“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
