets listeners hear what has changed and what has stayed consistent. The love of the club remains. The control remains. The collaborators and the context have grown.
The mix includes his own track Everyone, featuring SEES0000, as well as Presence and Two, featuring Sam-E. It also includes collaborations with Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, titled Blanche, and with Fort Romeau, titled Input. Those inclusions turn the mix into a map of connections, placing his own work beside collaborations.
Greene described the mix in one line, as a sugar rush. That short description does a lot of work. It suggests speed, brightness and immediate impact, the kind of energy that lifts a room quickly. It also contrasts with the idea of control. A sugar rush can feel wild, but delivering that feeling in a mix takes planning, selection and pacing. The official FADER Mix upload is embedded here so listeners can hear that balance for themselves, the rush on the surface and the control underneath it.
Career Anchors Behind The New Album
The new album does not arrive in isolation. Greene has production work with Tinashe and How to Dress Well dating to 2013, the same year as his first FADER Mix. That long view matters for Canadian electronic music. He has been building this language for years, working with vocalists and other producers while keeping a distinct Montreal identity.
He is also part of the duo Verses GT with Nosaj Thing, and he has remixed Radiohead’s Lotus Flower and Arlo Parks’ Heaven. Remixes are a telling part of a producer’s record because they show how an artist listens to other people’s songs and finds a new shape inside them. Work on material by Radiohead and Arlo Parks, two very different acts, underlines the range listeners have come to expect from him. The same sensibility that can reframe a song for a remix can also build an album that holds together as its own world.
Put together, the album and the mix make a strong week for Montreal music on an international stage. LUCKYME released the record, The FADER provided the mix and interview platform, and the collaborators span Montreal, Brooklyn and Los Angeles. Yet the centre stays in Little Italy, in a Montreal studio, with an artist describing parties, people and control in plain terms.
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