Nikki Nair Signs To dh2, Announces New EP The Sick Dimension
Earlier this year, Nikki Nair collaborated with the Avalanches on the single “ Together. ” Now he’s back with new music of his own. Yesterday, he announced that he had joined George Daniel’s dance-focused Dirty Hit sublabel, dh2, and said he attempted to make house music but failed. Still, he “ended up with four mistakes that I will package as an EP,” he deadpanned in a funny social post. The post Nikki Nair Signs To dh2, Announces New EP <em>The Sick Dimension</em> appeared first on Stereogum .
Earlier this year, Nikki Nair collaborated with the Avalanches on the single “ Together. ” Now he’s back with new music of his own. Yesterday, he announced that he had joined George Daniel’s dance-focused Dirty Hit sublabel, dh2, and said he attempted to make house music but failed. Still, he “ended up with four mistakes that I will package as an EP,” he deadpanned in a funny social post.
Today, Nair shared the first single from the forthcoming EP The Sick Dimension . It’s called “Default Mode,” and it sounds like a cartoon alien trying to write a gripping love song. The words “I’m always thinking about you” repeat in a squeaky, plasticky voice. As the song rumbles on, it circles a romantic sentiment, eventually settling into something robotic yet feral. It’s cool.
“This record was me using all of the weird gear that I have, and getting back into digging for old house music,” Nair said in a press release about the forthcoming EP. “In my mind, I’m making normal house music, but when I get feedback, I guess it does not sound like normal house music to most people.”
TRACKLIST: 01 "Default Mode" 02 "Odd Sympathy" 03 "Please Do Not" 04 "One Hundred"
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