“The ideal dubstep track to start off your Valentines Day, “Moan” by NastyNasty is complete with his signature up-pitched vocals and immaculate melodic overtones that only NastyNasty could possibly create. Phenomenally emotional synths drift lazily through the mix, intricately embellished with masterful vocal sampling and staggeringly delightful melodic detail. You can always count on NastyNasty to bring emotion and personality to every piece he composes, and this Dubstep.NET Valentes Day Exclusive is certainly no exception!” — Dubstep.net
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Pic: @Gaslampkiller and @Gonjasufi hanging together at Coachella 2011
“Two of our favorite indie New York artists have officially joined forces on “Hi It’s Me, Baby.” The track features rhymes from Big Baby Gandhi, who you might know for his ill Big Fucking Baby mixtape released via Das Racist’s Greedhead Music last November. And on the beat, it’s Nick Koenig, aka Hot Sugar, a dude who loves blending crunchy boom-bap beats with sounds he literally gathers from all around him.”
(via Prefix)
Watch out for the new mixtape from these two on Das Racist’s Greedhead Music and Mad Decent coming soon.
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For the past several weeks The Roots have been releasing video vignettes featuring song from their new studio album, undun, out in December on Island Def Jam. This week, our own Hot Sugar and Aaron Livingston, aka Young Vipers, have contributed a song to the album and the last vignette in the series, called “Sleep.” The song uses the Young Vipers original track as the soundbed to Black Thought’s rhymes, for a chilling outcome. In other news, Hot Sugar just signed an EP deal with Ninja Tune for the world, watch for him to drop his newest Moon Money in early 2012.
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Compton hippy Kendrick Lamar and ‘Sleep Rave’ Producer Nosaj Thing team up for “Cloud 10,” for the Windows Mobile ‘Me Series’… Check the video and a stream of the track here.
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“Let’s not mince words: Psychedelic up-and-comers Feeding People absolutely crushed the Emerging Stage.”
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This is definitely ‘normal’ behavior for these guys, but it’s a treat to that Stussy got video of the pair (along with Pollyn) geeking out on their OP-1’s from the Swedish tech company Teenage Engineering. It looks like an uber design-savvy toy, but also pretty powerful pocket synthesizer that is currently on a number of electronic producer’s ‘must buy’ list. (It’s currently on back-order according to the company’s site.) The collab is part of the introduction to Stussy and Low End Theory’s ‘Make Beats’ contest, which you can read about here.
— via Booooom
“Hot Sugar is one of my favorite producers in music today. The New York-based beatmaker, real name Nick Koenig, creates super summery, organic instrumental hip-hop that is perfect for blasting on a sweltering July day. His recording process, an inventive method he calls Associative Music, culls sounds from our everyday lives to weave an incredible canvas of sound and texture that just isn’t possible with traditional recording methods. It’s a lot of work, but it shows: I’ve been bumping his instrumental EP, Muscle Milk, since around early this year. It’s that good. Nick has a full-length with a bunch of rappers that will be released sometime in 2011, and he’s working with crooner Aaron Livingston in a band called Young Vipers, who recently made their live debut at The Roots picnic.”
Read the interview here: Brown Noise, July 2011
